Paragone
@Paragone@lemmy.world
- Comment on Google Kneecaps Loads Of Very Big Websites After SEO Change 1 week ago:
When a handful of monopolies decide that no factchecking will be seen by anybody, anymore,
and only profitable-to-their-dictatorship disinformation will be seen,
then humanity will not have any means of countering that:
it will be too late.
We are “the frog dropped into the slowly-heating pot of water”.
People pretend that monopoly is “maybe” harmful, economically, but it is an existential-threat to countries, and with globalization, now to civil-rights as a valid-category.
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- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Whether it’s source is open or not,
has nothing to do with its licensing.
It’s on a github repo: it’s open-source.
Having an ideological-problem with people making a living off their code is independent of whether their code was honestly, actually, published, & therefore is actual open-source.
- Comment on Are you prepared for the ramifications of windows 10 EoL? 2 weeks ago:
iirc, Microsoft had some significant investment in Intel.
this is perfectly rational monopolist-cartel-protecting-monopolist-cartel behavior.
- Comment on Cheap, but reliable SSDs? 2 weeks ago:
Reliability’s kinda high on my priority-list.
Try Samsung.
Nowadays I can’t imagine using SATA for anything but archival storage ( get the fastest NVMe you can for your operating-system, and be stunned by how much quicker your machine is ).
Last time I was digging into stats, the reliability-rate for Samsung devices was much higher than that of Western Digital,
and the off-brands … often are a bit of a bad-joke, for reliability ( Adata & Kingston, I’m looking at you, and will never trust such scum again ).
just my experience/opinion, is all.
- Comment on Why do cameras call it "Macro Lens" if it zooms in and is used to capture tiny objects? Shouldn't it be "Micro Lens"? 2 weeks ago:
No, tilt-shift doesn’t have any bearing on whether it’s focal-length is high-enough to make the magnification 1:1…
hth!
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- Comment on “Nanostitches” enable lighter and tougher composite materials 3 weeks ago:
I remember somebody was doing 3D-woven composites, possibly for spacecraft, some years ago…
This is essentially the same idea, but with nanotubes.
This suggests that weaving reinforcement tow through the layers of the layup would be structurally-significant, if it were done densely-in-pattern, enough…
In aerospace, maybe it’d be structurally significant ( aircraft have, iirc, only a 10% margin in structural-strength, though that may be just the aluminum semi-monocoque builds )
- Comment on Black Women Best Framework Points the Way to Equitable and Just State Tax Reform 3 weeks ago:
“In practice, that means taking two crucial steps: first, examining the specific economic barriers Black women face, and second, developing policies that are explicitly designed to remove those barriers. We cannot only examine topline indicators while ignoring how Black women specifically are faring. We have tried that too many times to the same result: Black women get left behind, and the entire economy is less resilient and productive.”
I have zero problem with that being factual.
- Comment on How do you know if you have a Habit? 3 weeks ago:
A Habit is when it takes you less brain to do it, because it has become automatic.
What we call “muscle memory” is actually Kahneman1 mind, he calls it “System 1”, but that’s a useless label, without context, and its function is imprint->reaction.
“Thinking Fast & Slow”, the most profoundly-important book in the whole world, right now ( because the ideologies/prejudices are trying to displace Kahneman2 mind, considered-reasoning, from all authority in our world, and the more stressed everybody gets, the more success they have in doing-so ) is on the difference between the 2 systems.
Imprint->reaction mind can be quite useful, in one’s mental-economy, as it makes things happen on autopilot, but … if one tolerates its systematic substituting of its convenient reactions, for the actually required actions, … it can become strategically dangerous…
- Comment on Is there any gadget that helps find, kill or repel mosquitoes? 3 weeks ago:
there’s a machine which takes a 20lb propane cyl, & attracts 'em by flashing-lights & CO2, & it captures only mosquitos, unlike bug-zappers, and it can harvest a stunning amount of the things.
You need to replace the hormone attractant … capsule, or whatever it should be called, monthly ( that is where they get their recurring-money from, and it does make a big difference ).
Be selective in your culling of the local insect-population, as the entire ecology around you gets altered by the action, eh?
