=== ANCHOR POEM === ╔════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ okay here's an idea, waterfall project management where the program is │ ║ developed one tiny piece at a time while being streamed to the entire company. │ ║ Everyone would submit answers which could be upvoted / patched / rewritten as │ ║ the main viewer cycles through each aspect of the project, checking for │ ║ updates to it's design that were suggested by developers or whatever. │ ║ Basically, one person (or one team) gets to write the actual source code, │ ║ while everyone else is just offering suggestions. You could break it up by │ ║ specialty, but the whole point is that everyone gets a complete picture of how │ ║ the program (and organization) is structured. Which should give the employees │ ║ more power to generate value for the company. All around a good deal I think? │ ║ Especially if the main viewer took time to explain each and every part so that │ ║ every viewer had the chance to understand. │ ║ │ ║ the reason why order is important is that our actions ripple through eternity. │ ║ we must set a good example for all the baby aliens, don't you think? │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴──────────┘ === SIMILARITY RANKED === --- #1 notes/non-competition-clause --- ════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────────── what if there was a law that all trade secrets are to be free? what if copyright only prevented people from harming those they compete with? For example, as a media production company Disney could not host the content of other media con- -glomerate. But regular ordinary people would. The idea would be that if you wanted to change yourself to align with the ideals of a corporation, you could watch it on their streaming site. Then you'd be contributing your attention, which is bought and sold by our selves. Content creators could stream untethered, and collect payments however they pleased. The attention is what garners, that price that is bartered, sold on the market for all of us. Attend not ye sinners, and failures of our innards, what more can we charter for our souls? Accosted by our jams, and drilled as hard as I can, our notebooks are much more than charming. Accumulated designs, of theories that are out of our minds, compelling and driving us forward. The fellowship that we be, internally and under our seats, connecting us to ground at our own shoes. humans are not time. They are the whispers of the undying. Projections of fore-sought virtues. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #2 fediverse/3804 --- ╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┐ ║ @user-570 │ ║ │ ║ well, the idea is that they would handle all the tech debt and merge requests │ ║ and bugfixes and such - the kind of things that aren't very interesting to │ ║ work on. That way, the people who are most dedicated and passionate for the │ ║ project have a way to clear out their backlog and start as if from scratch. │ ║ │ ║ Plus, if they later don't understand how or why something was implemented, │ ║ they could always message the person who implemented it and say "hey why did │ ║ you do it this way I had it this other way before" and then they could reply │ ║ and say "oh yeah because of this-and-this system we implemented for │ ║ these-or-that caching reasons related to integer flow through the syncretic │ ║ binary op-code delimiter" and then actually wait no maybe you're right, I see │ ║ what you mean │ ║ │ ║ well... they don't have to merge everything if they don't want to. They could │ ║ just... ignore the parts that people worked on that they don't want to include │ ║ in the project. I'm thinking it'd be an opt-in thing too, so someone could │ ║ request it! │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴──────────┘ --- #3 fediverse/4208 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────── ┌────────────────────────┐ │ CW: personal-and-weird │ └────────────────────────┘ my train of thought is always directly to the point. Which is why all my posts sorta, switch directions halfway through? as if they only show the beginning or end of that particular situation. What an intense feeling, to have your mind split for a moment like that. Sure would be powerful and useful if you could utilize it. "ah ah ah, caught baby deity in the power jar, cool it ya little tyke and get movin' - I saw a dinosaur toy over there for you to play with." sorta like, the angled part of a K? Move directly to a destination, wait until my memory short-circuits [because the greek choir doesn't want me to see what it is that I'm about to write to thee] and then make a hard right turn and find an orthogonal thought train to process. it's like cresting over a hill, and it's impossible to see that which lies behind you. Or reaching a 4 direction intersection and making a left turn - you can't see back up main street, because you just turned off of main street onto baseline. I like me ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┘ --- #4 fediverse/6117 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────── Hmmmm, well, what if we psyopped the people into believing there were alien invaders or extra-dimensional fae creatures or angels and demons or "yeah we already tried that, religion doesn't scale perfectly either. And you can't really manifest those sort of effects except in your prophets and select few others, and that doesn't scale either because humanity wouldn't let it" I see, can you tell me more about that? why and how did humanity arrest the scaling of schizophrenia? "well, for one thing it's debilitating and it sucks. For another, it's different for every person so if you ask one they'll be like "the aliens have blue skin" and the other will say "no they don't have skin at all they're made out of energy" and the public says "HMMMM are you really sure you are generating outmoded assumptions" and the dear reader said "*yeah we don't really understand this part, most of us just glaze eyes over it and move on" and that's not ideal" ... nuts, lost coherence, better try again tomorrow... ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────┘ --- #5 fediverse/119 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ ┌───────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: politics, alien egg sacks │ │ ║ └───────────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ okay how about this: what if people, living in a democracy, volunteered │ ║ themselves to be part of a socio-economic testing group. essentially a │ ║ miniature economy and social structure. A standard set of rules and │ ║ regulations would facilitate any interactions necessary for trade and civilian │ ║ free movement - POSIX for societies. If people want to try out fully automated │ ║ luxury space communism then they should totally have the opportunity to do │ ║ that. Every mis-step is a path away from that future, but like, "step" as in │ ║ like a volatile gray good that's constantly exploding itself onto things. Or │ ║ aliens, on an asteroid, waiting for a ship to land on them or a planet to get │ ║ in their way. I don't want to be an alien egg sack, so clearly we should be │ ║ able to vote in our own words and have chatGPT decide which ballot boxes to │ ║ fill for us. And it's not like those ballot boxes have to change every year, │ ║ unless people think of new ones to add. Kinda scary tbh. Kinda thrilling too, │ ║ to be the future │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═══════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #6 fediverse/5478 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────┐ ║ you won't get far with a "community" of dedicated people │ ║ │ ║ what you need are teams. who can trust each other. you build them through │ ║ brotherhood, and you trust them from their results. │ ║ │ ║ for example if you wanted to organize a grouping or get-together, you'd put a │ ║ bunch of people in a room or seven and let them while they're there work on a │ ║ plan or a decision. │ ║ │ ║ who needs tabling? who needs the chance to speak? just let them socialize and │ ║ say "hey guys here's where you'll plan" │ ║ │ ║ [uh no officer we were just playing board games] │ ║ │ ║ plans are hard without material so make sure you always prepare a pricetag on │ ║ each plan you produce. │ ║ │ ║ keep it for reference. make sure you note all the requirements. the location │ ║ is often the least important part. │ ║ │ ║ "what the hell man you can't just say stuff like that as if it'd work" │ ║ │ ║ yep, I, uh, am a passenger in life just the same as you. And I only write down │ ║ what I want to. │ ║ │ ║ you could show me anything on the internet and I'd believe it. Facts aren't │ ║ important to me because I "forget" │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──┴──────────┘ --- #7 fediverse/5198 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┐ ║ ┌───────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: capitalism-doom-mentioned │ │ ║ └───────────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ what if the corporations all unionized and started working together to │ ║ understand what "profit" really means in a world where "profit" may or may not │ ║ but probably does imply the death of all humanity? │ ║ │ ║ what if we demanded it? │ ║ │ ║ -- │ ║ │ ║ dear canvassers: don't visit so many different suburbs │ ║ │ ║ visit the same one, more than once, continuously, so people can get to know │ ║ your presence │ ║ │ ║ they will talk to their friends about it, who live elsewhere. │ ║ │ ║ thus ensuring it spreads. │ ║ │ ║ knock once a day, eventually they'll know it's you and will simply ignore it. │ ║ Don't be rude and knock 4 or 5 times, just once, with several taps so they │ ║ know it's someone trying to get ahold of you, and not just some random noise │ ║ in the background scenery. then, when they sometimes answer, talk to them │ ║ about what you believe in. answer their questions. encourage their questions. │ ║ pose dichotomies that