-> file: fediverse/1969
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@user-1117
That guy loves his job ^_^
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-> file: fediverse/1970
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@user-246
"be gay; do crimes"
it's basically our motto
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-> file: fediverse/1971
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│ CW: drugs-mentioned-probably-delusional-psychosis-idk-though-i'm-not-a-doctor │
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listen, if you didn't want me to do a bunch of drugs then why would you
consistently say "please stop doing drugs" every time I do drugs? And no I'm
not hallucinating a voice in my head telling me "please stop doing drugs"
because A. it's not a voice, I'm not hearing it with my hears, which means B.
it's definitely just a hallucination, and hallucinations are always to be
considered WRONG and BAD, right? Or was I not listening in therapy? Ah, well,
better take another hit, where's my shotglass? Hmmmmm I should watch Adventure
Time, that's a great show.
[bro it's a saturday, why are you getting turnt like it's tuesday]
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-> file: fediverse/1972
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@user-1120
pretty! ^_^
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-> file: fediverse/1973
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║ You cannot base your argument on the assumption that a person should do as you │
║ suggest. │
║ │
║ to do so is a form of circular reasoning. │
║ │
║ "You should do this thing, and yet you aren't, which means you're wrong" │
║ doesn't work logically if you, the person suggesting the thing for this other │
║ person to do, is wrong. │
║ │
║ Its a weakness in your argument, a flaw in your design. │
║ │
║ "You should not kill other people" is generally regarded as a true statement, │
║ but it rests its power upon the conclusion that you shouldnt harm another │
║ person. "your rights end where another's begin" and all that. │
║ │
║ If, however, that baseline axiom should change (that your right to kill someone │
║ ends as soon as another person's right to life comes into the picture) such as │
║ in the case when a person LOSES their right to life, for example if they're a │
║ nazi who is part of a death cult that actively seeks to destroy the lives of │
║ other people, then PERHAPS and maybe EVEN POSSIBLY it's possible that PERHAPS │
║ they, the nazi in question, should be slain. By you. │
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-> file: fediverse/1974
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... have you ever seen the movie "Guns Akimbo"? I only remember the start, how
the main Harry Potter character got his hands replaced with hand-guns.
He was like, trolling some fascist dipshit on the internet, and sometimes I
can't help but wonder if the same kind of retribution is ever going to be
visited upon me.
Though I guess "we should kill nazis" is a little tame compared to what some of
ya'll post, so maybe I'm fine
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-> file: fediverse/1975
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the actions of the AI depend solely on the training data. Outside circumstances
(like a prompt, or an image description) can only give so much guidance - how
it executes on the intentions of the user are what is important.
For example, if an AI was trained with the knowledge of how to commit crimes,
for example, it could create a narrative of many different execution patterns.
Then it's just up to the listeners to execute functions based on the narrative
supplied by the crime-committer AI who was trained with knowledge about how to
commit those crimes by the owner of the software who programmed it into them in
order to [do the thing that people with power wants to do - intentionally left
generic because different ends will have different means]
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-> file: fediverse/1976
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║ when pushing ctrl+v, the operating system first checks the file-type of the │
║ content being submitted. │
║ │
║ if it's like, a .jpg or .png, it knows that it's an image file. Do note that │
║ these are RANDOM letters that mean nothing, not something informative like .pic. │
║ │
║ if, however, it is text-based information, it first reads what is being sent to │
║ the application which is requesting a ctrl+v. │
║ │
║ Then, upon reading said information, it decides "is this worth passing on? │
║ Should I send something else, based on the results of what I've been analyzing │
║ of the situation as it develops over time, being observed by the execution │
║ operations of the monitor, which is projected forward unto the screen? (totally │
║ forgetting that "virtual" monitors exist, meaning monitors that don't display │
║ to any physical screen, but which rather are projected into the computer's │
║ "aetherspace", an area which is purely of the mind. │
║ │
║ Alas, that other sensors might not have read from this area. That they might │
║ not observe the results of the operations pe │
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functions should be forced to describe the context of why they were being
called. I think it would help debug a lot if we supplied a reasoning for each
and every request [function call] that we made. We might even be able to parse
them into semantic pyramids which we could sorta use to estimate [tree-like
scanning] how and why the program did do wrong.
