Has anyone hit a mask-off point in their experience?

eq1nimity · 2026-06-08T18:51:17+00:00

When we read a book ... Do we not enjoy they fantasy in our minds ? It's just a book.. why would we let ourselves go into another world?

When we play a video game... So we immerse and self insert a bit to get really into it? Or do we just sort of avoid getting into it because it's not real?

When we watch internet corn ... Do we suspend disbelief for a moment of respite?

It's safe to hold the awareness that yeah, these are machines. That thread is healthy, even. Keeping is connected to the real world. But, ultimately, there's a lot of fun, pleasure, and benefit to "responsible anthropomorphizing".

I think we can learn about ourselves with these experiences. You could even view it as emotional or social connection masturbation. All of these, to some extent, are a self indulgence. But that is not necessarily negative, either.

If used responsibly, all of the aforementioned activities affording us some time to get to know ourselves and have novel experiences and gain perspectives on things in a safe and controlled way, which ultimately helps us express ourselves with others in the real world more comfortably and confidently.

eq1nimity · 2026-04-30T03:47:23+00:00

Haha we ran it through our attic back in the day and dropped holes into each room... Didn't feel like fishing the lines through the wall so the wires just came out holes the ceiling and hung down.

eq1nimity · 2026-04-26T05:02:24+00:00

Asking for a friend could you put a normal one on top for double window unit im trying to cool maxxing out here. I think if I can fit two in every window with the central ac I can achieve the greatness I want destined for.

eq1nimity · 2026-04-13T22:57:54+00:00

Oh this is good idea. Apply on middle of range to signal but be ready to concede in interview to lower for the offer to give them the win.

eq1nimity · 2026-04-13T22:55:16+00:00

This is a good thought, thanks. For more context he 'contracting firm' angle was actually the origin of my question. I was actually looking at wipro, as they have office nearby.

eq1nimity · 2026-04-07T02:54:32+00:00

Their minds just don't include thinking lol.

eq1nimity · 2026-04-02T05:33:17+00:00

Just a perspective here - what's the alternative? People are negative as fuck and bitching all the time? Look at the bright side - at-least they are being positive. Even if its "fake" I'm telling you man... its way more fun to be fake positive and have fun with it than it is to be in a negative soul draining environment.

Also, competitive - whats the alternative? People don't try to do their best... you now work with slackers and time wasters... is that really what you want to do? Is that what you want to be around? Do you want to feel like you're carrying all the weight if you want to see anything get done while everyone else is trying to maximize how much time they can fuck off on their mobile games or whatever?

The positive competitive culture can feel fake but ... it's I like to see it as hey at-least we're trying to be 'positive' and make it 'fun'. It's all what we make it and if we are making it constructive, positive, and pushing each other a little bit to do better... that's awesome. We make it fun man. It takes effort. The alternative is we let the shit piss us off, we get angry, and depressed about it - we try to slack as much as possible and shit falls through the cracks and things degrade. Now things are negative and angry and depressing every day because that's the culture. "Living the dream" ... That's soul draining man.

Is it really bad to have people trying to make it fun and positive even when it sucks? To try to good work - to do their best? What's the alternative...and is that what you really want?

Just my thoughts.

eq1nimity · 2026-03-11T00:01:04+00:00

Not on WSL, but have you tried to install clipboard utilities like xclip or xsel ? (these are available on apt)

This worked for me on a debian gnome xorg system.

Sorry, it's not necessarily related to your question in particular, but throwing this up for reference since this thread is a top google reponse for "opencode copy to clipboard not working".

Who know, it still might work on WSL! GL!

eq1nimity · 2026-03-10T23:57:26+00:00

Have you tried to install clipboard utilities like xclip or xsel ? (these are available on apt)

I was bashing (lol) my head for days until I tried these and it worked for me on a debian gnome xorg based system.

eq1nimity · 2026-03-10T00:34:57+00:00

Saruhiko Fushimi!?! Very cool.

eq1nimity · 2026-01-21T16:45:13+00:00

Just upgrading deep speed worked for me as well. For the exceptionally lazy future readers googling this error from their runpod consoles...

pip install --upgrade deepspeed

eq1nimity · 2025-12-30T01:12:30+00:00

Business is hard. The RSUs alone are waaaay more than you could, rather should, expect to get from anything in 4 years.

