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I didn't. I just directed it in different directions. Same with everything: self-destructive tendencies, doomlooping internal thoughts or shame / guilt. Just redirect it, stop letting others control you.

Everything she touches is gold. Also: she would be the most fearsome cybercriminal I can imagine.

It's basically the same situation as the USA has w.r.t. the world until maybe very recently, they basically inherited the UK organizational structure.

Let me share as well I guess.

I was ten years old when I got WoW, I had had a laptop for a year already because my dad (who I spent every other weekend with) was the type to scream at people an then give them gifts when he felt guilty... anyway, I hadn't really known what to do with it until I learned about WoW. My friend had gotten it on the day it was released. However he didn't have a laptop so he played on his moms work computer. Similarily some of my other friends had trouble connecting.

I did not have this issue since my mom worked two jobs and my dad talked on the phone all day. For two years I played world of warcraft 18 hours a day. I didn't go to school or to sleep. I learned English, how to read a map and how to work in a team. I earned peoples respect for the first time in my life it seemed. They would listen to my advice because I wrote with correct grammar and punctuation about the actual patterns the enemies would repeat.. quickly people started to do as I said (something no one ever did in real life; listen to the tiny late-in-puberty kids ideas).

I think it's safe to say that WoW was my whole life. At the end of vanilla (shortly before burning crusade) I had finally reached level 60 but it was also then that I woke up one day with my neck stuck in a bad position. My mom took my to the countryside and I cried in withdrawal for two weeks like a heroin addict. When I came back the game wasn't interesting anymore, it had drifted a part.

During the glory days many things were different. First of all, the people didn't really know how to play the game. For some it was too intimidating / hard to actually grapple with the content and the storylines. Some of them were super immersive while others were difficult to figure out. Many people however were content to sit in the cities and ask for charity from the higher levelled players. This created high status for those players, however, if they were 12 levels higher than you then you could not see their exact level. This meant that you could be a level 25 dude in some shitty gear and still be considered a god by some level 10 dweeb. Being able to tell how strong someone was came down to recognizing the gear and gossiping with others OR being strong yourself.

Some of the coolest things about WoW were totally emergent, for example, IF was so laggy (because it had the only auction house) that walking through there was just a slideshow and I had memorized for how long to hold different keys to go where. Somehow it /felt/ like a really crowded place. When the PVP battlegrounds came you had to go to some obscure place and wait a really long time to get to play. It was kind of absurd to see the culture adopt to various things like this. If I had been older at the time I am sure I would have seen a different side to it, however, thanks to me being so young and making friends in the game who had kids my age they often had to go pick up from school around the time when I was supposed to finish school. So instead of them playing with their kids or me learning something useless at school I was playing with them and learning about what they were interested in, as if I was one of their mates at the pub.

One time I got invited to a wedding (of real people, held in-game) and a high level character gave me money for alcohol (I had never even seen a gold coin at the time) and my character got drunk in game, I had not been prepared for the "simulation" and it felt extremely realistic, I'd go so far as to say it was the first time I drank and partied because it honestly gave a similar feeling as later in life when I experienced these things for real. They had a level 60 priest (I think the only on the server) do the ceremony and then we had fireworks when we walked down the street.. Also the onyxia quest was freaking amazing when it first happened and all the NPCs in stormwind started panicking and the queen lady turns into some monster. Idk, all this stuff was freaking amazing. It's also why I learned about BF Skinner and FOSS. Basically, I owe WoW my whole outlook on life.

They also face denial of service attacks in the form of all sorts of nitpicks of presentation and ofc all funding sources have strings attached.

If you want plausible deniability just have a few obscure ctfs cloned next to your fake ctfs that you haven't solved yet.

The way I read that title makes me think he quit a "real job" (meatspace) to work in FAANG not that he was already a software developer.

It's already over. They have a terrible reputation.

I have spent years advocating for mozilla and firefox but now I do the opposite. They are a blight that needs to be put down. I honestly think they are worse than the googlopoly at this point because of the manipulation and dishonesty involved in trying to keep some semblance of "moral high ground" when all they do is work against the common interest of the FOSS community.

Fuck mozilla.

It was all foretold by the transformers franchise, the decepticons fighting the truckers and sports cars.

They already did; it was called servo. Management killed the project and fired all the engineers. You may have heard of the rust programming language...

Came here to make this comment. Glad to see it is at the top. Moz://a has lost all trust. Yay for atlas engineering! :)

I'm working on a meta-solution: https://gateway.pinata.cloud/ipfs/QmeVYAP75GAvY8Q8iSfMoWMGgT...

The idea is to center everything around a data-interchange format and then build a ton of tools. I'm sorry the presentation is still very disorderly and that paper is obsolete and so is my website rishi.is and the original declaration of intent at datalisp.is

However! things are moving rather fast lately and I have more or less completely figured out some of the things that have been blocking me so far and I hope to have working prototypes of the most basic tools by the end of the year.

Sure. What is my burden of proof exactly?

