jacobwilliamroy

I understand there is a market for these books. There has to be for someone to bother writing hundreds of pages and then for someone else to invest in editing and publishing and making cover art. That's why I'm not naming specific names, because I know there are a lot of people involved in making these things and I'm genuinely happy for them. I already buy these books from goodwill but I guess I should just give them back on the off chance that this stuff actually connects with someone.

Yes your physiology is limited and you need to augment your functionality with some kind of remembering machine. Like a notebook, or like some kind of app on your phone. Or a spreadsheet. Or a SQLite DB. Basically I think if you take notes on important details and then have some system for organizing and looking them up, that might be very helpful. Like I found a part of a book that explains how to do logical synthesis and I bookmarked it, so I can keep going back to reread it every now and then in order to do stuff.

As a person who reads a lot of books (1 book every 1-3 weeks depending on its length) I can say most of them are crap garbage and I throw them in the garbage when I'm finished with them. A lot of murder mysteries. I don't know why so many authors write murder mysteries. It's so hard to make a mystery compelling in a book format, because I know no matter how opaque or confusing things are in the beginning, if I just keep reading eventually everything will be explained. Even if the explanation doesn't make sense, there will be an explanation, eventually.

Maybe I should just stop reading random books. Follow Oprah's book club or the commandant's reading list or something like that.

I think there's just a large profit incentive for corporations to treat Taiwan like it's part of China. I found a Leap Frog globe in walmart the other day and it told me Taiwan wasn't a country and was, in fact, just China.

Who was talking about you, specifically?

I just think it's important to remember that not everyone is rich enough to have a home environment that's as good or better than the one at work. And also consider that the company bears a lot of expenses by having people work on-site and I rarely see discussions of who is going to be paying those bills or how that's supposed to work.

I actually prefer going to work. Being out of the house for 5 days a week really helps to reduce the utility bill.

Also I hate being at home. Nothing good ever happens there.

The only thing I care about is voyager 2 and I'm not going to hear how that thing is doing until October 15.

Most of the time a client just cares about the information, not the typesetting or the layout, and in that case most of the data can just be pulled from the web inspector (downloading files). I've yet to have a client ask me to also copy the typesetting and layout so I never learned how to do that.

I'm not sure if its worse to have too much or too little in your writing. I've read books where I skip whole chapters because nothing important happens.

I assume on the other end there would be books with missing pieces where important information is not mentioned or explained. I haven't read a book like that (yet) and I think it's because most editors would not allow an unfinished story to be published.

I dont think making a substance illegal reduces its use. In the town where I live it was illegal to sell liquor until recently and this just created demand for unsafe unregulated products that normally can't compete with legal alcohol. Alcoholics dont really care about things like laws. They dont really care about anything. When a person is far gone enough that he or she will drink hand sanitizer, getting in his or her way will just cause more problems.

This isn't how real people talk. These are bug people from outer space. In real life a normal person would just call and the call would go like:

"Hey I was calling for X"

"Oh I'm busy now. You should call back around HH:MM"

"Okay, I'll do that."

We should have 1 timezone for the entire planet. Having the same time be different times at different spots on earth just makes things more confusing and causes problems. When I coordinate between timezones I don't even use time, I use delta time (for example "The call is happening 22 hours from now").

Or sometimes a person shows up at a new IT job and the old admin didn't leave behind any notes and the only way to do the job at all short of rebuilding everything from the ground up is to pwn the network.

Agreed. My anxiety is already so high I should probably talk to a doctor about it. I just do all my cooking with glass or steel or wood just so I can have 1 less thing to be worried about.

We went post-truth the moment we connected to the internet. Nothing on the internet can be trusted. LOL

Some people would pay good money to make a number on a forum go up.

There are materials which are "transparent" to microwaves and don't get hot in the microwave oven but I can't remember which ones. And glass definitely isn't one of them.

As a US citizen, I think about money all the time. What country do you think I should move to to escape this?

Well we use a software from Centrics called ARCH which was really confusing when they asked me if I knew ARCH and I thought they meant Arch Linux. ARCH itself is basically just a MS SQL database and a SMB server. When I started here they were spending a lot of time using the GUI client Centrics provides to copy/paste data from ARCH into excel spreadsheets, but I found it's a lot faster and more accurate to just have a computer query the database and put the data in the spreadsheets automatically.

And the spreadsheets are good because they make it easy for someone who isn't connected to the network to view data from ARCH.

And ARCH is helpful because it keeps track of the orders, makes sure the products get printed out, packaged, and shipped to the right places. ARCH can do billing too, but I think we use quickbooks to do that.

Also the printers are necessary because we print out designs on paper and then use heat to sublimate the ink onto the textiles. I've heard rumors that we might start doing direct-to-garment printing but that would require a lot of changes to our process and I think it might not even be cost effective.

I make $25000 USD/yr automating printers and excel spreadsheets in a textile mill. I might be stupid.

I live in the southern U.S. so, no they're not being persecuted here. They still like to act like it though. It's annoying.

AI related question: Why do people think consciousness exists? What is the strongest evidence for consciousness?

But we already have "mixers" for normal money. It's called "money laundering". I can't imagine "mixing" remaining legal for much longer.

I've heard that crypto transactions can be more secure but I've also heard that securing information on the blockchain is basically impossible because it is a publicly available ledger. How does bitcoin opsec work exactly?

Other than crime the only other use-case I've seen for crypto is for getting money into Russia because the sanctions mean my English teacher friend in Vladivostok can't use normal banks to accept payments for the online distance teaching thing he does. But I could oversimplify this to "bypassing international sanctions" which might be a crime? Crypto mainly seems to be useful to people who can't or won't use normal banks, and those people are mostly criminals. People in Russia prefer bitcoin over rubles (even before the sanctions) but that's more an indictment of the ruble than an endorsement of bitcoin.

What am I missing here? What are the cool things bitcoin does that something like visa cannot? I've read Satoshi's paper and Vitalik Buterin's book. I want crypto to work, and I'm really searching hard for a problem crypto solves for which we don't already have a better solution.

Just for clarification (because I had to look it up) a picogram is 10^-12 grams.

Lol. One probably has to work at OpenAI to try and fix their LLM thing. The one they let the public use probably doesnt learn from its users. Hopefully. I wouldn't let just any data in my LLM. When those things get garbage in they just put garbage out.

The other day I was having ChatGPT write some code for me and it started referencing objects and properties that didnt exist. I wish I tried correcting it. That would have been interesting.

Thanks. I am reading the code now.