ExLisper

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ExLisper,

I thought matrix was going to school and getting unplugged was graduating.

ExLisper,

Because tree falling in forest doesn’t make a sound or something like that. You ever only hear about the ones that are promoted for clicks on the internet. I’m sure the are hundredths of grandpas that texted the wrong person, became friends and never bragged about it on Instagram.

ExLisper, (edited )

So you’re working on your machine learning projects in Zig?

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As long as the movie is good I don’t care who made it. The industry also shouldn’t. This goes both ways: good nonbinary filmmakers should get to make movies, bad nonbinary filmmakers shouldn’t make movies just because they’re nonbinary.

ExLisper,

You’re right. I will start a new distro that focuses on the the things that matter.

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ExLisper,

xscreensaver with IFS. Can’t stop looking at it. I’m writing this on another computer because I don’t want to disable screen saver on my primary one.

ExLisper,

BTW Conquistadores Adventum is a really good show about the colonization of Americas. It shows how tough the sailing was but also how brutal the conquest was and tells the stories of people behind it.

ExLisper,

I torrented it. It’s a Spanish production that I thin was available on movistar+ platform. Hard to find.

ExLisper,

Not if the author finds and destroys it.

ExLisper, (edited )

There’s a company claiming that they analyzed rests of garum found in some ancient vase and reconstructed the recipe. You can now buy Garum supposedly same as the Roman one. www.amazon.com/…/B07CRMQZP5

ExLisper,

I think it’s just like soy sauce, only fishy.

ExLisper,

Yeah, it’s a slippery slope. First they get fingerprints of tourists and than you have no rights.

ExLisper,

What exactly are you worried about?

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I’m actually using nvim for rust development and it’s really fucking great but I’ve been using vi for like 25 years so for me the only issue was configuration, the editor is just natural for me. If you also have to learn the editor I don’t know what your experience will be.

As for configuring it for development I started with spacevim and managed with half the functionality normal IDE provides for quite some time. The experience was still good. About 6 months ago I set up nvim and now I have everything I need. I think setting up nvim for rust was as complicated as setting up spacevim. Spacevim provides way more out of the box but changing configuration is not easy at all.

I don’t worry about vim/nvim “schism”. The support is still great.

I would say just go with nvim, spend a week to set it up and don’t get too obsessive if small things don’t work. Enjoy the amazing responsiveness and great editor and you will figure out everything eventually. And if you have any questions just ask. I can share my config.

ExLisper,

Yes, I agree but you see the difference between computer simulation of a single planet (you don’t have to simulate the entire universe to simulate our civilization) and Norse Gods, right? You see how one is fairly reasonable extrapolation of our current capabilities and the other is fantasy? Of course we don’t know if it’s possible to create a conscious, intelligent being in a computer but we also don’t know what actually makes as conscious and intelligent so we can’t say it’s definitely not possible. Similarly we don’t know exactly how life on earth originated (complex life even less so) so we don’t know how probable it it’s it exists in other places. Simulation theory is definitely more similar to extraterrestrial life than Norse Gods. And when it comes to it’s probability we simply don’t know.

ExLisper,

Ok, so you also don’t believe there’s any extraterrestrial life in the universe, right? And it’s as likely to exists as Norse gods? I mean, there’s no proof for it after all.

ExLisper,

Ups, thanks. Totally missed that.

ExLisper,

Why being in a simulation is unlikely? How do you estimate the probability of that?

ExLisper,

You made the exactly same false equivalence between gods and computer simulations. That was my point.

"We know simulations can exist, since we simulate things, so it stands to reason that since simulations exists on earth that it could exist somewhere else. Nothing about simulations conceptually requires anything that we don’t already have a scientific method for. "

Simulating entire world only requites different computational scale which we also know is possible because we keep improving our computational capabilities.

ExLisper,

Even more material for the “words you have been using wrong” thread.

ExLisper, (edited )

The “belief” we’re in a simulation is more like a interesting idea than something people organize their lives around. Is it possible? Yes. Am I going to praise the great programmer every Sunday? No.

The belief in God in most cases is not just belief in some general higher power but a very specific deity with weird morality, silly mythology and bunch of scam artists behind it.

  • I think there’s a higher power…
  • Ok…
  • that got mad at us for eating fruits but then impregnated a lady with itself and pissed us off so that we murdered him and he could say he’s not mad anymore.
  • … WTF?
ExLisper,

The simulation doesn’t respond to prayers or requests.

How do you know? What if the guy running the simulation actually monitors what we think and reacts to it? What if the personally decides to give people cancer or cure it? What if he copies our minds to simulation of hell after we die? What if 2000 years ago he copied himself into the simulation to get crucified?

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