Fordrus

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by Fordrus 10y ago
It's all quite true. It's also, at times, a grindingly soul-crushing attitude that'll suck the joy out of your life and the excitement out of your soul. Every training cycle, every sleep/wake learning cycle, every mome
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by Fordrus 10y ago
I'm already working on getting my little one to go for the idea that intelligence == hard intellectual work, not innate ability, and "You're a hard worker!" is pretty good, and I think you for it! I'm still searchin
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by Fordrus 10y ago
This is great advice, but I'm not sure it hits the mark I'm trying to hit - I do already talk to my little guy about what things were hard vs. easy, and how much I admire his efforts, but there's a flow to interactions, espec
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by Fordrus 10y ago
Putting a little TL;DR up here on top, because I'd really like to see folks' answers to this: What's the simple-language equivalent of, "You're so smart," or "That was so smart," but for intellectual
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by Fordrus 10y ago
Report, report, report. Who are you delivering the final product to? Email that person, tell that person during stand-up, "I discovered issue X in my project today, this pushes back my deadline by Y hours/days/weeks/mo
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by Fordrus 10y ago
>why don't they just under promise and over achieve I can answer this one! Because when you underpromise, you are undervalued, and if you are undervalued, then you often won't receive needed investment/trust/means&#x2
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by Fordrus 10y ago
Most interesting, I make the exact same distinction, but have the terms reversed - joy is what can coexist with sadness, happiness is sadness's mutually exclusive term, in my own in-mind lexicon.
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by Fordrus 10y ago
An antibiotic discovery startup, eh? That's freaking fascinating, I'm in bioinformatics myself, I'd love to hear more about this- I wasn't aware that an antibiotic discovery startup was/is/could be a thing at a
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by Fordrus 10y ago
I have a potential context shift to offer - do you mean this exact thing was discussed, that is, the protein cathepsin B which is released upon rigorous exercise? The potential context shift I have to offer here is that I perceive that what
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by Fordrus 10y ago
Except that this allows organizations to participate in fallguyism. Organizations that cannot be punished and individuals who can create an effect where the individual can do something illegal but extremely beneficial for the corporation,
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by Fordrus 10y ago
Now, I don't necessarily disagree that it's a bad idea overall, but the anthropomorphic quality is NOT what makes this absurd. Not at all, not even a little. An abstract organization of people can be invested in, have its collec
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by Fordrus 10y ago
And holy monkey, your comment is about as self referential as they get. You don't offer any coherent points to argue, you make a comparison so vague that, indeed, you do not actually tell us what it is, but rather just that you have a
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by Fordrus 10y ago
See, this is a GREAT comparison, because thinking, "No one will call 911 at 3am" EASILY falls into the realm of destructive negligence. Like "I didn't realize these cars could be hit from the side!" or, "I did
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by Fordrus 10y ago
I assert that it would be erroneous to call this a firing, precisely because a the primary reason people use the word, "fired," is because it implies 3 things: 1. Something I did was bad enough that I don't work there anymore
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by Fordrus 11y ago
Rofl! These are interesting points, and honestly, cause for deep thought. If these premises are sound, one might argue that a large part of the rise of clinical depression as the problem is presently constituted coincided with the phasing
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by Fordrus 11y ago
That seems reasonable, but I'm left wondering what else I can reasonably draw from the article- if we present depression as a reasonable response of our inherent psychology that's attempting to induce us to change, what block can
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by Fordrus 11y ago
No, I don't think it's a straw man at all, I think it's absolutely correct in the sense that severe depression at a clinical level virtually precludes people just "figuring out what they're missing" or excising
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by Fordrus 11y ago
Oh, this is a fantastic and beautiful deconstruction of this argument, I LOVE this. The comparison to chronic pain is fantastic , because indeed, chronic pain is a side effect of many conditions, and if we were able to relieve the chron
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by Fordrus 11y ago
Let me just take a moment to register monumentally huge agreement with your modification of the the metaphor at hand. The problem here is that huge numbers of other people are living in almost exactly the same circumstances - or ones
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by Fordrus 11y ago
Original Diablo was originally going to be turn based, but that design was scrapped later, replaced by the more action-oriented stuff. :)
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by Fordrus 11y ago
Yeah, I believe the point you're missing is that topics like Karen also get deleted from the large topic pages. If the have their own topic, they are deleted, if they're included in a larger summary page, they are edited out.
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by Fordrus 11y ago
Anciently, there was the UNIX. But the UNIX was held close by those who had received it, and the world trembled in darkness, because there was no UNIX to light the way. But then came Linus Torvalds, attempting to discover which of the sys
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by Fordrus 11y ago
I wish I had two lives, so that I could dedicate one of them to the work of the doctor in the article- legitimizing psychedelic therapy by testing it properly and publishing the results. I've never tripped, but reading about tripping
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by Fordrus 11y ago
And, to be fair, as someone who has never done LSD and will likely wait until it is legal and can be prescribed by a physician- that sounds like an AMAZING experience. :)
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by Fordrus 11y ago
I think your assumptions are fundamentally wrong. The examples of repetition you describe are specifically designed , whether by a video game producer, a musician, or a priestly class- to feel important and be generally pleasant . Vid
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by Fordrus 11y ago
<mumbles something nearly unintelligible about having started modeling it himself, but then having checked Thingiverse, he got it off of Thingiverse because someone had already done a fantastic job of modelling the piece. :D >
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by Fordrus 11y ago
I'm so torn on exactly what to do for my month-old firstborn kid. I love him so much, I want to raise him with all possible advantages, but I don't want to create a living death zombie student out him- I figure my best bet is jus
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by Fordrus 11y ago
If you tailor the use-case to one a consumer 3D printer can't match, then you can certainly show that the materials science won't allow the consumer-grade machine to compete- the issue here is one of imagination and applicability.
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by Fordrus 11y ago
I took shop class, I made a chess board that I remain proud of to this day, and I used a metal lathe CNC to make chess pieces- also, a really lovely decorative shelf. And I just can't disagree with you strongly enough . Just recently,
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by Fordrus 11y ago
This response deepens my concern about the situation, rather than alleviating it. In this response, you make it sound like calling this security researcher's employer's CEO was a reasonable escalation of the situation, and that i

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