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I need more dopamine headlines like this to justify my dopamine addiction to coffee.

Not everything is dopamine. Maybe nitpicky on my end but it gets tiresome when everyone is just like dopamine this, dopamine that, when no one really understands neurotransmitters.

Haha, I viewed a video recently (in French) that said « dopamine is right-wing ».

It was ironic but interesting : dopamine is viewed as THE neurotransmitter of motivation while in fact it’s only one part of the mechanism. But it’s the part everyone is bragging about because it supports the idea that you can control your dopamine levels and be responsible of your own motivation.

The whole point of the argument was that your serotonin and noradrenaline levels were as much as important if not more, and, fat chance, you cannot buy serotonin or noradrenaline supplements. You have to be in mentally in a good place to get those right and that’s not something you have that much control over. Especially your noradrenaline levels are strongly tied to the quality of your environment and that’s why you should politically fight for a better life environment.


That's just, like, his opinion man

He's an idol, didn't you know? Much like his software architecture takes, they'll be taken as gospel.

His opinions were never really good to begin with, he was just excellent at marketing them as good opinions.

It comes as no surprise to me that the guy who has bad opinions about software architecture, has worse opinions about vibe coding.


Personally I have never been a fan of clean code architecture…to each their own I guess

Oddly enough i have a similar bit about electronica, but its a fine line between productive programming and distraction

>If the violations are intentional and easily fixable, then just pass laws/regulations requiring AV's to follow the law or else cease operations entirely.

I have to stop reading the rest of the comment right there.

If the violations are intentional and easily fixable is an incredibly loaded presumption to start any type of conversation, dialogue, or debate. To the point, asking the question 'how do we qualify intention? How are we measuring difficulty of fix? Costs of payroll, computer, deployment, and potential regression testing? What about the very nature of the context that led up to it? Did an external 3rd party cutoff a robotaxi and require that the robotaxi veer into the oncoming traffic lane, bc sensors indicated it was the best decision to avoid a collision, prioritizing safety and human life over traffic law?

What happens when following traffic law statistically leads to a greater risk of loss of life over violating the law?

I must insist we move the dialogue upstream to reality as-is, and there is plenty to discuss there.

I will in good faith issue a starting point: how should we measure the robotaxi driver license wrt suspension? Do we issue a point system that is averaged across the fleet, e.g. violations/car before suspending all operations until licensure evaluation? Personally I think that is a fair starting point amd am completely open minded to alternative views.


Github stars are such a terrible metric, completely gameable. The facy it is taken seriously appalls me.

They are bookmarks. The more people who bookmark something the more attention it has. That attention is what you care about and is why that has become a metric people use (that and the fact that there is little else).

>(that and the fact that there is little else).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetlight_effect


Lmao, anonymization of usage

Oh man time to see if there is a chrome Bonzai Buddy extension

I wake up, there is another psyop, I go to sleep

From my point of view

The Jedi

Are not nice


Thanks for the lead on the details, this has been on my spring cleaning todo list. Sounds like I have my weekend errand picked.

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