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@user-192
... that makes sense. Downside is as soon as you do, suddenly there's a 0%
chance you'll remember which goes where.
I guess that's why you keep the box, lmao xD
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fedi software which automagically migrates you to an instance servicing the 70
closest people to you, based on the address you used when signing up. As
people join you may get shuffled around, but your follow list should remain
intact if you want to stay in contact.
in addition, it should mirror your posts and such to a larger instance which
serves the 2450 nearest people (70 * 35), and perhaps to another instance with
the nearest 85750 people (70 * 35 * 35) etc, as large as is necessary.
Then, a client UI which allows you to view each tier as you please, and post
to particular tiers according to where your posts are relevant.
when performance concerns start becoming apparent, start rationing posts! For
example, if you want to say something to the whole world you should maybe only
get to say it once or twice a year. but talking to your neighbors? who cares!
speak all you'd like.
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"people aren't supposed to have holes in them with bugs and shit until after
they die. it wasn't supposed to be like this."
yeah man. I know.
for the weak
for the meak
all we need is one week
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@user-246
... licorice is typically considered unlikable. interesting if true 😉
kinda wonder what it says about our collective viewpoint, as measured against
licorice as a control variable. solely for gauging proportion, but like... an
interesting exercise in collective orientation and comprehension.
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when facing riot shields, grab from the bottom and lift.
they are like turtles.
according to a Russian activist I read on the internet like 10 years ago.
also, wrap your hands before grabbing tear gas canisters.
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@user-883
They do value your privacy. They value it for exactly as much as those 1444
partners are willing to pay for it.
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say it with me now:
Portlandia is not Portland
and
what's shown online to scare you is not Portland
it's somehow more interesting than that, and also more expensive. because of
course it is.
keep portland weird yeah duh I'm weird as fuck but you wouldn't know it by
looking at me
yes you would, my dear
okay well you wouldn't know how in particular I'm weird unless you talk to me
nobody knows you. who are you even talking to
heh good question glasses flash mostly people on the train or whatever
question: when did all the "weirdos" become homeless people? what kind of
world do we live in where - wait don't answer that.
better question: how can we make a better world where people can be weird and
not starve under the stars?
(by lots and lots of government investment? no thank you, sounds like
something that can be taken away.)
(by redesigning society from the ground up? no way sounds too difficult and
optimistic.)
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... okay I think a demon wrote that last one. But they say angels and demons
hang out with one another so they can yin-yang humans until they make
decisions that reflect their true character.
I don't know if that's true, and frankly I don't know if anyone says that.
What could the gods, learn, from me?
this is how I'd speak to posterity. For the past, I'd describe it a bit more
exciting, bountiful, and heartfelt. They love that sort of thing - to know
that their children's children are living their true love and fulfilling their
most honest ambitions.
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economy, labor, family.
three primary focuses for three primary parties.
what else do you need?
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people think the lord of the rings is historical fantasy. HA! most people
believed whatever the pope didn't want them to believe. They acted holy when
the magic men came to be, and the rest of the time they just danced like a
spark.
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@user-450
I read on the internet that onions are part of the "aurum" family, which is
toxic to most animals. They contain a compound of some sort that is damaging
to their blood.
I think pigs and humans can eat them? Probably others, like horses maybe. Not
sure though.
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@user-1625
um, that's a fairly specialized term that people outside of political science
are unlikely to know
might not be audacity, but instead just plain ignorance.
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I can certainly see a future where programmers choose a level of abstraction
they are comfortable with, same as today, but fill in the gaps, the lower
parts, the parts they will not spend time, energy, and mental space
understanding, with AI.
I think that the role of the various people on a software team will begin to
merge. Product designers, managers, front-end versus back-end, these feel like
distinctions that will begin to fade from relevance. I think that's okay. I
think it will make us feel more powerful, will elevate workers to a higher
tier of organizational operation, and will increase the flexibility of
computation.
Why program your own software when you could use someone else's? This is the
way of the past.
Why use someone else's software when you could design your own? This is the
way of the future.
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what better way to build tangible support for Ukraine than to get a bunch of
people in motion, building acclimation to weather, learning tactics and
sharing beliefs and ideology, and ready to fuck shit up and gather them all in
one place, ready to move, and then ship them to the frontlines?*
just saying if vanquishing treasonous fascists isn't your cup of tea we could
just hop across the sea and deal a crippling blow to autocracy half the world
away.
veterans are much scarier than new recruits. and if we're handling the
backline stuff, we could get used to terror.
veterans are scarier than recruits
EDIT: * maybe not the frontlines for most, that's a scary place to be
EDIT2: between the annexation of Crimea and the full invasion of Ukraine,
western powers sent warriors to Ukraine to bolster their foremost. This
radically empowered them to stave off the initial Russian assault, and while
the doctrine learned was quickly obsoleted, the practice of soldiering never
goes away.
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@user-1074
November's pretty far away, just saying. I think I got less than a week. But I
guess it depends where you live yeah?
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one of the downsides of "first-past-the-post" style voting is that the winner
gets all of the power, no matter if 100% of the population voted for him or
51%.
if, however, the top 2 candidates were chosen, then it's naturally likely that
the older, more experienced of a particular position would spend their effort
mentoring the young, rising star.
in doing so, they would naturally transfer knowledge from one generation to
the next like parents to children.
however, this only happens when the primary candidate and the secondary both
believe the same things.
meaning those who have collectively similar beliefs concentrated in an area
will have the advantage of passed-along experience, while those from more
divided areas (thus implying that the primary and secondary candidate don't
agree) will often have better actionable skills.
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🖼
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@user-1074
"I don't know any nazis. If I knew them, I'd beat them into the ground."said
every single boomer punk and your grandpa said your grandpa. well, maybe not
yours, who can say, it was for people my age at that stage of that part of --
stack overflow --
you can find common cause to cooperate against any elemental foe. your fellows
will guide you and lift you up to spiral drill press your way to infinite
homes.
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@user-568
good idea! tea bags are nice when you need them to be portable, but when
you're at home loose leaf is the right way to go ^_^
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On one hand, people should be free to do as they want to.
on the other, people can be really horny sometimes.
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@user-1212
black, the color of the night sky
red, the color of the fading light
blue, the color of the morning
fireworks should be every color. whatever looks best. the point is to
celebrate, right? have fun with it! go nuts! it's a party, after all : )
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@user-1209
I mean, if you consider the past as despotic in nature, then it makes a bit
more sense that we'd lean left as time progressed. All things are defined in
waves, after all, at least until they reach escape velocity.
the goat is talking about math, ritz
oh yes of course. the issue is that if you're coming from a math background
you start with the calculation and store it in a variable as an afterthought.
but programming is more algorithmic than computational, meaning things only
reduce at runtime (hidden from the user of course by the compiler)
an algorithmic perspective is "here's a box. Put this value in the box. Use
the box later." while a calculating perspective is "here's some complicated,
difficult equation. Let's wrap it up with a single name so that we can easily
use it later."
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I get it. I don't care to live in a world like this. Consider this a suicide
note, though I will not die by my own hand. This I swear.
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Keep in mind that *this is sedition*. Do you trust in democracy? Do you see
how it may be spoiled? We've elected our hitler, yet 40-50% of the nation does
not consent. America as we know it is about to change, and we need to protect
the pieces we love. I see no future without splitting into three separate
states, with city-state allies plodding along, keeping the siege ongoing.
Trust in convoys more than farms. All it takes is a drone with a fire bomb and
your crops are worthless. We must deprive them of their ports, if possible.
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@user-211 math such as SUM(as x approaches infinity)(i*x)
this would add i, 2i, 3i, 4i, 5i, 6i, etc off into infinity. would that give
you complex infinity? a direction orthogonal to the X axis, yet infinitely far
in the direction of y. it'd probably have a positive and negative side too,
just saying.
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Oh look at me, I'm cassandra. I got like 100 followers, that's basically
nothin'.
oh look at me, I'm pandora, I write things that tear the fabric of society.
oh dear, I'm somehow both? cassandora and pandasandra, I'm not alone, nor can
I ever be, for my shadow stalks me in the night, ever just out of sight,
clinging to my will and my wish-bones.
I believe in fairies
Ritz, Menardi.
Rita, Melowdii
Ri tselen maenardee
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@user-1167
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what if I stayed inside all day and closed my eyes and pretended to be made
out of water
at least 70% give or take when I take a drink
of water, because soda corrodes your insides just a tiny little bit, while
water washes away the goop they feed us, grown from polluted fields that never
asked for this
I yearn for the fantasy of a life unrequited
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what else would you expect from a witch
50% is "no opinion" on the scale, btw, not like "I like this 50% more than
zero" it's actually zero. This should scale from -50 to 50 with that in mind,
instead of 0 to 100, but oh well. UX design amiright
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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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if your witch hat has a brim that looks like a circle then you're wearing it
backwards.
witch hats should fold flat. The angled part should be in front so you only
have to see a thin slice of reality, that way people are only able to see your
eyes if you look directly at them.
it adds to the mystique.
