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rjbworkon Psilocybin bests SSRI for major depression in first long-term comparison

I tend to agree that change is possible and you can learn to steer, but that too is no choice.

rjbworkon Psilocybin bests SSRI for major depression in first long-term comparison

>Thoughts came out of nowhere, I had no control over them; often the constant, unceasing flow of thought was distressing and uncomfortable.

I want to touch on this. "You" never have any control of your thoughts, because "you" isn't really a thing. Psychedelics and meditation teach us this if you pay close attention. The thoughts arise from nowhere and we - the imagined, but illusory - self are mere observers along for the ride that is consciousness.

I can imagine that using a substance such a psilocybin could cause your thought patterns to have both short and long term changes in quality (in terms of substance, not of superior gradation), however. It's also possible that your experience led to your paying greater attention to the thoughts that did arise, and over time the feedback loop of consciousness along with taking better care of yourself led to greater moderation of their genesis.

rjbworkon Civilization VII recommends 16 cores and 32GB RAM for 4K gameplay

It's for 4k. The lower res settings are far less. If you want a premium experience in a premium resolution you should have premium gear. Makes sense to me.

rjbworkon Pro bettors disguising themselves as gambling addicts

If you bet a player gets 0 points in a game and then you shoot them in the leg...you've essentially bet on them being shot in the leg!

rjbworkon Pro bettors disguising themselves as gambling addicts

>It has a terrible potential to corrupt sport. When you can bet a lot of money on how long a college players plays, or how many points they get in a particular game, what's to stop them from having a relative make a bet and they just fake a cramp?

Or get assaulted or murdered, internet death pool style? All kinds of really fucked up incentives are created by these legalized betting apps.

rjbworkon Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas go on strike

But you didn't help create it. People with money did. So you must keep working 40 hours a week while they collect ever increasing sums of money with their capital proceeds.

It's capitalism, not laborism, or humanism. Those with the capital are who the system serves.

rjbworkon I Am Tired of AI

Yeah. It's like our entire society has been turned into a Goodhart's Law based simulacrum of a productive society.

I mean, here it's late morning and I'm commenting on hacker news. And getting paid for it.

rjbworkon Insights after 11 years with Datomic [video]

It's still closed source. If this company goes kaput, you're hosed. If you need to customize it to make progress years down the line you're hosed.

rjbworkon Reclaim the Stack

Especially given K is already the name of an APL derivative.

rjbworkon France high-speed rail traffic disrupted by 'malicious acts' on Olympic ceremony

Indeed. We got a bunch of stuff in Atlanta from them and actually came out revenue positive. And it could be argued that the Olympics is what helped propel Atlanta to the place it is today as the Capital of the South and a second tier city. Some cities have come out much worse for the wear but it's often down to the competency and corruption of the local politics and local committee for the games.

rjbworkon Netflix has open-sourced its Maestro Workflow Orchestrator

Brilliant. Currently dealing with webs of microservices myself. It's truly wild to watch something akin to the cambrian explosion with these things.

rjbworkon Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate

Enough ordnance lying around for them and their army and menfolk to have fought if they wanted to. At some point we have to say enough is enough. Thousands of American lives, trillions of American dollars, and 20 years ought to have been enough. If not, then it's just not a job that is reasonably accomplishable by a foreign state. I wish them all the best in building a free society for themselves over the next decades, but they'll have to do it without American boots on the ground.

Maybe its China's turn to try to conquer the graveyard of empires.

rjbworkon 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023

Presumably the hole that makes a full auto sear in an AR-15 work.

rjbworkon CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

Okay but that will affect hospital profits and our PE firms bought these hospitals specifically to wrench all redundancy out of these systems in the name of efficiency (higher margins and thus profit) so that just won't do.

rjbworkon Musk Says He Will Move X and SpaceX Headquarters Out of California

I didn't say he hates his daughter. I'd suggest you reread.

rjbworkon Musk Says He Will Move X and SpaceX Headquarters Out of California

I know that his trans child won't speak to him - I surmise it indicates hate, but perhaps not.

Usually when people say things like "this is the final straw" it indicates anger.

You can read more on the former by searching "Xavier Musk" and/or "Vivian Musk".

rjbworkon Musk Says He Will Move X and SpaceX Headquarters Out of California

>“This is the final straw,” Musk wrote on X, the social-media platform he owns. He cited the law as well as “many others that preceded it, attacking both families and companies.”'

