We don't know what he really thinks. Maybe he knows it's a risk he wouldn't want to take but presents it as a goodwill

Consider a black box. A person opens it, sees a dice with a number, closes it. In our version of the time flow, the person finds out there's a dice and remembers it. In the 'reverse time' persons brain, they would know they would open the black box and know which number they will see. Then they will close it and completely forget what was inside forever.

However:

32gb ram no pagefile: crashes

28gb + 2gb ramdisk pagefile: no crashes at all

Because the common recommendation is "you need at least a few GB swap". We can change the total ram amount to 64 or 128.

Every discussion about pagefile, swap, virtual memory, ssd wear, having exessive ram, etc, seemingly always boils down to "ssd's are cheap, you'll never run out of writes, please turn pagefile back on and stop worrying about it". I know the truth is somewhere in the middle, (and was not 'worrying' in the first place) so just couldn't go along with it.

(I'll simplify while keeping it truthful) I have 32 gb of ram. Disabled pagefile as an experiment. Allocated a 4gb ramdisk for personal use. Under heavy load, memory hungry apps were indeed occasionally crashing, leaving 'low virtual memory' event log entries. Ram usage never exceeded about 75%. From what i could find, lack of continuous allocation seems to be the culprit. So i added a 2gb pagefile on the same ramdisk. Not a single hiccup since.

I feel like i've been gaslit. Am I missing something? I'm not suggesting everyone to start disabling their pagefile/swap, but surely memory management could be better than what we have now? I've not tested on linux yet but have a feeling will see a similar result.

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But even at aface value, more rational long-term approach would be to treat it, surely

Like others said, skipping breakfast should not be that big of a deal for a reasonably healthy adult, we didn't evolve having 3 meals a day. Intermittent fasting is a thing too.

'Masking' parameter misses the point in my opinion. Picking what I would personally realistically do (having adapted over the years) causes it to drop to 0 over a few days. Picking what i think author wants me to pick, same result. Yet somehow I managed not to get fired in 3 days irl.

I get it, it's an illustration of 'autism is hard' for 'normies'. But it was painfully close to being realistic/enjoyable too.

Not to say it's not useful, ADHD popups were 10/10, general vibe was spot on, will probably forward it to a few friends; it's just not nuanced enough to not annoy me personally.

One of rare times where I can be blunt honest and hopefully not come across arrogant.

With the OP example, people getting recorded are not bystanders catching stray camera focus, they are the subject of the video. Without other participants, there would be little 'content'. Imagine going to an indoor climbing venue, recording someone else, and publishing just that.

one of those things that if you have to explain it, there’s probably no point in explaining