naevaTheRat

naevaTheRat, 8 months ago

for balance: we should consider this from a fascist perspective

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/35ff7f89-a664-4c03-bc7a-0eebbc4345f9.jpeg

naevaTheRat, 8 months ago

Important context is that companies often just patent shit in case one day it’s valuable. Yes IP is stupid, yes capitalism is evil.

naevaTheRat, 8 months ago

my thoughts at gym:

• grumble I’m tired and want to go home but I’m glad I came
• oh hey it’s that person, they’re making progress rock on
• ah rehab exercises? bummer. Good on them doing the work to get better
• Wow that person is jacked, they must be working so hard
• Oh no the thing I want to use it taken. Oh well I’ll wait

naevaTheRat, 8 months ago

to double jump

naevaTheRat, 8 months ago

palantir are pretty fucking evil, but you’re unlikely to have heard of them unless you’re social justice minded or have worked in tech.

Thiel is a vampire, in the metaphorical sociological sense and the literal one. Fucking creep.

naevaTheRat, 8 months ago

They market themselves as a “big data” company, what they actually do is use “big data” in a way not unlike what Philip K Dick predicted in minority report. Instead of clarvoiant tank people it’s extremely racist algorithms though.

They have been involved in a bunch of racist “crime preventing” pre policing stuff. I believe at the moment they’re mostly used to round up migrants in the usa for whatever the fuck their border farce does over there.

naevaTheRat, 8 months ago

Presumably we hope for a world in which cis people did choose their gender: facing no substantial barriers to transitioning they decided that birth assignment matched their own self perception.

So idk, either people chose their gender, or you’re laughing at someone facing too many barriers to transition which seems unnice?

Am I missing something here?

naevaTheRat, 8 months ago

Could we live without the beauty of open cut coal mines?

naevaTheRat, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

the settlement started before British support which came later. It’s super complicated.

edit: reasonable overview on Wikipedia of events leading up to Israel actually en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism

Bastardised simple summary is

• Europeans treat Jewish people like shit for thousands of years
• creates support for Jewish sovern state
• languishes a while but antisemitism gets worse
• in typical European fashion it is decided to just start settling where other people already live and force the existence of a country
• ww1, Britain and France decide they know how to do a middle east. Results show typical commitment to stability and fairness.
• settlement is supported by various and sundry European powers inc German Reich in lead up to and during ww2 because everyone hates Jewish people and wants to foist them off to some other, preferable brown skinned, person’s country.
• after ww2 everyone eventually gets mad at the results of this sensitive and thoughtful plan, including European supporters, neighbouring countries, Palestinans, and many Jewish people. Fear and hatred fuel dominance of increasingly aggressive right wing political parties.
• everyone except the USA that is. Their government has a blast supply weapons after Britain and France wash their hands and claim guiltlessness.
• land grabs and oppression intensifies

naevaTheRat, 8 months ago

Yeah for sure, nothing like discussing shared interests and new ideas with randoms. I’m shy as fuck but that’s such a pleasant, low stakes interaction.

naevaTheRat, 8 months ago

TIL i’m dead

naevaTheRat, 8 months ago

Pretty well. I’ve been increasing distance and time after some tendonitis and everything seems to be going ok.

I’m not very interested in racing much more than myself so atm I’m working on getting up to 10 km’s. Yesterday I did my longest in both time and distance with 1:20 9 km. Not prize winning but significant for me, that’s on hilly sandy trails as well so I feel I’m probably pretty close to my goal.

Still having difficulty building up speed but I’m happy with my progress and don’t want to push too hard all at once and end up on time out again.

naevaTheRat, 8 months ago

isn’t it such a bummer how right all those self righteous arseholes telling us to get off our arses to feel less tired were?

I was a couch potato (well active but not athletic) till 30s and the benefits are frustrating large. Still mad about it.

naevaTheRat, 8 months ago

Lower the barrier (get clothes out etc before hand), make it novel; pick somewhere different to run (if you’ve the time for some travel), reward yourself after, set a goal (either running metrics or like "I want to see the pretty garden anyway so might as well run there).

Treadmills suck but are better than not running if the weather sucks.

Find some nice tunes or podcasts or audiobooks and only listen while running to make it more exciting.

