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by bowsamic 2y ago
I’m sure you will continue to think so until he permanently restricts your account for getting downvoted
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by bowsamic 2y ago
Because even though it’s justified it’s still extremely inconvenient on a day to day level. Basically yes it is like I’m a cobra handler who is scared of cobras
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by bowsamic 2y ago
> All of these different interpretations use equivalent mathematics under the hood, and make identical, accurate predictions about what we will see in experiments. This isn’t true at all, especially the former part. The mathematics of th
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by bowsamic 2y ago
Considering I only ever use it as a Chrome plugin anyway, that's not much of a sell
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by bowsamic 2y ago
I've used Bitwarden for a while now and it has been so better than LastPass or 1Password ever was for me. I never understood the 1Password hype, it was easily the worst experience of any password manager I tried.
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by bowsamic 2y ago
Nope, definitely won't work in my situation (since my fear is actually completely reasonable and well founded)
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by bowsamic 2y ago
Very different market
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by bowsamic 2y ago
It would take too long to explain all the details. Basically I started my postdoc after my PhD, and my boss was/still is completely absent and left me alone. For specific reasons pertaining to my psychological history as I uncovered in
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by bowsamic 2y ago
> repeated exposure to it will desensitize you to it Not necessarily, as someone who has a difficult anxiety that I have to deal with very often, being exposed to the situation doesn't make me any less fearful of it.
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by bowsamic 2y ago
Yeah I don't think that burnout is a modern problem at all. But I think that I can point to certain aspects in modern society that cause it that may not have been present before, such as the completely emphasis on utility over everythi
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by bowsamic 2y ago
The thing is that in the past, the "non-useful" work (e.g. intellectual work) was often backed up by a philosophical and religious system. Now there is no sacredness to Reason or to science. In a totally secular worldview (I'
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by bowsamic 2y ago
I got burnout and I'm still recovering 3 years even with extensive therapy EDIT: It would not be an exaggeration to say that I have been (and still am) convinced I will never be able to work again, in any job, at all
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by bowsamic 2y ago
> it would probably be a civilization-ending event, and not many places would be safe But you need a civilisation on Earth in order to maintain a Venus cloud city anyway
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by bowsamic 2y ago
Distance from Earth seems like a huge downside, not a benefit. Even if our climate goes to shit it will still be far more livable than Venus. So, as you say, there's only one benefit, 0.9g, and is that really enough to justify this ent
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by bowsamic 2y ago
Right but you can just move the poor elderly people to all of the empty space we have on Earth rather than Venus cloud cities
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by bowsamic 2y ago
Okay but we haven’t found that for mental health and it may not exist, so what’s your point?
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by bowsamic 2y ago
Room is not the resource that retired people take up in homes on Earth
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by bowsamic 2y ago
Why do you choose to knowingly live a fantasy?
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by bowsamic 2y ago
Huh?
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by bowsamic 2y ago
Well, 2008 was a long time ago, but back then it was even worse.
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by bowsamic 2y ago
STL has been both historically and recently slow in many ways. Many game devs are making their own engine, especially historically, so they just implement their own version of STL in the way they want. Or they use another engine which has m
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by bowsamic 2y ago
It’s not arrogant to suggest someone read the classics. This demonisation of quality in literature is anti intellectualism
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by bowsamic 2y ago
What? Have you even read it? It’s extremely tame and satirical, far far more tame than most modern shock porn writing like “A Little Life” In fact there’s not even a single graphic sex scene in Lolita
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by bowsamic 2y ago
How are any of these lame jests actually helping the OP who is impoverished in his joy of reading? Keep them to yourself.
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by bowsamic 2y ago
Sure, whatever old stuff that is loved by non-idiots that he hasn’t tried. Odyssey, KJV Bible, Shakespeare, Moby Dick, Dostoevsky, Dickens, etc.
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by bowsamic 2y ago
The point is that they’re classics, not genre fiction. The person I was replying to would be well served reading great classics
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by bowsamic 2y ago
1. No, they aren't forms of genre fiction 2. Middlemarch isn't social realism. If you had to put a label on it, it would be psychological fiction a la Stephen King 3. Lolita is DEFINITELY not lolicon (if anything it's the opp
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by bowsamic 2y ago
Is that really your idea of a dream?
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by bowsamic 2y ago
Maybe you should read something that isn’t sci-fi or genre fiction. Go back and read Middlemarch or Lolita
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by bowsamic 2y ago
Hacker News does block self promotion as stated by a mod elsewhere in this thread

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