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by basq 5y ago
After some very long bouts of self reflection, I've found that I have 4 primary emotional needs: social connection, satisfaction derived from accomplishment, breadth of information to learn, and excitation (something that gets my heard
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by basq 5y ago
Philip K Dick already did it in 1977 with A Scanner Darkly.
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by basq 5y ago
Gave up: - alcohol - marijuana - ecstacy - coke - amphetamines - cigarettes and vaping - all animal products (meat, leather, etc) - gluten - videogames - porn - social media except reddit/hn - working Started: - lifting weights (sent o
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by basq 5y ago
How odd. I spent my childhood inna constant state of hayfever. A major revelation for me was going off to university, where I was no longer around the household dogs, and my allergies all but disapated.
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by basq 5y ago
In my experience, without use of g! DDG isn't serviceable.
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by basq 5y ago
> Doing coding for a living strips away a lot of the joy out of it As someone with a lot of interests, I have found this to be true for every one of them. Seems like monetizing yourself is always soul sucking to some degree.
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by basq 6y ago
This is still news to me, the 10% rule is presented as 10% of posts... posting 9 other things to post 1 of my OCs seemed overly excessive. Now I might actually start posting some things...
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by basq 7y ago
I've been doing 'days off' off coffee amd I'm inclined to sleep waaaay more. Like from 8 hours to 14. It can be a massive trade off in productivity. I have to set aside light workloads for those days.
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by basq 7y ago
Pure white noise doesn't quite work for me because my hearing will try to make sense of it anyway. It's akin to looking at tv static and seeing images fuzz & flicker in and out of the signal noise. Interestingly enough, this o
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by basq 7y ago
Like you suggest, ambient noise (I'm fond of GNOME's pomodoro bird sounds :)) can help. However I've found that earplugs work even better. I had some nice ones because I attend a lot of shows/dance concerts and want to p
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by basq 7y ago
I'm the same way. My partner is able to do all her homework while listening to music or playing a show in the background. I was somewhat envious, until I looked at some studies that suggest while it's possible, it's not ideal
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by basq 7y ago
It was the habits of my overweight parents, and thier overweight parents before them. The habits of thin people are not about when they eat, but what and how much they eat.
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by basq 7y ago
I'm of the notion that there is no better weight loss method than counting calories, that all other methods are either deleterious or gimmicks which merely shroud eating less calories. The problem is that people want an easy (and fast)
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by basq 7y ago
Agreed. tried replicating this with org mode, which required an extensive learning curve to meet the needs akin to what you listed. Although at some level it did the job, I could imagine a tool that does it better.
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by basq 7y ago
Does it really make the web faster for mobile? I've had the exact opposite experience with it. It's made sites run much slower, broken things like dark themes, and make advertisements more intrusive. For example, I used to think t
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by basq 7y ago
Seriously. I'd sell my soul to the devil to make stuff like that. Wish my brain was big enough!!
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by basq 7y ago
For what it's worth, my circumstances agree with you. I've become much less stressed out on the day to day by ungluing my eyes from newsmedia.
48.
by basq 7y ago
But then you're ordering from walmart...? A company decidedly worse than amazon by nearly every metric.
49.
by basq 7y ago
I still rue the day I uninstalled that game.
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by basq 7y ago
Agreed. As someone who has lived in CA all thier life, I'm afraid of leaving, because of lack of opportunity elsewhere, but the cost of living here is absurd. My rent constitutes 75%(!!) of my monthly expenses.
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by basq 7y ago
This is something I came to slowly realize in the search for repairing my attention/depression issues. So far I've been getting good results. It started with giving up amphetamines (adderall, vyvanse), when that didn't do the
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by basq 7y ago
Not sure if you're being tongue in cheek, but Gates basically ripped off Xerox.
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by basq 7y ago
I've worked through a couple of these lists and a few of the projects. My take on them is that many of the tutorials are not vetted for quality or even completeness. I have several projects where the author of the guide essentially &#x
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by basq 7y ago
In my experience, Entheogens and money have a reluctant relationship. A 'psychedlic healing' business immediately sounds concerning to me. I can't find any convincing credentials beyond the author taking these substances at s
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by basq 7y ago
If all you listen to is the radio, sure. However in the broader sense of music being created, this is patently false. There are more genres and subgenres of music than ever before, experimentation and synthesis techniques weaving together e
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by basq 7y ago
Additionally those time estimates aren't always accurate. I used to do deliveries all over my county using gmaps, and it was usually 5 minutes off, even as much as 10 minutes off for some of the further destinations.
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by basq 7y ago
At this point I just assume anywhere else in the world have better pubtrans than anywhere in the western US.
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by basq 7y ago
It's late and I just realized MediCal is medicaid, not medicare. These program names are so confusing. Going to let out a large sigh and get some sleep.
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by basq 7y ago
I'm on MediCal, California's version of Medicare. Just want to say thanks for mentioning that. I had never heard of it before. I'm a young person who is also unemployed, and an orphan. Medi-Cal has been kafka-esque in how ter
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by basq 7y ago
I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a

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