Also acknowledging that for a little while it’s going to suck and be hard and just being ok with that can be useful. Until you get fitter and get the habit it’s hard, it’s ok to find stuff hard. Sometimes just accepting that makes doing something transiently hard easier.

naevaTheRat, 8 months ago

I doubt that was chat gpt. It has cinsistent meter and rhyming. It was a human

naevaTheRat, 8 months ago

what the fuck kinda leg exercises are they and can we start a group thing? eyebrow waggling

Seriously though arms suck, you don’t need testosterone to feel awesome about your legs. Your entire day just gets breezy and it feels like someone turned down gravity.

Leg day is best day, arm day is like “ugh, maybe in another 3 months I’ll be able to lift 5 kg more ;_;”

naevaTheRat, 8 months ago

The thing that makes me giggle is that many animal products, particularly breast milk, do have estrogen in them. Not in particularly significant quantities though but it’s hilarious.

naevaTheRat, 9 months ago

I wear glasses and use the shockz headphones. They’re comfortable for me and I’m someone that sometimes gets sore ears from glasses but never the shocks.

your ears aren’t mine but maybe see if you can loan a pair?

naevaTheRat, 9 months ago

Where angels and demons fear to tread.

naevaTheRat, 9 months ago

smh this is what car centric urban planning does to a society.

naevaTheRat, 9 months ago

I was thinking about you when I cleaned up this codebase and removed a lot of redundant functions.

naevaTheRat, 9 months ago

Whaaaaat? I don’t come here for this shit

naevaTheRat, 9 months ago

I don’t really see much likelihood in a singularity though, there’s probably a bunch of useful shit you could work out if you analysed the right extant data in the right way but there’s huge amounts of garbage data that it’s not obvious is garbage.

My experience in research indicates to me that figuring shit out is hard and time consuming, and “intelligence” whatever that is has a lot less to do with it than having enough resources and luck. I’m not sure why some super smart digital mind would be able to do science much faster than humans.

Physics is a bitch and there are just sort of limits on how awesome technology can be. Maybe I’m wrong but it seems like digital intelligence would be more useful for stuff like finding new antibiotics than making flying nanomagic fabricator paperclip drones.

naevaTheRat, 9 months ago

People when the sound like a person machine sounds like a person

gfycat.com/corruptmetallicitalianbrownbear

naevaTheRat, 9 months ago

Baby I just come here because that twist of the upper lip does things to me

naevaTheRat, 9 months ago

Jesus fuck. Idk about no good parts, the bits that are unoriginal are sometimes interesting (e.g. distance between model and reality, metacognition is useful sometimes etc) it would just be more useful if they like produced reading lists instead of pretending to be smort

naevaTheRat, 9 months ago

Fucking wasted a good mouthful of gin with that snort

naevaTheRat, 9 months ago

I love parallelising paint aging so I know faster which formulae to refine?

Lots of shit involves lots of waiting

naevaTheRat, 9 months ago

I miss this person, when they vanished the internet lost a voice of reason

naevaTheRat, 9 months ago

Poor dude really seems to be confused by the hostility he’s been received with. Rationalists aren’t anywhere near as interested in being right as feeling right. He won’t make much progress that way

One might say

he should update his priors

naevaTheRat, 9 months ago

Failed physicist here: Collapse interpretation always seemed a bit unscientific in general to me. I am quite possibly wrong because it’s not my field but I haven’t seen any currently testable hypotheses come out of it.

There’s not zero merit in this sort of galaxy brain thinking and it’s satisfying to have some kind of model rather than just a series of disjointed facts but the polarization of amateurs on this always seemed strange to me. Like sportsball fans thinking the other teams want to kill each rather than the event being mutual play.

I’ve never met someone who actually does physics that had a very strong opinion one way or the other. A lot of “MWI seems elegant but we can’t know yet” or “Collapse is a bit weird and unsatisfying isn’t it?”. Maybe when you get to the giganerds and their chalkboards the shivs come out but I’ve seen no evidence.

