regpertom

Ok. I think going further would bring no benefit and would run against site guidelines. Posting this so you don’t wait for a reply that isn’t coming. Thank you and have a good day.

So let me get this straight: what I think about whether a picture of Mario being rude is a joke or not determines if Elon Musk instituted a rule about impersonation? That makes no sense. You also throw ideas around like me pretending to be an arbiter around, makes no sense either. Why do you need it to be about me? “What else are ‘we’ to think?” That’s arbiter talk buddy. Seems to me like you’re trying to drag me personally into a bickering match, I won’t hazard a guess as why. First thing you replied to (reworded for clarity) I think Mario being rude is a joke, I think other times things that are obvious jokes have also been banned. And that’s what this Mario thing is right: joke gets twitter account banned? It’s faulty reasoning for you to assume I know much of anything about Nintendoofus internet drama but I don’t think I need to as long as it boils down to banned for joke. But I also think, and this is most important of all: that what I think has nothing to do with whether Musk instituted a rule or not. That should not be shocking.

Here’s a story anyone at home can confirm or not, before I posted the first comment, I tried to look it up to see if it was true: ‘did Elon musk institute a rule about impersonation’ had to reword a few times and scroll through many pages of news articles from all around the world repeating what I would call the same outrage clickbait from seemingly the same script, before I found a snopes article that actually answered the question and no he did not institute such a rule. That’s interesting and worth pointing out imo for the readers here that are interested in getting full stories, because as I’ve already said, that he instituted such a rule is widely reported and repeated, and is (afaik) incorrect.

Rather confusing thing to try and pin on me. Could you elaborate on how I’ve caused you to think that?

Given a list of all twitter bans, there would surely be many that we would both agree are obvious parodies. So, obvious is relative, or, a grey area/high weasel potential area to do what you want. So it’s not obvious that anything has changed there either. That’s besides the point though that, while widely reported and repeated, Musk, as far as I’m aware, did not institute the rule about impersonation.

Musk didn’t institute that rule, the rule was already in place. Musk’s change was to ban without first giving a warning.

RPC calls is like ATM machine. Musk’s tweet says RPC’s. The person quoted everywhere arguing with Musk over it’s tweet says RPC calls. Does that count as apostrophe misuse suggesting not being at home with the concept as well?

The article is talking between 8 and 37hz, iirc. General given hearing range is 20hz to 20khz. So the vlf is flirting with that range. Throwing in an aside here, inaudible might be a better word than undetectable. I was always told just because you can’t hear it doesn’t mean you can’t feel it, for both high and low end. As for why you might want to dampen inaudible low end aside from a fastidious want for control, or not wanting a build up of that feeling only for some lucky punters, you might just not want to shake a ceiling tile loose or a vibrating air duct might be annoying: there is more energy in the low end.

Hey stemming from this is a lot of talk of eq and rooms. I hope no one minds but may I also add something for budding sound techs: mics and speakers and why it’s easier for a dance venue compared to a live rock venue. These are what I’d call newbie-ish problems so forgive me if you’re talking about pro level rock venues. Low end builds up on stage and unless managed gets into mics you don’t want it to leading to lots of sloppy bass. One might low cut mics that aren’t meant to be receiving low end content for example or mute ones not in use. Another thing is that producing bass frequencies requires the speaker diaphragm to move more air and so there’s a slower transient response or time to complete a cycle. If you send too many different things at once to the low end the poor thing gets ‘confused’ and things get sloppy. Double hangs seem to be getting quite popular for this reason, less instruments fighting over the same cycle. Otherwise don’t send everything you can to the sub just because you can. Personally, unless there’s some reason to, I rarely let anything go below 80 anyway and defs not 60. I hate giving advice, tell me how I’m wrong.

Seems as though “official” is for things or groups, like your list of companies, govt depts etc. Where as the checkmark is for people. That line gets blurry when people are things, like influencers. Seems like before, the checkmark filled both of those roles and now it’s potentially going to be split.

I believe that the lords and peasants thing is about lack of clarity and consistency in how or who could get a checkmark. As the checkmark was, among other things, a status symbol for cool kids as well as a verification mark. The status symbol existing at least in part because it was ‘bestowed’.

Assuming that last paragraph, it would make sense in a certain way to ‘unload’ the checkmark into component parts and have a system for each.

