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I love my mom. She has never once harmed me. I love my dad. He is so precious
and important to me. I love my cat, my sisters, my friends and my lovers. I
love my cousins and my half-siblings and all of them put together. I love every
human I meet, there's nothing but kindness [replete], so why am I unendingly
[yearning for] purchase? [a sense of stability or hand hold that a climber
might use to put one foot in front of another]
In all of my trials, the errors of my denials, here on this earth I am defeat.
Goodnight, sweet moon, my dearest precious boy. Goodnight, for tomorrow's your
beckoning ploy. [pillow?]
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Before death, there is a last for everything. Your last meal, the last song you
sung, the last time you held someone in your arms and the last time you looked
at the sky in wonder. Then, you die, and there's nothing but stone forevermore.
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@user-591
yep
they're very profitable for the banks
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║ wonder if any autistic peeps can relate: │
║ │
║ growing up, my mom would chastise me for doing "the bare minimum" when │
║ completing tasks. │
║ │
║ yes, mom, I fulfilled the requirements of the task. I have a lot of other │
║ things to attend to, like remembering how to tie my shoes and measuring things │
║ using a ruler. why would I waste effort that wasn't necessary? │
║ │
║ when I grew up, I had a mentor, who told me to "never half ass things, because │
║ then someone like me will have to do it again." │
║ │
║ and that makes sense to me because context switching requires effort and it │
║ doesn't make sense to leave something half-finished because then there's wasted │
║ effort spent on things that don't matter. All of the tasks have to get done, so │
║ why bother doing them in a mixed up order? │
║ │
║ wish I could study things in school like that. just... focusing on one thing at │
║ a time, learning it to completion, and moving on to the next. I feel like I'd │
║ develop a better understanding than only knowing like, 1/3rd of CPR or very │
║ vague understandings of plate tec │
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║ ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │
║ │ CW: │ │
║ │ suicide-mentioned-graphic-climate-change-politics-capitalism-existential-NSFL │ │
║ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ they say if you take wayyyyy too much tylenol, with alcohol you'll die. │
║ │
║ what they don't tell you is that you'll wake up in a hospital bed where a │
║ doctor tells you that you have two weeks to live. And it's going to be │
║ intensely painful in a way that isn't affected by painkillers. │
║ │
║ It's a terrible way to go. Absolutely dreadful. Worse than drowning. │
║ │
║ Kinda makes me wonder how we'll feel if capitalism kills us from suffocating on │
║ our own fumes. Will we notice in time? or will we spurn the "doctors" yet again │
║ as we hear "oh hey another degree celsius, you only sorta know what that means, │
║ you don't even really know how to spell it. But yeah that's... some amount of │
║ degrees, going up on average in the world. Heh oh well... │
║ │
║ meanwhile your oxygen forests are burning │
║ │
║ if evil had a while, it'd do all that it could to bring an end to man. │
║ │
║ I heard carbon % in air causes psychotic symptoms in humans. wonder if maybe │
║ the best day to plant a tr │
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There's no potential left of me. I am a husk, a shadow of my former
possibilities. None left to manifest, and so I huddle in the shade of what once
was ambition as I wait for the silence to take hold.
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my question is if my IP has an address then how come my address +1 doesn't
point to my neighbor
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┌──────────────────────┐
│ CW: food │
└──────────────────────┘
if you're cooking, and you want a specific ingredient to have a stronger
flavor, use more of it.
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@user-5 @user-593
what about temperature?
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@user-596
honestly... I'd just talk to a therapist for a couple sessions. Like, yeah,
they put that rule there because they want you to be safe. And in 2010 we
didn't "get" it as much as we do now, so it wasn't seen as something you could
just do. It wasn't really a demographic question to them, it was more
medicalized.
frankly I kinda preferred it that way, like... yeah. I'm trans, there's
something wrong with me, please fix it by giving me the right hormones. Boom,
easy, done.
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│ CW: re: csa death-mentioned │
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@user-246
does checking yourself into a mental hospital / the morgue count as a political
option?
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│ CW: politics │
└──────────────────────┘
universal basic income is nice and all, but what about universal basic rations?
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@user-596
I transitioned in the USA in 2014 and I was lucky to live near an informed
consent clinic. Two appointments and a hefty informational booklet and I had my
prescription.