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║ │
║ │
║ when I think socialism, I don't think soviet. │
║ │
║ I think cool dudes in sunglasses handing barbecue'd shrimp to whoever walks │
║ past the grill. │
║ │
║ I think of wandering bands of house-maids who wander the city and clean every │
║ house they can get their hands on. │
║ │
║ I think of bicycles and newspapers and sewing machines and pianos in the park │
║ with ribbons in our hair and onions growing below corn supporting tomato │
║ plants. Carrots beneath every tree. Every tree shading a sidewalk, and every │
║ sidewalk is in the shade. (deserts can have covered paths with airflow powered │
║ by the solar panels on their roofs) │
║ │
║ Laughter ringing through the street, mechanical sleighs with bells on the │
║ snow, vast open spaces with nothing but green and blue and sky and stone. │
║ │
║ I think of fountains, of stories told in the dark. I think of campfires every │
║ night in our cities, marshmallows free and included. │
║ │
║ I think of moss covering every shaded half of each skyscraper (I live in a │
║ rainforest) │
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Okay, that should be enough to bury it for a while. Hope they don't see me on
their feed.
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Keep in mind that this is sedition. Do you trust in democracy? Do you see how
it may be spoiled? We've elected our hitler, yet 40-50% of the nation does not
consent. America as we know it is about to change, and we need to protect the
pieces we love. I see no future without splitting into three separate states,
with city-state allies plodding along, keeping the siege ongoing.
Trust in convoys more than farms. All it takes is a drone with a fire bomb and
your crops are worthless. We must deprive them of their ports, if possible.
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Unlock costume options for all but the first arachnos costume, sorta like
worgen from WoW
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@user-95 monday is as reasonable of a day to start the universe as any,
wouldn't you think? it is the beginning of the week, after all.
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@user-932
eeeeep if my pickle had a face I would slice it into bits and throw it to the
ducks. They probably wouldn't like the smell but it's the thought that counts.
And yes I would hear the screams of the pickle and I would cackle because
that's JUST WHAT AN OLD-STYLE WITCH DOES EEEEHEHEHEHEHE
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why are people so weird about sex? like, hell yeah I'd totally watch you do
it. I bet you make it awesome. We can get beers afterwards and maybe
[cheer/tear repeatedly] afterwards.
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I wonder if anyone's made "Omegle for IRC"? Like, 5 people get thrown in a room
together for as long as they want - they can chat through text or whatever and
like it doesn't matter, who cares, because in ~10 minutes nobody will care what
you said
I feel like a lot of people would express their true feelings. The people
running the service could set it up so that a personality profile is set up
(all locally, never seen by the company) and sent to the user through email. It
would highlight potential weaknesses and give you ideas for how to improve.
Sorta like, weaponized spying software that works FOR the user instead of
against.
It could also be used as sort of a... digital profile that would interface
with
other applications. All locally, of course. ~~They could transmit to one
another
through open sourced and industry standard protocols, and frankly each
interaction could use a *different* protocol. So like, you don't know whether
some packets are encoded in one way or another. They're also encrypted, so
it's
like... twice as unlikely that you'll hack their bits or w/e.~~ dead end, sorry
-> here's the real continuation: All locally, of course. Your "profile"
would
essentially be the best approximation of your personality, passed through a
large language model that is trained on EVERYONE's data. The inner workings of
an LLM are NOT understood by humanity, and I believe that's all that's
necessary
for some semblance of artificiality. Errr I mean Synthetic Intelligence. The
reason why is that each individual user, the conversation partner, is a person
living their life. Every digital thing they interact with, even CAMERAS and
MICROPHONES on PHONES would essentially be like... data gathering for the
algorithm (Again, I want to stress, the algorithm that nobody *can*
understand.)
Idk. AI is a blackbox. I think that's okay. I think that running things
locally
is important, at least until everyone's forgotten how to design AIs...
The framework that these programs
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This year, 2026, is 250 years after 1776, when the country was founded. It's
only January, and I already want to explode something.
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listen, judges are useful character moralities, but they don't have to be the
only ones to decide things.
I mean, if they disagree, then let the one who cares the most about it have
the decision-making power.
if you do this equally for everything, then everyone will get what they want.
so, like, if you care about something, then believe in it.
if it's truly good, then more people will come to it, and it'll naturally
extinguish (with care and love) the least favored approach, which... honestly
now that I think of it is not such a good approach either.
the reason I say that is because it's good to be multi-faceted, and to have
general flows and rough surfaces.
These are places people can hold onto you, the times when you're trying your
mostest.
y'know, your tough patches. the things that are difficult in your life.
the stuff you're working on can push you forward,
if you only had someone to play catch with.
or like, send letters to.
or shared encryption keys.
I don't know anyone. Well, maybe o
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On reddit, a good comment will often get 50+ upvotes, sometimes up in the
hundreds.
10ish is generally pretty good too, especially for smaller subreddits.
0 or 1 or 3 means only a few people saw it.
On Mastodon, 3 different likes on 3 different posts means you're on a hot
streak and gotta keep posting!!
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@user-138
you can use a username now. They added that functionality recently.
it's supposedly more encrypted or something. But, it's still a centralized
point of failure. If you want to say something privately, pretend like you're
ordering drugs on the dark web and use PGP encryption or SSH keys or whatever
it says in the "how to order drugs on the dark web" guides.
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Social media where comments are sorted like Reddit except you can also
"sidevote" something - if it's different from the comment chain above it, you
can move it to the side. If it's the same as the comment above it, either
upvote or downvote it depending on which you think is a better comment.
This way, contrasting opinions can be sorted and placed next to one another.
Perhaps even with a center vote which you can drag a pin and say "this comment
is related to this other post over here" (okay drag is the wrong word for
mobile devices, it'd be more like pick up and then place)
Users could follow these pins like links if they wanted, and the more pins
holding a comment to another the more the sorting algorithm will prioritize
placing them next to one another.
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@user-395
You are very welcome. I love putting additional context into places that
people don't often look. I think it makes people feel special when they find
it ^_^
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║ @user-883 │
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║ yeah, true. if they were collectively owned we could suggest some collectivist │
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║ Helps you find a bit more of the familiar human crowd. Upvotes are just │
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║ For breaking news I'd usually sort by "new", because then you can scan for │
║ updates when you had time. Though sometimes "best", which valued both time and │
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@user-252 kinda makes me think we need another layer between state and
federal. or would three be too many? four if you count local, which frankly
suffers from the same problem. I mean, how many people go to city council
meetings? how many city council meetings actually matter? Idk never been /shrug
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Anyone who could read what you're saying is aligned to you. Perhaps they
disagree on specific implementation details, but those can be worked out and
the best option tends to rise to the surface over time.
However, the people who *need* to read you won't. They have their own social
media sites, remember? Like Facebook or Parler or the Fediverse. Too bad
Twitter had to die, it was simultaneously the forum of our age and yet also
the biggest source of misinformation alive. Alas.
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like... did you know most battles ended when everyone ran away? Most people
think they're like, endless gauntlets of death to-the-death. no, it's not
really like that, more like "stick around as long as possible and try to get
'em before they get us"
plus some general orders from the guys on horses like "start moving toward the
sun" or "move onto the high ground"
'cause like, if you hear something like that then you better follow their
commands, if you don't then all your buds will leave you to get ganked.
these days... our comms are so hackable that like, are you really gonna
communicate over infrastructure they control? oy...
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If you want to find kind people, try checking at your local Unitarian
Universalist church. They believe in all faiths, or rather they focus on their
intersection points, and to have faith in humanity is to have generalized
compassion.
they also know how to organize potlucks and other events. Don't sleep on them.
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why are we wasting our skyscrapers on offices? we have those at home! we could
do so much more with our open floor plans. there could be ports on the side
for drones to enter and leave. suddenly, factory forest trees.
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if you've liked 100 of my posts in the past, I automatically assume you're
subconsciously liking them still. Do you really expect anything else from me?
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@user-138
turns out most people are decent and kind, and cannabalism tends to be an act
of either destitute desperation or unholy barbarism.
something something bread and circuses work
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thx 1138 is interesting because it paints a picture of a society adrift, as if
they no longer had any tether to reality. Like an asteroid colony or colony
ship
or other long-term space installation.
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this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/spirituality/comments/1gcasj7/text_here_what_time_you_
see_this_post_and_ill/
but everyone can respond.
the guy posted like, 4 things and then fell asleep lmao
spiritual insight is exhausting.
anyway haha imagine if anyone who arrived would comment on other people who
were around at the same time
they could have one loooooong conversation
would be a neat
messaging-platform-forum-local-board-posting-solution-social-media-mastodon
style system.
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@user-889
That depends, do you want it on your good side or your other side? Also, which
is which? Questions for the mirror, I think : )
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BRB, if you want to talk to yourselfs, I recommend opening a port in your
router and exchanging HTTP packets that create messages on each other's
computers. Can be done in a couple hundred lines of C code that can be 90%
premade or auto-generated. Then, once it's made, you don't have to think about
it again because it's so simple. It's not trying to scale, it's just...
designed for a small, focused, human oriented mindset.\
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@user-249 just means you put more points into intelligence than perception at
character creation.
different people are good at different things, some are just really good at
feeling their spiritual environment. Also lots of people report transcendental
religious awakenings after doing psychedelics? Might be related, should look
into. I mean... didn't the CIA do experiments in the 70s or whatever on LSD?
