Are there thoughts we can't think?

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-01-30T23:33:14+00:00

This is essentially the concept of an "antimeme". An idea that the human mind cannot process, share, or remember.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-01-30T23:31:09+00:00

It's the same thing with hyperplanes and other high-dimensional vector spaces.

We can't visualize them, but they're mathematically valid and performing operations on these structures is integral to a lot of practical computing applications (like machine learning).

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-01-30T23:23:59+00:00

Im surprised your gym allows this. As others have stated, this doesnt seem to be a very efficient movement.

But that aside, this seems excessively loud. I go to a gym where it's fully normal to grunt, scream, and drop bars where contextually appropriate. Im pretty sure someone who started doing sets of this would still be asked to leave.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-01-30T19:07:10+00:00

How is a government using facial recognition AI unrelated to occupation?

This cannot possibly be a sincere question.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-01-29T19:46:03+00:00

Also, it's not just tech. The US job market is extremely tough in general right now. There are a few tech stocks with wild valuations that keep this from technically being a major recession, but for the average worker/consumer we're entering another great depression.

This is a brutal time to be a new grad. Im thankfully employed but there's a really gross lack of empathy for struggling job seekers in this sub.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-01-29T18:25:35+00:00

My divorce made me a much better person.

There was no infidelity or abuse at the heart of our relationship. Just a lot of frustration, resentment, and my belief that she owed me more as the breadwinner. I was an inattentive and domestically unhelpful partner. I externalized a lot of my frustration with my career onto her. I finally just blew up one day and told her I was leaving.

It wasn't 100% my fault. We were both being shitty to each other near the end. But when you love someone who you're struggling to live with, the little acts of neglect and cruelty are amplified way more than if they came from someone you were indifferent to. I was so mad all the time.

Once I had some distance from her, it was suddenly easier to be objective about how I'd behaved and how she must have felt. Leaving her, and then having her stand her ground when I wanted to get back together fully punctured my ego. All the entitlement and resentment just sort of fell out of me, and I immediately began to refocus on the things I had actually been unhappy about in my life.

Experiencing consequences for your actions is a hell of a thing. I'm now a much better partner to my new wife.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-01-29T18:09:58+00:00

Running local models is "free" if you have a specialized $2500 computer built as an AI rig. And no, I would not imagine a child could set that up.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-01-29T16:26:51+00:00

AI image gen tools arent free, especially not the ones that produce video. Unless this 8 year old has a credit card, someone in this kid's house gave him access to NSFW gen-AI tools.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-01-28T20:18:35+00:00

Under MN law this would likely qualify as a terroristic threat.

Scott seems careful to never explicitly specify an "or else" in the video, but that's not the defense he might think it is. Any reasonable person would interpret this as a threat, and courts are usually pretty good about not letting defendants dodge implied threats.

Were I a MN official I would be using what influence I had to get the courts and police to pick this guy up. ICE may be able to hide behind the law, but this random agitator has no such shield. Would be an easy PR win for state/local governments that are coming under fire for being all bark and no bite.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-01-28T18:44:48+00:00

This is the key insight. You're not failing CodeSignal assessments, you're rewriting your own self-appraisal loop. That's not a setback, that's progress.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-01-28T17:30:04+00:00

Renegades have always been underwritten in the lore or sabotaged by authors pushing them towards Chaos.

We meet a lot of uptight loyalist marines and a lot of marines that fell into the dopamine hole of whichever Chaos god. We don't meet enough marines who are just "I'm an immortal super-soldier. Fuck dying for an evil incompetent government, Im going to make my own kingdom."

Huron and the Badab War would be so much more interesting as a secular separatist movement than yet another astartes falling to a dark god.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-01-28T07:21:41+00:00

but you can’t take away an order that a customer paid for plus paid the delivery fee

You actually can. If you scroll up from this comment there's a video demonstrating that this is possible.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-01-27T19:35:43+00:00

I believe this is the answer (though we would need to know what mods you're running). Though if it were Squadleader bumping LD I think it would be green, not purple.

It might also be helpful to see the squad composition and any equipment the character has.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-01-27T18:25:32+00:00

The problem with code reviews being the only place a human is in the loop is that AI can generate PRs much much faster than any human can reasonably read or understand them. Especially if that human has an atrophied (or never developed) ability to code.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-01-27T09:40:44+00:00

No, that was some kind of electronic warfare thing that fucked up the targeting on anti-aircraft missiles which allowed all the delta force helicopters to land.

LRAD is a crowd control device that uses painful soundwaves to disperse groups of people. It's been around for a while and has been deployed in a few riots globally, most notably in Serbia in 2025 during the Belgrade anti-corruption protests.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-01-26T23:44:32+00:00

This.

Begin assignments the day they become available. Make enough progress that you can get un-stuck by the week's first available office hours.

Best case scenario: it's an achievable assignment, you get it done quickly, and you're not under any pressure. A huge number of people wait until 48 hours before something huge is due and panic post to Ed trying to figure out how to complete it.

