ApathyTree
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- Comment on We can play that game too 1 day ago:
Right, and you get why this is impossible for most people? That was my original point. Most people, even if they want to do this, can’t. It’s unaffordable.
The point is that your suggestion that someone is free to do this is just very much not the case.
- Comment on We can play that game too 1 day ago:
Ok, but if your plan is to live solo forever and not interact with society, you’d basically need to pay for it upfront. That means you need a lot of money all at once, otherwise you’ll still need income, which limits the ability you have to be separate from society.
- Comment on We can play that game too 1 day ago:
Yes I know, I’ve looked at them. That’s how I know they are expensive.
- Comment on We can play that game too 1 day ago:
They’re free to go live in the wilderness, with no roads, no fire department, no water or electricity, no services whatever, and find out how much they’re actually benefiting from our collective.
Where?
This is what I want to do, but I can’t afford to buy land on which to do it (and not just any land is useful for this either, it needs to be capable of supporting people before you can count it). Land enough to support a small homestead isn’t cheap, and zoning/local laws often restricts what you can do on it. So for example you may buy land, but not be allowed to drill a well, even if you have the means and knowledge to do so. Or if you buy land you can afford, you may not be allowed to build a permanent structure on it at all.
You’ll get kicked out (and possibly fined) of both state and national parks in the US if they find you “permanently camping”, which they are likely to do since there are frequently people out there. The only other option is squatting on private property. If you get caught before whatever time passes for squatters laws to take effect, you lose everything you’ve built up.
I mean don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind paying for things I’ll never use because it makes society as a whole better. All I’m saying is opting out of living in a society is nearly impossible for most people even if they are ok with not having all the stuff society funds like roads and fire control.
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 5 days ago:
I would consider dev mode in rimworld to be cheating in a “technically it is” sort of way… spawning infant thralls that are then adopted by my colony, or spawning whatever activity site I choose are definitely not how the game is supposed to work. The mods are sort of also cheating I guess, tho most of them are content heavy… there are definitely several hacky mods in my list, like minify everything.
But while it’s cheating in a technical sense, it doesn’t impact anyone and it’s teaching me a lot about how video games function, which I find more entertaining than completing hard-coded objectives. It’s the first game I ever put a lot of mods on, and between troubleshooting and testing stuff, it’s been nearly as illuminating as rendering lag that adds each texture layer individually starting from low poly (my ps4 is having some major lag issues I’m trying to sort out, and horizon zero dawn is fascinating for this rendering issue, so so many layers! And then to realize it usually gets processed in real time! 🤯)
- Comment on Getting in on the library craze with the Reading Rainbow guy 1 week ago:
My local thrift shops are packed with books for stupid cheap. A wide variety, too.
Maybe try that and have a happy medium? Not buying something new, but saving something from a landfill.
- Comment on Heavy is the head that wears the frown 1 week ago:
So you’re saying I’m the snail…
- Comment on True 1 week ago:
Try using a middleman, like Rumpelstiltskin.
Your debtors don’t want first born, because that just increases their obligations, but someone will give you a fair market trade for them that you can use as payment, or service in lieu of payment!
- Comment on I was gonna stop cornposting but then I saw this 1 week ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_of_Corn
I’m very very amused that this is called “field of corn”. I mean of course it is, but that’s just very dryly funny to me.
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 1 week ago:
I have aphantasia as well but I do actually have something sort of like a memory palace… kinda. It should be completely useless when I’m awake, but isn’t. I have a dream town, and every place I’ve dreamed about more than three times in the last ~20 years is there in a surprisingly consistent and exceptionally vivid way, like logging into a mmorpg, but spawning in random places. If not for it being easily recognizable as “my town”, I’d struggle to tell it from waking reality because that’s the only other time I experience “sight”. It’s genuinely unsettling sometimes, when my brain makes a new place, to not know if I was dreaming. Maybe that’s why I revisit places until they feel comfortable and familiar and get incorporated into the town.
I say it isn’t completely useless because I use spacial memory to “go places” when awake. I can’t see it, but I know what’s there if I go there, the same way I can mentally count the windows, and know what’s around them, in my house without visually touring the house; I think about where I go to open windows on a nice day, and count the stops.
I can’t put things into the town purposely. Locations or objects, unfortunately. Everything has to already be there if I want to make use of it. But if I can find a useful thing on my spacial tour, I can make note of where I found it, or move it to somewhere more useful. Like the finding the windows exercise, but, to continue your example, I happen to recall that next to window 3 is a Christmas cactus with pink heart-shaped flower buds, and I choose to ”move it” it to the 7th window of my tour. (And yes, if I make note that I’ve moved something, it does stay there when I dream, so that’s really neat)
Genuinely not that useful for things people probably normally use a memory palace sort of thing for, like short-term memories, (finding useful objects is difficult, and sometimes requires a lot of in-dream exploring, which takes actual time) but somewhat useful for certain long-term things, like numbers or recipes. And as a bonus, when I forget something, I’ll often stumble across it in my town and be reminded. Like the recipe for my mom’s cheesecake is the literal ingredients just sitting on the counter in the pocket floor she lives in (she’s a nightmare I had often enough to join the town’s residents, but I shoved her in an impossible floor so I can avoid her). I put that recipe there because I like to modify it, and I often forget what the base recipe is. It’s not written down in the normal sense because I’ll lose it, but it’s simple enough for a representation like that to be easy to hold onto.
But I’ve had similar frustrating experiences with people telling me to visualize things for whatever reason. Like nope, my internal computer is GUI-free. Text output only, with a screen reader. Not even multiple voices, which I hear is a thing most people can do, just the one default reader voice.
