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I got my account banned on Tweeter for literally doing nothing. I mainly had it because Twitter requires you to have an account in order to read tweets and occasionally I needed to read a tweet there. A few weeks ago my account got suspended. Oh well.
I've mention before that we should have a look at Telegraph/telegram speak.
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As you might imagine, dating can be a quagmire of liabilities and bear traps.
I did not imagine that at all. In fact, I, like I imagine many other young men, thought that becoming famous would certainly solve their dating problems forever.
That certainty has disappeared. Thanks for sharing this.
The point is this: you don’t need to do anything wrong to get death threats, rape threats, etc. You just need a big enough audience.
Jesus fucking christ, that is a very believable and plausible thought. Even in these 93 comments I'm already seeing people who most likely don't know this dude and somehow decided to dislike him.
Oh man this is all really hurting my brain. I wish I had a good response to this. I wish I had a magical simple response and a way to resolve this problem. On one end, I stop by curl's H1 profile regularly and watch people just drown them in garbage. It's like LLMs have unlocked a portal to a new kind of stupidity that was dormant before. Netsec always had a problem with people running nmap -sV -sC -sX -Pn -p1-65535 --max-rate -T1 scanme.nmap.org -oS out.txt and then just sending that out.txt with a subject "I FOUND A VULENARBILATEAY" And like, a script kiddie isn't really a person... everyone has a script kiddie inside of us. But it feels like we took this wonderful technology of neural networks and we did capitalism with it and unleashed it into a business of making it easier for people to be stupid but feel smart while doing it. I really like the idea that we might learn something about our own consciousness by simulating neural networks with computers but the more I see how it's done in reality the more I want to puke my brains out.
On the other hand, Matt Godbolt seems to use LLMs and I feel like I sure as hell wouldn't want to miss a PR from Matt fucking Godbolt. I mean even if I go full vanilla LLM-free I still am too addicted to using godbolt.org at this point and it was written partially with an LLM apparently.
Argh, maaan I don't know this is too fucking complicated of a problem for me to solve. Fuck, maybe let's just destroy all this technology and live as neofarmers raising chickens?
<Zero LLMs were used to write this post. In fact I went ahead and broke one GPU for every sentence I wrote just to make it harder for LLMs to compute.>
God yes. I got dragged into the uv when I started using copyparty and I am a fanatical admirer ever since. I also use pipx to install tools often. I really don't understand why you can't just pip install something globally. I want this package to be available to me EVERYWHERE, why can't I do it? I only use python recreationally because everyone uses python everywhere and you can't escape it. So there is a massive possibility I am simply wrong and pip-installing something globally is a huge risk. I'm just not understanding it.
I used drugs recreationally. I don't like to talk about it. I especially don't like to talk about it online on a profile that's very heavily linked to my identity. Over many years of regular use of all kinds of different drugs, I have identified the war on drugs -- not drugs themselves -- to be the persistent threat to my safety, health, psyche and existence. Merely talking about this like I'm doing right now is a gigantic risk I am taking. And this means honest communication between the sides is non-existent. If you are a rational and a thinking person, you should eschew the persistent harassment and demonization of an entire societal layer that is the war on drugs.
What that means practically? Don't call the police on that one person smoking weed in a park or smoking fentanyl or injecting heroin on your bus if they are not bothering you. Don't make that joke about how crackheads are making this town dirty. Be humane. Be kind. Don't get dragged as a combatant into the war you know nothing about and that doesn't matter to you personally.
Only Python, TypeScript and JavaScript? Well there go my vibe-coded elisp scripts.
I guess it's impossible (or really hard) to train a language-agnostic classifier.
Reference, from your own URL here: https://www.span.app/introducing-span-detect-1
Even if you do everything perfectly there's always a chance one of Microsoft engineers made a mistake somewhere and somebody found it and is now sitting on a zero day. And now with vibe coding the likelihood of that went up by who knows how much. Even air gapped systems get infected if the attacker is sophisticated enough.
Just for clarification, I'm not making a phone of any kind, nor do I really feel strongly about this subject. I really kind of wish YC had an option to remove my own comments. For some reason, I always thought you could remove your own comment.
This is probably off-topic for this one, but I feel like enforcing this permanence of speech onto people doesn't make for a good metaphor for normal friendly discussion. I'll write a blog post on it maybe.
Speed and Moore's law. You don't need to just make a decision without hallucinations, you need to do it fast enough for it to propagate to the power electronics and hit the gas/brake/turn the wheel/whatever. Over and over and over again on thousands of different tests.
A big problem I am noticing is that the IT culture over the last 70 years has existed in a state of "hardware gun get faster soon". And over the last ten years we had a "hardware cant get faster bc physics sorry" problem.
The way we've been making software in the 90s and 00s just isn't gonna be happening anymore. We are used to throwing more abstraction layers (C->C++->Java->vibe coding etc) at the problem and waiting for the guys in the fab to hurry up and get their hardware faster so our new abstraction layers can work.
Well, you can fire the guys in the fab all you want but no matter how much they try to yell at the nature it doesn't seem to care. They told us the embedded c++-monkeys to spread the message. Sorry, the moore's law is over, boys and girls. I think we all need to take a second to take that in and realize the significance of that.
[1] The "guys in the fab" are a fictional character and any similarity to the real world is a coincidence.
[2] No c++-monkeys were harmed in the process of making this comment.
What is this, r/atheism from 2014?
I mean, probably not, but like, the world doesn't care what we think we should show.
Should we dismantle people's bodies and show it to those people's children? Should we show children their own detached arms while trapping them in a burning house with a company of their mom who is missing lower part of a body and crawling around screaming from pain while her intestines are falling out? And a mangled head of their dead cousin who's been decapitated by a sharp sheet of metal launched at him as the GRAD hit the building? Did I mention it's fucking dark and no you can't call 911. That kind of shit is happening right this second I lived in Donetsk until 2004 and the stories that I see from there are fucking brutal. Why don't you go focus on that?
I mean yeah I'm not saying we should show porn to kids. Why are you even thinking about that? What part of not wanting my fetishes end up on easily hackable government databases and known to the world is even remotely correlated to showing hardcore porn everywhere? I'm not an exhibitionist, man. I'm a prude actually. I'm easily embarrassed by my girlfriend bringing up anything about our sexual life in public. When we go to sexshop and she discusses our fetishes with employee I leave the store and puke from stress and anxiety. The thought of the entire world having access to my sexual identity is horrifying. What about people who are LGBT who's family will disown or kill them?
I probably shouldn't have gotten this heated and I honestly don't think you actually mean evil. Just think about broader implications, please.
Yeah, I mean seriously. I'm sure most fashion designers can sew, and I'm sure most industrial designers know basics of electronic boards.
The hardest part about web-design isn't even coding/sketching. It's finding a compromise between your own taste, the clients, the back-end developers, and a bunch of varying ideas in your mind.
Web-design is about explaining to your wasted colleagues why you can't just 'draw it up' in five minutes and send an invoice. Web-design is about hastily aligning sections and changing fonts at some girl's house with a bottle of wine and cheese instead of having sex with her. Web-design is about wanting to kill yourself because your mockup got trashed on r/design_critiques. Web-design is about walking through art lofts with giant sculptures of penises and girls with green hair while you're trying to figure out where the hell you are and where the hell is the exit. Web-design is about cutting yourself with an x-acto knife, partly because you missed the 4B graphite pencil and partly because you're suicidal. Web-design is about being covered in white gouache because you're trying to clean up a sketch and the fucking pencil marks just won't come out when you erase them. Web-design is about sitting at a coffeeshop and drinking coffee while trying to fix that one part that just won't fucking work on Internet Explorer.
Web-design is fun! :|
I just work on things that are interesting and tolerate things that are not interesting to work on things that are interesting. Makes sense? :)
Do they help?
Failure is necessary. We all explore new territories by testing boundaries (is this fire safe to touch?). Failure is just a way of finding out boundaries. We do not have enough sense mechanisms to navigate us freely through different dimensions (social, artistic, musical, business, etc) of the world. We are in a way like blind people, touching the walls of the dark room and building a map of it.
But once you've mapped out a certain dimension (let's say you learned how to draw a human face) you are better off. Even though your first 100 sketches will probably suck.
