KenPainter

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by KenPainter 3y ago
Group together as religions those systems of thought and their institutions that make specific truth claims about 1. Origins of the cosmos and, specifically, homo sapiens 2. Existence (or not) and nature of super-human sentient beings, thei
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by KenPainter 3y ago
My heart goes out to you. My story is similar. Everything in school came easy to me. Later in life I found myself outmatched by "lesser minds" who knew the value of consistent effort. I knew I lacked discipline, was envious of o
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by KenPainter 3y ago
I saw something similar 20 years ago. I had a vacation home. They wanted to rent. Sent me two cashiers checks for 5000.00 requesting a wire transfer of remainder. I ghosted them and kept the checks as souvenirs. There is a twist. They se
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by KenPainter 3y ago
I can only tell you what I did. Physics IMHO. It's weight lifting for the mind, teaches you judgement, precision, and abstraction while insisting results be grounded in physical reality. What better skills for the acquisition of wisd
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by KenPainter 4y ago
No
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by KenPainter 4y ago
Pithy non-answer: no and why would you want to? Serious answer: yes but it's not a change of personality. It's about recognizing fear and developing skills. When I experienced this level of deep self doubt I emerged having learn
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by KenPainter 4y ago
Injuries usually build gradually through many repetitions of bad form. While free weights can push joints into unhealthy stretches the bands are more likely to pull the joints into bad form. It requires a firm suppression of ego as regula
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by KenPainter 4y ago
In some database apps I can replace all conditionals with loops over sets. If the set is empty nothing happens. The same can be done in other situations which i prefer because it's really robust but it requires such a change in think
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by KenPainter 4y ago
Thanks for posting. I've been writing up my own experiences so the only thing I will put in here is that I don't consider these experiences mystical. They are mechanical. Push this button and get this effect. I think the fifth j
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by KenPainter 4y ago
Okr's are the current trend for doing what we've always done, trying to predict the future. We use them only because they are fashionable. We structure flexibility into annual objectives so we can be flexible during the year in c
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by KenPainter 4y ago
I taught myself at about 13 on a trs-80. My high school taught us in 9th grade. My kids were never taught.
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by KenPainter 4y ago
Yes
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by KenPainter 4y ago
Ukraine, not imagine
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by KenPainter 4y ago
As for strikes inside Russia aimed at infrastructure, the weapons go to better use hitting occupying forces to reclaim Ukrainian territory. As for invading, I can make two guesses. First, same as strikes, forces are put to better use recla
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by KenPainter 4y ago
IMHO nothing comes close to finding a power lifting gym and lifting with them. The overall mood is usually helpful, encouraging, friendly and energetic. It is a high concentration of deep barbell experience. On the down side they focus e
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by KenPainter 4y ago
Same here. I tried meditation to learn to focus and the random s** got a lot worse before it got better.
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by KenPainter 4y ago
During lockdown I did it fit about 7 months. Like Justinram I found myself looking for home base, though for me it happened sooner.
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by KenPainter 4y ago
He's using the metaphor of the teleprompter for the larger idea that there are forces that constrain and direct the visible figures like the president.
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by KenPainter 4y ago
No. Just offering the perspective from a place of having done so myself, that web components are not as capable as the big 4 of react, angular, vuejs and svelte. I'd stick with one of those four for a single project,
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by KenPainter 4y ago
For all practical purposes the various component systems (react, angular, vuejs, svelte) all have the same abstractions, and they are quite powerful. The front end wars are over, the component abstraction won. But the browser native soluti
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by KenPainter 4y ago
I don't think anybody knew those big words when vi was cooked up.
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by KenPainter 4y ago
I think it's about understanding the tradeoffs. If you go for the grand unveiling you have something more complete, and fewer distractions while working on it. If your instincts are very good for what people want this is an advantage
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by KenPainter 4y ago
I sense this is a bad idea but here goes. In fact the church in the USA and Europe is in long decline. The American megachurches are a sign of consolidation of a shrinking pool. Were I still a Christian I might respond to that with the pa
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by KenPainter 4y ago
I'm here all week
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by KenPainter 4y ago
Macabees not Macaques
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by KenPainter 4y ago
I'd say the same about the Majjhima Nikaya. If I said things like that.
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by KenPainter 4y ago
I have. Though frankly I skipped a lot of Isaiah, just couldn't choke it down. No single impression is possible. Too many authors over too many centuries, but here are a few, working backwards. Revelation. No clue. But more of Terry
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by KenPainter 5y ago
Welll...yes. a mountain of books equals no book.
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by KenPainter 5y ago
You are describing a person you are attracted to who's worldview is very different from your own. So you want to understand it. There is no book written that will explain her beliefs, you have to ask, listen and reflect, then ask som
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by KenPainter 5y ago
I wrote my own. I have been meaning to post this on Show HN, but have not gotten around to it. https://github.com/KenPainter/HackerFinance My basic flow is about once/month to import transactions from the banks (

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