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by Tade0 4mo ago
I jokingly refer to this as the Catholic principle: "sin first - confess and repent later" as it's a common theme in countries that are/were traditionally Catholic, including my own. It's really just places cultural
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by Tade0 4mo ago
Personally I like having my TypeScript cake and eating it. I also truly believe those who design type systems would benefit from taking a look what kind of code people programming in dynamically-typed languages produce.
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by Tade0 4mo ago
It's an old person's disease. 30% of all cancers occur after the age of 74, 50% after 50. I used to work in the pharmaceutical industry and my experience is that people in this field in particular are extremely passionate - you ca
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by Tade0 4mo ago
The happy middle is you not using social media, or smartphones for that matter, in front of them. Kids scrutinize everything you say and do and will notice the discrepancy.
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by Tade0 4mo ago
Co-working space coworker went once to a school to teach kids about online safety and such. One of the exercises was to check out what you can and can't do with a locked-down smartphone. Several minutes later the kids figured out how t
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by Tade0 4mo ago
You are what I've started to call "34yo Patrice". 34yo Patrice has a stable job, a fiancé and broadly speaking has his life in order. Nobody in his circle knows he dropped out of high school, got in the wrong crowd and, inevi
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by Tade0 4mo ago
Personally I blame Jordan Peterson. He described dopamine's role correctly, just didn't adjust the message to his audience, who in turn misunderstood what he said and passed that on, referencing him as an authority. Now that I thi
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by Tade0 4mo ago
> The constant search for the next big thing, the next big hit of dopamine, The search itself is the dopamine hit. I think the author, if anything, meant endorphins, it's just that there's so much misleading pop science about t
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by Tade0 4mo ago
> Uruguay is more interesting, but Brasil was always happy with soccer, as was Argentina. Back in high school, due to a dearth of places to play and ubiquitous NO BALL GAMES signs we would joke that surely it must be entirely flipped in
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by Tade0 4mo ago
The Russo-Japanese war ultimately didn't end well for the Romanovs. A lot of people died in suspicious circumstances. I mean, someone has to be held accountable for that, don't they?
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by Tade0 4mo ago
That baby boom was an echo of the first post-war baby boom and fueled by a record 274k newly built apartments in 1979 - a culmination of a decade of ramping up construction when Edward Gierek took over and started borrowing money on a massi
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by Tade0 4mo ago
> Yes, Putin could in theory stop his war, but he tied his identity to it More like his life. He will not survive the end of this war.
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by Tade0 4mo ago
Perhaps it's cultural, but when people do that I take it as them not wanting to have that conversation - that is fine. Recently I had a person say a lot without really saying anything because most likely they didn't want me to hav
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by Tade0 4mo ago
Then it's back to the drawing board of course.
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by Tade0 4mo ago
Time crystals, AFAIK, are actually descriptive: they're crystals in the sense that they produce regularities through occupying the lowest energy state - they just do that in time, not just space.
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by Tade0 4mo ago
> Sequences of that length can encode entire biochemical pathways, laying the groundwork for engineered microbes that manufacture drugs, biofuels, or specialty chemicals, and eventually to the assembly of vast DNA constructs approaching
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by Tade0 4mo ago
That is true, but a lot of that, if replaced by electricity, would use considerably less energy overall, so it's not a 1:1 comparison. Residential heating in particular would use anywhere between a third to half the energy, if we only
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by Tade0 4mo ago
The haircuts were an official announcement from the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance: https://www.bbc.com/news/10527088 And it didn't stop here: https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-32587
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by Tade0 4mo ago
If you talked with actual Iranians or people who've been in Iran, they would corroborate what I said. The IRGC truly aims to control every aspect of people's lives - it's less pronounced in places like Tehran, but it's d
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by Tade0 4mo ago
I've seen it and at least in Chrome it seems to be treating all URLs which are based on an IP address as "local", regardless of the class of the address.
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by Tade0 4mo ago
I believe there is a qualitative difference between the governing systems in the west and a place where there are seven official allowed haircuts for men, aside from other things.
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by Tade0 4mo ago
Last time I travelled for work I brought only my work laptop. But I do commute on bicycle with both in a bag clipped to a child seat. Combined weight of the devices is 4kg.
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by Tade0 4mo ago
HDR support would be one I suppose. IIRC it's plain impossible with X11.
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by Tade0 4mo ago
Quite possible, as it wouldn't even the first instance in my case. Previous were more upfront about it though.
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by Tade0 4mo ago
I don't think they're actual companies. One of the more recent emails I received contains this bit: "If you're already employed, I can also support you in taking on additional contract work. I'll guide you through t
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by Tade0 4mo ago
I'm still getting this sort of spam to an address I posted here 5+ years ago. Recently it intensified, which leads me to believe it's automated. I guess we can officially add a third entry and, keeping the alphabetical order, make
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by Tade0 4mo ago
"find the cause" is exactly what e.g. therapy is for. It's not some insurmountable challenge to do that.
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by Tade0 4mo ago
My understanding is that when someone uses the term "doomscrolling", they mean something negative.
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by Tade0 4mo ago
Plese refer to point 3. of my list. That is change.
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by Tade0 4mo ago
This is a method, but it's the underlying issue that needs to be resolved. People doomscroll primarily to avoid certain thoughts/feelings/situations. The way out of it is to: 1. Note that you're avoiding something. 2.

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