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thinkercharmercoderfarmer

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  • What do you not like talking about?

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  • Well, now I'm curious as well. If I only kind of have to pee, like I just noticed it, it feels entirely voluntary to hold it, but if I really have to pee, it does feel like one one part of my brain is sending "pee now" signals that another part of my brain, the conscious decision-making part, has to fight against, which makes me think they have to get involved in the decision somehow. Maybe that physical motor control fight just is how those two parts of the brain mediate each other. Neat.

  • What do you not like talking about?

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  • This just in: New evidence suggests some people think before making a decision? We'll tell you what this means for your weekend at 11.

  • What would you do if our civilization regressed to the Neolithic age due to resource depletion due to global collapse?

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  • For all y'all on here saying you have no survival skills: computers and electronics aren't going to just go away, and the fact that you're having this conversation on a federated internet forum means you know at least a little bit more about computers than your average bear. For any scenario where extinction is a possibility, being able to operate a computer and use it to communicate with other humans would be a huge asset, and the more of those people we have around the easier it'll be to keep it going when things go to hell. Don't sell yourself short.

  • What would you do if our civilization regressed to the Neolithic age due to resource depletion due to global collapse?

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  • They are literally part of the medium.

  • What do you not like talking about?

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  • In my experience, people who live with people who use information for abuse learn to protect information as a first course of action, because it's hard to predict what information might be dangerous to share. In extreme cases, the only safe opinion to express is that of whoever's in charge. It can be hard to tell what information can be safely expressed, which I think can make people quick to flatter or agree if they don't feel safe. It may be that you feel safe to express thoughts about the boss to their face, but they didn't. It's a cultural divide I've seen both sides of. I've worked with people who clearly did not feel comfortable criticizing me even after I encouraged honesty, because they had had bosses before who had said the same thing and abused the privilege of trust. I have also worked with people I did not trust with certain information and I withheld it, even after discussing the matter with peers. I think the things said in confidence can sometimes be harmful and deserve to be rebutted the same as when they're said in public, but the existence of those things doesn't make confidential conversation per se bad.

  • What would you do if our civilization regressed to the Neolithic age due to resource depletion due to global collapse?

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  • Beyond a certain level of apocalypse we will probably need traveling network engineers, people who are willing to make the difficult journey between human habitats in order to repair and maintain network equipment.

  • What would you do if our civilization regressed to the Neolithic age due to resource depletion due to global collapse?

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  • What do you not like talking about?

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  • I'll offer a defense of gossip. I think it's important to be able to discuss people, especially people with authority, without those people being able to dictate the rules of the conversation. If certain topics are taboo unless the conversations are had with all parties, it gives people with power a lot of influence over how the conversation happens and if it happens at all. Gossip is how unions are started, how abusive preachers are ousted (sometimes), how people learn about and get the help they need, help that the authorities in their lives have decided, for whatever reason, they can't have.

    I also think it's a venue for misinformation and I have my own beliefs about which conversations are better had if they include everybody (or me), but I don't think it's for me or anyone to just declare certain conversations or topics off limits.

  • What would you do if our civilization regressed to the Neolithic age due to resource depletion due to global collapse?

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  • Figure out how to grow food in the current climate, feed and shelter those I can, try to keep the free internet working so we can help each other out.

  • What do you not like talking about?

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  • For example, I don't think I'd ever considered venting as a form of verbal journaling, but that's kind of what it is. At least, there are some interesting similarities. I don't know if that would have occurred to me that way if I hadn't written my thoughts on the matter out.

  • What do you not like talking about?

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  • I can't think of a subject that I categorically dislike talking about. My dislike for conversation usually has more to do with the attitudes of the people I'm having the conversations with. Conversation requires at least a minimal agreement to take what your conversational partner says into account, otherwise it's more of a lecture. Lots of arguments are people who have already convinced themselves of their rightness lecturing at each other, and it tends to be a repetitive recycling of old points and counterpoints. Pretty boring, rhetorically.

