General Discussion Thread - Juche 114, Week 18
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Oh I was thinking that one is just for recording and then sharing what's recorded. I see there is an upload option too. Thanks, I'll consider it.
Anyone know of a good place for being able to share, like, a single audio file that I could delete later for privacy if I wanted to? I was gonna try soundcloud but it's being a pain to get into a previous account I had and plus it seems like a lot for one file.
Reason I ask is I wrote a little song, liberation themed. I don't sing much, but I did a rough rendition of it so if anyone likes the lyrics, they have a general sense of what tune I'm going for and could use it for a better rendition. But I'm getting a bit snagged on the logistics of actually sharing the audio here, where simplicity and privacy is concerned.
Edit: I posted here: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/7757470
Also, for further RL comparison, even the best standup comics sometimes lose patience with, and go off on, hecklers. So it's not like this is something exclusive to the virtual world. People don't really like being booed.
This is a misunderstanding of why downvotes can bother people. I will try to put it in perspective with an analogy: Imagine if in RL, you were trying to talk casually with an acquaintance in public. Suddenly, you hear a "boo, [your name]." The boo explicitly uses your full name, not a shortened name, so for the sake of analogy, you know it was directed at you. However, you have no idea who said it or why. All you know is there was a "boo" targeted at you.
It is just negative noise, divorced from any grounding. Not unlike the psychology of a scary sound in a horror movie, it leaves your imagination to fill in the blanks as to why the noise happened. There can be many explanations for the noise, some of which will have nothing to do with you, personally. But the nature of it is still presented as if it is about you, targeted at you.
In my understanding, a criticism is usually considered to be something specific that you can engage with. For example, if you yelled at the acquaintance and they said "don't yell at me over nothing, we were just talking." That is a criticism and something you could take action based on. You could reflect on whether you were needlessly yelling and if you think you were, you could apologize and try to be more calm in the future. The noise, on the other hand, doesn't tell you anything clear. So, do you really need to know? What purpose is it serving?
The spirit of it I suspect comes in some part from the real life forum inspiration of internet forums, where the idea is you are discussing things publicly and openly in front of an audience, and so you might get cheers or jeers. But in practice, this is not really how the internet works. You don't know who is looking attentively at you and who is not even present. You don't know who is "cheering" or "jeering" at what point in what you said and because you don't have any chance of knowing who it is, you can only guess why. The amount of information a downvote gives is virtually nothing, despite what anyone wants to tell themself about adapting their posts because of it; and you can see this reflected in how people react sometimes when they get heavily downvoted. They can get defensive, but in a sort of flailing way, like they're trying to work out what the hell is going on. Because they haven't actually been told what the problem is supposed to be. All they have is noise, their imagination, and whatever coping mechanisms they have for dealing with the noise. In this sense, downvotes can be more like a cowardly (in that it is usually anonymous) taunt than actual information. This is not to claim the intent is always or even often a taunt - remember, the point here is you know basically nothing from it - but that the nature of its low information is easily experienced as more akin to a taunt, since there is nothing substantive you can do with it.
Interesting, will keep that in mind. I do tend to be overly conscientious about that kind of thing to my detriment sometimes. 😅
Thanks, I'll see what I can find on it.
Anyone who is familiar with getting into programming/coding field, especially without prior paid work experience in it? I'm US-based. Have some self taught experience, I would say I'm beyond novice albeit rusty, but proving that on a resume is another thing and I might be a better fit for entry level for that reason. Part of the problem is, a lot in my area last I looked tends to be military contractor stuff and I do not want to go work on weapons tech or whatever. I guess I could look for remote stuff?
Does anyone know of specific opportunities? (Not asking people to google search for me, just wondering on that level if anyone already knows of something.)
Hi, welcome!
I just want to take a moment to thank those I've encountered here and elsewhere who set a good example for taking the time to talk through things in detail, with patience, in spite of knowing it won't always go well or have a desired outcome. We all have limits on our patience and some of us more than others have stricter limits on our time, but when possible to take that time, it can have benefits and I appreciate the time others have taken with myself and others over the years, and the lesson from that.
I wonder if you could get it in front of a "true crime" demographic in a more mainstream space. That might be a way to both broaden audience and make it easier to find people who would tip. A potential issue in a place like this is people may be more money poor, even if they'd like to be able to tip (though couldn't hurt to try anyway).
That's a lot to go through, I'm sorry. And thank you, may we all find our way to a more communal, loving society.
I'm sorry you deal with that. Personally, I don't have it quite that bad in terms of isolation, but ideologically, it is similar. I'm the odd one out in people I'm closest to, having the views I do. And though I'm with some family, it doesn't feel how I expect it would in a culture that intrinsically values family and community. I don't want to get into too much personal detail about it here, but I'm sure you are familiar with the nuclear family standard of how things are in the US. To the point that ones who stick around family more and longer are probably the odd ones, compared to most other cultures. So instead of feeling comforted by it, at this point in my life I more just feel like there's something wrong with me.
But yeah, I think the impact of loneliness is underestimated sometimes and emotional pain is a real kind of pain. Not that it's a competition who is suffering more or less and in what ways, but just that it is something to recognize as a real harm that's being done.
Oh and best of luck with your backpacking goal.
At risk of sounding like a "I'm 14 and this is deep" kind of statement, I was thinking like, "If you were in hell, would the devil really say 'mwahaha, this is hell, suffer' or would he insist to you the whole time that it's heaven and you're taking it for granted."