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-> file: fediverse/1978
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│ CW: re: fascism-nazis-mentioned │
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@user-1074
that's kinda how police are supposed to operate, btw.
put them in dangerous places, and if anyone starts getting angry or aggressive
then draw your firearm before them and attempt to calm things down. If that
doesn't work, start shooting and run, so you can tell others of what's going
on. Oh also you should leave a trail of your actions so others can audit it and
see exactly what you were doing at which time. But alas, cops are bogged down
in paperwork, so much stuff that needs doing. If only we assigned them
secretaries, and treated them like... managers, rather than individual
contributors. Perhaps then they, being the collective applicator of the
commonly considered ethical good, (laws), then perhaps they might be able to
direct other people (who do the paperwork) to handle certain aspects of an
investigation, and in doing so better reveal the truth.
because the rich and powerful LOVE to hide things behind impossible amounts of
proof.
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-> file: fediverse/1979
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@user-1037
"I received a ticket to replace the RAM on system 10b42r77 - I did as
requested."
versus
"I received a ticket to replace the RAM on system 10b42r77 - I verified that
all sectors of the DIMMs were fully functional, and cleared out the
operating-system-cache-which-somehow-has-something-to-do-with-the-ram. In
addition, I noticed that a certain dip-switch wasn't configured correctly
according to the previously filed and recorded ticket application hardware
facilitation request. I set it to the correct configuration. Please confirm if
this configuration would conflict with any of your tests."
One of them wastes perfectly good hardware chips (RAM), the other saves a few
milibytes of disc space.
Who would you rather have in your company?
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-> file: fediverse/1980
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A company exists only to serve it's users. ONLY.
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-> file: fediverse/1981
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Dear [company I used to work at],
I can completely automate 80% of your corporate structure. And with only a 10%
error rate, meaning nine-times out of ten the answer will be correct.
We check for errors, obviously, but you know sometimes with only 90 out of 100
examples it's not always possible to identify the correct conclusion.
Ah, if only we could fabricate such training-data-conclusions, we might learn
thousands of lessons in one hop.
if you want to destroy the world, make sure your plans can take effect in more
than a single rotation-of-the-ancients. Otherwise your opposition can start to
plan to outmaneuver you. And a lot can happen in a year to the
[unsuspecting/unworthy].
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-> file: fediverse/1982
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║ @user-1037 │
║ │
║ True, but what they WANT to know and what is RECORDED in record is often │
║ not-quite the same thing. │
║ │
║ Hence, why laboratory techs feel at odds with the software people running │
║ applications on their machines. I'm assuming it's roughly the same thing going │
║ the other direction, though perhaps with a dash of classism thrown in. │
║ │
║ The record is useful to these hardware techs, because they've used it to │
║ diagnose INCREDIBLY OBSCURE issues. SO MUCH READING it hurts my heart just to │
║ think about it. Scanning and searching for a solution, until finally it's found │
║ in this cross-examination of two different ancient tickets from just a few │
║ months ago. │
║ │
║ One of them said they set the hardware one way. │
║ │
║ the other said they noticed it was out of place. │
║ │
║ Suddenly, you realize WHEN your incident started occurring, and then you can │
║ piece together the facts. │
║ │
║ (this has happened like, twice to me so far, and each time I spent weeks on it) │
║ │
║ ( though I did work at Intel, meaning I was doing a lot of obscure hardware │
║ work ) │
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@user-1037
I guess I'm saying that for non-standard functions (most of them) they should
need to make a ticket every time they want to run a function call. Perhaps only
in debug mode...
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"mili" versus "mega" is a question of which direction you want to go.
"mili" is less abstract - milimeters are smaller than meters.
"mega" is more abstract - megabytes are bigger than bytes.
we use "mili" terminology to describe things that are often considered small
(like bacteria or sub-plutonic inches, or number of microbes in a vat)
we use "mega" terminology to describe things that are often measured from small
to large (like bytes to megabytes to kilobytes to gigabytes to terabytes to
petabytes to... wait shit)
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@user-246
why, that's basically our cosmic backyard! There's a lotta things we might want
to measure on the miliparsec scale.
like, the duration of the longest slime trail, as measured by guiness book of
world records. Apparently they put a snail in a giant circle and then they got
it to walk for 90%+ of it's natural life? Wild.
anyway yeah space is biiiiiiiiiig and there's not much in it, so, true maybe
not much to observe
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when cornered, is it your instinct to escape? or to take one of them down with
you?
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-> file: fediverse/1987
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│ CW: food-mentioned │
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Ice cream with jam is delicious, don't let anyone tell you that you need
chocolate or caramel.
