turkeysandwich's comments

turkeysandwich | 7 years ago | on: Dogs demonstrate the existence of an epileptic seizure odour in humans

Yeah... that website is a scam.

Seizure alert dogs have not been established to be effective yet. A claim of "100% reliable" is guaranteed to be woo.

turkeysandwich | 7 years ago | on: Dogs demonstrate the existence of an epileptic seizure odour in humans

This study doesn't establish that an odor precedes a seizure. They took the samples from someone who was in the middle of a seizure or shortly afterwards.

turkeysandwich | 7 years ago | on: Sqlite: Code Of Conduct

> In the future, should someone wish to become a core developer of SQLite and is in every way qualified except that he or she does not feel comfortable with some details of this rule (for example, the overtly religious elements), then appropriate adjustments can be made at that point. The objective of the rule is not to impose a particular religious creed, but rather to use time-tested behavioral guidelines to promote a productive and peaceful community.

turkeysandwich | 7 years ago | on: Sqlite: Code Of Conduct

Read the CoC more carefully. Adherence is not mandatory.

turkeysandwich | 8 years ago | on: Effective immediately I am stepping down from the Nodejs TSC

I think there were thirteen total members.

Two abstained, one member was the person in question, and then we have 6 against removing, and 4 in favor.

And after this vote failed to remove the person, four members resigned.

turkeysandwich | 9 years ago | on: Inferno: A compact OS for building cross-platform distributed systems

It's not a general purpose OS. But it's an OS nevertheless.

turkeysandwich | 9 years ago | on: Inferno: A compact OS for building cross-platform distributed systems

What about Mirage OS?

turkeysandwich | 9 years ago | on: Unethical Research: How to Create a Malevolent Artificial Intelligence

> cites Yudkowsky ...aaaannnd I stopped reading.

turkeysandwich | 9 years ago | on: Vote.org is a non-profit that wants to get the U.S. to 100% voter turnout

Yes, that's exactly the situation.

Hopefully the federal government deschedules marijuana soonish.

turkeysandwich | 10 years ago | on: Is there a simple algorithm for intelligence?

Any algorithms we use to simulate intelligence with machines are excessively wasteful.

There's not enough energy to simulate human intelligence at the same speed that humans think, without just essentially producing biological computers.

And that's more of bio-engineering than anything relating to computing.

turkeysandwich | 10 years ago | on: Some Functional Programmers Are Arrogant

I don't think there's any reason to think that functional programmers are more arrogant now than advocates of new programming paradigms were in the past.

You could call them architecture astronauts: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html

turkeysandwich | 10 years ago | on: Running a Dark Web pedophile honeypot

His parenting isn't worse than her abuse, obviously.

But he should still chill the fuck out. Yes, bad things happen. But no, you're not permanently broken. You can grow up and have a normal life.

turkeysandwich | 10 years ago | on: CVS Health Quits U.S. Chamber Over Stance on Smoking

Second hand smoke has a much weaker connection to health issues than actual smoking.

And the "collective cost" argument is silly, because it can be applied to any personal liberty that negatively affects health.

turkeysandwich | 14 years ago | on: Story behind the animals on O'Reilly book covers

What, are you implying that infinite copyright exists now? Because copyright now is lifetime plus 70 years.

turkeysandwich | 14 years ago | on: Richard Stallman: How I do my Computing

The type of REPL he's referring to has very specific features. Read returns a parsed structure, eval evaluates a parsed structure and print writes a parsed structure. Python's REPL just deals with strings, I believe.