jareklupinski

doctors kept pitching tonsillectomy to me; i'm just hesitant of the knife :(

glad it was just poor hygiene :P

i got a "dumb" sony one, the runt of its laser line but 5+ years later i havent changed it nor anticipate i'll need to, nothing better looking than hdr10 exists anyway, and the laser projectors are easily visible even in daytime with basic curtains down

> Self-analyzing and staring in the window

you say this like it's a negative thing :( have you tried it?

after i switched to washing my hands with antibacterial soap (the orange kind they use in hospitals), i've gone from a bimonthly cold-analog disease to maybe being sick twice a year

"sign up now and get free peptides your macrocolony needs to immunemogg those bacteria!"

imagine you had to pay to turn the radio _off_, otherwise you would have to listen to ads the entire time

> The new macs look nice

theyre a nice stepstone but after a couple years on a macbook im looking at just using my fedora desktop fulltime

there seems to be at least one service that your LLM can find if it searches the internet (e.g. in my case "best rental API") that poisons your context into thinking that that one service is the definitive and only available API for that data

> the system prefers to breed anxiety

a happy consumer consumes less than an anxious one :(

> There was a recent, ridiculous SubStack piece about the Rise and Fall of AI Agent Civilizations. The author opined: Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.

yup that sounds like a substack :P

wow cowcatchers sure have come a long way https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowcatcher

you're getting me sentimental about the last time i scrubbed the tiles :(

> ... otherwise Britain will sunset before its time, like the decadent Doges of the long-lost Venetian Republic ...

i love it when history rhymes

instructions unclear; tried putting tiger into a cup, then a bottle

now all my flows crash :D

Option C: put the tiger in someone else's room :)

when a coworker asked how i remembered the argument for increasing java heap size, i just said "oh from a previous job" :X

aren't worth the tax: no matter how high you set the tax, it won't offset the amount you have to spend on rehabilitating the effects of the vice

legality itself never stopped a vice from being indulged :) it's the cost / benefit that brings back repeat customers and encourages addictive behaviors

after the first fifty years? :)

biological organisms develop addiction much faster than political processes

> companies need to pay 40-50% of their gross revenue to the government. That's comparable to tobacco.

taxing a vice is worth it on paper, but the second-order effects (nonstop alcohol ads, pervasive gambling app dark patterns) aren't worth it imo

as long as they include a schematic for their products, i'm set

i've always viewed m5stack / seeed / tindie as 'dev board marketplaces'; once i proof the rest of the design using their board, i take the known-working schematic and simply cut out the parts i dont want to spin rev 2, then once that is working i optimize the remaining parts for rev3, and project done :)

wild attempt: try to put your hand behind your back: are you aware of "where" your hand is, even though you cant see it?

now if someone taps on one of those fingers on that hand behind your back, could you put that same finger down (curl it) without seeing which finger was tapped?

lastly, could you open your hand, put it back in front of you, and put down the same finger that was tapped when they were behind your back?

it's the same way with my mental images; i'm aware the object exists and ive seen it before, so i can "see" them again in the same headspace to do things like analyze angles between molecular bonds, in the same way i can "feel" things that i'm recalling (i was tapped on this finger, i am putting this finger down (i dont think "right index finger" or anything...consciously? i just remember how the touch impulse felt and 'replay' it))

> I'd seen that effect a bajillion times without really looking too hard at it. It's just what television does. But during one of my infamous 2am can’t-sleep iPhone research sessions, I learned it actually has a name: a squeezeback.

reminded me why i love hanging out with media folks: TouchDesigner helped me bridge tech and interactives in the best way, letting them tell me exactly whats going on in their head using their flows and lingo, and i can fast-feedback their designs iteratively while theyre in the room

i'd hand over one of those novelty Bill Gates dollars to show the shopkeeper i'm serious

i only show tooltips if you wiggle the mouse cursor over an element

i see 'hunter2'

every time i try to 'streamline the computer setup' i get reminded that losing 'the desk' was the worst part / saddest moment

if Vampire Survivors is a dopamine shortcut, then

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is a cortisol hack. thanks author :( i'm going back to actually having fun!

mine is on a wallet chain like a pocketwatch

i'll give it a shot: you and i meet and start to talk about the weather, then slowly get to some personal questions, and i mention that i prefer quieter places when talking to people.

later, when going out with friends, if i ask "where should we go to talk", and you suggest someplace obviously loud and not great for conversation, this could be seen as a mild form of misunderstanding something i communicated previously about a personal preference in a given situation: breaking rapport

it's definitely a multi-axis thing :)

Aladdin makes me sympathize with stealing to feed your family, though The Protomen helped me place a balance between sacrificing for your family and working for personal ambitions