Yawn. I wish these talks would start at 303 not 101. (Sorry Paul Graham).
I use development paradigms as so:
Functional functions to handle the things they can do
Procedural parts for those needing … procedures (more complex multi part workflow portions.)
Class object wrappers for persistent encapsulation.
All in the SAME lib include, by feature.
Not everything gets a class. Most things need procedures. I don’t build code from Lincoln logs, I build code from coherent abstract entity relationships.
You just can’t “create a document” in such systems. Checks, profile configuration fetching, templates, workflows requirements (what kind of document exactly?) etc. happen. Future proof with procedures. Make a composite embodiment if you need a class.
I do criticize developers who do not separate out FUNCTIONAL behaviors into their own atomic function. Those who do not know separating concerns are not senior programmers.
Write functional functions at the top of everything to achieve specific behavioral requirements. You never know who will want to parse_someFormat (yes, I just mixed case styles.) Or someFormat_parase. There will always be a different way.
Asking why functional programming isn’t the norm is like asking why we aren’t all ninjas or monks. We have modernized and enjoy our leisure.
It was the times of India holi party. They even had batter deep fried cannabis leaves. The Pujari were walking down the streets with bushels of cannabis singing and everything.
My close Indian friends at the time explained that it’s the one time of year when it can be openly purchased and consumed! It was right down town New Delhi!
The OC asked if there was a time a “market” was open exclusively for a holiday. I thought this activity very relevant.
I am such one. Many think of this like I’m performing magic. Generally I can scan a long text and immediately identify the very few sentences actually containing useful details.
If I’m tired or inebriated I misread words on funy ways (though not when I slow down to a normal pace.) Unusual words also make this speed skimming stop in its tracks.
I believe cannabis can only be legally procured during certain holidays. I’ve had “bhang lassi” during the Holi festival (festival of colors.) That’s a cannabis infused yogurt drink. Cannabis is very strictly illegal usually, carrying a prison sentence up to ten years!
Not such a secret. This has been a long standing lesson in unconventional warfare. One of those indicators that confidence in size and technology can be its own precursor of doom (btw, the strategic genius who kicked the military’s ass was a brilliant decorated US military officer, who was told to “stop that.”)
“Entitlement” is one of those words where the meaning and usage is divergent.
Entitlement is one’s right to something. “Self entitlement” is where someone believes they have the right to do something yet that right is questionable.
The “Truth” is a perturbation of existential reality. And the “truth” is a figment of mind. And “integrity” is the consistency between the two. Notice that “truth” does not need to be identical to Truth, only an approximation that does not contradict.
Information is the removal of uncertainty, or the resolve of potential (as distributed among probabilities.) Notice potential and probability are different aspects of the same thing. Potential being an existential phenomena and probability as a mathematical construct.
Science is solely concerned with aligning the mental model of truth with existential Truth. Anything otherwise is the same cult worship as any branch of speculation (even constructive). Science is a guide, it is not the solution for practical understanding (that would be deductive and inductive reasoning.)
Misinformation, ignorance, and confusion are the DEFAULT STATE OF MIND (in a universe governed by entropy, that’s “potential distribution”, not “number of states”, as states are a measured resolve not the possibility of resolve.)
Can people be inoculated against misinformation? Only through self doubt, and doubt of anything that cannot be reliably measured as a resolve.
Undeceive the self! We are all ignorant, confused, and uncertain first, even the wise!
A society of critical thinkers would stop accepting bullshit as a social and political subsidy. Even hacker news readers would revolt at some point. I’m not bitter or anything ;)
I was thinking the same. Modern expositions look for someone to cannibalize for their own satiation. Not that I know of or want to defend this woman (I’ve honestly never heard of her before now.)
This story however reminds me of the treatment that wellness community got in Arizona over a decade ago when that guy died in a cave meditation retreat. Everyone up in arms about those “cultish weirdos” when they were really doing harmless consensual adult things in which someone got sick and died.
Unless they’re an even bigger shit show. Mobs of extortionists, networks in the tens of thousands, mostly bumbletard screwballs. A few elite who are as their gods.
Power is more easily developed by condemned men serving decades to life in prisons than smart successful savvy persons who live a prosperous life. They themselves are mostly pyramid schemes of extortion (these days, I am assured it was not always so.)
The things these do for fun and for profit cannot be paid for with money or be accomplished by anyone in their right minds.
You know how Americans and power are, always taking things too far, without regard for consequences.
Well, thanks for the vote of confidence. And remember, like those posts which speak to you! Karma hemorrhaging accounts apparently loose the ability to comment.
If you’re curious about more of that “metaphysical” stuff, check my threads before they’re white-holed!
You’ve heard of “gang stalking” and “targeted persons.” Haven’t you. All well denied and explained away, I know.