Now, what is stupid is:
a) Telling other people fire is safe to touch even though it's not. That's just blatantly stupid, if you're not gaining anything from disinformation you're being a total moron and fucking up a potentially useful connection to that person.
b) Touching fire again and again in hope of a different result.
The whole war on drugs thing is a hysteria created by certain aspects of drug-use being artificially blown out of the proportion. Many of the risks associated with drug use (like overdose or addiction) are actually created by the legal system.
Here's how it works. If you overdose, and you go to ER you're forced to admit you did something illegal. Many people would rather die than face a life of humility that's unfairly associated with being a junkie. Not to mention overdoses would be less likely if everything was legal and properly labeled.
Same thing with addiction. Removing stigma and legal consequences associated with being a drug-addict will help many people seek help if they need it. How many people do you think are too afraid to go the doctor and admit they have problems, considering drug use is illegal and stigmatized? A lot.
I think it's a matter of creating a minority and punishing the fuck out of that minority. Being a drug-addict right now is like being gay or black hundreds of years ago.
Being an addict is not a fucking choice. It's a grueling mental torture accompanied by physical torture that's relieved with a consumption of a particular substance.
When you're addicted to opiates and you use, it's not because you want to rebel against the world. At that point it's about PLEASE STOP THE FUCKING PAIN. Mental and physical pain, violent diahrrea, puking, being unable to sleep for days.. basically all your natural painkillers are gone and everything is pain. All of that can be ceased with a hit.
The fact that anyone thinks it's okay to throw these people in jail sickens the fuck out of me. And you know what, I don't fucking care. Some of the best minds used heroin, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain. Wanna throw them in jail or fuck with them to the point of suicide (as with Cobain)? Go ahead. "Drug warriors" are like a grown-up version of bullies punching a sick kid.
"Plateaus" implies a two-dimensional outlook on life, which is not even how life works. Life isn't even four dimensional. It has many, many dimensions that grow and die out. You can be happy, sad, afraid, and horny all at the same time. I.e. happiness is just an emotion, and you can feel several emotions at the same time.
This is such a primitive outlook that I don't even.
The author is clearly existing on the second circuit of Leary's model, the one that introduces "up/down" dimension. Here's the URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-circuit_model_of_consciou...
Judging from how popular alcohol is in the US, and the fact that alcohol activates this circuit, I'd say that the author is drunk.
I like the brochure thing. I think it takes into account the human nature of the users and their feelings. It's design that lets us feel connection with the program.
I much rather prefer comfortable textured armchairs than soulless straight chairs of Bauhaus' spirit. I think what Metro and other "minimalists" forget to remember is that computer screen is a canvas, a medium. You shouldn't force user to think like a machine, but rather force the machine to think like a human.
If I was Paul and read this, I would never talk to you again.
Actually, yes. The research in neuroaesthetics has shown some interesting results that point out humans' natural preference towards straight, rather than oblique lines: http://www.wfu.edu/psychology/faculty/pubs/schirillo/Article...
I do not know where the author got his "curved lines pull people in" effect.
I also feel like simple vignettes on the corners would make tablets seem much more sophisticated and intricate.
Another related URL: http://www.artlebedev.com/mandership/147/ here Lebedev talks about the difference between simplicity and primitivism. This probably most closely hints at what I think is wrong with Apple's design.
Quite frankly, ordinary life is not that different from WoW. You go on quests, you level-up your character through education and courses, and then you earn points (money) that you can spend on shiny things like cars.
Seriously.
It's not that technology is heroin, it's that heroin is technology. World of Warcraft is also technology. Cars -- technology? Technology. Movies -- technology.
We keep inventing these entertaining and pleasurable things, and at first we get lost in them. We are like children playing with our new toy. And after a while we calm the hell down, we develop patterns and social customs that help us use the toy for entertainment in a harmless way.
You might think technology is bad, but personally I think there's nothing wrong with WoW or heroin. It's just that people can drive in a car at 150mph+ recklessly, all day, stealing money from their families or they can use it to get somewhere and occasionally for fun.
I think a lot of software developers fail to realize the fact that people are very emotionally-driven. They try to design software as if it was interacting with completely rational and logical machines. Which is great for specialized programmers, but this paradigm is very useless when it comes to product design.