Man who hates that his trans child hates him angry that the government isn't forcing trans children to tell their hateful parents they're trans.

If your children aren't comfortable telling you things like this, that's a failure of you as a parent. I'm not going to pretend there isn't social contagion or a bunch of teenagers questioning things out of peer pressure or that actual rates of transness are much lower than their visibility or a million other things. What I am saying is that if your kids are not comfortable talking to you about serious topics like this, you've failed as a parent. Your kids should know you'll love them no matter what and will support them in trying to build a happy life for themselves.

My friend's child believes they are trans, and while the parents are skeptical, there was never any doubt in that kids mind that their parents should know what they are going through and feeling or that they would love them no matter what.

rjbworkon What makes e natural? (2004)

Trivial, but y=0 is also its own derivative.

rjbworkon Do I Regret Being 'Just' a Software Engineer?

Nature of the system. The incentives are in place that you can either wallow in the torment nexus with everyone else, or try to invent it and get rich and escape to some little imagined slice of paradise. The world, and especially the USA, is no longer about trying to make things better and solve real actual problems - it's about trying to accumulate enough capital such you can personally opt out of the problems entirely.

rjbworkon Ask or aks? How linguistic prejudice perpetuates inequality (2022)

Sure, maybe it ought to be denoted in academic terms that in a particular geographical area that a particular linguistic form is reflective of certain socio-economic attributes of the speaker.

The comment I was responding to was deriving moral law from a "standard form" and shaming those who were grown or educated in an alternative form. In fact not just shaming, but proclaiming the righteousness of discrimination based upon one's dialect.

A linguist or sociologist would describe that some form does get used and discrimination happens because of it. But they would not be prescriptive in either, and especially not the latter.

rjbworkon Ask or aks? How linguistic prejudice perpetuates inequality (2022)

Linguistics as practiced for a long time is descriptive. It is the only practice that makes any sense given the extreme diversity of linguistic forms present in the world.

How about you leave your pre-modern prescriptive prejudice out of linguistics.

If you want to discriminate against people for how they speak, that's your prerogative, but it has nothing to do with linguistics as practiced.

rjbworkon Ask or aks? How linguistic prejudice perpetuates inequality (2022)

If you are interested in this kind of thing I highly recommend Dr. Geoff Lindsay's youtube channel. Deep dives into linguistic phenomena with a descriptive viewpoint.

https://www.youtube.com/@DrGeoffLindsey/videos

rjbworkon LINQPad – The .NET Programmer's Playground

Yeah for sure. I do set up crons on my local machine using linqpad scripts every now and then, because it's just my special little snowflake one off.

But for Devops, build pipelines, etc. I prefer something a little more universally applicable and legible and that doesn't require a runtime. So bash is usually my approach there. Sometimes PowerShell if I know I'm going to be running it on a Windows box anyway.

Much as I love C#, if I came into an environment and all the Devops/CI/CD was done using Linqpad and lprun I'd immediately wonder what in the actual fuck I had gotten myself into, lol.

rjbworkon LINQPad – The .NET Programmer's Playground

Great piece of software that I basically use for scripting/notebooking. Been writing C# so long it's my lingua franca and this tool lets me do pretty much everything (except actual shell scripting for use on e.g. build servers and deployment pipelines) in C#.

rjbworkon Spotify: Droppin' Some Fake Beats

I assume they mean an advance. Advances given to artists upon signing with a label are paid back out of proceeds from sales/royalties.

rjbworkon Senior employees, ordered back to the office, are jumping ship

Yes. The employer/employee relationship is inherently an adversarial one. Each wants as much from the other while giving as little as possible in return.

rjbworkon You Can Thank Private Equity for That Enormous Doctor's Bill

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/cpi-report-today-january-20...

that was very easy to find

rjbworkon Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting

He used to be the president of YC for a few years.

rjbworkon Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination

Been using Kagi for a couple months. Seems pretty good to me.

rjbworkon Almost 30% of Americans Say College Not Worth It in Pew Poll

It really just depends. I went to a community college and took maths through calculus 3, a discrete math course, some gen eds like history, english composition, etc. But there are also those kind of remedial adult education and specialized "how to" courses as well.