JenrHywy

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by JenrHywy 3y ago
I agree: the essential component is vulnerable commitment to something (better: someone) outside of yourself. Marriage happens to be a structure that society has evolved over time that helps people find that.
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by JenrHywy 3y ago
DINKs have been a thing for a very long time, and of course they have the highest disposable income of any group. But that only matters if disposable income is your objective function.
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by JenrHywy 3y ago
Maybe, just maybe, there's more to marriage than having a friend you have sex with?
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by JenrHywy 3y ago
Wonderfully put. I met my (now) wife after a long relationship that'd ended somewhat messily. I made the conscious decision to go all-in on the new relationship because it could not possibly be what I wanted it to be if I didn't.
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by JenrHywy 3y ago
You are the last in an extremely long lineage of people who had children in circumstances far worse that the current economy.
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by JenrHywy 3y ago
Perhaps we've just read different Stoics. I think it's clear from many scenarios in The Enchiridion that the aim is to not become fully emersed in emotion. Some examples that spring to mind: - going to sporting events to be social
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by JenrHywy 3y ago
If you're interested in Stoicism, one of the benefits is that you can read (translations of) the actual Roman Stoics. I think the main thing is to find an author the meshes with you. A lot of people love Seneca, but I found him too lon
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by JenrHywy 3y ago
You'll notice that that's not what I (or Nietzsche) said. I agree that Stoicism isn't about eliminating emotions, but it is about not letting them overtake our rationality. My contention is that to experience the deepest an
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by JenrHywy 3y ago
Although this article definitely some weird "modern academic" aspects, overall I feel like many of the commenters here are being uncharitable towards the author. Epictetus is by far my favourite of the Stoics I've read. The E
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by JenrHywy 3y ago
The colour grading on Stalker on YouTube seems quite different to other versions floating around. The YT version seems to have lost the heavy yellow cast of the other versions. Does anyone know which is "correct"? It makes quite
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by JenrHywy 3y ago
Not that I've been able to find. Brave would be the obvious candidate to implement this, but the impression I get is that they're not all that interested.
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by JenrHywy 3y ago
I bought an iPad specifically for reading PDFs. It does get used for other things too, but the primary driver was PDFs. Most tablets seem to be optimised for horizontal video content, which makes then too narrow for A4 PDF, whereas the 4:3
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by JenrHywy 3y ago
Obviously I'm biased, but I think it's well worth it, though you do have to be OK with films are are more about atmosphere than plot.
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by JenrHywy 3y ago
That's an interesting observation, but I think it depends on time period you look at. A few years ago, the discussion certainly seemed more Left-ish than now, especially around BLM/trans/women-in-tech issues. HN of 5+ years a
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by JenrHywy 3y ago
Surely, as this is a purely subjective experience, what matters is not if spoilers don't affect enjoyment in general, but whether they affect enjoyment for me ? One of my favourite films, Stalker as a scene referred to as "the me
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by JenrHywy 3y ago
> I'm not sure introversion vs extraversion is relevant. Firstly, i'm not sure they're even real things; they show up in a lot of snake oil psychology (Jung, Myers-Briggs) Calling Jung snake-oil psych is a bit of a hot tak
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by JenrHywy 3y ago
I've done pairing in the past, and as much as it was fun and felt productive, it was completely exhausting. I don't know how people do it day-in-day-out. I always wonder if the pairing advocates and extroverts, and if that's
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by JenrHywy 3y ago
100% The author also seems to have missed that you can still use CI on feature branches. Merge `master` to your feature branch regular, run the CI. Sure, you're only integrating with other complete-ish work, but it gets you a long way
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by JenrHywy 3y ago
> “As they work on it” is essential. As a team member, you don’t wait until you have finished a feature or story to integrate your code to the mainline. Instead, you frequently - at least once a day - put your code into a healthy state t
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by JenrHywy 3y ago
> Learning is about recalling information I think this is the core of what people are arguing with. I think people assume that if they fill their heads with facts, they'll end up like Tyler Cowan (or pick any other amazing-recall pu
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by JenrHywy 3y ago
Atlas Shrugged is most definitely fiction. Just because it was written in service of communicating a philosophy/ideology doesn't change that. Same with Camus' The Stranger, or Sartre's Nausea.
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by JenrHywy 3y ago
Many people under 45 don't have the same requirements for transport, though. It's easy to say you don't need a car when you're mobile and don't have to ship kids around. We try to minimize our car usage - we have on
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by JenrHywy 3y ago
Everyone except the capitalists. And the Kulaks.
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by JenrHywy 3y ago
I have two autistic sons. Obviously we moderate our expectations and responses based on their particular capabilities and preferences. But it's quite a lot of work to override inbuilt social/emotional reactions - more than you can
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by JenrHywy 3y ago
I really want Brave to succeed, and I like where they're going - but temporary containers still seems like a superior approach in pretty much every way.
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by JenrHywy 3y ago
Not the OP, but I've been in tech in Australia for over 20 years. When I was young and stupid I worked 80hr weeks, 24/7 on-call for a couple of years and it destroyed me. After that it has been 40hr weeks unless I feel like workin
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by JenrHywy 3y ago
It might still mean something to the giver, but far less to the receiver.
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by JenrHywy 3y ago
Having access to your data on your own devices is... bad now?
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by JenrHywy 3y ago
Maybe it depends on why you want to blog. I maintained a blog for probably 10 years, but in the end took to down. It was mostly a way for me to explore ideas and organise my thinking. As I got a bit older, I realised that this didn't r
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by JenrHywy 3y ago
I think this is broader than "the Internet". Parts of the fringe get absorbed into the mainstream. Capitalism is particularly good that this - look at companies monetizing social movements in various ways for the last 100 years. I

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