Emanation's comments

Campbell believed all stories were the Hero's Journey in some convoluted manner or another. Could tell him you tripped down the stairs, and he'd say something like, 'yes, but going down those stairs again would be you learning to conquor your fears, thus resulting in a more well rounded person.'

Or you could say 'I should stop drinking milk, because I'm somewhat intolerant' and he'd say, 'ahh, yes, you're in the middle of the hero's journey, on the precibus of learning to set your desires aside for the betterment of your health'

Any story with conflict becomes the hero's journey, and what stories worth telling don't have some kind of conflict. 'Proto-story' nonsense.

Why's these seen as being difficilt to write? It's a giant switch statement that recurses. This is less indicative of AI coming a long way and more of programmers never working on a program that stores types as data, this being the most common and rote pattern that exists.

That was broken for me in their phone app in July

Or they just add a number after the job title, and create more as they need them.

Yes, and it starts with some rich guy wanting to live forever, and he's 'heroically interfacing himself with the network to prevent it from hallucinating.' And then the whole process becomes common place, but eventually forms a class segregation of sorts, where the types of hallucinations you're allowed to resolve are based on your education, social standing, etc. An interesting afterlife I suppose, matrix purgatory.

Idk how you can conclude it's a problem with the concept of private fields when the giant shiner is Proxy not reflecting on them like you'd expect.

It's borederline clickbait, or selfbait, as the author believes they've contributed to the ever shuffling stinky pile of hot takes that exist in the web world.

It's really not as exciting to say Proxy, a niche class, than saying there's a problem with a concept of something every day, like private fields.

I doubt the vast majority of you have any experiene with Proxy, but OOP? Im sure you've brooded on a few hottakes about that in your careers.

Saying we develop sentences one word at a time seems wrong. Sure, it might appear so when we're writing out text, lag of input, but if you spend any time meditating on your own thoughts it becomes apparent that it's more of chunks of words, clauses, or the idea, that are formed followed by a sweeping compulsion to think the words in their entirety.

The concept is conceptualized and then entire phrases resonate with said concet

Fun read... the sentiments are agreeable -- the pursuit of knowledge and beauty are a few things that make life enjoyable

Add a description please. I get it's a state machine. I get states have state-tags, transitions can be ran via these transition-tags. What is your philosophy behind this library. Why should I give a fuck that states and transitions are strings rather than enums?

All I see here is a switch statement, the input is an enum, and the action that's taken is also determined by an enum.

>Dicson has in mind the passage in Plato's Phaedrus which I quoted in an earlier chapter, in which Socrates tells the story of the interview between the Egyptian King, Thamus and the wise Theuth who had just invented the art of writing. Thamus says that that the invention of writing will not improve memory but destroy it, because the Egyptians will trust in these 'external characters which are not part of themselves' and this will discourage 'the use of their own memory within them'.

The Art of Memory, Frances A. Yates

Differentiating between external characters and internal ones is kinda interesting.

Is it? They have a developer who streams constantly on twitch. Seems like they have multiple people working there.

I closed the lid on my 4yo Mac and stuck it in a drawyer 3months ago. I guarantee I could go open it and vscode and Firefox will be just how I left it after it wakes

Truly an Agile operation.

If you want to come across as genuine, you might want to take a stab at not taking someone's ancedote and bastardizing to fit the scope in which you want to limit the topic you want to discuss.

It makes you appear out of touch with reality and self serving, rather than trying to make any attempt to understand.

Self control is a weird thing, depending on the addiction. Self control can spawn from simply being self aware of how a thing affects you.

I'm willing to bet it's not immediately obvious how scrolling through social media makes a person feel, unless they have experience with it (something psychologists teach to help their patients deal with situations.)

So, if it's something that can be taught, does it affect how responsible someone is with their social media usage?

Is their environment equipt to impart such information? Are they equipt to learn? Do they just enjoy it anyway?

It doesn't compress jack fuck all. There is no black board sketch. Specific qualia have a higher cortical resonance, due to overarching reinforcement over time, and they are picked out.

Calling that compression is like calling a string search for the word 'it' compression. Of course, it's not even a string search, all the little unnoticed things still produce some kind a response, and thus changw in the brain structure, memory, might as well call it noise at some point due to the lack of neurons that give a fuck.

It's idiotic.

The more a single stream of information is focused on, the greater degree of resonance that may occur with less endowed qualia (slow down, notice more shit due to neuro-satiation).

Garbage pop article.

Modular design is bad for profit, amirite

Big fat no. The entire article hinges on the misnomer memes are are some how separate entities from the human mind, when they're not.

They are ideas and also our behavior. The notion that the US is less subsceptible to them because we're 'immune' is nonsense. Behaving in some manner will make us continue to behave in some manner until acted upon by a change agent/event/*idea/etc.

A meme is fundementally a type of set of information.

If a population was skeptical of sets of information, that in itself would be categorizable under a set of information, a meme.

Ahh yes. I really love the idea or mental programs, or self metaprogamming, Human biocomputer, self fulfilling prophecy.

They truly run our lives, and sometimes can be drowned out by constant readjustment process, which in itself can be a program.

The simplist of these programs is the common habit. Showering routines, or waking up slightly before an alarm goes off.

They can be more complex, solving problems spontaneously after focusing on them cognitively for days.

Or simple and short term visualization programs that can be ran over a congruent conscious moment with a little mindfulness training -- each little intent of cognition adjusting what's being imagined.

The mechanism behind the muse, or meaningful dream.

PTSD, shyness, suddenly feeling sad, or happy.

Magical thinking, or the depressive voice constantly trying to find a new adjustment to fix things.

Computers in our head are everything. Not really computers in the classic sense, nor programs, but programs and program factories at the same time. Sometimes little programs with hooks to bail us out of other programs that may do us harm.

Wild stuff.

They call it rust, because everything written in it becomes derelict after 180days of its first 3 'written in rust' posts