astral_drama

I bike 9 to 10 months out of the year in southern Wisconsin. It would do people well to get outside and spend less time on their screens in the Winter.

When I had a brilliant stop on defense, a few savvy fans would appreciate it. When I scored goals, everyone knew.

Some people will much appreciate the holes in Postgres that are being plugged. Many more will be bored with patch releases until new features rollout.

A software affecianado appreciates patches, and might do well to teach laypeople the benefits of a good defense.

Thanks for entertaining us and bringing stories to life for all these years Patrick. May you boldly go where no man has gone before.

I like to think Set's form is emergent and takes whatever form you want see, or a group of people want to see. Set sort of emerges from the chaos, and that's what his image does for me, sometimes I see a dog, sometimes an anteater and so on. I think the Egyptians probably imagine that the world is always emerging from the primal chaos, it's not something that simply occurred in the past, and it's up to us what we make of it.

I think it's more of a desire to be loved by the woman he falls in love with and not accepting that she is not going to love him back. His refusal to acknowledge the truth sets him on a course of self abandonment, he simps after a wife that treats him bad to use the parlance of our time. I think it shows physical strength can't guard you from a broken heart.

> A privilege, really? Who bestows that privilege?

You do

> I am certainly sympathetic to people who are genuinely disabled.

Agreed, and it can be uncomfortable to sort through what's genuine or not. One of my favorite scenes is in the big Lebowski where Walter confronts the other Lebowski claiming he's not a cripple and lifts him out of his wheelchair...Funny and sad all at once.

> That doesn’t mean we have to lie to ourselves that they are being productive by sitting around reading books.

Not asking for anyone to lie to themselves about what they feel is productive, rather giving another perspective to hopefully help people appreciate being able to work.

> Who produces the food you eat, the clothes you wear, the house you live in, the energy you use, the medicine you consume, etc.

The able do. The disabled would love to work hard and earn a nice paycheck. It's a privilege to be able to work and be in good health. Hopefully you don't have to learn that the hard way.

It's a good Lovecraft quote,but I was inspired by Collective Soul's Shine when I saw the OP.

  Lay me on the ground
  And fly me in the sky
  Show me where to look
  Tell me, what will I find?
  What will I find?

How far will we peer into the unknown? What will we find out there?

Fine particulates aren't a problem if you wear a gas mask though.

I'm looking forward to running a Gemma 4 turboquant on my 24GB GPU. The perf looks impressive for how compact it is.

I often get a 10x more cost effective run processing on my local hardware.

Still reaching for frontier models for coding, but find the hosted models on open router good enough for simple work.

Feels like we are jumping to warp on flops. My cores are throttled and the fiber is lit.

I'm pretty sure even chatgpt could have told the senior leaders at Google to invest heavily in AI. Not a difficult call to make.

I think your implicitly getting at something here. Both are dealing with an inferiority/superiority dynamic. The suggestion of a group you identify as being less, causes a predictable reaction to characterize the other (non-aphantasia) as problematic/hallucinating (i.e. broken/lacking). This ties back to the post where the author speaks of feelings of inadequacy (shame, etc...) about being unable to visualize, again signs of an inferiority complex. While such complexes may be traced back to particular memories or events, they're also habits of thought which are common place and culturally reinforced, so much so that they seem quite normal. For example, the culture of idol worship, like raising up of tech heroes while implicitly lowering your own self worth, which happens often on this site.

The fact that the author doesn't mention the details of the memory or events of the day also suggests shame and concerns of being judged for them.

The good news is they are writing about their struggles which suggests their willingness to work with these fears.

I think the answer probably isn't about pretending you're not better or worse, but accepting that being better or worse at something doesn't change your inherent self worth. Accepting that your not in control of many of your conditions and conditioning can free the mind from a sense of guilt and the fear around judgement of yourself and others. Hopefully this helps the author and those who struggle with notions of identity and self worth.

The current admin wants even cheaper money, which is likely to embolden well connected borrowers to pump up whatever they think will hold a bit of value. It was housing, which hit an equilibrium (can't milk it much more), then stocks, then gold and now silver and memory chips of all things.

I wouldn't limit this to PE, although they are feeding on cheap dollars too, but the general trend of big capital out competing mom and pop for future resources. We're all short on real goods (need to buy food, shelter, ram, etc... in the future) and big capital is putting the squeeze on our short position by bidding up real resources with cheap dollars. Regular folks cover at a loss, or we go bust, and that's the gamble we're being put in.

It's market manipulation. You get a chase going (panic buying) by those that are short (need to buy memory in the future). Run up the price on those shorts and squeeze them out as they chase price higher, meanwhile you bought in low and can distribute out your supply when you see fit, or run it up higher until everyone is wrecked. If I were the memory makers I wouldn't want to cede control to openai, you'd rather have a healthy, steady ecosystem than a rigged market that people don't want to be involved in.