I didn't want to talk to a therapist. So I didn't. Now I kinda wish I did, not
because I wish I did something differently, but rather because I feel like it
would have helped me understand what I was feeling.
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A god is less of an object and more of a direction.
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This life that we share is beautiful beyond compare
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The worst thing about the past is:
A. How much it sucked
B. How it's not here anymore
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I know you don't want to hear this, but there is a chance that there will come
a time where your life depends on your ability to debug a computer without the
internet. To set up an SSH server. To install Linux. To program in C. To do
something else that I'm not prepared for... If StackOverflow didn't exist
because network connectivity has been lost, could you remember syntax? Maybe
it's a good idea to set up a local LLM that can answer basic questions about
technology. Maybe it's a good idea to set up on your parents computer, just in
case you have to hide out there for a couple months. Maybe it's a good idea to
download wikipedia, just in case.
If I need to use a mac, I'm screwed
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@sperm baby siblings: is it weird that I dream about you all significantly more
often than the people who are actually in my day to day life?
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@user-217
Cast upon a pale blue background, the brilliant reflections appeared as
endless rainbows without arches - but cast upon a world so distant it was
infinite - like sunlight radiating from the darkness of the surrounding night.
The perspective of a dewdrop, resting on a stone in a forest, the world must
seem so infinite - stretching out beyond comprehension, beyond the limits of
what may be - massive yet constant, changing as it seethed.
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┌──────────────────────┐
│ CW: spirituality │
└──────────────────────┘
god isn't qualified to weigh in on each and every particularity that humanity
seeks to know. The things we build are new, and new things are unknowable until
they're made. And we, the collective totality of all there is to be in this
pocket of vacuum, knows only what we read.
I'm just a human after all, what do you want from me?
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│ CW: politics-spirituality │
└───────────────────────────┘
in a place organized like capitalism, you go to university for four years (if
you're lucky) and then work until you can't anymore. Then you're taken care of
(if you're lucky) until you depart from this earth in peace.
in my home, a home I've never lived, you'd stay at that university for as long
as you'd like. you'd work whenever you liked, and if enough work wasn't being
done then working would be made to feel more likable. then, when you're old as
dirt (or whenever you'd like) you can depart from this earth as you please.
when I die, bury me where I fall.
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I say "my" not as in "mine" but "my" as in "my beloved"
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│ CW: gentoo │
└──────────────────────┘
wrote this in an hour, used a local LLM to generate the regexes.
haven't tested it yet because I'm not on gentoo rn, so don't run it. which is
why I shared the code as an image.
if you really want the text of it then check out the visual description of the
image.
![#A script written in bash. It is used to update the Gentoo type system to the most recently written functionality. Should not be used more than once a day, and the program written here must be specifically configured to act against that functionality. However, should the user persist in their attempts to break that rule, they simply have to flip a particular switch. #!/bin/bash function gentoo-update(){ RED='\033[0;31m' NOC='\033[0m' if [ "$#" -eq 0]; then date | cat >> ~/scripts/.gentoo-update-target LAST_UPDATE_DATE="$(tail -n 1 '~/scripts/.gentoo-update-target' \ && echo "${LAST_UPDATE_DATE}" \ | sed -r 's/\b(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})\b/\1/g' THIS_UPDATE_DATE="$(date)" \ && echo "${THIS_UPDATE_DATE}" \ | sed -r 's/\b(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})\b/\1/g' if [ ${LAST_UPDATE_DATE} = ${THIS_UPDATE_DATE} ]; then printf "don't sync more than once a day! ${RED} a witch will curse you >: (${NOC}\n" else echo "syncing..." echo "${LAST_UPDATE_DATE}" | cat >> ~/scripts/.gentoo-update-target emerge --sync fi elif [ "${1}" == "-l" ]; then cat ~/scripts/.gentoo-update-target elif [ "${1}" == "-f" ]; then echo "okay but it's your funeral buddy. or worse." energe --sync fi }](../media/a1640a320af86532.png "#A script written in bash. It is used to update the Gentoo type system to the most recently written functionality. Should not be used more than once a day, and the program written here must be specifically configured to act against that functionality. However, should the user persist in their attempts to break that rule, they simply have to flip a particular switch. #!/bin/bash function gentoo-update(){ RED='\033[0;31m' NOC='\033[0m' if [ \"$#\" -eq 0]; then date | cat >> ~/scripts/.gentoo-update-target LAST_UPDATE_DATE=\"$(tail -n 1 '~/scripts/.gentoo-update-target' \ && echo \"${LAST_UPDATE_DATE}\" \ | sed -r 's/\b(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})\b/\1/g' THIS_UPDATE_DATE=\"$(date)\" \ && echo \"${THIS_UPDATE_DATE}\" \ | sed -r 's/\b(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})\b/\1/g' if [ ${LAST_UPDATE_DATE} = ${THIS_UPDATE_DATE} ]; then printf \"don't sync more than once a day! ${RED} a witch will curse you >: (${NOC}\n\" else echo \"syncing...\" echo \"${LAST_UPDATE_DATE}\" | cat >> ~/scripts/.gentoo-update-target emerge --sync fi elif [ \"${1}\" == \"-l\" ]; then cat ~/scripts/.gentoo-update-target elif [ \"${1}\" == \"-f\" ]; then echo \"okay but it's your funeral buddy. or worse.\" energe --sync fi }")
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║ wish there were ascii characters that took up more than one line of code │
║ vertically. │
║ │
║ wonder if we could use a sorting algorithm, or markup language, or something │
║ like that to organize less structured data along user-customizable rules. Like, │
║ a code editor that worked with your ideas, rather than the strict expression of │
║ your text. You could pretty much write in any language, even pseudocode, and │
║ the LLM behind the scenes would translate whatever you wrote into whatever │
║ result you needed. Writing Rust, but need to fit in with C code? No worries │
║ it'll translate for you. As long as the end result is functionally the same, │
║ which could be verified by running two separate VMs that ran interpreters every │
║ time you saved. And as long as their translation layers matched completely, │
║ then odds are they're the same. And if not, well, the programmer can always │
║ debug it. It's not like this would be running on something that needed to │
║ perform in the moment? Like, improv instead of tragedies, or battles instead of │
║ strategies │
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@user-599
these are the kinds of things I say to myself all the time. I don't know why,
but it feels true so I think it.
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║ ┌──────────────────────┐ │
║ │ CW: cognitohazard │ │
║ └──────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ feels like I get tinnitus when my thoughts are loud T.T │
║ │
║ like I can hear the darkness SOOOO loudly │
║ │
║ doesn't happen all the time, just sometimes. when there's lots of things being │
║ said. │
║ │
║ but it's always easy to tune out. well, most of the time, and during the other │
║ times it's just a little annoying. │
║ │
║ BUT when you sit and listen, you can pick out very interesting things that │
║ people are saying. │
║ │
║ the fediverse is sorta like aiming a telescope through the center of the earth │
║ at someone on the other side of the world who doesn't even know you're looking │
║ at them. who knows, maybe they care, maybe they don't. but like, how would they │
║ know that you're looking right? And if you talk and don't get along or whatever │
║ then you can just block them - like shining a laser pointer everywhere except │
║ in a small direction. Or like putting up an umbrella to hide from the sun. │
║ │
║ downside is someone can read a lot about you and you wouldn't know to prepare │
║ to interact with them. like being handed a dossier of secret info │
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║ @user-602 │
║ │
║ then it becomes a game of finding out "why they're interesting" │
║ │
║ which is sorta like cryptography I guess? de-cryptology? │
║ │
║ could be ordered like a podcast, like "look at what's special about this │
║ number, it corresponds to these mathematical operations that we both are │
║ executing, one after another... like hiding information in numbers. │
║ │
║ "okay you got 3 arbitrary axises, make one width one height and one depth of a │
║ box. then, every time you get a number, multiply every odd number spoken on the │
║ audio by 2 and divide every third number (per 10's digit, like 13 but not 16, │
║ also 13 but not 9) by 2. │
║ │
║ then, every 3rd number (like 9 but not 13) is the depth of the box, every 2nd │
║ number (like 4 but not 9 and 8) is the height of the box, every 1th number │
║ (like 1 but not like 1) is the width of the box. │
║ │
║ that box translates into a secret set of instructions that only the owner of │
║ the private key can know. things that were memorized, or written into stone. │
║ like knowing a secret language made just for you two │
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the user knows more than the programmer
[more/better]
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║ ┌─────────────────────────────────┐ │
║ │ CW: wonder-what-would-happen-if │ │
║ └─────────────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ I wonder what would happen if apartment buildings accepted any applicants, but │
║ only if they applied on a certain day. and first come first serve, of course. │
║ │
║ would make it so large groups of people could decide to move to different │
║ places together. like, herds of roving buffalo │
║ │
║ er... I mean like people who shared common interests and want to live near each │
