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New comment by agumonkey in "Neural chip decodes interactions between brain regions"

agumonkey — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 13:00:35 +0000

At least that wasn't my plan. I'd expect the space made by ignoring chaotic thought to leave room for a new kind of peaceful vibrance. And then if you read some video title claim a form of enlightenment.

New comment by agumonkey in "Neural chip decodes interactions between brain regions"

agumonkey — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 09:18:37 +0000

I do that for 5-10 minutes, it helps lowering the amount of thoughts at first, then I can reach a slightly calmer state. New thoughts can come and I manage to not drift too long but the calm state suddenly gets boring. I was expecting a feeling of lighter brain state, something that feels reviving but so far i'm stuck at empty but slightly boring.

New comment by agumonkey in "Why Gopher in 2026?"

agumonkey — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 09:12:55 +0000

I do agree that spending time outside of the current internet field of distortion is quite pleasurable. I'm still dumbfounded how we pivoted from an ok-old-world with a bit of cyberspace fun to dopamine altering doomscrolling.

New comment by agumonkey in "Neural chip decodes interactions between brain regions"

agumonkey — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 22:54:19 +0000

Quite curious how you guys prepare and do your meditation sessions

New comment by agumonkey in "No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector"

agumonkey — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 21:55:32 +0000

at the level of personal employee maybe, even though 87 had lotus 123 version 2. I was barely born but I'd think people would be able to think faster through electronic spreadsheet.

New comment by agumonkey in "Air Purifiers as White Noise Machines"

agumonkey — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 21:47:13 +0000

Yeah could be. I had a knee-jerk reaction.. maybe the covid years traumatized me a little.

New comment by agumonkey in "No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector"

agumonkey — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 21:40:02 +0000

It's a good point but in most of the places i've worked an average person could leverage any 2026 llm to improve things 50% easily. And I'm more anti-llm than not somehow.

    - fixing regular computers issues (confusing browser or os behavior)
    - finding more possibilities with your current programs (around 2020 someone once asked me if I knew a way to capitalize a word on a computer, when she realized there was a dedicated shortcut she became ecstatic)
    - having a rubberduck to discuss your daily work dead-ends
    - thus decoupling from team friction as you need to ask less questions to people that might hurt you.

In more technical places, having a llm write small automation would also add up.

New comment by agumonkey in "No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector"

agumonkey — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 21:33:10 +0000

So this was about personal computing ? not computing per se ? I'd assume that by 87, the idea of digital computers benefits would be a non-question.

New comment by agumonkey in "No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector"

agumonkey — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 21:25:50 +0000

I just found a book about abandoned teenagers from the 70s (think juvenile held in post-offense rehabilitation centers) and they speech level is above the average educated adult today.

There's many breadcrumbs like these, of a change in culture globally. 50s social expectations about expression and characters were way deeper. And it gradually fades away as life becomes comfy and entertainment based (80s+) I'd say.

New comment by agumonkey in "Air Purifiers as White Noise Machines"

agumonkey — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 11:58:30 +0000

I bought some levoit core 300s purifier and after a minute it seemed to have made air so dry i started to have dry throat and light coughing. Thought I'd need a humidifier too .. but I just sold it back.

New comment by agumonkey in "Investor-owned utilities charge 23% more for electricity than public providers"

agumonkey — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:10:44 +0000

It might come from other factors than aging. The incentives are different and the way the structure evolve too. In public institutions, political tempo affects operations.. every new head of minister will reorganize things for a short while and then issues start showing up, until the next election. It makes people unable to care for efficiency after a while because they know how often friction will grow again.

Maybe small difference in finances too, very often public sector struggles with basic tools. I "feel" that private sector is a little more prone to renew that part (to satisfy the efficiency gods). That said it often backfires because they will also replace perfectly good tools or software to get the latest shiny.

Then there's mass.. but large private corps will have the same issues.

New comment by agumonkey in "Docker is weird"

agumonkey — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:02:55 +0000

It hit a social need more than a technical one it seems.

New comment by agumonkey in "90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks"

agumonkey — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 13:50:30 +0000

After a few years in similar offices, I realized that operations were barely using 20% of available tech.

New comment by agumonkey in "I Love Software Rendering"

agumonkey — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:48:44 +0000

makes me wonder how would gameplay fare when a gpu renders the game with very limited options. Sometimes higher FPS would play weirdly with the physics engine and some moves you could do when capped at 24fps were not possible at 60fps.

New comment by agumonkey in "I love software rendering"

agumonkey — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:46:15 +0000

Technically you're right, a gpu is just a bunch of ALU and FPU in a way, we just defer computation to a massive array of them so the cpu can do other things, what you do on these gpu cores is up to you.

That said, historically, software rendering meant non-accelerated passes that could be carried out by a cpu at decent enough FPS.

ps: some could also say that a FPU is not software rendering since early x86 didn't have it in the cpu.

New comment by agumonkey in "Things to know when you get cancer"

agumonkey — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:49:58 +0000

My recent encounters agree with that. In most cases I wouldn't mind (sometimes it's even funny), but in case of terminal disease I would expect a tiny bit of restraint.

New comment by agumonkey in "Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years"

agumonkey — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:39:16 +0000

For some time every new form of isolation had limits causing people to keep finding friends. Early on, one family or shop had a TV set, so people flocked there. Video games were made to play 2 or 4 in the same room. Near free tech and networking was an inflection point.

New comment by agumonkey in "Things to know when you get cancer"

agumonkey — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 11:10:44 +0000

It's so disheartening. I experienced a lot of friction and frowning from medical professionals when doing so. It even spills on family members because they're afraid of upsetting their current doctors will cause lower standard of care, and iirc their doctors did complain about me asking for data to get a 2nd opinion.

New comment by agumonkey in "Akhetonics Photonic Computing: 1,000x Faster CPUs"

agumonkey — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:25:19 +0000

adjusting your code to account for pointer inertia got me laughing

New comment by agumonkey in "Thinking will become a hobby"

agumonkey — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:24:48 +0000

Side note, I did stop using motorized transport (due to the luxury of full remote jobs) and it's quite an eye opener. For places in a 3 miles radius, walking is often a full blown bonus. Less time, more fun, incredibly better for mental and somatic health. Morning and evening walks are priceless.