astral_drama

I bike 9 to 10 months out of the year in southern Wisconsin. It would do people well to get outside and spend less time on their screens in the Winter.

When I had a brilliant stop on defense, a few savvy fans would appreciate it. When I scored goals, everyone knew.

Some people will much appreciate the holes in Postgres that are being plugged. Many more will be bored with patch releases until new features rollout.

A software affecianado appreciates patches, and might do well to teach laypeople the benefits of a good defense.

Thanks for entertaining us and bringing stories to life for all these years Patrick. May you boldly go where no man has gone before.

I like to think Set's form is emergent and takes whatever form you want see, or a group of people want to see. Set sort of emerges from the chaos, and that's what his image does for me, sometimes I see a dog, sometimes an anteater and so on. I think the Egyptians probably imagine that the world is always emerging from the primal chaos, it's not something that simply occurred in the past, and it's up to us what we make of it.

I think it's more of a desire to be loved by the woman he falls in love with and not accepting that she is not going to love him back. His refusal to acknowledge the truth sets him on a course of self abandonment, he simps after a wife that treats him bad to use the parlance of our time. I think it shows physical strength can't guard you from a broken heart.

> A privilege, really? Who bestows that privilege?

You do

> I am certainly sympathetic to people who are genuinely disabled.

Agreed, and it can be uncomfortable to sort through what's genuine or not. One of my favorite scenes is in the big Lebowski where Walter confronts the other Lebowski claiming he's not a cripple and lifts him out of his wheelchair...Funny and sad all at once.

> That doesn’t mean we have to lie to ourselves that they are being productive by sitting around reading books.

Not asking for anyone to lie to themselves about what they feel is productive, rather giving another perspective to hopefully help people appreciate being able to work.

> Who produces the food you eat, the clothes you wear, the house you live in, the energy you use, the medicine you consume, etc.

The able do. The disabled would love to work hard and earn a nice paycheck. It's a privilege to be able to work and be in good health. Hopefully you don't have to learn that the hard way.

It's a good Lovecraft quote,but I was inspired by Collective Soul's Shine when I saw the OP.

  Lay me on the ground
  And fly me in the sky
  Show me where to look
  Tell me, what will I find?
  What will I find?

How far will we peer into the unknown? What will we find out there?

Fine particulates aren't a problem if you wear a gas mask though.

I'm looking forward to running a Gemma 4 turboquant on my 24GB GPU. The perf looks impressive for how compact it is.

I often get a 10x more cost effective run processing on my local hardware.

Still reaching for frontier models for coding, but find the hosted models on open router good enough for simple work.

Feels like we are jumping to warp on flops. My cores are throttled and the fiber is lit.

I'm pretty sure even chatgpt could have told the senior leaders at Google to invest heavily in AI. Not a difficult call to make.

I think your implicitly getting at something here. Both are dealing with an inferiority/superiority dynamic. The suggestion of a group you identify as being less, causes a predictable reaction to characterize the other (non-aphantasia) as problematic/hallucinating (i.e. broken/lacking). This ties back to the post where the author speaks of feelings of inadequacy (shame, etc...) about being unable to visualize, again signs of an inferiority complex. While such complexes may be traced back to particular memories or events, they're also habits of thought which are common place and culturally reinforced, so much so that they seem quite normal. For example, the culture of idol worship, like raising up of tech heroes while implicitly lowering your own self worth, which happens often on this site.

The fact that the author doesn't mention the details of the memory or events of the day also suggests shame and concerns of being judged for them.

The good news is they are writing about their struggles which suggests their willingness to work with these fears.

I think the answer probably isn't about pretending you're not better or worse, but accepting that being better or worse at something doesn't change your inherent self worth. Accepting that your not in control of many of your conditions and conditioning can free the mind from a sense of guilt and the fear around judgement of yourself and others. Hopefully this helps the author and those who struggle with notions of identity and self worth.

The current admin wants even cheaper money, which is likely to embolden well connected borrowers to pump up whatever they think will hold a bit of value. It was housing, which hit an equilibrium (can't milk it much more), then stocks, then gold and now silver and memory chips of all things.

I wouldn't limit this to PE, although they are feeding on cheap dollars too, but the general trend of big capital out competing mom and pop for future resources. We're all short on real goods (need to buy food, shelter, ram, etc... in the future) and big capital is putting the squeeze on our short position by bidding up real resources with cheap dollars. Regular folks cover at a loss, or we go bust, and that's the gamble we're being put in.

It's market manipulation. You get a chase going (panic buying) by those that are short (need to buy memory in the future). Run up the price on those shorts and squeeze them out as they chase price higher, meanwhile you bought in low and can distribute out your supply when you see fit, or run it up higher until everyone is wrecked. If I were the memory makers I wouldn't want to cede control to openai, you'd rather have a healthy, steady ecosystem than a rigged market that people don't want to be involved in.

