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uniq7 commented on Shamelessness as a strategy (2019)   nadia.xyz/shameless... · Posted by u/wdaher
nickpinkston · 14 days ago
I kind of agree with Nadia's analysis of what's happening, but it's a fucking cursed reality.

Here's hoping for a New New Sincerity to bring us back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_sincerity

uniq7 · 14 days ago
As someone not familiar with the term, I don't really understand the concept, and Wikipedia's definition doesn't look specific enough:

> generally describes creative works that expand upon and break away from concepts of postmodernist irony and cynicism.

That basically refers to anything that is not irony and cynicism, isn't it?

uniq7 commented on “I noticed a clear violation of our contributing guidelines”   github.com/antiwork/flexi... · Posted by u/slacktivism123
mykowebhn · a month ago
I know there's something to be said for retaining git history when merging, but merging 50 commits is a great way to pollute your commit history.

Some of the commit descriptions: "fix", "fixes", "clean up".

uniq7 · a month ago
Github will squash all commits into a single one that actually gets merged: https://github.com/antiwork/flexile/commit/123404b3caa52870b...
uniq7 commented on The new literalism plaguing today’s movies   newyorker.com/culture/cri... · Posted by u/frogulis
alexey-salmin · 2 months ago
For the less enlightened of us, what is the joke?
uniq7 · a month ago
First I thought it was just a simple witty canned response ala Han Solo, and got confused of why we were elevating it to the level of joke that required to be understood by someone intelligent.

Then, as a non English native speaker, I thought it was a word play ("you have had a bad Phil o Sophie ass" + "I had too many" or something).

Then, reading the responses to your comment, found it was the witty canned response I originally thought all along...

uniq7 commented on I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)   smallandroidphone.com/... · Posted by u/asimops
pclowes · 2 months ago
My cynical take is that small phones don't exist because they are not the product. Similar to vape pens the product is the addictive substance the device loads. In this case its apps and ads. A smaller screen probably negatively impacts KPIs on many levels, at Google/Apple/Meta/X and on down through the ecosystem.

I understand that Apple did not make enough money to make it worth their while to continue the iphone mini line. However, it does seem like there is a profitable business for someone there given how beloved it was/is.

I only traded out my iphone 12 mini just recently for an iphone 16 pro (likely the last apple product I will ever buy but thats another story) and aside from the camera it is basically the same. Just heavier, awkward to hold and slightly worse designed.

No major player wants a smaller screen because it has downstream impacts on the pipeline of addictive material and ad pixels they can stuff into ocular nerves.

uniq7 · 2 months ago
How can KPIs from Google/Apple/Meta/X have any impact on the products third-party Android phone manufacturers decide to sell?
uniq7 commented on Schizophrenia is the price we pay for minds poised near the edge of a cliff   psychiatrymargins.com/p/s... · Posted by u/Anon84
PaulHoule · 2 months ago
My belief about is that the core of schizotypy and schizophrenia is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_disorder

as did Eugen Bleuler. I have a friend who is schizophrenic whose speech hardly makes sense and she is always calling people on the phone and carrying on nonsensical conversations. Somehow the general public is hung up on ‘hearing voices’ but I have never once heard a voice but under stress I (schizotypal) did once spend about six months under the influence of a ‘system of delusions’ yet stayed mostly functional, kept working, and managed to avoid getting in serious trouble.

I think it is quite ordinary also for people to have a dialogue with an ‘invisible friend’ or believe that they ‘talk to God’ when they pray, the auditory hallucinations of schizophrenia seem to be something like you have a thought that you don’t think is your thought but somebody else talking, notably schizophrenics often believe that somebody is putting thoughts into them or taking thoughts out of them, see

https://www.theairloom.org/mindcontrol.php

uniq7 · 2 months ago
That is very interesting. Excuse me if this question is too personal, but what do you mean by "system of delusions" exactly?

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uniq7 commented on Merlin Bird ID   merlin.allaboutbirds.org/... · Posted by u/twitchard
mapleoin · 3 months ago
I would love for someone to make a birding/citizen scientist app that's well gamified. This is basically pokemon. You go places and find different creatures and collect them.
uniq7 · 3 months ago
I would love to play that game, and the data could maybe be useful for researchers.

On the other hand, people playing Pokemon GO trespassed private property and protected spaces, so I wonder how far would the players of this game go just to make a pic of a "legendary" animal at the border of extinction.

uniq7 commented on The Monster-Slaying Game You Can Play Almost Anywhere   nytimes.com/2025/05/21/ar... · Posted by u/jaredwiener
uniq7 · 3 months ago
The clickbait title doesn't mention the name of the game, and the article is behind a paywall.
uniq7 commented on Amazon's Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans   spectrum.ieee.org/amazon-... · Posted by u/Luc
thisisnotauser · 4 months ago
Henry Ford famously wanted his workers to be able to afford his cars. When Bezos replaces everyone with robots, who will be left to buy his junk?
uniq7 · 4 months ago
For example, people who work at Ford.

In exchange, in the long term they won't be able to afford the cars they produce anymore.

uniq7 commented on What my stroke taught me (2017)   nautil.us/what-my-stroke-... · Posted by u/blegh
the_gipsy · 4 months ago
Language can encode information very densely. There is no point in describing "hate that guy". But it can be very efficient to have an inner monologue of "I hate that guy, but I must greet him friendly, or else I will be in trouble". If you'd just let yourself guide by feelings, you would be angry, or afraid, or genuinely happy to see that guy you hate.

We already know how to encode and decode it language, because we must communicate with others. It could be useful to also use this code internally, to create very complex scenarios fast.

uniq7 · 4 months ago
My point is that "I hate that guy, but I must greet him friendly, or else I will be in trouble" is already being concluded by the brain at the semantic space way before running the language encoder and playing the inner voice. That voice already knows what is going to say before saying it.

The brain can extract those conclusions in mere milliseconds and act in consequence, and that doesn't mean being guided by feelings.

I'd argue that skipping the language lets you think in more complex scenarios where visualizing something is required, like when playing a sport, painting, or composing a melody.

Removing the noise of language also allows you to think in parallel and solve problems faster. In my case I'd say I can run a couple of "threads" only, but I wouldn't be surprised if top chess players could run a dozen.

u/uniq7

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