swayvil

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by swayvil 3y ago
Seriously. If your lifestyle is making you feel bad then that's a sure sign. No mystery there.
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by swayvil 3y ago
Implicit in the term "burnout" is that it's good and healthy to do this (rather inhuman, intense) thing in these vast quantities. That to get sick from it is somehow this weird aberration. But if you consume too much of prett
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by swayvil 3y ago
A daemon that watches everything that reads and writes. Reports everything that looks like a config file, what accessed it, where it's located ... That might be useful.
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by swayvil 3y ago
How is screaming at your coworkers a thing? Doesn't that instantly disqualify you from the sane adults club?
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by swayvil 3y ago
With the right waveform analysis algorithm you could monitor stress, cracks and the progress thereof. Get more warning.
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by swayvil 3y ago
Maybe it was a gift from a close friend. Can't be gouging up the gift. The friend would get upset. Maybe a powerful friend. A patron. Gotta keep the gift nice to stay in good graces. Maybe it was part of his costume. Something to wag a
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by swayvil 3y ago
1) locate gods. 2) observe them intensely.
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by swayvil 3y ago
I too have delved into a variety of fancy geometries for roguelike, rts, etc. And still do. My friends tell me, "no. Just use square grids. Nobody's brain wants to process that stuff. It's too complicated". But I'm
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by swayvil 3y ago
It's that Dunninger Kruger thing. And it's nigh ubiquitous. I live in this little personal bubble. Believing with great confidence that the edge of my bubble and the edge of reality are one and the same is actually quite empowerin
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by swayvil 3y ago
Well the intelligence community certainly is feeling snubbed.
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by swayvil 3y ago
It's almost as if navigating reality requires something better than logic and maps. Like humans have magic eyeballs or something.
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by swayvil 3y ago
Do you have a link to a (not reddit, facebook, twitter or discord) forum where such subjects are seriously discussed?
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by swayvil 3y ago
The desire to be alone has been scientifically proven to be a disease of the mind and a sure sign of antisocial tendencies. (s,lr,d)
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by swayvil 3y ago
Wolves and monkeys do that when expressing threat and dominance. But we use it to say "hi, I want to be your friend". Hmmm. Reminds me of "interrogative greetings" : WHAT'S UP?! HOW YOU DOING??! WHAT'S GOING ON
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by swayvil 3y ago
Surely there's a money angle. I'm looking for a new career.
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by swayvil 3y ago
Probably needed more strong eye-contact. Nothing induces positivity like shouting, big toothy smile, and strong eye-contact.
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by swayvil 3y ago
Thank you. Your advice is stunningly relevant.
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by swayvil 3y ago
"Epistemological taste" refers to what you consider to be "good knowledge".
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by swayvil 3y ago
Maybe it's a matter of epistemological taste. The thought of rubber-stamping mere authority is so distasteful that "being wrong" is actually preferable. I can relate with that.
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by swayvil 3y ago
To see what's actually there.
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by swayvil 3y ago
Most of us believe what we believe because it's popularly considered to be the smart thing to believe. We don't actually do the experiment. It's basically a blind, insectile conformity. Which isn't all bad, of course. Bu
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by swayvil 3y ago
Woah! Psychic powers it is
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by swayvil 3y ago
Or maybe it's subconscious decoding of saccade patterns, microexpressions or even pheromones. Did they try it with eyes shut? After dousing in axe body spray?
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by swayvil 3y ago
Well there you go. Psychic powers. Case closed.
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by swayvil 3y ago
Is this how we get ball lightning or plasma balls in microwaves? Or a whole class of other discreet spherical material thingys? I mean, maybe the generator doesn't have to be a precise thing. Maybe a mess of waves randomly bouncing aro
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by swayvil 3y ago
Well, it's a highly developed and systematized form of gaslighting. A significant technological advancement over the common amateur gaslighting. Like the machinegun isn't just another musket. Consider the progress of technology in
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by swayvil 3y ago
You can't trust psychology because people sometimes lie. You can't trust physics because you might be hallucinating. What's left? Authoritarianism? Consensus? Tradition?
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by swayvil 3y ago
All the ancient religions used hallucinogens (when they didn't use meditation or weird sex or whatever). That's how you see God. It sure beats reading old books.
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by swayvil 3y ago
Without an empirical reference somewhere in the conversation, it's just fanfic.
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by swayvil 3y ago
A tool that will automagically scrape a subreddit and convert it for transferral to mastodon or whatever. We could really use that right now.

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