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If you are controlling a computer, that control is not visible within the software of computer. The state of computer is accessible to you from "outside", say, by reading hardware state. And you can manipulate that state directly from outside.

This control and access, which needs a true observer, is consciousness. If a computer is taken as layer of reality, then this control is in outside layer of reality. But we don't stop there: It is observer in all layers of reality, whatever reality is made of. The observer can never be represented in any layer of reality.

We should consider that experience layer, like sound and vision are an independent layer of reality than underlying "material" reality. A materialist will say latter exists a priory, and thus experience is off the material layer. But we can as well argue that experience layer is a-priori. My taste sense, for e.g. has no equivalence in material reality. It deserves its own layer of reality. If I hear a voice of someone, it is singular experience rather than experience of collection of frequencies. Color like white is an experience of multiple frequencies of light. Our perceptions, happening with help of neurons, are not based on light at all. Projection is a-priory present, from which we create even light and other formulations...

A mathematical reality is in its own layer of reality. A conceptual reality of say, chair, is also in a "mental" reality.

So we should assume that all are simply abstract layers of reality. But our mental conditioning has created "things" model, just because we can touch and feel, or perceive a boundary in what we see.

As observer, which creates memory of observation, and accesses it, all in the present. An observation which is not in time and space, but creates sense of time and space out of observation.

And so on... A totally different model of reality.


I recently started this project: https://github.com/codevin/featureplus (Only getting objectives right now).

I now realize that my motivations are same as literate programming. My focus is to get features integrated into codebase. A developer should only do incremental programming, which will insert code into centrally hosted codebase.



May be per project pricing? Amount variable based on no of main widgets / pages used?


https://github.com/codevin/script-manager

The idea here is to standardize widgets and use them from scripts. For now, it emulates whiptail command line which provides text widgets.


The main claim the company is making is that they have Supercapacitor based batteries in testing. Possibly made of graphene, and in sizes of 1KW to 3KW.

If it can be independently verified, then it is ground braking result, because they seem to have achieved very high volumetric energy density, comparable to lithium ion batteries.

And being supercapacitors, they can charge very fast, in 15 min.

They have not focused on passenger cars at all.


This seems to be NixOS minus the Nix language, and traditional approach to package installation, configuration etc.


The only similarity is the non-standard filesystem hierarchy but even how that comes to be differs conceptually.


Many ISPs are bad these days. They insert or replace javascripts in it is plain http.

I face this problem in India with mainstream ISP.



What do they insert? Ads?


Yes, I’ve experienced it personally while doing my undergrad in india


The competitions should be for minimal no of steps/moves. Not the time taken.


There are 'fewest moves' competition as well


It’s already like that to be fair, people get faster by getting from A to B in fewer moves. The two go hand in hand, it’s like speedrunning.


It is almost the same thing. Less moves means less time to solve. I'm amazed by the performance of robots and people these days at this task.


It's not. There's a factor of over 100 between fastest solves and novice solves with a guide.


We're talking about competition.

Here is a previous world record solve from 2016, in about 31 moves over 4.73 seconds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjOyaf2JKoE

You don't just pick that up from a book.

Optimal number of moves is 20, so ~30 is pretty good.


From this article, it is 15 joules per gm of energy. That means 0.5kwh is generated for 100kg of these cells - typical battery weight in EVs.

But this is continuous process. So in 24hrs, you would get 12kwh which can be stored in super capacitors.

Assuming 10kms per kwh of EV range, this would be 120kms per day.

And if we allocate more kgs for battery, the range would increase.


Re-read that snopes article again; 15 joules/gram per day. That means in 24 hours, you only get 0.5kwh from your 100kg battery.


12kwh a day? Then you could feasibly power a house with these things.


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