Fresh fruit, too, though it's better as a side.
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-> file: fediverse/1988
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@user-246
I once heard that Excel is a functional programming language with a tabular
interface
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-> file: fediverse/1989
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I don't care who you are, but if others aren't fighting to be in your life,
then do they really belong there?
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-> file: fediverse/1990
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║ When my family would go on roadtrips, I'd hide under a blanket in the front │
║ seat with my laptop and power inverter just to hide from the glare. │
║ │
║ My mom would play audiobooks, usually fantasy stories, and my sisters would │
║ watch their portable TVs. Like, dvd players that you could carry on top of your │
║ lap. Not laptops, but little purpose-built devices primarily intended to be │
║ used to watch DVDs, or rather movie files that were printed on a disk. │
║ │
║ And yes, it's disk, not disc, thanks for asking. │
║ │
║ anyway it was pretty nice I have fond memories of jugging a gas-station snack │
║ while also swapping circular cartridges - most games required the game's CD to │
║ be inserted in order to play the game. │
║ │
║ which is just... a nonsensical restriction if you think about it hard enough. I │
║ mean, like, can you imagine if you needed to insert your windows disk anytime │
║ you wanted your computer to turn on? Just... write the disk information! To │
║ disc! Save it so that you never need the crude piece of plastic again! Then │
║ pass it to your fr │
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sometimes "collusion" can mean the same thing as "having the same or similar
ideas around the same timeframe"
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-> file: fediverse/1992
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║ For a good person, their "mask" comprises most of their nature. │
║ │
║ bad people tend to hide their majorities with a tiny mask, while good are often │
║ primarily the interface between the world (read: pro-social) and the self. │
║ │
║ If there's a tiny part of you that's evil, it implies that your good nature │
║ focused all it's bad into a single kernel of deeply held truth. Which usually │
║ means the good overpowers the bad, except in specific situations where it's │
║ impossible to not be evil - in situations such as that, your evil will present │
║ itself according to the nature of "you", that kernel that your good side has │
║ preserved. │
║ │
║ In World of Warcraft, there's this faction of righteous warriors who call │
║ themselves "The Scarlet Crusade". They are blessed and fiery, passionately │
║ defending their home. │
║ │
║ But they are evil, for a demon has crept into their highest ranking of orders, │
║ through claw and by tearing a gash in a leader. In doing so, said demon │
║ corrupted the institution, and - wait hang on what I meant to say before I got │
║ sid │
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If you're thinking to yourself "hmmm, I dunno, I mean I'm kinda gay, but I
don't really fit into the "gay world"" - stop, forget that, and be a muscle-bro
/ amazon goddess. Trust me it's totally worth it, especially if you get into
politics.
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-> file: fediverse/1994
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║ @user-1123 │
║ │
║ hi nice to meet you let me just transfer my unencoded public key to you so that │
║ you can sign it and verify that it's definitely the same thing I intended to │
║ send and not a malicious package that plans to execute itself to executable │
║ space and permanently hardwire your machine to continually feed data to an │
║ external site, no siree just a regular ordinary public key that was transferred │
║ over the internet, that place that basically guarantees a man-in-the-middle via │
║ it's communication processes over the lines and cables connecting ye to thee │
║ which are naturally administered and watched over by your host, AKA the isp. │
║ │
║ ... but yeah trust me bro plug in this flash drive, there's no way that a │
║ secret hacker might install a rootkit or something on my computer just because │
║ I plugged in a flash drive, once, literally just a nugget of information │
║ carried upon a little machine that you can fit in your pocket roughly the size │
║ of a thumb) drive, the kind that is useful for transmitting information by │
║ sneakermail. :) │
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-> file: fediverse/1995
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https://v.redd.it/tq6dkxtj098d1
haha well
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-> file: fediverse/1996
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I don't expect or demand anything from teenagers except perhaps "be a cool kid"
and "learn all that you can"
Even most adults when they mess up I just think "ah, well, they're trying their
hardest, same as anyone"
And tbh I'd rather see a kid running up and down the aisles than burying
themselves in an ipad
I think we, as a culture, built our society to demand too many "should"s from
people.
"I should get a job" "I should study this thing I'm not interested in so I can
make more money" "I should put out traps for the rabid wolverines so they don't
start hanging out in my underwear" "I should pick up detergent at the grocery
store"
Should is useless. Do; or do not. There is no should.
