Fellow (house) dancer here and couldn't agree with you more. Luckily, however, I recently relocated to London and though I rarely stay out late these days, I did go to a venue called Fabric and I bring this because there's a policy (moderately enforced) of "no phones" and in fact, prior to entering, they will place little stickers on camera lens. Of course, some individuals will inevitably whip out their phones to capture a video or photo, at which point an (disguised as civilian) employee will demand that they put their phone away. So again, moderately enforced.
All that is to say, dance in clubs still exists...just rare to find.
Clubs with policies like Fabric exist in other cities as well, to me they are usually a sign of a good club.
Berlin clubs, at least the ones worthy going to, have the same policy of no photos, and heavily enforce it.
I've seen quite a few people booted out from sticking their phone for a picture twice, it's one of the things that can really put a sour feeling on a dance floor. If I'm there to be free and dance my heart out the last thing I want is to be conscious of perhaps getting filmed while doing so. Personally I have politely asked many people to not even try that in those clubs.
I've seen the same policy in some clubs in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Madrid, Barcelona, Rome, Paris, Brussels, Vienna, and the list goes on. If you can manage to go clubbing at places that enforce such policies I'd say you're 80-90% there on finding a good dance floor.
> and yesterday was Halloween weekend so it opened up the possibility to come across a bunch of drunk clubbers just looking to get fucked up
I think they're understating this part, I thought it was universally understood that the Halloween weekend is absolutely the worst time to go clubbing.
Lots of new people that don't particularly care about the music + masks is just a bad combo for the regular clubbers, regardless of the venue. Whatever issues the venue is facing on regular nights are gonna reach new heights that weekend.
That makes sense given you've been in the scene for some time. At the same time, I think both are true: scene is "good" compared to other geographic locations of where I am from (i.e. Seattle Washington).
Awesome article and glad you pointed towards the YouTube video, where Lovelock was interviewed, which ultimately answered my question: can Cryogenics be used to freeze humans? According to that fascinating and interesting video, answer (for now) is no because "it's partly a matter of how quickly you can get anti-freeze agent to diffuse into the cells ... humans too big."
Ultimately, I think this article is about having self-compassion. Yes, sometimes a little perseverance goes a long way. Yes, things are a handful of things we "have" to do. However, I appreciate that the author is practicing giving himself grace. We all start reading book that were excited about and sometimes "abandoning" the book is the right call. In that way, I like how the author of the blog post created a "stepped-away" book shelf on their goodread profile.
According to the article, once the case was tossed out by the judge, "Deputy Commissioner Krissy Barrett apparently felt the officers might possibly feel bad about what they’d done, so she took the time to assure them that they were still a valuable part of the AFP’s radicalization program Joint Counter-Terrorism Task Force":
“It is really important to note that this was a very difficult and complex investigation for everyone involved, and one which threw up many challenges,” she said in the email.
“I recognise and thank everyone involved for their tenacity, professionalism and commitment to duty.
“I also use this opportunity to acknowledge the fantastic work that our covert online operatives do, under very difficult circumstances, to keep the community safe.”
Hats off! Wish I had the the grit and determination at 16 to write something like this
> A 'special' CPU register that holds the memory address of the next instruction
Though it's been years since (grad school) I dealt with any assembly, for some reason I recall this being the EIP register? These days, I rarely touch low level language and yet, I have such a deep and profound love for them.
It depends upon the manufacturer. Motorola used PC (program counter), Intel used IP (instruction pointer). I think it's only the x86 that has multiple names, depending upon the size: IP for 16 bits, EIP for 32 bits, RIP for 64 bits.
Your comment suggests that you don't work on a Windows PC very often: it is the common situation to find quite many older applications on the PC that are 32 bit. Just to give one example: until Visual Studio 2019, Visual Studio was still a 32 bit application.
Actually, there even today exist quite some vocal Windows users who would love to run some really old 16 bit applications on their 64 bit Windows PC (but Microsoft stopped supporting running 16 bit binaries on 64 bit Windows versions).
These are not mutually exclusive positions, but afaik visual studio isn't part of the os. As another commenter mentioned, the builds are all 64bit as well. Sure you can always find a 32bit app to install, but the point is a beginner may not do that and be disappointed when the registers they see on their machine don't match what they read about.
Especially in today's hardware (/software?), all the bins on the system are 64bit even if it's a 32bit binary, the remaining bits get filled by 0s so that the system treats it as a 64bit bin.
I envy individuals who organize their digital information in this way. Yes, I can practice discipline. Yes, it is possible. And it has always been (and continues to be) an uphill battle to keep my information tidy in this way, when my is scattered at best.
I'm slowly coming to the idea that the solution of this problem is to refine and reduce intake. I am a naturally curious person, as I assume many other people on hacker news also are. Unfortunately, this leads to what I've started calling "information hamster" behavior. I consume information almost habitually, without pausing to consider if I should consume it in the first place, or how it fits within a growing sphere of research and knowledge. Considering where something belongs, as a first step, before consuming it has been a tremendous help in staying organized. Obviously, as you consume the proper place for your notes might change, but essentially every system today can handle this flexibly. The key is making organization, filtering, and order a key part of the consumption process.
I'd also state that it's not always necessary to be super organized. Some people get by just fine living in a chaotic sea of notes. There's a reason that the stereotypical image of the professor involves a desk that looks like a tornado struck the office.
Couldn't agree more. Information hoarding is one of the main pitfalls of Knowledge Management. One must select the right sources, and curate relevant information (unless if it's all for fun).