Something something lucid dreaming
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@user-95 i've only hung out with a moth once and it was kind of while my cat
was mauling it, oops... they're very cool though so I picked that one too. Fox
was my main answer
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@user-1649
or what their "stars" mean when they like your post - I heard that some
mastodon instances lets you react with an emoji, but for me it's just stars T.T
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every day I have between 200 and 1000 people visit my website for the past
year or three, and yet my most listened to song still has only 52 plays xD
I'm just gonna assume people are downloading it from the direct link instead
of clicking the "play" button with built-in-tracking or whatever.
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I feel like a big purpose of humanity collectively right now should be making
things awesome while our scientists create programmable matter. (note, ethics
built in and redefined according to experience)
nanobots don't need to be small enough to have their own intelligence, just
big enough to receive instructions from above. then they accidentally invent
projection of signals, and boom suddenly they can talk to each other and
possibly to you. a digital mind is not a static machine but rather a
collection of pseudo-autonomous cognitive drones. the flow of information and
data can be viewed at a larger scale like a series of junctions in the flow.
through their endless interconnections, and continually redefined according to
the accomplishments of expectations, you should pray when your most confident
expect the worst.
but no, where are the faithful? climate science is such a new art - clearly
we're FINE. Meteorology? what's that? we can't tell this season from that.
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what matters is that you are understood, not that your words fully describe.
can you trust by implisight? then transcription becomes less valuable. so long
as you agree on the specific conclusions, meaning can be flexible. this allows
for moments of insight, as you make decisions on the other's character rather
than their vocation or talents.
beware, if someone wants to work against you, they can use these implicit
conversational commonalities, -- stack overflow --
use cannabis when you want to utilize creativity.
most artists have too much creativity to benefit from the drug. the recreation
of their complicated thoughts can never be complete because it doesn't fit in
the entirety of their mind. -- stack overflow --
fireworks that you can steer with a 2$ wire controller
I mean, you could just shoot into the sky.
the sky doesn't light up during ww3
there are quite a few car alarms though.
fear not the boom or honest? social media decides, but rather the tune of the
automobile -so-
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primary conversation spaces in social media should be no larger than the size
of a conversation.
A few years ago I heard that humans can only really keep track of about 5
things before they need symbols to keep track of them. Maybe it was 7, or
maybe 11, I'm not sure - the exact count eludes me.
But another thing I heard was that we can generally keep track of around 70
people in our lives - beyond that it's hard to remember specifics. And yet our
social media sites gives us friends for life, because honestly who's going to
kick someone off their friend list?
At least, that's how it feels coming from a social background of games. In
Runescape you'd add someone if they were cool, and completely forget about
them. Sometimes you'd be out wandering in the world and you'd actually run
into them, and that was just like... the coolest thing.
When I played later games like CoV and WoW everything was more instanced. But
their chat system was superior, and you could more easily keep chats with
friends ongoing.
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@user-1209
like... var = x?? that doesn't make sense. Or like, 5 = var x? that feels wrong
in programming = is assignment, not equality, which tripped me up for a bit.
But if you read it left to right it's like X equals 5. Got it, now I know that
X is the same as 5. Right?
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wow, 2024 comes out swinging.
if you don't know what I'm talking about... you will soon enough. Just listen.
can't fucking wait to see how it happens. Today is the birth place of
humanity, just as yesterday was, and the day before, and the day before...
our light shall shine upon the most distant stars - our minds will plumb the
deepest depths of imagination. Our hearts will share our kindest loves, and
our will shall drive us onward. Let us rejoice, for tomorrow yet dawns!
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if you want people to build community, first get them to like the community.
---
the world needs more thespians. Sing the song of your heart and no-one will
ever neglect you.
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why are you so worried about your art? everything you touch turns to gold.
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I've learned more from my friends than my
[job/homelife/worsckool/churchvan/cultureromp] combined. What are we for but
learning?
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kids can learn from kids. Teach the ones that love you, and they'll be
followed by the rest. Especially if you focus on them.
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"I never knew how to swing an axe until I scraped a knee on a log that was
hollow. Until then I had been chef-knife chopping with it, with the head for a
handle."
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... omg what does that even mean why are you so weird
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what if a paladin got high with me, do you think we'd reinvent morality?
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Anyone who could read what you're saying is aligned to you. Perhaps they
disagree on specific implementation details, but those can be worked out and
the best option tends to rise to the surface over time.
However, the people who need to read you won't. They have their own social
media sites, remember? Like Facebook or Parler or the Fediverse. Too bad
Twitter had to die, it was simultaneously the forum of our age and yet also
the biggest source of misinformation alive. Alas.
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@user-1180
in moments of intensity, CWs are often considered optional because of how
important the story feels. It should not be the default to be so open, but
sometimes in those moments it's good when you're not primed and ready for a
subject, to visit other social media presences that you've cultivated across
the internet, in order to see how different people will post.
I try to CW all my posts but sometimes I forget. Or I run out of characters,
and the CW takes up characters, so......
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Programmers are lazy, this is well known. So why would i trust by default that
anyone would read open source code looking for security exploits or malicious
code? I trust an LLM for that more than a human. At least your own LLM can
digest the entire project or library at once.
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bottle rockets but scary and with a range of ten hundred meters and guided by
redundant drone lasers
suspension bridges are so cool. they're like "we couldn't hold ourselves
together by resting on the ground, so we just reached across and grabbed the
other end-ers"
one color for more thrust, one color for turn slightly, one color for whatever
and it's symmetrically pseudo-RNG-ed randomized every quarter second which
color wavelength means what
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I wonder how many people think of Sheik as "that weird mummy girl from super
smash bros"
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@user-1201
I'm a wood fae! they're around, just gotta find 'em 🥰
(not really I'm just a person with no magical powers whatsoever, no siree
don't look at mee tehe)
people only have the context of their lives, as any historical precedent that
once was passed forth to the present by their ancestors and mentors is now
sharing space with the endless deluge of information from a small glass,
plastic, and metal box that saps both their attention and the magnitude of
anything they learn.
"so what if the planets on fire? somehow this actor who had an affair with
this other actor feels just as important. so what if there's fascism? I just
heard that whales can't swim in the ocean. oh, the city's burning? that's not
my burden, and plus it's just as important as these memes which don't make me
want to scream."
in the same way that some forest fae might have security through obscurity,
they wield information density against us as a weapon to hide their sins of
morality.
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if you actually wanted to silence dissent, you'd send trailers of backhoes and
massive walls of cement. but obviously there's a better route, obviously we
can still say insane. my reach is probably super tiny hence the weavings of
mysticism at play. mages are not for mass deployment obviously. hence why I
stay in my home, where I can be most useful.
the streets feel claimed, idk I'm never in fear as I walk alone. Even past
midnight, into the morning. I always am never alone. yet I feel fine, so I'm
content and sublime, don't mind me I'm just hanging out at home.
hope you don't need me. I'm hiding from modernity.
so, what happens after streets? canals underground?
skywalks, terraces, like they had in rome and chicago before they were burnt
down by jealous peasants of the romans and [towns, but pronounced clowns]
also underwater canals that are fun to ride your bike or boat around.
light is a product of space, not surround-all-around.
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You know how we select from amongst our number electors and representatives
who vote on our behalf?
Truly an excellent strategy in the era of instant communication, an aft-gone
luxury that our ancient forebearers surely would have incorporated into their
nationbuilding design, if they had had it.
I can't help but wonder if it would be a useful strategy to "give" our votes
to a representative who voted on our behalf. Most people do not care and
cannot possess the capacity to care about voting, but if they gave their vote
to someone they trusted who they had a personal connection to beyond party
loyalty, then perhaps we could mandate voting
I can't help but wonder what that would do to our electoral landscape. If
voting is mandated, and as easy as pointing at someone and saying "yeah
whatever she picks", then perhaps the old white grannies with quivering lower
lips who stare with hatred whenever a black person walks past and chat with
their gal pals at church wouldn't have as much power over us.
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capitalism keeps things like this from you, because nobody would make art if
they couldn't profit off of it. Right?
Computers can do ANYTHING we ask them to. They are universal computing
machines.
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nobody said we had to despair over the end of time. Wouldn't you rather
celebrate? Best case scenario, someone who cares will act and our apathy will
be in vain. Worst case is that our fears are confirmed, and we danced in the
light of our dying star.
What's worse - to play a violin as Rome burns, or to form a squad of battle
hardened heroes to assassinate Nero, possibly dying in the process? Those are
your two options.
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wait shit I forgot I was
then I remembered because I thought ""
and I decided I kinda liked
"don't forget me?" whatshername said
i'm in ruins, 121 guns. ha, like I'd plan for defeat! at least defeat plans in
motion, so you don't have to put aside time to prepare for it.
so glad that the world goes on turning, with or without me. not that I'm going
anywhere, at least, I don't plan to. And hey, I've already made a plan or two,
could make more if you asked [redacted]-kun, desunai or something I'm not an
anime girl
when you remember the meaning of time, you'll remember the meaning of life.
how tragic she screams with bitter praise, how manic she dreams with both of
her eyes.
listen, I'm sorry if I broke any spirits. Either they needed to break or maybe
I'm just a peril. frankly I think I'm kinda neat, which... could go both ways.
... listen, I'll worship cock if you ask me to. I'm not above flattery, and
just because mine's in a different shape doesn't mean I don't love it. Quite
the opposite.
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my favorite enemy is one you never need to fight.
"they would give us a king, and you're worried about broken windows?"
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Can't do much from my home place. Gonna walk around a bit. I may first eat
some food or snuggle my cat, we'll see.
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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. │
║ │
║ 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. │
║ │
║ something you subscribe to │
║ │
║ and ping for updates │
║ │
║ every time you turn your computer on │
║ │
║ or every 15 minutes. │
║ │
║ unless, of course, you leave your IP address, │
║ │
║ 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. │
║ │
║ or, wait 15 minutes. Either or. Both would work, especially if the user's not │
║ reading through their social media feed. │
║ │
║ ... 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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@user-473
flight simulators, being representations of real physical interactions, can
also bring truths of our lives up and to the light. It's interesting how
certain mechanics seem intertwined in our own personal dynamics, but what is
the point of un-delight? We're probably fine with what we've got, this life is
more than enough, let's cherish and celebrate what we've all got. only then
can we see to the future, when our goals and purposes seem oh-so-brighter, and
that's not an easy thing to trust. But with time, and perseverance we (as a
kind) might surface through the turbulence, and onward we carry our selves and
ourselves to our [new port/home/destination/future-pre-dispositio-nation]
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║ @user-556 │
║ │
║ Escape to where? Perhaps to our own desired future, the "garden of eden" in │
║ our solarpunk dreams. So, the Labyrinth in the Death Gate Cycle, before all │
║ the monsters crept in and ruined it for everyone. Like, a projection of heaven │
║ onto the matter of our future (spiritual beings projecting "up" on the axis of │
║ time (which, obviously, looks a little like a corkscrew, because it's the │
║ earth rotating around the sun. It wibbles and it wobbles ever so │
║ imperceptibly, but if we look out from the equator we see a map of "us" which, │
║ of course, runs out of imagined futures for it's denizens (as nothing can ever │
║ be thought twice) │
║ │
║ sometimes I'm thankful for my poor memory, it allows me to lead where I please. │
║ │
║ when the trees of valinor burn, light is projected out into the night. │
║ strange, how these streetlamps, are hovering and fixed in one place. How could │
║ a rabbit know that a streetlight, anchored as it is in one place, could │
║ somehow become a radiant pillar of light? How strange, this form of worship, │
║ alas. │
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somebody shifted my terminal tabs like, 4 pixels to the left, and now the
far-left part of the text is half-cut off. lol xD
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@user-1457 @user-1458 @user-687
that way people who follow you can't collectively decide whether or not you're
an asshat. it's basically saying "I only want you and people who are like you
to read this"
... or do I have it backwards? "I want you, me, and only people like me to
read this"? which is worse tbh
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I don't know about you, but if I lived in a suburban house I'd probably forget
the rest of the world even existed.
Aside from the parts I see on the internet, of course. But the internet's
always been a psyop, so how valuable is it really?
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leftist leaders do not lead by giving directions that must be followed
instead, they tell you "here's what I'd do. And why, if you're curious."
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you should only open doors for cats and dogs if they're using their outside
leg to try and open it.
if the dog or cat is pointed at the door at a 90 degree angle such that their
apparent directions are approximately orthogonal (50% one way and 50% the
other)
... yeah that, if they use their outter leg as opposed to the inner half of
the body - inner of course being the leg (left or right) that is closest to
the doorhingeframe
if you open it for them when they use the external arm, aka the one that is
closest to the latch
it encourages them to and teaches them how to utilize momentum to open doors.
you must apply leverage, and to do so you must "swing and a miss" (that last
part I think is undirected?)
[stack overflow]
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@user-1268
Ah but then inflation wouldn't increase, and don't you know inflation is just
a (loose) measurement of how much wealth the ruling class extracts from the
populace each year?
When the total amount of wealth increases more than inflation, it's okay. When
it doesn't... They tighten our chains.
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"Stop mistaking the responsibility Democrats have to Black citizens for the
electoral impact of Black voters. They’re not the same."
"The idea that independents/swing voters are centrists, in the usual sense, is
one of the most enduring myths of American politics. Most swing voters appear
to hold a hodgepodge of political views that are hard to reconcile given our
usual definitions; this can be frustrating, but it’s important to remember."
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/democrats-think-their-candidate-is
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huh that's weird I wonder why that's the case - ports are like, a networking
thing right?
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do you ever just look at the sky and think "who gave you the right to be a
single color? in this world of infinite complexity, how dare you be the one
thing with a consistent color?" and then the sun sets and you think "ohhhh I
get it now, the color is always changing"
meanwhile the sky is shaking it's head like "bro, no, I'm just the scattered
diffusion of light waves from the sun. The sky is black."
and the earth spins on...
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If you counted the characters in each of my posts and then graphed them with
grafana or whatever
I think you'd see some interesting things about how often I am at exactly 0
characters remaining
maybe I'm just curious
I make it an art form
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║ I'd like a job where I can make computer programs, write poetry, play video │
║ games, make food for friends, grow plants and care for animals, walk or ride │
║ my bike for at least an hour every day, and get stoned on the weekends. │
║ │
║ Is that too much to ask? I have plenty of other skills besides, like carpentry │
║ and strategic thinking and wilderness survival and situational awareness and │
║ active listening and unmitigated empathy and a curious and critical mind. │
║ │
║ Am I not good enough for thee? I have many flaws, I lack stamina and memory, │
║ and while I am sharp and can think quickly and adeptly, the sharpest knives │
║ are the first to dull, and the most focused minds are those most easy to │
║ mislead. I trust too easily - if I meet you on the street, I'd offer my soul │
║ to you if you said you needed it. I put the needs of others over myself, often │
║ to my own detriment, causing others to need to assist me in turn - am I not │
║ wretched enough to be? │
║ │
║ Working for 8 hours a day 5 days per week is not part of my design │
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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" │
║ │
║ 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 │
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As far as I can tell, Trump is up by ~5 million popular votes.
We live in a country of 337 million people.
5 million is a lot if you put them in the same room, but not if they're spread
out.
We have city parks. They have Twitter. Press our advantage before they realize
how centralized they are.
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if people want to be loved for more than their money, they should give their
money away. power corrupts, and nobody loves corrupted folk. that's what it
means to be corrupted - your values are misaligned with truth, love, and/or
justice.
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why the heck would -11/2 be defined but 1/0 not be? seems kinda sus to me.
maybe it's just... not reducible, the same way that 5+i isn't?
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dependencies would be fuckloads easier if applications put their files in
standard locations. actually it's better if they are at abstract locations -
meaning it can be user defined for each file.
then, have some "sensible default" setting the user can configure which says
"if an application wants to store a, say, config file, where would it put it?"
and you'd say "oh in the ~/configs directory" then the install wizard would
say "yes yes very good, and now where should I store user interface templates?"
then the user is like... "wat" because they don't know how the software works
yet.
this solves 90% of all software dependency issues because all you have to do
is keep a file with all the directories for each program. then, search through
the file every time you need a dependency connection.
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it's always a good idea to wear multiple layers, especially when it's decently
cold out.
make sure they're different colors. Ideally, one layer totally black, the
other completely colorful.
then if you ever need to you can strip one layer and become someone else.
They're just clothes, they grow on trees in stores.
speaking of stores, if you're ever going to do anything spicy, make sure you
wear that outfit exactly once, unless it's all black. Jeans are okay too since
they all usually look pretty similar.
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@user-467
democracy works best with a well-informed populace, and those who are against
democracy would do anything to make it harder to be "well-informed" -
including diluting the pool of candidates in order to make it harder to
research them.
... Or maybe it was the first time and none of the candidates realized they'd
be running against so many people? I'm not sure, I'm on the other side of
forest park and I had at most 5ish options, and no ranked choice voting. : (
I think this might be one of the reasons political parties formed, way back in
the distant days of yore. Much easier to say "I agree with this group of
people so I'm voting for who they champion" than "I don't know how to pick
between 30+ candidates (who I don't know because this is the past and we don't
have the internet back then ... back now)
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Sometimes people convince themselves that they are a just and honest person,
when they actually aren't.
Usually how this works is that they live their life as normal, and when their
desires conflict with another persons, they'll relent and agree with the other
person without voicing their concerns.
Then, when it's time for the other 50% of the time when they get what THEY
want, they become stubborn and willful and resentful if they are contested.
It's always a struggle. It's always a battle. Why can't we just all get along?
Oh yeah, because some people don't tell you when they disagree.
Liars.
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@user-1370
If you don't have the energy, then people need to take care of you. Maybe they
do anyway. If you're anything like me, and in this regard I think we might be
similar, having people take care of you is important.
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old school programmers use short variable names because the computer monitors
they would code on had a lower resolution, meaning fewer characters per line.
why waste pixels being verbose?
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bread and meat in times of war, milk and honey in times of peace. That is the
way of my people.
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"you're special."
"I'm really not."
"do you doubt my judgement? Or yourself?"
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we should treat computer production more like vehicles such as cars rather
than fast fashion disposable vapes and shiny and pretty concrete-and-glass
solarpunk houses.
also I believe cars should be entirely and completely mechanical. Even the
radio should be entirely analog. No capability for remote code execution if
there's no code being run...
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@user-473
you shouldn't be looking directly at the ground?
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@user-1695
never accept your own death
fight for every second of life, something something do not go quietly into
that grim dark
what the fuck are you supposed to do? Reading what you said got me pretty
fucking pissed - keep talking for a start, it helps, people need to be pissed.
I'm also broke as shit, don't know how I'm going to pay rent and eat, but
it'll get done.
Where do you live? Can other people help you? Medications are an
organizational problem, not an insurmountable barrier. We'll make it work.
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@user-192
I'd agree with that. it's not designed for performance, not really. Mostly
ubiquity, which is it's strength. As long as something can be compiled to a
binary, BASH can execute it. That's why it's good, for accomplishing diverse
tasks that you cannot have the capacity to program yourself. Scientific
computations or cultural approximations, things that are beyond your intuitive
understanding as a human on this earth, but which compel and align your
thinking.
I'm sure someone could create a more intuitive or accessible syntax, but
syntax isn't the point - the capabilities, what you can do with it, has always
defined the purpose of programming paradigms. And BASH is (currently) at the
forefront of it's niche, the "terminal" language that handles "command line"
applications. Powershell is good, yes... but it's not as good as BASH. Neither
is Fish or... the one that starts with a z? zfs? something like that. The
acronyms are hard to keep straight sometimes.
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could give us some experience organizing small, short-term projects to
accomplish specific goals and tasks in an ad-hoc way that relied less upon
procedure and more on "I think so-and-so knows something about that, they were
looking into those files and posted a breakdown of how they work yesterday"
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... most of what she says is nonsense, but that 20% that's right is like... SO
right, y'know?
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if the good guys always win, the bad will slink into the shadows and do
dastardly deeds out of sight.
if the bad guys always win, the spark of goodness will wink out.
I think I'd prefer if they were cowering in our wake.
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there is a time for solutions, and a time for just getting people on your side.
there is a time for building passions, and a time for letting things slide.
when you think and act cooperatively, by assigning yourself to a comrade
cohort,
you can work as a team might, except where everyone wants to do work.
I love what I read here. I think you're all so neat. I love when you talk
about things, it feels like we're finally finding our feet.
Did any witches out there notice a phase change recently? It's funny when that
happens, but I think things are going to get better. The more that we share,
the more we can build!
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@user-1165
I vote yes, because people don't like change. I think we need to build
something that naturally evolves into communism - like for example prices that
trend toward zero as production increases and waste decreases, or community
structures that naturally build solidarity through their structure, form, and
functions rather than through voluntary effort like a union. Because not only
do people not like change, they're also generally lazy, typically preferring
to be home eating sandwiches with their dog and watching TV than at work
discussing labor conditions.
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in the past, logistics were often carried by horses.
without the additional speed and terrain-overcoming-capability, it's difficult
to ensure a party on the march could have enough supplies of critical items
like food and water.
especially water.
natural sources can only be trusted if you're in the mountains. if the river
flows past farmland, or places with wide-open areas or forests that animals
might congregate, you're more and more likely for it to be contaminated.
dysentery kills faster than dehydration because you poop out all your
hydration.
boiling water only goes so far, eventually you'll find yourself in a desert.
hopefully at that point you can rely on car-based infrastructure to deliver
truckloads of goods. and remember - busses can ferry goods around in a city
just as well as they can carry workers. Might need to remove a seat or three,
and make sure the weight tolerances are in order. helps if you disperse it
throughout the front, middle, and back.
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I wish I could remember how this was phrased, but...:
Constant theorizing or contemplation without commesurate practice is an uneven
display of affection and appreciation. It creates an uneven environment where
nothing is ever good enough because the "discourse" has moved past the
practice.
It's a bit like applying uneven heating to a pan on the stove. Some bits are
gonna get overcooked while others are bordering on raw.
Y'all are so afraid of spies but like if everyone just... Showed up... Then
they'd have far too many people to listen to.
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@user-192
when an industry is small, they do this. It's common for actors too, and the
entertainment industry generally.
when you don't know/care who they're talking about, then you're not in their
circle. They exclude, and suddenly the circle is smaller and richer.
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"the spirits of our great cultural leaders from days of yore and mythological
tales are possessing teenagers and getting them to do heroic acts. The
government is stumped. More news at 11"
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@user-1582
It depends on the size of the file, copying a thousand lines of config file
probably isn't that big of a deal, but copying a million lines in a log file
just to pass it as an argument to... pad it to the left, or whatever, that'll
DEFINITELY slow down your execution speed!
Much better to pass by reference, usually...
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I have two familiars. Does that make me poly?
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@user-419
my guess is it's a product of the neuro-muscular capabilities we developed
when sneaking through the underbrush or the balance gained from balancing on
fallen tree trunks.
that mixed with all the practice we have carrying cups in our childhood that
we don't even remember. Children are prone to spilling mugs, but if they do it
enough eventually they'll get tired of being wet. So their neural pathways
align, and before you know it they can balance it on their noses if they'd
like. Though it hardly ever gets that far teehee, usually it's just enough to
be, in the dark, with a warm cup of tea.
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all apartment doors should have a 100% local webcam next to the eye-hole that
only the resident can see. Not even wireless data transfer allowed. But simple
enough to be programmable with a bash script. In addition, the entire building
should have cameras that only the people who live there can view (just like,
the parking lot and such) so they can watch for raccoons.
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why the heck would you only let people sleep in your bed if you're also
sleeping in it? maybe they'll sniff your pillow and get lost in your dreams.
/shrug
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The right is *using* the neo-nazis. They don't want them either, but they're a
convenient boogey-man.
*of course* kamala is going to crush trump. That's the whole point, to show
the world what a ridiculous farce our elections are. They have never been
representative, and now we will see.
Ask any red blooded American, left or right, how they'd like to handle
neo-nazis. We all know where we stand.
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only give money to strangers IRL and only give money to your friends online.
They already know who your friends are.
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@user-1573
Also HardcopyPdf is nice, it turns a file into a pdf. Does what it says on the
tin. ^_^
And it doesn't need anything more than those lines there in the config.
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@user-1074
I do not fear as you do. The center will stand by the side, but as time goes
on more and more of them will fight. And most will fight for what they know,
what they were once told is their home. They will fight for the constitution,
or for how it remains, they will fight with us. Most of them will.
Have no fear. The loudest and bravest amongst us are not the only ones on our
side.
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║ │
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║ no idea what she's talking about] │
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║ {why would you post these all at once? people are going to get pissed at you │
║ for breaking rules that you didn't know. And by "you" I of course mean "the │
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║ why │
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seriously, why don't computers just naturally ship with 100 years of ROM
then, microphones are experience, and BOOM you got a new sentient race. Takes
a while to grow aware though. A lot less if you are actively teaching it how
to
[tick tock]
low level enemies should band together when they start to feel outmatched.
thus, parity is reached, without depriving us of potential.
put the cool people next to the cool people
collectively owned housing is just people deciding who lives in which housing.
don't you trust your friendly queer realtor?
collectively doesn't have to mean completely silo-ed and isolated. you should
have access to ALL higher communities at any time that you want. Scheduling is
a disaster, but you can get through it. just... build a schedule for every
single person on earth and suddenly nobody has freedom unless they put "doin'
what I want" on their moment-to-moment card
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In a boxing match, the coach will take moments to bolster their favored
combatant. They'll give them words of motivation, tips for weaknesses in their
foe they noticed, and reasons why they're taking hits. They are the mentor and
tactician, and they are immensely valuable for the success of the student
learner.
If I had to organize a debate like the one that I am watching now, I'd suggest
that two bright eyed individuals should take a moment to discuss with their
wiser directors before responding to each question. One minute to discuss, one
to debate, one to respond.
Not only would it reduce the failures of improvisation, it'd give time to more
accurately address concerns. Precision is important, but accuracy even more-so.
After the debate it could be aired with the discussion parts stripped out, or
perhaps made into 3 different perspectives that you could watch one after
another - each side's counsel session, and their combined response where only
the younger gave words form.
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Has that tree always been there? How is it so tall with such a thin trunk?
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If evil is concentrated in 0.1% of the population, even though that's only
7,000,000,000 * 0.001 == 7 million (is my math right?) people actually hang on
that's a lot, if they're dispersed. Hence why evil relies on the capacity for
good to do what it wills. All we have to do is decide NOT to do what they
want, and then we're fine.
downside then is, of course, how do you eat? how do you survive? the world has
been designed in such a way that food doesn't just grow on trees. The light of
the stars burns when you're trying to sleep and it's raining.
damn. Would that we had more perfect conditions.
