@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2024-03-12 13:43:56
About life and feelings, gloomy and private
The feelings we get from the activities we do could be classified as neutral, positive and negative.
Let's take developing #Gentoo as an example. It's something that makes me happy — but you can't (or at least I can't) just get the happiness and reject everything else. Most of the Gentoo work is basically neutral, even bland — a duty that takes a lot of time and effort, and probably a little of your health. It's statistically probable that you're going to get some positive feelings out of it — the joy of success, satisfaction, appreciation, awareness that you've done something good. But you also get negative feelings — from failures, frustration, negative interactions.
My hiking trips are like that too. My family believes that "I do it for pleasure" — but it's a harmful oversimplification and it only tells me that they even aren't trying to understand me. In fact, it's mostly a necessity, a way of solving specific problems that works for me — halting diabetes-related problems, coping with emotions. Of course there's a positive side to it — good mood, energy to survive another day, something the joy of visiting a new place, seeing something beautiful, finding a solution to a vexatious problem, positive interactions with people. But there are also negative feelings — anger and sadness from failure, stress from problems, negative contacts with people. Sometimes you end up slowly charging your social battery for a whole week, just to have one person destroy it all.
If you think about it, life's something like that. It's mostly a bland effort to survive every following day, sometimes interspersed with positive or negative moments.
#ActuallyAutistic
@gray17@mastodon.social2024-02-16 04:00:24
thoughts on the openai Sora video examples
- it doesn't understand 3d, just fakes it, same way image generators do. (these are all diffusion models, 2d NN architecture trained on 2d image data. Sora is aware of multiple frames, so it's weakly 2d time)
- it's bad at following prompts. several prompts describe many things not in the output, which feels like it just reproduced from memory something "close enough"
- these critiques are like complaining that a…
@aardrian@toot.cafe2024-03-24 23:58:57
CSS-Tricks might be back?
This first post in nearly a year is authored by a Digital Ocean dev advocate:
“Accessible Forms with Pseudo Classes”
https://css-tricks.com/accessible-forms-with-pseudo-classes/#comment-1808192
Yes, …
@j12t@social.coop2024-02-21 19:58:20
Also, why aren't Wikis #Fediverse-enabled by default? I'd really like to follow certain articles on #Wikipedia, for example.
If you must, it could be following something like @Fediverse@en.wikipedia.org but interpreting the actual URL to the article like
@j12t@social.coop2024-02-21 19:58:20
Also, why aren't Wikis #Fediverse-enabled by default? I'd really like to follow certain articles on #Wikipedia, for example.
If you must, it could be following something like @Fediverse@en.wikipedia.org but interpreting the actual URL to the article like