YaBoyMax

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[–] YaBoyMax@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

I'd suggest reading up on John Locke's "continuity of consciousness" theory of self. It's essentially what you're describing here: he holds that the "self" over time is a construct of the continuity of one's consciousness through memory. This has some interesting implications: for instance, if someone becomes blackout drunk and has no recollection of the experience, can it be said that that experience belongs to the same person after the fact? Also, as another commenter pointed out this has significant implications in the case of memory loss, especially for someone suffering from dementia.

[–] YaBoyMax@programming.dev 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

So based on this and your post the other day about red meat, I really really really advise you to seek counseling or a psychiatrist. Obviously no one can diagnose you via social media, but this post is borderline incomprehensible and your recent posts and comments are strongly indictive of some kind of manic episode. I really think you would benefit from help right now and I really urge you to seek it.

[–] YaBoyMax@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The age of majority is a pretty arbitrary line that we draw; I don't see how this would be fundamentally different. We already "encroach" on interpersonal relationships by not allowing adults to date minors (which again is defined completely arbitrarily).

[–] YaBoyMax@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

As other commenters have said this is basically only a thing at Walmart. Sometimes in very small shops someone will say hello as you enter, but that's a much more informal thing and as I said only really happens with tiny mom-and-pop stores where there might only be one or two people working.

[–] YaBoyMax@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Microsoft has discussed the possibility of creating user mode APIs for the monitoring that security programs like CrowdStrike could utilize instead of installing a kernel mode driver, but they haven't said anything about locking down kernel mode drivers and I personally doubt they ever would.

[–] YaBoyMax@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IIRC it is possible to disable the indicators altogether, although that may or may not be an acceptable solution to you. For me it was worth the trade-off because of exactly this reason.

[–] YaBoyMax@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Putin is a despot trying to make his mark on history. No amount of appeasement from the global West would have stopped him from ordering the invasion.

[–] YaBoyMax@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If that was how it worked then we would have suffocated along ago under all the argon that sank to the bottom of the troposphere. The atmosphere is turbulent and extremely good at mixing gases of varying densities, and CFCs last decades before being decomposed or removed from the air.

[–] YaBoyMax@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

The UN exists to provide a forum for discourse between states, not to be an international legislature. If resolutions actually had teeth the UN would cease to exist in its current form.

[–] YaBoyMax@programming.dev 14 points 1 year ago

This is the most important thing I've learned since the start of my career. All those "clever" tricks literally just serve to make the author feel clever at the expense of clarity and long-term manintainability.

[–] YaBoyMax@programming.dev 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is, like, textbook dystopian. Most people value their privacy at least to some extent and probably wouldn't take kindly to being documented in a public central database largely outside of their control.

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