chapotraphouse Shinji_Ikari • 2mo ago • 100%

I can't believe there's a real company out there called "PostHog" founded in 2020

c'mon, really

cars Shinji_Ikari • 3mo ago • 100%

Deboss Garage, Canadian youtuber who typically makes videos about Diesel trucks, visits China and talks about Urbanism, Chinese innovation, and EVs

Sharing because this is so much fun to watch. They straight up talk about the effect of EVs and public transport on urban noise pollution. They discuss how if people from western countries understood the extent of Chinese advancement, they'd be upset at their own governments. At one point he dispels claims about subsidization and says how they're 10x less than American EV subsidies. They start flashing dozens of articles about American economic protectionism. The reason he's doing this is because he's going into business with a Hybrid EV trucking startup and they're visiting to find parts that can't be found in the US.

chat Shinji_Ikari • 3mo ago • 100%

I feel like I'm going absolutely insane with the recent events

You've got people going team coconut, people super angry about team coconut. I saw some people upset that their primary vote didn't matter(THERE WAS ONLY ONE CANDIDATE, MOST OF THE PRIMARIES WERE CANCELLED). I'm seeing people complain that Biden was old and senile then immediately complain Kopmala was a cop. I feel like everything everyone is saying should have a giant flashing "THIS SHOULD GO WITHOUT SAYING" disclaimer above it. I know a guy who was complaining his GF's immigrant mother, who's husband just had his citizenship finalized, was going to vote for trump. He was bewildered. A day fuckin later, he's saying "I'm not going to vote for Kamala". Like huge fucking stand you're making dude, cool, great, whatever. Like this whole thing was already a giant sham, the entire election and campaign has been "not trump" from the start. Despite all the awful bullshit Biden has pulled in the past and present, despite firmly being in the incontinence club and sundowning at 3PM, the entire message was "not trump". Now suddenly the cop is like this whole other category than "not trump", people have *concerns*. People are unsure of her *ability* to *lead*. Like what the fuck? These fucks don't even matter, they're the stickers on top of your fucking beyblade for christ's sake. The election is Heritage foundation vs a conglomerate of tax-writeoff corporate donations. Like can we* all just be fucking honest and drop the charade and go "we're voting against the heritage foundation"  \* not my lovely geometric bears, the greater we

Linux Shinji_Ikari • 6mo ago • 100%

NetworkManager makes me want to pull my hair out

I'm trying to set up a somewhat weird network configuration, three interfaces on a pi, an adhoc AP, a wireless lan, and a USB modem. I want clients of the USB device to talk to clients of the AP, I want clients of the AP to talk to other clients and a single host on the wireless network. Sorta simple right? Just a couple firewall rules? Well NetworkManager is a land of logical defaults that do not like to be adjusted. I had it working where the AP clients could not reach out to the internet, but could reach the USB clients. NetworkManager automagic'd a NFTables ruleset that doesn't appreciate being changed. Okay so I'll tell NM to not use a firewall backed in the conf, `firewall-backend=none`, easy. But once NM is restarted, the networking is behaving like the firewall is still active, despite NFtables and iptables reporting no rulesets, as NM has taken its ball and gone home. I can't even figure out a baseline of "what the fuck is going on" because the level of opaque NM automagic happening behind the scenes. I just poke at it and hope something happens. Half the NetworkManager behavior is hidden in dev blog posts that you need to sift through, the official documentation just basically gives the bare minimum info for a feature.

HF autist, ADHD but sorta medicated(probably too low of a dose). I've been trying to acknowledge/identify something that I feel has been having a lot of negative effects on my life lately. When I'm working on learning something or solving a problem, I'll often hit a point of frustration where all my interest to move past it is suddenly lost. This will be something like dealing with something annoying at work. But also in creative pursuits, ie I slacked on practicing guitar for a couple weeks and now some knowledge I had is just gone and I'm frustrated I need to start a few steps back. Things like games with few save points were never fun for me. On many occasions, I'd drop a game completely after forgetting to save and losing hours of progress. Basically once I get this feeling of frustration, I glaze over and start feeling really tired and annoyed. Like I hit a wall and the only thing that stops it is going to sleep. A few times I've straight up gone to bed hours early just to avoid simmering in the frustration.

I've got a degree in engineering. I love engineering, programming, electronics, CAD and physical prototype design. I love identifying problems and figuring out requirements and designing something to solve it. I know I'm really good at it, but I can only really perform what feels like 20% of the time. I'll get into some hyper focus for some problem, learn some complex technology, solve the problem, then not be able to look at tech for weeks. This is cool for hobby stuff but man I gotta work too. I find it nearly impossible to work on things which I don't find personally interesting which isn't good because most "work" isn't interesting whatsoever. I envy people who are able to just go "ah time to do this boring thing" and they just fucking do it. It genuinely feels impossible to just start. I'm medicated for ADHD but it feels like it only works like 20-30% of the time. The rest of the time my eyes just lose focus and I stare blankly at a screen waiting for hours to pass. I don't know how to make this work for me either. I know theoretically I could be a prototype engineer, the type of freelance generalist who gets an idea out and disappears but I don't know how to network sufficiently enough to do that. I've got a good job right now, but COL is so high and full remote isn't possible so I'll always be living in a small apartment or be in so much debt I'll never be able to retire. I want to do more hardware stuff but that's so rarely a remote type job and offices just hurt my soul with how uncomfortable I am all day long. I could probably make a living as a software engineer but I don't know if I'd be able to keep up any kind of pace long term that would let me keep my job. I almost want to take a stab at doing youtube videos and see if I can make a handful of neat projects that get me a sponsor. enough to score a house in a rundown rustbelt town and be able to fuck off and work at my own pace without the impending doom of rent or mortgage staring me down. I drink plenty of water, jog when its warm, use a pomodoro timer when I remember. I learned the fundamentals of Rust in a weekend, designed and manufactured a run of PCBs in under 3 months. I just can't keep that momentum going, even if I try to slow down. thanks for letting me rant. Its not lost on me how privileged I am in this scenario. I'm quite lucky and comfortable but it terrifies me how even someone doing well like myself can't see an exit off this awful ride.

