joeberon

It's because there are too many x's in the name

Skeletons make the site look broken

The only way I've found is to invest in a religious practise, in my case zazen

Yes they are built different: one person has no struggles writing and actively loves it, cannot stop doing it; the other finds it effortful and painful. Those two people will have vastly different experiences writing the book. The former will gain energy and feel great, the latter will feel pressured and depressed. We are not all the same, we are all built different, don’t ignore this reality

I agree. It is quite clear that it is impossible to write large code bases safely with manual memory management. Even very small programs often have massive problems. I think many programmers are simply in denial about this.

I had horrific and long lasting negative effects from LSD. My wife absolutely laments that she convinced me to take it the two times I did. I saw mortality and impermanence directly, I felt entirely alone, and also I got extreme motion sickness and was passing out in a mess of white fractals and intensity in my body. I developed severe flashbacks to the trip and every time I had one I became extremely suicidal. The only good thing that came from it is that it pushed me towards an actual solution for me, which is practising zazen (goalless sitting in the Soto Zen tradition of Mahayana Buddhism). Resting in this moment, as Buddha, unmoved by external conditions. If I did not learn this, my life would be over, and indeed taking a break from the practise for 6 months the old grasping mind returned and I found myself heavily desiring death again. I sit and this all goes. My life after LSD was so traumatic that I was forced to find a way. The worst part is that therapists had no idea how to even consider the cosmic horror I felt, they just said it was “weird” and tried to shift the focus to tangible things, but it was the ineffable infinity that I was scared of.

Anyway, I always say that LSD fucked up my life so much that I had to turn to _religion_ to cope!! As a former militant atheist, that’s an incredible thing to say

In all forms of Buddhism, suicide is one of the karmically worst things you can do

The "AK" standard library that they use is extremely good and very dynamic. Much better than the C++ STL

No, SerenityOS is strictly C++

Missed out on the fact that it is prohibitively expensive to watch it in the UK

I agree. While money has always been there, there hasn't been such intense "statistics" and micromanaging behind every decision. Directors could get away with doing many things out of the respect for the art rather than money. The systematised nature of it, this automated process of using statistics to automate creative decisions, is the worst part, because you can't escape it. In the past we had a base plot that must be interesting and make money, but there were so many avenues for being subversive on top of that. Now, everything is in service of the machine

As a previously strongly practising Buddhist, I can say, Buddhism is a total scam. Some of the absolute worst and most deluded people I've known are devout Buddhists. I even had a formal teacher and even he could do nothing to help me develop compassion. Perhaps the Dharma is dead in this world or something, but it seems to not actually work anymore.

I think it's around 10 billion euros IIRC? Definitely more than 1 billion and less than 50

Even just 20 minutes a day sustained over a long time (e.g. 5 years) is enough to bring life-changing effects. It isn't as benign as it sounds on paper

20 minutes twice a day for 5 years is not at all extreme

The writing simply has to be very high quality. Reading in games obviously is not entirely unpopular, see Disco Elysium, but then again that eventually got very good voice acting to read it all out, which helps a lot

I remember when Google's new CAPTCHA system was introduced and you just had one click and could get through, now you have to spend ages clicking photos of american busses.

Karl Marx - Das Kapital

Tyler Hobbs usually keeps a large distance between the exposition of the algorithm and the actual artistic example for the sake of maintaining artistic technique secrecy.

I made a really rough script that does a bunch of transformations on bibtex files to have them be ready for use in academic papers:

1. Shorten author lists to 10 authors 2. Abbreviate journal names 3. Remove unneeded IDs and replace with doi links 4. Remove unneeded tags (file, abstract)

https://gist.github.com/joebentley/6e3e4198ea427545738a82021...

I saw a piece of research saying that it is true, that depressed people see outcomes more realistically, while non-depressed people are in a state of constant self-delusion where they convince themselves things are better than they are

People say NFTs open a huge new opportunity to sell art, but the only reason why the demand is higher is because of hype. Once that has died down, it will return to before: people not wanting to pay artists for commissions, no one contributing to their patreon, etc.

I don't stalk people's account histories every time I reply to them. Do you expect me to?

What are you talking about??

Okay but can you prove that the tax money was used with the intent of creating the virus? That was your assertion

Can you elaborate on this? That sounds insane.

First, this is already factored into mainstream climate research. Two, do you really think this is enough to totally offset the catastrophic effects of climate change?

Interesting to see an increasing number of climate change conspiracy theorists on Hacker News recently. Even more interesting to see COVID-19 conspiracy theorists too...

Unfortunately the C++ standards process is completely out of control and driving the language to total chaos

At an overarching level, my primary wish in life is to leave something in the world that serves as an artifact of what kind of person I was. Maybe this wish is at fault and I ought to get a better wish instead, or I'll be destroying my drive for creation at every turn. But in the present, this is how I honestly feel.

Yes, I'm saying you would be better off dropping that, and instead just engaging in pure creation without any dependencies.

Why would I be doing this if I was only going to keep all of it to myself?

That's my whole point. You shouldn't need a reason beyond "fun" or "just because" or even "keeping the hands/ears busy".

People are unreliable, having reasons that depend on other people are unreliable. Letting go of that and having only reasons that depend on yourself is reliable.

Otherwise, the entire effort is nothing but toil with no sense of reward.

Once again, it is entirely possible to just do it without any sense of reward. I know because I've developed this mindset, while I used to crave reward.

If I see it frequently on HN (possibly the most popular tech forum in the world??) and also /r/programming, then it is NOT underground.