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HF can reflect off the antarctic, which can be heard as a kind of warbling effect when communicating over the pole between US and Australia for example.

Getting paid for work in not capitalism. Capitalism is a private person owning the work someone else does that they put up the capital for.

This is not how artists work at all. I don't think any school of art has done that, other than for very rough composition (where objects go in space). Most schools of art from deep history all the way to today train with copying/sketching from life (training the eye to go where you want it), while also teaching general truths about light, color, proportion and anatomy.

People who draw out of thin air usually have these trained references in mind, so when they draw a pose they're not so much simply copying from their imagination, but from facts and past experience, about knowing about anatomy, light, and proportion. You draw as you go and see what's on the page, and you can build out a world that didn't exist, but not so much from mind's eye, but somewhere in-between the page and prior experience.

None of the above training or sketching would be needed by someone with a photographic memory or an imagination that can hold that level of mass detail (they'd only need to know practical techniques their medium depends on). There have been people like that such as Austin Osman Spare, but in the main the vast development in art has to do with learning about anatomy, proportion, light, color, and technique as taught by all the great masters.

Cartoons are a good example how a style comes not so much from the imagination, but how one very naively and simply draws characters and then builds off that natural style into something refined. This comes from playing on the page, not imagining what one wants. If you copy other people's cartoons you can also learn different lessons, and that has to do with training the eye and technique.

If this were true all siblings would have similar anxiety issues, but I'm willing to bet this is not really the case. IMHO most mental illness is genetic, or at least the predisposition is, which can than be triggered by upbringing, but it can also be triggered at every other point in your life so... I mean... And Kids will spend a lot of that time in school; parents have to be pretty darn overbearing to get to the level of school-like schedule and behavior control, so again, all very dubious this is all down to parenting.

There's a big difference between looking at reality through a bad filter and looking at a completely different constructed reality.

The Harman target 3k peak renders Trumpets unbearably shrill to me making Miles Davis or any Jazz with a trumpet unpleasant, which is quite the feat.

It's a decision with the grading and it's a zeitgeist.

https://www.vox.com/culture/22840526/colors-movies-tv-gray-d...

There's another article I can't find on it.

It's got nothing to do with netflix. Digital is not to blame either, but it's certainly a catalyst.

It mostly has to do with insecurity surrounding digital and the bizarre idea that saturation is trying to 'emulate' film, (when color timing films was always just been about trying to emulate reality).

You can correct most of this problem with a decent media player. Just play a film in VLC and touch up the saturation and possibly the contrast in the effects settings.

It really doesn't take much adjustment to makes a film that once had a depressing palette suddenly half decent. I can't tolerate watching films through sunglasses so do this pretty often.

It really is a fashion. I've seen an advert for grading software that had a famous photographer casually showing the viewer how he ruins his pictures with this process of desaturation. I've no why people think this looks good, but it is deliberate.

I asked the cinematography reddit once why people do this and got a lot of incoherent responses about how saturation is just trying to emulate film and that it's just how 'new' things should look. Apparently many new filmmakers experience of reality has been through tea-shades on an overcast day. It beggars belief.

Have you any idea what it takes simply to maintain a machine such as twitter, let alone make even minor alterations? There was a recent telling interview by someone who used to work there who thought it wouldn't be long until the whole thing collapses on its own because there were huge teams dedicated to simply keeping the thing running.

It seems the problem the author has is twofold:

1. Having failed to recognize that mutual aid is an objective truth of evolutionary successful behavior in social animals and is absolutely rational behavior and that so-called self-interested behavior (at the expense of other people) is in fact not really self-interested because we live in groups, and is irrational behavior in social animals...

2. ... that therefore 'social justice' is relativistic and arbitrary, when in social animals, it most certainly is anything but.

Lithium is still the fallback drug of choice with the best track record. In some countries it's as much as 50% of patients.

I was first put on lamotrogine and it's mental side effects were far more debilitating than lithium's physical side effects. Lamotrogine destroyed my working memory to the point I'd consistently leave food on the stove and just forget about it. Lithium also works better for me. It is also dirt cheap compared to alternatives which don't work as well for many people.

Other forms of Lithium also have potential for future treatments, with Lithium Orotate being considered for trials recently (few side effects, safer, crosses blood brain barrier more effectively, but was mischaracterized in the 70s and largely ignored until now).