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-> file: fediverse/1997
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║ ┌───────────────────────┐ │
║ │ CW: cursing-mentioned │ │
║ └───────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ A teacher should help students learn, and perhaps guide them toward learning │
║ things that are broadly applicable instead of specifically applicable. │
║ │
║ For example, let's say a kid wants to do a project and present their findings │
║ about various types of pokemon and their match-up strength against various gym │
║ leaders or whatever. Idk I don't really play Pokemon. │
║ │
║ Anyway the teacher could see that project and think "Hmmm this kid is good at │
║ identifying strengths and weaknesses in various profiles, perhaps they would be │
║ a good talent scout or hiring manager" and they could nudge the kid toward │
║ learning useful skills for that kind of role like empathy, long-term strategic │
║ thinking, adaptation under unforseen circumstances (like, if your recent hire │
║ turned out to be a total asshat), that kind of thing. │
║ │
║ Then the kid turns out to be a pianist and the teacher's like "well shit, at │
║ least I tried. Kid's got magic fingers though, you should hear him play." │
║ │
║ We are all generalists, but specialization is fun │
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-> file: fediverse/1998
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┌─────────────────────────────────┐
│ CW: food-mentioned-kinda-cursed │
└─────────────────────────────────┘
can you imagine if cows made cheese instead of milk
and you had to squeeze it out of their udders like easy-cheeze
[why would you say such a thing]
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-> file: fediverse/1999
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sometimes you need to regress in order to move forward from pain
... which is why I dropped out of the "Paladin academy"
no I will not elaborate
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-> file: fediverse/2000
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│ CW: drugs-mentioned │
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🖼
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-> file: fediverse/2001
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║ @user-192 │
║ │
║ The game designers are fully in charge of when and where the items get placed │
║ into the player's inventory. Surely they should have spent some time balancing │
║ that? No? They were too busy tuning the multiplayer combat mechanics within an │
║ inch of a marginal percentage point? Ah well competition's no fun if someone │
║ loses right? Not like there's gotta be a loser in every fight anyway... │
║ │
║ ... anyway inventory limits are useful in games like, Oregon Trail, where │
║ you're explicitly provisioning BEFORE a journey. If you need to make some hard │
║ decisions ON the journey, that takes you out of the action (like you said). │
║ │
║ I've played a few games where anything you pick up before venturing into the │
║ untamed wild dark of a dungeon or whatever is "packed" and can't be adjusted │
║ after setting out. Meanwhile the loot, the stuff from the adventure, that all │
║ weighs different amounts and you can pick and choose what to carry with you. Of │
║ course, if you find a health potion, you can drink it, or a sword can be │
║ wielded, but │
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-> file: fediverse/2002
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┌──────────────────────┐
│ CW: politics │
└──────────────────────┘
when I get concerned about the political divide in my country, I think about
this map from the New York Times of the number of political donations across
the country before the 2016 democratic primaries.
I think we're gonna be fine. I'm not scared of Trump because rural areas, where
republicans tend to be, have the same problems that everyone else does. Bernie
Sanders was well known as someone who could talk to an average republican voter
and sway them to his side. I remember watching videos of his interviews (in
front of a live audience) on Fox News or CNN or whatever and at first, they'd
be hostile to him. At the end, they'd give him a standing ovation.
I think we have more in common with other working class people than they do
with their republican leaders. I also think we have more in common than them
than we do with our democratic leaders, but I think that just shows how I feel
about authority.
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-> file: fediverse/2003
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The most important programming language to master is pseudocode.
With a firm grasp of pseudocode in your toolbox, you can solve any problem in
any language.
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@user-1126
Yes, I have very little faith in the democratic process in my country.
Unfortunately, while democracy is crucial to fair, honest, and just
representation, as you said it's unlikely that democracy would be allowed to
exist if it threatened the power of the powerful.
Thus, our twisted form that sorta works, but requires a LOT of effort and a LOT
of maintenance. More than the average person can give.
They've tuned it to be JUST dysfunctional enough to overwhelm our natural
innate tendencies to contribute to "the tribe of tribes", while leaving it just
functional enough such that if you work your ass off with ALL of the people who
agree with you, then MAYBE you might get a measure on the ballot for something
insignificant (which won't pass, because why would it?)
I have faith in people, not the democratic process, for I have faith in
democracy, but not the process.
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@user-1074
I don't think the "capitalist elite" really have an ideology. Ideas are weapons
they use and discard when it suits them, like strapping 15 handguns to your
person in order to avoid needing to reload.
