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by dorkwood 6y ago
Humans enjoy idolising the rich. I do wonder if there's an evolutionary reason for this. Perhaps we're primed to listen to the person in the tribe who is best at gathering resources.
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by dorkwood 6y ago
I left out the word "regularly". I'm sure he would have spent a thousand every few months, at least.
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by dorkwood 6y ago
An old boss of mine was a whale. He was in his 40s and spent 100s of dollars on mobile games. I think it's mainly people with a lack of impulse control.
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by dorkwood 6y ago
I feel like a lot of people here are missing the point of the article. I've worked with several 'expert beginners' over my career. They think they're near the skill ceiling, but they're actually much closer to the b
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by dorkwood 6y ago
Why don't we just ban gift cards? They're a scam by themselves, anyway.
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by dorkwood 6y ago
Why do we need to cure aging? Humans have already been hurtling through space for over 100,000 years. We just need a way to continue that streak, but headed in the direction of a new solar system.
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by dorkwood 6y ago
I love the metaphor of digestion to describe the brain's process. I once tried explaining to a friend how my brain works on problems in the background and they looked at me like I was spouting some new-age nonsense.
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by dorkwood 6y ago
What if the action causes harm?
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by dorkwood 6y ago
The software was most likely Adobe After Effects. Like anything worth learning, it's a little bit challenging. Fortunately, there are many tutorials on YouTube to help you. I'd suggest you start with the basics (moving an object a
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by dorkwood 6y ago
I think it depends on your family. Once when I was a child, my father found a stack of my drawings and proceeded to tell me which ones were the weakest and what was wrong with each of them. Another time, I can remember showing my sister a d
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by dorkwood 6y ago
Years ago I came across a video of Glassman helping a young woman with her deadlift[0], where he touches her legs in what I would consider to be an unnecessary way. It left enough of an impression on me that I still remember it, many years
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by dorkwood 6y ago
Maybe radio is still better than all that stuff.
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by dorkwood 6y ago
I think the reality is that most people who originally got into design did so not because they were passionate about user experience, but because they had some artistic sensibility, and design was a field that would let them utilise that se
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by dorkwood 6y ago
I honestly think I got this experience from playing video games. My real motivation for playing games in my youth was that I enjoyed trying to become better than everyone else. I would come up with my own practice drills to build muscle mem
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by dorkwood 6y ago
Some people do completely non-destructive modelling in Blender using its modifier stack. You can see an example of that here: https://youtu.be/Atw16f8wZ6Y I'm also a big fan of Houdini, though, and would recommend the
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by dorkwood 6y ago
Who is that?
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by dorkwood 6y ago
Something that's always bothered me about articles like this is that they go into great detail to describe the ad, but don't actually show the ad itself.
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by dorkwood 6y ago
Oh, I see. I'm not actually a Facebook user, so I didn't consider it to be a place for political discussion. I suppose that's the source of our differences. Edit: Just to clarify, I used it many years ago, but it was really j
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by dorkwood 6y ago
To test the strength of this argument, I'm imagining a world in which ads have invaded our homes even further, and can now be found on the refrigerator door, the bathroom mirror, and the bedroom ceiling. Would you consider switching of
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by dorkwood 6y ago
They're part of LA County.
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by dorkwood 6y ago
I once visited Japan on a business trip. At the company I was hosted by, every person I spoke to had worked there for 15 years or more. Their culture frowns upon job-hopping, which I would guess also has something to do with company longev
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by dorkwood 6y ago
Ha, I've experienced the same thing. I'm a healthy weight and don't have any obvious health issues, but people keep telling me how bad it is that I don't eat breakfast. I've even had people tell me "yeah, you m
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by dorkwood 6y ago
I once fasted for about a week while suffering an illness that wouldn't let me keep any food down. I only drank water during that time. To my surprise, after several days of not eating, my hunger disappeared completely. It was scary, b
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by dorkwood 6y ago
I understand what you're saying, that to beginners there are a lot of "unknown unknowns", but not everything should fall into that category. Even with a real-life teacher or mentor I'd give the same advice: go to them wi
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by dorkwood 6y ago
I think if you're posting your work with the goal of getting feedback, then that's totally fine. I'm not trying to say that all critique has to sound nice (I actually don't believe this at all). But if you are going to s
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by dorkwood 6y ago
Years ago I can remember seeing an artist on Twitter hitting back against some critics in the comments, saying something like "I didn't ask for your criticism". At the time, I didn't understand why they were posting thei
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by dorkwood 6y ago
It seems as if I've been using a different definition of deliberate practice to the author. They seem to imply that deliberate practice requires a regimented study program, but I've always seen it as "identify the things you
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by dorkwood 6y ago
Describing a joke out of context can make a person sound very cruel indeed. I've been in situations where someone has made a joke about me dying, for example, and I found it to be funny and light-hearted. But if you strip out the conte
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by dorkwood 6y ago
One of my least favourite things about learning to program was the use of foo/bar/baz in example code. They can make a simple concept difficult to understand, and a difficult concept almost impenetrable.
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by dorkwood 6y ago
There's another video of a man who approaches a line of police at a protest, likely exchanging a few words but clearly unnarmed and walking very slowly. One police officer walks up to the man and pepper sprays him. As he turns to avoid

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