I don't mean it as a literal theology question for people who believe in that stuff, but I think about it in relation to the US. I know there are worse places to be in terms of quality of life, such as some of the most imperialized nations, but the US may have the most intense contrast between propaganda that says "we're the best" and what the day to day is actually like. A lot of people live paycheck to paycheck but are told it's the greatest country or the like. People's options are narrowed by the limits of transportation (heavy reliance of cars), the intense competition of jobs, etc., while having a vast industry and culture of motivation "if you believe it, you can achieve it" kind of hype that is almost never about utilizing logistics or working together or leaning on each other (presumably cause that stuff is a bit too close to scary socialism, wooo). A lot of people are lonely and struggle to make friends outside of work, college, etc., but are told be an island unto themselves (in whatever variety of words you can think of).
In short, although USian people are broadly, as far as I'm aware, not starving yet (not saying there isn't anyone who is, just in the broader sense), they are probably broadly emotionally starved, communally starved, and other such forms of basic human needs that are less immediately obvious, but nevertheless part of any healthy society. But the solutions to these things would no doubt threaten the dam of anti-communism, so people get gaslighted about how good they have it instead and get fed constant narratives about how to be a better individual. Like imagine if you were actually literally starving and the ones with power over food, who can bring in an abundance of it, were telling you that you need to do these certain rituals to improve your appetite, so you can be strong with less food. It's such a bizarre "country" when you put it in perspective.
Edit: I feel like I posted something very similar to this in the past and I don't know if I'm actually remembering, or if it's just that the same general criticisms are very familiar. Maybe I need to touch grass lol.
Yep. Although it's weird as a term because by this point, it's more like macrotransactions in practice with how much they charge for some of the stuff.
Bit of a vent post. I tend to have a thing where (with very few exceptions) I avoid anything that has MTX in it because: 1) I know they tend to operate on exploiting impulsive spenders, 2) I know the design of a product nearly always necessitates being made worse to accommodate them, so that people have an incentivize to buy them, and 3) I know they can get in my head, personally, in spite of being overall frugal.
And I also got into a hobby of learning languages with the help of gamified language apps. Those with any familiarity with them can probably guess where this is going. I've had more than one time I liked an app and then it added MTX so, due to the above, I had to quit. And even when I can find more that don't have them at the offset, it's getting to the point where I don't feel like I can trust any of them in the long-term. Or in some cases, the apps are just silly overpriced for what they offer.
I still have one that I use for helping to learn Chinese, TalkMe, but I don't know if that will eventually go the same way as the others. It's just very frustrating. Oh and this isn't even getting into other kinds of changes that I've seen happen, like UI overhauls that make a unique app look like a Duolingo clone. Or revamps of achievements that mess with what you already had, trivializing the point of it being gamified to motivate you. And this is on paid products too, not free stuff where you'd expect the "you're the product if it's free" capitalist thing. These are subscription-based apps that it keeps happening to me and they all want to be Duolingo I guess. It just hits home how frustrated I get with capitalism in general and the nauseating behavior (that seems worse in the digital space) where companies can never sit still with a consistent profitable business model and have to "keep growing" to "be competitive". But if they happen to ruin things for existing customers along the way, I guess that doesn't matter as long as the God of Profits is fed.
Interesting, thanks for the explanation. It is helpful to keep in mind where people come from on things and not expect them to have the same lens.
Took me a few reads, but do you figure he's essentially saying that the evidence and experiences you have shapes how you view something on revisiting it? Or is there more to it than that?
Class traitors are every bit as helpful, it's just a thing where due to circumstance, it's not as expected that someone well-off will join a revolutionary cause against the furthering of their own position in class.
But also, I don't think having their own house makes them rich. It means they have a bit more to fear losing than some in a societal upheaval, but if they have to work to make a living, they are still working class. It's more the ones who own and rent out multiple properties, who own loads of stock, etc., who I'd expect are unlikely to ever change their ways and support a revolution, because their wealth is directly tied into the capitalist financial system and its exploitation.
Either way, you could be Bill Gates level of wealth background and still become a socialist. Unlikely if you were from a background that wealthy, but it's not impossible.
I've thought for some time that the US has no real culture (other than maybe some pockets of it in the south / from marginalized groups in the south or elsewhere). But I'm starting to think it and the west in general does have a kind of culture; the culture is being controlling and destructive. Each time a westerner destroys something, they get a sense of pride and power from having been able to make that decision; whether it made sense as a decision is less important than the fact that they were able to make it.
I don't know, maybe I'm just describing a facet of colonizer "culture" with different words.
Whatever I can get work in that I'm reasonably competent at doing, I guess (or can be helped to reasonable enough competency, if it's entry level).
Most of my self taught experience has been in C++, along with Qt for GUI, and occasionally Python (but not very much). Oh and XML to an extent, but I know that's more of a markup thing - just, there were some occasions where I got into working with it for one reason or another. The C++ was partly because I more wanted to do programming in video game design, but by this point, knowing what I do about how that industry functions, that would probably just get me a job where I burn out for less pay.
I do think I have a pretty good grasp of the problem-solving aspect of coding; the reasoning things out, searching for information online, whether in forums/stackoverflow or documentation, etc. But there are certain things that come across to me as somewhat fundamental that I don't feel I have a good grasp on, like Big O Notation and various algorithms. When I go on places like HackerRank or CodingGame, I feel like I'm hitting some kind of wall a lot of the time. I don't know if it's that the problems are too abstract, if I don't care enough, or if most of them are based around algorithmic thinking and that's something where I lack. But that makes my confidence waver a bit for dealing with paid expectations.
And I know in general, I do best with examples. Some of the abstract way that some resources talk about programming, my brain just slides off it. It's one of the reasons I glommed onto Qt. They had really good documentation, commonly having examples to explain use.
(All this said, I'm guessing I am overestimating how much base competence I need to break into it, when putting on a face of confidence is probably more important for that. But nevertheless, it's something that has given me pause before and I have a hard time "faking" confidence.)