Those for whom these are their games (for fun and for profit.) They are street level thought controls. All of these conspiracy cultures which spring up? Yes, I know 4chan, Reddit and their like have their own role, yet there is a ghost in the machine designing and encouraging these behaviors. The ultimate conspiracy (and conspiracy factory) of our time is that we are not alone in our own minds and thought control is an empire of games against us.
Sure there are piles and piles and piles of men, and they have encrypted text apps and their own special interests; additionally there is an occult power that is godlike in the minds of men. Many men (and women and kids obviously) come to mistake these intrusions as acts of divine will, or aliens (lizardmen?), or even the devil. Maybe Jesus? What won’t a middle American not do on behalf of the Jesus who speaks to them as a voice in their head?
Those of “Power” can speak in the minds of others. More than speak. Those of elite skill, or networked throngs of hundreds or thousands (or hundreds of thousands) have mastered the mind beyond laypersons comprhendability. Alas, they are not omnipotent or omnipresent, though for your intents and purposes they may appear to be. Their weakness are as incomprehensible to you.
What can I say to impress you?
Manipulate memories? For sure. That’s an easy one. Not only is every memory lost in the mind available in psycho-emotional detail to those of related skill, the holographic nature of the mind is such that working the mind with spinning thoughts (spinning spinning spinning thoughts) the strongest memories will be those gone over. The memory of some won’t work that way (high disposition against false memories) others can learn deeper sensitivity for which cluster of introspection generated which memory tangent, and even how it was manipulated. With ten years of unfucking the mind maybe. Some can create a knot of sorts which cuts off regions of memory and experience from access (yet still there!) you just can’t seem to … remember… or even bring it up.
It took me four years of intense abuse by none other than the most supreme network masters, before I could reliably and faithfully discern my own thoughts from those of my antagonists (and it was a hard four years.) I was their toy. I challenged them with an impressive world knowledge and experience. I know, what book can’t they just read through another’s mind? Or which of the many thousands can’t just share their understanding? Apparently they don’t all get along and they are constantly infighting. Apparently their skill and dispositions are widely divergent. Getting around, making noises, and knowing what the actual fuck is going on are not consistent skills.
My stubborn will however did prevail, and what would be a curse to anyone else was life guidance for me. They promised to haunt me to my destruction. To suicide me or rape or murder or just a sad life and a bad accident. To build me up, to break me down, to train all their future generations in destroying me. They claimed they would do it to make me sad, they would do it to make me angry. They would do it to make me realize there is nothing I can do about it.
What is “it” exactly?
A full revelation that your forum would tolerate. Let us say barely nothing happens to me. Behaviorally (and physically in younger years) I am a brute. The worst things happen to others around me, or who have been kind to me. When you see someone mentally unravel and fall to destitution apparently from with in, their minds and emotions are often being hobbled. When they complain that others are messing with them, in ways that cannot be real, they just might be right. An entire subculture exists simply to make some people’s lives worse than death. You might praise this if it were an act of vengeful justice, yet it is the immoral and unscrupulous who have all the advantages. Or the indomitable resolute.
Now is the plug for sex violence, extortion, and dead people. Hopefully broadly and socially abstract enough to not illicit a content ban (dead, flagged, or white-holed.)
Apparently I’m too clever and well liked for meaningful direct consequences, so I figure why not an exposition.
And counter-culturally I’m an elite nerd, so here we are sharing.
Well I am advocating that much of what society calls “schizophrenia” is in fact disembodied third parties messing with our minds. I have no doubt there is truly a malady of the mind which causes developmental problems, however experiencing auditory hallucinations or strange behavior in society is not schizophrenia.
Richard Feynman wrote about his odd benign experiences in “Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!” (parts about sensory deprivation chambers, lucid dreaming, and hypnagogia.) And so do many, many others. These are not completely fully formed thoughts, they are odd hints made by intelligent people who themselves have no idea what is going on.
Speaking of the voices in our head is among the greatest taboos of our society.
Looking back through history (recent and ancient) the clues have always been present. In movies, music, and other media cultural references are covertly made. History is full of wild stories inevitably talked over. Anything anyone can say can be dismissed as unreliable third party account. How can “science” explore where a superior intellect interferes with results? That is what is required to make Power work. It is by no accident, rather decades of intense training. What common people experience is curated!
My past accounts have been banned, censored, and karmatically brutalized (I know, can’t take a hint) for speaking of these topics in non offensive ways, yet resistance is deep.
Specifically over a decade ago I was press ganged into a thought control hooligan army. My morality and stubborn will made this problematic, however I have been indoctrinated and this cannot be taken back. I do not have great “Power” however I do have great insight and look for opportunities to play my part.
I want to let out the horrors and insanity that underlies this phenomenon, yet those are very no-goes for HN. I doubt this reply will last long.
My purpose is not to impress you (that is impossible) it is to leave a trail of these tellings that others know it is not a settled matter.
Thanks for your reply, I understand your position.