Same

It made me think of The Who - Love, Reign O’er Me.

  Only love can bring the rain
  That makes you yearn to the sky
  Only love can bring the rain
  That falls like tears from on high

I’m giving the Asus Proart P16 a try, if I was trying for maximum battery life I’d probably avoid the discrete gpu (e.g. a zenbook or similar). I am not a full time road warrior so battery life is important, but not absolutely critical. There may be some options out with better battery life, but I haven’t been focused on this metric too closely.

I just don’t want to be sidetracked by overly aggressive and pushy decisions by my OS vendor anymore. I’ve been happy with the stability of my Debian/Ubuntu systems for getting work done. I have been using apple laptops for 10+ years, and I still like their build quality, but I don’t like the direction macOS (or Windows) is heading.

Tahoe crippled my Intel 2019 MBP and cost me plenty of time and incurred a lot of frustration until I gave up and reformat the ssd.

I am switching to Linux for both my desktop and laptop from here on out.

I don’t find it very gendered, my sister and I used to do this often, like young wolf pups, we’d jostle and play for the upper hand.

I have women friends who will play like this with me. It can reveal insights that neither of us were clear on without the other bringing it to light.

Of course it can be one sided too, and it turns into bullying. I think context matters and even if you’re being bullied, it’s still revealing if you are able to see beyond the emotion. You’re not your looks, your body, your mind, your bank account, your friend group, etc… Your worth is beyond these things. I hope you find that someday!

I've developed a system that checks out a git repo into a docker compose container, tells claude to read a feature story, then implement it with --dangerously-skip-permissions turned on within the container. It work well enough.

I think it's another workflow, that might suit your needs, but I think the real magic continues to be in the model. Similarly, I'm sure Claudia adds some nice window dressing.

Eventually folks will settle in on some local maxima for interaction and software development with LLMs. Who know what it will look like? It'd be nice if whatever comes next bumps the industry out of the current scrum and sprint style workflows, if only to break folks out of the theatrics of these software personas and rituals.

Here's my WIP: https://github.com/astral-drama/filter

You do your best and let the sea take of the rest.

Anyhow, vibe coding is pretty low stakes compared to the joys and terrors you'll find out at sea.

Bon voyage!

It’s a great movie here are a few of my favorite quotes from Jerome, a genetically engineered superbaby.

“Jerome Morrow was never meant to be one step down on the podium.”

Jerome Eugene Morrow: You're flying today, aren't you? Look at what a mess you're in. Come on. I have your samples ready.

Vincent Freeman: I don't need any samples where I'm going.

Jerome: You might when you get back. [shows freezer with a large stockpile of his specimen samples] Everything you need to last you two lifetimes.

Vincent Freeman: Why have you done all this?

Jerome: So Jerome will always be here when you need him.

Vincent: Where are you going?

Jerome: I'm traveling too.

Vincent: I don't know how to thank you.

Jerome: I got the better end of the deal. I only lent you my body. You lent me your dream. [gives Vincent a folded piece of paper] Not until you're upstairs.

My first boss at the uni would tease me about my Emacs usage, saying, “It’s an operating system with a text editor tacked on.” I just smiled and loaded up a game of snakes within my Emacs buffer and carried on hacking.

Moody’s isn’t taking a radical position. They’re adjusting to a consensus position rather than being an outlier.

It’s no secret the USA fiscal path is unsustainable, the Fed has said the same.

> It'll get a lot worse before it gets better.

If they're getting away with it, they'll do it again. The tariffs were paused for 90 days. The plan is to run the same playbook in 90 days.

He does all the above!

He owns his own social media stock (DJT), where he post this morning "THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT" to his followers. Attracting more to his social media company.

He has a meme coin in cryptoland, and now via tariff manipulation, he can guide select people to place big bets on the largest derivatives market.

Val Kilmer's playfulness shines as he departs on April Fool's day - a real genius move. Thanks for the good times Val!

I recently bought 4 lifepo4 12v 100ah ~1200 wh for $159 off Amazon as a retail customer. Battery storage is indeed cheap and accessible to the average person. Pair it with new 24% efficient solar panels and you can see why there's little to be gained by running expensive lines to distribute power when it can be sent everywhere wirelessly.

It's not too different to how developing counties rolled out wireless Internet and gained a huge benefit without much infrastructure investment.

It's been quite a show! Some nice CMEs, flares, comets and now a big alignment. I feel really blessed to be under clear skies to see these ancient celestial bodies dance across the night sky.

Yes and it can be quite absurd and right on the nose.

While Putin feeds humans to the dogs of war, he will at the same time chide his countryfolk that they are not having enough children.

There is a softer version in the west where elders and the wealthy are 'concerned about birthrates' while at the same time squeezing their young on living costs(shelter+food).