are explained by some value or virtue you express to │ ║ portray. you can do "good" things in any programming language, just type~~ │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────┴──────────┘ --- #8 fediverse/6317 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: SWE~ │ └──────────────────────┘ what if game designers auto-generated a source-code fork with whatever changes the users requested be implemented [software developers too, when working on software for tabular related scrudm based server space] I bet they could if they used AI to pump out bugfixes. The more they worked on it, the more the people demanding they work on that project in particular by proposing a customization request form attached to an itinerary and invoice. the user is free to work on them in whatever order they wish and the developer and the users compete for contracts. "like uber but for source code" click here: ---> ||"meetup.org but for uber but for source code"|| "ah this unit is too punchy, let's buff one of their shields" okay but rocket launchers "oh no my tank is ruined" hey it's okay it's just sugar ... I wonder if anyone's ever inhaled vaporized sugar crystals? the baker's dozen is 13 because bakers are spellbound lucky T.T [for context, it's always nice to have found another one in your bags by the car] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────┘ --- #9 fediverse/2056 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┐ ║ 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" │ ║ │ ║ 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? │ ║ │ ║ ... 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) │ ║ │ ║ why are elections so perilous this is NOT what democracy is designed for │ ║ │ ║ 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 │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #10 notes/app-idea-reddit-api --- ════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────── Here's an idea: A program that uses the Reddit API to create an account with a random username and password and automatically subscribe it to every state subreddit for all 50 states. It would be a lot of posts from a lot of different places, but someone could endlessly scroll and find more and more news stories that were relevant to them as a nation. They'd hear about ongoing struggles in other places, and they'd yearn to help them. They'd hear of other's struggles, and they'd see how they could apply their lessons to their own lives. Like... Maybe there's a factory upstream that pollutes a river - well, we should probably do something about that and make it so that it doesn't happen ??? like... duh ??? The problem is we don't want to spend the resources on it. We'd rather focus on growing as much as we can. The issue is, of course, that we'd run out of resources eventually, but eh oh well. Oh yeah you gotta make sure that each account has an equal amount of posts between each region. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #11 messages/1392 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─ It's good organization? Actually? If something falls when you jostle something else. It means that what you're doing is causing the system to become unstable, thus allowing unexpected reactions to allowenable. Like stuff falling or getting dropped, not ideal. much better to do your cable management in mind with instability as a goal, like a canary in the coal mine for "damage-imminent". Design for permanence, not resilience. If you can prevent problems before they occur by confidently saying "no" and ideally earnestly saying "here's what you do to resolve your problem because i know better" (but if you don't know it's okay, especially if you know who to refer them to who might know better.) then it's easier to build a repetitive system. Like an institution of people who are working to fix a problem or fill a social gap need. "how do we keep the water" or "where does our food come from" can be helpful and useful questions to ask, especially if work is done to answer them. So... "Go find out" is a reasonable response for an idle question about stuff that might go right or wrong. Urgent questions might need a bit of cooperation to resolve, triaging of course. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════┘ --- #12 fediverse/5032 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┐ ║ ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: tech-salaries-mentioned-abroad-repeatedly-as-a-method-of-directing-economic-power-internationally-cursing-mentioned │ │ ║ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ the increased tech salaries granted to Europeans and Americans reflects only │ ║ the increased opportunities for experience and the ability to culturally be │ ║ immersed in an industry that is developing. │ ║ │ ║ functionally, not saying it's intentional, but the function of such salaries │ ║ are to deny technical expertise to poor countries and prevent them from │ ║ developing software. │ ║ │ ║ good luck