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I had a psych professor with a similar story that she liked to share. Her prevailing hypothesis on why we don't remember our infancy was that there's typically little to no reason to recall it, so the memories either fade or morph
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One could argue that the research goes all the way back to Dr Frederick Cook aboard the Belgica during an Antarctic expedition I which they became trapped by the sea ice. The men suffered from multiple maladies, scurvy included, with one of
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That's a good way to look at it. What we leave behind may not necessarily accomplish anything in our lifetime, or help anyone ever, but we still have to consider the quality of the content, which speaks to our character.
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This is so sobering, to be sure. What legacy do each of us leave behind on the Internet? Rather, what legacy do we _want_ to leave behind? Something to think about as the self-hosted/smolweb/indieweb movement continues to grow in
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I am that guy in flyfishing. I tie flies once in awhile because I inherited a vice and some materials and find it weirdly relaxing. Never been flyfishing, though.
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How useful is this, though? In my modest experience, these tiny models aren't good for much more than tinkering with, definitely not something I'd integrate into my workflow since the output quality is pretty low. Again, though, m
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Do you keep a blog? I'd love to read it, if so.
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I really hope I am wrong, but I'm planning on seeing some headlines about Musk shutting down Harvard next week over this. For anyone who still thinks the existing laws, constitutions and policies mean anything to this current regime, p
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Good on you. I have been pushing the idea of leaving social media to people for well over a decade now, for the same of people learning to communicate with each other in more meaningful ways and improve their mental health. It worked for me
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You nailed it. For ages, we've known that we can be hacked by anything that solicits an emotional response from us. People who set their sights on abusing that power have only gotten better at doing it, so much so that often the victi
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This is hard to read. I see myself in some of these words. I am by no means complicit in what is currently happening in the US as a US citizen, but I genuinely have no idea how to fight any of it. People want to throw words around like &quo
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> When did the political system stop being about making life better for the average person? In the US, when we elected mediocre actor Ronald Reagan, I think. His trickle-down economics nonsense turned out to be a just and early example o
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Seconded on a HN-style site for writers. I would love that. Aside from tech, I am also an aspiring author and seeing what others are up to helps me develop my own voice.
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I started working with Rails recently, myself, and it's leaving me wondering why it fell out of favor. Can any veteran web developers shed light on that? As the author states, I find it gives me the tools I need and then steps back to
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When people give advice to content creators in the form of "when you do interesting things" my brain immediately jumps to one question; how do you know what other people consider interesting? Honest question, because I am just sta
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I can see that. Contrary to my personal feelings about my own nose, having grown up in a more Northern latitude where Winters were much, much harsher than what I experience now, there was a few key things I learned at an early age that stuc
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Speaking as someone with a long slender nose, I have my doubts about it moistening dry frosty air. During the Winters, the only thing my nose seems to be good for is producing blood and dried mucus wafers like some cursed Triscuit factory.
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My friend, I have considered going to Europe specifically for the bread! And bakeries in general, of course :) Stay healthy!
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Apologies, I'm not clear on what you're pointing out in my comment as incorrect. I specified that DEAs are used in products that come from industrialized processes, that you won't find them in home-made products of the same n
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Pretty much any of Ken Forkish's recipes. Linked below is one that I find really accessible and a great intro for folks new to bread baking who want to get a bit more into the finesse side of the experience. The way the dough is handle
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I am not well versed in EU regulations regarding foods, aside from a recent experience in Iceland which boils down to the Fanta example. That and the fast food chains that we view as ubiquitous in the US were either sparse or did not exist
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I think it's important to clarify that DEA is used in _industrialized_ processes for soap and detergents. As a person who makes their own at home, I can tell you that no home recipe I've ever seen has introduced DEA into the proce
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Wearing my OG Pebble on my wrist as I read this, having just dropped a fresh battery in it about a month ago. It has been a faithful companion for many years (thanks in part to the Rebble.io community) and will continue to be. This is prett
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I'm sorry that happened to you. My own experience with burnout was pretty damning, but oddly, that happened with a career that was far more aligned with who I really am than my current career. There was a click, for me, that made me re
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Eliza was developed in the mid-1960's, so that was more like 60 years ago, just for clarification.
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I think one has some deeper issues to tackle if one is basing their whole persona around their job. This is not a healthy thing to do, regardless of layoffs.
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What a useless comment. Point out your qualms with it, explain how you would have done it better or clarify inaccuracies you find. It helps promote discussion and opens the door for more collective information to be considered.
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That Reddit thread has a lot of great recommendations, thanks. Yeah, I really enjoyed Atwood's Maddadam books, although I hungrily consume pretty much everything she writes, so I might be a bit biased. Seveneves was...okay. Not Stephen
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It's a bad idea when countries like mine are actively passing legislation toward banning trans people from existing. Having a hackable dox-ready list of where to find them and who they are would be quite convenient for any regime or it
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I found Canticle dull at first, then the ideas started to gel and I was salivating for more post-apocalyptic speculation like it. Do you have any other recommendations for people who enjoyed it?

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