🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇 @2ck@social.cleverlibre.org

all self-knowledge is good. even so, it's rather disappointing to me to realize how much external motivation I need to really get things done. it's not universal, obviously: I've managed to study, exercise, and eat healthy at different times without anyone telling me to. still, when there are no consequences in terms of my personal or professional relationships, it's far too easy for me to just put things off or drop them.

british/indian slang is a funny thing. I read a headline about a woman getting "papped" outside of an office. I was surprised: I always thought pap smears were done *inside* the doctor's office 😂

There seems to be a hang-up around the linguistic accessibility of conscious experience. One of the thought experiments is "Mary" the color theorist who lives in a gray world then sees color for the first time, where the question is "does Mary learn something when experiencing color although she has all the knowledge of color theory?" To me, that's not more remarkable than the inaccessibility of the mechanism by which we can instrument our limbs without knowing the precise evolution of the cascade of impulses flowing from our brains.

I put a cup of oats the dough at the start, 2 cups bread flour, and another cup of all purpose. I'm not sure what difference it's made in the end. after that it was a combination of, I think, 2 more cups AP, somewhat more than 1 cup of whole wheat. i used a muffin tin since I thought it would make my rolls look a bit funny. also they've got a good coating of olive oil and a bit more salt on that, which is pretty nice.

the loaf is made from the same dough. it's a bit undersized for the pan, and probably over proofed, but I remembered to deflate the larger pockets before baking, so I think it should hold together better than my last loaf where the crust tore away from the interior

I don't understand what the "hard problem of consciousness" is. What do philosophers mean when they say that "there's something it's like to ..."? They say "like" in this emphatic way that they seem to believe means something.

#philosophy #consciousness

finally read up on spatial indexing. dunno what took me so long: the basics aren't much more complicated than with btrees. still need to understand some of the specifics of how some things work like adding buffers around a region or querying relative to curves (e.g. find the closest road to a river, going upriver from point x)
#databases #geospatial

well I upgraded to Android 12 and the UI is a gooey pile of shit. what's the scuttlebutt on #lineageos ? also is it any more customizable without needing to make a new ROM?

Although this doesn't actually hold much promise on the general problem according to the outside expert cited. Hm.

ok, I got excited and posted without reading the article. This isn't a manual debris collection thing. Still, glad to see there's commercial entities doing something interesting to address this problem.

You guys, Planetes is actually happening
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/02/firm-planning-100000-satellites-claims-it-will-clean-space-by-capturing-debris/
#space #commercialspace #spacedebris #news