On the subject of not being able to visualize people, if there’s someone you haven’t seen in a long time, do you falsely match other people up with the description? For example, my mom died when I was 23, and I’m almost 40 now. It’s been so long that I genuinely don’t remember what she looks like unless I’m looking at a photo. But I know her general description, and when I see other women who fit the description I -feel- that they look just like her even though they usually don’t, actually.
- Comment on At this point it might be the wisest decision 2 weeks ago:
Brian?
- Comment on I'm snatching the 12-gauge over the door with the quickness. [sound on] 2 weeks ago:
Took a really long time after “nevermore” to learn more words, but I’m pumped it happened anyway!
- Comment on Screw your zodiac sign, tell me... 2 weeks ago:
Is it weird that I have no memory of what tableware we used? Most of my childhood is missing from my memory actually.
- Comment on Elon Musk's X botched its security key switchover, locking users out 3 weeks ago:
Maybe some people will use this to actually stay off the site.
Probably not many, but any new attrition is good.
- Comment on Servo: A new, independent Web Browser Engine (the core of a web browser) written in Rust. 3 weeks ago:
Interesting. Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions, I appreciate it!
- Comment on Servo: A new, independent Web Browser Engine (the core of a web browser) written in Rust. 3 weeks ago:
That makes sense as to why Mozilla would be developing rust, then, thank you :)
One last (probably) follow-up question - is the payment to those companies for support purposes, or is it a license to even use the language? Like if you write your whatever in one language and then decide to swap…… umm… service providers I guess (maybe MSP situation?), do you need to re-write your entire whatever to no longer use it, or do you just no longer have support for issues?
- Comment on Servo: A new, independent Web Browser Engine (the core of a web browser) written in Rust. 3 weeks ago:
Excellent thanks, I’ll look into that, and thank you for the information :)
You say “we” which hints that you have (some?) experience in the field, do you have any insight as to why one would want to create a new language rather than just helping to refine an existing one or something? Do they end up too bloated or do they function inherently differently or some other thing I haven’t thought of…?
- Comment on Servo: A new, independent Web Browser Engine (the core of a web browser) written in Rust. 3 weeks ago:
Interesting, thanks for the response, that gives me something to look for :)
And yeah, that last bit does rather sound likely ;)
- Comment on Servo: A new, independent Web Browser Engine (the core of a web browser) written in Rust. 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think that’s true on a site like Lemmy, where you have a -lot- of hardcore techies interacting with non-techies and encouraging them to learn. And also just non-techies constantly exposed to info about tech. There’s so much tech stuff here it’s impossible to avoid.
As a direct result of being on Lemmy, I’m familiar with rust (vaguely, but I know there are projects to re-code stuff in rust, and that it’s supposed to be a more robust language for… reasons), and care enough to read about it when there are posts I can understand about it (my tech level is sort of… on the low end of intermediate) but I don’t know anything about how web browsers work, because it’s just never come up.
- Comment on Servo: A new, independent Web Browser Engine (the core of a web browser) written in Rust. 3 weeks ago:
This makes me really curious in a way I’m not really sure how to search for (and I certainly don’t expect you to have an answer, but maybe someone does)…
How does one actually go about developing a new coding language? I assume it’s something that you need to…… translate to assembly in some way (I’m not advanced techie, but my understanding is that at core everything is assembly, and code languages are on top of that)? And what’s the purpose of developing more languages anyway?
- Comment on Is there a formalized ban appeal process for the fediverse? Do I just direct message a mod? 3 weeks ago:
Oof yeah I saw those comments…
I don’t blame them for dropping the banhammer considering their instance rules and how strictly they enforce them (even if I don’t necessarily agree with some of the enforcement).
- Comment on Bacon 3 weeks ago:
Just put a wick in the jar you pour strained bacon grease into. I’m sure that would work.
Probably.
Hmm… now I’m wondering if it would…
- Comment on The Palantir Stare aka The Thiel Razzle 4 weeks ago:
Too much life in the eyes, too much color in the skin.
- Comment on Thanks, brain 1 month ago:
Test taking is a skill all its own. It shouldn’t be, but man I have slacked so many classes because I have that skill.
The best class I ever had, a course on the physics behind the functionality of renewable energy systems, the professor would give you the equation if you couldn’t remember it. You’d have to go up and talk to him, if you were really struggling, and you needed to know what you were trying to do, but he’d try to hint you through it first, then provide what you were missing. Ultimately he didn’t see students failing on dumb memory stuff as any sort of win for anyone.
As he said, despite being physics, memorizing math, and especially formulae, isn’t the point of the class.
He was my favorite. He wore white socks with soccer ball-patterned sandals every day, with dress pants and a blazer/tie combo, even winter, and rode his bike to campus. Dude was an absolute gem.
- Comment on life purpose 1 month ago:
That looks just like the call center I used to work in.
So dumb that it’s ai when places like these are everywhere…
- Comment on You never missed anything important 1 month ago:
Being productive all the time is for suckers with no actual lives.
Unless you count forming and maintaining social bonds as productive, which it absolutely is, in which case your point is just straight moot.
- Comment on Don't see the problem! 1 month ago:
Oh man my chickens get aggressively excited when I find worms and throw them in the run for them. Especially those whopping night crawler bois. They do the keep-away prance with them held aloft and peck at each other about it.
I’ve decided to start vermicompost specifically to raise worms for them to nom, in addition to the cricket and mealworm tanks I’ve got going :)
- Comment on Public service announcement 1 month ago:
Ok well that’s definitely not a “usually” situation then.
- Comment on Public service announcement 1 month ago:
Excuse me, what?
I’ve never been anally penetrated during a gyno visit, not a single time in many many years. If you have, that’s fucking weird, not at all normal.
- Comment on BzzzzzzZZZZzzzzZZzzzzz Bruv 3 months ago:
