I can’t live without VIM keybinds. Maybe I’m a boomer. I do use it as a note taking or “collect my thoughts” app. Or just a place to paste shit when I’m working. Very useful for that. Though only when I’m forced to be on Windows.

I’m convinced a lot of the “AI tools” in general are just the same old tool with data collection tacked onto it. I really hope some of the things I see labeled as “AI” in tech these days are not actually running some model on a GPU somewhere. I pray they aren’t at least.

If the file is just a class I usually put example usage with some default arguments in that block by itself. There is no reason for a “main” function. It’s a nice obvious block that doesn’t run when someone imports the class but if they’re looking at the class there is a really obvious place to see the class usage. No confusion about what “main()” is meant to do.

if __name__ == '__main__':
    # MyClass example Usage
    my_object = MyClass()
    my_object.my_method()

The data on these things is completely unreliable. Wallets are opened and dumped at will. I don’t think that you’re really wrong. It is likely very concentrated. But I know that there is no reliable way of actually coming to this statistic.

Decentralized currencies will only actually make sense when the material incentives of our economic system would benefit from them. Capitalism is literally all about concentrating the control of capital and the means by which we produce things. Sadly, decentralized currencies will never be allowed to decouple themselves from these economic systems. There is too much material power to prevent that. And by material power I mean literally the enforcement of these concentrations of wealth through the use of violence.

The tech is cool. But it doesn’t magically solve the problem by simply being invented. It’s why no one is actually paying with these cryptocurrencies on anything but an extremely small scale.

A currency that cannot be manipulated by capitalist for their benefit has no place in our world. So, it will never reach any meaningful real use until those structures are dismantled. It will just continue to be a speculative asset that rich people dump their extra wealth into and poor people play as the lottery.

That’s like saying a HDD is bad because someone can put CP on it.

Edit: CP rhymes with “Mild Corn”.

This sadly excludes the majority of bad UX decisions that are done entirely to maximize users time inside of the app as well as display advertising.

So many functional apps are destroyed by these incentives. There is literally a “skill issue” but in the opposite direction. The design is either purposely malicious in a subtle way with “dark patterns” (something Amazon is insanely guilty of. Literally just go try and return and item.) or is purposely annoying trying to ensure the user purchases the “free trial” to actually make the app functional. Knowing a lot of users will be charged at least once for the free trial.

I guess my point is that there is so so so so much wrong with UX design today. But for the majority of people that’s not because of a bad programmer with no design knowledge. It’s on purpose in most cases.

Glad to hear I’m not alone. I can notice subtle things very well. But big colors and buttons I’m basically trained to ignore. I complain about app/web UI design to a massive degree too. We need more autism coated people approving these things.

Ok. So I’m not even sure if I’m autistic. ADHD for sure and I know those often go hand in hand. But this post made me think of something that I find kind of disabling. Wondering if anyone else has this problem.

Ads. Ads have ruined my brain. I have become so good at completely ignoring ads and very “eye catching” signs and graphics. My brain usually looks for useful information “in-between” those lines. It’s very helpful for filtering through bull shit.

But a side effect of this is that my brain will literally filter out important warning signs. Signs that are meant to be very very obvious so you follow them. “Do not enter” type of signs.

I find myself missing really really obvious signs like this in public and it’s often embarrassing. I finally realized it was because of how I’ve trained my brain to ignore advertising. These “obvious” things I have taught my brain are not useful information in 99% of cases since they are usually advertising.

Does anyone else have this problem?

If we had one public social media platform that would be the best way. It would force people to filter and learn how to interact with technology. But in our world people are lazy and a platform that picks the best value of X automatically for the most people will win. Even if it’s not actually how people want to see things.

Are you referring to Israel?

What causes that? Is it the coffee cup that actually makes the coffee taste slightly cooler than room temp water in a glass? I’m guessing. I don’t know if it’s actually colder. But probably more due to the heat transfer you’re feeling from your lips to the mug?

Either way, I’m going to go put this in the microwave so I can find it there again at around 10PM when I finally remember I didn’t eat anything besides snacks and need to heat up a burrito.

There is overlap on both of these things. They are using whatever methods they can to deport people. They are focusing on (1) deporting as many people as possible to have numbers to show and flex for their base come midterms and (2) to suppress all speaking out against the genocide in Gaza and labeling them as terrorists.

So. No, it’s the same act. The administration is using whatever tools they can to suppress speech and deport brown people. So there is some overlap as well as the administration just making up shit and breaking the law as quickly as they can.

It’s essentially the administrations policy to overwhelm the court systems and force them to play whackamole.

This was stripping the “Temporary Protective Status” from the Venezuelan immigrants. This essentially makes them all deportable now.

This court decision in the OP is blocking the use of the Alien Enemies Act Trump was trying to use to deport anyone that spoke out against Israel.

He was actually going less orange for awhile. Which, honestly, I personally think he actually looks better orange. When you see pictures of his natural skin tone he kinda looks freaky. Maybe I’m just use to the orange man.

Is this tacked on with a bunch of other laws related to criticism of Zionism also being against the law?

Tons of laws Israel is trying to get passed in western countries to associate anti Zionism with Antisemitism.

I doubt this is the only part of the law.

Interesting. Is this a fundamental limitation of C or is it just more preferable and easier to use FORTRAN when implementing it?

Meaning could the same performance be achieved in C but most optimized libraries are already written so why bother? Or basically C can’t achieve the memory optimization at all?

If these things are really effecting your life. Pursue a diagnosis. Being medicated is not the end all be all a lot of people seem to act like it is. For me it’s helped me be happier with myself and be able to accomplish things I actually care about. It hasn’t really helped with the “this job is pointless and is actually not helping me or society” crisis that I going on. Sadly I think that’s more to do with capitalism and ADHD people just look for the material reasons for why we become frustrated with it.

Same. Ugly knees. It’s a shame because I have amazingly muscular calves I could show off. Don’t even work out. They are literally almost as thick as my thighs.

Most ADHD symptoms are “oh yeah that’s me (sometimes) haha”

Where ADHD is usually “this is literally ruining my career and my relationships. Better go hyperfocus on a new hobby I’ll never complete a project in. That will help me avoid thinking about doing the simple thing I’m completely incapable of doing that would take 5 minutes if my brain would just let me do it.”