Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
@emerald FWIW when I say "examining" I mean directly observing (and maybe even poking a bit), not analyzing.
What you're describing sounds like learned helplessness, not that I'd know much about that.
@emerald have you considered spending the 50 minutes examining what's getting in the way of your initiative, while you're doing that?
"So what made you decide to start speedrunning this game?"
"I was debugging a random crash, so I'd have to play for a few minutes at a time to make the crash happen. I couldn't save, so I'd try to go fast to see as much of it as possible."
re: cognitohazard? cognitoopportunity?
There's this feeling of mental "fog" that I haven't been experiencing lately, and I attribute that to working on this and keeping up with it.
Esme Povirk
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Processing the "titles without name" section (the "sir/ma'am" question) and it always makes me question my past survey choices, because it's always:
USA: I wish we had a good gender-neutral alternative to sir/ma'am!!!!!
Everywhere else: NO ONE says sir/ma'am, why is this question even on the survey
I am wondering how long I can do this before just making a formal statement that I'm removing the question and the USA need to just get over sir/ma'am on their own??
@b0rk I was merging a subtree of another repository into a different path on the destination.
This is the commit in question: https://gitlab.winehq.org/mono/mono/-/commit/89ec6bd4a09e015c0b4bb85e992ebbe3350274cd
@b0rk I had previously been "somewhat uncomfortable" (maybe cautious would be a better phrasing for how I felt?), but once I learned about git switch and git restore I stopped using git checkout and git reset entirely, so I answered that I never use it.
Esme Povirk
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I hope the Next Big Thing in technology is naps, so that we just start shoving naps into everything, absolutely everything.
Esme Povirk
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We wrote about Magical Literacy and Ai Psychosis last week. We've been thinking a lot more about the subject recently for no particular reason, decided to do a followup.
cognitohazard? cognitoopportunity?
Addendum: for me it can also be different forms of tiredness. Or the "brain residue" that making decisions seems to leave. And those require rest of a sort, but the rest can be made more efficient by directing it to the specific condition. Which isn't always equally easy and may take more time.
re: hypnosis //
@lioness This led to thinking for a long time that we were "bad at being hypnotized" or "not a good subject" or at least missing something important that would've made it more effective. Because there's still stuff that our brain is clearly capable of, but that we can't seem to do intentionally or via hypnosis.
re: hypnosis //
@lioness I've found hypnosis to mostly fail on this front. If it helps me do anything I can't do on purpose, that usually becomes something I can do on purpose.
re: cognitohazard? cognitoopportunity?
@emerald that is very relatable
re: cognitohazard? cognitoopportunity?
@emerald I've been finding that some rest is required to transition between things or into activity, it's just possible to do that very quickly if you focus it where it's needed
cognitohazard? cognitoopportunity?
This implies that executive dysfunction is a trance, and it is possible to find it and adjust it. At least for me. I don't know if the cause is the same for everyone, and it took a lot of work to learn how to do that.
cognitohazard? cognitoopportunity?
This is seriously OP. If I take the time and do it calmly, I can gently shift from executive dysfunction to actually doing things, seemingly without any long-term consequence.
After years of learning meditation/hypnosis, healing trauma, realizing I'm plural, becoming a singlet, becoming plural again, mastering systemhood, learning to rest efficiently based on need, reconnecting with my singlet self while still being a system, and learning to break trances I hadn't even known were trances: experiments indicate I can sustainably work ~7 hours per day, if I accept not doing much else with my day.
How does anyone work full time without burning out?
Esme Povirk
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I think many people misunderstand the purpose of code review. The purpose of code review is not for the reviewer to find bugs, and certainly not for them to ensure that the code is bug-free. Anyone who depends on code review to find bugs is living in a fool's paradise. As everyone should know by now, it is not in general possible to find bugs by examining the code.
The primary purpose of code review is to find code that will be _hard to maintain_. The reviewer looks at the code and tries to understand what it is doing and how. If they can't, that means it will be hard to maintain in the future, and should be fixed now, while the original author is still familiar with it.
plurality?
I think we should be other people.
plurality update re: cognitohazard? cognitoopportunity?
TwinRoot (basically, who we were for 2 days when the entire system merged and became a singlet) was brought out by our attempt to practice this. Yesterday they hosted, but they've decided to just be a steadying hand for the rest of us. Apparently they enjoy being other people more than themself?
Joined Aug 2018
