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by Blahah 9y ago
does this have a performance benefit or are you recommending it for the code clarity?
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by Blahah 9y ago
I'm not sure what you think I was saying, but I was saying exactly what I said. My friends and partner report that it's normal - obviously in their social circles. I'm not making any claim about wider society. You quoted the
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by Blahah 9y ago
I really don't see any reason you would notice it if you aren't doing it yourself. I connect with people based on it, and I find it easy to spot who is doing it because I've been around it for a long time. But most people in
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by Blahah 9y ago
I am not comparing myself to others, but to myself without stimulants. I simply do more and better work, by very simple measures like completing tasks and delivering projects to the satisfaction (or joy) of my clients.
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by Blahah 9y ago
My work is evaluated by my clients, who as far as I know are not drug users. Taking stimulants for work isn't a social activity. We don't all get together and swallow our pills. I just take mine every day and I know a load of othe
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by Blahah 9y ago
I am in my early 30s and have been using drugs recreationally since I was 11. Thank you for caring :) I appreciate it. I am a professional though, and I am comfortable with my current use. It has been toned down massively since I was younge
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by Blahah 9y ago
Just to chime in, in my response to OP I felt like I was making myself vulnerable. I was honest about what I experience because someone asked and was clearly hurt in the past by the lack of honesty around it. I don't feel attacked, but
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by Blahah 9y ago
As one of those people, I completely agree. My entire social circle uses drugs in some way. But that means I don't see outside it. And I very often connect with people, adding them to my circle, because we subtly realise we both share
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by Blahah 9y ago
Dilated pupils. Tense jaw. Muscles around the eyes are slightly more tense (small wrinkles temporarily disappear for example). People react faster and speak more coherently (or if they took too much, incoherently but very fast). Dry mouth (
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by Blahah 9y ago
You get more out of your time, but many people want that due to pressure to succeed. A lot of people think stimulants just keep you going longer. They do that, but for a large number of people they greatly improve working memory, problem so
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by Blahah 9y ago
I was at Cambridge for 4 years and I can safely say that none of the professors in my department were using stimulants other than coffee. I can clock someone who is up across a crowded room. None of them were ever up. A large number of the
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by Blahah 9y ago
Your last point is a particularly interesting one. A lot of the most productive and skilled people I know are also very clean. But a good number of them are also using stimulants. I think we all inhabit a world of people who think they are
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by Blahah 9y ago
Haha, well, I can only assure you that it's basically just fine. Nobody gets hurt. It's just a thing people do - like drinking coffee or energy drinks. But it works better. In the case of amphetamine-related stimulants (ritalin, a
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by Blahah 9y ago
My understanding from my American friends and partner is that it's exactly the same in the USA. Students, software developers, people in finance - for all of them stimulants are normal. I think most people aren't really concerned
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by Blahah 9y ago
Interesting! That is... really quite surprising to me. I don't know many people anywhere in the world who don't at least recreationally take drugs. I think perhaps we just inhabit different worlds. One thing I can promise you thou
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by Blahah 9y ago
I am open to discussing this in raw detail - contact in my profile. Most programmers, scientists, people in finance and startups I know take a lot of stimulants. I take a lot of stimulants. [Edit - as others have pointed out, there's a
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by Blahah 9y ago
This doesn't make sense to me. Please correct me if I'm wrong. A hotel can easily provide room and board (essentially the services of a hospital's basic in-patient care) for <$100 a night. The hospital also has a ton of eq
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by Blahah 9y ago
Many living creatures have evolved to be co-operative (including humans). Some (like humans) are often individually competitive within a larger co-operative social system. Others (like ants, bees, mole rats, some shrimps, etc.) are individu
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by Blahah 9y ago
I was thinking the same thing - although it's not really confounding as the results are still true. It's likely an explanatory factor though.
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by Blahah 9y ago
In case you didn't find the answer to your question, those feathers are called 'filoplumes' [1]. Relatively obscure anatomical detail like this is more easily discoverable in the scientific literature than on the web. I found
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by Blahah 9y ago
100% certainty is correct to integer rounding. It's correct to many significant figures too.
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by Blahah 9y ago
The way this is done in dat (via the hypercore module) is that the share key is a publickey, the merkle tree is signed with the private key. Updates can stream in on the log, and only the keys in the tree that have changed need updating. Th
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by Blahah 9y ago
it takes any iJupyter notebooks in the repo and makes the whole thing a versioned, reproducible cloud computing environment. a major use-case is for scientific papers and data analyses
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by Blahah 9y ago
Barbie has piloted commercial airliners, been on a scientific space mission, and has an M.D., so I don't think she'd be likely to say that.
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by Blahah 9y ago
Super interesting! I also work exclusively on open source and am somewhat nomadic. My family and I are currently camping in the Masai Mara, and moved to Kenya a year ago from the UK. We have no Kenyan clients so it was purely a personal dec
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by Blahah 9y ago
Ah! I read the references to pirates as referring to the person sharing the file online from an original source. But someone just torrenting it or something makes a lot more sense as the target here.
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by Blahah 9y ago
Seems pretty self-defeating. I'd just strip the keys and not claim the bounty. This whole system depends on pirates wanting $5 more than they want to pirate the thing, which from my 10 years around release and fxp groups in my younger
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by Blahah 9y ago
Oh, sorry I missed that you said GitLab. It's less rude if you're not commenting on the open sourcing of a project to just say negative stuff about it :) I have to use GitLab for work and I find the UI much harder to use than GitH
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by Blahah 9y ago
Interesting (and rude). I think it's much better than any other group chat app. Especially for groups organised around code projects.
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by Blahah 9y ago
react is literally the opposite of what the parent described. It's a huge convoluted ecosystem that requires many new tools to use effectively and almost everything in the stack is complex to learn. compare to something like https:&#x

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