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Congrats on your game!

Which would you say were the major hurdles you'd found with C++ that convinced you against using it again?

> so the study writers / link sharer are simply farming for HN karma?

Only when the reader doesn't feel particularly invested in the topic at hand.

Imho the biggest crutch with M5Stack stuff is that for almost every single product there's close to 0 support for ESP-IDF, so you're either stuck with the Arduino framework and their libraries, or you have to se tup everything from the ground up. This does not really matter with simpler products like the M5Atom but it becomes a real pain when you have to deal with e.g. their cores. Also their absolute lack of JTAG support is infuriating, because it forces you to deal only with log-based debugging, which in current year is ridiculous even for embedded systems

I reckon it's more likely to have come out of World of Disks, by Pratchy Terriett

Very reminiscent of Adam Douglas' writing style (or Terry Pratchett FWIW)

Thank you for your reply.

> stop clinging to the false God of your usefulness and instead clearly see your true nature and your true relationship with God

I've been longing for that for a very long time. Hopefully I'll be able to feel loved that way sooner or later.

Sorry for the late reply, and thank you a lot for having taken the time to lay down in depth your thoughts on the matter.

It def gave me some food for thought.

Cool blog, I gave that I read. I'm not too sure how the first part of the article relates to the second or your conclusion though. It'd be nice to talk about it.

Also sorry to know you've been through that.

Thanks, I sincerely hope I very soon won't. But nevertheless I appreciate your warmth and your help, take care and godspeed for your own struggles friend.

You're making a lot of assumptions here, but that's not surprising coming from someone who's just throwing around vague statements as if they were fragments of an undeniable truth that's bound to leave readers in awe of your wisdom.

I reckon that's the reason why you jump to projecting the fear of being replaceable unto others - especially after it's quite clear from the other comments that I'm not interested in the slightest in being relevant and/or replaced.

I don't care. That's not the point. I've always been a cog in the machine. Even celebrities are. Even tech bros are. AI won't change that or the uniqueness of people, but will change how people perceive their own existence in the world. I know this is all wasted on someone who counters someone on the close verge of suicide with the argument that "at least you can have interracial sex lmao", so I'll just stop here. Cheers

> It seems like you are disappointed in yourself for things that you are projecting upon your own reality based upon anxieties of the future and you are incorrectly predicting that all of those things have to do with AI because that is your current fear...

It seems that to you. It actually doesn't have anything to do with what you've just said.

> You are being incredibly naive and selfish.

Thanks.

> You need to have a heart-to-heart with the humans in your life that depend on you right now. You need to tell them these thoughts that you are having.

To what end would I do something like that? To make them live in an hell of their own waiting for the inevitable? Just so that maybe they can convince me out of guilt that no, this life is actually worth something the direction the world is going AND people want it to go?

> Do you base your worth in life only on your ability to be employed and have a job?

Yes, and you'll find many others can only feel like me. Call me slave, I don't care. My existence finds its worth only in relation to what consequences my actions have on others; otherwise, it becomes pointless hedonism.

> Where is your passion?

Do I have to have one? Which passion? For what? For things that I do outside my job or anything unrelated to providing for others? Which passion are you talking about? What passes for someone's passion? Is finding value in things that come out of struggle, and willing to die because the CERTAIN future inability to do so not a passion? Do I necessarily have to pluck some strings and post it on twitter to have a passion? Are my thought and the violence I'm willing to do on myself not a sign of an internal passion? Is not going out with a bang sign of a passion?

> Where is your creativity?

Evidently, I don't have one.

> What if in the future you just get money because you exist and were born and you get to have a fulfilling life taking care of your family being with loved ones and pursuing passion?

See point above about "passion", and apply that to "fulfillment". Not everybody finds fulfillment in the same things, and I sure do not find mine in being catered for. Not that I ever felt fulfilled, but that was okay since not too long ago.

> You just want to throw it all away right now because... What exactly?

"All" what? My life? If so, I want to throw it away because I don't belong in a world nor in a future where my life will be defined by principles and a meaning that would've never been enough/the right one to define myself in the first place.

