daoist_shaman

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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
Hey buddy. I suffer from a remitting/relapsing autoimmune disease called UC that has me urgently sprinting to the toilet 15 to 20 times a day. Sometimes it feels like I’m chained to it, and can only wander so far until the shits strike
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
You don’t have to wrestle with the guilt of producing a living being that is capable of profound suffering. You’re improving the environment monumentally by preventing a new lineage of carbon producers. You’re bestowed with the privilege of
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
I fully agree. Some other observations I’ve noticed as a mid career engineer: - Boot on the ground doing the most work getting rewarded with the most labor - Promotions are used strategically to entice people into toxic assignments nobody e
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
AI is probably the only thing that will be able to help humanity clean up the mess that it’s still noisily making. I’m talking about real AI, not the Mickey Mouse data science buzzword that keeps getting promulgated by C-suite crayon eaters
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
C/C++ dev here. Remember that it’s not the language that matters. The underlying programming concepts that you know, thanks to being a C/C++ programmer, are translatable to every other programming language. With the help of a sear
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
One shouldn’t have to justify whether or not they are a victim of racism when they make a statement or claim. This isn’t Scarlet Letter. You seem to place more value in the views of the supposed victims of discrimination. Ironically, this i
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
It’s something nice to put on the shelf and fantasize about enjoying, one day, when there’s time.
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
> A placebo presented as a stimulant may trigger an effect on heart rhythm and blood pressure, but when administered as a depressant, the opposite effect. If placebos have been experimentally observed to induce changes in their subjects,
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
The brain is so powerful that just by believing something will work, it actually can work. This is the placebo response. We don’t know the mechanism [0] yet, but I think it is probably the same thing as manifestation [1]. I believe that vis
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
A design pattern boilerplate generator in different languages like Python and C++ is something I’ve been thinking of lately. It would be super useful for new devs at work too.
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
You seem to imply that consent is required. Consent is not required if you are not gathering data that needs to be consented to. If my tools are gathering data behind my back and not telling me, that is troubling. I should not be liable for
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
I’ve been concerned about this. My tech stack is built on various products, including no-code site building tools, and I believe these tools employ JavaScript/cookies at layers which are inaccessible to me. Some of these may cavort wit
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
Hardware is the gating factor to all human progress. Materials science is so woefully behind that we’re still charging up electrolytic batteries like it’s 1859.
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
Why does this have to be ASCII art? Is there a technical limitation to terminals that prevents the full color space of the video sensor from being rendered?
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
> As an adult, you're making your own decisions and building your own family. Yeah, this is 100% true. You can, and should, sever ties with abusive individuals where you have the power to do so. You have the power to choose your fam
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
Dollar cost averaging is my favorite strategy. No anticipation of risk, no timing the market. Just gains all the way up.
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
Leaving this here for those who might be interested in the concept of an inner child [0]. I like to think of the inner child in mathematical terms: if I am 40 years old, then it also holds true that I am 6, 10, 16, and 21. At all times, I c
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
Remove all external stimuli. Grab yourself a blindfold, ear plugs, and immerse yourself in a sensory deprivation tank. Stop observing your surroundings, and most importantly, stop living and acting like a human being (this is important, and
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
It's time to retire the concept of creating new programming languages to "fix" old ones. This is software, and it is updateable. We need to stop thinking in discrete terms and start thinking in continuous terms. If you do not
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
I did not expect to be reading partial differential equations regarding the mechanics of asking and offering help over my morning coffee.
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
I'm going a step further to say that these companies break interoperability between each others browsers and services.
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The Right to Be Forgotten(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by daoist_shaman 4y ago|0 comments
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
Good point. It would become dramatically more useful if netizens just ran license plate scanners on their dashboards that regular report the timestamped geodata of marked/government vehicles.
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
Imagine if this wasn’t a bug, but a way to pull the wool over people’s eyes to walk back legitimate raises and stop the hemorrhaging from poor business choices. Is there anything you can do in either scenario? It seem like one scenario invi
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
As soon as you’re birthed in a hospital and issued a birth certificate there’s no expectation of privacy. Unless you’re an off-the-grid baby [0]. [0] https://www.quora.com/Is-it-legal-to-have-an-unregistered-of...
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
Theoretically, could this same principle be borrowed by the open source community… to create a database that tracks and updates the location of police, government, military, and high status individual vehicles? I’m thinking of a decentraliz
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
Yeah, this will be normalized in about a year after some low budget government and corporate gaslighting. People are already complicit with keeping a device in their pocket that passively tracks their location. Tracking people on camera and
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
The issue I have here is that a company is restricting access to the financial assets of another entity (which could just as easily be you or me) without any form of judicial oversight. This is nightmarishly dystopian, since you and only yo
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
I’d like to think that “don’t be evil” applies here, but that might be wishful thinking. What are some of the risks of media formats being centralized by a mega corp like Google who works with nation states? Can we truly expect something fr
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
AI has been a pipe dream for over 250 years, if not longer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk

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