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I mean, barring some large event, it'd be hard to change one's relationship to one's work/life/activities overnight, and even then the large event only accelerates the process.

I'm just using injury and aging as examples for events that help us to see that changing what we find joy in is possible.

Another example could be the first time you play a game in a genre you don't typically play and find it so completely compelling that you don't understand why you ever avoided the genre. Same with genres of writing, a single auto-bio/history/fantasy/sci-fi could open your eyes to the entire genre. But that's just more evidence for finding joy in things you previously did not find joy in.

So, the idea is that if it is possible to change what we find joy in, if there are things we must do that we typically view as burdens, it is possible that we could come to enjoy those things in the same way that we've come to enjoy all the things we've ever come to enjoy and will ever come to enjoy.

There are people who genuinely enjoy things that you or I don't find appealing at all.

We can use evidence for the ability to change what we find enjoyment in in the progression from soccer player to soccer manager to soccer fan. The individual who used to love playing the game is injured, ages, or isn't competitive enough to compete and so must turn to either management or being a fan if they are still to find joy in soccer. They are physically unable to enjoy it the way they used to and so adapt.

But, if one can adapt to being a manager after an injury, one can adapt to being a manager before an injury.

Outside of sport, we see the same in labor. Someone working a physically demanding job may find that they cannot compete in the market as their body ages. They must either adapt to become a manager or find some other job that is not as physically demanding. This too is a physically forced transition, but it shows that it is possible and could have been done before the aging.

In both, we find evidence that it is possible to find enjoyment in things that we do not already enjoy. The buddhists say "before enlightenment chop wood carry water after enlightenment chop wood carry water" because you change who you are/what you enjoy rather than what you do. The recognition being that there are things that must always be done: hygiene, food, water, shelter maintainence etc and that it is silly to waste our time hating or finding no joy in these things if it is possible for us to enjoy them.

We know we've got to pump water to drink and chop wood to keep the house warm, why be upset about it?

"The team calculated that for a shearwater flying 1,000 kilometers east in a day, about the maximum the scientists observed, the average error would be roughly 7 degrees. If the bird keeps checking where it is, that adds only 5 kilometers to the trip."

An error of around half a percent? That's super impressive.

I really doubt that a human (relatively familiar with reading maps) could get to their target destination without backtracks/detours adding to more than 5k. Perhaps a trained survivalist/ranger, but any average person who only knows how to read a paper map? No way.

I don't think it's that bypassing enjoyment is trivial.

It's that enjoyment is a secondary function to contentment and the user is allowed to pursue this secondary function according to their own desires. It is just that we often aren't taught the value of or the techniques involved in finding enjoyment.

Consider a professional athlete, a recreational league player, someone who watches their favorite team, and a team manager.

They are all engaged in their activities, originally, because of some enjoyment derived from the game.

But how often does each of them enjoy playing the game?

The recreational player probably gets more fun out of playing the game than the ones who choose to watch, even if they played in highschool.

When was the last time the player enjoyed the ritual of watching a game they aren't involved in?

The one who goes to every game probably gets more enjoyment from watching the game than a player on the sideline.

How often does a player enjoy arm-chair calling another game as opposed to a manager?

But, what happens as we age or in the face of injury? We learn to adapt to enjoying other aspects of our favorite activities. We do so because we are forced to without realizing that we could have been enjoying watching the game just as much as we do now post-injury.

We see this in streaming and video games: People who watch endless hours of games they'll never play, and streamers who never watch others play.

We see this in labor. As the buddhists say, "Before enlightenment; carry water, chop wood. After enlightenment; carry water, chop wood." Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life, in other words.

The difference between a miserable manager and a jovial janitor is their ability to find enjoyment.

Wow, that was fast! And it works better than piping in to mpv because it exposes quality selection!

I really like the interface, install and search are smooth. Really appreciate SponsorBlock being built in.

But I'm rarely only watching youtube

Without a way to pop the video out of the interface I'm stuck with either a small video inside a large pane somewhere on screen, listening to it in the background, or just having it fullscreen.

Like...piping yt-dlp straight to mpv I get just the mpv box (or even mpv 'link') and I can have it hover over other things I'm doing, you know?

It is interesting that the equivalent pesticide dumping has balanced out to plant growth.

I wonder if the seeweed is naturally Monsanto Ready and we could harvest this gene for a green room implementation to subvert the grip they exert over their crop lines.

