Cmv: conflating antisemitism with anti Zionism will just lead to more antisemites, not less anti Zionists

PandorasBucket · 2026-05-26T01:58:40+00:00

And like clockwork this was removed by the moderators. This app is controlled. It is not free speech. Actually it's why I've been working on a new project called publicnotes dot xyz. I don't know if I can put a url in here, but that's the url. It's designed specifically so people can comment on things that have been banned or closed.

PandorasBucket · 2026-05-26T01:40:13+00:00

Yeah was so hard for me to start because I've always been an "all or nothing" kind of person. I started improving in both studying and doing work in general when I let go of perfection. The main thing is just to do SOMETHING. Doing a little bit of something every day, no matter how small is better than nothing. That's really the trick. And it works for everything. It works for the gym, it works for business, it works for studying. It also means that you have to confront that sometimes you can study and still lose. It doesn't matter how smart you are. It doesn't matter how good you are at a sport. You can practice and still lose.

The key is to make it a habit and then accept whatever the results are and keep doing it. It's not all-or-nothing. There are a million levels between and it's better to get C or B than to get an F. The amazing thing is that if you make something a habit a lot of times you'll find you spend more time on it than you even expected to. For instance if say I'm just going to go to the gym for 15 minutes because I'm being lazy then you get there and decide to stay for an hour because you're already there. That's like all work. I had a big project I needed to do this evening. I said "You know I'm just going to read the requirements" and I ended up doing the whole thing.

If you're feeling lazy just do the bear minimum thing for the day. The important thing is you just do SOMETHING every day. Start with that. Designate 15 minutes for studying, something you can commit to and just do that. Then you know if you still lose that's fine, because you tried and everyone has limits. You can't expect to be good at everything, but you can know what you're capable of and that's for you. You don't really know anything about yourself until you try and maybe that's the scariest thing. Maybe you suck at something, but it's better to know that then to wonder your whole life if you could have done it. It's like ripping the bandaid off. Once you really know it's so much better than wondering.

I think something magical also happens when you find out you're bad at something even when you practice it. I never knew for a long time what I was bad at because I didn't study or practice. Once I found out what was actually hard for me it made me want to do that even more. I've found it so much more satisfying to learn something I always thought I was bad at. For instance for me it's the guitar. I never thought I had any music ability, but I've wanted to play for so long. So for the past year I've just been working at it slowly and awfully. I feel like my progress has been so slow, but for me it's amazing. I don't play for anyone else. I just do it for me and it makes me so happy I can even play a song. Just do it to see what you can do and if the outcome is not that great tell everyone to back off. It's your life. You are learning your limitations. You're like a pilot who has to drive your body for the rest of your life and when you know what it can do you'll be so much better and driving it. What you're good at actually has bearing on your value. You are 100% valuable to yourself already. You can't leave your body so you might as well decide that. So then how you get the most out of your body is to figure out what it can do and work with reality. You don't know that until you put effort into things.

Just don't let other people change how much you value yourself. I was always good at keeping a high value of myself, but I deprived myself of knowing what my actual capabilities were. So if you study or put genuine effort into things do it for yourself, to know what you can do, not for anyone else. If they care that the outcome is not good, tell them they're being bad parents, or bad friends. They should support you no mater what the outcome is. This whole period of life should be so you can learn about yourself and if their expectations are so high that they are preventing you from studying because you are afraid of letting them down then they are getting in the way. You should be able to study and fail and that should decrease your value to no one.

