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- Comment on Elephant in the room 1 day ago:
You say “worse”, they say “better”. Which I suppose means that this was always inevitable. Those who should have known better… we only pretended otherwise?
- Comment on Elephant in the room 1 day ago:
Breaking things? At this point is there anything left that has not been broken, at least once if not already yet multiple times? 💔😞
- Comment on Regulating AI hastens the Antichrist, says Palantir’s Peter Thiel 3 days ago:
The reference being made in Revelation is Nero.
I have heard before how Nero may have been the one who caused the tribulations that early Christians went through - e.g. not being able to buy food without having his (Nero’s) approval, but not necessarily in reference to Nero being the actual Antichrist himself.
So I looked it up, and according to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antichrist, that term is widely thought (e.g. Martin Luther, father of the Protestant reformation, and John Calvin) to not necessarily refer to Nero, or rather not just him alone. Similar to how a “man of the law” can refer to anyone who upholds it - a sheriff for example - a “man of lawlessness” can refer to anyone who opposes it.
Cool, TIL 😎
- Comment on proof of wormholes 6 days ago:
Not true! YOU just talked about it.
And now I am taking about it… holy shit, it’s spreading!
- Comment on Can't argue that. 1 week ago:
I am glad that you checked then:-). I meant discipline as in a set of practices that you intentionally set up for yourself, not necessarily something like physically flogging yourself for choosing to take a nap rather than study something interesting but you were just too tired to do it in that moment. I agree you are totally correct that it should ideally be our of love rather than sense of duty. ❤️
Going beyond one’s limits is a way to cause damage - possibly even to the very desire to remain curious - so should be limited to only high-value scenarios e.g. to make an external deadline that offers an accomplishment that you decided that you wanted. So even there, “discipline” (force) can be useful, so long as “discipline” (intentional practices) keeps the former within acceptable levels.
- Comment on Can't argue that. 1 week ago:
We may never know. Functionally, capitalism describes what is “normal”, even if outside of that it could have been different.
- Comment on US will complete TikTok deal ‘in coming days’ and control its algorithm, White House says 1 week ago:
You will be baked, and then there will be cake 🎂
- Comment on Can't argue that. 1 week ago:
I find that I get smarter as I get older, as stupid stuff that held me back gets discarded. You do have less energy I hear, but even there I think a fit 50 year old would be more energetic than a lazy 25 year old? Obviously having kids is a huge energy drain, but that’s not technically aging, just correlation rather than causation.
So anyway even if this graphic were true, it would be irrelevant as the major factor seems to me to be a willingness to learn, only after which raw ability would come into play.
In your case the adage that now is the time to learn is true, but not for any of the reasons mentioned above. Once you shift your perspective that the time for hard work is over and the time for personal play is at hand - to watch more TV, play games, hang out with friends, etc. - then it’s incredibly hard (most people phrase that as “impossible") to ever go back to that college mindset of “it’s study time, let’s go!!!”. That’s not even just human nature, but rather the raw physics of inertia coupled with adaptation that lowers energy requirements that were evolutionarily built into our brains and bodies.
Discipline is a mindset that is mostly independent of age, except it trends towards older as those who have seen how it works first-hand now realize its value (coupled with individual survival of those who have more rather than less of it, i.e. the most reckless die the earliest in life), plus also younger as people listen and thus benefit from the accumulated wisdom of others.
- Comment on Well then 1 week ago:
Or you could do equally the same being yelled at by a female boss. It happens 😁
- Comment on Piss off! 1 week ago:
Me either, and I have negative desire to learn that “skill”!:-)
- Comment on Piss off! 1 week ago:
In this case wouldn’t they be giving it?
- Comment on yeah everything is probably made of like, idk, earth water, fire and air or something idrk 1 week ago:
I always do this.
Except of course when I don’t.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It is too late now, you must make it your profile pic, it's the law 🙃🫠
- Comment on 1 week ago:
You are a treasure, or as AI might put it, a potato pariah!
- Comment on observes your slit 2 weeks ago:
Alright, consider the slit observed then...
- Comment on observes your slit 2 weeks ago:
Do you truly want to know?
Alrighty then, but don't say that I did not warn you:
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Yes. Except after I peeked, it no longer exists. But the people - THOSE PEOPLE - they, haha, they hehe they claim that I am the ones who are (sic) crazy, the absolute fools! They refuse to know what I have seen!!
- Comment on Accessibility is important 2 weeks ago:
People will just use AI to summarize (after which they will pretend to understand, just like they would do to a picture).
- Comment on observes your slit 2 weeks ago:
I see what you did there...
- Comment on What goes here? 3 weeks ago:
A sick turtle? (and then what is now turtle could change to tortoise, just to mess with people's heads)
- Comment on You are so beautiful. 3 weeks ago:
I tried it but all I got was moith.
- Comment on Eeeeeek! 3 weeks ago:
Eeeeek!
(Fwiw, it must be your method of access, bc the webpage version on your computer instance loads the images just fine: https://lemmy.ca/post/50981326/18755424 - but yes how ironic!
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- Comment on Eeeeeek! 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on “It’s Wednesday, my dudes.” 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on winter fans 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on winter fans 3 weeks ago:
Fahrenheit? Absolutely! 😁🤪
- Comment on I'd also add that 4 weeks ago:
Sorry we don't offer that here... oh no I mean you can have as much ketchup as you like.
- Comment on Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner 4 weeks ago:
Tbf that's a big deal for Mastodon aka Fediverse, not so much on the Threadiverse with K/Mbin, Lemmy, or PieFed.
And the tools that exist to help are laughably bad - the last time I tried the auto-selector website it chose for me hexbear.net, and I noticed Lemmy.ml was prominently displayed up high in their listing (surely the Windows-using centrists and conservatives on Reddit will have no problems joining that extremist leftist instance of FOSS enthusiasts... r-r-right?!).
- Comment on We have always been at war with the Kingdom of Myrm 4 weeks ago:
Yummy! 😋🐜
- Comment on number box o number box 5 weeks ago:
Isn't a tensor a multilinear map taking as input a tensor and outputting another tensor?
- Comment on number box o number box 5 weeks ago:
You lost me at vectors not having to be linear. You can apply nonlinear functions or operations to vectors, but doing so transforms them into a different, non-linear context, afaik. We might be using different definitions of some of these terms, especially "linear".