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It takes more than 13 minutes to add the channel plugs and the "like share subscribe" etc crapola.

Well said. Most of this shit just circles back onto itself. Unfortunately having a very public, very unequal distribution of rewards only seems to perpetuate the cycle, and with commodities where the service is the product and the reward, the gravy train never ends and there's a sucker born every minute.

The only way to be content is to not play.

Sounds like the name of an illegal warez / software / movie release group.

A better "hack" for linux users: Linux supports a "digital-only" modifier called "Hyper". You can use Xmodmap to set a key as hyper on press, and set Hyper-F[X] to whatever functions you wish to.

Alternatively, use a keyboard with QMK, or install a dedicated application like KMonad.

This is achievable without copy/pasting eyes: If you're using the Automatic111 GUI, go to img2img -> inpaint, mask the area for one eye (on the forehead), enter prompt, and set padding = 0 and denoising accordingly (0.4 - 0.6 would be acceptable). Repeat for all three eyes. You can add practically anything to an image with inpainting, provided your prompt and padding is correct.

Grasp is an invaluable tool for me! Thank you so much for developing it!

Money sans "managers" at the top is a system taking the long way to suicide. Money with incompetent managers is a ponzi scheme. Money with excellent management is a cult.

Only if they somehow manage to hoodwink everyone by signalling exceptional competence. Otherwise, it mostly comes across as someone that lacks theory of mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind-blindness

Why do people do this? I understand the motivation behind people making endless pages of generated useless content that they then use SEO on, but this is bizzare.

Books that I read (and re-read) in 2022 that I'd recommend to folks on HN. Ordered from most enjoyable / insightful to least.

- Edward O. Wilson - Biophilia

- Will Durant - The Lessons Of History

- Freeman J. Dyson - A Many-Colored Glass

- Venkatesh Rao - The Gervais Principle

- Ray Bradbury - The Martian Chronicles

- Colin Wilson - The Outsider

- Stanislaw Lem - Cyberiad

- Antonio Martinez - Chaos Monkeys

- Ben Horowitz - What You Do Is Who You Are

- Alice Flaherty - The Midnight Disease

- Oliver Sacks - Musicophilia

- Ken Binmore - Rational Decisions

- Josh Kaufman - The Personal MBA

Edit: All these books made the cut, there were others that I never completed / disliked / wouldn't recommend, or were just plain mediocre / bad.

I think a better distinction than "people vs things" is "interconnect vs push/pull".

I see it. Great observation!

Anyone think there'll be another editor that'll surpass VSCode, similar to how VSCode surpassed Atom (and others)? I used to think that there would be one, but now I'm not so sure.

> assisted suicide

looks like I didn't misunderstand at all.

Emacs (use it for everything important)

QMK (keyboard's firmware, helps me do things an order of magnitude faster)

Who's doing the marketing / promotion over at OpenAI? Very underrated effort IMO.

Nipping a fantasy =/= killing people

Asking people to "take the quick way out", though, IS asking someone to kill himself for having an opinion you don't seem to like.

I don't think lone immigrants would immigrate if they had to cut contact with people they knew.

It's also a big difference in outlook -- people that would scoff at life extension would also be the people ready to "end" something in life, and not constantly be at the teat of something. For example, young soldiers in WW1. That sort of outlook is alien to most now, modernity's pit of comfort makes a fool of anyone who partakes.

I'm a fourth of the way in. Your outlook is fully alien to me. We die when we die. This struggle for X more years of life is at best vain.

That's very rude.

Yeah they probably were in that deal just for the easy money.

If you like that premise, you'd like to read "The Golden Age" by John C. Wright. It's hard scifi.

I think 100 is quite enough -- life is meant to be lived with people one knows.

That is exactly the right thing to do.

Github (aka Microsoft) should take notice -- Valve could be a big software player in the next decade.

"OSS dev payment pipelines / mentoring" is passé. Putting all their code into a LLM (of sorts) is not the way forward either. There's still a LOT of OS issues, and Valve seems to have surmounted a very large one, WITHOUT angering anyone.

In my limited experience, it does help, but only by making one accomplish a much more difficult task (learning to play the piano is much more difficult than learning to to touch-type).

An example: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_GN0UTm5Zlu5uU8Usc-fMQ

I'm in my early 20's, and I started using an ergonomic keyboard just to stave off the RSI worries. I don't have any issues, but I've been able to type easily with much more accuracy on this keyboard. Row stagger (normal keyboard) makes you move your wrist. A small, column stagger keyboard with finger height adjusted columns reduces mistakes. I use a 42-key crkbd

https://i.redd.it/lfqcys91rg291.png

https://i.imgur.com/2fZyLxV.jpg

(images from reddit)

It's very easy on the hands and I never have to guess where my fingers are. It's also easy to learn, and you won't lose your row-stagger proficiency. It's like learning to type on your phone. If you change the ergonomics of the situation (cramping hands in the middle (regular keyboard) versus sitting upright with hands at shoulder width (split keyboard)) your brain will interpret it as a new, separate skill.

Also, the switches can be laptop-style or regular, and they are much smoother and easier to press. It'll take a month or two to really get up to speed but maybe abandoning a learnt skill is the way forward here.

Also, the firmware for these keyboards is painless - QMK now has a GUI (VIA).

Edit:

Switching to a better keyboard layout will also help. Colemak Mod-DH is MUCH better than QWERTY, and has the most-used letters on the home row and enables rolling motions.

https://colemakmods.github.io/mod-dh/

That is not how it works for me. I select a screen, set the scaling, and it just works.

> I'm almost 100% certain this will go to maintainers that already have good visibility and possibly good funding

In my opinion, most of this will turn into a way to game the system. Like another comment said, this is Microsoft's "Summer Of Code".

For a successful open source funding story, take a look at Mkdocs-Material, which recently crossed $10k/mo:

https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/insiders/

Bingo. It's the latest MSFT poster-child that'll be gently strangled / frankensteined in a few years, when people start gaming it.

Really, I don't think it'll take a few years.

Github, proudly paving the way for the "open source" to open source.

If there was funding, people wouldn't attend a marketing seminar. This is just a microsoft acquisition with extra steps. Big Tech has been looking to exploit free software for a while now. Microshit's VSCode was a starting point. They'll gatekeep competent devs into mundane tasks for $$$$, and they'll pay "open source" devs pittances to lock them into something they intend on controlling the direction of.

The way out is pretty clear: stop using Github.