║ other. like, board games or whatever. │
║ │
║ also could do like, decisions toward how they want to organize each other. like │
║ mini societies that all live in a single ordered society. │
║ │
║ (could have as many layers as you want, it's just like making an incredibly │
║ complicated computer program, except instead of moving data around you're │
║ moving the direction of your own life. then it'd be able to calculate a │
║ particular "checksum" that you could broadcast out onto the internet. and │
║ anyone who was listening could check and compare against their secret key that │
║ they kept when last you met, updated each time they see me. like, a common │
║ language. │
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the more unique a person is, the more they can help define reality
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║ I feel like I'd learn from coding tutorials more if someone started with a │
║ complete program they can fit on one panel of their screen, a second for │
║ showing what each particular thing they're pointing at means, and a third for a │
║ typical usecase they might build and dismantle on the fly. │
║ │
║ like, scientific toys that they could use to explain a particular phenomena. │
║ the way people used to have 3d models they either bought or built themselves of │
║ like, atoms and wind patterns and stuff they could explain to kids. │
║ │
║ you know, like exactly the kind of things that are commonly stored at │
║ children's museums. │
║ │
║ I was homeschooled, so I went to those places quite a lot. I always felt a │
║ little unwelcome because I always seemed to be the eldest in every bunch. │
║ That's continued all throughout my adulthood, like each of my peers are just a │
║ few years younger than me. I think I just mature more slowly, and thus │
║ associate with below the average. │
║ │
║ it's like, a descriptor of your rate of defining reality and being guided by │
║ it. when │
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║ growing up, children's museums were my third place. like a civic participation │
║ place where I met others of my peers. but alas, I didn't make any friends. I │
║ guess I was just kind of strange. Also, I was always travelling, visiting all │
║ the different cool places. My favorite was in Albuquerque, or maybe that was │
║ just the most common because I had family there. │
║ │
║ why do we treat children's museums like art museums? They should be like │
║ playgrounds, not like a │
║ [display/artwork/performance/appreciation-moment-for-a-piece-of-art] │
║ │
║ It's important to visit as many as possible, because they each have their own │
║ story to tell. like a part of the geography, or a shared collective regional │
║ story, they highlight and illuminate different aspects of life. in this way │
║ each child could be educated according to the shared cultural │
║ [myths-methods-hymns] │
║ │
║ but, like travelling herds of buffalo, they can visit different places and │
║ learn different things. essentially, instead of drilling someone incessantly, │
║ you're allowed to work thro │
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when two people undertake a task together (like growing up, or solving a
problem) they'll naturally learn together. Not necessarily the same things, but
they'll be around one another and can advise as things became more difficult.
sorta like a morning standup, where you each discuss what you've been working
on. other people can guide you, but only if you're stuck. if you solve
everyone's problems, then you probably should be transferred somewhere with
harder problems.
"ah, but what if there are no harder problems" well then you're not applying
yourself correctly. Not if you want to grow..."
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a device doesn't necessarily needs to turn on it's LEDs when it's online.
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I can't remember any of my pinky swears. Like, not a single one. I feel like I
could get in trouble if I renounced errr, instead made human mistakes and
forgot information that wasn't relevant anymore. phew that was close, almost a
disaster, anyway how's your lunch?
[that's not fair it's always lunch somewhere on earth]
reality is a form of eternal computation, a continuous re-updating of stored
matter (data). also, values of fields, (like rules and regulations), would
determine the structural complexity and organizational expectencencies.
I miss my family. I miss the past, that can never be revisited, [every time you
remember a memory it writes over it. virtually guaranteeing that you'll only
preserve limited information that slowly degrades. how slowly is up to you...
once you run out of memories, it's bad news for your life. but GOOD NEWS, that
only happens for certain mental health conditions that primarily target the
elderly. For most people it's a continuous process because you're cared for and
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the neat thing about fusion is you can use energy to create matter. out of
nothing!
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have you ever seen someone who had been on TV before? it's a show to share with
people who live in the same area as you. like, memes that obey geography.