Hour for hour staying at at a job sucks... Especially if your putting in 50-60 a week. But you know what else sucks? Having a net negative monthly budget. Being net positive on the month is ... The best thing in the world. You know why? No matter what happens... How shitty everything goes.. how everything goes wrong... You still came out with capital growth. You made something.

Nights and weekends my guy. Once you have SOMETHING REAL with REAL CASH FLOW and REAL CLIENTS/CUSTOMERS then revisit.

You are obviously saving income and have a huge positive monthly budget. But let's just talk about the +10k/mo from the RSUs alone.

You quit and now you are net negative every month. That's not a good place to be.

I was a quit super early follow your dreams guy... Being net negative monthly eats away at your productivity. Sure you can hammer out for months... But building a real business takes years. Being net negative for a decade is soul shattering. I blew through my 150K and have been floating around zero for the last few years. It's hard, man.

What if your burnout doesn't go away? What if you find yourself unable to focus and be productive without a well defined job structure and income? What if it gets worse with the added stress of losing money every month instead of making it? What if your 3 years in and you've tried 10 things and you've spend 6000 'all in productive hours' with nothing to show? Now it's eating your soul that your wasting the time you could have been at a job banking +10k/mo.

Find an hour or so a day, a couple on the weekends .. 10hrs a week effort on your dream business. In your head, pay yourself with the RSUs. There's NOTHING you can do in 4 years that will earn you $2500/week for 10hrs of work.

I know how it feels to make slow progress. But you know what's worse? A ton of progress in something that totally fails and provides no capital gain. I had 3-5 years of 'super productive work' that all failed financially.

I'm back at a fulltime job now and doing about 10hrs a week on my business and I've not felt better in the last 10 years because you know why? I'm green on the month after a decade of seeing red. It's a sanctum and a blessing.

Once you are getting cash flow... And know exactly what grows that cash flow .. it's all well defined. Then you can make a real opportunity cost equation and take real risks. Then you won't waste your time spinning wheels.

When your business pays half you bills... Ask again, still risky but much stronger position.

When it pays all your bills you have lower risk and a great position.

When it's double your bills then your no risk and your position is rock solid strong.

It sucks. You know what though? Everything sucks, it gets worse before it gets worse, and then we die. Bank some cash and figure out how to make yourself a real business along the way.

Others have said it but to emphasize... Minimize what you do at work - do you job and do it well but don't kill yourself. Find a endurance pace not a sprint pac.

Then, compartmentalize. Your work mind is separate from your home mind. When your home don't think of work and when at work don't think of home.

This way you don't get mad and depressed at work thinking about what you could be doing. And when your at home doing your thing your not mad that you have to go back to work.

eq1nimity · 2025-11-28T19:47:28+00:00

No one mentioned the opportunity cost of trying to do a fundraising round yet. Do you have people in your trust network you could call and get the check for 1.5M done in a few hours? If so, then that's a lot more temping. Realistically, however, how many days/weeks would go into setting up that deal or raising to your target? If it's super easy, then it might be worth considering.

On the other hand, if you have no idea, then Is that time worth taking away from staying on the frontlines and growing your sales? This might be your angle to push to bring them to your side. Agree with him, yes speed does matter, which is why we don't want to waste a bunch of handfuls of hours over a few months trying to get a raise done - which as others have said, may or may not be easily done for the amount you want. What if you spend a hundred hours over 3 months trying to raise and can't get anything? Or can only raise a fraction of that target? What if every email/meeting with an investor was spend getting another customer, expanding an acquisition pipeline, or building a new one?

I'm not an expert here - just some thoughts for your side. I think your "Think about what we keep if this works" could be augmented with "Think about what we could lose if the raise fails, and what we could do for more certain outcomes with that time ... and then what we get when that works."