For a while there, perhaps still the case, there were officially no gay people in Russia.

The official stance was to keep no count and so the count remained NaN.

>The blog I wrote (AI-assisted) if you're curious

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I mean, companies are responsible for the actions of their employees within a certain scope and it is not outside the realm of possibility that an individual interested in curtailing the momentum of this candidate works at Meta in a capacity that would allow interfering with the account.

Accusing them without due evidence is sloppy, but it's not like the claim carries genuinely zero possibility of being true.

>should be paid multiple years of a high end vuln researcher salary per single discovery

What? Why would anyone work at a company paying them that much less than they pay the contractors?

>I tried today.ai yesterday

>> Today learns your day, builds a living memory of what matters

>> It helps before you ask

>> We may collect the following categories of information: — name, email address, and authentication credentials (including third-party sign-in tokens). — name, email address, and authentication credentials (including third-party sign-in tokens). — device identifiers, browser type, operating system, IP address, referral URLs, pages visited, and feature interactions. — information you authorize third-party services to share with us through integrations you enable.

>It scanned my disk without my consent during onboarding, which is already a very bad start

Not really sure what you expected a program meant to scan your machine to do outside of scanning your machine given a privacy policy telling you the extent of what they might collect.

edit: Also, literally everyone was talking about this exact vector when claw/hermes/etc launched as the direct reason requiring that "you have to buy the machine it'd be running on": so that un-auditted software exfilling who knows what data doesn't sit very conveniently in your own personal /home.

Turned out the key was 0n3S3v3ntHr33f0UrS1xS3v3nThR33... and so we were fine until I typed this comment.

I think we'll probably be working to increase value, having that value split disproportionally between us and our employers, and using our split of that value in order to fulfill our basic needs.

Or we'll be at war with a super intelligence.

Or we'll be pets or slaves of a super intelligence.

Or we'll not be.

One of the four, probably.

You know manure and the soils produced from composting are literally feces from animals and bacteria, right?

And that manure is an excellent natural fertilizer?

And that outside that, worms exist? And they poop?

Oh, and that if you were to take bird shit beets and worm poop beets and mash them up and extract chemically pure sucrose from both you'd have no way of determining which came from which?

Assuming that you do know all of these things, you're saying that horse shit and worm poop is fine, but you'll be damned if a bird is involved?

I mean, I can see where you're coming from. A potatoe coming from a toilet is probably not as clean as a potatoe coming from a sterile lab, but that's not what you're saying. You're saying that the toilet has somehow altered the physical chemical compounds involved in the structure of the potatoes rather than has potentially added other chemicals to the mix that was the potatoe. The starch is the same in both. The starch = the starch. The starch and the toilet =/= the starch and the lab because the toilet =/= the lab, but those are different arguments.

>If someone downloads your software from a mirror

Who pays the tax in 'anonymous' p2p schemes?

If I upload to a french server from a ukranian server that I seed through a swiss based VPN using a norwegian seedbox that I paid a friend for in cash, how does the french government bill me? Do they subpoena the ukranian server to see where the data come from? Does the swiss government, not seeing any legal issue with my data, comply and hand over my norwegian server? Does the norwegian seedbox provider or my friend at the company foot the bill because they've no record of me?

What about networking stacks in which the requester can't necessarily identify where the data genuinely originated? Suppose I torrent a genuine Linux ISO in france. Do all of the peers get fractional bills? Or is it on the distro maintainer? What if the data didn't really originate from any of the peers but was fetched for me by the peers and the peers don't tell me (or therefore the ISPs) where they got the data from?

What if I put, say, VLC in an encrpyted zip. The ISP and therefore the french gov would see this as data coming from me since it doesn't hash as VLC, but they also can't prove that it came from me if I demonstrate that it was actually downloaded from a forum.

What about anonymous data? If 4chan is mirroring images for me that I uploaded from a McDonalds and a french frog downloads it, how do I get a bill? Does 4chan eat the bill or forward it to the McDonalds? Does the McDonalds eat the bill or hire a tech to cross-reference cameras and IP logs? What if I paid for the food in cash? Do they check some mythical "who owns this laptop" database provided by google/meta/microsoft? What if my laptop isn't in those databases? The local McDonalds is forced to foot the bill as they can't provide a patsie?

If I send a friend a video on via facebook messenger, who foots the bill? Facebook didn't send the data, I did. Is facebook going to rewrite it's eula to allow them to bill me for "woops your friend was in france at the time"?