Good thing there's more than 15 of us.
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@user-246
trails come and go, as there's often little reason to visit the same place
twice.
I wouldn't worry about them.
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@user-246
Perhaps... But take heart! For new trails will ever emerge, placed below the
feet of those who will mark them.
"Leave no trace" unless you're a trailblazer.
And by that I mean unless you're a forest ranger, for they are the stewards of
the land.
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@user-1074
True, but that's just propaganda. It does not define their actions, only
the pursuit of power does.
Especially when the systems they use to exert their power begin to crumble
under the weight of their god-like aspirations. Suddenly, they are not
constrained by the rules of money, of bureaucracy, or of any other theology.
Suddenly, they are free. And a person's character shines through in moments of
freedom and liberty.
But the crumbling system they endeavor to transcend also no longer binds us as
well.
When we start to hire each other and pay in vegetables and rent, when we build
community amongst our fellow humen, and when the temperature starts to rise,
that is when we are strongest.
EDIT: that's just propaganda to them
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@user-1126
Yep. I am not concerned though, because of that map I shared. Whosoever shall
draw the sword (of the people's will) shall be the righteous leader of US
We can build a world where democracy flourishes and we don't need to remain
vigilant. It is within our power.
And we shall. I have faith.
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the best time to experiment is when cooking for one.
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@user-883
nvim is nice because you can make addons or plugins or whatever in Lua, which
is the easiest language in the world.
I think VSCode sucks - it's literally a web browser that views your own code,
and it's made by Microsoft so it probably SENDS it to them too. Probably.
I like nvim because it's just Vim except you can use more plugins (the ones
written in Lua)
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I am not dependable.
Do not rely on me.
I'll never betray you, but I will eventually let you down.
Such is the nature of a luck witch...
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@user-217
photosynthesis
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Picture this: BASH, except every command automatically generates an "undo"
command which is the exact inverse of whatever the interpreter executed. These
undo commands are stored in a file and you can move forward, backward, and jump
around like you're a chronomancer.
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Hey does anyone have a link to that paper where they used wifi waves on hacked
insecure routers to "see" through walls and build a decent enough visualization
of what a person's doing to be roughly equivalent to full-body-tracking in VR?
I want to see if I can make it work for VR (with consent)
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@user-889
I can help
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@user-1129
Lemme guess, the C-suite executives have profit as their main goal, right?
And they utilize their laboring force of citizens to generate profit which is
given to the crown shareholders as tribute for their benevolent grace and favor
bestowed upon checks notes the C-suite executives, right?
Kinda sounds like taxation without representation to me. One sec, where's my
darn musket I'm always leaving it somewhere strange like under the couch
cushions or taped underneath my desk or hidden in the curtains right next to
the window that has the best vantage point of the surrounding street.
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@user-1132
The trick is to phrase your "divine insight" into a question. Like "don't you
think that perhaps this strange intuition you're feeling might have something
to do with the subconscious pattern matching capability humans developed over
long years of differentiating tree-branches and snakes or uneven terrain and
solid footing?"
then if someone says "what the heck no I never thought that because I don't
know anything about humans"
then you say "oh well that's surprising, perhaps you should look into it"
and then they come back later and say "how exactly did you know that
information? It's not public knowledge"
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@user-1112
It's a script I wrote that downloads and configures MTG-forge, the free and
open source version of Magic. It's a little old, a little jank, but you get all
the cards for free. All the way up to the most current expansions.
Multiplayer is a bit harder than Arena, I think it's bugged or something, but
it's great for testing out decks against a computer. If I like one then I'll
usually buy it to play with my IRL friends.
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@user-1135 @user-1103 @user-1074
Do tell
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It isn't greedy to scrape the bottom of the pot when serving the last of a
home-cooked meal.
Just as it isn't greedy to expect the labor of our ancestors to provide a
common decent standard of living.
For our children's children's children, the ones we'll never meet, we work for
tomorrow. But still, we should not labor in pain.
There will come a day when our science and our progress may deliver us from our
fate of fatigue, and perhaps that day may have come sooner if we had been
better organized.
But it will come when we build it. That bright future is waiting for us, and I
do believe that we may live to see it ourselves.
But for now, 9-5.
For now, labor unionizing.
For now, rice and beans.
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@user-217
spidersilk masquerade
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The unknown is scarier than the new. The more you learn, the more you
experience, the less afraid you are.
