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tristanMatthias

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tristanMatthias··on ADHD Didn't Break Me–My Parents Did
Came here to say both of these things. I’ve had very similar experiences. I think treating ADHD as a trauma response doesn’t have anywhere near enough attention (pun intended).

I’m excited for the psychedelic renaissance that seems to be occurring. So much of this comes back to our internal mechanisms for feeling “safe”. If we weren’t taught that by our parents (which many don’t sadly) then it’s hard to find it later in life without very deliberate work.

Glad you were able to heal yourself mate!

tristanMatthias··on Pink Floyd's 'The Wall': A Complete Analysis
One day after school, my dad and I arrived home and he told me, "Sit down in the lounge room, and don't talk". I thought I was in some kind of trouble, but when he didn't turn on any lights, and walked over to the CD player I knew something was about to happen.

"We're going to listen to something, and I don't want to say anything until it's done", he said. Then he proceeded to play "A Momentary Lapse of Reason". It changed my life.

It was the first time I realised you can listen to music like you'd watch a film. The depth of the soundscapes still influence me as a musician today.

Thanks dad.

tristanMatthias··on Psilocybin bests SSRI for major depression in first long-term comparison
Totally agree. The variance between species can be dramatic! 2.5 grams of Golden teacher was a standard trip, vs 0.5 grams of PES Amazonian was enough to send my friend into a full blown “awakening” (physical responses and everything).

It’s fascinating how they can hit different.

Also important to keep in mind the same dose can hit someone different each time depending on surrounding life conditions. I’m a big believer that the mushrooms “show you what you need to see” at any given moment, and that can sometimes range considerably.

tristanMatthias··on Critical Mass and Tipping Points
Curious what conclusion you draw from this. Care to elaborate?
tristanMatthias··on Critical Mass and Tipping Points
Is there not a value in drawing interdisciplinary ties between fields? Physics underpins reality, would it not be feasible that it's laws scale to higher order complexities?
tristanMatthias··on Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
Just downloaded! I’ve been using Strong for a while to seems to take some inspiration from that. Thanks!
tristanMatthias··on Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
I am building what I like to call PAI. Personal AI that ingests all your online information into a knowledge graph and is connected to your tools, all running locally. Will eventually build an off the shelf consumer device capable of running all this locally.

You can talk to it over a e2e encrypted reverse proxy (using Signals double ratchet protocol) so you can access it on the go safely and privately.

tristanMatthias··on Firefly III: An open-source personal finance manager
Checkout projectionlabs.com. Very powerful
tristanMatthias··on Show HN: Create diagrams of complex data flows in software systems
Love this. Would love to be able to: a) Pause b) Step through the individual steps (I see they're titled) c) Go back / Forward to grokk better
tristanMatthias··on Ask HN: Happy 404 Day. Whats your favorite 404 error page?
https://http.cat/420 and this!
tristanMatthias··on Ask HN: Happy 404 Day. Whats your favorite 404 error page?
https://dribbble.com/404

Dribbbles been one of my favs for a long time. Color slider that arranges Dribble shots into a 404 that match your color selection

tristanMatthias··on Ask HN: Resources for Comedic Book Writing
Interesting! Is this comedic writing as well? Or just comic books?
tristanMatthias··on Ask HN: How can I get out of tech?
Not sure if you’ve looked into psychedelic therapy? It has a high success rate for PTSD in veterans. In particular ketamine, psilocybin and MDMA.

Not to call it a “one pill solution” but there are cases of people’s PTSD being cured after a single session.

tristanMatthias··on Show HN: A game to memorize scale degrees on the guitar fretboard
I really want to try the lessons, but I don’t have a google account. Can you add basic auth?
tristanMatthias··on Tao Te Ching
In the spirit of the Tao, there is also the I Ching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching
tristanMatthias··on The Tyranny of the Marginal User
As other people have commented, seems like the West's addiction to never ending growth at all costs could be a strong driver of this. Reminds me of this TED talk, A healthy economy should be designed to thrive not grow: https://www.ted.com/talks/kate_raworth_a_healthy_economy_sho...
tristanMatthias··on Remote work on HN: Who is hiring? – 69% jobs in 2023 are remote
We’re getting a lot of fake LinkedIn profiles too. Building a conversational AI screening tool to try alleviate but it’s not easy…
tristanMatthias··on Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?
https://Spirals.blog Been a while but mostly focused on Spiral Dynamics
tristanMatthias··on ChatHN: Chat with Hacker News using OpenAI function calling
You might want to integrate this with hm.agolia.com if you haven’t already. Nice work!
tristanMatthias··on Four alarming charts that show just how extreme the climate is
Thought the US only constituted for ~11% of global emissions (or something of that magnitude). If that’s true, then even if we somehow managed to make ourselves neutral it still wouldn’t make much of a difference right?

Isn’t the real issue with the massive populations of people who don’t have the wealth to pay for the cleaner options? If you’re poor and need to provide for your family, you’re going to maximise for that as opposed to the climate.

I’m not sure that American Conservatives are the issue here…

tristanMatthias··on Migrating from Heroku to EKS
AWS copilot is a great CLI for orchestrating ECS stacks. Takes a lot of the pain away
tristanMatthias··on Why does it take so long to schedule a doctor's appointment in the US?
One medical charged me 560 for a general check up. Absolutely disgusting, and zero help from their support team. And this was after insurance.

American healthcare is a laughing stock

tristanMatthias··on Emerging Rust GUI libraries in a WASM world
Got this to crash by change the font size in the font book demo.
tristanMatthias··on Mayan ball game scoreboard thought to be over 1k years old found in Mexico
So is scuba diving them! Down you go into a going black hole, swimming through amazing caves (don’t let go of the rope!), the out the other side in a different cenote. Surreal experience
tristanMatthias··on Show HN: A ChatGPT TUI with custom bots
I built one with Eleven Labs (they have the BEST voices so far), but the latency is really slow.

https://twitter.com/tristan_mm/status/1636187642105851906?s=...

tristanMatthias··on ChatGPT Political Compass
Is it fair to say this more indicative of Open AI’s political leanings? Based on selected training sets etc.
tristanMatthias··on Metaballs (2017)
Whoah. What a crazy thought. I imagine an ocean
tristanMatthias··on Character.ai
I created a Lao Tsu character. I’m honestly so blown away by the quality of this conversation.

https://character.ai/p/8YVNqf5JnfK8W-UZM94GOQ2lBBi34dXyI7bGf...

tristanMatthias··on Show HN: A tiny and fast reactive observables library via functions
Nice. Reminds me of a library I wrote many years ago using JavaScript Proxies.

https://github.com/tristanMatthias/proxa

tristanMatthias··on Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs
Curious, what’s the TLDR on this? Or some resources to learn more?
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