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wydfre

32 karma · joined May 22, 2021

"I hate my job; this guy has the intelligence of a dead ferret and it keeps getting worse".
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wydfre··on Tucson copter cop says mysterious, ‘sophisticated’ super-drone ‘like no other’
But I thought the local cops were always notified of test exercises. /s
wydfre··on I Treated My Unhealthy Gaming Obsession with More Games
What do people think about internet addiction? My mind has fallen apart - now I read comments on ycombinator and reddit, and I cannot even watch a TV show because of how bad my attention is. It's like I have trained myself to consume opinions on articles, without reading the actual articles. It's horrible. I hate internet addiction - and nobody talks about it. People write about odd internet communities - but few people write about television addiction, or internet addiction. I do not even have the capability of sitting down and playing a game because of my mind being so stupid and shallow.
wydfre··on A first lesson in meta-rationality
If anyone is interested in this, they should look into Alfred Korzybski and general semantics. He invented the term "The map is not the territory", in case you want an idea of who he is.

IIRC, he at one point says in his book, "Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics" something along the lines that the mistakes most people make are in categorization. Something along the lines of "Some things look the same but they are different, and some things look different but they are the same". It's a very interesting book and I loved how Non-Aristotelian logic was used in Null-A by A.E. van Vogt, which introduced it to me.

wydfre··on Justice Department withdraws FBI subpoena for USA Today records ID'ing readers
Did anybody bother to lookup the article they wanted to get the IPs for and get scared out of their minds when they realize what the title was?

No, I am wrong, Hacker News is right, I have learned my mistake, we need anonymity - from everything. I don't want responsibility for my actions - that's why I support the EFF, and I don't care about the FSF. We deserve the same anonymity as the upper echelon of the government, and who cares about unconditionally accelerating the singularity with open-source.

Transparency - only Satan could want such a thing!

At least in my sect of Christianity, Satan only hurts bad people - it's people themselves that are evil or want to make others evil. Bit more theologically consistent.

wydfre··on PayPal shuts down long-time Tor supporter
Have you ever read about a Tor network in the news and wanted to drink until you have liver damage?

Quit being smart enough to justify evil apparent.

At least I don't have to worry about where my monero or zcash is going; you do. Cash is anonymous - but mine at worst came from a strip joint, drug deal or hooker.

And you work in national security at Anduril. Please be a normal consistent person.

wydfre··on I’m a Physicist Who Searches for Aliens. U.F.O.s Don’t Impress Me
The best quote I've got on UFOs is from Leroy Chiao, a former ISS commander.

"Probably some sort of secret military program" [0].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1eWnHHMrck&t=30s

wydfre··on A Dive into Ray Tracing Performance on the Apple M1
Can someone tell me how in CUDA you can use RTX cores? I know the main problem with GPU programming is that they hate conditionals - and I was thinking RTX would be vastly different in that regard.
wydfre··on An Intuition for Lisp Syntax
I love Lisp syntax because I am stupid. It is actually easier to remember. Remembering the function names and library calls is difficult for me because of my disability. But because there is no syntax it is so easy to parse in your head.
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