Readit Newsianai commented on Millennial Pause en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mil... · Posted by u/thunderbong
Quiet is the black paint in the pallet of the musician and film maker. It’s central to things like stoicism, zen buddhism, existentialism, meditation, and mysticism. Taoism iirc, too.
Hopefully, we will soon enter the stage where nobody believes anything they see anymore. Then, you no longer have to be afraid of being misinterpreted, because nobody is listening anymore anyway. Great time to be alive!
Be glib, but that is one way for society to bring privacy back-and with it shared respect. I think of it as the “oh everyone has an anus” moment. We all know everyone has one and it doesn’t need to be dragged out in polite company.
ianai commented on MacRelix – Unix-like features for classic Mac OS macrelix.org/... · Posted by u/Lammy
Makes me wonder. What would it take for Mac the tech to have this sort of feel/appeal again?
Would a full wintel+nvidia gpu daughterboard move any needles? Or something oddball and hardware like the lamp imac, idk.
Basically, computing nowadays feels very well baked and staid at times. Stuff like a unixy subsystem feels experimental in ways computing hasn't in decades.
ianai commented on Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production newatlas.com/energy/natro... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
Uplift labor and human rights movements everywhere so they can retain self-determination but still extinguish the hellscape of exploitation that we have currently.
We don't need anything top-down.
I understand there would be challenges with doing that, but I like to think a better world is possible and it starts with respecting others' humanity.
The no further regulation option is people looking for the “made in …” on goods and not buying from certain countries. Then invoke Milton freedman.
ianai commented on Framework won't be just a laptop company anymore theverge.com/2024/4/23/24... · Posted by u/rpgbr
Uhh how about a desktop tower case that takes in some number of their laptop logic boards and provides networking? Think like the “turingpi” motherboard but with an eye towards repurposing old logic boards.
I could see purposes being local storage HA arrays (small scale media firms), perhaps some computational applications (local testing), k8s. Could be a boon for academics who otherwise might be priced out. Like 2k for the tower, less than 1k (old refurb) to 2k per blade. Might be doing something interesting for around 10k.
ianai commented on I Know the secret to the quiet mind. I wish I'd never learned it (2021) theatlantic.com/health/ar... · Posted by u/ianai
Life is inherently suffering and has no meaning. Being healthy brings many people joy and so does smoking cigarettes; either way we're here for a limited time surrounded by things that are trying to kill us so why not enjoy it?
That's my take at least. During winter I'd probably have a more depressing perspective but the sun has been out lately.
I’d say existence precedes essence, and meaning is what the living do. If we make efforts to increase the footprint, robustness, and extent of life then we increase that meaning. (Existentialism, but more.)
Like OpenSSH? ;)
I mean the actual kernel. But, you know, needs a killer feature people want to deploy at scale.
ianai commented on I Know the secret to the quiet mind. I wish I'd never learned it (2021) theatlantic.com/health/ar... · Posted by u/ianai
After decades of migraines I was diagnosed with Chronic Daily Migraines. I was prescribed a 'under the tongue' triptan which if the migraine aura arrived during the day worked some of the time. If I woke with the migraine at 10/10 pain level than I lost the full day.
One of my daughters also had weekly migraines, lost a day at work each time.
I got a Daith piercing in my right ear - my migraines originated on the right side of my head. Yes the piercing stung, but the next day I had no migraine. The constant pain had just stopped. This was maybe 7-8 years ago. I very rarely get odd migraine symptoms - vision feels off, head feels woolly - but no pain at all.
I convinced my daughter to have a Daith. She now doesn't even get regular headaches.
Anecdotal though this is, I would suggest looking into getting this piercing. It is discreet. There is no formal research I am aware of but for this sample of two it was a huge positive.
I could see that affecting the trapezius muscle or nerve endings somehow. That seems to play a large role in many of my migraines. It probably does for others as it’s part of where the botox for migraine shots go.
Ie when the pain shoots up through/along the side of the traps, along the backside of the ear, to the forehead and back of the eye.
Reminds me of pinching the ear lobes during a migraine. That seemed to sort of help but not terribly.
Nowadays nurtec/the cgrp protein inhibitors work wonders. But I’ll consider the piercings too.
ianai commented on I Know the secret to the quiet mind. I wish I'd never learned it (2021) theatlantic.com/health/ar... · Posted by u/ianai
What a well-written story. I don't have much to add, but I can say her humour or writing talent seems to be quite sharp for someone that feels she has not completely regained her mental faculties.
Also the joke about opening a spa where she whacks stressed people with a bat so they find respite from our busy world: we already do that ourselves when we reach mental burnout. I did, and in some ways, I feel that years later, my mental sharpness is still not what it used to be. Perhaps burnout is as traumatic to the brain as a massive brain injury; certainly takes as long to heal from.
It’s also a scene in the old movie “I heart Huckabees”. Great movie btw.