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Re:Ask HN: How do I make it out alive out of this? on Sunday December 17, 2023 @02:15PM (#38675478)
I had a different, but similar, experience for years and overcame it eventually this month. It is real to some degree, but not in the way you think.

All I can recommend is to meditate, get in touch with your spirituality and reading up on the ancient concept of a hero's journey might help you.

Hang in there, don't be afraid, do nothing drastic, live healthy and go into nature!

We would all be very surprised - of that I am certain.

But why do you think that a mothership would equate to an invasion? And even then, why would we try to fight something that can sterilize the planet from afar and could have done so long ago?

On your other points: you could look into radiance technologies, their hires and funding. Maybe read the UAP part in the NDAA for this year, and tune into the congressional hearing next week with the AARO director mentioned in the article. I don't mean this is the evidence you are looking for, but it is still all very intriguing.

Having some experience with this topic, it is interesting to watch. I feel that things are even more complicated than anyone imagines. I think our ignorance is by design and has some good reasons.

Re:Deduplicating a Slice in Go on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @08:35AM (#35538640)
Yes, sometimes you want to de-duplicate pieces of information by a part of the piece and preserve order. The article tldr sounded like you can only de-duplicating by first sorting with package sort if you don't have to preserve order. However as I just wanted to point out, it works if you have to preserve order just as well.

Edit: I see now that the original article meant preserving output order. And i have not clarified that i meant input order.

Re:Deduplicating a Slice in Go on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @05:46AM (#35537162)
> TL;DR: If you don’t need to preserve order of the elements, sort the slice first and dedupe.

And if you need to preserve order of elements, there is always sort.Stable!

Re: on Saturday March 04, 2023 @10:41AM (#35021589)
I read it in my head with the voice of Ken Nordine of Word Jazz Colors fame.
Re:The Janet Language on Saturday February 18, 2023 @05:47AM (#34845847)
Would you also say that musicians should only create and perform popular music?
The TED talk is old and maybe not the right format to discuss details. There are long-form discussions with Donald Hoffman on Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal I can link:

https://youtu.be/CmieNQH7Q4w

He goes into more details (it's over 3 hours…), but I am not sure his arguments are satisfying. It is really hard to prove this concept. The idea itself is very old. Plato's Cave is only one example.

Also in discussion with others: https://youtu.be/EwTpdCVsttI with John Vervaeke https://youtu.be/bhSlYfVtgww with Joscha Bach

Re:Transparent Telemetry for Open-Source Projects on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @06:04PM (#34716905)
From my reading focused on this specific issue of the GDPR and the national laws of member states, this is not the case. Opt-in is specifically required for personal information. The telemetry data outlined in the proposal would not fall under this requirement. You can even retain time-limited IP logs with some special caveats. The GDPR is actually quite reasonable and fair.

Russ Cox is a very intelligent and effective engineer. He has a history of projects where he first analyses the problem space, then arrives at great solutions. He puts a lot of effort into discussing the problems and proposal with the community, especially after the widely criticized go mod decision by the go team (which is now mostly accepted as unfortunate, but in the end, the correct decision, I would think).

My point is: We all suspect Google and telemetry to be bad. But can we be charitable enough to separate the Go project, that is run by individual humans, and telemetry from our superficial cliches to actually read the proposal?

Plato's Cave, Jungian Archetypes, Valee's Control System all hint at the same insight, that founders of many religions also try to communicate: We live in a symbolic consensus reality, made up of individual dreams, if you will, that is quite malleable if we all agree.

The new AARO (All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office) has a Marcus Aurelius quote in Latin on the proposed Logo, used in the presentation slides by the director: "The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it".

Maybe they understand more than I thought after all?

Edit: added symbolic

I do remember the comment thread on the 2017 time article here on hn. Opinions already have changed considerably in the last 5 years. It also appears as if the process of disseminating information still accelerates (with promis coming out as experiencers and so on). I can only advise everyone to consider C.G. Jung and read Jaques Vallee.

This situation is very complicated, but not at all bad in the end. As far as I can tell, nobody got the real answers, not the pentagon, nor the religions.

Re:Ask HN: How can I find a German family by their crest? on Thursday January 12, 2023 @09:39AM (#34354107)
Maybe you can find a search mask for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siebmachers_Wappenbuch somewhere.
Re:Data Race Patterns in Go on Saturday July 02, 2022 @06:59AM (#31957938)
By reading the lines and not between them, you could read these two lines: runtime_procPin() and runtime_procUnpin(). With explicit comments that these pause preemption.
Re:Things Go needs more than generics on Monday October 04, 2021 @07:22AM (#28745322)
unless errorlevel is exported as ErrorLevel you can only do so inside the declaring package.
Medieval people certainly believed that. The linked wikipedia page does not say otherwise. It states that "European scholars and educated people during the Middle Ages believed the Earth to be flat". Most people in Medieval times were not scholars or educated. Furthermore I haven't even said anything about Medieval times.

There are other examples like rocks falling from the sky or the earth- or solar-centric cosmos, if you prefer.

Occam's Razor postulates that the simple solution is often the right one. That does not mean it's always so. For the longest time Occam's Razor would have favored a flat earth, before we knew better.

Alien intelligence would also be alien enough if it wasn't interstellar. Interplanetary, inter-dimensional or subterranean would be alien by my standard, too.

The Videos might have been plausibly explained, but i would argue that the pentagon has certainly more footage and sensor data to base their statement on.

And please do try to take photos of planes in the night sky with your smartphone camera. The image quality is not great.

Re:A Brief Global History of the War on Cannabis on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @07:47AM (#25569226)
I found this paper from 1987 https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-1097.1987....

You will also find lots of experience reports and discussions of appropriate light sources on numerous grower sites.

Re:A Brief Global History of the War on Cannabis on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @06:36AM (#25568844)
AFAIK the plant produces more resin, and some compounds therein, to protect itself from the suns UVB radiation.
It uses effectively only the one keyword assure. The constraints look like fields on the type variables, which have an ambiguity with package private method expressions with the same name.