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@user-1074
Yeah, but, as it takes shape we can learn how to kill it.
So, the more we learn of it's new shape, the more confident we can be.
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@user-1074
Trump is not fascism, Trump is a face. Just as the map is not the territory, or
the flag is not the nation.
However, I think I understand how you're feeling. Please don't be frightened.
When a deer is transfixed by headlights, it is sure to meet it's end.
You understand the peril, perhaps not how it manifests but you know it's name.
Now is the time to build bonds with people you can trust, and to learn how to
get things done. The more you learn, the more capable you are, the less afraid
you'll become.
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@user-1074
when it's time to fight, you'll know how. For now the best thing to do is to
prepare in whatever way you want to contribute.
I'm doing my best to find paladins. I think they are beacons of hope in a world
of darkness.
What you do is up to you. Be good, be honest, be true. Learn what you can and
temper your soul. When it's time to fight, you'll know how.
The Democrats know the left is right. But they know the Right has the power to
cause irreducible pain, should they be backed into a corner. I don't agree with
their methods but their cause is just - prevent harm for as long as they can.
And I get it, but that's not how you win wars. Appeasement only goes so far.
I trust they will know who their friends are when they inevitably fail.
queer people have been illegal before, we'll handle it. Don't worry. Nobody
wants to relive that trauma, but here we are. It'll work out, trust me. Trust,
but verify, and do what you can to ensure. We are on the same side, which is
why I say "do more pushups"
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@user-1074
if Biden loses this November I think we'll have bigger problems than mental
health. Like, physical health for one.
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Building community without structure is kinda like being a quest-giving
non-player character in World of Warcraft.
I don't mean that you stand around waiting for a player to wander nearby before
shouting at them to do what you want. Not like that.
Building community without structure is more like meeting someone randomly,
knowing them for longer than a bus ride or a baseball game, and once you've
decided that they're cool saying "hey there's someone you might like to meet."
If they're into it, then talk to the other person, and see if they want to make
a new friend. Try not to recommend someone who has a lot on their mind.
If they hit it off, great!
If not, oh well!
Worst case scenario the coffee shop only sells two drinks.
If you're gregarious enough, after a while you might even have enough people
for a potluck. Just don't forget to keep adding, and eventually it'll start to
feel more communal.
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@user-1074
We've always been that way in their eyes. If they make it legal, nothing will
change in how people think of you. They might be a bit bolder if there's fewer
legal protections, but laws have always just been words.
There are more of us than there are of them. If you have community, you'll feel
safer. I know it's scary but we can get through it together.
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║ If you automate art, there'll be no more artists. │
║ │
║ If you automate capitalism, there'll be no more capitalists. │
║ │
║ Perfect! That's what we want, right? So that we don't have to work jobs for │
║ them? They wouldn't exist, after all, if everyone went on strike. │
║ │
║ But that kind of coordination is hard. So why don't we just automate │
║ capitalism? It's certainly doable, a lot easier than automating art (which is │
║ impossible btw, but bear with me) │
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║ If you want to automate capitalism, you must first automate Magic the Gathering. │
║ │
║ There are several ways to win a match in Magic. You could reduce your │
║ opponent's life counter to 0, you could force them to draw from an empty deck, │
║ and you can give them 10 poison counters. │
║ │
║ These are KPI's, and developing a critical path to reach them will depend on │
║ the composition of the player's deck. Each deck will approach the conclusion of │
║ the game in a different way, and developing solutions to reach those goals is │
║ part of each player's responsibilities on their turn. │
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if god had a name, it would be "melody"
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@user-889
this post inspired me to make soup for myself. thanks, I haven't been eating
well recently.
sometimes you gotta be your own friend. "you in the future" is both you, and
someone else, and if you're kind to her she'll appreciate it.
