I’m not anything that can be remotely considered religious, but flood myths are fairly common in ancient folklore, so if anything from the Bible might have been true, then there might have been a great flood at some point.
After the Babylonian captivity we see the Babylonian flood mythos in the extant version of the story.
Sometimes similarities between world religions can be explained by common physical features, like stories of resurrection associated with snakes (who shed skin) or with the planet Venus (which dips below the horizon for several days before reemergence).
But sometimes it’s because people are just plagiarizing.
there definitely wasn’t some earth-covering flood, since that would take a stupendous amount of water that later just vanished.
What is likely however is raised sea levels, drowning low-lying areas like the dogger bank. It’s pretty insane how much more land we used to have, doggerland is/was about the size of the netherlands and since it would have been extremely fertile it’s likely it was a very important area for people in the past, so frankly it could very well be the source for the atlantis myth even.
There are lots of flood myths because humans generally settle near large bodies of water. Large bodies of water tend to flood, sometimes catastrophically.
The Atlantis “myth” was made up by Plato to make a point about what would happen to Athens if they got too big for their britches.
I fairly often drive 50,000m/h, except on the autobahn. There I usually go about 120,000,000mm/h.
And if I stack 1000 1cm³ blocks of water, the resulting 10m high column has a volume of 1l, weighs 1kg and exerts 100kPa of pressure on its base. And to heat it by 1°C requires 1kcal, while 1N would accelerate it by 1m/s every second.
What I want to say is: Your point is stupid and your units are too.
They know how to manipulate you to do/buy stuff you weren’t looking for. That’s what makes a profit.
It has always been this way (also in tech) because those things are the products of companies (main goal: profit, usually under a sneaky slogan), but it is becoming increasingly invasive. Don’t be evil: think different.
It’s about minimizing the annoyance for the majority of users who will misspell some popular thing.
Also, I believe that showing actually interesting content is bad for the businesses because it might make the user stop to think and pursue something meaningful instead of continuing to use the product.
Not really. Occasionally I see someone in the comments saying that they can’t reach the person they’ve been paying to teach them their crazy ways anymore, or that they can’t find anyone who has made the coupon process work, but beyond that they seem to just persist in their crazy.
I think many eventually do realize they’ve been burned and just stop showing up in these forums/groups. But you don’t hear from them, just the diehards who are too deep into it and too dim to ever pick up on the fact that the SovCit movement is baseless nonsense no matter how often they’re confronted with evidence of these little magical loopholes failing to work.
Exactly what I was going to say. They go all-in on the Sovereign Citizen nonsense, it fails massively for them, multiple times, every single official response is “that’s not a thing”, so they… continue to ask the sovcit community for more advice!? Like, come on…
IMO if/when people snap out of it they just fade away and don’t post about it. We all have our pride. These people were convinced they were so much smarter than everyone else, that’s a tough pill to swallow. The same thing happens with cults and political beliefs. That’s why I try to keep things light hearted and civil when debating politics. Leave wiggle room for people to come around. It’s not about humiliating them, it’s about seeing the light
I have seen a news report where they interviewed a young woman who was in a whole bunch of debt due to being sovcit and regretted it all. Her story was she was basically living a normal life, till her husband lost his job. When he couldn’t find a new job and was living on welfare, he turned to sovcit. They could simply stop paying their mortgage and other bills and use all the tricks of the sovcits on Facebook to get by. This way he wouldn’t need a job anymore. His wife went along with it, not really understanding it, but trusting her husband.
Obviously this didn’t end up well for either of them and the wife divorced the husband after finding out all of it was bullshit. They lost their home and had huge debts. Luckily because the woman was in a European country, the government sent someone to help her out. They helped her to consolidate all the different loans into a single loan, except for debts in relation to taxes. For the taxes a generous payment plan was provided, giving the woman a chance at a normal life instead of destroying her. The singular loan with the bank had a mortgage style payment plan, which was manageable even at a relatively low income level. She also was eligible for public housing and had a small apartment to live in. It was unclear where the husband was, he was gone and assumed out of the country. Because they were married he left a lot of the debt for the wife to clean up.
It was really a very sad story and the woman was filled with regret. If she hadn’t lived in a forgiving country, she would have had a bad ending. Not that she didn’t have one anyway, but it could have been so much worse.
One of these sovcits, Chris Hauser, has a FB group I’m in where he was selling people his various nonsense, and now he literally is doing time but none of them believe it and can’t understand why he won’t answer their messages anymore.
You can own a car without registering it or getting plates or insuring it or anything else. What you can’t do is take it on public roads without those things. If you wanna drive it on your personal property then you can do pretty much whatever you want with it, but as soon as you put it on a road that the state owns then you gotta meet the state’s conditions to use the road.
Indeed, my grandfather had a Jeep Willys and he never registered and only drove it on his farm. When he passed away, my dad inherited and looked into making it road legal (ie. registering it) and it was way too expensive to do, so he just kept it in his property and drives it around a back road which is technically private property, we checked with the local PD and it’s allowed
I wonder when chat gpt being included in everything will backfire. How many requests are being sent to a multiple servers that people are unaware of and how secure are those servers?
