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throwaways85989 commented on Show HN: Interactive game teaching dark patterns in UX design   games.productartistry.com... · Posted by u/rohandehal
throwaways85989 · a year ago
Sure thing hoss, just because we know where the minefields are, we as individuals are now empowered to take hyper-focused walkies again. No need to fight those that lay mines.

No need for any real action, to change the government and force bad actors out of the game forever via a justice system. Just stay divided a little longer, stay under the thumb a little more, believe in privatized problem-solutions overcoming systemic rot.

Liberal slob propaganda trying to stave of the overdue violent riots against the dystopia its spreaders built.

throwaways85989 commented on Mikhail Gorbachev has died   reuters.com/world/mikhail... · Posted by u/homarp
ZoomerCretin · 3 years ago
So it wasn't real capitalism?
throwaways85989 · 3 years ago
It was not really a base for capitalism to take hold and effect. It needs a basic rule of law and democracy to work. All it got was brief window of chaos, before the kleptocracy returned.

Best description of the cultural background i found so far was this:

https://youtu.be/f8ZqBLcIvw0?t=76

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throwaways85989 commented on Image generation ethics: Will you be an AI vegan?   simonwillison.net/2022/Au... · Posted by u/simonw
spywaregorilla · 3 years ago
Humans learn to produce good art largely by learning from existing art. Copying, mimicking, or just generally taking inspiration. We're going to need to get over this hang up. Status quo bias is dumb. Especially among people who are otherwise fond of piracy or anti-ip legislation.
throwaways85989 · 3 years ago
But that is just art. Not great art. Great art comes from stepping away from your peer group after you mastered it, being able to incooperate "unrelated" or "impossible" other concepts into the art. Its a subconscious process, of recombination and filtering.

And only some can boldly go, to were no person has gone before.

Which makes this the ultimate training goal for AI. Not AGI, but a synthesis AI, capable to produce "breakthrough" candidates for the field it is trained upon, by allowing noise and filtering for the criteria of great break throughs- explanation power, beauty, higher consistency, that puzzle piece fitting all gaps moment. If there is ever a creature out there, doing that, silicon or otherwise, humanity will own its continued existence to its existence.

throwaways85989 commented on How messed up was Germany's energy policy?   jeromeaparis.substack.com... · Posted by u/guerby
throwaways85989 · 3 years ago
The disaster is already preprogrammed. Lots of germans bought electric heaters to heat flats through the winter, as the heat provided by the house central heating will be reduced. Which will result in large increases of base load on the network, which already will be under strain.

Which means rolling black outs as soon as it gets cold. Perma-black outs if the people do not see reasons and unplug their heaters. No solution has been proposed for this. The clever ones went for wood for heating.

Still preferable to shiver one winter through, then have it warm in putins prison.

throwaways85989 commented on YouTube disrupted in Pakistan as former PM Khan streams speech   netblocks.org/reports/you... · Posted by u/xbmcuser
malshe · 3 years ago
This WSJ article (no paywall) explains the current developments there. I had no idea things are so bad. The inflation is at 42%! https://www.wsj.com/articles/ousted-pakistan-prime-minister-...
throwaways85989 · 3 years ago
They are also out of foreign currency like Sri Lanka. Which accelerates chinas problems, as pakistan is one of its debtors and will likely default on those credits.
throwaways85989 commented on The erosion of the Mac experience   twitter.com/stroughtonsmi... · Posted by u/tosh
lastangryman · 3 years ago
I feel like I may be the only developer that prefers Windows to MacOs. I really, really just do not get the "Mac Experience". It feels so clunky and counter intuitive.

- Why does the alt tab equivalent cycle through applications first, and I need another shortcut to cycle through the windows of that application? When I have an IDE with 5x instances, hosting different projects, it's a pain switching back to the project I want from another application

- I attach a non Mac external monitor to a new MacBook Pro from work and the text is super blurry. Much googling later and I need to use something called Better Display to create a virtual display, and project that to my monitor. It's so confusing and sometimes break when I wake up from sleep and need to configure it again.

- Why is there 2 modes of "full-size" windows? Regular style "fill the window", then another wierd one that sort of takes over the whole screen

- Why does finder sometimes open in a sub folder as the "top level", then it's a total pain to move up to where you want.

- Why are 3rd party applications distributed as Disk Images? Then some as package installers? It's weird and nonsensical.

Mac hardware feels great, but I just cannot understand why it's the preferred developer platform.

throwaways85989 · 3 years ago
I have thick fingers (physical labor produces those) and the mac short-cuts are really not made for guys like me. Yes, i can change that. But still.
throwaways85989 commented on Put it on the crazy pile: Ideas and creativity   bastian.rieck.me/blog/pos... · Posted by u/Topolomancer
throwaways85989 · 3 years ago
To much rationality or filtering early on in creativity detrains your mind from being creative.

No dopamine on discovery of the new, prevents that circuitry from running after a while. Write it down, filter it later. Celebrate even ridiculous ideas and approaches, consider them not "failed" nonsense, but in-between-steps as your subconcious works on the next, better solution. Let self-critique not be negative "Ridiculous, never would work with the physics we got" but more "constructive" -"that would be great if we could get it to fly".

Also remember, that your subconscious works with the knowledge it got. It needs input, to create strange mashups. Get your input way outside of your field to not be stuck in the solutions of your peers.

throwaways85989 commented on What Happened to Hyperloop?   definiteoptimism.substack... · Posted by u/jamiegreen
throwaways85989 · 3 years ago
It was ever just a hype photo operation, to prevent good public transport from taking hold / being invested in?
throwaways85989 commented on Riding transit takes almost twice as long as driving (2017)   governing.com/archive/gov... · Posted by u/trothamel
throwaways85989 · 3 years ago
Train boarding at least could be decoupled from slowing down and stopping. Just have a "Shuttle Wagon" depart pre arrival from the train with those who want to get out and another one speeding up with new passengers after the train as it passes through the station. Under ideal circumstances, a train would actually not even have to slow down for this. Con is that there is always a Shuttle in the station.

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KarmaCake day91February 14, 2022View Original