Mezzie

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In librarianship we have the concept of "vocational awe" [0] which also applies to professions such as EMTs, nursing, and teaching. It's a combination of guilt, the idea that bringing money into something 'holy'&#x2
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> Unless someone has lived with chronic pain, they won't be able to understand what it does to your mental health. Living in constant pain is hard - fucking hard. And specifically chronic pain that will never get better and can on
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Blockchain with Proof of Authority and distribution of said authority across geographic and (to a degree) professional boundaries might help. If the institutions with authority are, for example, every legal depository, W3C, the IA, a UN age
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The average kid who is that bright or in that situation is not being asked to work a check-out line. We recognize that it isn't an efficient use of their talent. That kid is doing side projects or taking internships. They have to pick
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> Since all of us kids were from very, very poor families, this was a particularly incredible opportunity that I didn't fully appreciate until I was an adult. It's interesting having been early and poor (or relatively so), i
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The earliest censuses of population Web use in the mid 90s had triple-digit numbers for those of us under the age of 10. We're looking at kids under the age of 10 (or more realistically I would say 7-8) because that's early enough
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> And now that I say that out loud -- that's a difference. When I was a kid, the older generations of hackers went out of their way to encourage and support budding young hackers. That's how I got my start. Maybe there's n
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Yup. I went off to college right after this and was from a poorer family and that's one reason I opted not to go into CS as a degree despite over a decade of programming/web experience. It wasn't seen as a stable career path
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That's a good point. Perhaps a refining of the question as to why there are fewer hackers in software specifically since you're right that the conditions exist for hacker development in electronics (and I'm super hype for a l
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I like your point of view (and very much appreciate your comments by the way). By your definition, I would definitely count (as would, say, my cousin who is buying laptops for her kids to take apart and homeschooling them and taking a hacke
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There's a huge difference between something being gamified and something being play , particularly unstructured play . Scratch is great, but it's structured and something presented by adults to children for learning. That has
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Yeah, a part of it is that there's not really a mechanic class in the way that there used to be. I mentioned that's how my grandpa got his start: He was obsessed with TVs and repaired them/made his own FrankenTVs as a side
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I care about other things and people as much as tech. I can't just tinker with computers/machines and to stay up to date you have to invest some time in both the work and the communities. I'm very, very much a generalist. M
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> somehow are here just to post and comment about non-programming topics. I comment way more on non-programming topics because that's where I think I can contribute - most people on here are better programmers than I am but I have l
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This is very astute. I'd like to add that the pipeline for child/adolescent hackers that existed in the pre-00s is basically non-existent. The only major path that still exists that I can think of is game modding. I'm a third
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Good clarification, thanks!
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> If a student already knew the material before taking the class and got that A, "they didn't learn anything," said Greene Also, the fuck they didn't. They learned patience (have to listen to/discuss other peop
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Have you tried with acts you don't like or just physical characteristics? I found that I could see attractiveness in men, but I could never engage in PIV intercourse or give them oral. (Which pretty much rules dating them out because t
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I came out online in the mid 90s and in rural MI in 2000. I also find this maddening and frankly it feels kind of like gaslighting. Corrective rape/assault and violent reactions to my sexuality were things I had to seriously consider e
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Oh look, it's me. (I started the SNRI for non mental health reasons but it fucked me up good.)
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And those of us who have to be breadwinners are not in a good spot. I'm responsible for an adult who's bipolar and can't hold down a job. Supporting multiple people on a single income is absurdly difficult right now. And many
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It's debatable whether that is true for everyone . I know I've tried to make myself like men on several occasions. I was definitely willing and not doing it out of self-hatred.
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One change is that bisexual people are more likely to come out. This has actually had some interesting effects on queer spaces over the past 30 years: Most of them used to be populated by homosexuals but now most queer spaces seem to be mos
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I mean to be fair, it'd be nearly impossible to get evidence one way or another given we're discussing the true motives of people and those are impossible to objectively verify. I don't think there's any shady conspiracy
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Commercial real estate often operates under multi-year leases, so companies have property leases anyway, they figure they might get some use for it. Other than that, the pressure mostly has to do with the networks/social circles that t
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> I don't understand the difference between stoicism and experiential avoidance. I agree with you that I see a lot of people using stoicism as experiential avoidance, but there is a difference between experiential avoidance and heal
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I've been depressed (but also not - I'm 'lucky' in that my depression is/has been situation based rather than innate/chemical). I think the problem with chasing happiness in particular is that it's kind of
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Oh man. I worked with a lot of local and state governmental officials at my last job and some of the websites are bonkers . I've also done fact checking for academic publishers on topics that required deep diving into a lot of non-Wes
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I had medication induced alexithymia and since I've experienced both sides of it, I would add my voice to saying that having alexithymia causes major problems in finding purpose in life. Making any kind of decision was terrible ; I co
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> But I've always been uncomfortable with the opposite extreme position, the implicit reaction to the moral panic. The argument where TV, movies, games, social media, it's not possible for them to have any real effect on their

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