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by Spinnaker_ 5y ago
"Doorway in the style of Escher"
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by Spinnaker_ 5y ago
It's terrible behaviour. Flip it around: "Hey, would you like to come to a dinner party at my house on Saturday. There's a 50/50 chance that I'll turn you away at the door." Don't make your indecisiveness
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by Spinnaker_ 5y ago
Not quite dating, but they used to have GRAY, which directed you to a Sugar Daddy service.
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by Spinnaker_ 5y ago
It's missing the most important section: "Known Bugs". I don't think the average person knows themselves well enough to write a user manual, myself included. This is an idealized version of how he thinks about himself. R
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by Spinnaker_ 5y ago
I don't think it's necessarily AAA games. I don't game much anymore, but the last five games I played are: Elden Ring, Red Dead Redemption 2, God of War, Super Mario Odyssey and Breath of The Wild. None of them have the probl
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by Spinnaker_ 5y ago
No, it's not a measure of strength. It's a measure of explosiveness, or rate of force production. They are actually very different physical traits. Strength can be trained to a large extent. Explosiveness is mainly genetics. You c
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by Spinnaker_ 5y ago
You ever watch the NFL scouting Combine? It's a stat every recruiter looks at for most sports. As a competitive volleyball player I (and my coach) obsessed over a 5% increase that came from years of training. The evidence that you can
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by Spinnaker_ 5y ago
Perhaps the best physical test for innate athletic ability is the standing vertical jump. There isn't an awful lot you can do to improve it. You can lose weight and train explosiveness, but someone with a 10" vertical will never b
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by Spinnaker_ 5y ago
He immediately and thoroughly owned up to his mistakes regarding Russia. His credibility has increased in my mind.
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by Spinnaker_ 5y ago
People forgot that almost everyone who works in these restaurants also has a "common as muck" background. The fancyness is all an act they've learned. I'd say servers may even prefer customers like the author over anothe
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by Spinnaker_ 5y ago
Former Newfoundland Premier Brian Peckford, one of the men who helped draft our Charter of Rights and Freedoms, is suing the government, claiming that these travel restrictions on Canadian citizens are unconstitutional. It's a pretty r
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by Spinnaker_ 5y ago
No kidding. I did concrete for a single summer. Software engineering barely counts as work compared to that.
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by Spinnaker_ 5y ago
You have a very weird idea of what security guards do. They don't sit in front of the entrance all night, scaring off would-be robbers. They are inside the building, in their booth, probably looking over some monitors. They do not prov
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by Spinnaker_ 5y ago
I also recommend a response to every recruiter, but you don't need to explain your privilege, you don't need to suck up to them, and you don't need to justify your actions. "Hey ____. Before we move forward, can you prov
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by Spinnaker_ 5y ago
I definitely used to think that way. It's the type of thing that is a lot of fun to be a part of, until it isn't anymore. It's a thrilling way to self identify, until it becomes your entire identity. I hope they all end up ok
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by Spinnaker_ 5y ago
6 years sober here. Most of the advice so far wouldn't have been much help when I first stopped drinking. It's honestly hard, and the first year or two won't be great. Boardgames and cafes are boring as fuck compared to getti
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by Spinnaker_ 5y ago
Hey man, it's going to be ok. Feed them, keep them safe, love them. Enjoy it. 10 years from now you'll look back on this and smile.
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by Spinnaker_ 5y ago
I guess I'm drawing on memory, but not visually. Try closing your eyes. You probably still have a sense of the shape of the room you are in, without actually picturing it right? Like you know how far away the walls are and where the bo
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by Spinnaker_ 5y ago
Very difficult. I can't fold the cube up in my mind. I tried for a few minutes and just felt frustrated. Instead I needed to look at angles of the numbers relative to each other and eliminate wrong answers.
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by Spinnaker_ 5y ago
I always thought "picture in your head" was a figure of speech. I was also really confused how police sketch artists worked. I have zero mental imagery of even my wife's face, yet people could somehow describe features of str
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by Spinnaker_ 5y ago
Food safety is about temperature and time. Not just temperature. When you see a temperature like 165 it means that the moment the meat hits that temperature it is safe. You can lower the max temperature as long as you increase the time the
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by Spinnaker_ 5y ago
I think you're also attacking a position no one really holds. Of course it's incredibly complicated. But we do know quite a bit about tonic and phasic release of dopamine as well as the effects of dopamine depletion. The video is
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by Spinnaker_ 5y ago
The author is attacking a position that doesn't really exist. You obviously don't fast from dopamine in general. You fast from dopamine peaks. Continuous spiking of dopamine causes your baseline levels to drop, and you feel shitty
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by Spinnaker_ 5y ago
> your impact as an individual is limited People such as Solzhenitsyn prove that your impact as an individual can be staggeringly large. Individuals can shift the course of nations and effect the lives of hundreds of millions. > ignor
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by Spinnaker_ 5y ago
How well can copilot write unit tests? This seems like an area where it could be really useful and actually improve software development practices.
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by Spinnaker_ 5y ago
Is it really a partnership? Do they have as much say in your continued employment as you have in theirs? What I found works best is giving them advanced notice of what type of feedback is expected and when. Schedule a one on one a week in a
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by Spinnaker_ 5y ago
Off topic, but is there a new site that replaced lambda-the-ultimate? It's such an amazing source of PL discussion... but mainly from 10 years ago.
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by Spinnaker_ 5y ago
> It felt like one literal crazy dude going on disappointing adventures and then (spoilers) it just ends with him dying, having regretting everything he did, which in my mind, sums up the book pretty well. Ah yes, and Moby Dick is just a
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by Spinnaker_ 5y ago
Ok but 5 beers for a big guy isn't even close to what most people think of as a hangover. We're talking about trying to exercise after 15 beers and 4 hours of sleep.
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by Spinnaker_ 5y ago
I can't imagine that there will ever be a political solution. Let's say that 100 years from now we have solved climate change. What will history show? I doubt that the western powers plus China, India, Nigeria, Congo, Pakistan, et

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