I will say when I was in school for engineering, I would microdose acid during tests. Probably about 30ugs a time. Made visualizing math a helluva lot easier, I'd go from being a C student to an A student, I was way better at math on acid than sober. If I went back to school I probably wouldn't do it again because acid and schizophrenia don't really mix well (shrooms were a different story but that's besides the point) but I see what the techbros were saying. Was like I could have multiple pages of notes stored in my brain and flip through them casually.

This is why when I was dealing people would trust my math when I was off multiple tabs. For some reason I was just really good at mental math when I was on acid. Wouldn't trust myself to do anything else on acid, but math was a strong point.

[–] SuperNovaCouchGuy2@hexbear.net 31 points 1 month ago (3 children)

So acid is like the spice melange from dune where taking it gives you the mental capacity to perform spacetime-bending mathematical calculations so that you can steer the ship at lightspeed without hitting planets

[–] 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago

That's allegedly what Frank Herbert based it off of, yeah

[–] LeylaLove@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

Eh, depends on the person and the dose. At high doses, it will fucking fry your brain like nothing else. But there are stories of bands taking acid before shows, or the famous Doc Ellis no-hitter in baseball. It will really make you lock in on certain things.

Irresponsible behavior

I'm a pretty good driver, and have driven on acid a few times back when I did it. I got myself out of some terrible situations in the snow while I was on acid that I don't think I would have figured out as quickly if I were sober. Like my understanding of physics just clicked instantly and I knew when to hit the gas when instinctually I would have wanted to slam the breaks. I only ever drove when the roads were dead when I was on acid though, so I never dealt with other people being in the mix.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Yes

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

microdose acid during tests. Probably about 30ugs

Jesus fucking Christ lmao I can’t even imagine the level of panic that would set in if I tried doing that

[–] LeylaLove@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

High doses make me panic like crazy, low doses just make me really good at math. I would never macrodose anywhere close to a test, but goddamn if my math wasn't fire when I was microdosing acid. (To be fair I was also using Phenibut at this point, which removes all the anxiety from acid trips)

[–] durings@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

hey i love a good microdose too but not for productivity within capitalism's sake

although 30 is pretty fucking strong, micro for me was 5-10

[–] LeylaLove@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

Hey I just did it so I wouldn't flunk 😭 I dropped out so I never worked for some bomb company

[–] corvidenjoyer@hexbear.net 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Still in stealth"

trans-egg sicko-wistful

[–] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

This is genuinely the only way I know how to interpret that (and I understood everything else!)

[–] LeylaLove@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Someone post the Ayahuasca meme

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

[–] LeylaLove@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

Thank you

[–] Gucci_Minh@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ayahuasca meme

Gotchu

[–] LeylaLove@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

This wasn't what I had in mind, but it's still funny. Yeah, Ayahuasca will literally kill you if you don't know the drug interactions, MAOI inhibitors ain't nothing to fuck with.

Almost died taking Ayahuasca once because I had taken Methadone 2 days prior and it caused me to have seizures and hypertensive crisis. (Seriously, if you ever take Ayahuasca, you gotta make sure NOTHING else is in your system. Even weed is iffy, albeit usually fine because it doesn't act on seratonin) If I wasn't so well versed in drugs at the time and knew what I had in my stash to take to counter it, I probably would have died that night.

I should probably write a guide on Ayahuasca at some point, too bad my laptop shit out.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

I don't doubt this is a real thing, but anyone I know that's taken ayahuasca has already been around the psychedelic block.

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago (8 children)

I hate how easy VSCode is to use. I want to learn NeoVIM, but the fact that VSCode just kinda works with whatever you throw at it with minimal configuration makes finding the energy to switch hard.

I don't want to spend weeks configuring my editor...

[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Any editor can save your files, but only Emacs can save your soul.

[–] semioticbreakdown@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

is there a package to serialize souls into s-exprs

[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Rev 2

(defun get-soul () 
"Return soul"
  (interactive)
  (with-current-buffer "soul"
     (goto-char (point-min))
     (thing-at-point 'soul)))

[–] semioticbreakdown@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

yay now I can load my ghost in the shell

[–] cerealkiller@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

VSCodium my man. Privacy and FOSS.

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's what I use outside work lol, Fedora Workstation and VSCodium Insiders

It's still just VSCode though, but without all the Microsoft telemetry

[–] atyaz@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't take it too seriously it's a fine editor.

Even though I use nvim I wouldn't really recommend it because yeah there's setup time and some things are a little rough around the edges.

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

I'm nano and VSCode for most things, but I have started using micro for stuff where I don't want to leave the terminal and it's pretty decent

[–] NewOldGuard@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

If you ever want a simple neovim config I’d happily give you something to start with for your use case

The real difficulty comes in learning the keybinds and built in features lol

[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

Use astronvim, it's super easy to use right out of the box and is almost feature complete to vscode without any plugins.

[–] underisk@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There are configuration bundles that do a lot of the heavy lifting for you. Kickstart is the one I liked most but it’s one of the lighter ones so you’ll still have some setup to do. Check out Lazyvim if you want something that’s heavier but comes with a lot of (opinionated) configuration already handled.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

https://github.com/NvChad/NvChad

[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was going to chime in with "Use Emacs" but then I realized I don't actually use Emacs, I use Emacs as a boot-loader to magit /hj

But yeah, if you're going to move away from VSCode, just drop into Emacs because it's going to be the same time-commitment essentially.

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

I'm honestly probably not going to until I absolutely need to. I tend to do a lot of large changes that I break out into smaller commits after a session and the workflow in Codium/VSCode for that is really slick. Just pop open the diff and stage/revert ranges of code with the mouse.

Also reverting blocks is easy when you just click a "revert block" button that lives between the diffs. I love using keyboard, but when I'm reviewing code I prefer to do it with a mouse.

[–] 9to5@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

Fixed it

[–] 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

ngl, I kinda want that dysphoria hoodie

[–] durings@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

actual parasites

[–] darkmode@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I feel like thousands of people are getting run around in circles by cursor and AI suggested code. I am only confident using it because i spent my entire school and half my career not using tools like that. even with stuff that it’s good at like JS/TS it still causing me headaches if im not laser-focused with prompts

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

I only use it for some scripting, and goddam. Anything more than a one-liner is apt to mean an hour of failed iterations followed by giving up.

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

I straight up deleted co-pilot and switched to VSCodium because I started realizing that it would start to give me a solution that seemed right, but would cause issues later.

Sure, I program a lot slower without multiline auto complete, but at least I'm thinking about every line I write and can get 2 lines in and realize that what I'm doing is gonna be an issue.

[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I never got why tech bros use macs when you'd think they'd go for thinkpads with linux. How do you get into tech and not fuck with the OS your shitty software is going to run on server-side?

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

have you ever tried to manage a fleet of Linux machines?

[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I haven't, but shouldn't the tech Bros be able to help with that?

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

the tech bros are the ones who are giving you the macbook because they're the easiest to manage in a fleet

[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 0 points 1 month ago

They use Macs because Apple hardware is the most expensive and most powerful on the desktop market. Most of the time they'll just be remoting into the Dev machine (some Amazon Linux/Enterprise Linux machine) anyway in VSCode and so all that hardware is unnecessary.

On the one hand Macs are easier to manage, but on the other hand, so much waste when really people just get them for the IPhone integration and the HiDPI screen.