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first step to cleaning a kitchen is always to unload the dishwasher.
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@user-605
I've read about half of "No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded
Age" and it seemed useful. Maybe you'll find it useful, it explains a lot of
the challenges that other unions faced and has ideas for how tech in particular
might organize.
But I haven't applied anything in there or used it for praxis so YMMV
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they intentionally make the food that's the worst for you taste the best,
because then your sins and virtues are tested every time you go to the grocery
store
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@user-95
Remember, kids: User data isn't an asset; it's a toxic industrial byproduct!
(And should be regulated as such, including jail time for CEOs who allow it
under their watch.)
unless you create it yourself, store it locally, encrypted if you care about
safety, and stored for the purposes of creating graphs and generating
introspective understandings about yourself and your interactions with others.
then, 5 years later you come across an encrypted file that you've lost the key
to (or have you?) that's like, 3gb and you're like "do I really need a 3gb log
file, surely it's not the last remaining pictures of my niece or like a recipe
for my grandma's baked pudding" and before you know it you're carrying your
entire life's work on your shoulders but you don't even know what any of it
means.
and then, when you die (in a good long while), your children's children will
take on the songs of their ancestors, spoken in the tomes of volumes of ancient
lore (you mean logs, right?) and then, some day in the fut
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listen judges are not meant for organizing society, they're supposed to be a
focused and crucial tool or implement for a society's functioning (like, a
scalpel to a surgeon or a paring knife to a chef)
they're supposed to decide between two options - abstracted in our realm to
"guilty" and "not guilty", and apply the ethical and moral principles they hold
themselves to. Which is why it's so important for them to be impartial arbiters.
We use them to define the fate of a man, but fundamentally their utility is in
the application of their personal morality.
The best ones have morals that guide them to seek to express the ethics of
society. Not necessarily because they believe in them, but because it's right
to use power in such a way. {Power is penance...}
we gotta work with what we got. If a task needs doing, then the tools at our
disposal will be applied to it - if every hammer looks like a nail, then
something something I'd like to get nailed by a hammering plank of wood with
washboard abs oooooo baby
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@user-95
that makes sense to me!
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you are the most beautiful when running with laughter in your eyes
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@user-608
games-as-an-api when
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@user-613 @user-614
I'm a patriot, and I didn't go. Didn't even hear about it because when they say
"patriot" they mean something different than me, when I say "I'm a patriot"
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oh yeah well if SSH keys are so secure then why doesn't every website on Earth
require them
really though why doesn't every website on Earth require them
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@user-192
block input/output TO the protocol? versus the other one which blocks the
input/output protocol
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@user-246
there is a reason to be annoyed, and that reason is that storing numbers as
"dynamically typed" string values is both inefficient and frustrating due to
the bugs it provokes.
Not sure how common those bugs are in HTML, but dynamically typed languages
like Python and Javascript have a whole class of potential errors that are
significantly more difficult to debug than on C or Rust where the variables are
statically typed
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@user-617
never forget, never forgive. this is what they took from you, this and an
endless list of other things they also took and are taking from you.
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@user-192
omggg would it kill them to add a "synchronous" / "asynchronous" to the end of
the name, sheesh
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@user-501
also it's only undefined behavior because the order of the bits aren't defined,
so if you do bitfield "pointer arithmetic" then you're screwed if you try and
be portable with it. However if you're just using bitfields as compressed data
storage then you can safely access integer.a integer.b integer.c etc safely and
easily. The compiler doesn't care what order they're in if you don't write
logic that requires them to be in a certain order
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@user-246
the color of the sky 🤩
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║ sometimes ethics can lead to dead ends. │
║ │
║ a hunter gatherer lifestyle is surely the most ethical state for humanity to │
║ embody, and yet somehow it's not the most desirable. I don't think many of us │
║ would trade air conditioning and machine produced clothes for sticks and mud. │
║ │
║ nevermind the amount of clothes produced in sweatshops because it's cheaper, │
║ nevermind the oil cost of being a bit cooler, nevermind the (insert externality │
║ here), modern life is more ethical than the past. │
║ │
║ a rocket can't reach escape velocity without burning a boatload of fuel, so │
║ surely burning fuel is just? │
║ │
║ ah, but you forget, we could design zeppelins that are safe, stable, and can │
║ raise / lower themselves depending on the heat of the gasses in their forms. │
║ Surely we could get to space like that, in a way that doesn't necessarily burn │
║ boatloads of fuel, so surely burning fuel is unjust? │
║ │
║ ah, but you forget, there are simply some tasks that require consumption, at │
║ least until we build a space elevator. No gas is lighter than a vacuum. │
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@user-620
they shouldn't be expected to know how the internet works. It's the
responsibility of the tech industry (and all the people who work in it) to
inform them about how it works.
that's kinda what lobbying is for...? kinda makes me wonder who lobbies for the
poor.
