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theultdev··on Be a thermostat, not a thermometer (2023)
I coded my thought process of a specific example if it helps clarify what I'm talking about:

https://gist.github.com/TheUltDev/fc8386e42205504c55d1cf2127...

(as this is a state of mind and logic thing, a program of state and logic is a better way to describe it vs words)

theultdev··on Be a thermostat, not a thermometer (2023)
> Emotional outbursts (like being startled/angered/in pain) may be temporarily irrational your own logic-wise, but your regular emotional background absolutely reflects what you actually believe is happening and the way you think.

Yes your emotional background reflects what you believe is happening, but you can correct your belief if you analyze and rationalize the emotional response when you feel it, which then updates your emotional background.

> So unless you’re doing emotional logging and are really managing your beliefs, deep settings, etc afterwards, this is simply impossible.

That's exactly what I'm suggesting you do.

Upon receiving every major emotional reaction you make it a habit to analyze it immediately afterwards.

theultdev··on Antibiotics damage the colonic mucus barrier in a microbiota-independent manner
There's many variables, what kind of antibiotic, their biome before taking the antibiotics, what microbe species were killed and how many were harmed/killed, etc.

There's only a few total comments in this thread overall, I counted 2 anecdotes, not exactly a scientific consensus.

And people are more likely to comment when something goes bad than when something goes good *checks product feedback*

theultdev··on Be a thermostat, not a thermometer (2023)
> I don't see how recognizing an emotion as irrational gives you certainty of calming it

When you realize it's an irrational reaction you automatically reprocess the stimuli and get a rational reaction.

Let's say someone close to you is unusually quiet and short with you. You irrationally think they are mad at you or ignoring you because they are being short. That makes you feel mad because you didn't do anything to them! Upon receiving the feeling you start rationalizing the response and realize that you have no evidence that they are mad at you and there are many times you don't want to talk. You then simply ask them if anything's wrong and they say they have a headache! Whew, it wasn't about you at all, it was just a headache! You then empathize with them and want to help so you ask if you can get them some advil and know not to be loud or talk too much until they start feeling better (acting normally)

> Generally speaking, emotions don't arise from a conveniently rational level of consciousness.

What makes you say that? Emotions commonly arise from rational thought. There are rational reasons to be mad/happy/sad/etc.

But what I'm suggesting though is the opposite, to make it a habit upon receiving every powerful emotional to verify it with rational thought.

theultdev··on Antibiotics damage the colonic mucus barrier in a microbiota-independent manner
They are living, they reproduce. Damaged ones die off.

That's why you're told to take yogurt/other fermented foods after taking antibiotics, to provide a reproductive environment for them to grow.

However it's still a risk you could kill off a whole species and lose their function, so probably best not to take antibiotics unless you really have to.

It's an easy analysis process though, you try to recover for a couple days, if you cannot and no virus is detected, you take antibiotics.

If it's a bacterial infection and it's spreading you have to take antibiotics, otherwise you die and all of your microbes die with you.

theultdev··on Be a thermostat, not a thermometer (2023)
Thank you, these are things I developed to manage my emotions and it's the first time to put them in words, I tried my best to serialize it.

The cool thing is, if you do this enough, you can always recognize the stimuli.

There's one exception, hormonal imbalance (bipolar, seasonal depression, etc.), because there is no stimuli.

But once you realize there is no external stimuli, you know it's hormonal. It is then classified as a irrational reaction. The difference of an internal irrational reaction is it takes more investigation and sometimes a few emotional knee-jerk reactions slip through before the hormonal cause is detected.

Also the irrational brain can misattribute the imbalance and attribute it to an external stimuli, but you can immediately correct it with evaluation and communication if the misattributed stimuli is a person. (ask for clarification, if it's not what you assumed, apologize after snapping and solve the conflict immediately).

My wife and I can tell when she's nearing her time of the month because it effects both of us. The hormone change unbalances us a week or so before sometimes causing fatigue or snippiness. It's nice to recognize it as to not contribute it the fatigue to burnout or take the snapping to heart.

We just overcompensate in communication and directly ask what the other person meant to not take something the wrong way once we recognize we're in this temporary state.

theultdev··on Be a thermostat, not a thermometer (2023)
I didn't say suppress or fake your emotions, I said to rationalize them.

If they are irrational you prevent the emotional knee-jerk response in the first place.

If they are rational then you know the root cause to work through so you can fix the issue.

For those rational emotional responses, recognizing the stimuli can still be helpful. It's still stressing, but you know the exact problem and can work to resolve it, the opposite of suppressing it.

theultdev··on Be a thermostat, not a thermometer (2023)
It's less emotional labor and less exhausting the more you are aware of your emotions.

You can recognize the stimuli and rationalize it before becoming upset.

The more you do it, the easier it becomes and the less stressed you become.

theultdev··on NIH cancels ‘Havana syndrome’ research, citing unethical coercion
But also be careful to not be so close minded you suffocate in the sand.
theultdev··on FAA grounds SpaceX ahead of historic Polaris Dawn commercial spacewalk
> They will review this failure and use information from it to bolster their refurbishing program.
theultdev··on FAA grounds SpaceX ahead of historic Polaris Dawn commercial spacewalk
> it was not anticipated that it would fail this time due to a known issue

It was anticipated it would fail eventually. They will review this failure and use information from it to bolster their refurbishing program.

