[-] j4k3@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago

Basically a pinhole camera. The lens is doing the same thing as your eyeball. If your eye can see it, so can the lens.

[-] j4k3@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago

Any word on the next generation of matrix math acceleration hardware? Is anything currently getting integrated into the kernel? Where are the gource branches looking interesting for hardware pulls and merges?

[-] j4k3@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago

How do you feel about yourself? Do you like to be around you in an abstract sense?

[-] j4k3@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Like at 7:04 you might think of July 4th. All numerical dates are represented on a 12 hour clock (e: if you're using mmdd). I'm asking if your pattern recognition software is picking up on such a meaningless correlation and giving it some pleasant side effect or if that is not a very common mental connection.

[-] j4k3@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The Expanse in the first couple of seasons did a decent job of showing that the characters were flawed and not at the center of the world while struggling against a system that is a more realistic portrayal of what monsters exceptionalism really creates.

This aspect of Star Trek the next generation did a pretty good job of contextualizing the fact that the events on the Enterprise were the stories of one of many such vessels.


EDIT:

That is why I like Dune and Asimov's universe as well.

In Dune there is a ton of exceptionalism, and it is outright shown to be awful for the average person. I would argue that every form of exceptionalism throughout the books is always met with an equally negative outcome and flaw.

In Asimov's stuff there is exceptional altruism in Daneel. The most exceptional characters like The Mule is shown as a tyrant. Hari Seldon is unexceptional in his exceptional idea, but is dead for the exceptional events that followed and his exceptionalism is constantly in question.

[-] j4k3@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

Also pager related fatalities in 2023.

[-] j4k3@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

I'm all for ya having fun and your right to hurt yourself.

I am a former racer, commuter, and professional Buyer for a chain of bike shops. I'm also disabled from the crash involving the 6th and 7th cars that have hit me in the last 170k+ miles of riding. I only barely survived what I simplify as a "broken neck and back." Cars making U-turns are what will get you if you ride long enough, especially commuting. It will look like just another person turning in front of you, you'll compensate like usual, and before your brain can even register what is really happening, what was your normal escape route will close and you're going to crash really hard. It is the only kind of crash that your intuition is useless against.

I digress, because I care too much. My point is that I still ride on a dedicated road bike trail. I encounter children on their Power Wheels™ /s doing wheelies all the time. I even have many playing chicken. Any small head injury is likely to kill me. I'm actually not all that concerned about dying. I've been present for two crashes where someone died. These things haunt you for life. I'd rather not die while stressed over the impact my struggle has on you for that 30-45 minutes if I am conscious. It will change your life nearly as much as mine.

Never do anything on a bike that requires anyone else to "trust you." Every time you have a close call in a car or on a bike due to another person's error, and you're mumbling to yourself "fucking idiot," that other person is saying to themselves or others "trust me, you're fine." Every time you tell yourself "trust me" you're everyone else's "fucking idiot."

No one is aware of all the things that can go wrong. However, I've been riding for a lot of miles. I know more than most what can go wrong. The most likely cause of my death on a bike right now is a naive child doing a wheelie. All it takes is a snapped chain, a fractured freehub pawl or outer bearing race, a tire blowout, a snapped spoke that causes a cascade of 3 or more spokes to break, or simple over confidence and a lack of balance. I have seen all of these things happen at least once.

The only time I appear completely fine to the casual observer is when I'm on a bike. I'm fast; likely faster than you typically ride at with lithium legs, and have a top speed in the mid thirties on flat ground without a tailwind, - if I care to try. What you can't see is the 10 years of spending most days laying down from not being able to hold posture, my constant back pain on par with a bad bee sting that never goes away or fades to background, or how I can't turn my head left anywhere near far enough to see over my shoulder.

The only way to help the issue of youthful irresponsibility on e-bikes is to develop a culture of shaming and shunning any fellow riders that endanger others on bike trails. That is a tough ask from youths that are notorious for a lack of well established and outspoken character capable of aligning positive traits through peer pressure. I type all this in the hopes that you are the exception to this stereotype.

[-] j4k3@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Don't stress about time. All of that is in your head, I promise. Like, I got hit by a car riding a bicycle to work 10 years ago and disabled in a weird way where my only limitation is holding posture. I'm in near social isolation but home life is almost normal-ish. I know I have nothing to offer anyone so I don't bother trying. You can function like this. If you were in prison or disabled, you would be forced to make the best of the situation. It is not the end of the world; not easy, but not the end of the world.

I used to say, never ask for what you are unwilling to give in a relationship, and never expect more than you have to offer. It was a brutal perspective for my present circumstances, but it is still just as true. The most loving gift I can give a future potential love is to never go looking for them. To never put them through what I am experiencing and will eventually experience. I don't know them and never will, but that is the best gift I can give them.

So the question you're asking is not really the right one in my opinion. You should be asking if you would value the situation and how you would act if the roles were reversed.

I had a partner once that thought she was doing this same thing, about to move away in a couple of months. Then she met me and I flipped her priorities in life completely for the next 2 years. You may find a similar dilemma if you choose to meet someone. So, would you date you even if you baited yourself into a long distance situation?

[-] j4k3@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Depends on how you do relationships. Like for me, I need a long time to really get over someone and like long term relationships, so I wouldn't.

IMO, I never have looked to date. I don't even know how that works. I just live my life and if someone I encounter is interesting great, if no one is, that is fine too. I have to be happy as just me doing me things to be happy with someone else that does someone else things and maybe meet them in the middle. Otherwise it is going to end ugly.

[-] j4k3@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago

Change contractors! talk to your union rep about opts. Sis is making bank with ros-X

[-] j4k3@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago

Can I get a piracy playlist? Where Napster at?

I bought almost every CD mentioned but own none of them now.

  • Incubus - Fungus Amongus
  • Alice in Chains MTV Acoustic Album
  • Metallica, Nirvana, Van Halen, Scorpions
  • Disturbed, System of a Down, SlipNOT, Korn
  • Stevie Ray Vaughan, Clapton, etc. too
[-] j4k3@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Ticking for what exactly?

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