Could a physical example be like an expo or business woman’s breakfast? Metropolis Business Expo, being a part of it said to be essential to doing business in metropolis, anyone can attend, vip passes given to friends of the organiser for backstage party but also for better stall location. Split stall location pass out of vip pass and sell vip pass for 8$. This impact the lord club that existed before as any peasant with 8$ gets to stink up the balcony cocktail party. Does that fit? Hopefully at least barely.

I think they mean valid as in ~useful or ~worthwhile or ~good, because otherwise, as far as I understand it, that would depend on the arguments. And if so, that’s up to the person.

Would this be a useful physical example?: evaluating a car by the material of its nuts and bolts is not a full evaluation. You have evaluated a car by the material of its nuts and bolts. Therefore you have not fully evaluated the car.

That seems valid doesn’t it?

Otoh, only considering the “cool factor” of a car is not a full evaluation of the car…

On another hand: given my priorities and information, I find it’s generally unimportant/more important/somewhat-important to consider/ignore the “cool factor” of a car in favour of focussing on the nuts and bolts.

Last one isn’t valid I don’t think and it’s not trying to be, since it’s an inference of best estimate for the purpose of decision support. Right?

I’ve listened to a lot of Watts, which isn’t to say I understand it but rather I can recall it. your p1 concerns making progress, p2 on being serious. Watts talks on progress being an illusion, that the deer hunter doesn’t see the mountains. He also talks the same in being serious, rather than sincere, in that it’s like being an oak that cannot away in the wind, constantly concerned with holding yourself together lest you might accidentally fall through the ground.

By trying for America while worrying about India, would be like being hung up on trying not to be hung up. Or competing about who has attainted the most enlightenment, who sat for longest or the most uncomfortably. ~it cannot be grasped by thinking, it cannot be perceived by not thinking. ~The goose flying over the lake doesn’t mean to cast a reflection, and the lake has no mind to retain it. But still, it happens.

Hey, excuse me for using you as an example but there’s a lot of this rough idea in this comment section and I’m rather confused by it. I don’t mean to single you out.

What would be wrong with that? In a search for low hanging fruit, the planes that can’t make it to the tarmac would be a group of their own. Of the ones that do, next to others some stand out as being noticeably different. Etc. Then patterns may emerge based on that, iterate iterate. Seems to depend on where you’ve set the bar.

If you were an office space Bob, depending on the bar placement, you may just be interviewing to see if someone loses their cool when asked “what is it you do here?”.

If you were a cop you might bring in every suspect just to see if someone stands out.

So what am I missing? Is it the scale of the operation?

“Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.”

Sometimes people lurk because they know they’re going to be scrutinised by self appointed gatekeepers and so try and wait until they have something perfect. Only to later just jump in the pool with something simple.

Your either is not complete, there are plenty of other possibilities.

Around a decade ago I saw an analysis of fluoridated drinking water and iirc the positive for drinking over toothpaste is that the fluoride hangs around in the mouth longer for drinking.

I found a way to put those two together. Theoretically. The people ‘really’ in power prioritise staying in power and morph to whatever shape that requires. The strats don’t really change so the avg goes up 10 years every 10 years. “Don’t you worry about blank, let me worry about blank” where blank is whatever ever those who would have power want.

So the people who control are taking their cues from millennials, (maybe because they care too much about what young people think?), and therefore the youngins can be driving things without being driver.

How’s that? Obvious next question is where did millennials take their cues from then?

Here’s my guess: Pinker writes sometimes on evolutionary psychology. A controversy I heard around the atheism plus days was that evopsych should be banned. Therefore it’s likely that Pinker has been declared cancelled. Thus, to mention his name is to sin, and a sinner must repent, so wash your mouth out with soap and divert yourself from this path of heresy lest you join him.

How does this fit together?: "Here's some people who don't fit in to the default social mold, now laugh and mock." “a large swath of probably-white, possibly-poor, definitely autistic people.”

Also, Wikipedia says 4chan launched in 2003. 19 years ago. Which I doesn’t count as decades.

