archduck

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by archduck 1y ago
Hell yeah. I bought the Milwaukee shop vac a few weeks ago. Didn't realize it comes without batteries... which come without a charger. But I couldn't be happier with it. We have a cat that will create mounds - tall mounds - of cat
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by archduck 1y ago
I'm the same, for the most part. I worked at a small dev shop with two coworkers. One liked to put on classical music, and the other would often play whatever the hell kind of music Pat Metheny is, and while the richness of those parti
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by archduck 3y ago
This calls to mind Csikszentmihalyi’s concept of _flow_. There’s too much of it to go into here, but this page illustrates how it happens and what it's like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology) I posit
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by archduck 3y ago
"SEO Expert Hired and Fired By Ashley Madison Turned on" Hehe. Good catch. I doubt the use of "turned on" was intended to be funny here, given the source, but it sure does read like a satirical news headline.
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by archduck 3y ago
Re: figuring things out, for me, it’s pretty rare that I’m able to resolve anything from _within_ the loop. It's only when I switch to another context and then switch back to it that I'm able to finally stop the looping. I can thi
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by archduck 4y ago
Logotherapy. See Victor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
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by archduck 4y ago
I totally forgot about Ad Nauseam! I used to use it instead of uBlock Origin (which, if I remember correctly, is what Ad Nauseam actually uses for its adblocking). Google banning it from their extensions marketplace only strengthened my loa
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by archduck 4y ago
Yeah, no. This is a non-starter. Restaurants have high price elasticity of demand - higher menu prices cause a significant fall in demand because there are alternatives to dining out (you can choose to eat at home for food, you can choose t
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by archduck 4y ago
Can confirm. I slipped up for a few seconds once while torrenting. My cease-and-desist letter from Sony was personally delivered to my door by the Hausmeister.
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by archduck 4y ago
I recently encountered this interview with Frost, the drummer behind the black metal bands 1349 and Satyricon, in which he talks about his ritual prior to going on stage. It serves to clearly delineate the two contexts from each other, and
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by archduck 4y ago
His teaching at Cambridge often had minutes-long silences, in which the class just had to wait for him to conclude his thoughts and resume teaching. It was apparently agonizing for some of his students. Especially since you probably didn&#x
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by archduck 4y ago
While writing the Tractatus in the trenches, even. Most people would be satisfied with a stream-of-consciousness brain dump, hoping that enough insights are contained within to justify one's work. Wittgenstein cooked it down to just se
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by archduck 4y ago
That's how I understand it. All I was saying was, state that the diamond is to be split, and whoever refuses and bows out first gets to keep the entire thing, as they would have demonstrated genuine concern for its welfare. The scenari
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by archduck 4y ago
Decree that it be split equally among all invested parties, Judgment of Solomon style. (Though in this case, they may end up having to follow through, i.e. cutting their baby into equal parts.)
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by archduck 4y ago
They are using a type of logical inference called abduction: based upon one's observations of an unexplained phenomenon, one formulated a hypothesis as to why it is so. > If whoever wrote this, would be actually good at critical thi
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by archduck 4y ago
> I think this article performs multiple leaps of logic and cites anonymous sources for its more serious allegations. For example it assumes an off handed anonymous glassdoor comment “if half the child porn allegations are true patreon i
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by archduck 4y ago
Germany does not have a single-payer system. Private insurance is an option if you're self-employed or make a high enough salary.
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by archduck 4y ago
I'm certainly no fan of shutting people down for asking questions. I think we may be interpreting the context of the question differently though. The parent poster was recounting having worked as a math teacher, stressed out every day
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by archduck 4y ago
I don't believe this was a case of bullying at all. It was a light ribbing. It also aligned with an archetype (of being able to engineer our way out of human problems) that's especially salient for some people on here, yet totally
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by archduck 4y ago
Ridicule can absolutely produce resentment, no doubt about it. It can cause workplaces to become toxic, cause people to shut down (or worse: cause people to _learn_ to shut down), cause people to cope in unhealthy ways like projection, bull
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by archduck 4y ago
It doesn't "suggest" that at all. Perhaps changes in pedagogy were necessary in order to adapt to a changing world. Education isn't like the naive "encoding/decoding" model of communication, where the subj
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by archduck 4y ago
On the other hand, some contributions to a conversation are simply beyond the boundaries of common sense in such a way (blindingly obvious, unacceptable, dangerously naive, etc.) that ridicule is appropriate. Even if the contribution was ma
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by archduck 4y ago
> The bridging of sociology, history and economics was somewhat rare back in the 80s and before. (Douglas North a notable exception, obviously not alone.) So Karl Marx and Max Weber are just chopped liver?
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by archduck 4y ago
Oh hell yes. Several times I've found my evening abruptly derailed by Admiral Cloudberg's true stories of plane crashes. It's a strange feeling, but fascinating and engrossing. The forensics of the accident sites, the failure
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by archduck 4y ago
For me, at least, “easily” is not the right word … it doesn’t really capture what the feeling is like. Much more apt is Csikszentmihalyi’s concept of flow . (“While flowingly shifting and steering” sounds horrible, but it captures it.) Fer
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by archduck 4y ago
That stickwiggle has fused itself into the fiber of my being, so I’ll be right there with you.
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by archduck 4y ago
The way this is written doesn't resemble non-humorous writing at all, so the irony fails. It's not funny. It's painfully unfunny. I spent a decade overseas and ran into this lazy kind of humor a lot from British drunkards in
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by archduck 4y ago
How charming. Everybody loves having their language use corrected sarcastically. But you should really read up on your English modifiers next time, because your point is based on a common vulgar-linguistic misconception. “Linux,” in this ca
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by archduck 4y ago
This is the impression I have from Wordpress as well. Some of the most basic features you would expect a blogging platform or a brochure site creator to have out of the box are conspicuously missing, and I strongly suspect the reason for th
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by archduck 4y ago
This ain’t pretty, but it works: [ “foo”, ...(cond1 ? [bar] : []), ...(cond2 ? baz : []), ] --- Edit: note to self: read the link before commenting.

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