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"never lying" is an extremely difficult ideal but a great one to aim for. the payoff is very long term but very VERY worth it put as much effort as you can into not decieving people. develop a strong disdain for being pressured to lie. put effort into orienting your life so that you arent pressured to lie in the first place. for problems that require lying, put in 10x more time/energy to solve them without lying most importantly never decieve/blind yourself why? the payoff is a much clearer and functional understanding of the world. the payoff is increasing your ability to solve the root of problems instead of putting a bandaid on them, and to notice when there is the opportunity to do this in the first place (why would a solution designed around avoiding reality ever be better in the long run?). the payoff is reducing blindness and confusion in yourself and the people around you. the payoff is that life becomes more meaningful when your efforts go towards something real instead of toil/bullshit. (there is more, but this is just what comes to mind rn, some of you probably know some i havent mentioned) expect to fail at this, because its extremely difficult. but also expect to grow a ton and have a much more meaningful life (imo)

@yacineMTB back in gpt 4 days i made my own claude code but shittier. it had an arg for how many completions to generate. usually for complex tasks id generate 10 different attempts and rotate through them. and theyd all break, except for 1, which would work perfectly

"I fear not the man who has written 10,000 different computer programs, but I fear the man who has written the same computer program 10,000 times" - bruce lee

@gizmobly good times

I miss summer of 2024 twitter

@plasmarob ctrl + r

history | grep that thing I did last time

@experilearning you could make a moondream based annotation tool

manual data annotation... feeling extremely stupid doing this, there must be a better way

@Aryvyo core dumped

are there any good non-performative non-sensationalist programming channels out there or is society just doomed

@Laz4rz happy birthday bro

Happy birthday to yours truly 🥳

a really important advantage when learning things is having extreme interest. do whatever you can to foster interest, even if it means being less productive at first. same with teaching (if you have time) interest will make you seek out more information but also think about it more frequently and deeply. data AND compute high interest is powerful but not enough on its own. you need discipline/will to push yourself to do what needs to be done when you dont feel like it. (personally for domains like programming, ive grown more in 1 year of interest+will than i have in like 4 years of interest alone.) never forcing yourself to study or do things out of your comfort zone leads to plateaus that nearly completely diminish returns on time spent for example you need to grind out the fundamentals at some point. the base of the conceptual pyramid should not holes in it, or they will likely become bottlenecks eventually. your interest will naturally leave holes. filling them in will skyrocket performance if those holes have become bottlenecks. once youve done enough of this you eventually associate hole filling with huge gains in competency that lead to fun stuff, and you might start to enjoy mastering fundamentals. you should actively be searching for holes in your conceptual pyramid, because they arent always obvious. theyre The Vitamin but for learning a domain. in general you should always assume there are MANY of them that you arent aware of. the size of the chasm of skill between those who are 'pretty good at x' and those who are 99.9999%tile at x is usually an indicator of how many conceptual holes are out there to fill.

@marty188586 qr code error info is such a great design

Linux BSOD! I finally see it in person. Also hope this is not too expensive to fix.... (pray it's not memory or CPU)

@corsix wait no

@corsix return a randomly chosen element from T?

Speaking as someone who studied joint mathematics and computer science, this right here is how you tell apart the mathematicians from the computer scientists.

decided to start learning EE. led_blink.mp3

@i2cjak 128x128 drone swarm display

yacine facedoxxed with a drone camera I need to think of a more insane way to facedoxx

@yacinelearning .@justinskycak has a lot of great meta learning advice

I’m slowly realizing that a lot of people have no idea that there is a meta-learning skill

@ludwigABAP damn get better soon bro, big dave needs you

I am heavily concussed (had two big concussions in one week, and two small ones) and I can barely use a computer Wondering what personality will I come out with

@Algon_33 new players are 400-600. hitting 900 is good. 1000+ is even better

Just getting started at chess, what's a good elo to have?

