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low priority stuff to do for a bit (or a high priority short task that interrupts) seems to let my subconscious solve the issue in the background and keeps me happier and more motivated.

For a bit is ok. I had one month task, that was interrupted daily for over a year, that's how I got demotivated and burned out so much that I needed neurologist.

two difficult tasks that were supposed to be done in parallel maybe that would be different, but I've never seen anyone asking for that.

Probably that's why you say interruptions are good, no experience of how bad can interruptions be.

I have two modes of reading - when I read a story to enjoy, I read it to myself with inner voice saying the words (like internal audiobook). When I read to gather information quickly, I try to just absorb as much keywords as possible by quickly glancing at text and trying to directly absorb the text, rereading where needed.

This is not childish. It means you have no purpose in life. If you feel life is not worth living, find purpose and you will feel better. "Make more life", "make life more bearable for me" and "make life more bearable for others" are good universal ones, to have a starting point. If you don't like them, find a better one. Of course, if you DO want to be unhappy, please continue as is :), accumulated unhappiness sometimes leads to big things.

Fall was upon a remote reservation when the Indian tribe asked their new Chief what the coming winter was going to be like. The modern day Chief had never been taught the secrets of the ancients. When he looked at the sky he couldn't tell what the winter was going to be like.

Better safe than sorry, he said to himself and told his tribe that the winter was indeed expected to be cold and that the members of the village should stock up on firewood to be prepared.

After several days, our modern Chief got an idea. He went to the phone booth, called the National Weather Service and asked, "Is the coming winter going to be cold?"

"It looks like this winter is going to be quite cold," the meteorologist at the weather service responded.

So the Chief went back to his people and told them to collect even more firewood in order to be prepared. A week later he called the National Weather Service again. "Does it still look like it is going to be a very cold winter?"

"Yes," the man at National Weather Service again replied, "It's going to be a very cold winter."

The Chief again went back to his people and ordered them to collect every scrap of firewood they could find. Two weeks later the Chief called the National Weather Service again. "Are you absolutely sure that the winter is going to be very cold?"

"Absolutely," the man replied. "It's looking more and more like it is going to be one of the coldest winters ever."

"How can you be so sure?" the Chief asked.

The weatherman replied, "The Indians are collecting firewood like crazy."

Find purpose which aligns with "progress or wellbeing of our species". Making kids is one, making inventions is another, helping poor or sweeping roads fits too. If you see that your "way of living" will affect people positively, typically you will have a "good life purpose".

What happens when you have kids? You leave something that will last after your death. Then you make sure that they are properly raised and have enough resources, so that your "mark on the world" is more appreciated by other people. Ultimately all the "good life" have one thing in common. Improving life of our species.

I think qr code is more readable by bots than humans and I would prefer to see actual url...

I have the skills, but not determination. Believe me, high skills are required and usable, but determination is more important here. And with enough determination, you will acquire skills too.

When I was reverse engineering one device protocol, I could see the message patterns like addresses and flags in a screen full of raw hex numbers, essentially dehexing on the fly. Closest thing to matrix-style seeing of data. If you stare long enough at something, your brain will start to see patterns and automatically extract more information. It's a little crazy to experience for yourself how adaptable our brains are.

Tried similar thing yesterday in codex, I got "can't show this message" just when it was about to show me some PoC buffer overflow payload. I told it to just put results in my working directory and everything worked.

I didn't miss the point. I showed other more usable (in my opinion) point of views. I think that definition is so narrow that it starts being absurd.

It's absolutely nothing to do with what's good to do, only brute facts of power.

This sentence reads like: "if we narrow our view this much, this makes sense". I agree that it makes sense under the condition that we narrow the view of issue. It's valid in this small context (a film about controlling one thing).

And indeed, toddlers and psychopaths have a scarily good understanding of what power is.

I disagree completely with this sentence. They are good at controlling in certain situations. They don't understand it. If you want to understand it, there is a lot of information about controlling, whole fields of knowledge that people spend many years on studying. As for psychopaths, they are very predictable and controllable when you understand control theory and how psychopaths operate. There are courses on this single topic by people who need to do it to prevent tragedies (police negotiators) and they are not that complicated.

It's closing, not destroying. If you can stop and start a refrigerator, but can't destroy it, does it mean you don't control the refrigerator? If you can only stop it, but not start, do you control it?

Alternative definition of control: You do some actions and it changes state. It's used by a field called "control theory". A lot of people agreed on this definition. Destroying something is "end of control, because there is no more things to control". You can control something UNTIL you destroy it. That's why I think "you control what you can destroy" is invalid, because it captures only one small aspect of controlling things, and also the least usable one.

