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by dlivingston 10mo ago
> And that's exactly the point, it increases engagement and stickiness, which they found through testing. They're trying to make the most addictive tool Is this actually true? Would appreciate further reading on this if you hav
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by dlivingston 11mo ago
Please. Half of your favorite musicians, public academics, authors, industrialists, etc. have probably been on the show.
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by dlivingston 11mo ago
I have, and my experience does not match yours. It was extremely trivial and was little more than (1) booking a psych appointment, (2) filling out an intake ADHD questionnaire at home (which can easily be filled out to give whatever diagnos
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by dlivingston 11mo ago
To a mouse, a housecat is a violent and intelligent animal, as is a dog to a squirrel.
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by dlivingston 11mo ago
Interesting. So Bazzite could be, theoretically, remade as just a NixOS configuration file.
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by dlivingston 11mo ago
What's a bit of arbitrary code execution between friends?
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by dlivingston 11mo ago
Ha, didn't expect to see a comment about Mullen on HN. Saw him live in Boston a few months ago. Very cool to see the C-Town boys blowing up in popularity.
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by dlivingston 11mo ago
In some cases, the artifacts of the medium can be desirable -- especially when consuming media that was created with those artifacts in mind. Take a look at pixel art on CRTs vs LCDs [0] and Toy Story on film vs. digital [1]. [0]: https:&#
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by dlivingston 1y ago
You should look into meditation. Let me explain. Meditation teaches that your thoughts are uncontrolled expressions of your subconcious; as are your worries, your fears, your anxieties. To meditate is not to stop thinking thoughts, but to o
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by dlivingston 1y ago
Godot is a heavy dependency for making small tools, no?
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by dlivingston 1y ago
IMO, traditional GUI frameworks in Rust (like Qt) are difficult for the same reason that game engines in Rust are difficult: cyclical references. A window might contain a group box which contains a text field and a button. All of these are
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by dlivingston 1y ago
It's pretty clear to me that JavaScript is becoming the de facto standard for UI/UX programming, regardless of platform, and regardless of web vs. native targets. Even GNOME has JavaScript bindings. [0] [0]: https://gjs
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by dlivingston 1y ago
Currently, I'm using VS Code with Vim keybindings (through the Neovim plugin). My workflow (C/C++/Rust) involves multiple panes open, using the lldb debugger, goto/peek definitions, CMake integration w/ active targe
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by dlivingston 1y ago
The Chomsky-Foucalt debate is a classic [0], as is Chomsky's book Manufacturing Consent [1]. [0]: https://youtu.be/eF9BtrX0YEE [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent
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by dlivingston 1y ago
Completely agree. Fully online friendships are hollow simulacrums of the real thing, like most fully online things compared to their offline counterparts. That's not to say there isn't real connection or real value there, just tha
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by dlivingston 1y ago
I recently watched a debate where Curtis Yarvin argued that democracy is a mistake and the USA should be ruled by, quite literally, a CEO dictator [0]. My understanding is that he has the ear of JD Vance and other high-ranking Republicans.
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by dlivingston 1y ago
That behavior wouldn't be clear to me as a user unless it were spelled out like you just did. My expectation when I see "Not Now" is that there will be a "Sometime Later". I would recommend changing your language he
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by dlivingston 1y ago
Things don't seem much better over there, esp. with Google removing the ability to sideload apps.
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by dlivingston 1y ago
Autism-per-capita is very high here. :)
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by dlivingston 1y ago
It's a GPU shader(s), so you'd have to measure its resource usage indirectly (device heating up; shorter battery life).
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by dlivingston 1y ago
I strongly recommend to you to read the book Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. I think it will resonate with you.
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by dlivingston 1y ago
and get 30+ minutes of quality exercise (preferably a few hours before bed).
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by dlivingston 1y ago
That's fantastic. I recently bought a Lofree mechanical keyboard (they're a Chinese brand) and they definitely have the most unusual hardware designs I've ever seen. Here's one of their mice: https://www.lofre
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by dlivingston 1y ago
??? Many developers, experienced and not, play around with vibe coding. Is your critique of him that he has tried vibe coding?
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by dlivingston 1y ago
> Call it what you want, you can write it in 100 lines of Python. I encourage every programmer I talk to who is remotely curious about LLMs to try that. It is a lightbulb moment. Definitely want to try this out. Any resources / etc.
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by dlivingston 1y ago
and Hyundai owns Boston Dynamics.
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by dlivingston 1y ago
> It cost $44B to get him unbanned so I think that's actually pretty good evidence it worked. Good evidence that it worked to do what? Limit his influence and popularity? This is false. His unbanning had little effect besides the ri
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by dlivingston 1y ago
> This isn't an election, and popularism is a coward's appeal. These platforms were supposed to be the "digital town square". Implicit in that is the idea that anyone and everyone can discuss and share their ideas. Wh
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by dlivingston 1y ago
Speech is not violence, guilt by association is undemocratic, and this hypothesis of de-platforming as a tactic to limit uncouth ideas was thoroughly tested over the last ~15 years and demonstrably shown to be false: Trump, Alex Jones, and
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by dlivingston 1y ago
Can you expand on this?

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