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Shaggy2000··on Ask HN: Why do many CS graduates lack foundational knowledge?
I have been cultivating this mindset for 10 years. I'm into month 6 of semen retention now and finally have zero urges or frustration at this stage. I eat one meal of meat, eggs, butter a day. Have finally been able to isolate and clearly see the effect listening to music has on my dopamine and happiness (its very bad for it). All of my belongings fit into one suitcase and a backpack. I live in an apartment by the beach. My hobbies are simply short walks in the morning, emotional movies in the evening, programming and reading in quietness during the day alone. Eliminated playing videogames for the most part, Hobbies are reverse engineering and decompiliation modding of childhood N64 games, coding my rts game engine from scratch, coding my programmable bot platform im creating. Reading. Finally i reached that peace you know about. Would love to hear a few things about your routine and how you spend your time or be e-friends e___cr___@gmail.com replace the first ___ with nda and the second ___ with aig :)
Shaggy2000··on Striking portraits, claimed to be original, were generated on Midjourney
Artists gaslight everyone else and say their work has soul so that they can gatekeep "art" saying it can't be replicated by a machine or a modern artist (AI Artist).

However it is not soul it is egoism. The artist spent thousands of hours developing a style to make it seem like they are special. To someone with real intelligence and creativity this level of toil is unbearable and there is no motivation to do it simply to satisfy their ego because a real artist has no ego, they hack around for the fun of it.

In reality , the end product is always just paint on a canvas that has specific patterns and style applied to it and this can be replicated and improved upon by an AI Artist. The machine simply automates away the middle man, pointless egoism and the toil.

Shaggy2000··on Striking portraits, claimed to be original, were generated on Midjourney
Artists gaslight non-artists and say their work has soul and gatekeep "art" saying it can't be replicated. However this is not soul it is egoism and pointless toil. In reality the end product is just paint on a canvas that has specific patterns and style applied to it and this can be replicated and improved upon by an ai artist.
Shaggy2000··on Striking portraits, claimed to be original, were generated on Midjourney
The prompt engineer has to explicitly set each parameter, he cant just press submit like the photographer presses the shoot button so I agree with you.
Shaggy2000··on Striking portraits, claimed to be original, were generated on Midjourney
The tools learned to draw like artists do. By looking at reference images. So no need for anyone to be annoyed, the tools arent using other peoples photos.
Shaggy2000··on How to find out what you want to do creatively
:-)
Shaggy2000··on Majority of Hispanic Americans own a home
That's an even worse position to be honest
Shaggy2000··on Multiple Sclerosis discovery could end disease's chronic inflammation
If you have ever had a sore gut or a known sensitivity to gluten you should try the carnivore diet like Mikhaela Peterson. It has put my RA into remission and I hypotasize gluten causes leaky gut and other plant toxins are entering my blood stream causing the fundamental inflammation. RA does not exist for me if I only eat beef and butter along with supplementing electrolytes. Without carnivore I was on crutches, hospital boot, crippled. If I try to do keto and eat a few nuts or an avocado I immediately reactivate the disease. Semen Retention also had a positive effect before I did carnivore so take what I say with a pinch of salt and investigate for yourself. I'm going to try and take glutamine to heal my gut soon.
Shaggy2000··on Real-Time Brain-to-Image Reconstructions
This technology one can imagine will be used in the future in books about a digital dictatorship , where the author has computers monitor the workers brains in society who are operating airport scanners and other security/important control jobs .... who might be tempted to not follow the dictatorships increasingly crazy rules or for example allow someone/something through in a critical situation that could lead to an attack by the societies people in the name of freedom.

"The culmination of all the above projects. We will consolidate our findings to ultimately reconstruct images from brain activations in real-time (i.e., reconstruct a seen image in a few seconds following perception, while the patient is still being scanned)."

Shaggy2000··on Reddit Confirms It Was Hacked–Recommends Users Set Up 2FA
At least it has kept the nice 90s atmosphere too. Generally HN users are high value targets - how little spam or trolling there is to be found here by outsiders is incredible considering the lack of safeguards you mentioned.
Shaggy2000··on GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices
In my humble opinion open offices were designed so that employees would self police each other in order to minimize the need to micro-manage. If this is unethical is another matter , considering that most people are too lazy to work on hobbies outside of work and they prefer to be slobs watching TV... not much would get done leaving most people to their own devices in private offices....

Regarding the open office ... Everyone can see your computer screen. At any moment someone can be watching what type of face you're making and if you are working hard or dozing off.

Everyone is scared of raising their voice or talking in case you disturb others or others hear you.

Everyone can see when you arrive and what time you leave, what you wear.

Now if we lived in a land of plenty and profit did not matter, then it would be tragic that people are stuck in that hellish environment instead of having their own private office and peace of mind.

However.. when you consider why people do not have hobbies and are lazy... it becomes quite tragic in the here and now... because you have to think of Schools in our society and are they really for the benefit of children or to train them to work and to demotivate them towards life itself ?