…waaait a minute… has my autism just eaten your onion? Layers upon layers to this satire thing haha

I’ve heard it said to be careful. That one may find upon deconstructing their ego, and finding that it’s all an illusion, that they stare into the face of god, and that god is them staring back at them. That they are it. That they are the divine. How intoxicating. This person and the drug addict who thinks they’re Jesus are on the same wave length. The drug being a dangerous shortcut. So have they not progressed very far? Or have they progressed somewhere else? Like the saying: far out man.

I’ve been trying to learn about rocks and came across this in lists of deadly rocks: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalcanthite Which is annoying because even rocks are out to get me. It’s chemical formula is CuSO4·5H2O which reminds me of H2SO4 which is sulphuric acid. The article does contain a warning.

There’s a movie with Natalie Portman where she’s offended by a boy calling her a lady. She thinks she’s being called old.

There’s also what I’ll call the Jeremy Clarkson ooo hello ladies, reserved for fancy done up groups of ladies in nice dresses and hats for example from the country woman’s association.

Distinct from the oooo hello ladies of a group of prostitutes making their grand entrance from the back of a hummer I recently saw in the breaking bad movie.

Boys I’ve seen used a lot referring to groups of men in the examples of dogging the boys at a construction yard, pulled the boys for an scv rush in sc2, hello boyyys for Roy and HG implying something rude.

True. Please allow me to expand my interpretation, not trying to discount yours.

One thing would be a talk by Temple Grandin, who had her brain scanned in some way (I’m not sure between mri cat ekg eeg etc but I think fmri). Iirc and very loose summary it showed a mid section of her brain to be different, and therefore an explanation of the symptoms of her autism was her brain rewireing around this difference by relying more on other parts. I think she does compare it to others who have suffered brain trauma to see how the brain can do amazing things, as well as there might be some physical thing to autism. So I’d say rather interesting and a reason to bother with those kinds of things. Otoh have you ever been so different that people want to study you? An autist can miss this and think they’ve made a new friend but the crushing realisation is that it’s a bit more like a freak show.

And so, mentioned at the bottom of the article is that he shows signs of autism. If you assume that to be true and read between the lines of his history, throw in a leap here and there, in an attempt to understand why, it can look as though he learnt the languages because he decided to and did, but why is that he wanted to connect with someone, anyone, from childhood being a constant outsider. Like Forrest Gump learning ping pong. Like Forrest Gump only ever being treated like a person from damaged people. It also explains why he didn’t want attention, associating all attention with bad, since early childhood. Iirc, to be specific, he found novelty in how different words sound in his mouth and enjoys seeing people be happy that he can speak to them. Those people being outsiders as well, from a certain perspective. I feel as though these are all quite common autistic experiences. Another one is being paraded around as a novelty by people only long enough until you annoy them and then you are tossed aside again, not knowing why, todays puppy being tomorrows embarrassment/responsibility. Which talks of another autistic trait: be useful.

So please forgive me for portraying that I am mocking the event, you are correct in that I may have been too sensitive, but I feel as though the writer writes off as him just being brown, something quite different: the lengths some autists, and generally, some outsiders, will go to to fit in or to avoid or cope with the anxiety of not fitting in. To have a normal experience in a normal way.

So to stress again, I appreciate the story and everyone involved. I’m aware there’s a lot of contention and hot button issues nearby but I’d like to avoid it. I’ll leave you with a scene from almost famous: https://youtu.be/WzY2pWrXB_0

Begs the question as to how much Mr Plinkett changed the review landscape? Long form anal sis including the meta, the craft, and how the soup was made. Throw in every frames a painting as maybe another OG. Going beyond is it good or bad x/10 to something else entirely. 6 hour review of the 2 hour phantom menace. Or in efap, what it means to pan right or left. Flexing the knowledge of a critic and thereby proving the worth of film studies, often maligned as useless, allowing us to see through their eyes. Trusting the audience and giving them tools to be a critic themselves.

“You might not have noticed, but your brain did”

Now there’s mauler, critical drinker, er, to name a few. Going beyond entertainment, long form analysis of politics and more. Go beyond the press release and the status quo.

I’m conflating a lot of things here purely because it would be funny if mr plinkett could be shown to have revolutionised the world in ways the “pretentious snob” could only dream.

