jeffhykin

Im shocked at all the negativity, this seems like an obvious good usecase to me, and I'm someone who finds most AI predictive stuff useless.

I never take more than 3 sec on my commit messages, most of them are "fix bug", "update lib", "bump". So it's a pretty low bar for it to make better messages than mine.

Hey chatGPT, what would Blackbeard have to say about Adobe licensing?

Adobe, be drivin' me to madness with their confusin' schemes. Ye need a map just to make sense of it all! They be chargin' a king's ransom for their software, and what do ye get in return? Aye, a license that's as flimsy as a ship's riggin' in a storm.

It's a never-endin' voyage through their terms and conditions, and I can't fathom their logic. It be like navigatin' the high seas with a broken compass. They be restrictin' the use of their software, demandin' we pay a ransom every month, and heaven forbid ye want to use it on multiple devices! They'll make ye walk the plank for that.

And don't get me started on their audits, me heartie. They be sendin' their parrots to check if ye be usin' their software properly, threatenin' to keelhaul ye if they find a single violation. It be daylight robbery, I tell ye!

Wait wheres The Onion link? Why is this linking to a real article? 😬

"Never give up on the things you can change, and learn to live at peace with the thing you can't"

Memory in terms of information retrevial (ex: memorizing digits of pi) can be learned.

However, trigger-based memory ("when I get home I should do X", "before I leave I should do Y", etc), is usually not something that can be learned or improved and I think its really counter productive to "just try harder". Unless you're in a pretty tight situation though (like gov work where you can't record or write down the info, or fast-paced work like waiter/waitress work where theres no time to record/revie), there's usually a way to work around a deficiency in trigger based memory.

Sometimes we can be in the wrong bussiness, but usually its a matter of support systems.

More often its wrong bussiness because they dont let us setup "unusual" and "shouldnt-be-necessary" support systems

Yes, its actually a real shame they medically dont have sub categories. Some dont have hyperfocus, some dont have memory issues, some have overlapping mild OCD, lots dont have hyperactivity (tapping feet, clicking pens), etc. Its not just a spectrum but a multi-spectrum across many different categories.

The common ground is the inability to control focus/attention at will, it just turns out that it usually comes with a lot of other things too.

I think an alterative caption would be "what car infastructure advocates would have me believe (and how I sometimes feel)"

Yep, most things with nix require this level of elbow grease to get done. Chkno did a great job explaining it. Honestly his response is worth putting in the docs IMO

A huge time saver/helper can be searching the nix discourse. But don't be afraid to ask. You might get grumpy answers but Nix is hard so dont feel bad about it.

The expected approach is to go to the nixpkgs github and post an issue. The issue will ask you to tag the maintainers, which requires looking them up using search.nixos.org or by using the nix repl (nixpkgs.yourThing.meta.maintainers).

If you want to update it yourself, you can usually use the nix repl to find out where the relevent code is with builtins.unsafeGetAttrPos "yourThing" nixpkgs. Once you know where it is you can fork the nixpkgs github and change it. You can then use/test your fork directly with any of the normal nix commands. For nix-env i blelieve its nix-env -iA something -I url_to_your_github_fork_as_a_tar_file. There's another flag for using the local folder (instead of a url to a tarball) but I forget what it is.

After reading my whole comment again and checking some more definitions I kinda see your point, so I tried to edit it a bit to be more inline with actual capitalism.

And to your credit, there actually aren't nearly as many vibrant game worlds that actually include private ownership of the means of production, so I completely removed that section.

(maybe I'll make a separate comment about currency, but I feel I need to get on the soap box for a moment here)

This might be controversial so hear me out. I don't we should assume capitalism is destroyed. But more importantly I think the reason is absolutely critical to the success of solarpunk.

We like to pretend "direct democracy good, other systems bad", but almost all forms of governance; dictatorships, oligarchies, capitalism, republic democracies, communism, direct democracies, and socialism have their own applications. We use them all over the place; militaries almost always function as a mostly-dictatorship with some distributed autonomy. Courtrooms function as an ad-hoc oligarchy. Companies, Unions, Churches, and Cities have thousands of different governance models, from Gabe Newell leading Valve with one of the most flat companies ever, to Steve Jobs being effectively a dictator.

Yes, Solarpunk is a rejection. But it's a rejection of the dystopian outcome.

We give the middle finger equally to Xi Jinping, Ben Shapiro, and Joseph Stalin and any other spokesperson who prescribes one medication for all problems while ignoring the dystopia flourishing around them! All of them were/are so infatuated by style of governance that they forgot the original mission.

That's where we can be different. Solarpunk doesn't have "a prescription". All of us have extremely different views, backgrounds, ideas, and values. The only commonality is "we want a society worth living in".

I strongly feel the Solarpunk ideology is:

1. "prescribe" systems of governance for specific things
2. See if symptoms improve
3. and $&!#-ing change the prescription when it doesn't work

We should angrily reject the current prescription (and in the US that means rejecting our pay-politicans-to-win, fake-freedom, megacorp dominated capitalism)

But.

We should not get so angry as to forget; the difference between medicine and poison is the dosage & situation.

Okay, I'll get off my soap box now.

Sometimes I just sit an look at the mess hoping that looking at it will start to annoy me enough to get that spark.

Sometimes it even works