cobbzilla

Ah I see what you mean. For me I don't think there is any distance where both near & far eye could each have focus -- it's always too blurry in one or the other. I could see how being able to consciously switch would feel weird!

I'm curious -- if you held a stereogram at the right distance, could you see the 3D image? Or is it also like me, only one eye at a time?

Interesting, I hadn’t thought about that, and I haven’t noticed different thinking. But I switch back and forth all the time. Like writing this I’m using my nearsighted eye, but if I look across the room my vision switches to my farsighted eye (more or less instantly).

The thing other people notice is after I’ve had a long day of screen time and am physically tired (long day, late night), and I’m out with friends, my farsighted eye does all the work and my nearsighted eye gets lazy and wanders. It’s got nothing to do and can take a break! I’ve heard many a good-natured joke about it over the years.

Some part of this is true, but it’s complicated.

I lack stereoscopic vision, due to eye surgery in infancy & wildly different focal lengths in each eye (one is very nearsighted, the other farsighted).

I can still see in 3D because my brain uses tricks like relative object size, shadows, and sometimes I move my head laterally so my farsighted eye gets different angles on an object (“faking” stereoscopic vision with one eye).

Nonetheless, catching a ball thrown straight at me is very difficult— I have to judge the size at which the circle is getting larger, and know the actual size of the ball. It often hits me in the hand and I try to grab it before it bounces away.

And I can never see those stereogram images where it looks like static unless you focus both eyes at some distance. I never see the world with both eyes simultaneously.

I once got glasses that corrected my vision “perfectly” but got major headaches and couldn’t wear them. Objects were in focus in both eyes, but were wildly different sizes!

I went to an ophthalmologist who basically told me they can correct my lenses but in my brain “the wiring is shot”.

I mostly work in front of a computer screen. I now use reading glasses so that when my nearsighted eye gets tired, I can put them on and continue working with my farsighted eye. These glasses have only a minor correction on the nearsighted eye so they don’t give me headaches.

So you’re saying “lobbying can do something, even when the government is not corrupt”?

If so, then yes, that’s the point I was making, which refutes the statement that lobbying only does something if the government is corrupt. If not, then I’m confused, please help me understand what I’m missing.

I get your point. Ships are passing in the night here. I’m sorry I wasn’t able to successfully articulate the distinction I was trying to make such that you’d understand.

Again, totally agree. I don’t think anyone is advocating for anarchy or zero restrictions on speech/expression. So if we’re going to debate where to draw the line, let’s pick examples that folks could reasonably have different opinions about, versus drawing the line so far out and saying “well you’ve crossed this super far line, so anything is fair game”. Anything should not be fair game. What kinds of speech/expression should never be illegal? That is maybe a more interesting question. What conduct is never over the censorship line in your view?

In some places hand-fishing for catfish is a time-honored tradition! [1] [2]

Soundtrack by The Flaming Lips. Very entertaining. But I don’t think watching would make anyone want to try catfish!

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0294805/

[2] https://www.okienoodling.com/

This is either a tautology or meaningless, depending on semantics.

Q: Are there today, or have there ever been in history, any non-corrupt governments (that by your implication are invulnerable to lobbying)?

I’m pretty sure lobbying is a thing everywhere, regardless of corruption. People want the government to do stuff and will try to make it happen, from autocracies to direct democracies and everything in between.

> Information flow requires regulation in any society.

I agree! But where to draw the line? Your examples include crimes (distinct from whatever speech/expression) that are far beyond where anyone is saying should be allowed. This seemed a bit disingenuous to me. I was trying to engender a higher-quality discussion.

The above acts either carry no intrinsic information content and/or very few people apart of free-speech absolutists would be OK with them. They’re not evocative of the controversy at hand, and I can’t find anyone defending them.

Perhaps more appropriate:

* Instructions for making an illegal firearm

* Unpopular political opinions

* Instructions for engaging in illicit speech without detection

* Silently standing still with head bowed and hands folded in public

* Using a VPN

* Holding a sign at a protest

There are probably many more examples like the above, which would engender a more nuanced discussion.

Can you fit Doom on it & play it? Bootable Doom Floppy?

How many users do you think are on the poster’s Jenkins/CI system? Sounded like a personal thing or maybe a small team, I didn’t get the impression it was supposed to be public.

It really depends, and can be variable, and this can be frustrating.

Yes, I’ve produced thousands of lines of good code with an LLM.

And also yes, yesterday I wasted over an hour trying to define a single docker service block for my docker-compose setup. Constant hallucination, eventually had to cross check everything and discover it had no idea what it was doing.

I’ve been doing this long enough to be a decent prompt engineer. Continuous vigilance is required, which can sometimes be tiring.

It happened. Now your data lake needs a lakehouse.

would you call this a false dichotomy? agree it’s very confusing.

The reader poll caught my eye. Something about the wording seems odd.

“Should silent prayer be banned outside abortion clinics?

[ ] Yes, no one should feel unsafe trying to access abortion clinics

[ ] No, there is a human right to freedom of thought”

I’m not so sure about that.

“In part, he puts this success down to BitTorrent, as he saw a huge increase in sales when his books appeared on sites such as The Pirate Bay.” [1]

The fact that people wanted to buy his books, when they could have had them for free, does not negate his or anyone else’s beliefs.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140422024114/https://torrentfr...

Indeed. If the UK can do something as wild as ChatControl, why not ShippingContainerControl?

I was wrong. I just read the thing and could swear I saw results. Sorry for being dismissive, it’s me who is the idiot here.

Octopi are truly amazing. One particular species is the only known invertebrate capable of bipedal walking, and they wear a coconut shell atop their head for camouflage while walking.

In the realm of gigantic non-human habitats, do beavers [1] win the prize for largest total area?

The park is in Alberta, Canada and I love their approximation: “If we thought in terms of hockey rinks, that’s 1600 hockey rinks of water.”

[1] https://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/nt/woodbuffalo/nature/beaver_gall...

oh my please read TFA it has exactly the answers you seek.

This article has some solid general advice on prompt-writing for anyone, even though the examples are technical.

I found the “Big-O” analogy a bit strained & distracting, but still a good read.

That is wonderful. May I thank you in advance for sharing this wisdom with your fellow never-over-the-speed-limit drivers? Empirically, I observe many who may not have heard it.

Yeah that headline made me feel really old and the above thought just popped into my head. Flash games remind me of my Atari 2600 in certain nostalgic ways.

Flash is now the retro gaming console of web 1.0

Looked it up. I paid a total of $164.03 in court fees, which was then added to my award when I won the case. I hadn’t thought it was that much! If I amortize that monthly from my first filing to the trial (~6 months), it was roughly $30/month.

sure and physics is all strings and pure math at the the most fundamental level; kind of misses the point.

It may be a minority, but not all authors share your view. Paulo Coelho [1] says “a person who does not share is not only selfish, but bitter and alone”. Sorry gotta say it, your tone matches.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Coelho

I see — you’re doing more than “here’s a few patches to keep working across revisions”, you’re doing separate-path feature work on a different, actively-developed project.

To me that sounds like not a great idea, but if you must do it, I could see some usefulness to this.

Agreed. If you want your change and don’t want to bother the maintainers with a patch they are unlikely to accept, or can’t because it’s proprietary: fork the repo (at whatever tag makes sense), then periodically sync with the latest code for that version.

The likelihood of conflicts is minimal, and often if you see conflicts it’s a good indication your issue may have been resolved. Or if not, you can see if it’s still needed, or how to adjust it.