So, I searched for the mural specifically instead of the entire image in Google Images, and I found this from this reddit post from last year:
I looked the image up in tineye, and found the oldest use to be this picture from pikabu.ru from 2016:
So, while the image itself might be AI, the mural/meme definitely predates AI.
Hated every moment of it!
More of a realization than a quote: Death offers nothing that life cannot offer.
I am an existentialist, and I do not think anything (that is not terminal, I guess; haven’t though about extreme conditions) is worse than death. So, every bad thing will pass. Every depressive bout and anxiety attack shall pass. Hopefully, your rock bottom shall pass too. And may be, at the other side, things will be better for you.
It has to be this way.
Fck vwls!
Ha ha, may be that came out a bit wrong. What I meant is I don’t have a complete understanding of the architecture and the structure before I start coding. It is only when I write the first test and the first function that I start noticing the structure and the limitations. I can’t think of all the branches where the code might fail unless I start writing and realizing the elses.
Say you buy a $1000 phone, and the screen cracks in like 2 months. What do you do? Will you happily pay around a third of the phone price just to get the screen repaired from their official service center? A part of the reason the repair price is so extremely high is because the repair is not easy (even if the display does not cost as much). The disassembly of the phone requires specialized tools (and knowledge) which are not as easily accessible to the average person.
Replacing the battery is even harder. Phones these days have software support for up to 7 years, but the battery degrades a lot in 3. So, you are now left with a capable device that drains extremely fast.
Also, a lot of us want phones with long (preferably upstream) software support and are privacy enthusiasts. And I have seen no phone which matches the desired criteria for under $200. You need to dish out around $500 (e.g. Pixel 10a) to get such a device new (obviously cheaper if you buy it second hand).
I never understood vibe coding (or ✨Agentic Coding✨) tbh.
May be I am too stupid, but I think as I code and code as I think. I do not usually formulate a plan before I start coding. I am categorizing architecture as code btw because, for me, architecture involves pseudo-code to some degree .
Even in college, I could never just understand lectures. I needed to write down the formulas and work out the derivations myself to grasp them. I know there are people who understand things right away, but I am not one of them.
So, now, when I see senior developers (which I am not) vibe code green field projects, I am just astounded as to how they manage the architecture + understanding + optimization + maintenance context.
The blood of my enemies mixed with some fresh orange juice.
Loads fine without JavaScript.
If you look closely, it also knows your gender.
Btw, I am not able to create an account.
Regards,
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Just use Linu… Oh, sorry, you said curtains, not windows! Smh shaking my head my head!
Chester Bennington and Kurt Cobain. Although I discovered their songs years after their death.
I see. Thanks for the link.
How are they getting around it? I thought Australia implemented some sort of ID verification? And given that social media platforms notoriously refuse to run on VPNs, how are the teenagers bypassing the checks? Is everyone there using their parent’s ID or something?!
Bruh I can’t even do college. Withdrew like a month in… that’s how depressed I was.
I am sorry for that. I was very depressed in college too, but somehow managed to graduate.
There is no future for me.
That is not true. Given the very limited inputs we have been fed, we may conclude that we do not have any future. But, I think there are possibilities that we have just not envisioned that might open up.
Either I manage to inherit family bussiness (part of it anyways) and just manage it well and not bankrupt it or I go wage slavery like everyone else…
About the “wage slavery like everyone else”, do you have any hopes and dreams that you want to work towards? If you do, go for them. If not, it’s okay doing a normal job too. Often times, in life, we do not get what we want. If you have the resources (time and energy) to try and acheive your dreams, definitely go for it. But, if you do not, it is okay to just be normal and do a normal job. Not everyone has the fortune to rise to the top.
I myself work at a job that I always tried to avoid. I knew I’d be good at this job, but I did not want to do it, because I wanted to do something more interesting. Due to several factors, I wasn’t able to go after what I wanted, and instead have come to terms with my current job. I just keep telling myself I will do the stuff I wanted after I have achieved financial stability thanks to this job (may be in my 40s, I dunno).
I don’t know how to even do college without family support and depression.
Can you get to a therapist? They can help you a bit with depression. Regarding family support, again, I am sorry for what you are going through. I too didn’t have proper family support when I was in college (along with severe depression), and it was really hard to get through everything. I managed to graduate, move away, and be alone; which helped a bit with my mental state.
Honestly at this point, I might just give up on moral codes… become a corrupt politician…
I don’t think becoming “a corrupt politician” is as easy. :D
You either die young, or you live long enough to become a shitty person because the cruelty of the world will destroy your conscience…
No offense, man, but this is complete bullshit. Quotes like this are better suited for movies. Reality, morality and humanity are often more complicated. And death is not an answer, because it offers you nothing that life doesn’t.
Becoming a shitty person isn’t easy, and I do not think it is a flick of a switch.
Cruelty of the world doesn’t need to get to you. You do not need to lose your morality to adhere to some of the negativities in this world. Sure, you do what you need to do to survive; sometimes, it may be unethical (try to avoid if you can), but it doesn’t make you immoral altogether.
Brother, I’ve pondered about the thought of ending it all, and I have realized that it isn’t the solution. Not because you have so much to live for, but because death has nothing that life cannot offer. Death is the absolute negation of everything, it is absolute nothingness. There are no pros and cons when it comes to absolute nothingness.
You sound like a person in his college years. My suggestion, for now, do what you must, stay in college, and study. Once you are out of college, try and get a job (this might take really long and might a depressing period, given the current job market), and move the fuck out.
And why would you trust your own ISP more than reputable VPNs?
Sure, this statement is very valid for (free) VPNs which are not reputable, and act as data mines instead of providing true privacy; but your statement reads very much like we do not need VPNs at all.
ISPs know what sites you are visiting and when, and they are ready to comply with the government. Also, we have acts like Online Safety Act (UK), which incentivizes more data collection. Combine that with age verification on every site, and you are basically giving away your browsing history.
I agree that a VPN alone is not going to protect you, and you need to authenticate less into websites, and clear your cookies after every browser session (basically good OpSec). However, I also think that reputable providers like Mullvad and Proton are a must.
Try using an LLM.
I tried to timebox myself with a Python OCR solution, but ended up spending way more time than I should’ve, without ever arriving at a good solution.
I then tried using Qwen 235B via Brave’s Leo AI, and got some okay results (I think you’ll have better luck with commercial AI models; I just don’t have an account with them atm)
What does the PDF look like? Can you not OCR it into something like a CSV, and import it in Excel?
What are the advantages of self hosting your VPN? Is it to just hide your sessions from your ISP? Also, does it not link the domain (and identity, which I’m assuming you have provided during registration) to your online activity? I thought the whole point of these commercial VPN sellers was that you could “blend in” the traffic, and add enough noise to make any sort of aggregations meaningless.
If you, however, did register and pay for it anonymously, what service is it? The last time I searched for anonymous VPSs, all of them were outside my budget.