Devthrowaway80

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by Devthrowaway80 11y ago
> It's really, really easy to think you're one of God's Chosen (or Allahs, or Jehovas, or Buddha's, or ...) when you're at the top of the world, you've got a multi-trillion-dollar wind in your sails, you wen
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by Devthrowaway80 11y ago
I believe this is the case in Switzerland. There are multipliers for certain cars as well - sports cars pay an additional penalty. Everyone was driving EXACTLY the speed limit. I was warned not to go more than a few km/h over the limit
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by Devthrowaway80 11y ago
Peopleware has a great line about "status meetings" really being meetings about status - as enforcing the manager/subordinate role, or "look at how productive I am" image or so on. They aren't to accomplish act
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by Devthrowaway80 11y ago
So which is it - is it a treatment with no benefits other than that which is attributable to selection bias, as you first claimed, or is it a high-touch treatment that performs similarly to CBT or other forms of therapy? You're moving
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by Devthrowaway80 11y ago
Your "quote" is not what I wrote, I include other support groups in my statement. I have no interest in arguing with obvious axe-grinding. > People rarely fall off the wagon and then keep going to meetings. I have a significant
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by Devthrowaway80 11y ago
His understanding of the reasoning behind Tradition 11 is flawed. It has nothing to do with protecting the image AA from member relapses. It has to do with encouraging humility among its members, who are alcoholics and who generally tend to
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by Devthrowaway80 11y ago
Interesting to hear that. The first time I ever had unrestricted access to alcohol was a revelation - like I'd suddenly found the cure for everything that ailed me. I lost count at something like 26 standard drinks. Fast forward about
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by Devthrowaway80 11y ago
We've had this discussion ad nauseam on other addiction threads here. The TL;DR of the literature is that in the short term, most methods have the same "success rate", where success here is defined as successfully achieving a
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by Devthrowaway80 11y ago
> "We are all leaders here!" As a Amazon refugee, that is the funniest fucking thing I've read all day. We're all cowering, downtrodden, abused leaders here!
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by Devthrowaway80 11y ago
I read this comment while wearing an Aphex Twin shirt in the office. :(
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by Devthrowaway80 11y ago
The author of this piece runs one. Article worked as planned, I guess.
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by Devthrowaway80 11y ago
I shall pass this way but once; any good that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being; let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
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by Devthrowaway80 11y ago
This just sounds like a rehashing of the famous Rat Park experiments, where happy rats in a good (from a rat's perspective) environment refused morphine, but rats in traditional cages guzzled it. It seems like putting rats through litt
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by Devthrowaway80 11y ago
Don't bring facts into this!
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by Devthrowaway80 11y ago
Yup, severe negative reaction to Seroquel (prescribed for psychosis, not bipolar) checking in. I was in and out of consciousness - mostly out - for almost 36 hours. That was interesting to explain to my employer. I am now on Abilify and it&
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by Devthrowaway80 11y ago
> My own theory of depression is that it is your brain's way of getting you to change something in your life that is counterproductive to your future wellbeing. Sometimes it isn't entirely obvious what exactly is causing the de
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by Devthrowaway80 11y ago
I'm currently on an antidepressant and antipsychotic for a variant of depression called major depression with psychotic effects - basically, if depression gets bad enough you can start to lose touch with reality. I was afraid to go on
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by Devthrowaway80 11y ago
Well, that answers the question of "should I skip my meeting tonight?" I guess.
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by Devthrowaway80 11y ago
Exactly. Funerals are for the living, not the dead.
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by Devthrowaway80 11y ago
> Is there some kind of certification that the hackathon organizers got to be allowed to do this? They are certified to produce software at Level 3 Free Speech as laid out in ISO 4328. Compliance was verified at great cost by Certified
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by Devthrowaway80 11y ago
Totally sane. Engineering in my company is about 50% Apple, 50% Linux (mostly Thinkpads.) Development of some things on a Mac is fine after some adjustment, some things obviously require a Mac (iOS), and other things come with varying degre
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by Devthrowaway80 11y ago
New business idea: people engaging in risky commercial enterprises (like, say, renting a valuable property on AirBNB) could pay into a central fund, which would cover damages in rare but nasty circumstances like this. The amount they pay co
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by Devthrowaway80 11y ago
My MacBook Pro is on its last legs and I've been thinking about replacing it with a Dell Linux machine. Any tips on how you've gone about finding said corporate liquidators?
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by Devthrowaway80 11y ago
That makes much more sense, I appreciate you replying.
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by Devthrowaway80 11y ago
Incidentally, her husband was in the hole to the tune of $16 million, which I imagine had nothing to do with how much money she was seeking.
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by Devthrowaway80 11y ago
I'm not sure I understand the point of this project. Is it to detect if new versions of compilers change what happens when you run into undefined behaviour? I also don't understand the mindset behind the usage of the word "e
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by Devthrowaway80 11y ago
Americans as a group seem to view ever-harsher conditions in prison and after release as being a necessary disincentive for criminal behaviour. Sexual assault in prison and its tacit support amongst the general population seems to me to jus
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by Devthrowaway80 11y ago
What you wrote is pretty much my point of view, so I'm not going to elaborate. :) Type erasure also hobbled the type system in Scala, annoyingly. Type erasure was a compromise to allow migration, it is not a design choice that would&#x
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by Devthrowaway80 11y ago
I can't stand Java generics. They're better than nothing, but type erasure really limits their utility.
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by Devthrowaway80 11y ago
Sounds like you need a more challenging job. The area you work in affects what you'll be doing - like others have suggested, HFT, machine learning, or things that require a lot of actual technical work might be more up your alley. Also

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