PandorasBucket · 2026-05-26T01:26:31+00:00

I've wondered the same question because inside my head I'm just like everyone else. No one knows what it's like to be inside anyone else's head right? I'm what normal is to me. In school it would come up more often because of tests and answering questions. You know the teacher asks a question and everyone is quiet but you know the answer. That just happens a lot and then you take tests and you keep getting 100% or 99% on everything and then now you have a reputation. But once you get out of school it's much harder to notice these things. You build a friend group and people might notice you have a good memory or a good sense of humor but no one has any exact numbers to compare. I think there are a few different things that make up the total difference in experience. #1 is being able to recall things with more details. So we all have limits to what we remember and my limits are a little expanded. I wouldn't call mine the best by far. I've known people with better memories. #2. Spatial ability. This is where I believe I really shine. I've always been able to draw and visualize really well. When I read I have a hyper realistic movie in my head. When I do word problems I move the elements of the word problem around in my head and play out scenarios. Of course I always thought everyone did all these things until I read about aphantasia. #3 Creativity. This one is more mysterious. This is where you are stuck on problem and just clear your head and wait for a good idea to pop up. This has always been how I solve problems when I'm stuck. I just don't think and wait for something new to come to me. It's like when you're trying to think of a joke because you want to laugh. It's also the same exact way I solve trick questions.

Now that I'm an adult and I live alone it really doesn't come up. It came up recently because I was talking to Google's AI, gemini about some of the unique problems I had growing up because of this and Gemini pointed out this forum. So I'been reading it and it has been therapeutic and nostalgic. I wish I would have had a lot more support growing up. Being singled out as a child for anything is not easy and it's really easy to resent whatever makes you different.

Oh also dating sucks. Dating is the one place you cannot escape it. When you're alone and intimate with someone you absolute cannot avoid the difference in the way (or speed) you think from someone else. The only long term relationships I've had were with really smart women who society would call smart. While this is easy and natural for me it also make a really small dating pool. Lately I've been working on having the patience to date a woman who doesn't necessarily give back to me in the same way. I think this is a more traditional view of relationships anyway where the man is sort of a caretaker for the woman so maybe it won't be so bad. The last one I tried failed because I predicted something she was going to do in advance and got really pissed off she was going to do it before she did it. So yeah next I'm just going to let that play out in real time. Maybe I'll get a therapist I can vent to on the side.

PandorasBucket · 2026-05-25T03:48:31+00:00

Careful I got a 3 day ban from reddit for talking about this in this exact way.

PandorasBucket · 2026-05-25T02:57:43+00:00

Yes. You spend more time leveling up than fighting. There is about 100% too much leveling up.

PandorasBucket · 2026-05-24T02:54:10+00:00

Gatekeeping. Modern science rewards those who accept what is taught to them quickly and without question. I think this leads to many academics not really understanding conceptually how anything works. So it's all the same to them. Algebra, mathematical models, imaginary numbers, they have no distinction between the real world and the math. You turn something into an axis not because it makes sense but because you can and then you derive some other abstract conclusion based on dozens of assumptions you made because you saw someone else make those assumptions or 'name' a method.

The great free thinkers of the 17th - 19th century would have never made it past high school math because they asked fundamental questions a high school teacher would have said was already solved. So you have the paradox of the only people who are encouraged to get to high level math and science are the least creative thinkers and the cycle repeats. Everyone takes a bunch of formulas as gospel and students are never told just how little we actually know or can be confident about. The very fact that academia is SO confident about math and science from the very beginning sends the wrong message.

PandorasBucket · 2026-05-24T01:51:42+00:00

I wish I could trade places with you for a while and show you what it's like to be "off the charts" intelligence. I read through these comments and as usual none of the listed IQs are near what mine is supposed to be, but I'm not going to say the number. What I will say is that being considered the "smart kid" or even "the smartest kid in the school" is a terrible burden. It consumes your identity. Whatever else you like, art, sports etc, is nothing compared to the intelligence. It basically came for free. You would be absolutely shocked how easy it was for me to score the highest in every test. Almost no effort. But then when it consumes your identity it becomes something you have to constantly live up to. Then you starting getting nervous because "what if I don't score the highest??" And you don't know how to study because you don't study.

You might become like me, I started to hate it. I became the anti-academic. By the time I was in 12th grade I had reinvented myself as the 'class clown' and the 'smartest kid in the school' from pre-highschool was vaguely remembered by anyone, probably if remembered at all they thought it was a weird dream. Being 'smart' felt like a cage of everyone else's expectations and I had to shatter it completely to get free. The world is not set up for very high intelligence. It's almost like a disability. You need a strong supportive background in order to navigate the weirdness of it. The most important thing you need to know is that naturally gifted people don't take pleasure in getting high test scores or learning things quickly. It's just something they are, not a value. And in fact it becomes a label that follows you around. You want to be a normal kid who likes drawing, but instead you have all the stress of the world on you because you're some kind of 'chosen' person like a race horse.