> If the AI is doing the building, we have to take care of the destroying, in this case destroying other people within a ring or an oktagon at the poker table or on the chessboard, sailing and surfing competitions for the more exotic personalities, also destroying pu*ies of all ethnicities too, that is always a good relief for anxiety.

What a bunch of vapid nonsense.

> Think for a second the source of the materials needed to put together the phone you are typing from and the whole internet infrastructure , it's the 8bn people who put together all of that not you > people

That exactly proves my point.

> Go do it then, also remember that the fact that wood + spark make a fire is not your knowledge it was passed over to you

You seem to be under the impression that I somehow am not capable to do so.

And that's not even the point, just living outside the world because you can't bear being in it is not something desirable to me nor valiant on a general premise; not sure why you're taking that as a counterpoint to my distress.

Yeah I read that quite a lot before. I respectfully disagree. Past a certain age if someone vividly wishes to end themselves and sees no hope whatsoever, it's for good reasons.

Thank you for your thorough response, I appreciate it. I know there's truth in that, in fact I don't doubt it.

Hopefully someone else will also read it if they stumble upon this thread, and find solace in it.

> beat the averages

That's the thing, I don't care about doing that this time. I've always been fine putting the most amount of effort I doing it, and it gave me meaning. This time, I don't find any reason anymore for doing that, because whatever comes is simply dehumanizing from my point of view. Beating the averages would be simply to admit defeat, and I don't feel like doing it. I really like the idea of simply saying no to this, and the only way to do that is to "leave the premises". Cheers

Cheers to that, I'm happy for you that you can live like that.

I can't, never got around doing that. And as I replied elsewhere, that bridge is held up by the will of many as if they made an Atlas of an idea that I simply cannot bring myself to share. I cannot pretend to belong to a future that holds no place for me.

Thanks for the encouragement. I hope your own optimism will help you as well.

I just don't want to stick around and find that out. I simply do not belong in a world where everyone would be perfectly fine with the implications of this one bubble not popping.

And do what exactly? But I know you're right, and the family (parents and siblings) I'm helping is the only reason why I'm still kicking, because if it was only for my fiancee, I'd be gone long ago.

There is no need for other people to endure the presence of a walking disappointment, nor for them to feint appreciation where one day there'll be none left. Cruel as it may sound, she'll move on, as everyone else does. I never got around grasping the concept of being there just because others would hurt otherwise - if I did, and if you do, then we're in agreement of forfeiting the concept that you own the right to your own life.

I didn't want to cause you distress, so I apologize for it.

> on one hand it sounds like someone who just got out of a psychedelic trip, on the other hand it sounds like someone who needs to go through one.

I'm going to decline both statements, I'm sane (AFAIK, and exception made for the suicidal ideations themselves) and I don't reckon I'd enjoy tripping at all.

> maybe go on a bender for a weekend

I had to look that up as I'm not a native speaker. Unfortunately fate granted me a weak stomach so I can't hold down more than a couple of beers, which lately I began avoiding since it only makes it worse. Cheers though.

See other response. The future is coming down like a hammer no matter whether I anticipate it or not, and there's no point in living like an ostrich for the joys that a fleeting illusion brings.

I won't be choosing inaction, once and for all

Thank you for your concern, I appreciate it, and I hope much good will come your own way no matter what.

But it really doesn't matter to me anymore what the future holds. I know I'll be unfit for it, that there will be no place for people like me in there.

There comes a certain point in life where everyone around you just looks in a different direction than you do, and when you cannot bring yourself to look in the same direction, you know you're finished.

> If you just ignore the problem, it'll go away

If only that was so simple

I get what you mean and appreciate the help, unfortunately that really doesn't mean anything to me.

I won't be able to help my family anymore, not that where I came from, not the one I'd liked to build with my fiancee. I won't be able to provide anymore, I won't mean anything anymore as a human. The significance of an individual is already so brittle when taken out of every relationship with others that it takes very little to be left with meaning nothing at all.

