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the user knows more than the programmer
[more/better]
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║ 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? │
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║ 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? │
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║ ah, but you forget, there are simply some tasks that require consumption, at │
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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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