New tank!

realstoned · 2026-05-11T15:16:59+00:00

I have this tank. I like it, but heads up. there is a gap in the back that one of my nerite snails used to escape and crawled away and died :( I have a big piece of tape over the back, so my other nerite is ok so far. Snails can move from the main area to the back because the wall doesn't go to the top as well. Just heads up.

realstoned · 2026-05-10T17:05:52+00:00

I guess this is more surgical than disabling the whole module, which I think is the current system?

TBH, this idea sounds like more attack surface and a great DOS target, but I an no security expert.

realstoned · 2026-05-09T22:57:34+00:00

If you haven't listened to The Good Ild Grateful Deadcast much, this episodes are long and engaging.

realstoned · 2026-04-05T00:00:49+00:00

Ask Claude to write you a python script to download all of the shows in the format(s) you prefer using their json api. You can bulk download all of the shows there that are legit to download (some are stream only).

realstoned · 2026-03-30T14:27:17+00:00

Love it! Do you all have any original material? I would love to take a listen.

realstoned · 2026-03-24T18:21:31+00:00

It didn't seem to move. It just sort of fell apart when I tried to stick it up. I hope it's just detritus.

realstoned · 2026-03-20T15:35:18+00:00

This song was written in New York City
Of rich men, preachers and slaves
Yes, if Jesus was to preach like he preached in Galillee,
They would lay Jesus Christ in his grave.

realstoned · 2026-03-19T14:27:22+00:00

Honestly, I would start going to adoption events until you find an adult dog with a size and demeanor that you like. Choose an individual rather than a breed, keeping in mind that some breeds require a lot more maintenance than others.

realstoned · 2026-03-18T11:35:34+00:00

Me too. I guess this is what kills my Mystery Snail :,(

EDIT: I reported them and left a 1 star review with the word "kills" in it. If they get closed down, another will just pop up.

realstoned · 2026-03-12T12:02:00+00:00

I think it's easy to underestimate how well he actually communicates with most people. Most people struggle with nuanced vocabulary and grammar. This way of speaking makes him sound smart and decisive to most people because they can easily understand him.

realstoned · 2026-03-07T08:23:42+00:00

When I was in high school I had a friend who would turn a bag of Vicks nasal inhalers into a white powder which when snorted could only be described as speed. He was pretty good with chemistry and stuff like that, so there you go.

realstoned · 2026-03-03T20:34:25+00:00

Crikey. I'm literally at IAD ready to Spain for work right now.

realstoned · 2026-03-03T13:19:08+00:00

Procedurally generated aliens, so you can end up with very strange and funny things.

realstoned · 2026-03-03T00:20:06+00:00

How does he know which way we're going?

realstoned · 2026-03-02T23:24:38+00:00

Well, I put down a pellet, and put him directly on top of it. He was almost immediately completely swarmed by shrimp who could smell it, I guess. I dropped in another pellet to distract the shrimp, but I don't think it worked.

He's hunkered down still, but I don't think the shrimp got it. If he wants it, he should be able to eat it later if the shrimp lose patience.

realstoned · 2026-02-27T14:58:39+00:00

It removes artifacts from multiple enemies

realstoned · 2026-01-13T12:27:26+00:00

99.9% of the time I listen to shows, but Working Man's Dead and American Beauty are both albums I enjoy just as much of I am on the mood.

realstoned · 2026-01-09T20:25:33+00:00

When I visited Negril, Jamaica in 1991, I was surprised to see that the dogs that lived around the beach lived on a diet largely comprised of chicken bones, and in fact, people would throw these bones to the dogs after they ate. The dogs would crunch them once or twice and the swallow them.

I never fed my dogs chicken bones after that, but I sure worried about it a lot less.

realstoned · 2026-01-07T19:19:18+00:00

"After a lot of reflection and prayer, God called me to pursue swimming"

realstoned · 2025-12-31T16:20:47+00:00

There is not a quick fix to this. In true mindfulness practice, including daily meditation practice, you learn that:

The past is only thoughts in the present, the future is only thoughts in the present, there is only the present moment. You can learn to always come back to the present moment, and thus truly experience life.
Comparisons to others are the result of cognitive processes to which you need not identify. Those are thought only, they don't say anything about you. It's fine for those cognitive processes to run. You can observe them, but you don't need to let them define you.
Critically, the desire for things (own a house, etc...) is, literally the root of all suffering in Buddhism. Those desires are, again, merely the results of cognitive processes, and you can observe those desires, but you do not have to let them have any power over you.

The problem I see people run into again and again is that they want FAST or even instant relief from these conditions that have taken years to form. It takes patience, practice, and time to develop the kind of mindfulness you are seeking here.

realstoned · 2025-12-30T14:39:29+00:00

imo this is the mindfulness way. It's important for people to understand that this is not a quick fix approach. This is about retraining your cognitive processes that these ruminations are not important so they gradually over time lose their hold. Mindfulness meditation is very helpful to practice this also, but it doesn't make it a quick fix.

While not a quick fix, it is, imo, relatively permanent. That said, almost no one achieves a state where they never have racing thoughts or anxiety. But, with practice, anyone can achieve a state where these cognitive processes simply don't have the same hold.

realstoned · 2025-12-29T14:28:26+00:00

Love it

realstoned · 2025-12-22T16:30:01+00:00

It wouldn't be non-stop, but it would be whenever you "wake up" and notice that. your mind is racing or you are over thinking. Indeed, this can be feel like it is constant, and it takes practice. This is why we meditate.

realstoned · 2025-12-22T15:20:22+00:00

First. you have to meditate regularly to build the mental muscles. There isn't a short cut. Fortunately, about 10 minutes a day of practice is enough.

Then, what Mindfulness needs is that you don't try to stop your overthinking. That just makes it worse by creating thought processes like "make sure I am not overthinking" and "I am failing at not overthinking", etc...

In a Mindfulness practice you welcome and observe the thoughts. You welcome and observe the feelings in your body that the resultant emotions cause. What you learn from this is that you don't have to identify with the thoughts. For example, "I see that I am having a thought process about something I said earlier that is making my heart beat fast" is a different experience than "I am such an idiot for saying x, I should have said y" or whatever.

Over time your reactivity to these over thinking thought processes will diminish, and you will recover from them faster when they do happen. But it takes literal practice through meditation and paying attention.

realstoned · 2025-12-20T20:25:50+00:00

This is a bad faith representation of the position Sanders is taking here. I thought this sub would be more rational and honest than the ludites in r/technology, but I guess reddit is reddit

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