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New comment by GoblinSlayer in "Hooray for the Sockets Interface"

GoblinSlayer — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 09:42:08 +0000

Unix sockets kinda already connect by name.

New comment by GoblinSlayer in "Computation as a universal and fundamental concept"

GoblinSlayer — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:58:15 +0000

My algorithm is at least to not predict it as not what it is. All ten atoms decay according to the formula above.

New comment by GoblinSlayer in "Netstrings (1997)"

GoblinSlayer — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:56:45 +0000

For this I made a tlv format, where string is encoded in byte prefixed chunks with length between 0 and 222 for final chunk and between 223 and 255 for intermediate chunks.

New comment by GoblinSlayer in "G# – A modern .NET language with Go, Kotlin, and Swift ergonomics"

GoblinSlayer — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:11:04 +0000

I think C# switch supports type matching.

New comment by GoblinSlayer in "Computation as a universal and fundamental concept"

GoblinSlayer — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:59:02 +0000

We can predict decay process as

sqrt(1-exp(-t/T))|1> + sqrt(exp(-t/T))|0>

New comment by GoblinSlayer in "Computation as a universal and fundamental concept"

GoblinSlayer — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:40:12 +0000

The trick is that you can't predict something that doesn't happen even if you feel otherwise.

New comment by GoblinSlayer in "US House of Representatives takes step to make daylight saving time permanent"

GoblinSlayer — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:26:21 +0000

And health problems will pump money into big pharma.

New comment by GoblinSlayer in "US House of Representatives takes step to make daylight saving time permanent"

GoblinSlayer — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:12:55 +0000

It's just names, might as well call it humpty dumpty time. Local time is defined by offset from UTC.

New comment by GoblinSlayer in "US House of Representatives takes step to make daylight saving time permanent"

GoblinSlayer — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:09:41 +0000

Every division of society should just use its own schedule, then the number of divisions doesn't matter.

New comment by GoblinSlayer in "How the FSF sysadmins block botnets with reaction"

GoblinSlayer — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:41:30 +0000

That's what commoncrawl does.

New comment by GoblinSlayer in "Computation as a universal and fundamental concept"

GoblinSlayer — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:31:22 +0000

Since the decayed state exists, then any. Your question tries to assume sqrt(exp(-t/T))=0, which is false.

New comment by GoblinSlayer in "Computation as a universal and fundamental concept"

GoblinSlayer — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:17:40 +0000

> we do not need a complete, finalized theory of consciousness to assess AI sentience

Erm... this can't possibly work, can it?

New comment by GoblinSlayer in "Computation as a universal and fundamental concept"

GoblinSlayer — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:26:03 +0000

The decayed state exists, it's the second term sqrt(exp(-t/T))|0>

New comment by GoblinSlayer in "Computation as a universal and fundamental concept"

GoblinSlayer — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:23:26 +0000

Observable effectiveness can be demonstrated statistically. The only option I see is if it's unobservably ineffective, which can't be ruled out experimentally.

New comment by GoblinSlayer in "Computation as a universal and fundamental concept"

GoblinSlayer — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:52:48 +0000

It works because humans looked for a method that works, they tried different methods and chose one that works best, actually it gradually evolved over time.

Pure reason is conjecture with little empirical input (and big intuitive or memey input) and little verification of output, i.e. a large deviation from empiricism.

New comment by GoblinSlayer in "Computation as a universal and fundamental concept"

GoblinSlayer — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 11:43:44 +0000

Deterministic processes can be modeled probabilistically and are computable, so existence of a probabilistic model doesn't say much about computability.

New comment by GoblinSlayer in "Computation as a universal and fundamental concept"

GoblinSlayer — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 11:39:31 +0000

The decay process is calculated as

sqrt(1-exp(-t/T))|1> + sqrt(exp(-t/T))|0>

New comment by GoblinSlayer in "Computation as a universal and fundamental concept"

GoblinSlayer — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 10:50:07 +0000

Agnosticism is an example that nobody wants a theory that works but not empirically. If a theory works, then it must work empirically, in this sense empiricism is tautological.

New comment by GoblinSlayer in "Computation as a universal and fundamental concept"

GoblinSlayer — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 10:07:01 +0000

Isn't it obvious that scientific method is fallible? It's just statistically better than pure reason, which should be possible to demonstrate statistically. It's a product of trial and error, and there were many errors, I don't think there's much metaphysics there.

New comment by GoblinSlayer in "Computation as a universal and fundamental concept"

GoblinSlayer — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:50:33 +0000

"it from bit" is just "shut up and calculate", positivism. There are no bits in physics, and no boolean phenomena.