Completely and utterly disagree, it may have been the case in the 1800s or whatever but the naming sense of modern mathematics is pretty on point and actually incredibly insightful. Consider the definition of a "connected" topological space and tell me it doesn't tell you something about society.

Well it's not that the square is a negative number but rather that you were only taught to do arithmetic with 1x1 matrices so you don't have a nice abstraction in your head to convince yourself. It's similar to people who insist that 0 is not a natural number because they haven't studied abstract algebra and don't care about the underlying algebraic structure (nevermind that peano arithmetic starts by postulating zero and succ...)

algebraically, see: fundamental theorem of algebra (proved by Gauss in his PhD thesis)

But he said "sorry" (somewhat) politely and pulled the "we are fast growing startup"-card .. so you are obligated to forgive him?

It seems quite clear to me (as a third party to this) that the lack of communication w.r.t. this behavior was intentional. Trying to fix a mistake without having to admit having made it in the first place...

Civil discussion is going to collapse even further if bad actors don't stop with the dark patterns.

Here's the thing about doing things and telling people.. if the people ghost you then it can seriously take you off balance and if what you did is even slightly hard to explain then they will ghost you.

It takes a lot of patience to do both the things and the telling to people but I think the latter actually takes more patience than the former even though it seems to be the other way around.

Here's what I did recently: https://gateway.pinata.cloud/ipfs/QmeVYAP75GAvY8Q8iSfMoWMGgT...

Lol, it's been a hardfought censorship battle keeping this kind of stuff off the front page. It's almost impossible to refute the "great reset" and the technocracy agenda at this point, it has almost obtained a similar dogma status as the "WHO narrative" or whatever you'd call the official stance.

I've been digging a bit into this and the conspiracy seems to be pretty clear (although completely unbelievable in scale and intent! like what the actual fuck!! and I don't believe half of it, I'm just saying the part about the virus being an intentional strategy to centralize power quickly and deal with climate change .. very crazy haha but nothing in comparison to Trudeau being the son of fidel castro or whatever bill gates something something..)

Bah. We know it won't work: https://crookedtimber.org/2012/05/30/in-soviet-union-optimiz...

It's just crazy people threatening our existence to satisfy their egoes.

Edit: My take on world ruled by tech: https://gateway.pinata.cloud/ipfs/QmeVYAP75GAvY8Q8iSfMoWMGgT...

I think this discussion is a bit off, moving the root of trust from the mathematicians to the computers is the thing that will not only kill mathematics but also our civilization (and I will try to argue this overstatement now).

People have a hard time understanding things on extreme ends of the scale because they just assume everything is within some reasonable bounds of effort, this is a failure of imagination.

Mathematics is not a reasonable amount of effort.

What's more it is depended on by literally everything else we do (as a civilization).

Theorem proving software (so far) makes the fatal mistake of just trusting; the machine it is running on, the operating system it is running in, and several other things that can subvert assumptions. The correctness of a proof is justified by the trust we place in the heavily audited kernel which will check the proof script outputted by compilers for the human (textual) interface but that kernel is just another program on your (mostly) proprietary platform.

Mathematics is a religion that currently dominates the planet (and as with most religions, it is totally ambient to people in that they don't realize to what extent they base their behaviour on it) but it is not without competition and the thing we must realize is that this competition is as motivated, ruthless and mission-driven as anything else on the planet.

Just as we have people sitting around learning to recite the qur'an or the bible from memory we also have universities full of mathematics students reciting proofs and theorems by memory, trying to keep the knowledge that brought us this far alive.

Computer memory is inherently volatile and we do not have the same conventions and procedures in place as we do for safeguarding the legitimacy of written texts. These take time to develop and are usually motivated by tragedies (such as the loss of our "prehistory").

Try to imagine the amount of effort it would take to re-assess every piece of information that we have (at current time) because we accidentally let the entropy into our libraries.

> There are so many _symbols_ used in mathematics. It's all as if they're spells written by wizened greybeard wizards and passed down to apprentices throughout the centuries.

That's exactly what they are!

I don't think you understand the pressure he is under. Being a mathematician is not a joke, they project a fear-aura and can never tell a lie. It's the closest you can come to finding aliens on the planet.

People who haven't had true out-of-body experiences use the term without realizing what it is to have one. To be honest, it's the most fucked up experience of my life... I have done floating in the sensory depriv tanks but it takes something on the order of ayahuasca to actually leave your body.

Someone told me that apparently they aren't made, they are discovered.

The shamefully cruel part is that some random exam can have long term consequences.

Usually when something is targeted at beginners it was written by a beginner or intermediate person who hasn't yet realized how much better they can understand the $THING.

I think there is a cultural misapprehension of what these tidbits of knowledge we share with one another should be seen as.. It's usually framed as something the person who wrote it knows and that the person who reads it should learn.. and that's kinda what is happening, but everything I wrote after the ".." to try and pinpoint how to shift this framing is not going to get across. Maybe in a real conversation..

Well said. I'd say the first time you try to overcome your shame is the hardest. Now I see a path that leads to where you are sitting, it's all built on hard work in the end though.

Don't give up, let's make it happen.