This may all seem like hand-waving what-aboutism, but there are legitimate questions at hand. If public data is expensive and there are routes that do not result in billing, why would anyone choose the expensive route for any reason other than ignorance of the free route? If those who know would choose the free route, how is france going to collect all, most, or any of their booty?

https://pastebin.com/zHkErGHP google translated version of article explains that the tax is not on any specific type of data but on any data delivered to french citizens/corps.

I don't have VideoLan's internal metrics, but if they're saying it'll cost them millions they're saying they deliver over ~18tb (or ~36tb for a tax of 2million) to french peeps per year

"Agents leak DHS secrets after adopting sentiment it discovered on democratic slack channel"

Woopsie

Lots of investors "buy the news" meaning that they go based on under/over speculator sentiment.

If it was believed that they be purchasing N, then that belief was priced in. If they only bought N-1, the price needs to be adjusted to reflect the new information.

Here, the argument is "the more hardware we have, the more compute we can sell, the more compute we sell, the more profit we'll have" and so investors were expecting a higher level of profit and now are not.

All of this is why stock value and company value often share little with each other. The people working at the company and the people investing in the company have different views of what one small piece of the company is worth. You'll see PE ratios vary by sector, over time, by strength of underlying economy, near lows/highs etc. Any company's value is only set by what people are willing to pay for it at any given time.

Kind of hypocritical on my behalf. I'm more of a descriptivist when it comes to language; I see it as a living breathing creation that is whatever we make of it, as long as the message is reliably traversing to mind to mind, it is correct.

What I've never understood is the weird dichotomy of preventive and reactive governance in the minds of US citizens.

We're willing to spend god knows what shooting rounds that cost entire mortgages to save miltary lives and project a presence of power to deter acts of terror/war, but then are also totally fine having people way as much as 4 or 5 people, eating several days worth of sugar for breakfast, smoking tobacco, putting 3 cups of coffee in a can we drink 4 or five of in a day, do next to nothing to adress recidivism of all classes of criminal, drag our feet kicking and screaming in to a semblance of modernity in worker protections...

Glad to hear that an AI hallucinating an 8 syllable second line in a haiku would get it pass your detection, lol.

In all seriousness, poem is a single syllable for many.

Merriam-Webster is the wrong horse if you want to force two syllables given that Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (11th ed.) has several acceptable pronunciations, one syllable (rhyming with “home”) and two syllables (with the second pronounced like “um” or “im” or “em”).

All on page 956 if you'd like to check ;)

https://archive.org/details/merriamwebstersc00merr_6/page/95...

I hear there's a janitor using the handle of one of the original paddles as a mop handle.

It's only there because it wasn't inventoried and so not lost in the purge.

Poem is one or two. Artistic license is deployed to enforce use of the singular

Do you want me to

Pull a poem out of my ass

For you to peruse?

They'd be found incapable of performing the tasks they agreed to perform in their contract.

You don't get to violate a contract just because you changed religions.

"To set aside the lessons of over two hundred years of American freedom, enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, as a commitment to the truth that “All men are created equal [and] endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights . . . life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,”314 as politically or practically inexpedient in a time of “war,” would be to allow the extremists to win by surrendering who we are as a nation. If the American people accept a form of police statism in the name of a promise of personal security, that would be the greatest defeat imaginable"

Well, we didn't start the fire.

Can you imagine the crushing all encompassing despair of the writers of this and other such peices in the face of the avalanche of things like Room 641A, surveillance advertising, and Flock?

It's got to be exhausting...All any political opponent has to claim is that "they don't believe in keeping america safe" and there go allll the votes.

You filter out any such applicant with digital applications for digital postings requiring proficiency with digital tools.

Any such potential candidate passing these is then given an interview in which technical questions relevant to the question are asked.

I'm really not sure how you imagine a luddite makes it all the way to their first day to drop some weird "oh, I can't actually do this job btw" bomb.

Even supposing they do, they have a job description requiring that they perform certain tasks that are within the realm of reasonable expectations as set by the government.

Someone in a wheelchair isn't going to get hired for any "must be able to regularly lift and move weights over 50 pounds" job just because of equal employment opportunity as they can't perform the legally allowed requirements.

-doctors refusing to abide by the World Professional Association of Transgender Health Standard of Care's Standards of Care for Hormone Replacement Therapy and Gender Confirming Surgeries

-employers refusing to employ queer people

-landlords refusing queer tenants