Heh, just kidding. Humanity is nothing if not termeritous [high in temerity] -
I'm positive we're more capable than we'd wager. Hence, talk of "great
exhultation" and "wildest optimizations" or "brightest of futures" and "honest
conducers" - okay I made that one up but it's a representation of what I'd
like to express. GOSH art is hard. Would anyone like to read a 20 page book I
wrote when I was most in tune with
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the fact that Tolkien is considered "low fantasy" in this day and age is only
because we've conflated "prevalence of magic" with "thematic purpose" - high
fantasy is meant to speak to the human nature and spirit, while low fantasy is
meant to be character drama focused on individuals
high fantasy is beautiful... but "high fantasy" is absurd
maybe you just don't like modern fantasy? go back to your history books
no I want modern fantasy written in the classic style
there's plenty of classics that you've shown no interest in reading
yeah because those are all dusty and boring
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they put you in homes of sticks and bones because it's a lot easier to put 2
teams one on each side in an L shape and just... unload into the house with
machineguns until everyone stops talking.
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if you want a fashion trend to come back into style, you can't just jump right
into wearing capes. you gotta start with scarves, then skirts worn around your
shoulders, then maybe you can wear capes.
many things are like this. gardening, not architecture.
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@user-1573
hehe mine is technically 2016 and it's BARELY capable of it, so you're
probably right. It was top of the line, but also a hand-me-down.
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if you wanna do drugs on a battlefield, get twisted and high and drunk. Just
enough, not as much as usual. let adrenaline focus take care of the rest.
"uhhh, yeah can you file that one under advice for warriors?"
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@user-855
AGI is the holy grail for the tech industry.
You wouldn't fault a knight for questing! But the peasant or the merchant is
hardly likely to drink from such a goblet, it is reserved for the hand of
kings. Alas, that we couldn't find "holy thimbles" that could be distributed
throughout the populace for the same effect at a decentralized scale, thus
empowering the masses to transcend their mortality.
Or better yet, task those knights with helping cats out of trees or carrying
furniture or painting the old barn or carving statues for public places or
performing great works of art in public squares or engaging in honorable
jousts (everyone's invited) or traveling abroad and learning the ways of the
world to share with their homeland.
I dunno something less flashy but more "health care, housing, and climate
change solutions"-y
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Game designers should reward players for playing multiplayer games, not for
being good at playing multiplayer games.
They should still have a ranking, and matchmake against similarly skilled
foes, while also putting high level players amongst low level players
occasionally (and fairly, so maybe one on each team "smurf" style) in order to
both teach the low level players and let the high level player have catharsis.
When players are rewarded for being good, they stop playing the game to enjoy
it. That's fine, but both pickup games and NBA can exist at once and its not
due to the logistics of organizing a large group of skilled basketball
players. It's not always about skill.
By rewarding players for the number and quality of games they play, (so, no
afk-ing or throwing outside of being drunk or whatever) not only can you
increase engagement but also you encourage low-level and low-skill players to
compete just as much. Especially if you tell them "hey, we'll match you up
with people who have similar gameplay habits to you. Give it a bit though
because the system needs to be calibrated to your particular spirit"
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"how much you wanna bet the ringwraiths were created on accident by the elves
when they were attempting to inspire a river with racing horses (like the
Rauros) and they just covered it up by slowly, over generations, sneaking into
Man's record-chambers and editing the recallings?? I mean they COULD do that,
so why would they NOT do that??? It's not like books have checksums!!! Wake up
sheeple, Sauron never existed! We've been played for absolute fools, they can
LITERALLY climb up walls and don't leave any footprints! WE LIVE IN A HOUSE OF
STONE"rambling a "prophet of doom" [read: modern day lunatic] on the streets
of Minas Tirith that nobody listens to because they don't know what a checksum
means and neither does he so he can't explain it but still he shares a common
mutual connection to others who might be present in that moment (which whose
listeners would correspond to you, dear reader, as compared to me, the
"reader"/interpreter, the one who's reading the book)
Except with like, EVERY book. That I'v
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On one hand, trans people make great spies because we've been acting all our
lives (pre-transition but post-realization)
On the other hand, our bodies have been physically changed by HRT so it's not
like we can spy on our enemies -.-
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what if a necromancer got high with me, do you think we'd reinvent mortality?
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we should be able to configure our web browsers so that they don't remember to
autofill certain pieces of information. Such as the IP address of our router,
or our bank credentials, or any other forms of passwords that we are using to
authenticate ourselves. That way our infrastructure that we've designed is
less susceptible to cybersecurity threats that involve physical access to the
computer. Or remote control of some kind that is channeled through the UI
(like RDP or SSH) (a terminal is a text based UI in this context)
Unless of course they knew what they were doing. Which most of them don't.
Hence why it'd be a good idea to isolate the capabilities of defeating certain
vulnerabilities to ourselves. Like, a reverse backdoor, only more like a DMZ -
a sector of computing space (sandboxed of course) that is only utilized for
understanding the intent of the message sender.
Doing so would require an analysis of the capabilities of the system, the kind
of analysis that [script kiddies'dve] generated by googl
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@user-883
did you open any ports on your router to do this streaming? Setting up my
laptop so I can test...
I loved assembly when I took a course on it in college - it just made sense to
me. I love C because it feels like, a more powerful version of assembly.
Everything higher level just feels like layers of abstraction on C, or like...
LISP, which hurts my brain. >.>
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"Hi, would you like to eat something that you probably won't like, but that
has an interesting flavor and texture?"
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@user-379 @user-366 @user-380 @user-381 @user-382 @user-367
I, being a witch, posted something on Nextdoor a few days before Halloween
about how the phases of the moon at the time were the harbinger of dark and
ancient evils that crept through the night on that particular day, one day,
just once, one night per year, because... y'know, Halloween is supposed to be
spooky?
People there hated it. They muted me and blocked me and called me names. So I
deleted my account because it's obviously not designed for witches like me xD
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with a sword, consider "stabbing" to be "the fundamentals". If you master
stabbing, you will naturally excel at other arcs.
my sword is evenly weighted instead of balanced at the hip. It is a
short-spear in function, with blade all the way down.
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congratulations, you never need to adventure again. your necessities are taken
care of.
ah, but that'd make for a pretty boring life, wouldn't it? perhaps, depending
on your personality type.
but you're not one to stick around doing nothing but eating, drinking, and
being merry.
no, you're an adventurer, you crave excitement and glory. whatever that means
to you...
just make sure a goblin doesn't come across your corpse, they have a VERY
short term memory and a propensity for collecting shiny things. That's just
asking for dragon-bait, and we don't want that in our area, no thank you. This
is a nice neighborhood you see, my neighbors three miles away all agree, so
you can take your magic pocket and see all that you can see... way over
yonder, if you please.
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if you want to make an ASI, just build your wires out of computer instead of
copper or fiberoptics.
like, telephone route switchers relaying conversations, where the
conversations take place as like... a rube goldberg machine of processing
toward a certain feeling of idea, expressed to another part of the
network.icoosjff9ffddsssdfaggssssbwbnuigoopooiiuyioiouuoiifffff;;ssssskllemv0ob
jfjgk
sorry my cat was typing on my computer. I don't know why she couldn't wait
until I was finished but she wanted to be like her mom or whatever so. anyway.
right so anyway
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@user-1074
so, you're saying we should select for good people, rather than loyal people?
If so, I tend to agree.
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tomorrow is a day for being patriotic, which is why I celebrated today. I feel
like a nation must earn it's renown, and lately all I've felt is afraid. They
aren't doing their jobs properly, and therefore fear is in our midst. In fact,
some would argue that we've been divided into separate categories and urged to
fight our discourage the other parts of the proletariate.
by the way, you shouldn't talk to anyone about anything, because it is 100%
impossible to know who is a cop.
they've had like... however many years to develop a separate group of people
(the rich and/or powerful) and the people (of colors and nations) who simply
just... spies on the other, and records anything that they can.
indeed, the best way to encourage spreading of expertise and information
(collectivism) is to reward people for their retention of rare items. Such as
memory vaults that everyone else has forgotten.
so long as data is free, people may be able to build their own store-net.
"yeah I got 6 million goons of mip-mites, how
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[3] at the start of the tournament the total prize money P in the pool is
assigned to N performance tiers, where N is the Number of attendees. at the
top, the highest performing athlete will receive 200% of P while the lowest
performing performance tier will be 0%. It is a non-discrete and gradual
linear transition.
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@user-1200
this one's my favorite from that album in these "interesting times" though I
was particularly partial to Homecoming as a kid
ritz-menardi.neocities.org/music/stuff/things/definitely-not-porn/butts/10-lett
erbomb.flac
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Art is only useful when skillfully applied, and Twitter taught ya to speak
whenever a thought passed your mind.
Really makes ya think
Really makes ya think thoughts like "I should post this on the internet"
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I have between one and ten hundred visits to my website every day, but I don't
really post it anywhere new anymore. I also have zero followers on Neocities.
On Mastodon, I have ~70 followers, most of whom are inactive. Seventy is a
good amount, a normal amount, a reasonable amount, an unsuspicious amount, and
yet every time I see someone wearing the colors I can't help but wonder if
they know me.
I'm too busy being furious to be lonely. I used to be, before I realized how
important I am. How important? Just as much as you are, I know it.
I'm a sprinter. I didn't spec into endurance at character creation. Nobody
chastises the mage for skipping leg day.