- Comment on Is it true that addicts never stop being addicts, they just replace their addiction? 3 weeks ago:
I had zero understanding of just how strong alcoholism could be, until I switched metabolisms, from vata-metabolism to pitta-metabolism ( read Frawley’s “Ayurvedic Healing” and Frawley & Kozak’s “Yoga for Your TYPE” books, to understand the different metabolisms, & how they alter one’s life ).
In pure pitta-metabolism, alcohol-craving was ferrocious.
( it took me a dozen years to break from vata to pitta metabolism, btw: it isn’ something easily accomplished.
The “obesity epidemic”, however, is really a kapha-metabolism epidemic, which White prejudice won’t tolerate to be labeled correctly:
obesity’s the symptom, not the cause. )
If I ever get locked back in pure-pitta, I’ll have to never have any alcohol to drink, EVER, while in it.
Currently I’m in a mixed metabolism, so it isn’t lethally-dangerous to me, but it still munges meditation-capability, so I don’t bother wasting money on it for that reason.
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- Comment on Does anyone speak hairdresser? I need help communicating. 4 weeks ago:
Buy Oster Fastcut Professional clippers.
DIY.
Communicate by not being their customer, anymore.
Autonomy rules.
- Comment on What characterizes feminine strength? 5 weeks ago:
Mom told me that women who reach menopause are suddenly much more likely to initiate divorce, leaving toxic/abusive relationships…
Psychologist Susan Pinker, in her book “The Sexual Paradox”, that such women leave careers they’d been pressured-into, by the men in their lives ( ditching academic careers, because the endless-churn-for-“authority-status” isn’t what they value )…
I’ve read the words of a woman who was disappointed to have not got into any of the mixed universities ( UK ), she got into a female-only university, and by the end of week-1, she was euphoric: the absence of sexual-pressure on her all the time, she could learn here!!..
I’ve read the words of a woman who went to a girls-only grade-school, & she learned, in high-school, that the girls who came from mixed grade-schools had been conditioned into learned-helplessness, and would not even try participating in class, by the boys they’d shared classes with.
I read an amazing item in a Reader’s Digest, possibly in a waiting-room, somewhere, on a school-principal who got all the kids and their parents into a gymnasium…
The kids were girls-on-1-side, boys-on-the-other-side, parents in the bleachers/stands…
He asked the kids “who here would rather learn in a boisterous classroom?” The boys, & the dykes, hands shot up…
“Who here would rather learn in a quiet library?” the girls, & a few of the boys ( femboys, prolly ), hands went up.
THEN the parents, who saw, understood, accepting the evidence, instead of the “we’re all the same” ideology, that violated that evidence.
Women are more “yin” than men.
The more “yin” a someone is, the more gentle their forming-context/education has to be, in order that their intrinsic nature be allowed to blossom ( as an extreme-contrast, if you’ve ever encountered an ultra-bullying super-testosterone guy, you maybe can understand that he’d probably be more “educated”, if the education were *at his level of pushing, like boot-camp, or something ).
the “yin” or non-pushiness of the someone needs to be matched by the learning-means, the “yang” or pushiness of the someone needs to be matched by their learning-means.
I wish women weren’t abused by the entire-education-system, but were, instead, boosted into becoming their own LivingPotential.
That isn’t an answer to your question, but it does reframe something important…
Women’s courage is like the courage of Florence Nightinggale, who kept digging, until she understood, scientifically, why “her boys” were dying in the forward hospitals, & she pushed graphical representation of her statistics, in order to convince Queen Victoria.
Yin courage.
Yin courage is more … “watery”, more “keep gently working, we’ll find a way”, as opposed to the more-linear/firey male style of courage.
Like a river, trying to find a way through a blockage put against it…
Gently-persistent, enduring, winning through working with Nature, instead of just arbitrarily overriding it.
The woman who did the classification-system for stars, at some observitory, was demonstrating a kind of courage, given that women had no “validity” in the hearts or minds of men, of the profession, of those days…
The “Famous Five”, who broke the “women legally are not ‘persons’ in the Commonwealth, by law” bullshit also.
( Nellie McLung, iirc, was one of 'em, & a wonderful sentiment of hers goes something like…
“don’t let them decide what’s allowed, or valid,
but instead, just make things right, & let them howl,”
Now there’s a woman. : )
So, as anyone who has seen all the body-language books which identify how utterly-incompetent normal guys are at reading it, women are more-likely to work with & through people.
