sickygnar

The whole thing is a complicated, wacky game. The DeFi stuff is especially fun right now. Opportunities (and danger) abound. There is so much money locked up in DeFi.

It's not necessarily always good for the bots either. They can be exploited and tricked as well.

I'm not able to drive because of epilepsy and have to rely on ride share apps when family members can't drive me. It's expensive but public transportation doesn't exist here. Around 1/100 people are epileptic and the chance of a seizure during one's life is double digits, so it's not an insignificant amount of people. Mine is "well controlled" but the consequences of accidents can be extreme. Plenty of other conditions exist which also prevent people from driving.

Unfortunately it's difficult to participate in a lot of our society unless you can drive.

I'm from the east coast and my wife is from LA. She is anxious on the small, windy east coast roads where I grew up, where there are lots of blind corners and narrow lanes. I'm the opposite, I'm overwhelmed by the 8 lane LA freeways.

4chan is unmoderated, reddit is heavily moderated. how on earth are they 2 sides of the same coin?

nowadays, it seems like anything unmoderated starts going right. it used to be the opposite.

mildly OT - the only thing they have in common is that they are infiltrated by bots which just serve to amplify the extreme discourse. there are some interesting bot-bait threads on 4chan where people communicate text via obfuscated text images, but bait bots with text replies (i.e. "hillary bad pizzagate"). the bot replies then become obvious because they reply to the bait text which is off-subject, but the real people reply to the text images with obfuscated text images. the bots were right wing extremist and comprised maybe 60% of the replies.

i saw someone had an interesting idea to make a "deep fried" image board or plugin, where text replies are posted as obfuscated images which are unreadable by bots, so people can more easily distinguish bot replies from human. i imagine discourse would improve considerably.

i'll save you all some time: https://nodejs.org/en/docs/

dogecoin beat you to it

IDA's license was too expensive for someone who wants to tinker, which is probably most people who want to use it. I almost feel bad for hex-rays now though, it's gotta be tough to compete with an excellent, free, state-sponsored tool like Ghidra. I would have gladly paid a reasonably, hobbyist monthly license fee for IDA for what I was doing (video game reversing in my free time). If I were using it professionally I would have paid for a professional license. It doesn't seem like hex-rays trusts anyone though - unsurprising considering their domain.

I agree. As an employee, you assume some of the same downside as the business owner, and little of the upside. If the business fails, you are out of a job. If the business does well, you might get a small raise.

Yeah. I asked their recruiters to leave me alone. I haven't interviewed there, nor will I. Realistically I won't pass the interview, so it's no use wasting my time trying. I actually was sponsored by them for GSoC (google summer of code) - my proposal was accepted by a prestigious open source project (and my code merged/accepted), but there's no way in hell I would pass an interview, despite the fact that I'm probably considered a decent engineer by most of my peers. Google has convinced me I'm not smart enough to work for them.

It's like they don't know where the car is, only which it is, and put the vin in some stolen car database.

Bitcoin seems so terrible privacy wise. It's so much more traceable than cash. I don't know why people don't just use monero. That'd be like everyone on the planet drives the same car, and the only way to identify yours would be to have the keys to it. The analogy works because monero takes a long time to identify yours with your key - you have to check every "car". That's one of the major technological downsides to it unfortunately.

Bizarre. I had a similar experience. I was told "I didn't seem comfortable in language X". I'd been writing it for ~10 years, and have written a handful of native extensions, with lots of open source examples. It was strange and very, very upsetting. Triplebyte gave me this feedback. I won't be using their platform again (or any interviewing platform), but unfortunately, I'm sure they have sold my data and told everyone I suck. I had a bad day.

Just tried it from 5ghz wifi on a 200mbit connection. It looks like it added me to the correct region (southwest) and set me to 720p@60fps. Tried playing Mordhau, a "hardcore" first person melee game where milliseconds count, and had a hard time due to input lag and occasional stuttering. The lag seemed to bounce around a bit, sometimes it was ok sometimes it was worse. I only played for a few minutes, but it seems like it would work better for more casual and console oriented games. I'm optimistic it will work better on a wired connection. For reference, I usually play it on a decent gaming pc on a wired connection (ryzen 1700, 1660ti)

claustrophobic? find a xanax prescription. medical implant? sorry

I'll take this as an opportunity to plug some other RE tools:

IDA is considered the holy grail. A base version is free, but its most popular feature, the disassembler, is $$$. Does debugging and static analysis.

NSA's Ghidra is great too: https://ghidra-sre.org/. last time I checked I don't think it did debugging but they were adding it. It's great for static analysis though, it has a great free disassembler (traditionally IDA's domain).

Cheat Engine is pretty amazing too, despite the goofy name: https://www.cheatengine.org/. It's the best tool for pointer scans imo, but also does debugging and is scriptable. Popular for making video game trainers, but it can be used for anything.

Wondering if things will swing back to physical hardware with new chips like the amd epyc rome... 64 core ridiculous i/o on a single chip. that, compounded with the fact that people seem to be gravitating back towards compiled and higher performance languages. could run a medium traffic site on one machine. hello mainframe era 2.0

Every brewery I've been to offers lagers. They can be hit or miss though since it's harder to mask off notes in them. The session ipas (low abv / preferably low ibu) are usually more dependable at small breweries. I personally like the crisp juiciness of those provided they don't overdo it with the hops. I can't stand the syrupy IPAs/double IPAs, fortunately those have been waning in popularity. They were fun for a bit but not anymore.