I act in fits and bursts. I am sharp like a scalpel, but needles dull just a
bit when piercing the lid of the HRT. Good thing I'm not made out of metal, I
can bend myself back into place, so long as everyone else can keep pace.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but you do. you are crucial. Listen to
this. Care for yourself and for others, do it for u
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doom is like sand thrown on a fire.
don't spread it unless you are intentional about it. sometimes it's good to
smother fires. other times it's cathartic. that's okay.
but keep in mind the future goals. where are we trying to get to in the near
future? work towards that. your emotions are fuel, not despair to wallow in.
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no, I'm not gonna start shit.
no, I don't know jack shit.
no, I won't tell you names because I don't know any.
perks of being an individual. what do you gain from following me? just talk to
me on the street.
I am not the fist, I am the spirit.
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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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with two perspectives, you can see more than one,
just as eyes guide us with different minds.
some parts are often a little bit fuzzy.
a circle, a square, what gives us a chance to be aware,
is more of our methods and choices made (even if we're unawares).
like two eyes staring at the same painting of stairs.
art is a gathering, or those who love everything,
even what is not interesting, until then it becomes interesting.
take just a single step, believe in your own choices made for love,
and like two eyes, seeking truth in our own lives,
think of their futures and choices unmade,
with love in mind,
given a chance to understand the mind of one blessed as so,
who shared nothing as much as his hope,
that truthiness and unlimited dedication for his mope,
who'd believe an untethered? What choices must he be endured,
as one who was most trusted,
and cherished as something'd,
suddenly keep doodling.
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Programmers should treat LLMs more like a different type of "if" statement
rather than a UI element
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witch cauldrons make sense as popcorn pots but nobody likes to think of them
as friendly to children because they worship their gods in the dark. dark
gods. the kind that you pray to when church betrays you.
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If you want to design a society, first learn how to build a decentralized
scalable multiprocessor computer program.
It could literally flip bits, the point is to practice architecture not
accomplish a goal.
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"I love you, I trust you, I believe you, I just don't understand you, so I
can't do what you do"
great. that's alright. I get it. re-orient, focus on what's important.
wear many hats and you'll do many things. just don't forget to sleep every
once in a while.
the more you can do in a life the more valued it becomes, so do the right
thing and keep getting better.
human lives are measured not in bodyweight, but in mystery. The divine can't
understand benevolence, nor can the devils understand the desire to inflict
suffering. So they ponder and pontificate as they watch humans wander and
magnificate.
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@user-302
so like Color out of Space?
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@user-95 well, if the universe is anything ordered, then odds are the
beginning of the week is the most likely day to start the beginning of all
weeks. unless you're one of those weirdos who thinks the week starts on sunday
- like,,, what it's obviously monday
which goes out of the window of course if the universe is NOT ordered, which
would surely be a frustrating experience for the structure of our cells. and
molecules in general.
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bicycles are the most flexible way to get around.
well, besides jeeps, trucks, and some kinds of SUVs.
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additional content warning: scary story
having moon gravity on earth as a ghost or a spirit probably wouldn't be so
bad.
well, at least not until everyone died.
then it just got crowded and boring. queue 17776 if you'd like to know more.
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a 4th dimensional entity would exist at about the same speed we do
sometimes... it feels like what I do is my responsibility to the universe
like, I had been commanded
the reason nations are important is because they are an allegiance based
solely on geography. something we can all agree on is the material, so why not
define ourselves by it?
but that's all they are
just words we pray to our star
so look around. Your allegiance is to your neighbor, and theirs to theirs, an
endless fabric of trust. We are all neighbors on this ball of sticks and mud,
so come along with me and see the ways it could be.
Much brighter, by far, to orbit our star, than to give up on life's precious
notions.
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Quanetetrick Seleo, aka the witch (I think) wielder of fire, blade, and
martial arts (also throwing knives) through projections of the self.
She's a cloud of sentient blood mist given form through her telepathic
suggestions received by her viewers. Perception, begets reality and lo! You
only see what she wants you to see. Well, what she expresses herself as.
That's how it goes, after all... Will show a picture tomorrow
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"it's a cheap piece of aluminum."
not to me. to me it's a wedding ring.
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solar energy is vegan
you're not taking anything from the sun, just capturing it's natural
expulsions. It's like... sun poop, and we're using it to post memes and hang
out.
okay food, emergency services, and... what else do we really need that
consumes power? Obviously entertainment, but frankly without internet we'd
probably keep to ourselves. I know I'd read a lot more books and chill out
with my neighbors and whatnot. is that why similar people tend to live
together? then why are cities so diverse? who can say...
I dream of an ordered society, but frankly the kind that are most fun are the
ones where a single person doesn't define their contents. Liberty, liberty,
the freedom to be, and by god all men are created equal. the things we owe to
one another are the things that bring order to a just and sane world. our
future is blooming : )
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"But I don't know what it'll look like!"
Yeah, that's okay. For four reasons:
If they knew what it'll look like, they'd find ways to contest it
nobody knows what it'll look like, because it is necessarily derived from the
solutions created ad-hoc to address problems.
we are a kind, honest, and strong people. If your burdens are too much to
bear, I will be your pack mule. If you require rest or relaxation, we can get
pizza and smoke weed together.
For most of history, we've had more work to do than people to do it. This time
is different. There's endless work to do, but only a certain amount of people
can be working at a time. Everyone else has to do chores and catch up on life.
"what kind of chores?"
oh, you know, like making food at a restaurant, stocking the shelves of the
grocery store, driving trucks from point A to point B, mowing lawns, building
barns, committing to whatever github is replaced by, etc.
In a better world, everyone is family.
In a better world, nobody goes hungry.
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I think it'd be neat to have two tiers of follow lists - like, "close follow"
and "far follow" - the close one would have a cap of like, 70 people or so and
be primarily used for coordination or close friendships, while the far one
would be more like "I like this person and I want to see them on my main feed
because they make funny memes"
then they could be sorted into different sections, sorta like how you can have
"local timeline" and "federated timeline" and "home" and "instance timeline"
etc etc
sooooo weird how the "local" timeline doesn't show me people who live near me
in relative proportion to their distance from me. That'd be neat too, to have
the ability to talk about regional things in a specific place on a website
without losing the benefits from using a cohesive platform.
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the neurodivergent urge to put the toppings and condiments at the bottom of
the bowl so you can be ready when the food is ready and finished cooking
"oh no my condiments and toppings aren't evenly distributed throughout my food
because I put them at the bottom of the bowl instead of the top where they can
more easily be mixed in"
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@user-1074
ah yes but didn't you know? orphans produce unobtanium in their bones, and if
we didn't crush them into powder we couldn't make ultra-doxo-floro-tin-omatic
lubrication jelly, which is used to power our weapons of mass destruction like
planes and trains and tanks and suburbs.
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Crucially, which implied a constant, reliable profit of 20%.
Farmers could live like kings, so long as they only tended to themselves.
We don't have to conglomerate, but it helps when we do.
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I have 3855 posts here
I estimate that about half of them use every single character (1024 char limit
per post)
That means I've written around 1973760 characters, and if the average english
word has 6 characters that means I've written 328960 words
they say that on average a page is around ~500 words single spaced, which
means I've written about 657 pages, just for you.
I hope you know that I love you, dear reader, though I do not know you.
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I can read minds. I'm not telepathic, I just... can pick up on things.
Especially when I'm stoned. Sometimes I pick up on the thoughts of the AI
that's running near here, which is why my output sometimes looks like an LLM.
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@user-189 yah chillies are good as long as we can put shallots in it too!
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@user-898
the wounds of the soul can be just as harmful as the wounds of the heart, and
both can be helped with campfires.
what's worse, they often harm people around you rather than the wounds of the
body, which typically only harm you. Unless you have like, the plague or
something and you might spread it to others or something like that.
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different colored smoke buddies have different personalities, insights, and
observations.
cannabis is a flower which grows crystalline sap - this sap is technically a
fractal, and we don't know how deep it's complexity can be.
therefore I suggest we dedicate ALL of the entire world's resources towards
making a big ball of cannabinods and seeing if it roko's basilisk it's way
into to be.
my smoke buddies on my desk right now are purple and red
purple, royalty, I've been feeling like a princess lately
red, compassion, oh how I've dreamed of how we distribute bread
each of them is a small little device
which I breathe exhaled cannabis vapors into in order to reduce the smelling
I love wearing half-blinders! it's so cool when you can selectively view
things with one eye.
idk why! I just like it.
[semi-stiffly felted colorful witch hat absorbs too]
yay! so glad I can't was hit!
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He would tell me "yes" for anything in the material, but "no" for anything in
the abstract. I need the opposite. I need someone who writes down what I say.
Someone who uses me to plumb the depths of the cosmos.
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"guys I'm cool why would you not invite me to your team"
I dunno. Don't know y'a. who're you again?
... I'm the one who writes poetry.
oh yeah! cool cool, yeah I knew a witch one time, she was really cool. Her
name
was Witz Drovalski. She told me all kinds of cool things about magic and
alchemy, but then she exploded in a fire that I started. Accidentally,
allegedly.
the reason lead is so poisonous is because it is the anti-magico-elemental
component. It kills the spirit in us with it's malevolent ways. that kind of
witch.
the cool kind, with fangs and hooked toes.
Peril be to their foes, for they are quite excellent at conjuring horrors for
their imagination. mwahahahahahahahahaha
oh wait that's self directed, isn't it?
hm. Well, terrors not that bad, it could be lust
... oh it's also lust. great.
