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by amp108 6y ago
> In therapy, you are unconditionally accepted with positive regard Oh, how I wish that were true. When I was 12, my brother was heavily into drugs, my sister was violent, and my parents were ending their loveless marriage. I wasn't
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by amp108 6y ago
I've always grappled with why you call something a "metaphor" if you have no other word to call it. It always seemed to me that metaphor was something you used instead of the common term for something, for poetic or rhetorica
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by amp108 6y ago
>> Unfalsifiable claims like this one tend to have a bit of baggage like eternal punishment. > Here's something that is falsifiable and true: the teen suicide rates in the oppressive and orthodox 1950s were much lower than the
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by amp108 6y ago
"Pound foolish" is not a necessary outcome of "penny wise", in this saying, but "the pounds will take care of themselves" is. Taking care of the pennies works when one is, at worst, "pound neutral". B
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by amp108 7y ago
Any summary, for those of us who missed the availability window?
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by amp108 7y ago
I always thought he was one of the greatest actors ever to grace the screen. Truly a shock to see the headline.
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by amp108 7y ago
It's prevented me from keeping one at all. Years ago, my mother broke into my then 12-year-old sister's diary for no better reason than to find out what was going on when she wasn't home, which was often. I later wrote some r
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by amp108 7y ago
> this is the only time in history that we have almost the whole of human knowledge accessible at our fingertips from anywhere in the world within fractions of a second. If there ever were a time that we could look up actual evidence wi
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How do you know you know a new technology?
4 points by amp108 7y ago|8 comments
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by amp108 7y ago
Poetry has no more and no less meaning than language itself. The popular HN definition of a "hacker" is someone who digs deep into a system, understanding it and pushing its capabilities beyond what is commonly understood. Poets h
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by amp108 7y ago
Yeah, but how about this: select region_fleet, case when status = 'delivered' then 'delivered' else 'not delivered' end as status, date_trunc('week', day) as week, count(distinct row(day, so_number))
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by amp108 7y ago
The problem for me with changing my diet is that (a) it takes sustained concentration to change habits, and (b) it takes real planning and scheduling to do something like keto. Guess what I'm bad at, since I have ADHD?
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by amp108 7y ago
We have a subreddit: https://reddit.com/r/osr .
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by amp108 7y ago
It's worth pointing out that Lab Lord and Swords & Wizardry have free PDFs, and emulate the Holmes-era/pre AD&D rules, with optional "advanced" rules. Old School Essentials is reputed to be the best organized res
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by amp108 7y ago
That's the whole point of shell scripting, to take a series of minimal programs and tie them together into something that does a more complex task. There's no reason to distrust a shell script simply because it is a script any
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by amp108 7y ago
"Can you use sshd?"
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by amp108 7y ago
I went to a job interview recently where the interviewer was trying to phrase the question properly: "I'm trying to figure out how to ask this next one, so if you have a lot of Customers, and... umm..." And I interjected duri
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by amp108 7y ago
> It's composition meant the star must have come into being before iron became commonplace. Hypothesis 1: the star formed in a way that did not involve or produce a lot of iron. Hypothesis 2: the star is older than the universe itse
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by amp108 7y ago
> Why just women? Because they are the people who have been made uncomfortable by his behavior. If it were men, or also men, I'm sure the parent post would have read "men or women". This is not an abstract case, so implyin
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by amp108 7y ago
Something that worked for me was playing a TV show that I've watched to death (Archer, Community, Rick and Morty.) on my phone. Listening to a story that I already know occupies my brain just enough to let go of my own worries, and sin
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by amp108 7y ago
> Which makes me wonder what I missed with regards to J.R. Tolkien and George R. Martin. A second "R", for one.
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by amp108 7y ago
I have read the pronunciation is bad in the 1966 film Incubus/Inkubo , (cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incubus_(1966_film) ) but William Shatner acts like he's a native speaker in it.
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by amp108 7y ago
> Maybe it's one of those things where "you had to be there at the time". Nope, not really. I didn't get into IF until 2002, and I suspect that it's just a matter of taste. If you'd been around in the early
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by amp108 7y ago
I worked for a company that asked me not to use hash tables, because it no one else at the company knew how to use them. Finding your way around an arbitrary-length array of arbitrary-length arrays was apparently "easier" for them
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by amp108 7y ago
> But even more significant is that the Go authors cannot seem to grasp the importance of pre-existing conventions. Almost every language I've used in the past decade allows and encourages the variable, Class, CONSTANT convention. W
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by amp108 7y ago
There are many kinds of meditation. The unifying idea behind them all is that it deliberately directs the mind to some task, but the tasks can be widely different. What you're describing is just one way to practice a particular kind of
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by amp108 8y ago
> Underlying all of the points in this article is the idea that people are somehow entitled to success. No, underlying all of the points in this article is that works are separate from the person who produced them, and it does us no good
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by amp108 8y ago
> There's some strong similarities there. In that they both use a descending chromatic line over a minor chord in the harmony, a device that has been used in music for over 300 years. Their differences are great, notably in the stru
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by amp108 8y ago
One thing universities should teach is efficient problem solving. If it was more work to cheat than to memorize, I'd say you might want to re-evaluate whether "not memorizing things" is a principle you should cling so dogmati
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by amp108 8y ago
Ignore everything that makes stories different from each other, only look at the beginning and the end states, and hey-presto, you can reduce every story to one of six types.

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