    It can be useful to deliver a lecture, especially if it's invited. That's basically what venting is. I grew up being taught that if I didn't have anything constructive to say I should just keep it to myself, and that's still a position I find myself defaulting to, but it can be helpful to try to frame the petty grievances of daily life into words, especially if you have a sympathetic and willing audience. I don't have a specific example to share that doesn't reveal too much about my personal life, but I'll just say that the insights that come from venting were surprising. I think the act of putting thoughts into words can make it easier to think about those thoughts.

  • Trump Reveals Why There’s No Evacuation Plan for Trapped Americans

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  • Can't wait for Iranian Hostage Crisis 2: Somehow the Same Generation. Cool cool cool.

  • Dear Faith VI

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  • If we learned nothing else from Cavemen we learned that anything can be a sitcom, you just have to believe in it hard enough.

  • welcome back to 2003

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  • It's related. All over the codebase different devs have put in catches for it, but often as not instead of handling it they just wrap it in a new warning, dump it to the log, and move on. Dwight wanted to decouple those modules, correctly, but he didn't know how because the reason they're coupled in the first place is because we didn't handle this problem correctly in the initial design, so he slapped a warning on it and called it good enough. Every once in a while some hotshot dev comes in with a proposal that exploits it (and introduces tons of technical debt that we don't see because we don't measure it) and because it looks good for the shareholders the PR gets approved and merged. If they're lucky then they get promoted out of development, or occasionally fired, but in either case the problem in the code gets exacerbated and never really fixed.

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    SLRPNK Community Discussion - March 2026

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  • I think I'd rather see news about AI in the contexts I'm interested in, e.g. if AI hype is driving RAM prices I would want to see that in a computer hardware comm, if it's being used to replace artists or other workers I'd expect to see that pop up in artistic and professional comms, if it impacts education then education comms, and so on. I think ideally those comms would come up with their own filtering strategies. I think segmenting it off into it's own space tends to attract comments from "People who care about AI" rather than "People who care about other stuff that's being impacted by AI" and it makes the conversation suffer.

  • welcome back to 2003

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  • I think the root problem lies in some of the really gnarly, pre-1.0 code that we are afraid to touch because it might break something, that's why it keeps cropping up even though we keep slapping patches pell-mell on top of it. It just happened to pop out pretty bad in 03.

  • Dear Faith IV

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  • I'm invested. I was on board with the rainbow tables but now I'm having a crisis. A Crisis of Faith.

  • welcome back to 2003

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  • I don't know, this whole situation could have been avoided if people would just check with the team before merging stuff. I think people see revisions from old releases so they just merge them because they "worked before" so they should work now. It doesn't work for the current userbase, frankly it didn't work all that well for most users back when it was released the first time. Just merging any old crap straight into main without reading it so they can brag about how many PRs they close.

  • welcome back to 2003

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  • Trying, I'm stuck on a bridge with some of the seniors right now. One of them wants to "just push through and see what happens" and roll forward with the change, the other one disapproves but clearly has no idea what else to do. Nobody seems to want to even propose a plan because then they'd be on the hook for it, so we just keep going back and forth and not. ending. the call.

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    Are there FOSS tractors?

  • Permaculture, Sustainable Design, Homesteading, Off-Grid Living, Natural Building, and more @lemmy.world
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    Are there any backup battery packs with replaceable cells?

  • Forced Obsolescence / Obsolescence by Design @slrpnk.net
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    Are there any backup battery packs with replaceable cells?

  • Dull Men's Club @lemmy.world
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    I defrosted my kitchen sink line.

  • Bathtub Thoughts @discuss.tchncs.de
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    "Microwave Math" is a specific instance of a type of numbering system where place value doesn't necessarily correspond to the number of symbols

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    "Microwave Math" is a specific instance of a type of numbering system where place value doesn't necessarily correspond to the number of symbols

  • fixing @slrpnk.net
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    Lead acid battery reconditioning question

  • Solarpunk Art @slrpnk.net
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    The edge of a fallow field

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    The American Yawp | A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook

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