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Comment by arkt8

14 hours ago

More than ever is time to be stoic. Have things but live as having nothing. But as obvious as the author says it was predictable too.

By now... I see in my country high prices for laptops with only 4Gb of Ram and Celerons.

It could do wonderful things if in 2000s people didn't buy the argument that hardware is so cheap so lets write unefficient code. Same hardware that could play an Youtube video in 2000s today cannot even open the website. Electron send hugs...

Now people are mad about AI until when? Oceans be drought like in Oblivion movie?

And professionals? The generation of specialists will pass... and people will blindly depend on Ai soon if the course of things doesn't stop or at least be corrected.

I think the author could have brighter days in future (and still thing in present in some hidden niches) as knowledge will always precious.

The main lesson I have is buy less TI and every buzz promises and find the place where knoledge and craft walk side by side.

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21asdffdsa12  7 hours ago

But all that advice. Never worked out. Be stoic. Be supportive. Be.. to Not to be. Accept that beeing some eldritch gods lunch is your destiny. Stoic is what we expect the cattle to be as it goes up the ramp. Do not go quietly into the night, rage against the dying of the light.

  • tsunamifury  6 hours ago

    Correct. Stoicism was for two audiences. Those doing the killing to be indifferent toward it and for those being killed to be indifferent about it.

    Marcus Aurelius the historical figure was a monster who killed a measurable portion of humans alive at the time

    • laszlojamf  2 hours ago

      I mean... so did a lot of other rulers. As far as emperors go, Aurelius wasn't that bad. You have to judge historical people by their peers, not by your own modern standards.

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  • keybored  5 hours ago

    Stoicness is for the lamb and the wolf alike; mindfulness is for the monk and the samurai killing on behalf of their lord alike.

    We are not so one-dimensional that good mind habits are the one and only thing we do and act on.