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This is one of those videos where you know what it's going to say in the first few seconds or maybe just the title, so you don't really need to watch it.
Honestly just the fact that it's in English and the comments are positive tells you where it's going.
I've come to think about internet usage as "high-stimulus" or "low-stimulus".
Low stim internet usage would be things like looking up the actor from that one movie, and then getting the name. When you get the name, you get a low level of stimulus. You just go "oh yeah, right".
High stim internet is an unregulated and extremely addictive drug. So much of the internet is meticulously designed to elicit the biggest possible emotional reaction from its users, who may then get caught in the undertow of looking for the next big emotional rush.
Content is irrelevant; the same content could be styled as "FIFTEEN AMAZING FOOD HACKS, NUMBER EIGHT WILL BEAT UP YOUR FATHER!" or it could be styled as "hey did you know you can crunch up breakfast cereal and use it as breading"
Twitter, reddit, instagram; these and many other sites are just ranches for people who are caught up in the undertow to spend half their day on, bleeding out personal information to whomever wants to buy it.
So I guess I'm not baffled by how negative it is, how little you gain from it once you're on it long term, or why peopl euse it long term despite that. It's a drug. They're addicted. No one's stopping the pushers. It's not going to stop on its own.
Unlimited PTO means there's nothing to cash out at the end of the year if you took 0 days of PTO.
It also reminds me of the old negotiating tactic - never be the first one to offer up a number.
You can work like a dog to release a feature, and if the feature does what it was meant to do, and you get recognized for your contribution, how hard you worked doesn't matter as much. You are energized, excited to be part of a great team, ready to move on to the next stunning victory.
Gross. All that overtime is systematically stamping all the things that are good for the soul out of life. I'm not going to cheer it on because a feature works.
I don't think he's talking about a specific subreddit, but rather reddit as a whole. I tend to agree, but I don't see how that hurts advertisers.
IIRC you used to very rarely see actual celebrities in the ama subreddit because it was a weird place where they'd ask you how many toddlers you thought you could fight at once, or maybe someone would get accused of trying to bang a highschooler. Now it's just your standard softball interview space where you go plug a movie, someone asks you what it was like to work with (other famous person), and then you're off to go do the exact same thing on kimmel.
It's advertiser friendly but it's about as exciting as a bowl of oatmeal and as thought provoking as the number eight. The only reason people stick around on reddit is because they're addicted to the skinner box content feed.
That seems extremely common. For a stretch there every tech S1 I saw said "we don't make money, we've never made money, we have no idea how we're going to make money in the future".
It's kind of crazy to see a tech IPO that doesn't come with the boilerplate "we make zero profit, we've never made profit, and we have no idea how to change that in the future" caveat.
I love the idea of an off-grid house but it always comes with too much DIY.
Are you seriously complaining that homesteading is DIY? That's the point. You belong in SV, just buy a copy of stardew valley.
I wish there were sellers with fixed affordable off-grid packages. (...) I realize this is contrary to the spirit.
You don't get it. It's going to break and if you've got the maintenance skills of a disillusioned tech worker, it's never going to be anything more than a money pit for you. Stay in whatever tech hub you're in.
I'm in the middle of a programming boot camp where they just blaze from topic to topic to topic, we never do any considerable project work to nail any of it down, and even though they state clearly "you need to be studying outside of this class", I know a bunch of students won't because it's 12 hours a week and billed as something you can do on top of a full time job.
So once these people graduate, OF COURSE they're going to stumble over for loops and if statements; the only think they know is how to follow along in vs code while someone builds a react app over zoom.
So you don't think the problem is social or psychological or related to sitting alone in one room all day, just like... zoom could have a better interface?
Maybe that question is enough, but I don't have anything else to say that's not incredibly rude.
lawfare
This creates an incentive for international corporations to keep a few banana republics around - nations constantly kept in shambles to ensure a fat profit margin by minimizing manufacturing costs.
It also eats away at the earning potential of the middle and lower classes in more advanced nations. If your nation's cost of living is high, finding a way to outsource your economic productivity is the goal of a titanic mountain of cash.
Because of this economic uncertainty, it ALSO makes some middle and a lot of lower class people in advanced nations latch onto the first nationalist they see.
I can't go a day without seeing some article, some post, some tweet, some blob of text from the internet telling me to stop being positive. Stop trying, it's all hopeless. There's some race or class based caste system immutably shackling me to failure, everything is hopeless and we should all give up.
Fuck you. Maybe I'd care about your failures if you weren't framing them as mine.
Is there alot of crime in Seattle
Yes. There's a documentary called "Seattle is Dying" that covers a lot of it (particularly the open air drug use), but you might have a hard time finding it because of the recent riots, economic collapse, etc.
I've been institutionalized for suicidal depression a few times and aside from endorsing that video, I wanted to hijack your position in the comment hierarchy to express that a scary thing about the linked article is that a lot of people aren't going to get any counter-information; they're just going to get nudged into a lifestyle that they'll probably contemplate sweet release from at some point.
