lethologica

After it stole literally every authors style in existence…

Oh no. Anyway.

Sorry, I thought you’d be able to make some logical inferences and I assumed you knew a little about chess.

In chess there’s a concept of strength, and ELO is used as a rough estimate of this. Further there are FIDE rankings like IM and GM that have certain requirements to achieve.

In most sports, there’s never such an age gap. Think of basketball or football. You don’t see 12 year olds hitting the equivalent of GM in those respective sports (going pro?) and being able to compete with the 35 year olds, do you? In most sports, they wouldn’t even be allowed to enter but in chess they could.

Context helps. A lot of really strong players are 12 years old.

> but good luck anyone ever finding it.

Get what you’re saying but hasn’t that always been the case without extensive marketing and promotion?

My understanding that writing and finishing the book is just the start. Then you need to sell the thing.

This is a blast from the past! I remember being really young and buying a GPU based solely on what art was on the box (and yes, it was a scantily clad woman) and getting really, really luckily that it actually worked with my components but it was my intro to upgrading PCs!

I just bought a M4 MBA, my first since a 2014 MBP. I absolutely hated the 26 update on my phone and iPad but honestly don’t even notice it on my MacBook.

I have ADHD and it almost acts as a body double for me, which I find to be incredibly helpful to get things done.

Holy crap, I never knew that was a thing. Thank you!

Not a dev but I’ve had similar experiences testing AI to help me craft various documents.

I spend ages crafting the perfect prompt only to cross my fingers and hope that the output is what I want it to be when I could have just spent all that time actually crafting the document exactly as I want it to be in the first place. Often I then need to spend more time editing and tweaking the output from the AI anyway.

I’m honestly starting to feel a little crazy because I’m the only one at my workplace that sees it this way.

A one time, 5g “heroic dose” did the trick for me. I’ve had a few more trips at that dose since that initial one but mostly because there’s a whole lot for me to explore in that space, rather than me trying to “cure” something.

It took me as a real surprise when, after that first trip, all my ADHD symptoms simply vanished, never to reappear.

Psilocybin “fixed” my ADHD right up.

That's called Brain Soaking :)

This whole game is so stupid to me. It really feels like the employer is trying to screw over the potential employee before they’ve even joined.

My default answer to these questions is now “what’s your budget?” And if they return with a non answer, or try and push me to give a number without giving one themselves, I walk.

I can’t think of anywhere else where the seller (in this case the employer “selling” a position) of something hides the price and expects the buyer (the potential employee) to magically come up with number that meets their criteria.

What a dumb game we’ve developed for ourselves.

Agreed. My newest favourite one is “You’re inconvenient to be around”

In the same way that photoshop meant that people didn’t have to learn how different brushes and mediums work on different surfaces?

People have been worrying about this since the time Socrates thought that books would make people dumb because they wouldn’t need to memorise anything.

I’m an artist and I’m excited to see how people learn to use these new tools in creative ways.

This is fascinating to me and I have so many questions! How do you feel about life now? Did you eventually end up feeling how you used to feel about life? Was it just a week of euphoria and then a “snap back to reality” (for lack of a better phrase) or was it gradual?

If price is your only concern you could also buy a 1990 Corolla for a fraction of that price too. And it’ll likely still run pretty flawlessly.

I wonder if these will stand the test of time is the point I’m trying to make.

Corolla killer is jumping the gun a bit. Will these cars still be operational in 30+ years? What will their condition be like after 500,000km on the clock?

Once they reach these milestones then maybe they can call themselves a Corolla killer.

Wearing a fitness tracking device gives you this illusion of working on your health and fitness without actually doing so.

I know many people who wear Whoop bands and swear by it but month after month their clothing gets just a little tighter and their double chins just a little bigger.

You can substitute it with any addiction. Try replacing it with porn instead. It doesn’t matter. Your analysis is cruel and lacks empathy into how addiction actually works.

You wouldn’t tell a depressed person to just stop being depressed either and that they lack the discipline to be happy.

This is like saying to addicts “Just stop smoking crack”.

Everyone knows smoking crack is bad for you. A lot of people want to quit but are unable to no matter how much “self discipline” they have. And app developers have teams of people dedicated to making sure you stay on these apps longer and longer.

Now imagine your dealer is in your pocket 24/7.

That would be an interesting study though. For true occult practitioners I think you’re likely to see even less mental disorders since (if they are true students of the occult) they would understand that the mind (and indeed EVERY aspect of 3D reality) is simply a construct of belief systems.

Thanks for those resources, I’m going to have fun digging into those. But still, wouldn’t the link between artistry and self destruction be more a function of depression and not psychopathy?

But even that is just surface level I think. What is it that makes depressed people artists? Or vice versa.

Yep, I certainly have. With just two trackers I’ve got access to pretty much every TV show and movie in existence.

Thanks for that link! I’ve recently gotten into metal (Holy crap what an awesome genre of music I’ve neglected to explore my whole life! I feel like a kid in a candy shop hearing all of these new amazing sounds) and started learning guitar because of it.

Having someone share their curated music is way more powerful in my opinion than some algorithmically generated playlist.

Whoa, Argulus looks like Corroder from the PS1 game Clock Tower. Utterly terrifying.

The best reminder app I have ever used is a sticky note on my bathroom mirror.

I’m still using a 2015 MacBook Pro. It still runs fine. I’m looking at replacing it with an M3 MacBook Air when they come out though.

What does “draw worth a damn” even mean? Personally, I much prefer to see people’s unique perspective on things through their art rather than just another hyper-realistic rendering of something I can already see in hyper realism.