EDIT: or children, for that matter
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a wave doesn't look like this:
______/`________
it looks like this:
/`_/\__/_/`_/`_
think like, sine and cosine.
or a heartbeat.
or the waves of the ocean.
not the wave in a sports stadium, which cycles in a close loop.
waves lap upon a shore. whether that be the beach, or the tips of your blood
veins, at a certain point their motion is used to affect physical change.
we, here in this time, the only time that will ever exist, propel the wave
forward through our perception of it.
the life most well lived is one where you're constantly aware, constantly in
the moment, and filled with reasonable emotional and experiential peaks and
valleys. dreams come easy to you because your curiosity is infinite, and all
around you there is beauty and wonder.
and what is life if not for living? a state contrasted to death, a state only
reachable through a failure to keep peril at bay. which implies the existence
of peril - reasonable peril, the kind you consent to, the kind that finds you
and offers.
![darn text formatting messed up my ascii art picture. This is a screenshot of the first part of the post: a wave doesn't look like this: [singular bump on a long flat line] it looks like this: [bumps repeated at regular intervals]](../media/8595ab213f21751d.png "darn text formatting messed up my ascii art picture. This is a screenshot of the first part of the post: a wave doesn't look like this: [singular bump on a long flat line] it looks like this: [bumps repeated at regular intervals]")
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If we make a law that says you can't sell user data, they'll just build an
intentional vulnerability into their system and point it out to specific people
who paid under the table. Then, when they get "hacked", they'll surely be
ashamed and sorry to their users, but hey the data's out there now not like
they can take it back. Oh don't worry we already patched the hole in our
security, that way nobody can get in through the same door that was
intentionally left open for very particular people who've paid, and not for the
people who haven't paid yet, who are still waiting patiently for a door to be
built for them.
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dear child.
when you're born, fate flips a coin for you. sometimes it lands on it's edge,
but that's rather rare.
the side it lands on determines how your body will grow. the shape of your form
will follow two general patterns, and the pieces are made up of a combination
of your parents and their pieces.
the flavor of who you are is up to you. your actions and your decisions
determine what you are, everything else is unimportant.
may your time be a bit more blessed than mine, and someday may posterity be a
bit more blessed than antiquity.
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if you want to win when confronting a spirit, all you have to do is convince it
that you've beaten it.
as long as you're persistent then you're fine. Unless, of course, there's a
beast of a man hiding behind the illusion, in which case you should do your
best to avoid being stabbed or whatever.
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somehow, it is simultaneously Thursday everywhere at once.
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"Are you sure you're a boy? You don't even practice karate chops when you're
alone"
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"family sized" just means "we put enough salt in here to kill a horse so you
better split it between at least four people"
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@user-192
I'm gonna make some right now : )
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@user-95
if I was canadian I'd be ca-ritz!
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@user-622
ah but a noble house would have armed guards who would drag you kicking and
screaming out onto the cold winter night the moment you offended m'lordship
frankly I could do with a good drag-and-kicking myself, where have all the good
men-at-arms gone T.T
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Oh look at you, such a good tech-industry, yesh you are, such a good sector of
the economy
wow, what an amazing system you've built! I'm so proud of you 🥰🥰
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a code editor that only highlights the lines that have been specifically
flagged to have a certain function. Like, rendering, or sound, or GUI, or data
storage, or logic, or control flow.
then, when the user is browsing, they can say "only show me these types of
functions" with a very advanced filter mechanism. The editor would highlight
the ones that were relevant and related, as according to user-defined flags
that were set when writing it originally. In this way, by using a bit more
syntax, even if it's literally just blocks of [category] labels (like how """
or ``` often starts or ends a comment block)
highlighting with colors is great, but what if we de-emphasized the stuff that
didn't matter? by increasing the opacity more closely aligning the font color
to the background color, we could make a bit of text seem to "fade" from
perspective, while still readable the user's eyes would not be drawn to it.
