This sentence has made me violently ill. Please take it back.

This has to be one of the worst ways to reinvent a filesystem that I’ve ever heard. At the very least, storing static data in an relational database at this scale should be a slappable offense.

https://youtu.be/1WDW8XKEGgU?t=45

Honest.

junk food vegan

I’ve seen this with my own eyes, but didn’t know there was a common name. Indeed it is possible to be slothful, fat, and practically live off of peanut-butter, all at the same time. The intent was there, but complete nutrition was not.

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Not only is it 30 years old, but it has searching built-in since at least 1997, if not the whole time. This puts it in a very special class: first-generation server-side web applications. Looks like it’s still rocking cgi-bin.

Like I feel like there are hidden traumas that got wiped by someone, like… trauma that’s even worse than those that I currently remember, or I wonder if the happy memories are perhaps implanted by someone to try to cover up trauma.

This gets complicated and messy, fast. Allow me to provide some personal experience in this area.

As someone that has had trauma hidden from myself behind dissociation and denial, I’ve done a hell of a lot of work to not do that anymore. I even have some recall, which is… not great feeling, but I’m now living in the real world. One aspect of this was being triggered by awful verbal and social behavior in others, and almost immediately forgetting that it happened; bullshit would just slide off my brain like it was coated in teflon.

Let me say that having a “spotless” memory like that is hell. It’s a state where you fail to learn important red flags about situations, people, and more. This used to get me into a lot of trouble. It runs contrary to avoiding danger - survival in extreme cases - even if you have to sift through a pile of triggers to get to the truth. I won’t sit here and say that trauma is good for anyone, but there may be legitimate cases where being triggered (because of trauma) might just save your ass.

At the same time, folks will self-medicate and over-medicate with all manner of substances, in order to forget or dull their senses in the face of trauma and triggers. If there is a more humane option, it absolutely should be explored lest we continue to watch such people slowly self-destruct.

With that, I’ll opine that the best possible answer is something that can be surgically applied to specific memories that are causing more harm than good. With the careful guidance of therapists and doctors. Somehow. I have no idea how something like that would even work. Therapy and mindfulness are probably the best we’ll have for a long time to come.

I was gonna say. I’m pretty sure there are plenty of pharmaceuticals that will wipe out your short-term memory. That’s the easiest way to “hack” a brain and eliminate knowledge of the recent past, assuming the subject didn’t take a nap first. That said, the technique is nowhere near as targeted as a neuralizer (MiB device).

Exactly. Another lemming made a fantastic quip to this effect, claiming that consoles and windows are performing “SCP level containment” for the rest of us. Let them have CoD.

I love that the fox example is probably the very bottom of the “not even remotely related to news, yet true” barrel.

make no mistakes

LOL. I know it’s for a laugh, but you may as well add “pretty please” to that prompt.

Edit: I wonder if it just hallucinates more convincingly, instead?

Dear AAA game studios: Just look at Hades II.

LOOK AT IT. A good chunk of the art you see on every playthrough isn’t even animated.

I’m probably going to clear 300+ hours on this thing before I put it down, and I’ll likely tell everyone to buy it because it’s that good. Photorealism is the last thing I care about.

Why would you choose to do that?

I’m easily distracted and am usually occupied with my own thoughts. So, not hearing traffic, other people, and my general surroundings is actually stressful for me; relying on vision alone would be dangerous. I do a lot better keeping my ears open so I can relax, muse about this or that in my head, and let any sudden sounds or irregularities in my environment catch my attention.

Edit: By musing, I’m actively problem-solving fix-it situations in my house, thinking about software projects I have going, exercising mindfulness for better mental heath, self-assessing where my body aches/hurts, building fictional narratives for D&D, and so on. It’s seldom idle time up in here.

This raises questions about the opportunity cost of $300/mo. It’s not a huge amount of money, but for some budgets, it might make a car payment or groceries possible. Or, if saved or invested wisely, would it tip things in favor of the 50-year term?

Selinux

Hey, let’s not get crazy. I still want to use it for practical things, too. /s

IMO, it is/was an advice and self-improvement trend that, like all such trends, ends leaving a vacuum for something else. Kind of like fad diets. So yes, I think that has been largely replaced by the alpha/guru influencer thing now.

That’s an extreme simplification, but yes, that’s the gist.

It’s also a very Paulie take on things: so close, yet so far.

IMO, peak Sopranos is Tony’s reaction to his voice while in a coma. We finally get an idea of how he really comes across after many seasons.

The real tragedy is how stale that bread is; Subway^™ crust isn’t supposed to do that. Is it too late to rescue the lunchmeat and start over?

Paging Mr. Munroe…