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1. Sadness and depression are chemical events in your brain that you have no conscious control over
2. You can consciously control some of the common triggers that lead to negative thoughts but most people can't completely turn off given thoughts
3. Your brain is like the earth and thoughts are like rivers, the more you think certain ways the more you will continue to think those ways, neural pathways are strengthened by their activations

Learn to redirect, wear a bracelet or similar physical reminder of a specific thing you like, when you experience the thoughts you want to avoid, redirect and focus on the things you like

Change your environment, identify triggers that push you toward depression and avoid them. Some literally cannot be avoided, and some situations are impossible to escape, in those cases accept the associated negativity and redirect

Find people who have the attitudes and feelings you want to emulate and spend time with them, we are social and learn much from our peers

Ingest media that aligns with your desired world view, avoid tragedies, horror movies, gore, popular doom news media, etc. This will force you into an echo chamber but it is a popular coping technique

Most important you are your own person, write down how you feel and what triggered those emotions every day. You can't really know if you're improving if you don't have a record

I think in the dark matter/expansion model the idea is that light is stretched due to the universe itself expanding, but maybe I misunderstood the premise. Regardless of the veracity of the dark matter model, the original question of the mechanism of loss is still relevant I think.

So "tired light" could explain redshift, light that loses energy over time, but where would that energy be going? Heat loss somehow? Energy can't be destroyed according to our current understanding so I'm not sure I understand the mechanism of decay

Just talking about the map editor if it's an executable

I'd be cautious about running any "leaked" software directly, great way to identify the modding community if it dials home, maybe run it in a vm, behind a vpn? Unless it's just source code in which case carry on

Leetcode is a great way to polish your skills. When I was your age, I read programming books and made projects I cared about, it's turned out very well.

I've helped a few others learn programming, practice and working on any project at all always help more than anything.

Llama3 local is pretty good

Looks cool, when was the last time Zelda was a playable character in a mainline Zelda game?

I still remember flipboard being forcefully installed as the action button app for an old phone. My rage continues to smolder a decade later.

An app that couldn't be uninstalled and took up precious resources. That's all they'll ever be to me.

Just collect your tears and pour them over the tree, plenty of salt coming out of you

Harris has me profoundly optimistic. She's the most qualified candidate I'll have had the chance to vote for in my lifetime.

Walz is fine, I was keen on Buttigieg but I'll happily vote for Walz and let Buttigieg keep his important current position.

My biggest hope is that Kamala will draw out some of the less extreme right leaning women, nobody needs to know that they're voting for the better candidate and God knows women need allies with the ongoing barrage.

This election cycle is not about fear for me, Harris is an easy candidate to vote for!

I explained a little about buffer overflows, but in essence programming is the act of making a fancy list of commands for your computer to run one after the other.

One concept in programming is an "array" or list of things, sometimes in languages like C the developer is responsible for keeping track of how many items are in a list. When that program accepts info from other programs (like a chat message, video call, website to render, etx) in the form of an array sometimes the sender can send more info than the developer expected to receive.

When that extra info is received it can actually modify the fancy list of commands in such a way that the data itself is run directly on the computer instead of what the developer originally intended.

Bad guy sends too much data, at the end of the data are secret instructions to install a new program that watches every key you type on your keyboard and send that info to the bad guy.