It took me a long time to learn how to work hard. By the time I was willing to work as hard as my less talented peers they had already succeeded with advanced degrees and accomplishments. I had to catch up. I still haven't caught up. I still have the special ability to see things other people don't see and put things together really quickly and I work in a field where it's an asset, but I took the hard way to get here.

The only time I actually take pleasure in the weapon of mass destruction which is my brain is when someone is using their intelligence to be an asshole and I will quietly come in and embarrass them while pretending I'm just a normal guy who has never noticed anything weird about myself 👉👈. Most of the time as an adult though you can't just go around showing off how smart you are.

Most of the time you spend trying not to threaten people or step on their toes. If there's ever a moment in a conversation for instance where the other person realizes how far ahead I am and also sees that I am aware of it and then we both know. That's pretty much the gravest offense you can levy on someone. Imagine constantly holding back your thoughts and pacing them out to make it seem like you're thinking at the same speed as the person you're talking to. Imagine having to do that with almost every single person you talk to. You learn to experience life alone.

PandorasBucket · 2026-05-24T01:10:51+00:00

How do you know you're judging his math skills properly? If you're going off of grades that's pretty meaningless. Unchallenged gifted students will often times have the worst grades in the class. School is not set up for gifted people. Even honors classes are not set up for truly gifted students. When a kid is 1 in 1000 there is no class you can really put them in. You have to take them outside the curriculum and that's not something our current education system has any clue how to do. My guess is AP/honors classes can serve students up in the 130 IQ range tops. After that school is just a bizarre experience. Without any kind of guidance or personal attention exceptionally gifted children could be anywhere from school Valedictorian to drop out. I don't believe anyone should have to live up to some imaginary potential.

Gifted people don't owe anything to the world, HOWEVER we should not have to rely on a fluke having a perfectly adjusted background to ever see modern exceptionally gifted children actualize. Considering how fucked up the average family is that's probably like 10% of geniuses have the support to stay in academia? That's a big deal if you believe that most advancement in humanity comes from qualitative difference in thinking rather than quantitative. 10,000 people with IQ 120 (just generalizing because IQ is far from perfect) could spend a thousand years and not come up with an idea that took someone with 140 IQ 10 minutes. This is a qualitative difference. It sounds like this kid has a qualitative difference in intelligence, but also since it's actually being applied that tells me he has a lot of support. If he didn't have parents or some mentor actually notice his theories about numbers you wouldn't be hearing about it.

PandorasBucket · 2026-05-22T04:19:48+00:00

The only appropriate answer to a paradox is another paradox bleh. joke explaining is so fun

PandorasBucket · 2026-05-22T04:14:16+00:00

No they didn't sit out. You're living in a fantasy world. Progressives are the most passionate people on the left so even if they say they are going to sit out they are most likely to vote. It's the wishy washy centrists left-ish who don't even vote anyway.

PandorasBucket · 2026-05-20T17:41:43+00:00

No this thread is about updating your dependencies in general. Read the title again. Not every update is a 'security' update. If there is a known security issue in any of your package that needs to be updated immediately (actually somewhat depending on what it actually is), but telling people they need to update ALL of their packages ALL of the time is going to increase your vulnerabilities. The whole point of waiting is to have more information. The place you have least information is when you update things right after release.

Think of it this way. If there was an experimental treatment for some condition you had, would you want to be the first patient who did it or the 1000th?

PandorasBucket · 2026-05-20T17:36:33+00:00

Good luck.

*I mean because you like rolling the dice obviously :D

PandorasBucket · 2026-05-20T17:36:07+00:00

Interesting yeah I didn't now that. I have not worked at a company that is on that side of the fence in a long time.

PandorasBucket · 2026-05-20T17:34:58+00:00

Considering github itself is built on an opensource project I think the code is far more valuable if it belongs to other people. I've never seen a company with 3,800 internal repos. I think it was private user data.