Besides, we should all be focusing on how time is mathematically hideous and thus clearly not fundamental.

naevaTheRat, 9 months ago

Yeah, I think its “science enthusiast” popularity is mostly because it can be misunderstood to imply that a bunch of SciFi pop culture is more plausible than it is. Couple that with the nuances of various interpretations being lost on anyone who hasn’t actually done the maths and you have a recipe for Batman vs Superman type disagreements.

I threw electrons at colour centres on nanodiamonds to try make them more nano-er so while quantum shit was involved I never felt particularly compelled to have a high degree of certainty in the (is epistemology the right word?) behind the maths that obviously worked.

naevaTheRat, 9 months ago

I envy the passion of someone who can do something so excruciating for so long.

Half the time I forget to water my peas and people get to eat them at the end.

naevaTheRat, 9 months ago

Blue:

blue

naevaTheRat, 9 months ago

I literally have to carry around a peppermint oil soaked hankerchief some wilting Victorian maiden because of people like you D:<

naevaTheRat, 10 months ago

I would also tell them that it’s possible to actually understand things. Most people seem to go through life on rote, seemingly not recognizing when something doesn’t make sense because they don’t expect anything to make sense.

Oh my god could you sound any more flushable.

Just fuck yourself. Everybody is thinking all of the fucking time, everybody has blindspots, stop being so insufferable.

They’re so obsessed with this narrative that keeps them ahead of the curve, guess what ex gifted kids? Other people catch up, you’re not competing with 4 year olds anymore.

naevaTheRat, 10 months ago

For a subreddit of supposedly ultra rational, dispassionate intellectuals that are willing to consider any ideas for merit based on pure argument and ignoring the speaker they sure do spend a lot of words talking about the kind of man Robert is vs what he actually says in the ep.

naevaTheRat, 10 months ago

I use vegan, arch btw. Or as I like to call it vegan/arch.

Get over it boomer, your outmoded ethics are as dated as your OS preferences.

naevaTheRat, 10 months ago

Maybe talk about how a lot of the time people’s watches said different times and you didn’t know which ones were right?

Umm this didn’t happen because you used quartz movements and called the atomic clock weekly. That’s normal right? that was a normal thing to do? On the third beep it will have been completely normal.

naevaTheRat, 10 months ago

god damned that’s a positive post

naevaTheRat, 10 months ago

I’m constantly surprised at the general public’s ignorance of the conditions of farming and simultaneous confidence that vegans are extremist loons.

naevaTheRat, 10 months ago

as a crusty suckless dwm user if this works as advertised I’ll switch

naevaTheRat, 10 months ago

I’m not shitting here shitting on GNOME but I haven’t tried it since gnome 3 released.

I got kinda stuck on tiling wms because I hate having to think about laying out windows and so this blog post is exciting! They’re very correct that tiling wms only partially solve the problem because you often have to tweak for proper line length or just deal with random void space in settings apps.

Obviously mosaic isn’t in yet, but if I wanted to dip into GNOME can it do (or are there addons or alternative more efficient things to try) for the following:

• snappy keyboard only application launching e.g. dmenu style.
• a way to activate a tiling wm mode for when you’re doing something like software Dev or at least a way to save and lock particular layouts?
• tell software to always open on a particular monitor?
• manipulate windows without using the mouse + move focus to different screens without using the mouse?
• display a string in the status bar (I assemble my status bar using a custom shell script which outputs a string. I’d like to not reinvent it)

Cause reading this blog I’m kinda keen to see where they take GNOME and get in early so it’s easier to learn.

Like I said, I last used GNOME 2 so it’s been a while and I’m sure in my head it’s unfairly judged.

naevaTheRat, 10 months ago

Let’s flip it. Why do people want data on you? why are people willing to pay for it? or governments deploy threats of fines (backed up by men with guns) or men with guns in order to force it’s collection on you?

private companies feel like they can make money with it, that they can make you do things that are profitable (buy something you wouldn’t, vote a certain way, decide against insuring you etc). Are you cleverer than teams of academics? I’m not.

Governments want it to enhance control. Sometimes that control can be benevolent but it’s still control. Often it’s not benevolent, selective enforcement of unjust laws against political opponents etc.

So why surrender privacy?

naevaTheRat, 10 months ago

clearly I haven’t because I don’t follow :p could you elaborate please?

naevaTheRat, 10 months ago

Yep