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  • Humans suddenly gain the ability to selectively delete their memories. How do you use this ability? (if at all) How do you think society would change?

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    • You'd have a lot of scams / lies where someone is accused of doing something they don't remember doing, they wouldn't know whether they did it, and third parties wouldn't be able to evaluate reactions / cross examine the accused.
    • You'd have large corporations demanding that ex-employees forget everything proprietary, even if that would prevent you from building up skills in your career.

  • You can choose 1 superpower, but the first reply is the side effect. What superpower would you choose?

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  • I assumed as fast as you can think the command for each one.

    I agree with feeling being useful for feeling around; I'm happy with the power having some value.

  • You can choose 1 superpower, but the first reply is the side effect. What superpower would you choose?

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  • 1 at a time wouldn't get you a noticeable amount of energy for a bomb (stuff is radioactively decaying around you already right now). A scientist might make some use of it, but with control of only 1 atom at a time they'll struggle to build really any molecule as I imagine most intermediate molecules would break apart as soon as you "let go" to grab the next atom.

  • You can choose 1 superpower, but the first reply is the side effect. What superpower would you choose?

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  • You can control only 1 at a time.

  • Former Microsoft engineer explains why Windows 'sucks' now - Respecting users choices and offering a hardcore mode among key suggestions.

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  • Windows 7 was legitimately decent. I think it was also the automated upgrade to Windows 8 that was my red line and got me to successfully switch to Linux.

  • If you've recovered from depression, what did it feel like?

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  • Short answer to your precise question, for while you're transitioning to a new treatment:

    What triggers for you a strong, negative emotion, every time you're exposed to it? I knew I was recovering when they stopped hitting the same way. In my case, I was extremely sensitive to my friendships and was ultra-tuned towards any suggestion they were growing distant from me. A late reply to a text (bad), or two friends hanging out without me (devastating) really hurt. I knew something was up once those stopped bothering me so much.

    Longer 'answer' detailing my whole experience:

    Since I was a young child I was always unhappy, worried, etc. Suicidal ideation started in my early teens. In my late 20s, at the start of the pandemic when I was unemployed, living alone, and friends I had made in grad school were all ditching town to quarantine with their families, I was in an emotional crisis and I had real doubts I'd survive. I sought out treatment again (attempts years earlier failed for BS non-medical reasons, not worth getting into). I was initially prescribed with bupropion, which while it tends to be a good first choice for many people, in my case it enhanced my negative emotions. That was very, very bad. I was quickly switched to venlafaxine (FYI while it has terrible side-effects when getting onto it they usually resolve after a couple of months).

    Anyway, after a few months of being on it / some dose increases every few weeks from the initial low dose, I started to feel better. I stopped craving the endorphins I'd feel from the extreme emotions of suicidal ideation, and I stopped overreacting to negative events / perceived slights from friends (say friends A & B played golf together and didn't invite me, even though they know I hate golf and maybe just wanted their own 1:1 hang). This is sounding like "he stopped feeling anything", but once the stress & anxiety & rehashing of the bad parts of my childhood disappeared, there was finally room for me to become the person I had always wanted to be (goofy, care-free, smiling, relaxed). The depression & anxiety didn't fade into numbness, it got replaced with happiness. I can honestly say I feel happy a majority of the time and I'm one of the happiest people I know; I recognize bad events but they just don't affect my baseline all that much. It's like - if depression is always feeling bad, and while good events momentarily help they don't last, then I have "anti-depression". This whole process probably took about a year.

    With the supervision of my doctor I am in the process of getting off venlafaxine. There's nothing wrong with staying on it forever if need be, but some of the newer theories of how these drugs work suggest that your brain grows new neural circuitry as it adapts to the drug, and it's the new circuitry that actually helps. If that's true, then once the new circuitry is grown the drug isn't actually needed anymore. We've been slowly decreasing my dose, monitoring my mood, and so far I'm still feeling great. I'm now on the lowest dose, and if things continue as they have then I won't need a refill in 2 months.

    Every time I share my experience I want to clarify a few things:

    • For those who may get onto venlafaxine - it's terrible side effects should fade over time. I almost quit taking it at first but I'm glad I continued.
    • Some medications work for some people and not for others, while others work for them but not for the first group. Probably depression & anxiety are just symptoms of different afflictions. We can see the common symptoms but we don't know which affliction causes it, but each affliction needs its own treatment. As a result the best you can do is keep trying treatments until you find one that works for your affliction; there are so many out there that there's probably one for you.
    • Related to the above, but therapy may help. It wasn't super effective for me but it didn't hurt either, but depending on the underlying cause you may have better luck with it.
    • I'm going off venlafaxine because whatever underlying cause of my symptoms appears to have been permanently cured. That won't be true for everyone - some diseases require ongoing medication to treat. Don't go off your medication without your doctor's supervision & approval; you'll need your mood monitored to ensure it doesn't worsen and some of these medications should never be abruptly stopped.
    • One of my biggest regrets was not pushing harder earlier in my life for treatment. While my baseline is happy, I do get pissed thinking about how much I unnecessarily suffered and that I didn't get to enjoy most of my 20s. If a reader (yes, you) are chronically unhappy and unsure whether to get treatment, just go for it.

  • The vibecoders are becoming sentient

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  • Lol I remember when I was around pre-school / kindergarten age and I was asking family members how to spell words so I could type into a Windows 3.1 "run program" dialog box "make sonic game".

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  • they can be fined.

    Sounds like no? How are they going to make a company with no assets or staff in the UK pay the fine? American courts likely won't enforce it.

  • Remembering Descent, the once-popular, fully 3D 6DOF shooter

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  • For people who enjoyed Descent, you may enjoy Overload. It was created by some of the original creators and is also a 6DOF shooter.

  • If you want to advocate for any matter, what is the best social media with the highest reach to do that?

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  • I feel like which network depends on what you're advocating for and to which type of person. For example, Mastadon, Lemmy, and Bluesky are fairly left-leaning, so advocating for a well-known liberal idea there could be "preaching to the choir".

  • What to do with too many raspberries and strawberries?

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  • +1. Buy an ice cream maker and use these to make sorbet; you'll never have too many strawberries and raspberries again.

  • Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO

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  • Your approach won't work if you're behind carrier grade NAT or you can't open ports. My landlord provides my internet so I use tailscale (with headscale on my long distance vps) to connect everything and it works great. It uses LAN when I'm home, and NAT punches when I'm elsewhere.

  • VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them

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  • Probably legal (for the buying company) but customers should sue the original company and get paid out of the money used to buy it.

  • Tulsi Gabbard Reused the Same Weak Password on Multiple Accounts for Years

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  • Ditto. I use unique passwords for services I care about / someone could exfiltrate sensitive data, and a cheap reused password for services I don't care about and could easily regain access to with a password reset email.

  • What is Docker?

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  • Entirely depends on who's publishing the image. Many projects publish their own images, in which case you're running their code regardless.

  • Glad you liked the last images, here's one I made myself

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  • My god I'm imagining a B-tier live action remake of American Dad and it's horrifying.

  • The final Baldur's Gate 3 patch is out now with cross-play, photo mode, new subclasses

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  • It has co-op, which with this patch now works between consoles and PCs.

  • Would you have a drink at lunch and then go back to work?

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  • When I worked for a startup we'd sometimes go out for lunch and everyone would have a drink or two. We also kept beer in the office fridge but that was reserved for more Friday afternoons.

  • Security of running Headscale on a VPS

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  • Yes but there are ways to protect against that. For instance you can configure Tailscale clients to only trust nodes that have been signed by trusted nodes, or something like that.