The article went straight from mind to intelligence before the first paragraph; admitting defeat before making a move. Intelligence is still riding the wave of an evolutionary hype cycle. Mind, on the other hand, is some supremely useful stuff.
Philosophy is precisely the domain of things that cannot be objectively testable because they are grounded in experience. You can not prove that you are conscious (especially in a world of LLMs) but you know it to be true. Should I assume you are an automaton simply because I can’t prove you are conscious?
Consciousness is not philosophy. In the past, it was. People didn't have the tools or theoretic background to even approach it in an empiric way.
However we now have at least the basics to hypothesize and perform experiments. So it's no longer philosophy and is in the realm of understanding what actually are the mechanisms of consciousness.
We can find "neural correlates" of consciousness, but nothing we do right now can prove that experience/awareness is taking place somewhere other than where oneself is experiencing/being aware.
First, they are not attempting to shard, they are just adding redundancy.
Second, it is not surprising that someone encountered a bug in a piece of server software released literally two days ago.
I guess people tend to expect server _database_ software to not have critical bugs like this. I understand, mistakes happen. But this doesn't help Mongo's less-than-stellar reputation.
Or he could have, I don't know, tested it first? Nah, no one tests first before making such a large change on a production server.
And don't give me crap about it's a one man operation either and we should feel sorry for him, if he's hoping to take over a good portion of Google Reader's subscribers (which he seems to hoping to do) then he should be planning better. If he can't plan to cope with a big influx of new users, that he's asked for by advertising his service, then perhaps migrating to his service isn't the right thing to do. I'd rather have Google Reader notify me that they're shutting down in 3 months than a one man operation shutdown without notice because they can't handle the load and the hassle and costs are way over what they were expecting.
We use Plastic SCM as our UI and repo, but I hear it can connect to git (somewhat) seamlessly. The interface is very slick, and the user experience is great when you use the Plastic Repo, not sure how it translates when pulling from git though.
Agreed, Pandora can get a bit one dimensional if you're not diligent. I've heard it's best to upvote sparingly and downvote heavily if you want a good mix. Also adding multiple bands and/or songs to a channel helps.
