dualmindblade [he/him]

Divorce yourself from the self.

Yes, it is then and only then that one comes to realize what a toxic piece of shit they really are.

(sorry it’s good advice actually, I can’t help it)

Indeed, but if I could somehow revert to infant level neuroplasticity while retaining all my current knowledge it would be super useful

Agree. Some smaller also good ones:

Thomas Kern Really good at making some advanced/less mainstream topics accessible, careful to build up lots of necessary background and thoroughly explain details, so a bit like 3B1B except 0 fancy animations and slightly more rigorous. Covers a variety of topics but with a focus on automata and theory of computation.

Sheafification of G The opposite of Thomas Kern, designed for people with extreme ADHD. No slowing down, very little explanation, borderline silliness, you learn by osmosis. Half of the videos are him trying to incept category theory into your head. I still haven’t learned category theory, but I’m old and my brain is starting to calcify, I did learn some stuff though and it’s always entertaining.

I have been boycotting them since about 2021 since they tricked me and a bunch of vegetarians into eating their fries, which are fried in vegetable oil but contain “beef extract”. I don’t miss the fries but I do sometimes miss the hash browns. How else are you going to consume 1100 calories and like 3g salt in 20 seconds?

I kinda like these types of essays, though I get the frustration. I recall his video on receiving an autism diagnosis and I don’t think by the end he did much more than gesture towards an opinion, and I get the feeling that this is because he was still mulling it over or at least genuinely didn’t feel secure enough about it to dedicate a whole video to supporting a position. It’s more like he was presenting a framework in which useful opinions can be pursued and analyzed.

Oh my, you’re really in for it, sorry

Well like, an SQL statement “insert into … select …” can be arbitrarily complex. Even “insert into … values …” could be difficult if it contains subqueries or preparation of the static values. How simple are we talking here?

Unironically want this. I always bring my vape with, tuck it into my running belt with my car key because the other two pockets are occupied. And then I never pull it out because of PTSD from that time I lost my car key on a run, which wasn’t even vape related.