Humans want to be paid.
What are you gonna do with an economy where people don’t get paid then? You cant have your cake and eat it too
Readit Newslacrimacida commented on Generating Expressive Portrait Videos with Audio2Video humanaigc.github.io/emote... · Posted by u/hackerlight
As someone near to this space, why in the world would you develop a custom order management system (OMS) as opposed to buying something off the shelf?
Because they paid less than they would’ve paid for an off the shelf solution? They ripped off a bloke instead
Do people continue paying plumbers and contractors after the job is done? Of course not…
I think it is too easy for an outsider to treat software the same.
Plumbers get paid for their work though. Some eager youngster gets exploited, at least once in their lifetime.
lacrimacida commented on Digitopia is ruining our lives digitopia.io/p/digitopia-... · Posted by u/deeshee
> Being present - Being in the Digitopian state usually means living on autopilot. Grabbing one thing after the other, trying to get through the day, distracting yourself at any negative emotion you face.
Yes, I've become aware that I am quite disconnected from "living in the moment" in a way that I was not when I was younger, a teenager.
I had begun to think that it was a result of getting older, taking on more responsibility (or just being more responsible, ha ha).
Losing my minimum wage job when I was in my teens, early 20's was not a huge deal. No mortgage but I did have rent — but if I couldn't make that there was probably a friend's mom's basement.
No kids then. No concerns about my health then. Friends to hang out with, commiserate with, bounce your problems off of.
It may still be "just growing up" but I suspect the degree to which I have supplanted the "running around" I did when I was young with browsing may be a big factor.
The author suggest meditation, walking, showering. I've showered daily since I was a teenager, started running daily (now walking) a decade ago.
Like flossing, meditation has come and gone with me. Perhaps I should do it regularly (and floss regularly).
Road trips seem to help me get back in touch with The Moment. No distractions...
Last Fall a high school friend and I rode the "Katy Trail" on our bikes for 6 days. Hauled camping gear, tents, stoves, water, food... It sucked right up until the moment we finished — and now I can't wait to do it again.
Reflecting on it, I think it recharged my soul and brought me back into The Moment for almost a week stretch.
We do need long vacations to recover from modern day digitopia. Living in the US though doesn’t confer much such a priviledge. With an average of 2 weeks of vacation per year I don’t think it’s enough to have enough escape time to fully recover from it
lacrimacida commented on Blood doping and its detection ashpublications.org/blood... · Posted by u/thunderbong
I am too much of a layman to understand what technique the article is proposing to detect it. Could someone help me break it down?
I heard from somewhere that in blood doping, the athletes, blood is taken out and put in a freezer. Then close to the day of the competition the blood is simply put back (without any external chemicals).
I heard that this works because it improves your red blood cell count. And if your to combine it with fitness & workouts "you could do some damage".
How do the detect transfusion of your won blood? When it doesn't have any external chemicals?
From what you describe I don’t even understand how this is considered doping, unless the athlete is doing this to cover up for other substances in their blood during their training. Could anyone elaborate?
If the new UI is such an issue, why haven’t you switched back? The majority of developers I know haven’t even bothered with the new UI.
Switching back is a deferral until it eventually gets shoved down on our throats
lacrimacida commented on Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards apps.ankiweb.net/... · Posted by u/bcg361
Genuine question, how will memorizing this info help him?
I’m a parent too, and have prioritized activities that teach my child critical thinking (so they can self-solve problems).
I’m curious if I should be layering in some memorization activities like this, which is why I ask.
(Please don’t take my question as judging, I’m genuinely curious how it’s helped because I might replicate. And I’ve got huge respect for all your writing over the years)
It’s probably more useful for working out the memorization muscle than the information itself.
lacrimacida commented on I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video] youtube.com/watch?v=4S9sD... · Posted by u/onnnon
The human species might have a built in self-destruct / self-limiting mechanism, which is world war, possibly nuclear war, which might end up saving the planet in the really long term?
The planet will survive regardless, with or without a nuclear war. We won’t though and most current species will dissapear
lacrimacida commented on I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video] youtube.com/watch?v=4S9sD... · Posted by u/onnnon
Until the war is over, we can't know if exploding things non stop for two years is having a part in making the last years warmer.
The models could be incomplete, or obsolete
Which war? Or wars?