Hexbear in a nutshell. They externalize their self-hatred onto others because it’s easier than actually fixing themselves

I was also confused. I’ve been using concrete:plates for almost all walkways that I’ve encountered. On surface=concrete:plates it says this:

surface=concrete - concrete forming a large surface, typically cast in place and may have predetermined breaking joints

Which is confusing, because sidewalks AFAIK are cast in place and have predetermined breaking joints, but it seems like surface=concrete is more for mostly continuous concrete surfaces regardless of that text?

Strong The Abysmal Eye vibes

I can’t really seem to find a good way to see active user growth over time. That site has a chart at https://lemmyverse.net/instance/hexbear.net/user-growth, but that only goes back to January, and a simple user count isn’t really enough to say anything. Something like https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats but per-instance would be pretty informative, especially going back a few years.

At any rate, this is the sort of productive conversation that I thought would be good to have about the post.

Thanks for writing that out. I didn’t post this intending to break rules or stir up drama. I thought it was interesting on its own merits, in essence the same as “How I left Scientology” or “How I left Jehovah’s Witnesses”. I also thought the mention of dwindling users was interesting. If you’ll excuse the LessWrong link (which is a site with its own weird in-group thinking), here’s an essay called “Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs” that talks about that effect.

TBH I think you’re concern trolling, because you don’t like the topic. Instead of drama or trying to prevent discussion, what are some interesting things about the comment? I think this part is very true for many cults:

I finally had a breakthrough internally and got the courage to go to therapy and try to reckon with the damage my upbringing did to me. and once that started to work, $CULT’s rose tint rapidly faded.

Poor mental health is responsible for a lot of people falling down nasty internet rabbit holes. We should work to improve that situation.

They really tried with Web Environment Integrity:

https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/Web-Environment-Integrity/issues/28

There was enough pushback that they dropped that proposal, but expect to see it back in mutated form soon.

Oh, you’re from hexbear.

There is no drama. This is a useful account of escaping extremism.

How are you defining “far extreme liberal”?

Not sure how ollama integration works in general, but these are two good libraries for RAG:

https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss

https://pypi.org/project/chromadb/

I like the strategic aspect of knowing your chances with what spells are remaining, but I already have a hard time coming back to a run and forgetting details like that. Maybe if the book could show what spells are remaining.

That’s a great line of thought. Take an algorithm of “simulate a human brain”. Obviously that would break the paper’s argument, so you’d have to find why it doesn’t apply here to take the paper’s claims at face value.

There’s a number of major flaws with it:

1. Assume the paper is completely true. It’s just proved the algorithmic complexity of it, but so what? What if the general case is NP-hard, but not in the case that we care about? That’s been true for other problems, why not this one?
2. It proves something in a model. So what? Prove that the result applies to the real world
3. Replace “human-like” with something trivial like “tree-like”. The paper then proves that we’ll never achieve tree-like intelligence?

IMO there’s also flaws in the argument itself, but those are more relevant

Not in general, sorry. Best bet is to make sure you’re using the most recent kernel, which Ubuntu tends to lag on. You can also try checking out the arch wiki entry for it. It’s a different distro, but the wiki is good and commonly has tips relevant for any distro.

What kernel are you running? From what I understand, that should be the major differentiator if you’re not using S3.

Couldn’t tell you unfortunately. It looks like AMD is also on board with deprecating S3 sleep, so I would guess that it’s not significantly better. The kernel controls the newer standby modes, so it’s really going to depend on how well it’s supported there.

Sleep kind of sucks on the original 11th gen hardware. They pushed out a bios update that broke S3 sleep, so now all you’ve got is the s2idle version, which the kernel is only OK at. Your laptop bag might heat up. S3 breaking isn’t really their fault, Intel deprecated it. Still annoying though. I’ve heard the Chromebook version and other newer gens have better sleep support.

Other than that, it’s great. NixOS runs just fine, even the fingerprint reader works, which has been rare for Linux

Meshuggah:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9LpMZuBEMk

Listened to them before I got into metal, came back to them later and now love them. That’s from probably one of their more accessible records, they also have more experimental stuff like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw3SdOFmubU

Do you have any links to read up on him? I know this is a very contentious topic, but I haven’t heard much about him and I’m curious. What would you hold as his worst actions?