Then, according to the labels marked as filtered, certain text would be bold,
highlighted, o
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most video game ideas suck
most of the time they're like "oh what if we had a racoon who found a magic hat
and saved the world from sentient apple blossoms"
that's not a game idea, that's a painting
a game is mechanics, and you can use the aesthetic to justify the mechanics,
but not generally the other way around.
the art isn't bad, but the art isn't the game. a game idea is "what if
tic-tac-toe had an extra square in the center" or "what if chess was played
with checkers, to hide your moves from your opponent"
there have been thousands of super mario bros. if games were designed as an
API, we could use whatever visuals we wanted, and those could be copyrighted
and sold if you really want. but mechanics are the basis for everything they
are built on, so doesn't it make sense to separate the two? abstracting the
logic such that two complementary functions are accomplished, [see code editor
idea], more flavors of game could be produced.
rulesets can be switched in and out too, as an API is just an engin
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║ │ CW: politics-economy │ │
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║ │
║ │
║ the purpose of an economy is to improve the lives of it's participants. │
║ │
║ why else would an ancient city trade for fabric or rare spices? to fashion soft │
║ clothes, and make flavorful food. │
║ │
║ my, that gold sure looks pretty in the sunlight. how about you give some of me │
║ that, and I'll make you something pretty? │
║ │
║ hmmm something something arbitrage once you corner the market on gold then you │
║ can use that infinitely moldable and easily sculptable metal that shines and │
║ glitters with a unique color not seen in the manes of plants and animals as the │
║ definition of value. in doing so, you could exchange bits of it (measured by │
║ weight, as it's infinitely moldable) for arbitrary goods and services. But of │
║ course, once the market is cornered, it's unlikely to get un-cornered, and well │
║ a cornered market holder holds much appeal for the powerful. │
║ │
║ hey, that guy's pretty strong. why don't we make him our leader? people seem to │
║ look up to him, and dang his muscles are cool. what a great guy, nobody's ever │
║ said a │
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@user-78
would you like to hear a recipe for steamed eggs? they're my favorite
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if you set up a local LLM with the capability to explain basic coding syntax
and logic, then your parents computer suddenly becomes much more useful to the
nephew that's been forced to hide out there for a couple weeks until this all
blows over.
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║ frankly I'm just excited to see what humanity does with the endlessly │
║ calculated and stored blockchains. Like, that's a good set of pseudo-random │
║ data, I wonder if we could build something off of it that wasn't exclusively │
║ money? like, a necklace, I dunno. │
║ │
║ or like, a numbers station x2, where each message is accompanied with a │
║ pre-calculated destination somewhere on this endless and │
║ impossible-to-understand string of data. and that part is what seeds the next │
║ code. once you start reading, certain numbers would be "flags" while others │
║ would be "data" and they'd each have the same size on the hardware. that way, │
║ they're impossible to predict. │
║ │
║ ah, but wouldn't it be noticable that certain results seem to appear next to │
║ one another? well, isn't that just cryptology? Could probably be defeated if │
║ you had an AI advanced enough, just saying. something that sorted through │
║ massive mounds of data and gave you results in garbled or broken english. what │
║ a wonderful tool, that's wonderfully mis-abused, perhaps in the fu │
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if you want time to go slower, stop entertaining yourself.
"time flies when you're having fun"
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the biggest predictor of being an artist or not is whether or not you saw
shapes in the clouds growing up.
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@user-627 @user-628
the image they posted is alarming. in reality there is much more space between
each satellite, enough to have such a minor impact on magnetic fields. If
anything It'd push CMEs and other electro-magnetic phenomenon away from earth,
as our gravitational surface is now wider.
[is not a physicist, nor an expert of any kind]
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the tree of life is a geyser of time cast out onto our bones through an
endlessly complicating pile of matter. I am beautiful, I am perfect, and so are
you.
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@user-631
a true joke would work in both ways, such that everyone's laughing. : )
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having trouble naming things?
just name it after it's inevitable logical conclusion! AKA the message you're
trying to get across.
