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You have to deal with crossing under roads, driveways, and sidewalks.
In my neck of the woods, I see these all the time.
You have to avoid existing buried telephone, internet, cable, water, sewer, and gas lines.
All neatly displayed on maps.
RMS was right. Again.
Who's copying who? Ion has been around for ages, now there is Notion.
USB-MIDI controllers? USB sound cards?
I'm just not sharing it with you. Dumbass.
BSD in a nutshell.
journalctl is slow on copy-on-write file systems, with Btrfs being the biggest offender
Don't format / as btrfs. You're welcome.
Sure, I'll switch. As soon as my Skype contacts do the same. Which they surely will, once their contacts will. And so on, ad infinitum.
Free will consists of two goal posts, constantly moving.
(In the mean time, I'm wondering who is pushing whom around in my careenium.)
If this is the case, Milgram showed us there's no free will.
I don't understand why folks who believe in free will are so hung up about hard determinism. Random and probabilistic events may rule out free will, too.
using this to explain away, and sometimes justify, all sorts of unpalatable or unethical behaviour.
We're social animals, so no.
It is great to think that we are in control of it, and sucks if we are not.
Why would it suck? What changes if you were to realize there's no free will?
My brain is (at least a part of) "me"(...)
I would say that "me" is a part of your brain.
I'm in a position where I can get away with that and not suffer any undue consequences.
Famous last words.
There are several, actually. One could even roll their own with Pure Data.
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You have to deal with crossing under roads, driveways, and sidewalks.
In my neck of the woods, I see these all the time.
You have to avoid existing buried telephone, internet, cable, water, sewer, and gas lines.
All neatly displayed on maps.
RMS was right. Again.
Who's copying who? Ion has been around for ages, now there is Notion.
USB-MIDI controllers? USB sound cards?
I'm just not sharing it with you. Dumbass.
BSD in a nutshell.
journalctl is slow on copy-on-write file systems, with Btrfs being the biggest offender
Don't format / as btrfs. You're welcome.
Sure, I'll switch. As soon as my Skype contacts do the same. Which they surely will, once their contacts will. And so on, ad infinitum.
Free will consists of two goal posts, constantly moving.
(In the mean time, I'm wondering who is pushing whom around in my careenium.)
If this is the case, Milgram showed us there's no free will.
I don't understand why folks who believe in free will are so hung up about hard determinism. Random and probabilistic events may rule out free will, too.
using this to explain away, and sometimes justify, all sorts of unpalatable or unethical behaviour.
We're social animals, so no.
It is great to think that we are in control of it, and sucks if we are not.
Why would it suck? What changes if you were to realize there's no free will?
My brain is (at least a part of) "me"(...)
I would say that "me" is a part of your brain.
I'm in a position where I can get away with that and not suffer any undue consequences.
Famous last words.
There are several, actually. One could even roll their own with Pure Data.