Stealing focus is possible in X11, but the window manager needs to implement it. For instance, my dwm build does not refocus for any reason other than the user moving the mouse or pressing a key
Readit Newsjovial_cavalier commented on A fast, growable array with stable pointers in C danielchasehooper.com/pos... · Posted by u/ibobev
Make sure the create the segment_array.h file. Mine outputted just fine on Mac M4
Desktop gcc main.c
Desktop ./a.out Yes, I made the header. I'm on x86-64.
https://gist.github.com/fpf3/71c72e224e1c82d9a5d37be621def42...
The errors make sense. You can't put a comma-separated initializer into a macro... What even is the symbol `entity`? It's not even clear to me what is meant by that, he doesn't define it anywhere.
edit: Looks like he updated his header since I first tried to compile. Now it works fine but the header looks significantly more complicated.
jovial_cavalier commented on A fast, growable array with stable pointers in C danielchasehooper.com/pos... · Posted by u/ibobev
The example code doesn't seem to compile.
jovial_cavalier commented on 200k Flemish drivers can turn traffic lights green vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2025/07/... · Posted by u/svenfaw
Why does this need to be an app at all? Wouldn't it be simpler and more accurate to just use computer vision or other sensors? Isn't this just a cartoonishly obvious ploy to get you to install some malware on your phone that tracks where you go and when?
Looks like it's some random user who has generated some lyricslyrics translations between Arabic and English. It's strange, they don't seem to have many contributions. I would have imagined them to be more prolific.
jovial_cavalier commented on Recovering from AI addiction internetaddictsanonymous.... · Posted by u/pera
I don't think that number is up to you and as evidenced by being mass flagged you should follow your own advice. You speak opinion as fact. Car mechanics notoriously take advantage of customers. It happens in every industry. Certainly not every car mechanic has nefarious intent.
Two of my therapists got into it to improve themselves then pass it on to others. The therapists those 99% of other people see, as it seems you feel, are not all grifters. Not even close.
Being mass flagged on this website is a good indicator that I am a stable and well-adjusted individual :)
jovial_cavalier commented on Recovering from AI addiction internetaddictsanonymous.... · Posted by u/pera
You seem to have quite a few opinions others want left internal, but you dont seem to consider that here. Some of the things you imply are quite monstrous. I go to therapy because I dealt with years of physical abuse and starvation. The monster lurked in others with bad impulses, not me.
If you genuinely had some unique experience that has left you with real trauma/PTSD, then therapy is for you. Advice is directional, however, and 99% of people going to therapy are not in that situation.
jovial_cavalier commented on Recovering from AI addiction internetaddictsanonymous.... · Posted by u/pera
Please don't confuse evidence-based therapy like CBT with evidently badly working acts of pseudo-psychology such as psychoanalysis (Which, interestingly enough, isn't even much of a thing in most of the world, just the US seems to have continously kept it as accepted form of therapy despite all evidence to the contrary).
CBT in particular is about learning to cope and fixing problem-inducing behaviours and thought patterns. Not about talking about the deepest pieces of problems, since that doesn't aid healing. Often, it does quite the opposite.
Fair enough. I have no experience with CBT, but what I've heard sounds reasonable. I still have a baseline suspicion of people purporting to be able to make you a better person for a fee, though.
I should also say, I'm not including group therapy in this. I have no direct experience, but I don't think it has the same perverse incentives, and it seems to be quite effective.
jovial_cavalier commented on Recovering from AI addiction internetaddictsanonymous.... · Posted by u/pera
What about reframing therapy as counseling?
I'm not there to be healed, I'm there to talk to someone about my problems, my insecurities, the shit I can't (or don't want to) talk to anyone else.
In my current routine with work, two kids and a challenging marriage I don't have the opportunity to get an hour a week of talk with a friend. I have nowhere to vent. So what do I do?
I do therapy. I think of the therapist as some sort of counselor. I exercise my ideas there, I experiment with stuff I would not talk about anywhere else.
Is there perhaps a reason that you wouldn't talk about it anywhere else? Is it because it's deluded and antisocial? Consider that some thoughts should just remain internal.
The main trick of therapy is to get you to show the monster that lurks inside of you to someone else. Everyone has bad impulses, but by giving them voice the therapist can convince you there's something wrong with you, and that needs to be explored. And now that you've revealed how monstrous you are to the therapist, you may as well keep seeing him, right? After all, nobody else needs to know about this...
Personally, if I'm not allowed to run the software that I want on my phone, it almost makes more sense for me to get some old flip phone or one of those chinese blackberry knockoffs c.a. 2012. Not out of any principled stance, mind you, it's just that's the level of functionality you'd be reducing me to. Why should I pay $500 when I can find something that gives me the same features on a literal junk pile?