TrevorJ

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by TrevorJ 4y ago
Really depends on the type of game. Niche minecraft servers often have great communities. Small games that aren't PVP focused can be great. FFXIV has some great communities as well. It's definitely out there, but you gotta know wh
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by TrevorJ 4y ago
I'm not keep up on these things much anymore but around maybe...4-5 months ago Clubhouse seemed to be the new hotness. What happened?
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by TrevorJ 4y ago
I still think this is much more of a problem with video calls. Sure, the person running the meeting can take concrete steps to mitigate it slightly, but it's still added friction relative to in-person sessions. What you are describin
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by TrevorJ 4y ago
It definitely makes the situation feel a lot lower pressure to me. After all, the chief activity is taking a hike/walk, so if the conversation lulls it never feels awkward and there's always something new to see and remark on.
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by TrevorJ 4y ago
Taking walks with friends or colleagues is a vastly underrated activity and leads to some great conversations.
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by TrevorJ 4y ago
I find that for creative or problem-solving type activities two things are pretty crucial: 1. You need to be able to get up out of your chair and go do something else for a bit with zero friction. 2. You need to be able to start early or wo
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by TrevorJ 4y ago
We got lucky with that one so far .
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by TrevorJ 4y ago
The efficiency I gain from working out of a home office would be very hard to give up.
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by TrevorJ 4y ago
Something that gets missed a lot, is how much the news media relies on Twitter now. The percentage of stories that get run on online news sites which are built entirely on a few Twitter hot takes is astonishing. This is allowing journalists
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by TrevorJ 4y ago
This is a good point, however, I would say that the % of things which are NOT hot button issues has decreased dramatically over the past 5-6 years or so. It's a lot harder to avoid now.
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by TrevorJ 4y ago
Chesterton's Offence: Before we change a word, we should first understand why it was there in the first place. :P
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by TrevorJ 5y ago
Especially considering that you can get Bluetooth headphones for 20 bucks
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by TrevorJ 5y ago
The first I heard of CNN+ was in the context of how badly it was failing. I'm pretty immersed in the internet and our household collectively has 3 or so streaming services. It seems to me as if there advertising about the service did n
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by TrevorJ 5y ago
A phone from 3 years ago, running software from 4 years ago would be as fast as anyone would reasonably need, but it gets obsoleted via software bloat. More frameworks, more layers of abstraction and no confining force that forces anyone to
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by TrevorJ 5y ago
It's not clear to me that onshoring would be without utility if it's not on the current node. Surely there are vast improvements to security and defense concerns to be had through onshoring even if it's (conservatively) 3 yea
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by TrevorJ 5y ago
It isn't that his point isn't true , it's just that it is tautological. It's sort of like saying cars are more useful in country X than country Y because country x has roads. On the one hand: yes. On the other hand: it
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by TrevorJ 5y ago
Depends entirely on the situation. If a ten minute hike uphill gives you the ability to make a phone call, it's a pretty reasonable first step.
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by TrevorJ 5y ago
To borrow a metaphor, I'd say that now we are just quibbling over price . :) Discussions about relative risk, externalities and the like are all very relevant when it comes to other hobbies as well. It's just that most of the rel
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by TrevorJ 5y ago
I dunno, personally I'd have way more questions about tunnel digging.
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by TrevorJ 5y ago
Who knows. According to the post, this guy works, goes to church and has an SO. For a lot of people, that would be more than enough socializing.
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by TrevorJ 5y ago
What's interesting about this to me is the way it sort of causes you to examine why certain things are acceptable hobbies and other things aren't. This particular hobby has three notable attributes: 1. It's risky. 2. The end
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Ask HN: Does a tool like this exist?
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by TrevorJ 5y ago
If you are interested in this sort of thing, I've observed that indie videogame development offers quite a lot of opportunity to jump between code and art for people with the right skillsets. I also suspect that there's a lot of f
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by TrevorJ 5y ago
He's asking the same question I'm asking: "Why"? The scientist who conducted the study is saying his findings raises more questions, as any good study is likely to do. - I'm not sure why so many people want to read
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by TrevorJ 5y ago
I'm not calling the author's conclusions unscientific. At. All. He does not refer to damage, he does not draw conclusions about the mechanism which leads the cohort to have a higher risk of heart problems, and he certainly doesn&#
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by TrevorJ 5y ago
>Suppose your car doesn’t start. That supports the possibility of a dead battery, it also supports broken wire or anything else that’s a possible cause. What it doesn’t support is your car being in proper working order. Yes, these are hy
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by TrevorJ 5y ago
True. ;)
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Lack of evidence supports precisely nothing .
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>They found that even mild COVID damaged otherwise healthy people's hearts so badly that their risk for heart problems are now comparable to those of obese people. False. The study did NOT look for heart damage in the study populati
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by TrevorJ 5y ago
A plausible sci-fi story could probably be written about some ancient high-tech earth civilization doing this to rid themselves of bacterial infections and accidently inventing viruses.

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