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by dahwolf 3y ago
"Nothing is 100% true other than defined Universal constants. Everything else is on a spectrum." Nicely put, because it explains the widespread disappointment in journalism, media, academia that don't even seem to try anymore
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Similar to a dating coach that has hundreds of dates to draw expertise from, making them actually terrible at dating, if the point is to form long term relationships.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
I'm from the Netherlands and just saw our tiny land shrink even further. Although I suppose it's a stretch to call this swampy river delta actual land. Anyway, I've personally experienced the shock of the true size of Africa.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
I know quite a lot of non-technical designers and many aren't too happy about what one might call design engineering. Design systems, tokens, modules, over the top consistency/reuse, the programmatic approach to design is experien
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Quite the uphill battle for a developer. This is different territory compared to marginally useful 2D app that millions of developers produce. To make a believable virtual/3D experience requires enormous investments if you don't w
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by dahwolf 3y ago
I agree, the economic contract is broken. It's bad enough that we have to work for most of our waking hours for ~45 years, but this used to achieve a middle class existence and relative security, an essential basis to form a family. No
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Small addendum: I'm middle-aged myself but got some hope from my gen-z nephews/nieces: they seem to understand what's happening. An example is vinyl. They collect it, and it's not just a hipster thing. This rationally ma
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by dahwolf 3y ago
We went from a physical/social world to "digital as complimentary" to "digital native" in just a few years time. If you look at the old world, one would spent a considerable amount of the day in the physical world w
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by dahwolf 3y ago
I'm glad it's not just me getting unusable garbage out of Dall-E and glorious results from MidJourney.
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There not being a need doesn't stop me, this too is human expression.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
The mythical "middle class on easy mode" of boomers isn't coming back, it should be considered a historical anomaly. A vacuum in time where post-WW2 all but the US was in ruins, giving it economic free reign for a few decades
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by dahwolf 3y ago
"Rear Adm Mauger said the rescue teams were "taking this personally" and were doing everything they could to bring those on board "home safe". What does that even mean? Is this opposed to your normal non-personal&#x
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by dahwolf 3y ago
She was 20 years older than me, and indeed somewhat of a mentor. My main lesson was to never end up as her. Total workaholic.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
It came across as quite cold-hearted to me. But you don't have to take it that far. In particular the learning can be that you can somewhat engineer a conversation by preparing it well.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Surely they would understand it's an opportunity for networking, but I'd still say Tom would be a little surprised to read this: "Tom: spend max 10 minutes on him as he's the vehicle to his boss Richard that is my gatewa
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by dahwolf 3y ago
That is both clever and creepy. It's as manipulative and opportunistic as my example, but clearly it works.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
I once was at a conference with my (former) boss where I got an inside peek at how a professional networker goes about it. The conference sessions had ended, flowing into the evening program which pretty much was the bar. Just before headin
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by dahwolf 3y ago
In some ways, software development practices have degraded since that era. It largely has to do with the need for speed which comes at the expense of careful consideration, quality, integrity and the formal standards that support it. In fac
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Wise words. When seeing a person in public they are so infinitely more rich compared to 3 filters in an app. But there doesn't seem to be any sign of this returning in big ways.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
I'm honestly shocked by how naive people are about open data/web. If a platform owner together with a community of enthusiasts produces a valuable set of content/data and then makes it openly available to the world...what exa
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by dahwolf 3y ago
In my opinion, the author doesn't really think things through, it's just dropping some confident one-dimensional opinions without looking at multiple perspectives. "The key thing here is social media sites don’t produce conte
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Happy for them, this should happen more. But an exception does not negate the broad pattern.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
It is consistently reported to be an almost flawless pattern: women do not date/marry down whilst men do. And they continue to show this behavior unchanged even when they have plenty of resources on their own. Hence, for women wealth i
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Well written, and agreed. What I find in particularly striking is how dating/marriage in both articles and comments is described in such mechanical terms. As a market. You being the consumer matching specs against supply. The absolute
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Status signaling to other women, I imagine. But perhaps also media/social media fueling these unrealistic expectations and incorrectly normalizing them.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
I'm not a native speaker so it could be the wrong word. I wasn't aiming for Stoicism, the philosophy. Instead trying to describe the effect where some men seem emotionally indifferent, or present themselves as such.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Got it, and interesting point.
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The whole page? Surely it must be trivial then for you to produce a few dozen examples?
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That would be the opposite of emotional control. But surely you got the point that besides suppressing emotions men also tend to simply have less emotional needs or desires to express them. To bring this down to a real world meme-like examp
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by dahwolf 3y ago
It's insulting in the sense that the stoicism of many men is considered unintelligent, primitive, underdeveloped. You can frame it how you want. It can also be projected as a strength (emotional control). Or men simply being less inter

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