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by crispinb 7y ago
Do you know anything about Australian civilisation, or is your comment derived purely from industrial era superstitions?
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by crispinb 7y ago
They're only suggesting it as a possibility to be explored. I think it arises from the teeth/lava story detail, given there seem to have been no significant subsequent eruptions. Certainly there's been good prior evidence of
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by crispinb 7y ago
Largely concur with the review - Clear Linux is surprisingly polished, the performance boosts are noticeable and the stateless aspect is confidence-inspiring, but it just requires a bit too much manual intervention to be a replacement for s
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by crispinb 7y ago
Though presumably there's a chance that more could be elided over time?
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by crispinb 7y ago
I don't remember - I don't think I've experienced boredom in 20 years or more. It was never anything more than a distant, hazy & fleeting aspect of my emotional landscape.
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by crispinb 7y ago
All I need to show the identity you claim 'is not true of everyone' is to find a single person for whom it isn't true. I am that person, so I've proven it not to be true. I am extremely rarely bored. Certainly "not
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by crispinb 7y ago
But even if we are one of those rare people who feels fulfilled, it is worth cultivating some degree of boredom I dispute the bored vs fulfilled relationship, at least if it's supposed to be a universal (speaking as someone who very
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by crispinb 7y ago
Boredom is not having anything interesting to do Not true of everyone.
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by crispinb 7y ago
Well you may not be wrong - I don't know any better than you. I'm just suggesting a principle of charity leads to better conversations. And I'm not pointing fingers - it's something I need to work on (ie. pause to think
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by crispinb 7y ago
I lived in a couple third world countries where grown adults asked if we had cats in the United States. As a complete aside, an indigenous Australian kid up in Cape York once asked me if we did much dugong hunting in London (where I lived
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by crispinb 7y ago
Who is looking down on anyone? You get to that conclusion by making the least charitable gloss available in your original comment. My own reaction to the article was surprise that anyone thought kissing was a human universal because it nev
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by crispinb 7y ago
That was my reaction too. It would never have occurred to me to assume this one particular custom was universal.
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by crispinb 7y ago
Well (and I'm elucidating, not necessarily defending) they mean knowledge somewhat specific to the project, not in an absolute philosophical sense. So you have an API that belongs to this project. When you change it, do so in one place
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by crispinb 7y ago
I'm still not exactly sure what the author means by Don't Repeat Knowledge I think they're assuming that everyone has read The Pragmatic Programmer. To quote the original DRY principle from there: Every piece of knowledge
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by crispinb 7y ago
The comments here suggest two things: (1) most people misunderstand DRY (ie. they think it's about code rather than knowledge duplication), and (2)the article didn't do a great job of clearing the issue up. Though an alternative t
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by crispinb 7y ago
No, they're not saying it's wrong, but rather it's commonly misunderstood. From the motto alone you might think the point is to abjure all code duplication. But Hunt & Thomas' intent was instead to warn against dupli
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by crispinb 7y ago
Pretending this is somehow how China specifically operates is disingenuous All the vast majority of people in the "West" know about China is whatever happens to be propagated by mainstream propagandists for current purposes. Ign
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by crispinb 7y ago
My guess is that this would vary much between types of occupations. I can see that occupations involving highly repetitive actions (assembly line work etc) might cause problems. Many more varied, often outdoor, manual jobs strike me as putt
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by crispinb 7y ago
(in that I'd give a half a fuck) Ha, yes, concurs with one of the aspects of my work dissatisfactions also. The sheer dreary meaninglessness (or worse) of nearly everything I've been paid to do. It's pretty wearing over tim
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by crispinb 7y ago
Thanks for the pointer.
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by crispinb 7y ago
A really thoughtful book - one of the best things I've read on the topic of work I think. Something like his thinking is kind of in the air amongst younger folk I know, many of whom are seeking more embodied and rounded ways to live th
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by crispinb 7y ago
The blue-collar jobs I had in my early 20s were the only jobs I've ever been remotely happy in. They were all relaxed & itinerant kind of things (forestry, farming, driving, fairgrounds). I suppose (but am not sure) I would have gr
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by crispinb 7y ago
Distance to office is 2 miles I literally have never driven as short a distance as 2 miles. It would never occur to me - I'd automatically walk or cycle. I think this comes from having come to car use relatively late in life. I relie
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by crispinb 7y ago
My a & b weren't intended to be ranked though clumsy phrasing did suggest it. The situation is contested & difficult in Australia, because so much of the data comes from our traffic cops, who are poorly trained in crash investi
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by crispinb 7y ago
What about reducing your chances of killing other people? As a somewhat jaded motorcyclist (though not in the US) I'm unsurprised to see no mention of us in the article. Not sure of the US stats, but in Aus the biggest dangers to motor
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by crispinb 7y ago
Well it's only a small pilot. I find the 'meditation' description a little odd applied to Byron Katie's work. It's really more like a highly commercialised self-enquiry method than meditation per se. Basically neo-a
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by crispinb 7y ago
Based on stuff I've read in the past, I think it may be a net figure. But you'd need to check the literature to be sure.
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by crispinb 7y ago
You're right. The internet has done nothing for my reading comprehension.
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by crispinb 7y ago
It is in the article, albeit short on detail. Their waste is a fertilizer: As they rise up through the ocean to breathe and migrate across the globe, the iron and nitrogen in their waste provides ideal growing conditions for these microsco
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by crispinb 7y ago
In so many ways. What a disappointment the world can be.

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