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by dorkwood 7y ago
My experience has been that an inability to focus on a task is usually more to do with my fears surrounding that task than my level of discipline. If I can stop for a second and understand why I'm scared of the task (am I worried the b
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by dorkwood 7y ago
On the topic of handles being disease vectors, can someone explain to me the design of the American cross-walk button which is so small it requires a finger press? It's also shielded by plastic around the edges so you can't get to
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by dorkwood 7y ago
What is "CFR"? Something fatality rate?
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by dorkwood 7y ago
Can someone who is more familiar with Minecraft explain how the physical structure of something like this gets built? Is it by placing blocks one by one, or using some third-party program and then importing it into the game?
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by dorkwood 7y ago
There's something about a computer's file system that makes it a difficult thing for people to learn from scratch. I suspect it's something to do with how folders can be nested inside other folders to an almost infinite degre
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by dorkwood 7y ago
I think that's a cool idea for a story. It also addresses the question of "if time travel were possible, wouldn't we have seen some time travellers by now?" Perhaps somewhere out there in space is a graveyard of time tra
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by dorkwood 7y ago
Well I guess if you never clean or tidy and it doesn't bother you and you're able to remain productive, then what I'm saying doesn't apply.
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by dorkwood 7y ago
Also acceptable would be "they have shown themselves to be a reliable partner... not"
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by dorkwood 7y ago
The main benefit I've found to making the bed is that it shrinks your subconscious to-do list and helps you concentrate. If you make your bed, clean up the plates on your desk, and pick up your clothes from the floor, then your brain h
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by dorkwood 7y ago
> I partly think the problem is political. If you quarantine and the virus is controlled, then it looks like you panicked over nothing, because you took this huge reaction and nothing much happened. I think this is exactly what's ha
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by dorkwood 7y ago
You misspelled "criticism".
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by dorkwood 7y ago
Yes, I agree with you on these points. I think what we both agree on is that "find your passion" is not good advice by itself. The mistake people make is thinking that their "passion" will be something they have a natura
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by dorkwood 7y ago
Surely all specialists in tech end up as generalists eventually. If you were a jQuery specialist 10 years ago, you've pivoted to something else by now. How many times does that need to happen before you become more general than special
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by dorkwood 7y ago
Actually it's more likely that this longer quote is a recent formulation. See the research in this thread: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/408782/is-jack-o...
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by dorkwood 7y ago
> You need to do a lot of things you do not love before you have the skills, the vision and the attitude to actually do what you love, and accomplish the goals you want to accomplish... I disagree with this, and I'm curious what lon
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by dorkwood 7y ago
This is something I've been thinking about a lot lately. I think there's a distinction between "do whatever you can't stop thinking about", which I believe to be good advice, and "find your passion", which
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by dorkwood 7y ago
> Learning is straightforward. You look for the best sources, schedule a time, take notes, and practice till you perfect. I know this is just throw-away sentence to kick off the article, but I disagree. Learning is straightforward if you
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by dorkwood 7y ago
I can still remember being extremely confused the first time I came across a 'hello world' tutorial as a child. The thoughts running through my head were something like: What is 'hello world' and why am I writing it? Is
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by dorkwood 7y ago
I noticed yesterday that I've stopped clicking the like button on anything that I don't want to be broadcast to other people, on any platform. It's no longer about what I like, it's about what I like that is also palatab
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by dorkwood 7y ago
I'm finding it a little hard to discern to purpose of this. Is it to circumvent wifi restrictions on a cruise ship?
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by dorkwood 7y ago
> Over a series of conversations, Kacie and I worked through the situation. She revisited the stakeholder map she had created in her first few weeks in the role, which clearly showed that Marta’s collaboration and partnership were essent
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by dorkwood 7y ago
I'm also a generalist, and I've been wondering if it might be a good idea, for my next job, to only market myself using one of my skills. My role at the moment involves doing several different things, some of which I'm not ve
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by dorkwood 7y ago
I think it's kind of a 'secret' that it's possible to become really quite good at something with just a little bit of practice and an internet connection. Most people are still unaware of this, or think that it isn'
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by dorkwood 7y ago
I think it's possible that people experience the same things, but observe them differently, so it sounds like they're having a completely different experience. While I can absolutely have a conversation with myself inside my head,
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by dorkwood 7y ago
I think clicking manually to send messages might be a legal thing. I'm not sure they're allowed to send automated messages. Can anyone confirm?
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by dorkwood 7y ago
Which translation is that? It seems easier to read than my copy (Richard M. Gummere).
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by dorkwood 7y ago
Isn't it just a way to snoop on our file system searches? Oops, you were searching for a personal file but your query got sent to our server instead.
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by dorkwood 7y ago
What's the equivalent of half-life mods these days?
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by dorkwood 7y ago
Who do you work for, or at least what sort of thing are you working on? This sounds ideal to me, but I'm worried my skill set isn't as conducive to remote work.

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