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by MisterOctober 8y ago
I was a Mac user for ever 20 years -- finally ditched it a few weeks ago [for Linux] after getting fed up with their daft shenanigans. The whole App Store / iTunes archipelago, the willful rejection of expandable and [easily] user-serv
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by MisterOctober 8y ago
My dad-in-law has a CS degree that be got in like 1968, and there were a lot of folks in the field at that time according to him. He got started in FORTRAN and COBOL -- he was not a hipster nerd by any stretch of the imagination, just a re
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by MisterOctober 8y ago
Yep. Back in my student / tutor days at university, I had a student with severe mental health problems. One afternoon, someone at his dorm called the police with the idea of helping him. He died of that day while being restrained by
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by MisterOctober 8y ago
^ Indeed -- the homemade article is in a different league. A guy in our accounting department brings in a jar from his mom once in a while, and it is revelatory. The fermentation lids for mason jars [linked in an earlier comment] are grea
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by MisterOctober 8y ago
Or, say, the 'Reading Rainbow' kickstarter.
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by MisterOctober 8y ago
Companies continually miss the mark when it comes to neo-dumbphones -- folks that want a dumbphone badly enough to seek one out, and I count myself in this category, want one that is small, very durable, foolproof, and inexpensive. These fe
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by MisterOctober 8y ago
S. Hawking also commented something to the effect that he'd be surprised if humans lasted another hundred years, let alone a thousand. Also : the notion of "the tape getting erased" mentioned above reminds me strongly of Will
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by MisterOctober 8y ago
Well stated. I think there's also a key difference between happiness, which my parents' generation [boomerish] constantly cites as a kind of fixed life goal, and contentedness, which I consider as a state of being more or less ab
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by MisterOctober 8y ago
re : banned : interesting! I wonder whether certain '90s practitioners of Norwegian black metal were aware of that?
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by MisterOctober 8y ago
Marry well bethought! Barbour actually does live on an ancient farm somewhere in the English countryside, maybe the environs are influencing his, uh, humours?
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by MisterOctober 8y ago
A couple things I note : 1) Lightman's description of his hallucinationish experience at the age of nine, wherein he perceived all time in one instant [or had the sensation of doing so], reminds me of Julian Barbour ["The Discover
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by MisterOctober 8y ago
I've anecdotally observed a trend of clinicians more centrally considering the role of nerves in psychological disorders. Like back in Bertie Wooster's day, when shrinks were called "nerve specialists" and many preparati
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by MisterOctober 8y ago
this has much merit