> For comparison, if a plane crashed after 23 flights everyone would assume it was a factory defect.

Planes are meant to fly well more than 23 flights so that's a bad comparison.

No other booster has flown more than 23 flights, this is unchartered territory.

theultdev··on FAA grounds SpaceX ahead of historic Polaris Dawn commercial spacewalk
Which is ridiculous. It was it's 23rd flight (the longest record holding booster)
theultdev··on Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand
terrorist do illegal things, including smuggling in guns.

not great to take away firepower from citizens while the terrorists have guns.

you end up waiting around for the police, which may or may not be prepared or even arrive on time.

theultdev··on Tauri 2.0 Release Candidate
It's a React Native app. I have plans to use React Native Macos eventually but I use Tauri to wrap the React Native Web build for unsupported platforms (Linux & Mac) and as a fallback if the native apps don't work for the user.

I use OPFS on web for the SQLite database store. But yes, I will be writing an adapter using Taurus SQLite plugin to solve this in the long term.

Not a huge issue, and wasn't going to be long term anyway, but it did make it go from "you can release this now" to "oh shoot it works everywhere but on mac, now go write an adapter to this 2.0 sqlite plugin with limited docs"

And there's perfectly fine reasons to use OPFS in Tauri, it's a sandboxed file system. You may not want to deal with the native filesystem for security purposes (yes Tauri has permissions, but not sandboxing after-the-fact)

theultdev··on Tauri 2.0 Release Candidate
I built a syncing tool that needed to run in the background with a simple UI to control it.

I used tauri so I could easily make that cross-platform toolbar app.

Some menu items spawn a webview (things like settings), everything else is in Rust.

theultdev··on Tauri 2.0 Release Candidate
I've ran into this trying to use OPFS with Tauri. While it works in Safari 17, it's unavailable in 16 for many users.

There's also various UX differences in webviews.

It's all fine though, I'd rather have multiple webviews over a bloated app. Used to developing for multiple environments anyways.

theultdev··on One-man SaaS, 9 Years In
A normal job for some is working for themselves.

It's unbearable to have to work for someone imo.

I wish to be in charge of my life as much as possible.

theultdev··on LG and Samsung are making TV screens disappear
It's not extra, you'd be replacing the existing window you already look out of.

Either way, windows are not generally the focal point of the room, you'd have an awkward viewing position.

Most likely the sun would be an issue too, the TV picture would only really be visible during dusk/dawn/night.

Also do you have shutters behind the window so outsiders don't see your screen or...?

I don't see any sort of practicality.

theultdev··on Pallene: A statically compiled companion language for Lua
I think you have a biased view of what is common knowledge.

Certainly up north I could see those being known, as it's more likely you had French in highschool.

In the south, there are many common Spanish phrases known. I know some French phrases but I have never heard anyone say the ones you mentioned, nor did I know them. I would consider myself "educated".

theultdev··on Pallene: A statically compiled companion language for Lua
Your first two examples I have no idea what they are without translating.

Are you saying English speakers commonly know those first two phrases?

theultdev··on Why many studies wrongly claim it's healthy to drink a little alcohol
Anecdotal but a dark beer settles my stomach almost instantly.

But here's research since you asked: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9966200/

It's really not surprising, we know fermented foods are good for the microbiome.

theultdev··on California Gov Newsom issues executive order for removal of homeless encampments
Yes. Mike Judge regularly mashes real-life personas together, similar how he captures culture.

Peter Gregory seems to be the mannerisms of Elon and the outlook/values of Peter Thiel.

There's also Action Jack based off of Neutron Jack (Jack Welch) with a bit of Steve Ballmer.

Gavin Belson has to be based heavily off of Gavin Newsom's mannerisms and looks, along with being a mashup of other CEOs like Larry Page.

Mike Judge barely changes the names, I guess no-one was getting the references :)

theultdev··on California Gov Newsom issues executive order for removal of homeless encampments
$6.4b for 4,350 housing units?

Who is providing those near $1.5m/ea units?

theultdev··on X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm
Similar to words, it's how you use them.

And he didn't try to ban GTA, that's his personal opinion of not wanting to commit virtual violence himself.

theultdev··on X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm
It's definitely an umbrella term and we'd be here for a while discussing all facets of it, but in this case in particular it's the movement to censor speech under the guise of anti-gun rhetoric (like an emoji will cause gun violence). That is no different than Christians trying to ban violent video games.

Note that I am not the one who brought up the term to the conversation. I did want to avoid the labels as there's always someone who comes up and ask you to define the label instead of talking about the issue itself. In this case, censorship.

theultdev··on X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm
That is a nice painting, actually.
theultdev··on X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm
It's not a "veiled whistle blow", it's my personal belief.

But yes, I am against woke culture at it's core, vehemently.

In no way does an emoji encourage armed violence.

Are you against violent video games as well?

theultdev··on X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm
Noone is saying that.

I'm simply saying you're talking about Twitter right now because of it, and it was a small change.

You know it was if you're an engineer, let's not play dumb.

Not sure why everything relating to X has to be so hostile.

theultdev··on X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm
If you think the first change was stupid, why would you support keeping it?
theultdev··on X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm
Well, I guess we'll just see how it pays off for them.

It's already making buzz so if it was an hour of work, I'd say the marketing effect alone was worth it.

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