@ZyMazza looking forward to reading your posts man, and gl with lent! iansuffix.kontek.net/tmk/docs/screw…

Tomorrow is the first day of lent. I’m gonna level with you guys. I’ve not been observant with my faith lately. Just 5 short years ago I was praying every day, several times a day. 6 years ago I was in mass every Sunday and maybe during the week for Eucharistic adoration. These were the most serene times of my life, and I felt so at ease in my own skin. Empirically, it’s undeniable how beneficial orienting my life around God and His love for me is. There’s so much scientific literature about the psychological benefits of gratitude that I won’t appeal to, because I want you to take me at my word when I tell you it helps and I know billions of other people will happily corroborate what I’m telling you now if you just ask them. It’s fascinating, then, how ubiquitous the experience of “falling out” with God reality is. I don’t mean getting angry or upset with Him—although certainly that can happen too. No, what I mean is how quickly we forget. Or put another way, I think it’s interesting how easy it was to take up my habit of smoking (vaping) which was nothing but harmful to me and how hard it was put it down again even when every day with a vape in my hand caused me profound psychological anguish. Contrast that to my prayer life. How hard-won it was to build up a habit of earnestly praying to God 5 times daily, and how rewarding it was! And yet how easily it evaporated into indifference before I even knew it. I haven’t been to mass in like 5 months. I haven’t been to confession in even longer. My soul weighs heavily upon me and I’m in real spiritual peril! Maybe you don’t believe in that nonsense, but take me at my word, please, when I say I recognize that as my state of affairs. It’s interesting too that you don’t need to be religious to see this dynamic at play in your life. It seems to be a universal human experience to watch oneself ruin something with full knowledge of the nature of the ruination yet find oneself powerless to stop it. Lent is essentially a callback to Jesus’ 40 days fasting in the desert. It’s 46 days, but the 6 sundays are “cheat” days not part of the fast—more on that later. Anyway when Jesus was in the desert Satan tempted Him offering Him all the earthly power and indulgences a man could dream of. And Jesus sends him away. It’s a powerful story because even knowing the terrible consequences of sin and the immense benefits of virtue it’s the lived experience of every person on this earth to find it difficult to reject sin and embrace every virtue. Later He says “what good does it to a man to gain the whole world if He should forfeit his soul?” Yet how many of us have sold ourselves out for next to nothing? Lent is a time of penance, so I’m going to be using this time to reflect on my shortcomings. Not an insignificant shortcoming of mine is selling myself—hours of my day, my dignity in what I write and how I write about it, and my mental health, honestly—for the trifling some of a ~$250 biweekly payout. Shameful, really! To be moved to desperately write such bait as I do, jestermaxxing as they say, motivated by nothing but a trifling sum and a false sense of clout. Among other things, I’ll be taking this time to work on improving my relationship to virtue and scorning my long-time false friends of vice and sin. I’ll be deleting this app from my phone for the duration in the hopes it might spur me to have a thought uninfluenced by a recommendation algorithm. I’ll try to publish 6 longform pieces on each of the Sunday’s of Lent, because that’s the kind of writer I want to be. But I might fail. I know to well how easy it is to return to comfortably bad habits. I also know that if I do, it’s important not to despair and give up. That’s the devil talking, accusing! Every moment is an opportunity to try to change for the better. ❤️

@ZyMazza it was an important message that needed repeating

Wow so twitter told me it couldn’t send my posts and then sent them like 50 times 😵‍💫 Sorry for the spam everyone I swear it wasn’t me

@qtnx_ those are ones i know give me brainfog, so they might not all apply to you, just thought id give some examples

narrow down potential causes some causes to consider: eating <2hrs before bed high carbs/sugar (coffee makes this 2x worse) melatonin coffee late in the day (or having a lot early in the day. use the half life to calculate the amount still in your system at the time you go to sleep) dehydration

any good way to fix brain fog? don’t say sleep 8 hours a day

@crypt0lake dayum

one of the best hardware posts i have seen on here, follow Mehdi