chat Shinji_Ikari • 9mo ago • 100%

What is the deal with SSRIs? [Trigger warning: absolute ignorance]

So quick disclaimer, both my wife and I are on the Autism spectrum, we both figured this out far too late in our 20s and have been working to re-frame our mindsets about it to understand ourselves better. Recently, she reached out to a Psychiatrist for adhd and PMDD symptoms and was immediately clocked as ASD and prescribed zoloft to help long term with PMDD syndromes. The first night was absolute hell of mood swings and discomfort so I was looking more into SSRIs, previously all I knew is you cant just stop taking them and they make certain people's dicks stop working. Strolling into the zoloft subreddit is an absolutely crazy experience, half the posters are like "i'm going insane is this normal?" and they receive responses like "yeah just wait 12 weeks of these symptoms and maybe you'll be cool". The other half of the posts are people post 12 weeks being like "this shit cool", but there's a weird confirmation bias where the people who got off of it are not lurking in the zoloft subreddit. Every once and a while you'll see someone necro-bump a year old post about someone giving it time and they'll be like "oh yeah sorry for the late reply, the drug was incredibly bad for me and I had to get off of it". My wife was experiencing this out-of-character rage at certain things, but also felt a weird control over said rage and began looking into posts about that and apparently its common? Weird rage too, like being frustrated with fellow ASD people. I started connecting the dots and thinking about people in my life who were on these and holy shit, they're absolute seething assholes to us, is this why? What is this drug??? And this doesn't even touch getting off the drug, apparently the withdrawal is absolutely demonic for many many days. Then you have serotonin syndrome, the endless list of side effects that you have no idea if you'll experience or not because doctors don't give a shit and blood panels for drug reactions are too expensive to bother with. All this stuff basically points to "neurodivergent people are being tortured with the promise of a semblance of normalcy in order to cope with our capitalist world, and all the "normalcy" is, is the ability to control your emotions externally despite them being wildly out of control internally". Rip me apart for this all you want but i'm leaning towards crank status being anti-anti-depressants. All this to say I'm prescribed stimulants and i'm grateful I can just take days off or just not take them when I'm happy to be my autistic-adhd self.(I know not all people can do this with ADHD, my heart goes out to them, but it's more an issue with existing at baseline rather than going off wrecking havoc) psyilocibin therapy needs to become more widespread because SSRIs are far more terrifying than seeing god and your subconscious.

the_dunk_tank Shinji_Ikari • 11mo ago • 95%

African refugee: This is a really daunting task, Engineering students: your fault, if not your fault then black women have it easy.

old.reddit.com

Engineering majors need like 4 years of pure humanities classes to fix what's wrong in their mind. This whole thread is so cruel to op.

the_dunk_tank Shinji_Ikari • 1y ago • 96%

You will never guess what this is in response to.

[not a lib](https://twitter.com/jampowerman/status/1698370401032687809?s=20) ::: spoiler Double not a lib  :::

chat Shinji_Ikari • 1y ago • 100%

A friend of mine is going through a serious psychological episode and I'm not sure how to help.

long story short, he has a history of it. They've historically resolved after some medical care and medicine adjustment. Its really hard to tell what's happening this time. I think a medication change and some trauma triggered it but it's gotten to the point where he's continuously flinging slurs, hateful comments, and doing some (probably) illegal and heinous shit. I'm really not sure what to do. I don't want to call the cops but idt it matters because he's gotten several welfare checks already. He's saying everyone is bullying him when in reality, he's the one doing the bullying. He was already hospitalized, to basically no effect. I know there's not much I can do but it really sucks watching this guy be a wrecking ball through his life, family, and friends. I really don't want him to get hurt, but I don't want him to hurt others even more. Some advice would be helpful.

podcasts Shinji_Ikari • 2y ago • 0%

I've been slowly working through Season 3 of Blowback and every single episode leaves me thinking "what the fuck"

You can repeat "US imperialism bad" as much as you want but learning the play by play is just absolutely mind blowing. Its always so much worse than you could initially imagine.

main Shinji_Ikari • 4y ago • 0%

I honestly feel like Naomi Wu embodies the regular chapo China struggle sesh.

Except she's actually from China so her words have some weight. Nerds hate her because shes a better engineer than them. What's your take on her?