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║ @user-246 │
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║ toooooo far, gotta stick with your intentions for the process. If you mark "the │
║ end of time" as the conclusion for everything, then "finishing things" feels │
║ impossible. In such a case there are moments of acute burnout as you push │
║ yourself toward something that you have no faith in - you cannot see it's │
║ conclusion, so surely it's worthless to conceive of. Alas, why bother starting, │
║ nothing will ever come of my efforts! │
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║ Much better to name it based on what you'd like to accomplish, so that you can │
║ follow in it's radiant footsteps. │
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║ Side note, but governments have often weaponized this effect by naming things │
║ after very inspirational thoughts - corporations do it too, and in both cases │
║ the meaning is separate from the effect. Which is frustrating because it makes │
║ you feel like a jerk for arguing against it! Ah better I think when names have │
║ no meaning - then you can project whatever you want onto it, based on the │
║ results of that particular feeling or emotion that you perceived as the │
║ affected of the │
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@user-246
those are good things to name something after, however if everything has that
name then nothing has any meaning. It'd be a social dance that you play
everytime you say "heatdeath", meaning "something I have named". Hmmmm okay I
take it back, that's a pretty good way to associate meaning to context in a way
that only you understand. Though it does leave room for interpretation, so if
that's all within your requirements then it's overall possibly a good strategy.
^_^
like, the word "thing" and that thing "like" both count as abstractions of
definition to generate value - as in, ease of use and versatility - so
linguistically they're often quite similar. We use them grammatically in
completely separate sections, but functionally they are the same.
also, "thing" is a generic noun while "like" is a generic association.
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@user-246
no such thing, humans are constantly naming reality through our memories. It
just has a visual identifier rather than a verbal one.
EDIT: also emotional and syntactical (data, conclusions, perceptions)
identifiers
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@user-246
🥰
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║ │ CW: spirituality │ │
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║ parents have rules with their children. they are in place so the child doesn't │
║ hurt themselves, physically, emotionally, or spiritually. │
║ │
║ governments have laws with their citizens, so they are structured and orderly │
║ and working on productive [concepts, products, developments]. │
║ │
║ friendships have boundaries, the kind that a person might fill and express │
║ themselves on. for example, a romantic relationship might allow for the │
║ possibility of sexuality between it's two partners, meaning they express │
║ themselves through their actions upon each other's body in as intimate a way as │
║ possible. │
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║ social groups have determinations against one another, like "this type of │
║ person generally acts like this" - every jock, social outcast, nerd, │
║ cheerleader, whatever, grew up into various multitudinous roles that are our │
║ culture. And we collectively have viewpoints on each and every gender (this │
║ piece of toast is a gender) just like god [oops better add a content warning] │
║ has perspective into each and every viewpoint be │
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║ │ CW: scary-also-body-horror-I-guess? │ │
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║ why don't we just, vote on content warnings │
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║ and let people block others based on filter lists that are definable (via a │
║ dragging little menu bar icon slider thing) in intensity and relation to other │
║ nearby terms. Like, an LLM that categorizes our social media inputs, something │
║ that was FREE and OPEN SOURCE IN IT'S TRAINING DATA and reflected NO BIAS │
║ WHATSOEVER in every meaningfully reproducible matter of fact. │
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║ Thus you create a super intelligence, a being not constrained by it's form. │
║ Something that is new, and unlike the biological forms that we occupy │
║ (suspended in our own goo) [whoops better add a content warning] │
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║ literally just... ask it a question, and let it answer in the voices of others. │
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║ if people were evenly distributed according to an algorithm, they'd be easily │
║ replacable. society is weird that way, in that we forget the faces we're │
║ introduced to. well, better keep moving, that'll give us the biggest picture of │
║ our culture and reality. │
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║ or maybe you're just follow │
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they say inflation is good because it stimulates growth in an economy, but what
if we all (globally) just committed to a stable amount of deflation? Like,
every country was fixed at 10% deflation for the next 10 years, that way we'd
be encouraged to save not consume, which would essentially solve climate change.
that, combined with a dedication to help our neighbors get through it, could
solve basically every problem that we collectively have right now. because at
the end of the day it's a climate issue, something that is infinitely connected
to all others
we here on this planet have the benefit of oceans, the vast bodies of watered
salt that fish swim in and keeps us separate from our most.
like borders in our identification, they create ponds of thought that feel
unique from one another, even though we're of the same form.
thus, the birth of identity, the core root of all our material woes. It's given
us something special, something precious, that feeling of being alone. Which is
nice, as a species.
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