I can destroy my refrigerator pretty easily. If I care about food inside, I can take it out into a new one. So, seems I control it by that definition. Your idea "but food will spoil"/"I will lose a small amount of wealth" seems irrelevant to the strict definition.

Conversely I think it's a bad definition, it's a show of what is the frame of the mind of the person who states that: "I want to show my control by destroying my things, look how powerful I am" which sounds like a toddler. That's how you portray psychopathic/narcissistic disorders in movies.

This is your interpretation.

No, this is statement of conditions under which I think the rule should apply.

It's an opensource lib, it's used by corporations and hobbyist alike, so this another assumption you are smuggling in.

Does it mean that you can ignore ALL licenses? Or parts of licenses? I didn't say anything about corporations or hobbyists. Can corporations always ignore terms of licenses? Can hobbyists always ignore terms of licenses?

Is "don't use AI" immmoral according to you?

It's not the prerogative of the lib provider to dictate which tech I'm going to use

Well, it's not your prerogative to use that library. Creator of something does have prerogative to tell others how to use their stuff. "Instructions on how to use my stuff" is called a license. And society agreed that they should be honored. If you break that agreement, you should have good reasons.

Good reason: I will go hungry for several days.

Bad reason: I will not be able to buy latest iphone.

Yes, if your very living conditions depend on it. Not if you do it just to increase your big payout by a little bit. Using one library over other is not an issue of maintaining your basic living needs.

If someone gives you conditions to which you don't agree, maybe don't use that lib?

Do you think you have some moral right to use the library and violate conditions to which you do not agree? Get another library or write your own.

Ahh, thanks for clarification, after rereading I still can't see your original post in that way.

try to be more ethical with their LLM usage

"Use local model" vs "Use top tier nonlocal model" is bad vs bad when library provider asks for "do not use any model". It's asking the wrong question and diluting moral stance, so please don't use morality to narrow the issue.

Sometimes user can partially see them, game client would need that position. Then user can make a mod that flashes silhouette that just appeared behind a wall for a moment.

Yet you can see crowds of young anti-woke Germans on X

There are also crowds of young anti-woke Poles claiming that Poland should leave EU because we would be better without it and claiming that EU is puppet of Germany. I've also seen opinions that Israel is a puppet of Poland, aimed at Israelis. If you want to, you will see all opinions you could imagine.

Most humans are nice people. Many are also overwhelmed, self absorbed and make excuses.

I agree, but bullies actually come mostly from that last group. Putting pressure on overwhelmed, self-absorbed or excuse-prone people in order to educate their children better won't work. I think bullying is because of lack of proper emotional education of children, it would be better to educate those parents and children in how to behave and why, but that requires resources most schools won't have and I've never seen anyone actually teaching this in schools.

The Danish are nice people

Just like I thought. I'm sure your solution would work when majority are nice people. That won't work on people who are from "lower social circles". We still have a lot of them in Poland and don't know how to make them behave better, because trying to make them behave better typically results in defensiveness about their way of life and a lot of excuses about their circumstances. They only dig their heels and start being more aggressive.

Good when all parents are able to host such party. I would say that in Poland, most of parents with a misbehaving kid are barely able to throw a party for their kid and several of his/her friends. Many times people complain about the cost of school supplies for their kids already.

I would like to know your opinions on a better one, if you have one that doesn't require several sessions with a school psychologist (I had a school psychologist at my school and she didn't do anything meaningful about bullying).

Like in that comic strip[0], where one side uses AI to inflate his bullet points to make it look better and have more content in the email, then other side uses AI to summarize it to bullet points.

[0] https://marketoonist.com/2023/03/ai-written-ai-read.html

But I just don’t get that attitude, that need to tighten the screws on what in many cases is someone’s only option.

They look at upsides, but don't look at downsides. A case of "grass is always greener on the other side". Plus maybe small lack of empathy.

Some years ago I wondered how long will it take them to go they way sourceforge went. Once you grow too much without a proper leader, you will fall :(.

Because it made noise look more like signal. Essentially, that is what AI is. A noise2signal generator, but you specify how a signal should look like. Then, it makes the noise into your specifications. If you specify "make it look like good writing", it will look like good writing, but it will still be noise. It won't be good writing.

Hmm, "Never underestimate a shipping container sized battery hauling down a highway"?

I'm often smiling at current implementation by youtube. AI that you want cannot be done by youtube, because it would hurt their profit. They profit from you viewing the video and potentially seeing ads. If you saw a good summary of video, you wouldn't watch it. But they needed "AI", so their current version is "fluff based on video title", which doesn't add any information you actually want:

Title: How to make my aunt's donuts.

AI Summary: In this video author shares his perfect recipe for making donuts and some other similar treats from custom made dough, based on a recipe running in his family, then he shares some tips on making them more appetizing.

And remove all warning labels.