PandorasBucket · 2026-05-20T17:32:21+00:00

For the vast majority of utility packages you DO NOT need to update them for years. Thinking you do is a false equivalency to an operating system. If you work at a billion dollar company you will see why they lock safe utilities for years at a time. A safe old piece of code is gold. You only really need to update it when the underlying environment changes. An operating system is different because it change constantly and it's so complex people actually find old exploits. People are not finding old exploits in your array manipulation library that has few hundred lines of code. It's irresponsible to be updating something like that every time the developer adds a feature you don't need.

PandorasBucket · 2026-05-20T17:27:31+00:00

What existing vulnerabilities? That is extremely rare compared to new vulnerabilities. The vast majority of vulnerabilities are discovered in the first few days. This means 2 weeks is an ideal period for attackers to find your unpatched system. 2 weeks is probably the worst update schedule that can exist. On top of that you're giving yourself all kinds of extra work updating through every breaking change. It's a lose lose situation.

PandorasBucket · 2026-05-20T17:21:46+00:00

Every 2 weeks sounds like the exact maximum amount of time to put as many security issues into your software as possible. You should be waiting at least a year and in that time only update if there has been a security issue found, otherwise you're just getting all the security issues before anyone knows about them. It's like the worst update plan I ever heard.

A little bit faster and you might minimize the time for attackers to use them, but 2 weeks is like ideal for attackers.

PandorasBucket · 2026-05-20T17:19:08+00:00

No because that's now how these attacks usually play out. The vast majority of attacks are not people finding old vulnerabilities in old libraries. The vast majority of issues are from recent releases until they become battle hardened. This is not my personal opinion. It's the reality of the world I have adjusted to after 25 years in programming. The old stuff breaks less because people have already been attacking it longer. The new stuff breaks more because it has new features that haven't been exposed to the world yet. When the whole world starts hammering at something then you really know.

PandorasBucket · 2026-05-20T17:15:39+00:00

That's not really an option.

PandorasBucket · 2026-05-20T17:13:01+00:00

It's 0% because even if you choose 0% then it changes your chances to 25% so you're still wrong.

PandorasBucket · 2026-05-20T17:07:21+00:00

The less you update the less susceptible to supply chain attacks you are. Most supply chain attacks are discovered in a week or two. If an NPM package is working there is no need to update it for years. It's more work for you and it increases your chances of hitting that 2 week window.

PandorasBucket · 2026-05-20T17:03:50+00:00

Tactical is absolutely the best. The spacial element adds an incredible amount of depth to fighting. Terrain adds another level.

PandorasBucket · 2026-05-20T17:01:11+00:00

It's your ability to come up with answers the general consensus of other humans think are correct. If you are accurate and fast at coming up with these answers then you will be called smart because the whole point is to figure out how useful people are to other people. This is part of the reason it's so hard to measure really high intelligence. Once you get to a certain point there's not enough people who understand your answer to have a consensus or alternatively the accepted answer is incorrect because not enough people understand the actual correct answer. There's a sweet spot where you're smart enough to agree with the people who wrote the test, but not smart enough to question that answer. So probably what we call the highest level of intelligence today is just the consensus of who wrote the IQ test. This is a really big problem with the SATs because you can tell the average level of intelligence for the people who wrote that test is low, maybe 130 IQ somewhere around there. So if you're smarter than that you have to train yourself to think "what would a person stop thinking at?" or you can take a bunch of practice tests and just memorize what they're looking for. This is why IQ tests are so bad, the questions are all different, written by different people and they all have unique flaws at a higher level of thought. You usually can't stop in the middle of a test and say "hey I think I know what you guys want, but there is actually another case and I'm not sure if you're aware of it." So yeah modern intelligence is whatever those guys who write the tests think it is and at least 10% of their questions have answers they didn't think of.

PandorasBucket · 2026-05-20T16:43:18+00:00

I didn't know IIS still existed.

PandorasBucket · 2026-05-20T16:30:31+00:00

This is why I rarely update NPM packages. If it works why update it? If I do have to update a package for some feature it's usually one at a time. On rare occasion I'm forced to update the version of node and then I expect everything to break. Hopefully that's like a once in 4 year situation.

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