- Comment on Thoughts on these SATA/M.2-->SATA/2.5" adapters? 5 weeks ago:
IF JBOD, && Linux, THEN yes you can know, through SMARTTOOLS, or something like that…
However, I can’t imagine how you’d get 2 separate PCIe
( presuming NVMe devices …
… no, this thing must be presuming SATA, NOT NVMe …
even in SATA, there’s no bifurcator for SATA, I don’t think:
SAS has expanders, which can take a single SAS channel & attach something like 128 SAS devices onto it,
PCIe has some kind of equivalent, and there is a PCIe card which crams loads of NVMe’s into it, out in the last year, but SATA??
Hmm… )
shrug
- Comment on Why bag the hydrant? 5 weeks ago:
I’ve never heard of this, & I’m Canadian.
I imagine out east, in the Maritimes, they’d have to put marker-poles on the things, because they sometimes get 5’ of snow in a single onslaught, but …
… it simply isn’t something I’d ever heard-of.
Our fire-departments deal with the snow & ice every ( normal, not now ) winter.
shrug
- Comment on /c/OptimistsUnite - dispelling inaccurate doomer myths and showing how we are living in the best time in recorded history 5 weeks ago:
I tried opening this post in a web browser, & it tried downloading a binary onto my system??
When I tried reloading the page, instead of blank-page with some kind of underhanded downloading, it showed the post…
Not cool, but I’ve no idea who, or what, caused whatever it is that hit my browser, when I tried getting it to open this post.
- Comment on How do I stop wanting to be on a relationship? 5 weeks ago:
That’s your unconscious-mind playing games with your life, same as mine does with mine.
It’s essentially a variant of “addiction”, aka Kahneman1 mind ( imprint-reaction mind ) trying to make your life obey its imprint-reaction programming.
Read both Kahneman’s “Thinking Fast & Slow”, in order to understand the pseudo-reasoning that Kahneman1 mind ( he calls it System-1, but that presumes his work’s context, which normal-discussions don’t presume ), and how its mission is undermining correct-reasoning ( Kahneman2 mind ).
AND read Kegan & Lahey’s “Immunity to Change”, about our unconscious-mind’s mechanism that fights off growing-up, & how to intelligently counter its sabotaging of our lives.
It’s essentially a kind of “demagnitization” that you need to do, of your unconscious, but if you don’t systematically use real leverage, you’re not going to win.
Every time I see an image of a cute, intelligent, driven, wonderfully diffierent-from-me woman, I’m wanting to be wrapping our lives together, but…
… relationship depends on having common core-identity.
Some people have such alien/different core-identity, due to life-experience, that that potential got broken.
You can’t make an intact window out of random shards of broken glass, right?
They’re separate, and they don’t become unitary, the way molten glass does, just because you put them adjacent to each-other, right?
Some people have been too changed by experience, to be able to value what normal-identity values.
My life-mission is to remove my Soul/Continuum/CellOfGod/ChildOfAllgod/ParticleOfBrahmanFieldOfOriginalAwareness from Universe-containment/entrapment, so that no more of this reincarnation abuse/bullshit contains future-lives that it has.
Aversion-therapy was successful, in other words…
How could any woman want what I want?
That’s nonsensical.
You can’t have the savage intensity of aversion to “remaining in world, living in relationships, gently earning human meaning” that I have, & somehow be “in” relationship with woman who is wired into needing that kind of meaning…
Not only is it idiocy, it’s abuse ( it would be abuse for me to be in-relationship with anyone, given my ripping-Soul-from-endless-stream-of-Universes NEED in me, that my core is ).
So, while your reason is different from mine, we’re both fighting-against the “magnetization” of our unconscious-minds & our Kahneman1 programmed imprint-reaction/instinct minds.