It's easy to fall into this line of thinking because software is written for rational and logical machines -- computers. Especially in the Unix world, where software programs interact with other programs. Or in the Windows world, where modules interact using COM or .NET. Or networks where they interact using network protocols.
Computers are like little societies of robots that just sort of do their own things (sometimes in a way similar to societies of humans, especially when it comes to resource allocation, haha :).
Human-computer interaction is like international relations, and it's hard to establish because software societies and human societies have different customs and priorities. But it's also very profitable due to the laws of comparative advantage.
Humans are computers have different strengths, so for them to function in a state of symbiosis, someone from human society has to teach "software delegates" proper manners of interactions with humans. That someone is your traditional UX/web/UI designer.
Badly designed software is like some guy from another planet coming to your house and taking a shit in the middle of the room. Now, perhaps that guy is GREAT AT MATH but he just took a shit in the middle of the room and he is trying to stick a finger up your nose -- perfectly acceptable behavior on his planet. And it's hard to get along with that guy so at some point you're like "ok, fuck it" and you don't really care how great he is at math because it's hard to get his help when he's dancing naked on your table and rambling in a crazy language you do not understand.
Exactly. So, essentially if you smoke too much weed and become comatose/near-comatose you will not be able to do anything other than lay on the couch. Which is how amotivational syndrom happens.. If however, you do not smoke yourself into a dysfunctional state you will avoid the perils of the amotivational syndrom.
I think there's a dosage where cannabis actually makes you more functional by making things more interesting and killing pain/anxiety.
I really think a lot of people misinterpret "weed is healthy and good" as "SMOKE AS MUCH AS YOU PHYSICALLY CAN ALL DAY EVERYDAY". And that almost always leads to dysfunction. At some point you will pass out or become paralyzed by hallucinations, so again, dosage does matter in functional vs non-functional addicts' cases.
And I should add that weed is very forgiving in this case, again, if you were to do the same "take as much as I can!" thing with Aspirin or opiates you would die. With weed, you just pass out and eat everything.
I really feel like many people do not know the basics of pharmacology or neurochemistry and try to make intelligent arguments based on hearsay and anecdotes. And it pisses me off a little bit. Omfg, seriously, there's a reason medicine is usually packaged in specific, very precise containers.
I think that's the whole reason hard drugs are illegal -- because people are mostly ignorant when it comes to drugs. It would be like giving chainsaws to 3-year old kids.
deviantArt seems to be a place like that.. Altough it's a lot more art-oriented.
So essentially your argument is that sitting at home, taking hits out of a bong every 30 minutes and watching movies is unproductive? I agree.
I think you were using cannabis as an excuse and perhaps mis-dosing yourself. Yeah, if you smoke a gram or two per day, it will probably make you a couch potato. Just like if you take enough opiates you'll lay unconscious and die.
But I think in timely administered, individual-dependent dosages the sativa enhances concentration and imagination/visualization skills, not to mention relieves depression and pain. And it's not habit-forming!
I can't underestimate how paralyzing depression can be, fucking with your self-esteem and making you stay at home for weeks. Depression is extremely anti-motivational. Severe depression leads to suicide and that definitely does not make a person reach his true potential.
Now, depression is linked to HIGH DOSES of cannabis in here: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071023183937.ht... ("Cannabis: Potent Anti-Depressant In Low Doses, Worsens Depression At High Doses").
Now I'm wondering if they got the demotivational syndrom from high-volume smokers, basically diagnosing them with cannabis-induced depression.
Creativity is a stupid buzz-word. Here's an easy way of being creative: find two different objects, and link them together creating a third object, like this (from my room):
Abstract painting of a guitar
Door-shaped plush toy
Plastic bottle in a shape of a cigarette
Door-knob that turns on the stationary bicycle
Notebook-shaped pillow
A lamp that projects bible verses
Window with a magnifying glass
Headphones that have a constant noise of airplanes flying over my head
See, was that hard? No, it was easier than a frog-shaped cake. And that's why I think it's useless.
This comment and your comment are both examples of creativity, since we 'created' something new. And who gives a shit?