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kakes, (edited )

I’ve told a few stories before, but really what it comes down to is: Yes, all the time.

And every time, I eventually bounced back stronger. Not only that, I bounced back less afraid of failure. As long as you learn something from failing, it’s just a stepping stone to something better.

kakes,

I follow an unconventional method that I came up with myself: any time I spend money on anything “unnecessary” (so, excluding things like rent, groceries, etc), I put an equal amount into my savings account.

Pros include: This method alleviates my guilt of spending money on myself. It scales, so the more money I make, the more I tend to save. It’s flexible enough that even during the times where I can’t afford to save, I can still stick to it.

kakes,

Similarly, I spent the entirety of covid making faces at people under my mask.

kakes,

Steve is a national treasure, as far as I’m concerned.

kakes,

Surely this won’t block lots of legitimate users, while simultaneously being trivially easy to bypass by submitting a picture of literally anyone.

kakes,

I made this mistake with “Ruffles” - a chocolate-covered coconut snack.

I mentioned I liked them, and for the next year or two, every week my grandpa would stop by to give us 2-3 boxes of ruffles. We had a cupboard literally full of them, we were giving them away, and I ate so many that the thought of them makes me feel queasy now. We kept telling him to stop, but the man was on a mission.

Sadly, he passed away last year, and I made sure to bring a couple boxes of Ruffles to the service.

kakes,

Yeah, not all gifts are special because of monetary value. A thoughtful gift beats out an expensive gift at any income bracket.

kakes,

I don’t mean to offend, but are you asking how to spend quality time with your loved ones?

Either of those options works, imo. Or you don’t need to plan anything at all, just “meeting up for coffee” is nice.

kakes,

Honestly I just run WinDirStat and do it manually.

kakes,

That said, with the prices being where they are, a single subscriber basically funds the entire cost of running the server.

kakes,

Noita is a good chill game. You will lose, and you will die a horrible death in the process, but if you can accept that, the journey to death is a fun one.

kakes,

I mean, their job is to provide definitions for the words people use in language, not to gatekeep what words are “good enough” to be defined.

I hear each of the words you’ve listed all the time, they’re part of our language whether we like it or not.

kakes,

Same.

I’ve been realizing lately that it might be from ADHD - along with many other symptoms. Hoping to get diagnosed next year, and hopefully I won’t waste quite so much time just quietly stressing out.

kakes,

Yep. Was a welder, now a software dev. There are pros and cons to both, but overall I’m way happier now.

That said, this is anecdotal - different strokes and all that.

kakes,

Huh, TIL.

kakes,

Know thy enemy.

kakes,

Did they ever fix that issue from a while back where they started collecting personal data on users?

engadget.com/audacity-privacy-policy-spyware-accu…

kakes,

Keep in mind that your Google results are probably highly personalized. For instance, I tried googling that exact phrase (in a private window), and Lemmy doesnt appear for me at all.

kakes,

Oh weird, fair play to you then!

kakes,

Surveillance cameras are fine imo. It’s connecting those cameras to some random server you don’t control that’s the concerning part.

kakes,

Hell yeah. No harm in being proud of yourself!

kakes,

I don’t think so, from how kromem words it:

(i.e. collapse occurs at the point you are reviewing the data).

The person reading the data is the consciousness, and the collapse is deferred in this case.

What I find interesting about this idea is: What if the computer were to take actions based on the data? Would the collapse occur at the point where agonist notices the effects of those actions? Does it occur when they logically link the action to the event?

I could imagine this as a sliding scale, where in one end is something obvious (reading the data, or an indicator light) and on the other end not obvious at all (a circuit heating up slightly different due to the data being stored). Both of these things have effects in physical reality (presumably), so I wonder at what point in that scale are we would call it a “consciousness collapse”?

kakes,

Someone already replied with a graph, but I also got curious and checked for some higher numbers. Sure enough, it held up.

For example:
832,040mi => 1,346,269km (actual: 1,339,039km)

kakes,

My dad threw a party to celebrate when I graduated university with a degree in Computer Science.

At the party, my dad’s friend took me aside and said “My nephew just got a degree in electrical engineering. Now that’s an up and coming field, you should get a degree in that.”

Like, alright buddy. Hopefully that career pays well enough for another four years of student debt. I’m still kinda in shock at how dumb of a thing to say that was.

kakes,

In another 10 years, electricity will rule the world - mark my words!

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