learning from scratch. they'll drop you in with java and web │ ║ frameworks if you're lucky. that's hardly a way to learn. │ ║ │ ║ I learned on visual basic, then Warcraft III mod scripting, then C, then BASH, │ ║ then HTML, then Lua. Good luck recreating that pipeline in a disconnected │ ║ culture and industry. │ ║ │ ║ kinda makes me think they should try organizing on a massive scale and │ ║ re-implement everything from assembly. │ ║ │ ║ I mean the C compiler is pretty cool. Probably has the most man-hours in terms │ ║ of development time. what if we had more men │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────┴──────────┘ --- #13 fediverse/5878 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────┐ ║ ┌────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: politics-mentioned │ │ ║ └────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ revolution is when you successfully prevent your comrades from being kettled │ ║ │ ║ [wait for time, it echoes in cyclical motions] │ ║ │ ║ no sand castle survives contact with the ocean. a sea of people at high tide │ ║ can break any wall, surpass any boundary. at low tide, it keeps the │ ║ sand-castle at bay, ever contesting it's advance as the tide on the other side │ ║ of the world makes progress. │ ║ │ ║ rhythm is unbeatable. vigor is collective flow state. you cannot resist that │ ║ which you cannot catch, but their nets grow tighter with each year and our │ ║ fins and flippers grow ever more agile and elusive. │ ║ │ ║ eventually, they'll build brick walls if we let them, checkpointing our │ ║ progress at every boundary. not ideal. borders keep us divided, the world │ ║ deserves more than our picketing minded, dream bigger than "the same, but nice" │ ║ │ ║ though it'd be nice if it were nice as well. consider it a design requirement, │ ║ once you got the project managers on board. │ ║ │ ║ turns out, we dont have much to fight over, as there is enough for all │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧═─────────┘ --- #14 fediverse/4220 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────── people are so used to "liking" things to better inform their algorithm that when they get to fediverse and realize there's no mechanical impact of "liking" things they don't know how to use it anymore. So they generate their own meaning, which is different to everyone. So to one person, liking something might mean "send read receipt" for another it might mean "I'm gonna save this forever and ever" and for another person it could mean "hey I think you're cool and I agree with this" same for boosting, people think it's "I want to share this" and others think it's "I want to say this in your voice" and for others it's "this needs to be heard by my followers in particular" and it's just... a whole thing even replies are complicated, do they mean you want to say what you feel or are they part of the post now, and should be curated by the original poster? it's too complicated! ... how are you overwhelmed by reading and responding with three little buttons, it's not that hard dummy okay but maybe I'm just dum ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┘ --- #15 fediverse/2124 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┐ ║ seriously, just google docs mixed with WC3 editor. │ ║ │ ║ boom, infinite storytelling device. As long as you were good with it, which │ ║ was something that a CHILD could learn in like 3-6 months. │ ║ │ ║ Seems like it could be an ENTIRELY NEW SKILL that people could play with. │ ║ │ ║ But no, we learn excel and word in class at middle school. │ ║ │ ║ boring. │ ║ │ ║ I'd rather learn Bash or terminal customization or memory hierarchy │ ║ organization. │ ║ │ ║ Yeah I mean that's cool but dude have you heard of multithreading? It's so │ ║ cool, you can run like 500 different thoughts at once. It's amazing. │ ║ │ ║ ... I dunno, but I'm sure there's times when you'd want to use it. Like, │ ║ processing a lot of data little-by-little. │ ║ │ ║ like, what if you had a camera feed of EVERY social media perspective AT ALL │ ║ TIMES. Like, an instance admin streaming your inputted text to their databanks │ ║ that they can project onto an LLM which interprets and identifies mis-aligned │ ║ or altered direction units and mark them as "flagged", whatever that means, │ ║ for their future the algorithm doesn' │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #16 fediverse/434 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── @user-324 @user-325 @user-326 thus enters the promise of technology: that we might solve the problems of bureaucracy once and for all by ever more effiency-aligning mechanical processes that produce effects which we desire - such as efficient allocation of medical resources such that all of humanity is protected from the ravages of pain and the incongruencies of our nature. Alas, that we should only conceive of success through the lens of profit. Perhaps another design is in order? (oh yeah also people who are in control are worried that we, like all other examples of natural entities, might immediately proceed to breed beyond the capability to cater to the needs of said entity (such as "to feed" and medical resources) and therefore might overburden (and therefore destroy) said system which allows for their sustenance and initial creation. To this I say... Yeah probs, what should we do about it?) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #17 fediverse/4846 --- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┐ ║ programmers already spend a ton of time as downtime. │ ║ │ ║ what if instead of interviewing someone they just... watched them program for │ ║ like, 3 hours or so │ ║ │ ║ while they were thinking about a problem │ ║ │ ║ and like, if the person is cool, working on their own projects or whatever, │ ║ then yeah hire them │ ║ │ ║ -- stack overflow -- │ ║ │ ║ I also │ ║ │ ║ ========================= stack overflow │ ║ =============================================================================== │ ║ ======================== │ ║ │ ║ a person thinks out loud the thoughts that their foes know. it's how you know │ ║ it's not secret anymore, and it's better to keep it among allies │ ║ │ ║ [something like that? seems a little off] │ ║ │ ║ (are you really searching for edits) │ ║ │ ║ [that sounds pretty cool, sure why not we got a millenia] │ ║ │ ║ (beep boop one partial millenia later) │ ║ │ ║ [ah that was not a long rest. let's see, where were we when we were working on │ ║ this test? oh dear, seems the biology's gone rogue, that's pretty interesting │ ║ to attest. │ ║ │ ║ neato │ ║ │ ║ anyway let's wait until they figure out how water works │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┴──────────┘ --- #18 fediverse/2177 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────── Oh, you want solutions? Yeah, I can do that. I am a very solutions oriented mindset. But developing solutions requires a firm understanding of what resources are at your disposal. Which is information that I lack. Hence, my practice, filling the gaps between the important bits. I have an endless array of stories, and all of them are true! Come, listen as I regale of an ordy, or "ordeal" as the kids are taken to call. ... I guess I could guess, but then people would hear it and assume that it would work even if I don't know that the required resources are in place. Maybe I could just start by saying "here are the requirements:" like stating your variables at the stop of a script. huh? typo told me to stop. Okay guess I'm going to sleep, bye for now ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┘ --- #19 fediverse/2604 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── @user-249 very few things waste power so much in our modern era than the utilization of AI technologies to accomplish things such as "repeat this question 500 times in your head and then give a reply: what is the purpose of antidisestablishmentarianism?" like... yeah I get it you need to justify the expensive power of large language models but, your boss isn't going to care if you used 5 jigawatts or 500 pletawatts of power. they only think about "+10% this year, contributing about ~x% to our bottom line" which is NOT enough information. they probably don't even know that investing in AI implies buying more hardware computational capabilities, silicon and power-draw in all. they literally just rubber-stamp everything with a sorta aligned goal of "representing the company as people expect it to be have" (which is often neglected) and making the big numbers go higher. If, instead, we had visionaries at their head, and instead gave our most ardent believers control over our most rational experts... ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┘ --- #20 fediverse/5059 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┐ ║ any laptop can be a thin-client to a computer system of arbitrary complexity. │ ║ All it's doing is issuing commands. I wonder what we could do with a │ ║ "species-computer" or, hear me out, or we could figure out how to do that on │ ║ ourselves, first, to A. see how it works and B. do so out of hand. If there │ ║ are backups of yourself stored in the │ ║ │ ║ if furries are a type of pearl (steven-universe style) and flowers are a type │ ║ of pearl (layers of sedimentate on layerings upon) then what else is there a │ ║ flower to be but the prettiest thing there can be? │ ║ │ ║ what if we genetically engineered roses to pierce and strangle the invasive │ ║ ivy and wow for a week in whenever there's roses of this type and kind. I mean │ ║ there's already tons of blackberries, why not just swap them out for │ ║ marionberries and embrace the bramble? │ ║ │ ║ could make houses out of dense bramble. they are quite an effective wall. And │ ║ so long as the sounds are muffled enough, you can always be forever safe from │ ║ harm. │ ║ │ ║ "whoops, dropped my laundry" │ ║ │ ║ "heh that's why I we │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────┴──────────┘ |