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understanding { the books, one’s own unconscious, experience-induced-understanding of studying one’s unconscious, as it sabotages one’s life, in order to protect its dominion over our Eternity, through hobbling our strategy/intent }
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finding the deliberate & strategic means of communicating with our unconscious, using techniques given in those books
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keep earning the demagnitizing of our unconscious-minds, our Kahneman1 minds, until each of us wins ( any addiction, it’s the same rules, whether addiction-to-relationship, or addiction-to-dysfunction, or addiction-to-chemical, or addiction-to-class-status, or addiction-to-money, ANY addiction is using these mechanisms, so the method for dismantling them is, strategically, the same )
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endure the life-scale process ( no point in pretending that one’s unconscious-mind can be force-rewired in mere-months: it took decades for our unconscious to form, and it absorbed many-decades of culturally-accumulated inertia in the early years, it’s going to be a slog, and only enduring-persisting can work, and the life-accomplishing can be worth it, whatever it is that one is working on earning ).
and that’s it.
No “magic bullet”, no “magic pill”, just competenly-demagnitizing one’s unconscious-ignorance from one’s life, and making one’s life hold to a non-default “river” path.
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- Comment on After 114 days of change, Broadcom CEO acknowledges VMware-related “unease” 1 month ago:
I find it peculiar that everybody in this discussion is ignoring Hashicorp’s stuff??
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HashiCorp
I glanced at Proxmox vs Hashicorp’s stuff, after seeing some discussions on here about 'em, & Hashicorp’s stuff is oriented to clarity & simplicity.
Sorta Japanese take on it.
To me clarity is worth a significant amount of value.
Anyways, I’m just noting this, for anyone who’s actually considering such things: I’m only a nobody who has avoided geeking for some years.
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- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I find it is a systems-question, not a political-question,
and I think the correct answer is to have a publically-owned portion of any market, be public/not-for-profit, as a means of enforcing honesty/integrity into that market.
IOW, you don’t nationalize every damn thing, because institutional-mentality is every bit as evil as corporatism-psychopathy-machiavellianism, only different in style…
( anyone who isn’t understanding that … hasn’t tried living & working among it, either in Washington DC or in Canada’s Ottawa, or in whatever England’s equiv, the EU’s equiv, etc. )
you instead make certain that a portion of the oil industry is national, a portion of the (whatever) industry is national, etc, and if there is huge discrepancy between the nationalized-portion & the private-portion, then you go in with criminal-investigators, after the C-suites of the corporations used to gaming the country’s economy.
Putting 3 barracuda in the fish-farm-pen, in order to make all the survivors in the pen be fit is a related concept: same principle, different domain.
You put some not-for-profit operation into the functionally-cartel-domains, & you use those “barracuda” to force integrity into those specific domains.
Do it strategically, not just reactively ( comms, transport, energy, food, journalism, etc )
- Comment on Leaked SpaceX documents show company forbids employees to sell stock if it deems they've misbehaved 1 month ago:
I have read that the actuality includes a loophole you didn’t speak of:
Once someoen owns shares, they can privately-sell them, or give them away, or will them to someone…
Once enough people have done this, the “private” company becomes actually publically-traded, though not on any exchange…
…creating some legal difficulties, re regulations.
From that bit, which I never would have known to even consider ( some article I read, some years ago ), then it looks like people can sell their shares to another private-individual.
Maybe some jurisdictions prohibit that.
I don’t know, I’m just identifying an angle people apparently haven’t commonly considered.
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- Comment on Do straight lines and flat planes exist in nature? 1 month ago:
maybe somebody else pointed this out:
Light ALWAYS travels in its idea of a straight-line.
Always.
It doesn’t matter whether it is bent by gravity or refraction, from its perspective, it kept going straight.
Only an “outside viewer” sees any non-straight-line-ness being done, but the outside-viewer isn’t seeing the curved-space or the curved-refractive-index that the photon saw.
- Comment on Lemmy.ml is acting as a proxy instance for Hexbear and should be defederated by any instances that defederate from Hexbear 1 month ago:
IF lemmy.ml is admin’d by the Lemmy devs, themselves,
AND their ideology/prejudice is being obstructed by the Lemmy-verse,
THEN wouldn’t it be rational for them to engineer-in to Lemmy, itself, protections for their ideology?
Breaking the Fediverse’s ability to “manage” them?
or breaking the Fediverse’s ability to have any alternative-ideology be its core??
I’m thinking they could either adulterate privacy, deliberately, or they could force blocking to be porous, or something…
IOW, I’m thinking that it is strategically-incompetent to allow tankies to own our core tech, exactly as it is strategically-incompetent to allow right-wing highjackers-of-our-countries to do so.