It’s best to lean into that. Even though it looks pretty, I (and I assume you) don’t need to be as organized because the organization wouldn’t help us surface the knowledge later anyway because we wouldn’t follow all the tags and links around systematically. Different systems work for different brains. For me, I’ve found just taking flat chronological notes with a good search engine is best, and there’s no point fighting that.
I find top-down organizational systems like Johnny Decimal difficult to maintain over time. There is an overhead in having to think about which folder something belongs in. And a similar cost to recall.
My own Obsidian vault is bottom-up. I assume I'm going to be in a hurry, or too lazy to organize. Instead I try to write wiki style with lots of [[Links]] to reference people/places/things, and the structure emerges from those links. This is the only approach that has stuck for me.
Johnny Decimal is fine (same with PARA, or the combination of both) as long as you have automation in place to avoid worrying about what should go where.
In my own system, JD + PARA + Templates + Automated filing works like a charm and saves me a ton of time.
I also like delaying "organization" to later points in time. I do this by using daily notes as the single entry point (bullet points), and rely on weekly/monthly reviews to extract whatever makes sense to extract into separate notes
Organizing notes like this is a challenge for me too. Instead, I keep most notes in one file, and split off that file when it becomes too big. I use ripgrep to search my notes and back them up in a Git repo
I think the important ideas for me are to keep notes, keep notes in plain text for portability and easy searching, and to keep notes backed up.
If I ever find the "perfect" organization for my notes, I feel confident I can write some crazy shell script to move stuff into the right places and ask an LLM to add the right tags.
Until then, I've got a searchable history of my work for my coworkers and future me to enjoy.
This is something that Obsidian, Tana, Roam, LogSeq, and a few others actually excel at. I try to keep my organization minimal or at least static, and backlinks (plus templates, or in Tana supertags) + good search (of all that I've used, Obsidian has the best) help to take organization off your plate and make it more fluid. I've also built a pretty rudimentary RAG MVP to make finding information even easier, but don't use it too much right now.
My isn’t search working for you? I’m genuinely curious. I try to use the correct keywords so I can find it again and then I use search, that’s it. Folders are so inflexible, it doesn’t work for me.
yep. a part of me wants to take advantage of all that org-mode in emacs has to offer. but it's just not critical enough for me to keep it up. maybe if i was a manager...
Yup: I had reached out to a small business owner (had to hunt down his email) to pick his brain on CRMs. That one phone call turned into me consulting for him for a short period of time.
> Arnsten recounted walking in the woods in Vermont, when suddenly along the path, a bear appeared in front of her. Luckily, the bear was facing the other way. Rather than consciously reasoning that most mammals lack a ventral stream, and therefore would not be able to recognize a still object, she froze. In this moment of fear, her reflex of freezing was engaged. When the bear turned around, it did not notice her because of her lack of movement, and ended up wandering off.
Such a great example of how the fear reflex is functional from a survival perspective. We often talk about how we can combat our fears (e.g. public speaking, dancing, etc) and this serves as a good reminder how this primitive response serves a purpose.
> Such a great example of how the fear reflex is functional from a survival perspective.
All of our emotions (when we're healthy) are tools. They're all programmable to some extent as well. If somethings not actually dangerous, repeated exposure to it will desensitize you to it, for example.
> repeated exposure to it will desensitize you to it
Not necessarily, as someone who has a difficult anxiety that I have to deal with very often, being exposed to the situation doesn't make me any less fearful of it.
I think it's similar to one thing I learned about dog training. If your dog starts freaking out and barking uncontrollably at another dog, because they're afraid, once you get them away there's a sense of relief. "Oh good, I got away. Whatever I did that time definitely worked."
It takes an active approach to pierce through anxiety and fear. Repeatedly becoming terrified of something will more likely just make us feel bad, and helpless. Actively perceiving something frightening as tolerable is the kind of exposure that helps.
It will if you do it right. I had panic disorder. You probably need to gradually increase the stimulus and set your goals lower. If you're panicking in the situation then you've started at too intense of a level and need to work up to that over time. Don't give up. You can do it.
Another key thing a lot of people don't know is that you need good sleep in between stimulus exposures. Also, you probably need a shitload more exposure than you think. Persistence is what will save you.
Then why would you try to get rid of it. Fear is a tool that protects us from dangerous situations. If something is actually dangerous, then it would be rational to be afraid of it. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever to desensitize yourself to cobras unless you're literally a herpetologist or snake handler, for example.
Because even though it’s justified it’s still extremely inconvenient on a day to day level. Basically yes it is like I’m a cobra handler who is scared of cobras
Snake handlers shouldn't be afraid of cobras though. It's still a risk of course but it's not dangerous in the sense that it's dangerous for a normal person because of their education and experience. They've done the exposure therapy.
If your situation isn't actively harming you and is only a risk, then exposure therapy will work.
Science does not say that behavioural therapy works in 100% of cases. It seems you want to believe that it does. I have tried behavioural therapy, it is not right for me, it doesn’t work for me. I pursued different modalities that do work for me instead
Asserting that one modality must work for everyone is ascientific nonsense
It just sounds like classic depressed thinking to me. Every depressed and anxious person thinks they're the exception to being able to ne helped. Some are right but the odds are not in your favor on that one.
Even what are healthy emotions is an interesting question. I’m 99% sure my anxiety is work / chronic stress driven largely. It might not be a rational emotion when I’m in my ACd office with snacks and every physical need satisfied.
Arnsten misinterpreted that incident and drew the wrong evolutionary lesson. Black bears (the species in Vermont) aren't particularly aggressive versus other large animals such as humans, and will usually wander off even if they do notice you. The usual advice is not to freeze but to make noise and slowly back away.
All that is to say, dance in clubs still exists...just rare to find.