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.“

This is somewhat like an inference from best estimate used to develop a plan and then disregard that and implement the plan. Why the design of your plan is important to get right, because it’s about to be thrown away. There is even a certain trauma or frustration with having to go backwards, unless you’re prepared for it. Have you pulled your hair out on being questioned all the time by passer bys: why are you doing that? Why don’t you do it this way? (Usually best translated as why aren’t you/why don’t you do it my way) By someone who has no conception of the system that produced the implementation plan? Because I am! Grrr! Or you core dump everything on them and you get: sorry I even asked. Or you go along with it only to find later there was a good reason you were doing it the original way and now there’s a lock on the crit path.

This is disregarding the times you’re the one who is wrong.

Which also hints at why logos is hard. Same with debugging. The sanctity of the system that produces the outcomes. Constantly having to remember details. What is happening? Why is it happening? How do you know? How can it be otherwise? Non technical people seem to be able to get away with the first idea that comes to mind, unexamined.

Frameworks, shortcuts, assumptions are developed only at some point to fail you and shoot you right back to first principles. Or you never leave them and the unconcerned dance circles around you. I heard you’ve been having trouble with your tps reports?

Lua indexes from 1 not 0! Are you kidding me!!!? ;_; I went through 5 Adams before I figured that out.

“Professor Henry Jones : Oh, yes. But I found the clues that will safely take us through them in the Chronicles of St. Anselm. Indiana Jones : [pleased] Well, what are they? [short pause as Henry tries to recall] Indiana Jones : Can't you remember? Professor Henry Jones : I wrote them down in my diary so that I wouldn't have to remember. Indiana Jones : [angry] Half the German Army's on our tail and you want me to go to Berlin? Into the lion's den?“

To extend further, is that why don’t touch my stapler? Get out of my chair?

“People who drank heavily had the highest risk. However, the team also found that light to moderate drinkers tended to have healthier lifestyles than abstainers -- such as more physical activity and vegetable intake, and less smoking.” That’s surprising if you think abstainers are vegan fitness freaks stereotype, less surprising if it’s actually pretentious stoner stereotype. Low to moderate alcohol points to being in control and reasonable, no alcohol points to substitution. There’s also a funny thing where the pretentious stoner decides smoking is bad and moves onto nangs.

“… analyses also revealed substantial differences in cardiovascular risk across the spectrum of alcohol consumption … minimal increases in risk when going from zero to seven drinks per week, much higher risk increases when progressing from seven to 14 drinks per week, and especially high risk when consuming 21 or more drinks per week… findings suggest a rise in cardiovascular risk even at levels deemed "low risk"… (of one or two drinks per day)” So one to two every day puts you in 7-14 per week which is moderate. So it becomes 1-2 a day is fine but that doesn’t literally mean do it 365 days a year. Orrrrr that one party a week of 7 drinks is the way to go!

Are we also talking about heart disease and drug use? Heart disease and coping? Heart disease and quality of life? Because it seems like we are in that although alcohol bad, somehow alcohol good, or rather alcohol not as bad as not alcohol?

There’s an episode of doctor House where a guy slams cough medicine and vodka to make himself dumber and he proclaims it’s worth it even at the cost of his health.

Doctor House also mentions type a and type b personality, type a being a big risk of heart disease from being (angrily passionate) all the time. Is wiping yourself out, or a 7 drink party once a week, like a form of psychiatric sleep? Be a dumbass for a bit every now and then and your heart won’t explode? Pick something to allow you to belly laugh and not worry for a bit?

Very stimulating. I am reminded of the mending wall by Frost, of meditations by Aurelius, of Cats Cradle, and Feersum Enjinn. And of the old server mantra of accept the traffic of others but watch the traffic you transmit.

Of this lyric “ And I'm no different, I live in conflict and contradiction But it can be so beautiful When I don't reject what lies within It's beautiful the way agony connects us to the living I think of the world when I hurt, and keep on existing in the Now”

Am I on the right path by thinking it talks on the strange symmetry in the hearts of man? (fearing the darkness and scraping away at the edges with fire - Rei Ayanami) waves and troughs, prickles and goo, anxiety is thinking one of them will win (Alan watts). This dastardly act I do only for good reason! (Someone’s ladder?) A seemingly endless cycle of justification?

Give unto Caesar, which bokonon paraphrased as Caesar doesn’t know what’s really going on.

The vine produces fruit and the wild boar has bad breath.

