bowsamic

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by bowsamic 3y ago
How do you know that? It only speaks of the deathbed. Regardless having children simply to assuage future regret seems very strange to me
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by bowsamic 3y ago
But the stakes aren’t low in academia, you can have your career destroyed by a bad couple of years…
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by bowsamic 3y ago
That’s a good point and is a reason why I think it’s no longer true. Is the suggestion that when I have children I will not worry about their fate? I’m existentially worried about my own fate due to climate change (will economy explode in 2
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by bowsamic 3y ago
There are many convincing arguments for kids but deathbed regrets are not one of them. First, who cares about what I will regret at the end? It’s the end. Second, I don’t trust the perspectives of people in the extreme situation of “just ab
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by bowsamic 3y ago
I agree, let’s do that. Thanks for saying it
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by bowsamic 3y ago
Why announce this?
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by bowsamic 3y ago
It’s completely unclear to me from the post or comments here what a homelab is actually for
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by bowsamic 3y ago
Don’t be disingenuous he’s obviously not referring to that part of the mechanical keyboard community
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by bowsamic 3y ago
The fact that you so innately equate autistic with “different” that you put it in quotes falsely implying it is in the comment you replied to is far more offensive than anything the person you’re replying to said
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by bowsamic 3y ago
> Do we get to look at your personal journals, browser history and hidden photo gallery once you kick the bucket? I think many here would argue yes
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by bowsamic 3y ago
> The only thing worse than grumpy people are the posiopaths who keep spreading through organizations. There are many old adages for this: an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind, fire doesn't beat fire, etc. Just because some
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by bowsamic 3y ago
Not sure, many booking websites have added a toggle specifically to opt out of those planes
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by bowsamic 3y ago
This might come off as projection, but in my experience, HN has a lot of people who pride themselves on their rationality, and part of this is giving off the image of never joking and always being serious. You can see this when people get m
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by bowsamic 3y ago
> Edit: Weight class and weight-of-laptop are not the same thing. I don't know how to explain the idiom "weight class" so that the more... literal-minded Hacker News commenters will understand what I mean, but let's s
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by bowsamic 3y ago
I was a teen in the 2000s and in my cultural sphere they weren't considered cringey at all (in fact, in 2000s UK we didn't really have a concept of cringe like we have today)
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by bowsamic 3y ago
Idk about OSHA but at my work in Germany it is a social taboo to come in to work if you have a cold and it's also against the safety instructions
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by bowsamic 3y ago
Compared to email mailing lists, actual research groups, Facebook groups, etc. Discord is just empty , it's a ghost town. That's been my experience anyway. The most popular specific-topic servers on Disboard have, what, 500 activ
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by bowsamic 3y ago
The problem with Discord is it just has a very small user base for a lot of things. I know that sounds ridiculous, but anyone who actually has any general interest that isn’t gaming knows what I mean. It’s very common for the biggest server
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by bowsamic 3y ago
People who truly love their work will have to stop themselves from working 70 hours a week. Sadly not all of us are that lucky, but some people truly love working, and I can't say that's a bad thing, considering our current societ
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by bowsamic 3y ago
Meh
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by bowsamic 3y ago
You're being downvoted but I've observed this behaviour. I had a colleague who had multiple dash cams because truck drivers kept trying to drive him over when passing. They thought it was hilarious, they don't seem to care ab
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by bowsamic 3y ago
I've never met my great grandparents, so no.
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by bowsamic 3y ago
Probably because it wasn’t really possible before. Now there is a lot of technology making that easy. One of Apple’s big use cases that they sell is the ability to streamline being an overprotective parent
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by bowsamic 3y ago
Indeed, hence the person I’m replying to shouldn’t have said everywhere
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by bowsamic 3y ago
That’s just plainly false. In my city (Hamburg) I see 8 year olds taking the public transport alone and playing in the streets (no ones with cars) without supervision. I think you extrapolated too far
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by bowsamic 3y ago
I agree with that. Unfortunately we just kind of forget how much morality is actually learnt. Once it becomes a social norm we act like it's innate.
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by bowsamic 3y ago
A lot of it is education. It sounds ridiculous but men aren't born with an innate idea of things like consent and boundaries, they have to be taught it.
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by bowsamic 3y ago
Unfortunately I always found it quite slow compared to Mathematica
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by bowsamic 3y ago
Yeah, I did mean that, and I stand by my opinion that even the ideal cases are not particularly compelling. I'm just also pointing out that the ideal case is not actually possible, even theoretically. There will also be decoherence, fo
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by bowsamic 3y ago
> would categorise this "harder problem" as an engineering problem. I'm not sure what your relation to the field is, but I have found that a lot of things that look like engineering problems from the outside, end up being

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