> if you were unable to see nor read or if you were born in a different country will you have the same exact worries? you're probably taking for granted a lot of things in your life now that other people would fight and die for.

"Why are you complaining about your leg being cut off and bleeding, if there are people out there who were born without legs at all?" This kind of retorts go nowhere and just serve as an apathetic response to any event that can happen in life. I won't have that. I'll simply choose violence, and since nobody deserves to be hurt by anyone's else anger, I'll simply redirect it towards myself and reject the world that is going to come. That's taking action.

How does AI help in solving the issues you brought over in your post?

> a declining population, a younger generation, that does not want to reproduce, neither working off the available work. We need a solution for that.

And what do you reckon is the reason for that? "Kids these days are lazy and only want to have fun", or something to that extent? Or is that because the cost of living has skyrocketed, the future is uncertain and people are afraid of the planet becoming more and more inhospitable for humans in the following decades or even years?

Maybe people do not want to work despite the job availability because those jobs offer piss poor conditions and no security? If not for all these reasons, why would people act so differently than in the past?

Once you put your precious A"I" in the equation, what do you get out of it? Even less job security, more leverage for bad employers to threaten workers with the magic wand of "you'll get substituted", and arguably way shittier quality of products all around (cases in point: A"I" customer service that fails to be satisfactory in resolving customer issues or become a huge nuisance to deal with, or A"I" "art" in articles and blogs that' so easy to spot that you could arguably be better off with no illustrations at all).

> So we need systems, that learns human knowledge, refines it, makes it better and takes over all of the work. First off, who is "we"? And secondly, once it "takes over all of the work" (whatever that means), what are people going to do? Do you really think we'll get some utopian fantasy like UBI?

> And for programmers: is sitting not the new cig smoking and drinking alcohol for early death? How tf does that have anything to do with A"I" helping? If I use Copilot to "help" me out in programming I'll still have to sit, will I not?

> For both of your cases, the "25 to 30 minutes task" trick won't work at all. For a case that persists for years, what I've learned is that it's either real ADHD, or some emotional problem around the topic. For me, it was 100% an emotional problem, though I do have a bit of a scattered mind, but I can focus it, whereas I've seen people with serious ADHD who can't do it at all and need meds (among other things).

I'm not so sure about that. Mind you, I had already been thinking that putting some effort in limited amount of time instead of doing nothing at all before reading the article, so if anything the latter gave me some more confidence that it's actually a solution that at least worked for someone

> But the latter type (the ones who're stuck in the cycle) need to let something go rather than accumulate new things (in this case, tips and tricks about Getting Things Done). On that front, I thing you're perfectly right.

> There's the DIY path (hard, involves journaling, introspection, noticing and categorizing your emotions, reading Jung, reading ancient texts like the Bhagavad Gita) and the psychologist path (you need to find a good paychologist who doesn't just ask "and what do you feel about it?" over and over but actually takes an active role in your situation and your circumstances)

Admittedly I don't feel 100% sure that what you just wrote doesn't apply to me, so would you mind expanding a bit more on the details? Why would procrastination in a case like mine be linked to emotional issue? Actually even better, was it that for you? In which way did this link exist, and how did you find out? How did you managed to solve it, if you solved it at all?

Thanks for replying

I agree wholeheartedly. I've been stuck in a rut of procrastination for the last several years, during which I hardly ever started side projects or experiments due to tired old excuses such as "I simply don't have enough time", "This would at least need x hours per day", etc.

When I eventually tried to start something, it would inevitably be delayed by other daily things to carry out (work, family, other life related stuff), so not taking notes would always result in "" have no idea what I was aiming for last time".

Add to that a fairly (un)healthy dose of perfectionism coming from working in the same field, and you have a recipe for years wasted on complete inactivity.

Another fiend of this kind, friendly to procrastination, is the inability to decide what to actually work on, especially when you have a lot of interests. Then the question becomes "I have hours available to work on something, but I cannot pull the trigger on any of those things that interest me", so back again to square 1 with year wasted on indecisiveness with nothing to show for it.