bobmichael

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by bobmichael 3y ago
That's a brilliantly simple approach. You could even have an estimated difficulty score that updates based on number of moves, switches, etc. and ramp up target difficulty as the random run progresses.
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by bobmichael 4y ago
As a Lebanese person, this is absolutely unremarkable. Almost any Arab, after hearing "my name is George Piro" in Arabic, would be able to tell recognize a Lebanese accent and the Christian name.
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by bobmichael 4y ago
Thanks, it does help to get different opinions, as I'm new to EU citizenship and still forming my opinion. Do you have sources for some of the claims you make? Asking out of curiosity, not doubt, as I'd be interested to dig deeper
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by bobmichael 4y ago
I'm curious what your objections to the EU are if you'd care to share?
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by bobmichael 4y ago
Ha, I agree that the pin prompt is confusing. If you're curious, it's used as a passcode for the on-device key. You need it e.g. if you're transferring messages to a new device.
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by bobmichael 4y ago
Don't ignore it. Laugh about it! It wasn't lost on me writing the comment either. Isn't it great that the very thing that brings us pain can also be the vehicle for our healing?
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by bobmichael 4y ago
You can't willpower through it if it's a defense mechanism employed by your brain to hide underlying pain. Maybe it's time to try something new. Check out Gabor Maté: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=74DDEDmHDvw
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by bobmichael 4y ago
Brave New World IRL.
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by bobmichael 4y ago
I'm a lefty with a Remarkable 2 that I've use almost daily for a year and a half, and I haven't had trouble with accidental button presses as long as I close the context menu when I'm writing. The toggle for the context
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by bobmichael 4y ago
Link to full text for the curious: https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v47n04_1951-06_Gorgon...
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Complaint Tablet to EA-Nasir(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by bobmichael 4y ago|0 comments
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by bobmichael 4y ago
Reminds me of Daniel Schmachtenberger's excellent article, The Endgames of Bad Faith Communication: https://consilienceproject.org/endgames-of-bad-communication... . Under his framework, this would be a specific example
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by bobmichael 4y ago
Source?
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by bobmichael 5y ago
When I went to the German site and tried to generate a data request, the generated email was in English. Is that intended? I think I'm Germany you're much more likely to get a response if you write in German.
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by bobmichael 5y ago
That's so great. I wish there was something like this for Germany.
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by bobmichael 5y ago
One of the most valuable things about a conversation with a mentor is getting insight into their thinking processes: how do they decompose a problem into smaller parts, what mental models they make use of, etc. Given that, in my experience
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by bobmichael 5y ago
Why? Honest question.
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by bobmichael 5y ago
GP didn't imply it wasn't!
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by bobmichael 5y ago
One IMO realistic use-case is providing a wealth preservation mechanism for people living in a country with a corrupt government that's experiencing hyperinflation, for example Lebanon.
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by bobmichael 5y ago
Have you heard of solarpunk? It's a movement that arose out of a desire to balance techno-optimism with recognition of the dire need for technology that is more Earth- and human-friendly. You might resonate with the manifesto: https:&
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by bobmichael 5y ago
Has your wife considered that her symptoms are PPD ( https://ppdassociation.org/diagnosis ), i.e. have a psychological cause which can be unconscious? I had been suffering from unspecific aches, extreme tiredness, insomnia, s
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by bobmichael 5y ago
Your assertion is equally as silly though. Pain is not necessary for life, but it definitely has a lot of merit as a survival mechanism and danger signal.
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by bobmichael 5y ago
If you really want to learn from the mistake, it sounds like you need to ask for a personal leave for a few months and really take a bet on one of your ideas. There's not much to lose, in the worst case you learn from how it went and c
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by bobmichael 5y ago
Same here. Brings back good memories of sprinting down the UD to get to a certain mountain town...
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by bobmichael 5y ago
I think where your analogy breaks down is that unlike computers, distributed computation on human brains scales badly[0], which is why my example limits the community to 10,000. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%
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by bobmichael 5y ago
I think your reasoning is sound, but one problem I see with your suggestion to optimize for odds of survival is that it would reward societies that most would consider incredibly unethical. As a simplistic example, imagine a scenario where
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by bobmichael 6y ago
What other treatments are there? Do you have a good resource if I'd like to learn more?
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by bobmichael 6y ago
If you read GP carefully, they're not making the argument that users will choose Firefox because it's written in Rust, but rather that the improved security and performance brought about by Rust would be what attracts and retains
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by bobmichael 6y ago
I've started learning Emacs a few weeks ago, and have had a similar experience as you. One different is that I considered going with Spacemacs / Doom but decided to take the route of starting from an empty init file and slowly bui
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by bobmichael 7y ago
Could you elaborate on this? I've been toying with this idea for a while now and if love to hear your insights.

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