My girlfriend (now wife) went with me... she was the one that pushed me to do it, otherwise I probably wouldn't have done it myself. It took a lot of convincing. She was WFH so it didn't disrupt either of our work lives really. The stars aligned, most people don't have the opportunity.

> Despite all of this, I still just feel like I want jump in my car and drive around the country for a few months. I want to get out. I miss having adventures.

If you don't have any responsibilities besides yourself, then why not. If you're good at what you do I'm sure they would give you a 3 month leave, or let you work remote on the road.

I did it when I was 27. No ragrets. Bought an RV and saw 36 states in around 4 months. Did a lot of hiking, biking, and sightseeing. I was working remotely during the time as well, had an unlimited verizon hotspot which worked great in 95% of places (had to plan ahead a bit). After the 4 months I was pretty much over it but so far I consider it my best life experience.

yeah. i remember when they finally nerfed it (cs 1.5 era?) so that it reset your speed to the max speed when you touched the ground... some people were pissed. in half life deathmatch, they actually made a pro-mod (adrenaline gamer) to put it back in https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=78376...

Anecdote, but I personally noticed variable effectiveness of epilepsy drugs between different generic manufacturers and the brand name. I was taking Teva brand for a while and it seemed to work fine. Soon I noticed that the drug wasn't working as well (i.e. had seizures) and I saw the brand I was taking changed (I forget what it was). Anyway I had to run around and find a pharmacy that had Teva brand again. I also learned you can ask your pharmacy what generic brand they carry, and you can also ask them to fill your prescription with a particular brand, but you have to give 1-2 days heads up.

Ultimately, I ended up going on the brand name of the drug and it worked much more consistently. Often, if a generic drug isn't working well, doctors will write prescriptions that request the brand name so that insurance approves it. I think they all know that generics can be hit or miss for these types of drugs. Anyway, I don't take generics anymore. Now, almost every time I go to the pharmacy they ask me "You know how expensive this is, right?"... Yep. My insurance is billed for almost $5k every time I go, and I pay $180/mo. Generics would cost me $20/month or so. It must suck for people who can't afford it, or who have crapp(ier) insurance, or who don't even know about the variance between manufacturers.

It seems like reddit, with a subreddit being analogous to a hashtag

Most people have no idea what the majority of seizures are like. I certainly didn't, but I wish I did. Most people (55%) unfortunately only go to the doctor after they have a grand mal, meanwhile they've likely been having partial seizures unknowingly for some period of time. Getting checked out early can halt or delay the process of epileptogenesis, which could hopefully result in no, or less severe seizures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epileptogenesis

Convulsive seizures are also very dangerous, and often result in bodily injury, hospitalization, status epilepticus (a long lasting seizure which may result in brain damage), or SUDEP (sudden unexpected death in epilepsy)

Researcher Jacqueline French regarding delays in epilepsy diagnosis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muPWaW-1Bqk

I was having 10-30 a day for a while near the end there. Fortunately, my auras aren't very disruptive. No memory loss, no physical, emotional, or behavioral manifestations. I simply lose the ability to speak or understand language. It's a different story if they spread or generalize though.

After I started medication, I continued to have seizures for a year, including one grand mal. Unfortunately, I was in the unlucky 30% group that doesn't respond to medication. I tried 2 drugs total, even at high doses.

All of the sudden, I stopped having them for 2 years. I got my confidence back. I could do anything - drink, drive (not at the same time lol), not sleep, handle stress. Nothing really phased me, I figured I was "cured". I took a minimal amount of medicine with no issues. Epilepsy can spontaneously go into remission for a lot of people.

Then one day, I had an aura, and just like that, it started up again. Daily auras and one grand mal. A higher dose of medicine did nothing. A year later, they suddenly went away again with no changes to lifestyle or medication.

I'm so confused why this is happening. No one can tell me. Normal brain scans (no tumors or other abnormalities thank god), abnormal but somewhat inconclusive EEG in regards to where they may be coming from. One pointed to left temporal lobe, another was somewhat inconclusive. No, they're not psychogenic.

Anyway, there are some really smart people doing epilepsy research, particularly with regards to cryptogenic focal epilepsy. I'm looking forward to the advances they'll make. Now, you can do minimally-invasive brain surgery via laser ablation which is pretty neat. I haven't gotten the full work-up for surgery, but I'm probably not a candidate since they don't like to operate on any part of the brain that has to do with language. I want to wait until some more research comes out. The autoimmune avenue looks possibly promising. They're doing a lot of genetics research as well. TBD.

Yeah. I had a similar experience. I only learned the small, random "blips" I was having was epilepsy after one finally evolved into a full-on seizure and I woke up to a bunch of paramedics standing over me. Unfortunately I denied it and refused to take medicine until I had another grand mal seizure and was injured really badly.

My brain started malfunctioning about 6 months before that. I would get this sensation where I couldn't understand or produce language for 5-30 seconds at a time. It seemed innocuous enough, and people actually told me it was normal, that they forgot words all the time. I don't have any physical or emotional manifestations during those auras (small, partial seizures)

I wish I had gone to a doctor because they would have probably run an EEG and put me on epilepsy medication earlier. Medication can actually slow or halt the development of epilepsy. Unfortunately, these small seizures reinforce themselves over time (epileptogenesis) and your brain essentially learns to have seizures.