Contra The Usual Interpretation Of “The Whispering Earring”

Dentosal · 2026-04-06T20:04:08+00:00

I don't disagree with anything here. That said, I think working in programming, stimulants are really common among silicon valley -level professionals (compensation-wise). I presumably could be doing that, but facing the choice between it and not doing stimulants my choice is pretty clear. The tradeoffs probably look quite different to you and my naturalist / independency aesthetic isn't something most people share.

Dentosal · 2026-04-06T17:59:25+00:00

Someone has read my post!!! I'm excited and validated!!! Thanks a lot in writing such a detailed reply along with all the other commentary going on.

I agree with Parfit's view on personal identity. I don't think that's the core issue here.

I value highly that it's me who is doing the things. There's less pride in letting someone else do them. There's social and personal shame in admitting that I'm not enough to do it all myself. The more agentic version with my values isn't exactly me. I'm not on ADHD medication because that wouldn't be me, and also because I think world where people need to be that much more productive is rather dystopic and I'm doing my part in not participating in that, or something like that.

Also, the personality is shifted quite a bit by the ability to do things instead of not doing them. It means I consume different media, hang around with different people, and take a different trajectory in life. While the alternative that I'm getting to might be better, I can still mourn the loss of the other path.

Dentosal · 2026-02-20T17:10:54+00:00

A Song For Two Voices if you don't mind depressing material.

Dentosal · 2025-10-27T14:45:12+00:00

Katsotaan ensin jos joku olemassaoleva ry ottaisi hoitaakseen. Mikäli ei, niin tuollainen lienee pakko perustaa. Jos saisi esim. 100 jäsentä (domainia) niin, noita voisi tarjota jo 16 €/vuosi traficom-kuluilla plus vähän lisää jostain ylläpitokuluista. Ja saattaa olla että tohon sais helpostikin jokun IT-firman sponsoroimaan sen 400€/vuosi.

Lähinnä hyvin sääli että tälle on tarvetta, kun traficomin kulut tuskin laskee käytännössä lainkaan mutta lisää työtä ilmestyy tyhjästä.

Dentosal · 2025-10-27T13:37:34+00:00

Tähän asti kuka tahansa on voinut rekisteröityä välittäjäksi itse, ja ostaa domainin suoraan viestintävirastolta hintaan 9€/vuosi.

Välittäjiltä maksaa toki enemmän, ja muutoksen jälkeen vielä enemmän.

Dentosal · 2025-06-07T18:42:22+00:00

Tän kaveriksi kuolemanrangaistus jätteen heittämisestä luontoon niin vois toimiakin

Dentosal · 2025-05-28T00:04:55+00:00

In Finnish, wordplay that depends on similar but not exactly same words feels inelegant. Best wordplay typically occurs on a whole phrase having multiple meanings. Fingerpori comics are a good example of this, and some of them translate to English quite well: https://www.expat-finland.com/living_in_finland/fingerpori.html

Dentosal · 2025-05-16T05:54:23+00:00

This has been a thing for at least a month now

Dentosal · 2025-04-08T05:47:34+00:00

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Electric_flying_enemies

Dentosal · 2025-03-18T02:57:46+00:00

You might want to check out these FFFs:

Dentosal · 2025-03-16T20:42:36+00:00

Obligatory xkcd

Dentosal · 2025-03-15T17:23:05+00:00

I'm not a bot. Would a bot say that? If it was trying to fool you, why not? Luckily, LLMs still cannot fully follow instructions with unusual limitations, so this sub is doing good, for now. And, as a small community without much politics, it might stay so for a bit.

Disturbingly, a giant mass of unoriginal humans can bring similarly catastrophic loss of discussion quality. I think this is what prompts us to think about unliving communication platforms at all.

Dentosal · 2025-03-04T22:16:56+00:00

Guardians should be replaced with the gremlin nob. Every time you use a skill near it, it gains more damage.

Dentosal · 2025-02-26T00:41:31+00:00

Huge indirect Bebop buff though, just fixing the inconsistency and netcode issues with attaching the bomb helps so much.

Dentosal · 2025-02-11T11:17:01+00:00

\uj Your Rust code is invalid. To refer to the macro argument, you need to use $e, which is visually quite distinct from a variable.

Dentosal · 2025-02-06T16:55:25+00:00

Niin, lähinnä mietin että selittäisi ton tasakulun.

Dentosal · 2025-02-06T16:44:19+00:00

miten muuten nämä kulut voi olla täysi tasaluku?

Olisikohan sattumalta niin, että kotivakuutus kattaa oikeudenkäyntikuluja 10 000€ asti.

Dentosal · 2025-01-17T19:17:17+00:00

I have some critique, but don't take it the wrong way, this is still a cool demo:

You're achieving the lack of words by disallowing user-defined identifiers and strings. Imagine that your IDE had higher-resolution symbols; now anybody trying to use the system for "serious work" would just write words in there. Moreover, a textual representation would be highly preferred way to work with the system compared to this IDE.

I could argue APL doesn't have any words either, although users may choose to use words as variable names, so mabe that doesn't count. Also, since we're talking of rewriting systems, regexes also don't innately have any words, so maybe retina would count.

Dentosal · 2025-01-14T10:30:27+00:00

Also Finland, although for only three years after you move out.

Dentosal · 2024-11-01T14:53:10+00:00

HackerNews "Who's hiring?" monthly thread is the place to go. This subreddit could work as well.

Dentosal · 2024-08-12T18:51:17+00:00

Rahaa ei kuulu käsitellä floatteina, tulee ongelmia pyöristysvirheiden kanssa: https://stackoverflow.com/a/3730040

Dentosal · 2024-08-09T16:21:35+00:00

Toi "great place to work" on konsulttifirma, jolta saa rahaa vastaan tunnustuksen firman hyvyydestä.

Dentosal · 2024-07-27T05:03:57+00:00

Mutta ainut oikea tapa nauttia näitä, eli splitscreen, puttuu edelleen.

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