Is it the dangers of being locked in idealised or normative interpretations and advocacy?

I don’t think it’s what it’s trying to talk about but I’ll mention on talk of those best able to murder, those best at warfare, they may preach peace because it is they that do the killing, someone else decides the victim. Your poem maybe is of them trying to keep their monopoly.

And so it is that your poem talks of the other, beware them, do not believe their lies (write it on your Polaroid for when you forget later - memento) but it is really talking of yourself, you aren’t better than them, when you are sure of yourself you have lost, when you are unsure of yourself you have lost. If your aren’t to be fooled by others you need only stop fooling yourself? (Which maybe can’t be done haha)

Not sure how it fits in but I’m also compelled to add from a beautiful mind: you watched a mugging John, that’s weird.

Let me save you said the monkey, putting the fish safely up the tree.

Also, beware them all you like, your still stuck with them.

Gosh, actually I’m lost. I grapple with this a long time, inwards spirals infinitely, outside doesn’t stay still long enough. It’s best not to get involved. Don’t mention that you know Spanish, make friends with strangers at the bus stop.

It’s funny that in the context of an article about a genius of language that I’ll admit there would be better, more accurate words, and ways, to say what I’ve tried to say. May I also clarify that I mean no bad will towards to writer or anyone else involved, it’s only through their honesty that things like what conversation led to his name being brought up can be wondered about. I’d like to take it as a win though that I wasn’t incoherent! Thanks :)

This could be done with a few people eg: “The remarkable brain of a nightclub bouncer with the worlds highest IQ.”

The article talks of him like he’s a child. Bouncing around at all the attention. Thrilled to make new friends. Bordering on mockery. Hidden behind wonder, the call goes out: look at you, who are not one of us. A carnival ride for the writer, gather ‘round everyone!

Smart enough to do anything he wants, not smart enough to be normal.

“There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.“

Having a squiz at the first page of results on that question, seems like it’s a per capita thing of being a large country with few people. Also, “including exports”, which means all the coal etc and thing they export to China etc is being counted. I don’t want to say it’s an accounting trick but it feels like an accounting trick. 7% of global fossil fuel exports counted against 0.3% of the worlds population (8bill vs 27mill). Is it also counted against the importing country when they use it? Because that feels like double counting.

I’ve been wondering about “mid phase” internet a bit recently. The time where it opened up to “nerdy” people, after tech professionals, and before general masses. There was a pushback against the internet being serious business. All someone has to do was turn off the computer and it all went away. Could it be that even back then it was somehow known what would happen with the influencer marketing engagement stuff that is a known problem now? Unwarranted self importance? Superman vs Goku and Star Trek vs Star Wars as training in not only how to leverage conflict for engagement (or your personal internet points) but also in how to see through it as being bait? That if you let the general masses make the internet real life then you open pandora bawks? Not sure that’s why it’s all questions. My awareness of TRP MRA ETC was only after internet feminists started complaining about it loudly, for whatever that’s worth. As a tangent: how often do we rediscover what the ancients already knew? Can anything survive touching the general masses?

It would be smart for me to neither confirm nor deny but I will say no.

The way I see it the government has its own concerns and they may not align with mine. Can’t necessarily be angry that they’d want to maximise helped people. Not telling us and locking the doors though not so good. The other side of that is events like US disaster Katrina where there is too many people and too much paperwork that people become helpless wards of the state. That’s what makes a disaster a disaster, a failure of normal expectations? How would an individual even begin to feed 100000 people you know? There’s a certain helpless at scale.

The army did eventually show up, “the government” eventually got the power and phones up again etc. the sun did eventually appear again.

A skilled individual can produce excess, that excess can be shared with others, zooming out, family then community then state then country. But as we zoom out we have to rely on abstractions and quantisations. At the level I’m talking about though it was possible to say “if you’re on this map your one of us, the rest doesn’t matter” we could then ignore the rest. Much like the government ignored us?

What I’m trying to get across is a certain inspiration from being abandoned by government, big one or little one, show a little passion and violently execute an average plan!

Marcus Aurelius says something about being self reliant so that you can help society, not so that you can show off but so that you’re not a burden but that’s beyond my pay grade.

Somebody said that it couldn’t be done so with a smile on his face he got to it.