meanderingexile @meanderingexile@schelling.pt
Joined Jan 2021
on one hand, this is dumb
but I'm also really disturbed by the number of replies explicitly attacking the idea of general purpose computing
of course your phone should be able to run any app, it's your phone
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RT @erikfinman
Today I'm announcing the Freedom Phone.
This is the first major pushback on the Big Tech companies that attacked us - for just thinking different.
Complete with it's own Uncensorable App Store & Privacy Feat…
https://twitter.com/erikfinman/status/1415328529034715141
RT @andy_matuschak
People who haven’t used a memory system tend to think of it as a tool you might apply “when you want to memorize something.” But this misses the point. Without augmentation, explicitly memorizing information is quite onerous, so it's done rarely, for extremely important details.
RT @ThePlanetaryGuy
Open this photo up and look for the small, white dot just left of centre.
It looks like Venus, shining brightly in the twilight sky.
But it's Earth.
From Mars.
so, still a bit counterintuitively, sometimes the most useful thing is to try to give myself permission to sit there and do nothing- turn down the gain on that signal.
do nothing which is useless, etc.
sometimes, by luck, it latches onto things that I really do want to be doing, but even then, there's often something easier/more immediately rewarding that still satisfies the bare-minimum criteria that we drift off to
and because that's all it's controlling for - the very superficial, crude appearance of work to satisfy a brain-cop that doesn't exist - it hurts a lot more than it helps
the part of my brain that is doing that isn't very sophisticated, and that's what makes it not super useful for moving toward goals. it's not a stern taskmaster keeping me on track- it's a little kid wearing his dad's tie, slapping the keyboard while muttering "reports"
even those aren't bad examples- sometimes I'll just realize I've been flicking between two PDFs for like, fifteen minutes
and I'm starting to realize how much of that comes down to just giving in to a low-level impulse to just do something, anything, that looks like work
the time that I tend to look back on as least productive is when I end up writing code that solves the wrong problem, or struggling for ages to write something that I actually just didn't understand enough yet
I think I might be starting to get what @visakanv talks about with coercion a little more
when I get in my own way, or spend time in a way that I later regret, it's usually not with "fun" stuff. I play a game for a couple hours, I enjoy it, I shut it off
RT @DrPhiltill
@ltelkins I believe that after we divorce our industrial productivity from human labor (via adequate autonomous robotics) and from the resources of a single planet (via space resources), it will inevitably grow a million or billion times Earth's current productivity over a century or two/1
watching videos on kesa gatame and now I really, really can't wait to get back in the gym and roll again
I have no idea how practical it'd be, but I'd love to see a wave of favorite-language engine rebuilds
"Age of Mythology, but in Rust"
engine re-implementations are really cool - at some point I want to check out the open-source Dark Engine for Thief, too
been thinking of Morrowind a lot lately, and wanted to have a go at getting back into it
turns out that the open-source engine re-implementation works really well, running super-smooth on Linux
lots off cool things to think about here
level zero of surviving the cyberpunk weirding is not letting yourself be physically broken by the act of answering email
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RT @arachnocapital2
what the heck
1 like = 1 office ergonomics tip until I run out
(tips not guaranteed to be magic fix-its or especially useful for anyone but me)
https://twitter.com/arachnocapital2/status/1405327110369996802
RT @mattgoldenberg
6/ In general, you can think about a hierarchy of self - improvement.
1. Emotional processing to make you more aligned and productive permanently
2. Cognitive strategies that help you connect with the things you want
3. External tools to help you use the cognitive strategies
I know COVID's a special case, but it really does feel like these kind of supply chain/essential service disruptions are getting more common worldwide
I wonder how much of that is selection bias- pre-birdsite, I probably wouldn't know
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RT @GavinJMaguire
Congestion at South China ports worsens on anti-COVID-19 measures https://www.reuters.com/world/china/congestion-south-china-ports-worsens-anti-covid-19-measures-2021-06-11/ by @…
https://twitter.com/GavinJMaguire/status/1403362281119903753
I try to stop and reflect on how weird this is, sometimes
I'm working on a robot arm project atm where it's easier to just build the control software on the Linux board itself than it is to set up a proper cross-compiler
sometimes complexity is cheaper than simplicity
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RT @vgr
Kinda ridiculous how $15 boards can run C code now and $30 boards can boot Linux.
It just hit me that the “waste microcontrollers” mindset is new and I don’t have…
https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1402810671939477525
basic rule of thumb: inhale-dominant breath upregulates SNS, exhale-dominant upregulates PNS
okay
but then how does RF breathing work?
Joined Jan 2021
