dorkwood

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by dorkwood 6y ago
One thing that might ruffle their feathers a bit is if you figure out what time zone they're in, and then give them a call in the middle of the night.
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by dorkwood 6y ago
I've experienced the same feelings. I can remember feeling sad and frustrated when I first started to realise there wasn't enough time for me to learn all the things I wanted to learn. How was I supposed to choose? Every little ch
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by dorkwood 6y ago
I agree! My original post was about not having very many things to talk about with my parents, especially if I was to start calling them multiple times per week. I still talk to them, it's just more like once per month.
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by dorkwood 6y ago
> The major difference might be that I have always had a "I trust you more than I trust myself" mentality, and I feel like I can tell her anything and not be judged. She doesn't have to give me solutions to every little pr
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by dorkwood 6y ago
I'm envious of people who have a kind of "best friend" relationship with their parents. My father, for example, I have almost nothing in common with. He's the political opposite of me, doesn't have any hobbies or sh
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by dorkwood 6y ago
It might help to think more about where the anxiety actually comes from. If I were to guess, I'd say it's likely that your anxiety comes from a fear of time running out. You only have a limited time on this Earth, and limited reso
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by dorkwood 6y ago
Where are you?
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by dorkwood 6y ago
Unfortunately, scale gets messed up even when transferring regular 3D files between different software packages. It's pretty common when importing a 3D file to have to scale your model by either 0.1, 0.01, 10, 100 etc. just to get thin
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by dorkwood 6y ago
I think I'm reaching that age where more and more celebrities I'm actually familiar with start to pass away. I first heard Little Richard in the opening chopper sequence from the original Predator. What a great scene!
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by dorkwood 6y ago
Maybe the flowery words obscured the message for you. If it helps, I first came across the quote in a blog post by Austin Kleon[0], an author, talking about people who say they have a book in them. "I never feel like I have a book in m
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by dorkwood 6y ago
I don't see any conflict, personally. In the linked article, he goes on to say that songs "are attracted to an open, playful and motivated mind". To cultivate that, you need to show up.
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by dorkwood 6y ago
Nick Cave, on writer's block: "My advice to you is to change your basic relationship to songwriting. You are not the ‘Great Creator’ of your songs, you are simply their servant, and the songs will come to you when you have adequat
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by dorkwood 7y ago
I honestly feel like this is the secret. It took me years to figure out, too. It is, however, a piece of advice that will likely upset a lot of people, because, they'll say, not every activity worth doing is enjoyable. Which, obviously
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by dorkwood 7y ago
I used to be in the same boat. I wanted desperately to have a process to follow that would help me prioritise what I should be working on. Now, looking back, I feel like I was over-thinking things. Like, a lot. It sounds like you already ha
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by dorkwood 7y ago
PC gamers. Graphic designers who can't afford a Mac workstation. 3D artists who use 3rd party render software such as Octane. I'm sure there are many other groups that I'm unfamiliar with.
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by dorkwood 7y ago
It's interesting that people jump straight from "object we don't understand" to "therefore it must have come from another planet". If I ever suggest to someone that it could be, for example, an animal that no o
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by dorkwood 7y ago
Conversely, being good at a single thing will give you the necessary mental tools to get good at other things too. One of the biggest hurdles beginners face is not knowing how to push through "the gap" and reach a level of compete
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by dorkwood 7y ago
Up until a certain threshold, I think company names are unimportant and one can succeed despite having a silly name. But once a company steps over that threshold with a name like "Cliqz", it becomes difficult to overcome the embar
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by dorkwood 7y ago
In my experience willpower is less like a muscle and more like a habit. Right now I'm in the habit of working on side projects every day, so it's easy. Since habits come naturally, what once required willpower now requires no will
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by dorkwood 7y ago
The photographer's watermark.
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by dorkwood 7y ago
I think this is because NY is now reporting probable deaths, and not just those who tested positive before dying.
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by dorkwood 7y ago
I suspect the trend is to do with the fact that the majority of the population use their phones as cameras now. A larger screen means larger photos and videos. As long as people are using their phones to browse Instagram, I don't see m
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by dorkwood 7y ago
Everything[0] by Voidtools as a Windows search replacement. It makes search practically instant. Now that Windows search often fails to turn up even my most used files (what happened to Windows search? Was it intentionally nerfed?), Everyth
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by dorkwood 7y ago
I like things like this because they're different. It feels like the sort of silly website you'd stumble across in the early 2000s. But I agree with some of the other posters that the limitation of choosing from canned phrases mak
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by dorkwood 7y ago
> Do you default to action, or default to inaction? Why not just come out and ask "is it good to work here, or bad to work here?"
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by dorkwood 7y ago
I had an application to open a new bank account rejected because my signature was not close enough to the one they had on file. I tried resolving things over the phone, but no luck. So I closed all my other accounts and switched to a differ
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by dorkwood 7y ago
In which country? The US?
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by dorkwood 7y ago
Is there a name for this phenomenon where manufacturers build harmful features into their products purely for the technical credibility? It's the same with motion smoothing and televisions -- the experience is massively degraded, but t
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by dorkwood 7y ago
Unfortunately I don't think it's possible for a corporation to be funny, unless they're willing to hand over a large amount of power to a single funny person (or a small team of funny people). A product team of mostly unfunny
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by dorkwood 7y ago
That particular one is functional. If you don't press it, only the walk single on the parallel side of the intersection will activate.

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