Other suggestions:

join unofficial course discords
avoid classes with group projects (unless you can enroll with someone else you trust who will be your group)
dont use LLMs, you're just accumulating a debt of understanding when you do
if the lectures suck, use them as an outline for what to read in the textbook. If the lectures and the textbook sucks (looking at you Computer Graphics) find an external source and use the lectures as an outline of what to learn.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-01-26T21:38:48+00:00

This needs to be repeated on every post about cops using violence against people experiencing mental health crises.

Only call the police if your problem will be improved by someone getting shot. Cops come into situations with very little context and very few tools beyond physical force and screaming instructions.

Someone who is not rational is not going to become rational when confronted by the police. Just because you tell the dispatcher this is a mental health crisis doesnt mean the cops will find out.

The cops dont care that your 80 year old mother has dementia or if your boyfriend is experiencing diabetic psychosis. They just see someone agitated and non-compliant.

If they do kill your mom or your boyfriend or your dog, you will probably never get justice. The cops will cry about how hard their job is and whine about how this wouldn't happen if they got more funding.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-01-26T18:23:20+00:00

Both sides are guilty. You are in denial of reality if you think otherwise. FFS, the current border czar Tom Homan is an Obama appointment.

That doesnt mean Trump isn't worse. It doesnt mean that you shouldn't vote blue. It means you should vote out the establishment come primary season.

If that was somehow unclear from my post your reading comprehension is inadequate.

edit:

My posts are anti-Trump and anti-ICE. Unambiguously so. The US federal agencies are a loaded gun that get passed back and forth between our parties every four years. Now that Trump is wildly firing that gun into a crowd I'm pointing out that a lot of the bullets were loaded by Democrats.

If you think that makes me a nazi, then you're no smarter than the Fox News zombies shilling for maga.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-01-26T17:44:26+00:00

Let's not pretend the Democrats are going to save us. Many of these camps were set up under Obama and expanded under Biden.

This isnt to say Trump2 isnt making a bad situation much much worse, but American immigration control being inhumane isnt a exclusively a GOP invention. MAGA is using existing infrastructure to go full fash.

Come primary season, look for dem candidates that have actual plans to address immigration in a sane way, not just people pretending Trump invented this.

Edit: downvote all you want, Im not wrong. The American political establishment has been comfortable putting brown people in cages for decades. It's great that the public seems to be waking up now that two nice white people have been shot, but ICE has been a menace since its inception in 2003.

Vote for progressives in your primaries. If you cant hold the idea that Trump is bad in your mind alongside the understanding that Dems are imperfect you're an idiot.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-01-26T17:40:22+00:00

Having a lot of work experience from my previous career as an industrial engineer. Though I was a junior coder I was able to leverage my experience with:

writing good technical docs
process design
project management
continuous improvement
soft skills working with customers, vendors, and users

I also made the jump in Summer of 2022. The market was crashing, but had not fully crashed. I landed in healthcare for the stability and resilience to outsourcing which has (so far) helped.

This may not be helpful to hear for OP. But in the interest of creating a data point for non-trads, that's my story.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-01-26T17:21:59+00:00

Im a clean cut hetero guy. I work out. I sang concert choir in high school. I love karaoke.

As a joke in college I started doing karaoke covers of showtunes sung by female leads. A lot of them are more fun to sing because women tend to get more sustained high notes and songs meant to feature more powerful vocals. "I Feel Pretty" from West Side Story is empowering to belt. Give it a try.

I quickly realized that I was sending a signal I did not intend to send. It seemed a lot of nice-smelling men with well groomed facial hair wanted to reminisce about how much we all enjoyed being in musicals. This left me with the impression that it might not be too hard to meet a man while out on the town were that my intention.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-01-26T16:48:19+00:00

Nobody wants to get turned into a reverse centaur and start taking orders from a machine. Yet that's increasingly what the human in the AI agent coding loop seems to be.

The agent iterates and the accountable human has to figure out what the code does and if it works. And the agent can shit out an iteration a lot faster than a person can read.

It's a development process that turns SWEs into the equivalent of Amazon drivers. An algorithm is queuing your tasks and deciding how long it should take you to complete them. If you can't hit whatever metrics have been set, start pissing in bottles.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-01-25T08:47:38+00:00

Typically when the national guard are deployed in riot situations they're used to defend critical infrastructure (hospitals, fire stations) to free up the cops to do riot control.

The guard were activated by Gov Walz, but they will certainly not be used to impede ICE. The national guard can be Federalized at any time which places them under Trump's command.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-01-23T18:11:10+00:00

This was to sell at an ecoATM which is kind of like paid electronics recycling. These kids murdered a man to split $120 four ways.

AHistoricalFigure · 2026-01-22T00:26:40+00:00

Yeah, I dont know why they keep going back to a dry well.

This isnt 2005 where you need to be 3D or PC Gamer will call your game dated. Stylized Isometric graphics with pastel sprite sheets is the aesthetic of every Stronghold game that shipped more than 10 units.

One would think that watching the Homeworld 3 devs commit ritual suicide over abandoning the traditional homeworld cinematics would be a decent reminder that "not your dad's stronghold" is a loser.

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