I’ve had exactly the opposite experience, I’ve had some pretty wild takes and no interaction with mods whatsoever, federated systems make it easy to take your ball and play on another playground.
Reddit mods were always pretty heavy handed for the niches I spent time in.
Given that religion exists I’d say you’re not alone in seeking meaning.
There are parts of your brain that exist for the sole purpose of identifying why things happen, imagine the advantage an organism has that can spot patterns in their environment and make predictions based off of what they’ve seen.
Unfortunately sometimes that hard wired part of the brain seeks to find deeper meaning in places that provide no meaning.
Shadows don’t exist, but we see them, they have no purpose because they are nothing but an emergent phenomenon.
An asteroid travels through space for millions and millions of miles in the depths of nothingness between galaxies. It is never seen by a sentient being and is far enough beyond the range of gravitational affect of everything that it’s influence is less than a single decaying atom. Why is that asteroid there, what is its purpose? It exists to exist.
You are a bundle of atoms destined to lose cohesion, revel in the beauty of it.
So inflation is 3-8% every year, so the equivalent of 1m today will be 19m-2.1b in 100 years
Since the target is 2-3% it’s perhaps more likely to be 19m
Really shows how dumb saving for retirement is for the plebians
Not afraid of death, not afraid of being forgotten, not afraid of some spiritual afterlife or lack thereof.
I spent a long time religious with such a heavy focus on what happens after death, being free of that burden makes it possible to live in the only moment we can ever control in all of eternity, now.
Documentation is a bit sparse at first
To get to linux mode you have to go to the power/shutdown menu
To open the keyboard in linux mode push x
You can use the two little trackpads to type on the keyboard and also to move the mouse around
Archive.org is amazing for archived retro games
That’s a lot of reclaimed time, I went phone free for a couple years in my adult life, it was pretty life altering, but also helped me appreciate the need for balance. If you get back to mildly higher screen time don’t forget setbacks don’t reflect your value as a person.
donnie isn’t worth 5b, remember his ny trial?
Neovim is genuinely great, but I miss full integrated multicursor support, none of the multicursor libraries quite work seamlessly, I also miss the easily made javascript extensions every time I dive into lua
On the other hand dropping mouse usage entirely is a good little boost to productivity
For me using the nvim extension inside vscode was the sweet spot
I’m a software person, llm tools for programming have been frankly remarkable. In my cleanest codebases copilot (using gpt4) autocompletes my intention correctly about 70% of the time today, reducing the amount of code I physically type by a huge margin. The accuracy shifts over time and it’s dramatically less helpful for repositories that aren’t pristine and full of well named functions and variables
Beyond that chatgpt has been a godsend sifting through the internet for the information I need, the new web feature is just outstanding since it actually gives sources
Chatgpt has also helped with writers block a ton, getting beyond plot points in my novel I was having a hard time with
It’s been great with recipes, no more wading through fake life stories and ads
It’s been helpful for complex questions about new topics I’m an amateur on, I’ve learned so much about neurology and the process of how neurons interact almost exclusively through the platform, fact checking takes a little time but so far it’s been almost perfectly accurate on higher level objective questions
It’s been helpful as a starting place for legal questions, the law is complex and having a starting place before consulting the lawyers has been really nice so I know what to ask
I could go on
Imo velocity and user experience aren’t mutually exclusive, as a developer I can respond to user requests way faster with web technologies.
As a consumer vscode is a perfect example of why the ecosystem has value, are there other products that fill the same roles? Absolutely, but if you were around for the transition from bloodshed, codeblocks, eclipse and the like to sublime and vscode and other more modern editors you should remember how gamechanging the positive feedback loop of velocity achieved for the dev community in the form of user experience.
Nah electron is an excellent technology, v8 is a remarkable engine. Maybe something like tauri will unseat it eventually but the ability to spin up a new product in relatively short order is good for everyone. Ram and disk usage are higher than they would be with a native app but velocity is unparalleled
This is not legal advice.
Lie.
Jfc yikes, vindman suffered quite enough already for doing his duty, his testimony during the impeachment trials was clear, well articulated, and not inflamatory. He said he trusted America to have his back for doing the right thing, too bad more than half of all US voters betrayed that trust.
People like to ask edgy questions to get imaginary points or to feel important by getting hidden information, people are goofy.
Why are people religious? In part because it’s human nature to want to know things that other people don’t know. Fake hidden knowledge is a sweet treat to a truth starved brain
A lot has changed since the 60s
Speed is literally not even a concern, the only thing I want more of is people. Make it easier to sign up or something
Man I love let’s encrypt, remember how terrible ssl was before the project landed?
That’s cool too, you’re somehow 7-8 octillion atoms that collectively agree that they’re ugly, neat