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sillywabbit··on The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb (1986)
I misjudged the tone of your comment at the time I wrote that. My bad.

Personally, I'm still dealing with fallout from temporary cannabis-induced psychosis.

Keep the downvotes coming. Points matter.

sillywabbit··on The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb (1986)
Thank you for your contribution to the ongoing stigma surrounding mental illness. Never forget, you are the hero of this story.
sillywabbit··on I spent twenty years becoming good at the wrong game
Some of us find it very hard to know what you want to do for the rest of your life at twice that age. There are a lot of trains.
sillywabbit··on Beware Management Consultants
The antique illustrations on this are fantastic.
sillywabbit··on The Origin of Consciousness (2008)
Anesthesia is a rather different state than sleep.
sillywabbit··on Incentives are for losers
What comes after that?
sillywabbit··on Leave Me Behind
Maximizing shareholder value seems like a weird thing to hold as a moral imperative.
sillywabbit··on Leave Me Behind
> AI doesn't exist to make extroverts feel better about themselves

Then why are the extroverts trying to replace engineers with AI?

sillywabbit··on A Meta employee gets real about the horror of working there
Internet Doomsday Evangelist seems to be a role with infinite chairs.
sillywabbit··on Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
You can store Perl in any file format.
sillywabbit··on Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
I don't think you've seen many biology field data sets.
sillywabbit··on Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
It's not even standard in academia.
sillywabbit··on Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered
What? Eddie and Alexei were the heroes of that story, and they got screwed.
sillywabbit··on How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences
Assuming that everyone you meet is conspiring against you seems to be a pre-requisite to these. The feasibility of that is questionable.
sillywabbit··on Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?
Back in the day, being a teenager and hanging out on freelancing forums was enough.
sillywabbit··on The Only Game Worth Playing
I've also heard good things about Celeste and Silksong.
sillywabbit··on EmDash – a spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
Using the word priors in the way you (and others) do.
sillywabbit··on Study finds no evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD
Could you point me to your research?
sillywabbit··on Study finds no evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD
Meth causes brain damage. Dex doesn't.
sillywabbit··on I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me
I used to value this sort of communication. Sometimes I still do. Some feedback I got once that seems relevant to anyone who prefers this style:

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Key takeways:

1. People are more important than code.

2. People have a right to work in an environment free of perceived hostility.

3. There is a legitimate reason for the perception and hard work may be necessary to understand why this is.

Ask yourself these questions periodically during a conversation:

1. Am I listening to the other person?

2. Is there an equal amount of give and take or is my primary objective to make someone understand my point of view?

3. Does the person want to understand what I am saying?

sillywabbit··on Visualizing Ukkonen's Suffix Tree Algorithm
Like the other poster said, the rabbit hole continues with suffix arrays (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffix_array#Space_efficiency), then compressed suffix arrays (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_suffix_array).

Also explained by the creator of this: https://www.abahgat.com/project/suffix-tree/

> the human genome can be encoded as a 3GB string constructed out of an alphabet of four characters

> As of 2019, a suffix tree indexing the human genome using state of the art algorithms can easily occupy tens of gigabytes.

sillywabbit··on Visualizing Ukkonen's Suffix Tree Algorithm
In the event someone is encountering suffix trees for the first time and thinking of using one: the amount of RAM required for suffix trees is obscene.
sillywabbit··on Workers who love 'synergizing paradigms' might be bad at their jobs
Rushing prematurely into precipitate does sound pretty dangerous.
sillywabbit··on Elite Overproduction
What game-changing insights did the philosophy and political science classes leave out? I'm all ears.
sillywabbit··on Privilege is bad grammar
Hoodies are very comfortable.
sillywabbit··on Suicide Linux (2009)
Maybe you could strive to be better than that.
sillywabbit··on Suicide Linux (2009)
How about Rogue-like Linux?
sillywabbit··on Suicide Linux (2009)
The name seems a little insensitive.
sillywabbit··on Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state
I wonder if that's why it's called Transport Layer Security.
sillywabbit··on Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state
End-to-end encryption only means something if you trust the endpoints.
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