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- Comment on Nikon is acquiring US camera manufacturer RED 1 month ago:
hell.
Nikon’s a boutique brand.
There goes RED.
- Comment on Have you started planing this years garden plants yet? You might need these 1 month ago:
No Triffid markers??
Normal ppl, harrumph.
: P
- Comment on Do you ever worry that you're secretly a psychopath that unknowingly manipulates people around you? 1 month ago:
The fact that you’re bothered by the question rules-out your being a ( intrinsic/brain ) psychopath,
but mentally/abuse/culturally induced sociopathy is a thing ( I’ve some ),
and even that is beside the point.
Please invest in that excellent book & earn becoming ore whole.
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- Comment on Recommend me a wireless earphones/headset with good audio...that is PINK in color 2 months ago:
Have you see the permissions-rape of the Anker Soundcore app??
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- Comment on Recommend me a wireless earphones/headset with good audio...that is PINK in color 2 months ago:
Sorry, not good advice:
plastics and paints are usually incompatible-chemistries.
ABS can be painted, but you MUST be careful about which solvents are in the paint, e.g.
There is no point in trying to paint polypropylene, e.g.
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- Comment on How do I find organisations that support causes I want to fight for? 2 months ago:
Please read some stuff on Effective Altruism.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_altruism
Different people have different standards for what that means,
some hold:
- policy-change is most-effective
- grass-roots is most effective
- low overhead is most-effective
etc.
I’d divide resources into
Kipp.org Teach For America Dalit Network
because all-3 are working to get the next-generation thinking, and without that, we-the-species is flushed down the sewer:
our generation deems thinking “optional, and ill-advised”, apparently.
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- Comment on Are there any genuine benefits to AI? 2 months ago:
They are the greatest gift to solo-brainstorming that I’ve ever encountered.
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- Comment on How can a ugly and short guy compensate for his looks? 2 months ago:
Women have much more words-orientation than we guys do.
Invest in:
- Wonderworks
- The Anatomy of Genres
- The Anatomy of Story
- a couple of Gottman’s books
- Logan, King, & Fischer-Wright’s "Tribal Leadership"
- Halvorson’s “The 8 Motivational Challenges”
& understand both how to woo women much more competently, as well as how to make your woman live a healthier life ( the “Tribal Leadership” book & Gottman’s stuff ), & know how to recognize different unconscious-mind styles from Halvorson’s book, so you aren’t investing in a lost-cause.
- Kegan & Lahey’s “Immunity to Change” is required if you’re in it for the long-haul ( in your own life, or in a marriage/family, both paths need this leverage, in our world ), and want to competently dismantle your unconscious-mind’s obstruct-growing-up-to-protect-status-quo mechanism…
Life’s worth much!
A little study can go a long way, if one knows what one ought be studying, you know?
People judge others by appearance … when we have nothing-else to go-on.
When one has significant evidence of someone’s worth, and that evidence isn’t their appearance, their appearance becomes rather irrelevant…
Some people are entirely-visual, some are entirely non-visual ( like me ) in thinking.
Unless you’re clawing-your-way-out-from-reincarnation ( like me ), there likely are good-matches for you.
The significant-evidence item, though, identifies that you need to be hanging-around among women, for them to get to know you, like volunteering somewhere, or something…
Do well, eh?
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- Comment on How would fedi fans feel about a paid LinkedIn alternative on the fediverse? 2 months ago:
I see an alignment-problem:
IF it is paid by the job-seekers, who may be destitute, THEN the rich job-seekers distort the market in their favor.
ELSIF it is paid by the job-posters, who definitely intend to underpay all whom they hire, then it has motivation to help misrepresent things.
Enshittification is inevitable, either-way.
I hold that the Fediverse NEEDS a LinkedIn replacement, the problem is that a healthy such replacement is in the Public interest, & therefore the Public ought be paying for it.
Which will never happen, in the lobbied-puppets “electorate” world.
It isn’t even a political question, left or right, it is a market-integrity question.
The greater the integrity of the employment-market, the stronger the country, obviously.
Therefore removing the job-board/job-market from ALL special-interest-groups/torquers/machiavellians can significantly benefit the country(ies) who impliment correctly, in the long-term/strategic scope.
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