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New comment by joeberon in "Considered "18+""

joeberon — Tue, 03 May 2022 14:04:41 +0000

It's because there are too many x's in the name

New comment by joeberon in "Stop Using a Loading Spinner (2017)"

joeberon — Mon, 02 May 2022 07:06:58 +0000

Skeletons make the site look broken

New comment by joeberon in "Ask HN: I am losing hope in humanity. What should I do?"

joeberon — Sun, 01 May 2022 17:43:56 +0000

The only way I've found is to invest in a religious practise, in my case zazen

New comment by joeberon in "I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction books"

joeberon — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 05:16:49 +0000

Yes they are built different: one person has no struggles writing and actively loves it, cannot stop doing it; the other finds it effortful and painful. Those two people will have vastly different experiences writing the book. The former will gain energy and feel great, the latter will feel pressured and depressed. We are not all the same, we are all built different, don’t ignore this reality

New comment by joeberon in "The Hare programming language"

joeberon — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 09:20:00 +0000

I agree. It is quite clear that it is impossible to write large code bases safely with manual memory management. Even very small programs often have massive problems. I think many programmers are simply in denial about this.

New comment by joeberon in "Study suggests mechanism through which psychedelics may alleviate depression"

joeberon — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 17:23:56 +0000

I had horrific and long lasting negative effects from LSD. My wife absolutely laments that she convinced me to take it the two times I did. I saw mortality and impermanence directly, I felt entirely alone, and also I got extreme motion sickness and was passing out in a mess of white fractals and intensity in my body. I developed severe flashbacks to the trip and every time I had one I became extremely suicidal. The only good thing that came from it is that it pushed me towards an actual solution for me, which is practising zazen (goalless sitting in the Soto Zen tradition of Mahayana Buddhism). Resting in this moment, as Buddha, unmoved by external conditions. If I did not learn this, my life would be over, and indeed taking a break from the practise for 6 months the old grasping mind returned and I found myself heavily desiring death again. I sit and this all goes. My life after LSD was so traumatic that I was forced to find a way. The worst part is that therapists had no idea how to even consider the cosmic horror I felt, they just said it was “weird” and tried to shift the focus to tangible things, but it was the ineffable infinity that I was scared of.

Anyway, I always say that LSD fucked up my life so much that I had to turn to _religion_ to cope!! As a former militant atheist, that’s an incredible thing to say

New comment by joeberon in "Van life (cancer edition) finale"

joeberon — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 05:48:52 +0000

In all forms of Buddhism, suicide is one of the karmically worst things you can do

New comment by joeberon in "SerenityOS Browser now passes the Acid3 test"

joeberon — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 19:31:14 +0000

The "AK" standard library that they use is extremely good and very dynamic. Much better than the C++ STL

New comment by joeberon in "SerenityOS Browser now passes the Acid3 test"

joeberon — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 18:25:00 +0000

No, SerenityOS is strictly C++

New comment by joeberon in "Why I love Formula 1 (and why you might like it too)"

joeberon — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 11:23:31 +0000

Missed out on the fact that it is prohibitively expensive to watch it in the UK

New comment by joeberon in "Modern movies teach us awful lessons [video]"

joeberon — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 14:12:20 +0000

I agree. While money has always been there, there hasn't been such intense "statistics" and micromanaging behind every decision. Directors could get away with doing many things out of the respect for the art rather than money. The systematised nature of it, this automated process of using statistics to automate creative decisions, is the worst part, because you can't escape it. In the past we had a base plot that must be interesting and make money, but there were so many avenues for being subversive on top of that. Now, everything is in service of the machine

New comment by joeberon in "Daniel Ellsberg talks psychedelics, consciousness and world peace"

joeberon — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 10:42:28 +0000

As a previously strongly practising Buddhist, I can say, Buddhism is a total scam. Some of the absolute worst and most deluded people I've known are devout Buddhists. I even had a formal teacher and even he could do nothing to help me develop compassion. Perhaps the Dharma is dead in this world or something, but it seems to not actually work anymore.

New comment by joeberon in "The Einstein Telescope"

joeberon — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 10:54:10 +0000

I think it's around 10 billion euros IIRC? Definitely more than 1 billion and less than 50

New comment by joeberon in "Not everyone should meditate"

joeberon — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 10:30:42 +0000

Even just 20 minutes a day sustained over a long time (e.g. 5 years) is enough to bring life-changing effects. It isn't as benign as it sounds on paper

New comment by joeberon in "Not everyone should meditate"

joeberon — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 10:27:26 +0000

20 minutes twice a day for 5 years is not at all extreme

New comment by joeberon in "How to Remove the Frustration of Reading in Games"

joeberon — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 14:51:55 +0000

The writing simply has to be very high quality. Reading in games obviously is not entirely unpopular, see Disco Elysium, but then again that eventually got very good voice acting to read it all out, which helps a lot

New comment by joeberon in "Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding dices"

joeberon — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 08:41:06 +0000

I remember when Google's new CAPTCHA system was introduced and you just had one click and could get through, now you have to spend ages clicking photos of american busses.

New comment by joeberon in "Ask HN: What is one book you would recommend everyone to read?"

joeberon — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 07:49:20 +0000

Karl Marx - Das Kapital

New comment by joeberon in "Flow-field.js – A library for generating flow fields"

joeberon — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 14:10:28 +0000

Tyler Hobbs usually keeps a large distance between the exposition of the algorithm and the actual artistic example for the sake of maintaining artistic technique secrecy.

New comment by joeberon in "BibTeX Tidy"

joeberon — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 10:35:11 +0000

I made a really rough script that does a bunch of transformations on bibtex files to have them be ready for use in academic papers:

1. Shorten author lists to 10 authors 2. Abbreviate journal names 3. Remove unneeded IDs and replace with doi links 4. Remove unneeded tags (file, abstract)

https://gist.github.com/joebentley/6e3e4198ea427545738a82021...