Worse, the communication isn’t through some finite algorithm… It’s this amorphouse agent that can be tricked to saying things it’s explicitly designed not to say.
I will die of laughter if someone manages to trick copilot to get data stolen from the USA (or another countrie’s) government by M$. Not saying it will happen, but knowing GPT… Just imagine the memes
How long til CoPilot coughs up Windows 11 source code, or something like that? That’s what I want. Accidental open sourced windows from overzealous implementation of AI by Microsoft.
Yeah my company enabled the use of copilot with our corporate Microsoft accounts. I don’t understand how you can open such a massive can of worms to ALL your users. It’s pretty much begging for information to completely leave corporate control. It’s absolutely insane.
Believing you’re immune makes you particularly vulnerable, because it may hinder you from noticing that you’re wrong. None of us are above deception or manipulation, and to assume otherwise is to let down our guard.
I mean they’ve been doing multitenancy in Azure for a while… I’d be pretty surprised if the data input from copilot was not handled in the same manner.
Local government is also having this issue. Lots of cities don’t have the resources so will probably throw a lot at gpt…which means a very large attack vector.
From my experience the only big changes I’d say I made overtime are:
Font size bumped up
Switched to neovim from visual studio, which took like a year to relearn my entire workflow (100% worth it though)
Switched from multiscreen setup to one single big screen (largely due to #2 above no longer needing a second screen, tmux+harpoon+telescope+fzf goes brrrr)
Switched to a standing desk with a treadmill, because I became able to afford a larger living space where I can fit such a setup.
If I were to do this meme though it’d mostly be #1, there just came a day when I had to pop open my settings and ++ the font size a couple times, that’s how I knew I was getting old.
Try starting with LazyVim! It has a great selection of plugins pre-set, and it all works out of the box. It’s a great way to get started, and then you can add/remove plugins later on. Also, it’s keymap-shortcut page is great for the first week or so of learning the commands.
I disagree with this recommendation, the maintainer closed a breaking issue (default syntax highlighting breaks on clean install) saying “workaround exists”. That’s a red flag ime.
I try and start using it for basic tasks, like note taking, to get used to its interface and basic commands like :w and :q, as well as switching between insert and cmd mode.
Once you are familiar with switching between modes, copying, pasting, etc, then you probably will wanna Starr learning it’s lua api and how to load in some QoL plugins. Basic stuff like treesitter, telescope, and nvim-tree are good places to start.
Once you feel comfortable with swapping between files with telescope and configuring plugins, I’d deep dive into getting an LSP up and running for your language of choice so you can actually code.
In the interim I’d recommend getting comfy with using tmux in your terminal, try and open new tmux tabs to do units of work instead of constantly cding around.
I like to keep 4 tmux tabs open for a project:
nvim
lazygit
secrets file open in nvim (usually my secrets file is in another dir so it doesn’t check into git)
The videos by TJ DeVries seem like probably the best starting point there is. He’s a contributor, has built a setup script that’s meant to be minimalistic and configurable, and has tons and tons of info about running through all of it yourself.
I have heard of jupyter but am not familiar with its nuances.
But doing python dev with neovim is very doable, it uses the same LSP I think.
I personally have a dedicated dev machine running debian that has everything on it, including nvim configured.
I SSH into my dev box from other machines to do work, because neovim is a TUI it “just works” over SSH inside the terminal itself, which is what I like about it.
It feels good to just
SSH into my box
tmuxinator my-project-name
And boom, 4 tmux tabs pop open ready to go in the terminal:
nvim (pointing at the project dir)
lazygit already open
nvim (pointing at my secrets.json file elsewhere)
an extra general console window opened to project root
And I can just deep dive into working asap in just those 2 steps, it feels very smooth.
I often can even just do tmux a (short for attach) to just straight re-open whatever session I last had open in tmux, instantly jumping right back into where I left off.
Yup, I usually have it set to the slowest setting when typing.
I find I work much better and can think clearer while walking, as it keeps the blood flowing and makes me feel more awake and engaged.
If I have a tough problem I’m trying to work through I turn the speed up to a faster pace and sorta just work through it in my head while speed walking, often this helps a lot!
During meetings when I’m bored I also turn the speed up a bit.
I often get around 10k to 12k steps in a day now.
Note I don’t stay on the treadmill all day long, I usually clock a good 4 hours on it though.
Then I take a break and chill on the couch with my work laptop, usually I leave my more “chill” tasks like writing my tests for this part, and throw on some Netflix while I churn all my tests out.
Highly recommend it, I’ve lost a good 15ish lbs now in the past year since I started doing it, and I just generally feel a lot better, less depressed, less anxious :)
My father’s parents were told he’d die of polio in the hospital that night. He recovered. The vax was new when my mother got it. I exist because of vaccines and dumb luck. I hate them, every shithead antivax fuckwad for harming humanity.
My grandmother got polio as an adult and suffered from post-polio syndrome. She lived to a ripe old age (mid 90’s), but had a significantly reduced quality of life.
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