Zelphyr

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by Zelphyr 5y ago
Please don't put words in other people's mouths either. I think it's clear from GP's post that that's NOT what they were implying.
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> I think boys already are told what is acceptable and what isn't. Maybe things have changed since I was young but, that may be overly generous. The kind of discussion I'm suggesting never happened with me, or, if it did, it h
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by Zelphyr 5y ago
There is a lot about the sexual events in this post that, to me, highlights something I feel is important which is: we parents need to get better had having conversations with our children around sex. This girl was feeling uncomfortable and
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by Zelphyr 5y ago
Or, maybe, "Everybody is altruistic until they have shareholders." The idea that companies should only be beholden to shareholders that has taken firm hold over the past 50(+/-) years doesn't look to be a good one, in hi
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by Zelphyr 5y ago
I'm as big an Apple fan as they come but they've got some work to do in supporting their services. My wife bought a subscription box with her Apple Card and somehow the subscription service assigned someone else's email addre
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by Zelphyr 5y ago
I've been thinking about this a lot since I first heard this story about Feynman. I've been in this industry now for 25 years and there have been three times when I wanted to quit. During the first two, in the back of my mind I
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
If what they have done to the Joe Rogan Experience is any indication, they will fail at this endeavor. How they have handled it is so bad that it can only be explained by incompetence. Over six months after switching to Spotify, when I ven
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
You're right that PHP has historically had its fair share of "development by copy-and-paste from StackOverflow" developers. However, I've noticed that in recent years a lot of those people moved to the JavaScript ecosys
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
We have to do the work. We have to educate ourselves on the issues which means reading bills as they are going through the process and being voted on, calling and writing our representatives to tell them how we want them to vote on those b
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
Until we all start holding these people more accountable, and better educating ourselves on the issues, nothing is going to change and they know it. Here is, in particular, what they know: We as a whole despise Congress but somehow manage t
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
I don't know much about finance but based on what GP said, the biggest difference (aside from the acronym) is that one is a fund-raising event and the other is a liquidation event for shareholders. I read the latter as Coinbase's
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
In my experience, projects like NativeScript are ideal for prototyping but they start to show their warts pretty quickly once you build anything more than that or a basic CRUD app. I personally enjoyed NativeScript when I used it a couple o
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
The hip, shiny framework/project that everyone is going to jump to in 2025 has yet to be written.
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
Genuine question: if he had actually used the words "I'm sorry" or "I apologize", would that have made you feel better about what he said?
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
Unrelated but, I'm curious: how does RMS pay the bills? The FSF board seat is a volunteer position and he no longer works for MIT. Is he paid as a consultant or something?
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
I really hope this will be sufficient to let this whole situation rest. The right thing to do is to accept his apology while holding him accountable for his commitment to be better in the future.
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
No, I am not a medical provider. I am only speaking from years of experience practicing what I learned after seeing an ACT-trained therapist. So don’t take my word for it without verifying for yourself with a similarity trained therapist. T
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
There is a term I heard once for what you did: "Disobey the fear." You want to run from the anxiety, but at the same time, you logically know you're not really in any danger. Disobeying that urge to run re-trains your body
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
> mindfulness is the opposite of any therapy I can think of. It is an ego-depletion technique proven to be detrimental to people suffering from anxiety and depression. This is simply not true. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) a
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
I've been on the keto diet for several years and one aspect of that is that you have to pay a little more attention to your sodium intake than you do otherwise, for various reasons I won't get into here. Suffice it to say, about
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
A form of CBT that has been shown to be particularly effective at anxiety and panic is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). If you've been struggling with anxiety, I highly recommend seeking out a therapist who has been trained in
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
Simply breathing through a straw may not do it. My therapist had me run up and down a flight of stairs for about 30 seconds and then breathe through a straw cut down to about 3 inches while holding my nostrils closed. Your body thinks you&
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
I just finished reading Arnold Schwarzenegger's autobiography and one thing he says frequently is, "reps, reps, reps, reps!". He obviously got his physical gains through many reps but he also says he would never film a stunt
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
App Tracking Transparency
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I find that often you’re right about enjoying things like puzzles, math problems, riddles, those little 3D wooden things, crosswords. It seems like a lot of programmers enjoy those things. Except for me. I hate most of those things yet I lo
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
Your post kind-of reminds me of this: https://youtu.be/ZDTkn6PCbtY
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
Regardless of where you focus your attention on next, you might want to consider filling in your understanding of really low-level foundations with books like “Code” be Charles Petzold and “The Elements of Computing Systems” by Noam Nisan a
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
I started out with vi and then Vim. When TextMate came out, I became an avid user. I liked how easily I could customize it but then it seemed kind-of abandonware (could be just my own perception) so I moved on to Sublime Text. I played a
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
It doesn't seem to me the problem is with the demographic trend of Facebook users so much as Facebook executives, including and especially Mark Zuckerberg, willfully choosing to ignore the misinformation simply because doing so would n
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
Any chance that image is a hint at an AR glasses announcement?

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