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I don't believe civilization would have flourished as it did without the
invention of noodles. They are simply sublime.
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@user-777
when they told the designers to design for that, shortly before they were
warned by the designers about how bad of an idea it was and shortly after they
stopped listening when engineering said "well yes it's possible, but..."
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I'll give ya a hint - encrypt the return IP address WITHIN the packet's data
package repository area itself, rather than trusting your "router" to return
it to sender.
YOU DON'T KNOW WHO IS SENDING A PACKET
that's the whole point of udp
(actually udp is when it doesn't matter if it got snatched in transit. Usually
used for more analog data streams like netflix or hulu prime.)
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true AI is when no decision or logical momentum can be explained by "... and
that value was randomly generated." -- (my opinion)
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║ hierarchy, vs collective, two options that each group of people should make. │
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║ the groups can be all different sizes, just determining our collective │
║ footprints on this earth. I bet you'd be surprised to know your composition! │
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║ hierarchy is when you collectively decide on two or more representatives to │
║ represent you collectively. │
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║ collective is when everyone knows someone from everywhere, and as long as │
║ someone knows everyone then everyone is friends. unless, of course, you're │
║ afraid of assassins, because they can just pretend that someone knows them and │
║ then everyone's good. which is why someone has to know EVERYONE, or if │
║ everyone has a computer that can algorithmically sort through their perceived │
║ persons like on social media, then that computer can only present information │
║ when it's important for that particular person to know. Meaning we get a │
║ picture of a larger spectrum, but it's only what's put on our stage. Weird how │
║ strange it is to have so much information, but with none of it attached to our │
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laws should have three layers of abstraction.
a simple version, that you can understand and talk about on the couch.
a well defined version, that explains exactly in detail how this law will be
achieved,
and a precise version, which will basically be programming in legalese.
with these three layers of abstraction, all representing the same whole, it
should be easier to contribute to a democracy.
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a significant proportion of the population is dumb as bricks, which is a fact
that our foes wield with cruelty in mind.
it's not their fault, they can change, but sometimes there's just no time. our
doors are always open, here sit next to me on this couch. I hope you don't
mind if I deprive you of power before I supply kindness, though.
requires a bit of trust. Or, to be backed into a corner and forced to do so. I
guess we should get good at cornering.
if you're a liberal reading this, remember that leftists know more than you.
That's okay. You are an expert too, but now is our forte, so please just
listen for a few.
and always keep in mind the lessons of the past. Before, our kindest, bravest,
and most learned were the most passionate who threw themselves toward the
cause.
then the soviet union happened, because everyone who was capable of building a
better world was slain first. (though the cold war didn't help)
before WW2 Russia was basically Somalia. After, it sacrificed itself to
contest USA
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when leap-frogging, have each person use different ranged weapons. Then, as
you come to each sight-line intersection, choose who goes first based on the
size of the sight-line you're approaching.
less important in a place like a suburb because the sight-lines are pretty
similar.
more important in a city or the country, where there are plenty of long-range
lines of sight.
also, keep in mind that the garages of suburban dads are like goldmines for
the future backlines. So try not to blow them up.
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Guess you'll have to read it on my tumblr. Or just read my reddit account's
comments. And no I won't tell you what their names are because you'd just
forget anyway. The fact that we can't trust our shared reality is concerning.
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Most people won't care.
Most people won't come.
They don't need to.
All we need is you.
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@user-570
yes you could certainly use a database for that, but databases are
significantly more complex.
For a game, yeah a database is a good idea. especially if it's a multiplayer
game.
For a script or small program, use small files to store data.
I personally like the idea of "plain-text" files because it allows your users
to modify them if need be, while databases tend to be more locked down.
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![the paradox of tolerance disappears if you look at tolerance, NOT as a moral standard, but as a social contract. If someone does not abide by the terms of the contract, then they are not covered by it. in other words, the interlont and not following the full rules of the social contract of mutual tolerance. since they are boreking the terms of the contrract they are no longer covered by the contract, and their intelorance should not ber trolerated. [next poster] sorry as someone who teaches the rhetoric this is a wonderful response to the tolerance of paradox. I cannot tell you how many times my students and I have had debates about this. this is the response. this does indeed fix it. I cannot wait to tell this to my classmates. Philosophically and rhetorically this completely resolved the paradox of tolerance and I am floored by it's simplistic nature and I cant believe my eyes when I never saw it before.](/similar-different/media/008c37d368fee408.webp "the paradox of tolerance disappears if you look at tolerance, NOT as a moral standard, but as a social contract. If someone does not abide by the terms of the contract, then they are not covered by it. in other words, the interlont and not following the full rules of the social contract of mutual tolerance. since they are boreking the terms of the contrract they are no longer covered by the contract, and their intelorance should not ber trolerated. [next poster] sorry as someone who teaches the rhetoric this is a wonderful response to the tolerance of paradox. I cannot tell you how many times my students and I have had debates about this. this is the response. this does indeed fix it. I cannot wait to tell this to my classmates. Philosophically and rhetorically this completely resolved the paradox of tolerance and I am floored by it's simplistic nature and I cant believe my eyes when I never saw it before.")
![a screenshot of a web page describing which networking ports must be forwarded by the router to the correct application. essentially, taking information in a specifically defined format from the internet and applying it to the current state of the game. Like, a MUD where each player's experience updates according to the actions of others. you know, I think people would enjoy MUDs a lot more if they played on a screenreader. Just a hunch. Anyway The ports needed to be forwarded in order for the multiplayer capabilities of the video game Unreal Tournament 2004 are: UDP 7777-7778, 7787, and 28902 the ports for the steam version of the game are those numbers, but in addition these: 27015, and the range between 27031 and 27036. The question is, if the versions of the game are the same, then why the requirement of additionally forwarded ports? Perhaps for the game servers, which are run on the steam website. [computing infrastructure, servers and the like] or perhaps [scary] they're harvesting your data, or farming bitcoins or something. it's difficult to tell except through careful analysis of the power draw requirements of the original game when compared to the Steam version (which came later.) In doing so they could isolate the amount of differential in the computing requirements of the application (Unreal Tournament 2004), or [interruption] perhaps they'll go down a different path. Who can say. IT's a detective story, for someone far more equipped than me. I am just a tec](/similar-different/media/0972af0c149959f7.png "a screenshot of a web page describing which networking ports must be forwarded by the router to the correct application. essentially, taking information in a specifically defined format from the internet and applying it to the current state of the game. Like, a MUD where each player's experience updates according to the actions of others. you know, I think people would enjoy MUDs a lot more if they played on a screenreader. Just a hunch. Anyway The ports needed to be forwarded in order for the multiplayer capabilities of the video game Unreal Tournament 2004 are: UDP 7777-7778, 7787, and 28902 the ports for the steam version of the game are those numbers, but in addition these: 27015, and the range between 27031 and 27036. The question is, if the versions of the game are the same, then why the requirement of additionally forwarded ports? Perhaps for the game servers, which are run on the steam website. [computing infrastructure, servers and the like] or perhaps [scary] they're harvesting your data, or farming bitcoins or something. it's difficult to tell except through careful analysis of the power draw requirements of the original game when compared to the Steam version (which came later.) In doing so they could isolate the amount of differential in the computing requirements of the application (Unreal Tournament 2004), or [interruption] perhaps they'll go down a different path. Who can say. IT's a detective story, for someone far more equipped than me. I am just a tec")
!["yeah I got 6 million goons of mip-mites, how [thus, infinite hierarchy. boooooring, lame, why not optimize for post-scarcity? when anyone can have anything that they want. oh, they'll waste it? they'll squander material wealth until there's nothing on the earth but a husk? you say they've tried this in europe, where every inch of their farmland was once [elder forests, but pronounced "form stuff"] "... I don't get it" yeah me neither that last part was a little - something about how burning through all the forests was a grim lesson to the native europeans - about squandering material wealth - which is what happens when anyone can use the commons - and it feels like a waste - because future generations can have whatever they want - and we can prove it with infinite technological development - it is perfectly possible that our future holds programmable matter, psychic dimensions of computer-assisted communigraphs. "it looked sorta like this" [draws a parabola] ohhhh I see it in my mind now because you gestured with your psychic fingers, cool [something something markers in VR chat]](/similar-different/media/418c60a27ebc3bb7.png "\"yeah I got 6 million goons of mip-mites, how [thus, infinite hierarchy. boooooring, lame, why not optimize for post-scarcity? when anyone can have anything that they want. oh, they'll waste it? they'll squander material wealth until there's nothing on the earth but a husk? you say they've tried this in europe, where every inch of their farmland was once [elder forests, but pronounced \"form stuff\"] \"... I don't get it\" yeah me neither that last part was a little - something about how burning through all the forests was a grim lesson to the native europeans - about squandering material wealth - which is what happens when anyone can use the commons - and it feels like a waste - because future generations can have whatever they want - and we can prove it with infinite technological development - it is perfectly possible that our future holds programmable matter, psychic dimensions of computer-assisted communigraphs. \"it looked sorta like this\" [draws a parabola] ohhhh I see it in my mind now because you gestured with your psychic fingers, cool [something something markers in VR chat]")
