swayvil

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by swayvil 1y ago
Where's the people in software engineering? It's a bunch of abstractions floating in my head.
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by swayvil 1y ago
I doubt that. I mean we look and act different, we're shaped different, we even smell different. Don't succumb to the temptations of irony.
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by swayvil 1y ago
Why do people disable zoom on their page?
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by swayvil 1y ago
That's a pretty darn cool looking thing. Funny how, guided by pure mechanical necessity, pretty stuff can arise. I've always thought that clockwork, chips and other machines were pretty. And fractals. ( https://fleen.or
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by swayvil 1y ago
The aim here is to get power from temperature differential, not vice-versa
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by swayvil 1y ago
Therefore city dwellers are demented and rural dwellers aren't. (And this says nothing about the effects of noise pollution or aesthetic pollution) EDIT Oh come on, it's the obvious conclusion. So discuss already.
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by swayvil 1y ago
Pipes, steam, turbines... We need better peltier devices.
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by swayvil 1y ago
Surveillance is our overlords's favorite thing. And AI makes it 1000x better. So good luck banning it. Ultimately it's one of those arms races. The culture that surveills its population most intensely wins.
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by swayvil 1y ago
>I think honesty is important Lol
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by swayvil 1y ago
Cookie monster is his strongest work. It has a VIBE. Reminds me of permutation city
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by swayvil 1y ago
I was doing up some 1bit patterns this one time. Like 8s and 16s and whatever. Swastikas make a nice pattern. Ya I know. But there are actually only like 7 really good strong patterns and swastikas is one of them. Such a good graphic. Too b
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by swayvil 1y ago
I dunno man, name a scientist who doesn't concentrate.
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by swayvil 1y ago
Sounds like concentration meditation. (The Buddhists call it "samatha") Concentration causes your perception to penetrate things. What you observe dissolves, its former appearance a mere veil, parted, to reveal another appearance.
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by swayvil 1y ago
As individuals less work is a good thing obviously. But as a society less work is a bad thing. Perverse.
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by swayvil 1y ago
What do you guys play? Me a little DCSS. It's really come along. I like Angband but its crudity repels me. It's enough to make me do my own roguelike. Almost. Any of you try that dwarf fortress roguelike?
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by swayvil 1y ago
The ui developments are obnoxious. And there are weird delays. And it gets hot in unexpected new ways. Seriously considering Mobian. But my banking app.
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by swayvil 1y ago
I've always considered you to be one of my most valuable assets.
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by swayvil 1y ago
There is a small community of billionaires who control everything to the best of their ability. They control for their own benefit. Technology, its development and production, is one thing that they control. The rest of the population (the
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by swayvil 1y ago
How on phone?
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by swayvil 1y ago
It's cool. It would be better if there was only 1 kind of edge instead of 2. I refer to the broken edge and the circle edge.
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by swayvil 1y ago
The wizards of yore call that breathwork "pranayama". They take it seriously. Recommend approaching it with care.
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by swayvil 1y ago
In his books, one way of travelling was to switch souls with a creature on another planet. Apparently it worked very well. Though managing a new set of limbs and senses could be difficult.
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by swayvil 1y ago
Maybe we could travel without bodies. Ala Lovecraftian astral travel or whatever. I mean you couldn't ship matter like that but for everything else it might work just fine.
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by swayvil 1y ago
Ok. As I see it, the primary hazard of centralization, and the concomitant moderation, is that control over our communication is given to a central authority. This hazard exists whether it's a few centers or many. Therefore any meaning
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by swayvil 1y ago
Decentralized must necessitate abandonment of moderators. To filter the bad stuff, to inform that algorithm, we will use a shared rating system. Rating the stuff and rating the raters too.
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by swayvil 1y ago
Correlation causation etc. I'm gonna start eating whole mice. It's a nice compromise. They're velvety.
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by swayvil 1y ago
The arrival of AI has made mass surveillance pass a certain threshold. Now we're just a step away from aristocrat heaven.
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by swayvil 1y ago
Serfs and lords is pretty stable. But ya I get yr point.
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by swayvil 1y ago
This would suggest that a city is a hive of insanity. The bigger the crazier.
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by swayvil 1y ago
Or modify the sun.

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