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What is the argument?


'why aren't my neurons individually conscious?' why can you assume a slide rule is but a neuron isn't? your consciousness doesnt stop at your 'skull', it extends to your fingers and "interfaces" with the world in various ways, which is effectively a weaker, slower connection. neurons in your brain are also not equally distributed to how much they affect your immediate consciousness, but they all play a part in it


Do you have a verdict for whether science can ever explain the origin of the universe? I can only doubt it could answer the actual hard problem of consciousness. I find most people, especially on here, to be blindly "science-optimistic"


Why not. The origin of the universe is the initial state of the universe.


> origin of the universe?

Creatio ex nihilo.

> consciousness?

Ditto. It's actually the same question.


You have strong assumptions for the underlying moral framework


No.


That's what both Pinterest and Tiktok do with their mobile short links.


a joke worth making a burner over?


So perplexing - in the interactive demos, the latency slider acts not as a network latency but more a debounce buffer? Why? Why? I just don't get it


We wanted to go with the simplest model of latency that would suffice to demonstrate the problems that come up when dealing with state mutated in multiple locations. The advantage of this approach is that we can do it without hiding any state from the reader — the pie chart exposes the only internal state that exists. It’s not meant to be an accurate network simulation, just to build intuition.


They set the root font size relative to the total width of the screen (1.04vw) with the rest of the styling using rem units

Ive never seen anyone do that before.. It may well be the only way to circumvent browser zoom


Why don't browsers reduce the screen width when you zoom in, as they adjust every other unit (cm, px)?


They effectively do. All css absolute units are effectively defined as ratios of each other and zoom*DPI*physicalPixels sets the ratio of how many physical pixels each absolute unit will end up turning into. Increase zoom and the screen seems to have shrunk to some smaller 'cm' and so on.

For things like 'vh' and 'vw' it just doesn't matter "how many cm" the screen is as 20% of the viewing space always comes out to 20% of the viewing space regardless how many 'cm' that is said to be equivalent to.


Oh duh, right. Thanks!


Why is it so desirable to circumvent browser zoom? I hate it.


HTTP/1.1 is no different from HTTP/2 and even HTTP/3 when it comes to multiple domains. The optimization strategies are all aimed at solving simultaneous resource requests from a single host (not domain but close enough) - should be obvious when you consider that each host requires at least one separate socket connection anyway.

In practice http/1.1 with 1 connection per request even encouraged making more domains/subdomains if you wanted to have more simultaneous requests


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