The advantage is not NASA's, but SiFive's, or any other company that wants to make their own chip: they don't have to pay a license. I guess it is NASA's advantage too, because their software shouldn't be tied up with any limited group of license holders.

Open ISA is huge. It may not mean open hardware on its own, but it sure as hell opens the door to open hardware in the future. I think there is a chinese CPU in development that is claiming to aim to be the linux of CPUs. Can't remember the name but they were at one of the risc-v conferences recently.

Kiwi farms has lead to the deaths of multiple people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms#Suicides_of_harassm...

I had it extremely young, like age 5. Really disturbed my parents, talking about how I wish I'd never been born. LOL. They never thought to get me help, so that's what you get.

But actually I'm thankful I didn't go through the diagnosis-mill back then, because later in life I sought answers from a GP and was simply diagnosed with depression, had SSRI's thrown at me and developed a mild psychotic episode (full blown manic episode in which I thought I could make a free energy device knowing nothing about electronics), which of course I didn't see a doctor about, because you can't actually tell when you're having a psychotic episode, especially if you go all the way to black-out word salad mode.

Many years later finally properly diagnosed with Bipolar 2 (explains full mania on SSRIs as opposed to hypo mania/mixed episode I normally get). Glad I didn't have to go through that shit when I was younger. GPs are so arrogant you have to literally stop them in their tracks and say NO, I WANT TO SEE A PSYCHIATRIST PLEASE (and silently to yourself 'AND I SURE AS HELL DON'T WANT any more of your free anti-depressant sample packs you bleepety bleep').

If I had so many problems figuring out what was relevant to tell someone to help them diagnose me, what is normal and what is not, when I was in my 20s, I really doubt a child would do any better without really extreme and obvious psychotic episodes, etc, that aren't simply delusional.

As the person said, they still had qualia while without the ability to form a narrative, and another person has said it was hard to remember, because narratives act as a mnemonic. Having experienced ego-death myself, I can confirm that I still have a memory of the experience, but that it is more of disjointed impressions (hard to maintain memory of the chronology, which a narrative might be able to cement). But I was still conscious and experiencing things; that is precisely the weird part.

You may have a point in some way (not specifically narrative alone, though): It is true that certain anesthetics don't even render us unconscious, but just make us forget what we were perceiving while having our CNS motor functions paralyzed... and maybe deep sleep is similar--while paralyzed maybe we forget our senses moment by moment. But ego death from psychedelics is not the same thing: it doesn't completely erase your ability to recall impressions and images.

Either way none of this explains how qualia can arise other than it helps to remember things for us to have a sense of chronology/persistence of experience, and so I doubt a machine that can come up with a narrative of what it is sensing would magically have qualia (we would have no way of knowing, even if it claimed it did--all we could know is that WE are consciously observing an apparently conscious thing).

I sometimes think that persistence of experience is an illusion maintained by memory. That every time we lose consciousness then regain it, "it" is simply a new instance that is a clone of the old instance with the illusion it is the same person due to memories and being in the same body. Like "the prestige" the man drowns each night and experiences death, but the clone has the illusion that it has been alive up until the point it was created. In this case I see consciousness and qualia as a temporary instance/shape of neurons activating in unison that is suddenly conscious, but can lose residency, and when it re-forms has the illusion "it" is the same thing and maintains an identity.

Considering it takes many depths of artificial neurons to simulate a single human neuron, and the speed at which learning can regress is so slow now, I think we are a very very long way from having such an instance of consciousness appear in an active neural network. Such a network would need to be so analog that it would be effectively the same thing as actual grey matter, and you may as well just have a baby. At least with a baby you would have a true sense of the responsibility you have in creating such an instance (or persistent series of instances that creates an identity).

Many libraries have conference rooms and small rooms you can book for silent work or meetings. Many have separated silent and social areas in which you can get away with a call if you're on headphones and not being a loud douche. Just ask at the desk.

An uber driver is not a bullshit job as defined by Graeber (and most certainly NOT a term to define a job that has not yet been automated). It's a shit job, but not a bullshit job. Short of reading the book, this is a good primer: https://www.strike.coop/bullshit-jobs/

most people tend to agree with me that at least to a degree more money = more happiness, it's the reason that capitalism works

What do you think capitalism is exactly? What's your definition that fits the context of that statement?

He was talking about the children's book version "What are Kings?" by Nika Dubrovsky and David Graeber https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32177115