Every once in a while I see an article from a major publication that makes me recoil. And I don't know how to express it but the fact that someone's gonna kill themself (long) after following the article's advice isn't the worst part of it at all.
Most people don't actually kill themselves, they just desperately want out of a situation they can't convey to anyone, can't fix on their own, and makes no sense. It's like if someone's house got robbed and they got beaten into a hospital bed on every prime-numbered day of the month, but no one told them those rules and no one believed them when they talked about it. The day that poor bastard got fed up, burned their house down, and just started walking would be better than the thirty days before that, even excluding prime-numbered ones.
Anyway I'll be holding my breath for an apology article from the new york times so I guess I'll see you on the other side
That's actually pretty similar. I know there's three "life backgrounds" that you can pick from and they were meant to influence the game much further than they currently do (extra dialog options that are largely meaningless); there's a lot of half- or non-implemented features in the game, that's just getting overshadowed by the fact that it's pretty thoroughly unplayable on roughly half of the platforms they released on
Once you no longer run into performance issues, you start to run into other things.
Long story short - this game is a crystal clear example of what feature creep does to a project. It's also a good counterexample against the assumed infinite power of the day one patch.
They're optimizing for their needs, not yours.
Why would they optimize for your needs? You're already a loyal consumer, to the extent that you're vaguely upset about a missed opportunity to go on a spending spree.
It really seems more beneficial for them to just apply a markdown to items that are doing nothing but taking up space in their warehouses. If that's what they're doing, you're searching through the list of stuff they want to get rid of, so that's a win for them even if you don't buy anything (because it's not like you won't look through them next year; you said you've done it three times in a row already?)
To me this take rolls into the general "silence is violence" or "either you're with us or against us" refrain that has become background noise to me. It reads the same as someone telling me I'm enabling fascism by not posting a black square on instagram or whatever.
I'm nearing the point of being aggressively dismissive towards this kind of attitude, because a lot of it doesn't even seem to be laid out in good faith. People are just addicted to being mad, addicted to being right, addicted to the idea that they can channel their anger through pop politics and get validation for it as a bonus.
I have an extremely low opinion of the people and groups who follow along with whatever pop social issue is trending today because they don't want to get in trouble, and IMHO those people aren't really worth interacting with because again, it's more about landing a spicy dunk on the bad guys (tm) and collecting heart icons than whatever issue they're using as a weapon today.
your work is not apolitical. It doesn't matter what you're building
spare me.
The effort/reward ratio here is terrible, unless you're reading extremely long content or an extremely high volume of longish articles. The problem with the latter is that collecting links to articles you want to read is easy, but half the time you get a short way through the article and realize you don't want to read it.
Sometimes I lay down and play games all day. I always feel like a lazy braindead slug afterwards.
I imagine this desk setup slows you down a bit, at least.
I think they meant ideologically
The technology itself gives rise to it
Do go on.
The self-reported positive effects hallucinogens are awful.
They alter your perception so your perception of perceived benefits is unreliable, and anyone who's not tripping can tell you that. I mean, with full doses the reported benefits are things like connecting with the thread of the universe and speaking across planes to dimensional beings that inform you that we're all one, but the word fractal is jammed in there somewhere. I'm not saying these people can't have fun, but pulling THAT experience back to just reduced levels of the drug is probably still going to give terrible accuracy for self reported results.
Microdosing reminds me of those people who left high school parties saying it was fine because they drive better drunk, or that they took some coke to balance it out.
I don't know much about biology outside of a couple seasons of hobby gardening, but some plants can pollinate themselves.
After a quick search it looks like grapes may do just that.
- Create new github account
- Make PR via automation
- Earn prestigious t-shirt
- Sell prestigious t-shirt
- Repeat as many times as possible
Is this what's going on? With the right tooling you could net a profit. I mean you're crashing the reputation of the project and the value of the shirt, but from a ruthlessly objective perspective (Not that that's my perspective), who cares if you wreck those things?
Like how to start with a blank page?
Open the menu with the three lines button in the top right, click preferences.
Left hand side, click home
Set "Homepage and new windows" and "new tabs" to "blank page"
Disney would open if the government would let them.
They did reopen; I remember a video from what feels like months ago (but these days that could have been last week) where managers were telling employees "welcome home" (gross).
The article says they're getting slammed by low attendance rates, which makes sense because a lot of people either don't want to go to a theme park right now or don't have the money to.
This laser focus on GET HIM TO SIGN UP puts me in a defensive, adversarial position. How about you leave me alone and let me use the service? If it's useful to me then I'll absolutely figure out how to sign up, and semantic nonsense like the fact the the button is titled "sign up" is absolutely not stopping me.
What semantic nonsense like this WILL affect: you're creating a glut of disinterested users and firmly establishing your brand's identity as "one of those emails I have to delete every once in a while. I should cancel that thing or just filter it to spam". Now your metrics are blurry.
"Sign Up" buttons don't work because You're asking for blind commitment and not providing any value
not solved by renaming the button.