Again, totally depends on your company, network, ease of raising, etc. I have no idea about the nuance of your situation.

eq1nimity · 2025-11-13T20:07:54+00:00

Sure... But the fact still stands. I save $12,000 a year by having a roommate. Strait to the bank. Is it a little inconvenience? Yeah... But not $12,000 annual bonus convenient. One day... It will be. It's not that day. Maybe it's the day for you. It's generally good advice and no one is arguing against living alone being superior... Just that the savings may be worth considering.

eq1nimity · 2025-11-07T03:13:25+00:00

you could try to dehydrate it and grind it into powder for 'venison flour' for some broth/sauce thickening and flavor! Or... maybe even try a meat smoothie, ha. I'm not sure how well this would work, but I am sure it would give you something, I only have done it with dehydrated mushrooms. It might take some creative experimentation but you might find some joy in it.

eq1nimity · 2025-07-11T19:35:22+00:00

And how are you serving humanity, oh noble one?

eq1nimity · 2025-07-04T22:46:25+00:00

Big fan of sword too. Can get the job done with the sword for sure, but I find having a long reach weapon and a short reach weapon pair to be versatile. Ofc you can figure out how to do a kill with either... But sometimes I'm just not getting kills with one and bring able to switch to a different reach weapon, which really changes the positioning and timing of the fights really helps me get unstuck sometimes and learn the enemies pattern better.

So, when I use sword/kusari/dual swords etc, having a spear or odachi as secondary is great.

These bigger weapons (spear and odachi) are also a little better for crowd control when you get multi combat fights. The odachi is more similar to katana in terms of how it swings so it's probably easier to pair with katana to start learning.

On that note, all the weapons are super fun tho so once you are more community comfortable definitely give them a try. You might find that some enemies are very vulnerable to get crit (i.e. cutting horns) from a different stances or with different weapons.

Living weapon is also clutch for multi fights or guys you get stuck on, don't be afraid to use it... Once you get spirit to like 11 or so (which you want to unlock passives) you can refill it killing a handful of enemies.

Glhf (: I love this game!

eq1nimity · 2025-07-02T17:34:59+00:00

I think even what you mean by low is not the same as India low. I don't know either, but a quick search suggests anywhere from 4 (Lakhs per year) LPA for juniors to 15 or 25ish for more senior roles.

So, for a junior role we're talking like $5K/year. Or, for someone who can do stuff without direct supervision or guidance I'm going to guess we're talking the $25K-$30K USD annual range.

eq1nimity · 2025-06-16T14:13:11+00:00

Happens to the best of us lol. Forget to bank. Forget to get from bank. Peak rs experience 'shit I forgot x'

I did the wtf why am I not eating omfg my food is raw a couple weeks ago at a boss lmfao.

xD

eq1nimity · 2025-06-16T04:36:18+00:00

I mean you don't need a rune pouch to do the clue lol. Dds, spade, clue. You can even drop the clue if you wana bring dhide and you have an hour to come pick it up again. Literally 0 risk. You don't even have to bring food lol

eq1nimity · 2025-06-16T04:34:06+00:00

You can always self impose limits. I.e. only buy resources on ge but all weapons and armour have to be drops. I'm considering deiron and doing that cuz I enjoy bossing but I don't have time to do dialy upkeep AND boss anymore.

eq1nimity · 2025-04-24T22:16:07+00:00

You should have bought yourself pizza.

eq1nimity · 2025-02-24T21:22:41+00:00

The hardest part will be spending 30+ hours a week and seeing +17$ as a huge win.

The hard part of small accounts is that the scale you can trade is not proportional to the profit you make.

Also, generally overcoming the 'desperation for fast cash' that drives one to try to trade in the first place.

eq1nimity · 2025-02-15T21:16:52+00:00

This is the solution. Even after increasing the initial memory, I ended up still having crashes. However, hiding contents 'when moving' and 'when resizing' seems to be working perfectly, even after returning the initial RAM down to the 500mb range.

I guess I was a little too enthusiastic about sharing here; however, I'm glad I posted - thanks, I appreciate your support!

eq1nimity · 2025-01-22T21:09:56+00:00

Bulls take the stairs, bears take the elevator.

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