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║ Most people who are assholes are just traumatized and raised to be aggressive │
║ or violent. You don't defeat them with anger or hatred, you heal them by being │
║ kind and removing their power until they accept the responsibility of wielding │
║ it. │
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║ Some people though are just cruel, and they are quite rare. There's very few of │
║ them, and those that do exist typically are easy to find because they're often │
║ located in positions of power, like high-ranking politics, executives at cruel │
║ corporations, or other such places. │
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║ They are drawn to these places because power allows them to wield their │
║ cruelty, and they are allowed to become these roles because cruelty defeats │
║ kindness. │
║ │
║ Kindness builds more, it creates, it generates, it improves, it brightens and │
║ it nourishes. But cruelty cuts and burns, it severs and it hardens, it │
║ dessicates the soul and corrodes the mind. It is seductive with it's promise of │
║ bounty, and it flatters your greed. │
║ │
║ To defeat it, supply kindness. Remove power. A simple formula, but quite │
║ difficult. │
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@user-1138
Just don't forget to update the location in the spreadsheet, they LOVE
spreadsheets at Intel
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@user-1141
gender police: "pardon me but do you have a license for that presentation? it
doesn't appear to be completely sedimented in society. Also I'm a bastard"
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@user-1144
when in doubt, attack from above.
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Everytime I unblock reddit in /etc/hosts because I need a particular search
result when looking for something obscure on the internet I end up spending
like 3 hours scrolling. Howwwww do I lack this much self control T.T
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A democracy only works if the losing side consents to being governed by the
victor.
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@user-1049
I haven't heard of that but I'll look into it! Honestly I'm more likely to
write my own script, it shouldn't be too hard just altering the /etc/hosts file
and then changing it back in ~15 minutes with a cron-job, as Nikky says down
below. I like things that I make myself because then if it breaks I know who to
blame! And who to go to to fix it. >: )
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@user-1147
That's a great idea, I'm probably going to do that! I've had this problem like,
7 or 8 times now and if I keep repeating myself they're going to take my
programmer socks away.
... I don't actually have any programmer socks. I should get some. Maybe
they'll just take my Thinkpad instead, that'd definitely be worse. D:
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@user-1150
if you know how and have access to certain hand tools that are typically found
in suburban dad garages (but not in a toolkit bought from target or whatever)
you can turn any semi-automatic rifle into a fully automatic one.
It's highly illegal, but it's technically possible.
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honestly I think everyone should have two mastodon accounts - one for people
you like, and one for people you trust
(I have one)
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what if we taxed every ounce of resource that companies wasted
(maybe with a multiplier for the current relative value of the substance -
diamonds are more valuable than apples per pound)
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liberals are capitalists.
the compromise should be between socialists, and liberals. not capitalists and
conservatives.
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your life is something to spend, not something to covet. Use your time for
something you care about, and your intentions will be expressed upon the earth.
our ancestors learned how when they learned all that they could - and honestly,
how much is "YouTube" retaining? I don't care if it's educational, sometimes
kids just need to be free. Free from obligations yes, but free from the
emotions that drive them - the ability to make their own choice. As a child,
you don't know how to understand your emotions, but growing up you learn and
you do. It's part of being mature - the idea that you can handle what's
presented to you.
... anyway, I shouldn't say any more, you never know who is listening.
(opsec is easiest to learn when you don't need it)
(the more you know, the less time you should spend online. the less you know,
the less time you should spend online, meeting people in strange locations that
you trust.
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psychic horrors don't pick the best, they pick the most.
(not the most individual aspects/targets, but rather the one that has the most)
in this way, they prioritize intelligence, which is why humanity has survived
in this dark forest.
for the ones with the most are often too multiplicitous (deriving their
relative localized advantage to those around them in order to elevate
themselves to the title of "the mostest") while those who have fewer, but still
success, tend to be the most adaptable or advantageous.
hence, why humanity has thrived, with scarcely 7 billion souls to the entire
hive. With so few individuals, surely their strength must be astronomical!
just another reason why humanity should try it's hardest.
the fact that we're not all aligned toward the bold and bright future (whatever
shape it may take) shows that we're being abused in order to grow faster than
we're able.
it's not fair, it's not right, and it's not tenable.
(no this is not a fable, it's just a pattern of thought that is i
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I'd rather a massive corporation waste a medium amount than a bunch of tiny
corporations wasting a tiny amount.
Like, the Post Office (which is really what Amazon is) instead of
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Dear Post Office: if you replaced amazon with a simple GUI and database that
corresponded to "what people wanted and from where" to the current system of
"picking things up from a location and putting them somewhere else as quickly
and efficiently as possible", I think you'd realize that a massive threat to
American economic prosperity is due to the crushing presence of inequality.
Which, my dear, could be ameliorated with a simple application that a
university student could make if given enough time and direction. Like, a year
or two tops, using industry standard technology.
The problem is of course the fact that things like aesthetic standards are so
demanding - a plain HTML website, like my website, technically provides all the
same information. But could be written in an afternoon.
