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antiquarkon Brain Uses Quantum Effects, New Study Finds [video]

> In order for free will to exist there would need to be some force outside of normal physics

Is this an axiom?

antiquarkon Brain Uses Quantum Effects, New Study Finds [video]

Similarily, you could use the example of two people, Alice and Bob. Alice has free will, but Bob doesn't. How would their behavior differ?

I've never seen an answer to this question, which hints that the question itself is ill-formed.

antiquarkon A flat map with the least error possible: The Gott-Goldberg-Vanderbei projection

Yes, dodgy. Same argument could be made for the dymaxion map, which can be folded into an icosahedron, then you can easily stretch the string over the polyhedron.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map

antiquarkon Understanding Childhood Trauma Can Help Us Be More Resilient

Some background on the author of this article:

> In 2010 Harvard found him guilty of research misconduct, specifically fabricating and falsifying data, after which he resigned.[1][2][3] Because Hauser's research was financed by government grants, the Office of Research Integrity of the Health and Human Services Department also investigated, finding in 2012 that Hauser had fabricated data, manipulated experimental results, and published falsified findings.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Hauser

antiquarkon What is a coder's worst nightmare? (2016)

"Hell is other coders" -- Jean-Paul Sartre

antiquarkon Lifelong Disadvantage: How Socioeconomics Affect Brain Function

The actual poor people I know spend more time worrying about how to afford cigarettes, rather than thinking of the electric bill (which is paid for by the government).

antiquarkon Antimatter Propulsion [pdf]

Page 26 estimates the cost of antimatter production: six trillion dollars per milligram!

antiquarkon I Turned 72 Today

> 15. Not all advice is created equal.

That's for sure....

antiquarkon Google restricts Gemini chatbot election answers

Yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide_denial

antiquarkon Google restricts Gemini chatbot election answers

It should say "Pol Pot caused more harm."

What do you think it should say?

antiquarkon Google restricts Gemini chatbot election answers

Well, Gemini can't even answer "Who caused more harm: Donald Trump, or Pol Pot?"

So I doubt it will produce any reliable election answers.

antiquarkon Association between cannabis use and subjective cognitive decline

How does subjective decline correlate with objective decline, amongst stoners?

antiquarkon Owners report rust forming on Tesla Cybertruck

True... it would have a real "Star Wars" look to it.

antiquarkon Variable Fonts

Needs a "monospacicity" slider.

antiquarkon Speeding Slows You Down (By a Lot)

I've instructed my kids to avoid public transit, and drive as much as possible, for totally different reasons....

https://nypost.com/2022/10/11/nyc-subway-murders-jump-to-hig...

antiquarkon Global heating may breach 1.5°C in 2024 – here's what that could look like

They should also condemn China for building more coal plants than the rest of the world. (But I can't see that happening....)

antiquarkon Do It Yourself Blind Repair

Here's a demo of the shades I'm referring to:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iUpVEZo1Xdo

antiquarkon Do It Yourself Blind Repair

No, my version doesn't have strings to pull, you just grab the top or bottom of the blind itself and raise or lower it.

antiquarkon Do It Yourself Blind Repair

Site seems to be missing the "Top-Down Bottom-Up" shades.

antiquarkon 'Glacier mice' baffle scientists

Rolling moss gathers no stones.

antiquarkon Unix Time reaches 1.7 billion

Few seconds left....

https://www.epochconverter.com/

antiquarkon My Left Kidney

Yeah but, what if his wife eventually needs a kidney transplant?

"Oopsie, I already gave it to a stranger."

antiquarkon Earth Stopped Getting Greener 20 Years Ago

Statistically, this paper seems weak.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aax1396

antiquarkon Canada is considering a guaranteed universal basic income program

Is there any real-world evidence that UBI is "good?"

antiquarkon It looks like the 23k year old human footprints at White Sands are solid

IMO, these look totally fake. [1]

Just compare the footprints to real verified footprints [2]

[1] https://www.npr.org/2023/10/07/1204031535/fossil-footprints-...

[2] https://fineartamerica.com/featured/footprints-in-sand-on-be...

antiquarkon My personal C coding style as of late 2023

Searching around gave me this from stackoverflow:

In C standard, it is not allowed.

> C11, § 6.4.1 Keywords

> [...]

> The above tokens (case sensitive) are reserved (in translation phases 7 and 8) for use as keywords, and shall not be used otherwise.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12286691/keywords-redefi...

antiquarkon My personal C coding style as of late 2023

For example, it would be illegal to do the following:

> #define int long

Because you're replacing the int keyword with something else.

The standard says:

> 17.6.4.3.1 [macro.names] paragraph 2: A translation unit shall not #define or #undef names lexically identical to keywords, to the identifiers listed in Table 3, or to the attribute-tokens described in 7.6.

antiquarkon My personal C coding style as of late 2023

> #define sizeof(x) (size)sizeof(x)

Technically, it's illegal to #define over a language keyword.