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seems ironic (and not at all trustworthy)! if you're right, you can't actually imagine what being able to do it would be like

So you self-diagnosed yourself as unable to do something, based on what you imagine being able to do is like?

so you're saying people with aphantasia test worse for memory?

people who don't have aphantasia are demonstrably and measurably better at .. something, right?

I'm now actively aware/vigilant of my blood pressure while coding in a way I never was before. That's a sentence I'd have found absurd five years ago.

This was genuinely one of the best bits of TV i've ever seen

there is and always has been a strong prohibition of anything political on HN. it is widely and frequently discussed as the main problem with HN. Usually, a post like this would be removed very quickly

seems a bit vague to me.. not saying i know better just that i'd like more info - there a small wildcats all over europe. presumably these are older than the domestic cats? but it's well known they can be tamed from kittens, and mate with domestic cats.. why assume domestication happened once in one place?

If you could see a photographic-quality image in your mind, you could answer questions about it the way you’d answer questions about a photograph in front of you. 'what’s written on the sign?' 'how many windows?' That's photographic memory. Since that’s not real, the 'normal visualization' everyone's comparing themselves to doesn’t exist either. Yet we keep treating as credible people who assert what others experience based on not experiencing it themselves. This is epistemically bankrupt.

this bugs me because what actually happened.. vi being the last survivor of a once universal interaction paradigm - is way more interesting than this unfathomably incorrect 'what a strange historical quirk' version.

it is less of an oversimplification than 'nothing like what existed either before or after'

unfortunately this is just not true though. there was nothing abstract or disconnected from real life about MVC in smalltalk. while we're here.. this claim that 'Smalltalk's OOP is nothing like what existed either before or after' - hmmmm

Despite decades of being told about the benefits of exercise, I had absolutely no idea what the actual time investment looked like to go from unfit to fit. I couldn't put a number on it, and part of me assumed it must be enormous otherwise, why wouldn't anyone just say the number? Then I discovered Couch to 5K: 30 minutes, 3 times a week. A concrete, achievable number that delivered (to me) mind blowing results.

How could it be so low? How could i not know this? How is anyone walking around ignorant (as i was) of this?

age verification starts tomorrow

it's intentionally ironic that this is written in the style of ai slop?