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Re:Ask HN: Do you think human intelligence is segmented? on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @12:08PM (#30933843)
404 on the link. Thanks though
Re:Ask HN: Best Tool for Investors Reporting? on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @11:55AM (#30933650)
The mind! And a calculator if required.
Re:Ask HN: How to Combat Imposter Syndrome? on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @11:52AM (#30933600)
Allot of great minds have sabotaged their own work. Best thing to do is keep moving forward from any road-block in life. Life won't stop for you, and you should not stop living in the process.
Re:I decided that I must live my life on my terms on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @11:27AM (#30933185)
Many people have good intentions, but then in their emotional tantrums cause by their zeal, they will forget that law and order exists and will inevitably do more harm than good. So anyone that has ideas of going their own path, should temper it lawfully.
In a BYOD organization, you must be in compliance with Mobile Software Management Rules in order to have access to organizational assets and resources.
Re:I decided that I must live my life on my terms on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @10:43AM (#30919670)
As long as you are obeying the law, then do whatever you think is necessary. No one wants to clean up a mess caused by a 'free spirit'.
Re:Ask HN: How to Listen to Questions? on Friday April 01, 2022 @03:35PM (#30882382)
If at all possible approach each as boolean.
Re:Ask HN: What Is a 'Misinformation Reporter' on Thursday March 31, 2022 @11:49AM (#30868535)
Someone who finds what is false and combats it by reporting it as false. Normally a reporter would only produce what they see and hear, but the latter reports on only what is misinformation. Thus the combat against misinformation is not passive, but active.
I suppose a section of the keyboard could be designated for use as a scientific calculator?

https://i.stack.imgur.com/AMWZj.png

Re:Ask HN: What is consulting and how to start? on Thursday March 31, 2022 @11:39AM (#30868411)
Create an image of yourself being an expert at something, then advertise yourself as the expert to consult.
Good question. I have found only 1 person in the world that cares for what I have an interest in. All my other heroes are in the grave.
Re:Ask HN: How does a CPU communicate with a GPU? on Thursday March 31, 2022 @11:35AM (#30868363)
Drivers make all hardware communicate.
Re:Ask HN: What would you do with a million dollars today? on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @01:23PM (#30858163)
I think there are real problems that computers can solve, such as engineering rockets to obliterate meteorites that may destroy earth. Also, producing jobs for citizens that have an interest in computers. On the other hand, computers can also generate problems that must in turn be dealt with. Thus computer in themselves have an entire eco-chamber of worth. One million dollars could be used to make more money perpetually, thus it could be used for help or hurt. Thus you would need to use it for immediate help such as food, clothing and shelter while the money continued to generate upon itself.
Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse ISBN 0-02-905980-1

https://wtf.tw/ref/carse.pdf

"A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility"

Short Read, very dense, and fully free.

Re:Ask HN: How to Show Gratitude to a Coworker on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @11:29AM (#30856512)
Buy them food
Re:Ask HN: What made the 80s so pleasant? on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @11:19AM (#30856374)
Joke:

Well, back in the 80's all you had to do to worship Satan was play your record backwards. Now it is so much more of a ritual.

Back in the 80's I felt like the year 2000 would be the epitome of tech, but now I have no hope for floating skate-boards.

Back in the 80's I had protection for my hair-do, but now my hair stands vulnerable to all forces of nature.

Be bold and your awkwardness turns into the greatest office jokes. Begin bold makes your anxiety appear as natural and humorous.
Re:Ask HN: Tips on writing long-form non-fiction? on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @09:34AM (#30842334)
Create Quotes - Shorten long ideas in few words

Create paragraphs - Build a paragraph based on the quote

Create chapters - Build chapter based on the paragraph

Validate chapters - Find references that validate your: Quotes, paragraphs, chapters.

Re:Ask HN: What has been your single best investment? on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @09:31AM (#30842290)
Family - priceless Returns - exponentially priceless
Windows is not going anywhere anytime soon. If you take away windows, you will lose out on many technologies. And just because people complain about windows, doesn't mean they can actually do anything about it. And if you can do something about it, you're probably a criminal learning ways to exploit the software.
Re:Ask HN: How do you define the singularity? on Monday March 28, 2022 @11:51AM (#30831805)
Could be when humans understand God, but that will never happen on our own. That's why God sent His Son, so humans could understand everything they need to about their creator.

Same with machines, a human will eventually need to go into the machine world and let the machines destroy him, so they can analyze and take upon themselves the human coding, thus machines will be able to understand humans.

As far anything that humanity develops, I would say in the software arena would only be for educational purposes. This would not be advantageous to immediate returns, but would be the best way to develop something with the smallest amount of collateral negatives. Basically create software that teaches reading, writing and arithmetic. If humans can learn those, then other educational pursuits would be allowed. Things such as [science and history], [Engineering and Technology] Once they are competent in these, then things like psychology, philosophy, religion, sociology would be unlocked. Basically software should be centered around focusing the human toward educating themselves in a way that mitigates presumptions and self-destructive tendencies. Or any combination of the cores: reading, writing and math combined with a soft-science. Honestly, I can't figure out a way to mitigate humanities need for laws. People always prefer to be bad than to be good if they can get away with it.