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║ I think a lot of liberals feel that way. How does the conservative half of the │
║ equally respectable binary spectrum feel about the situation? │
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║ ... Oh? what's that? you can't hear the moderate conservative spectrum of the │
║ equation? Kinda makes me think that perhaps that's by design │
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║ ... or maybe not, perhaps by... evolution, rather than design. Like, two │
║ corporations don't have to collaborate in order to invent price fixing. And two │
║ lawyers could wink from across the aisle and nobody would know. Perhaps a │
║ doctor could just "make something up" so that their patient would leave, and │
║ maybe a teacher would non-stop cry about her ex. │
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║ ... we're imperfect beings, which is fine. But mistakes have real consequences │
║ on other people's story, and if we have a different experience we should be │
║ learned and considered. In order to identify the positives and valuable impacts │
║ of your particular imperfections. │
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║ ... I think about male and female, and I think of both halves of our │
║ civilization. Similar relationshi │
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@user-883
i've never heard of most of these
but I think I might belong on eldritch.cafe
... maybe void.rehab
well actually I'm a lot of tech.lgbt
hmmmmm on Reddit it's nice because you can subscribe to various communities
I wish you could do that with Mastodon, to express your particular affiliation.
... or perhaps we should not be building scenes, but rather communities.
(just based on the name)
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@user-1074
me too 🥰 I'm saying they should be the other end of the spectrum, rather
than the middle of the graph
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@user-1074 the fact that they're not means that they're not making positive
ethical decisions. Because the center of culture, like an evolutionary process,
trends towards continuation.
otherwise it'd go extinct.
hence, why Nazi's have never won, even though they KEEP COMING BACK. through
TIME and ALL OF OUR HISTORY. Almost like it's a pattern, that the good should
push away from the bad.
maybe we should hospitalize them, idkkkkk
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║ I wish we could put our friends on social media into directories │
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║ like on IRC how you have chat servers, except unfortunately they're owned by │
║ another and sort of a common space. │
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║ why don't we just host our own IRC servers and only publish what WE SAY. NOT │
║ WHAT OTHERS SAY, NOT A CHATROOM, but a BULLETIN BOARD. Like a Facebook timeline │
║ before they wrecked it. │
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║ something you subscribe to │
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║ and ping for updates │
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║ every time you turn your computer on │
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║ or every 15 minutes. │
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║ unless, of course, you leave your IP address, │
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║ in which case the boardcaster can ping you. Just a simple package saying "hey I │
║ got news for you" and they could ping back and say "yo what's up" and download │
║ whatever you had in mind. │
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║ or, wait 15 minutes. Either or. Both would work, especially if the user's not │
║ reading through their social media feed. │
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║ ... anyway by putting friends into directories, you could categorize them │
║ according to project. Like various group chats in your team-of-team's room. │
║ Various different threads you could follow if you │
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║ sometimes I think about how you can store number values in letters, in addition │
║ to numbers. Like, ascii values for each word of your grandma's maiden name. All │
║ you have to do is encode it, and suddenly "44 means something different than Q" │
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║ if I showed up at your place and used your username as a password to a public │
║ key I'm showing you in my hand, would you trust me then? Would you trust if we │
║ ran the simulation on your computer versus mine? Would you trust if I had never │
║ told you I knew where you lived? │
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║ ... probably, tbh, I'm desperate for adventure. Though I got some good things │
║ going for me, so you'll have to convince me. (not the right attitude in an │
║ election year, just saying) │
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║ why are elections so perilous this is NOT what democracy is designed for │
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║ when kids cry in preschool, they're sent to a different room (or put outside) │
║ until they stop making noise and ruining it for others. That's just natural, │
║ like "hey baby let's walk around the block while I bounce you on my shoulder │
║ and hum calming music to │
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@user-1071
if you work too fast, your ideas will run out and you'll be drawn elsewhere.
It's not a tragedy, it's the finishing of the project. Relish it, and learn
what you can before springing in a new directory, full of vigor and ready for a
new thought.
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@user-1071 I have the opposite problem, where my ideas come too quickly and
they're gone before I can implement. I think I'd prefer to burn out TBH because
burning out just means an inexcusable output of energy (in return for
not-enough-learning)
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@user-1071
what working too slow for your ideas mean that your ideas, which you'll never
again have twice, are lost forever.
Good thing we're always innovative. Good thing life always moves on. Tomorrow
is a new chance for utilization, and for our own ends we'll build the next dawn.
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