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sugarkjube
·قبل 27 يومًا·discuss
> For instance, when I get (got: my blood pressure is treated) migraine visual effects, I would say "lightning bolt" but thats just a textual analogue/simile. What I actually saw was more complex than that: lightning is white. My effect was polychrome.

What you describe seems to refer to scintillating scotoma, which appears to be well known and documented: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scintillating_scotoma

I personally have my doubts whether it has to do with blood pressure (i had it while on medication and normal blood pressure), or that it's generated by the brain, but lack the time/motivation/skill to research this further.
sugarkjube
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
Killing your customers is not the best way to stay in business
sugarkjube
·قبل 3 أشهر·discuss
> But given how essential the internet is to everything we do on a daily basis, that makes a lot of sense.

Well, water is certainly more essential, yet it isn't free.

Food isn't free. Shelter isn't free.

Besides, the services you'd use over this free connection aren't (necessarily) free.

Its not unreasonable to suspect some other agenda, like easier propaganda, subsidising of social media, ...
sugarkjube
·قبل 3 أشهر·discuss
Not sure this was blind luck.

They had a few people on the inside, who handed over Maduro to the US. May have been internal conflict in Venuzuela using US to get rid of Maduro.

Maybe US also had people on the inside in Iran, but killed them by accident on the first strike with the "precision bombings".
sugarkjube
·قبل 9 أشهر·discuss
Interesting. But not not only blind people.

I'm gooing to try this question this weekend with some people, as h0 hypotesis i think the answer i will get would be usually like "what an odd question" or "why do you ask".
sugarkjube
·قبل 9 أشهر·discuss
Now that's an interesting point of view.

Involving blind people would be an interesting experiment.

Anyway, until the sixties the ability to play a game of chess was seen as intelligence, and until about 2-3 years ago the "turing test" was considered the main yardstick (even though apparently some people talked to eliza at the time like an actual human being). I wonder what the new one is, and how often it will be moved again.
sugarkjube
·قبل 10 أشهر·discuss
just get a foldable keyboard with your ar glasses

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985513
sugarkjube
·قبل 10 أشهر·discuss
101010 - I'm guessing you know, and want to find out how long it takes for someone to notice and respond.
sugarkjube
·قبل 10 أشهر·discuss
> Star Trek communicator

As a trekkie this was a dream come true.

Unfortunately we still don't have a tricorder yet (despite Elisabeth Holmes' promise).

But we do have the apps and the games, they didn't have these in star trek. My phone is loaded with these (apps, not games)
sugarkjube
·قبل 5 سنوات·discuss
Seems to me you're also solving a 4th key problem : what to do with renewable electricity when it's being produced but there is no demand at that moment.
sugarkjube
·قبل 5 سنوات·discuss
> easiest to learn for new graduates

This was never a goal of go. Go was conceived out of frustration with c++. They wanted to reduce language complexity and build times (among other things). For me personally it's C without the hassle.
sugarkjube
·قبل 5 سنوات·discuss
iirc nil has its roots in the pascal/modula/oberon family of programming languages which one of the go designers had quite a background in.