People are forced to regurgitate things in a depressing, boring and oftentimes hostile environment (in the sense of their future being on the line if they do not submit to this torture) and in a place that resembles prison blended with an open office... from the age of five ... starting off fun with plenty of toys and play time in kindergarden club ... for most of their childhood becomes increasingly horrible when they are stuck in the grind. Does your own experience not make you feel rage at the time you lost ?

The tragedy of human effort as a whole is that 90% of corporate jobs in their current form are designed to exist in this way simply as a way to put humans into a hellish environment five days a week which they have been trained to accept and even expect all with plausable deniability for the elites who consider us nothing but their cattle. They made us slaves that compete against each other for them and police each other into doing it.

Shaggy2000··on GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices
Everything you said is correct and I would agree with - but under the presumption that the climate emergency is genuine and that the individual contributors in the agencies responsible for the models and predictions have not been compromised, coerced, baited, led by funding into agreeing with corporate and governmental agendas, interests.

Is it not odd that we have traditional liberal activists and corporate/government on the same side also?

I agree wholly with you regarding how it is better for everything to be community based, with people working in a local community, that cities need to downsize, that manufacturing is better to be localized, all of these things move us closer to a much better world and I would even be happy if the government used its power to force the change on the population ... but if you study the groups behind this they are international socialists, the presentations they have given quite clearly outline malicious intentions when you look at other movements and ideas the same groups are lobbying for.

Regarding the WEF point you made. I point you towards the case of Oxford City in the UK , which as of last month has already implemented a 15 minute city without any dialogue with its citizens.

The communist china style tracking camera and permit system has been created in their city and it is likely by next year its citizens will start to be fined 70 pounds sterling whenever they go to a neighboring zone without a permit.

It was reported this week 100 councils (local governmental planning agencies) have signed up to implement this in the UK in their jurisdictions own cities. This is without any dialogue or permission with their citizens.

Does the speed of this being rolled out not frighten you enough to question what is going on? It is such a drastic change. Taking a trip in a car from one part of the city to another is such a small journey, such a small cost to the environment. It is not like a cross country trip, I understand the distances between points in the USA is larger but they are planning this for the cities in the USA too, not longer journeys, but god knows where this will end.

Shaggy2000··on Why is remote work seen as a gift?
The World Economic Forum have stated in a white paper that Corporations and Governments will be expected as part of climate action to help move more people into cities. So that "15 minute cities" legislation can be implemented world wide. This appears to be nothing but a long term climate lockdown. I personally think that to have everyone working locally in these 15 minute zones in each major city and to have them never leave the zone would require that remote work is the norm beforehand. If people think that remote work equals freedom they are in for one hell of a shock.
Shaggy2000··on GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices
The World Economic Forum have stated in a white paper that Corporations and Governments will be expected as part of climate action to help move more people into cities. So that "15 minute cities" legislation can be implemented world wide. This appears to be nothing but a long term climate lockdown. I personally think that to have everyone working locally in these 15 minute zones in each major city and to have them never leave the zone would require that remote work is the norm beforehand. If people think that remote work equals freedom they are in for one hell of a shock.
Shaggy2000··on GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices
The World Economic Forum have stated in a white paper that Corporations and Governments will be expected as part of climate action to help move more people into cities. So that "15 minute cities" legislation can be implemented world wide. This appears to be nothing but a long term climate lockdown. I personally think that to have everyone working locally in these 15 minute zones in each major city and to have them never leave the zone would require that remote work is the norm beforehand. If people think that remote work equals freedom they are in for one hell of a shock.
Shaggy2000··on GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices
The World Economic Forum have stated in a white paper that Corporations and Governments will be expected as part of climate action to help move more people into cities. So that "15 minute cities" legislation can be implemented world wide. This appears to be nothing but a long term climate lockdown. I personally think that to have everyone working locally in these 15 minute zones in each major city and to have them never leave the zone would require that remote work is the norm beforehand. If people think that remote work equals freedom they are in for one hell of a shock.
Shaggy2000··on Contracts you should never sign
Right on, stick it to the man
Shaggy2000··on What if AI didn't make you a bad writer, but a better thinker?
It's easy to replace terms with something else in order to keep information confidential.
Shaggy2000··on Lean pork has 34 % less cholesterol than skinless chicken
People on the ketogenic diet have stable blood sugar levels due to glucogenesis and it's those who eat a lot of carbohydrates that experience fluctuations. High sugar levels can cause it to stick to artery walls like little daggers, and cholesterol then gets stuck there as well on those. The original comment was short and didn't include these details.
Shaggy2000··on Realistic computer-generated handwriting
Japanese companies, such as Honda, have a history of using personal relationships and direct communication to get their products off the ground, such as in the case of Mr. Honda writing to thousands of dealers to ask them to stock his new invention, the bike with an engine, in order to help his company and the Japanese economy to recover.
Shaggy2000··on Lean pork has 34 % less cholesterol than skinless chicken
Yep always, probably every hour or you will get weak
Shaggy2000··on Lean pork has 34 % less cholesterol than skinless chicken
High energy vegan dude right here
Shaggy2000··on Lean pork has 34 % less cholesterol than skinless chicken
Cholesterol can not stick to artery walls without glucose! People on carnivore and ketogenic diets are some of the healthiest people in our society.