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RHSman2on We reduced the cost of building Mastodon at Twitter-scale by 100x

Easy to copy something that has been done before and knowing what you want, need and responding to expected market traffic.

RHSman2on Former VP Claims Salesforce Lied About Software Capabilities: 'It Was All a Lie'

Salesforce won that war. Seems like it’s hit the same ceiling? I was a Siebel consultant.

RHSman2on Former VP Claims Salesforce Lied About Software Capabilities: 'It Was All a Lie'

One word: Siebel

RHSman2on Watch Baby Octopuses Hatch from a Surprising Deep-Sea Nursery

I love this.

RHSman2on Monday was hottest day for global average temperature, as climate crisis bites

It isn't data science. It is earth science.

RHSman2on Monday was hottest day for global average temperature, as climate crisis bites

Most people on here (generalisation) spend more time on a computer than in nature. If you spend time in Nature it is very obvious what is happening. Look at the world from whence it came and where it is going.

Heating of our climate is but one thing.

RHSman2on Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became a societal sin

That is incredible

RHSman2on Stochastic Parrot

What do you think parrots think about this? Insulted.

RHSman2on Ask HN: Where have you found community outside of work?

By talking to people and saying yes more than no. As I scan through various things I have done and I would have said it was X in the past, the consistency is just getting to know people.

RHSman2on What deserves our attention?

It’s the age old parental problem. Get outside and go and experience life instead of watching it on a screen.

Opportunity costs.

We fundamentally don’t understand that life is finite and those times change into something 100% different with different pressures.

RHSman2on What if you did the exact opposite, like rogue bees do (2020)

A final anecdote: I have 2 boys with ADHD (inattentive and impulsive) and I also have low grade impulsive ADHD. I also have an English Pointer who is a hunting dog (but doesn’t) When you have these fairly ‘disobedient’ or strongly instinct driven creatures, it teaches you a lot about what it takes to assimilate a sentient being into another’s way of life.

I am still working on it across all beings! However, I have come to the conclusion that a certain amount of toeing the line is possible but left to their own devices, they probably would!

RHSman2on What if you did the exact opposite, like rogue bees do (2020)

I believe that meaning is derived by the living organism. I imagine ants to have a form of OCD where they feel the fear if they don’t do what they are compelled to do.

Humans think they have free will. I don’t think so, we all do what we are compelled to do (and that could just be follow the herd)

RHSman2on What if you did the exact opposite, like rogue bees do (2020)

We talk about strength and relative strength. Ants! Their relative intelligence is off the scale! I think our egos are much bigger than our intelligence

RHSman2on What if you did the exact opposite, like rogue bees do (2020)

What about our nature? I don’t believe there isn’t meaning, only what we as humans apply. If an ant applies meaning, it still counts. Just might be less than we can perceive.

RHSman2on What if you did the exact opposite, like rogue bees do (2020)

Being lucky enough to have a garden and partaking in ‘experiments’ of growing things really has opened my eyes to the magic of nature. I was always an outdoors person but was a consumer of sorts. Digging in some beds and doing my own compost I have really started to think about soil, the role of worms and the lower level, taken for granted, entities. Life has a frequency and observing it in play is incredible.

RHSman2on What if you did the exact opposite, like rogue bees do (2020)

I have a cherry tree. Grown from a sapling. A few years ago I noticed the leaves turning in. Aphids. I then discovered that Ants farm those aphids. They place a guard ant to stop predators (lady bugs) and let this black little fellas grow and grow. Then the other ants feed off their sugary goodness. Incredible. Where does that direction come from? Collective consciousness with inherent intelligence?

RHSman2on What if you did the exact opposite, like rogue bees do (2020)

Antxiety?

RHSman2on What if you did the exact opposite, like rogue bees do (2020)

Meaning? What meaning does our lives have beyond our colony (which is at risk)?

RHSman2on What if you did the exact opposite, like rogue bees do (2020)

I’m gonna write my book called ‘living with a difficult person (me)’ I don’t mean to be, it just is that way.

RHSman2on Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British accents?

Christian Bale

RHSman2on Is Meta having growing pains or in a death spiral?

Hopefully it dies.

RHSman2on The world’s oldest ultramarathon runner is racing against death

Racing death in a chair

RHSman2on The world’s oldest ultramarathon runner is racing against death

Isn’t everyone?

RHSman2on Transcending My Father's Abuse

These long term memories evolve into something else as the act of viewing them from that point of time (with all that comes with it) changes how they are. That’s what strikes me when I get those spooky memories.

RHSman2on Transcending My Father's Abuse

Having kids forces you to change. And if you don’t you’ll turn into something that is a negative reaction to that stimuli. It’s a massive step to do that change, takes more courage than I have ever had to use anywhere in my life. I would have struggled to do that if I didn’t know what having a loving family meant (they gave me a North Star for love.)

RHSman2on Transcending My Father's Abuse

‘All I can say is that I am trying to be better’ There is a lot more in your reply but I hope that you find the way to locate the ability to remove those shackles.

RHSman2on Beware of AI pseudoscience and snake oil

The pursuit of AI is intellectually interesting however we aren’t intellectually advanced enough to see why it is a very bad idea.

RHSman2on No Mow May, Low Mow Spring

You sound like me from another mother! I am 2 years into compost. I am obsessed with the concept and reality. Magical nature.