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by dota_fanatic 5y ago
I like to look at this through the lens of push vs pull. I don't want people pushing things at me that I'm 100% uninterested in in the off chance that 1% of those ads is actually interesting to me and I otherwise wouldn't kno
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by dota_fanatic 5y ago
If it’s insanely overfunded, how come a career in tech is many multiples of income vs teaching? Good luck buying a decent home on a teacher’s salary in attractive areas. Inspire and grow the intelligence of the next generation? Nah, let’s s
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by dota_fanatic 5y ago
Great comment and thanks for the link to that video. I hadn't played Other M yet but I'm glad to have seen this before that day (hopefully) comes.
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by dota_fanatic 5y ago
That really sucks, especially given how expensive these things are. Mine is a 55" fwiw. :/ I went ahead and ran a pixel test and they're all working fine still. Maybe LG has been cutting costs as their OLED lines have matured
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by dota_fanatic 5y ago
https://imgur.com/a/mMuy5fj Poor lighting in this room, taken w/ an iPhone 12 Mini. Just grabbed the first result of "50% gray screen" from youtube. I can see some vertical stripes if I look closely, but
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by dota_fanatic 5y ago
I've been using an LG OLED for 5 years with an HTPC. Lots of gameplay and leaving it on all day with eg a web browser open. I haven't experienced any burn in.
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by dota_fanatic 5y ago
Was going to link this exact article, but you beat me to it. :) My biggest problem with Saladino's episode was that early in it became clear that he is a zealot, and almost by definition zealots are rarely generally "right" o
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by dota_fanatic 5y ago
Aren't the vaccines still not available for those under 12? And they're emergency use only in many of those countries? Not sure how you can say any country, even Israel, is "close to full vaccination". 28% of their popul
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by dota_fanatic 5y ago
I sleep every night. I wake up and spent most of my energy on maintaining homeostasis (eating/drinking/waste/temperature), provision of resources, being social, raising young, and play. This involves walking, talking, gesturi
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by dota_fanatic 5y ago
On the one hand, sure. On the other hand, not so much. Most of us aren't exceptional and live today in the same way as our ancestors have for centuries. Our needs and desires and behaviors across our lifetimes aren't so different
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by dota_fanatic 5y ago
You are also incorrect. It's both. For instance upon experiencing a novel, pleasurable experience, one you didn't know to anticipate, dopamine levels will increase above baseline. It will then drop below tonic levels before retu
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by dota_fanatic 5y ago
Re your first paragraph, sure, and I'm fine with that. But the following analogy is quite off. Go read their manifesto: https://github.com/crawl/crawl/blob/master/crawl-ref/docs/cr... Spec
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by dota_fanatic 5y ago
In some sense, yes, but in another, not so much. Crawl is quite difficult and you're always a few steps away from death if you don't react to different situations appropriately. It can take players months to years to get their fir
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by dota_fanatic 5y ago
That's good to hear. I hope they keep going down that path. To refer to another game, in any of the Soulsborne games (Dark Souls, Bloodborne, ...) by From Software, as you level up you get to contribute points towards stats which affec
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by dota_fanatic 5y ago
Big fan of DCSS, but this doesn't surprise me. After getting a few all rune wins I stopped playing largely because it is so opaque. Even after spending a LOT of quality time with the (sometimes incorrect) wiki and in-game lookup system
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by dota_fanatic 5y ago
People metabolize caffeine at wildly different rates depending on their genes. One cup every other day in the morning is my limit until I see significant effects on deep sleep (as measured by a Dreem 2.) :/
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by dota_fanatic 5y ago
Obvious troll is obvious but... I assure you there are many high complexity systems in production today using FP that are not spaghetti code. Just like there are OOP codebases which are spaghetti, abstractions are used or abused. I’ve seen
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by dota_fanatic 5y ago
Ah, well, I've poorly portrayed the idea that Huberman shared on his podcast regarding neuroplasticity. I think we may even be in agreement. Lemme give this one more shot. > Don't allow yourself to make mistakes. Take the chal
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by dota_fanatic 5y ago
I've been listening to the Huberman Lab podcast[0] recently, and in one of the earlier episodes he talks a lot about how to create the environment for neuroplasticity in the adult brain. I've only listened to most episodes once so
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by dota_fanatic 6y ago
> didn't use > it seems like they probably wouldn't have needed to > they no doubt took I'm getting conflicting signals here. Could you edit your posts to remove the words referring to probability and impressio
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by dota_fanatic 6y ago
After being introduced to Christopher Alexander's conception of life* through his The Nature of Order textbooks (so verbose...), it's brought a clarity to existence I've found otherwise lacking from other quarters. Simply p
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by dota_fanatic 6y ago
Yes, I agree for what you’re describing, but that’s not the scenario I was referring to: the one where you don’t know how far over, how tall, how opaque, etc something should be and there’s no existing pattern to reach for off-the-shelf, li
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by dota_fanatic 6y ago
> unless you have two monitors Or have your editor and browser window tiled next to each other? Given how often FE development dabbles with design, using at least one decently sized monitor seems requisite. And aren't FEers genera
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by dota_fanatic 6y ago
For some people, no power for days plus running all lines does not prevent frozen pipes. The problem is in not knowing exactly which conditions will freeze the lines, we dont have temperature sensors on them, so people run them and hope for
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by dota_fanatic 6y ago
To some extent, yes, I am. On the one hand, their elected officials are absolutely asking for it. On the other hand, 46.5% of those who voted (5.3 mil) voted for Biden and 48.3% (4 mil) voted for Beto when he ran against Cruz. There are mor
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by dota_fanatic 6y ago
Those belief systems also tend to have things in store for the individual after death, though. Why should one fear death itself if it's actually the means to travel to a place where 72 virgins are waiting for them? Not disagreeing with
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by dota_fanatic 6y ago
Thanks, that is a more general review than what I was able to find. I wasn't able to find anything agreeing with a half-life on the order of weeks, however. Is it possible you're mistaking the half-life of irreversible MAOI's
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by dota_fanatic 6y ago
Very interesting, anecdotally coffee always had a different effect compared to tea, this seems to be one important difference. Do you have any pointers for further reading regarding the half-life in the brain?
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by dota_fanatic 6y ago
> More importantly though, you can’t reasonably budget more than a trillion dollars without some horse trading. Why? If the relief is federal, which I understand to be the case, no state or local level relief, then why must there be ho
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by dota_fanatic 6y ago
> We’re not streaming high-bitrate 1080p H.265 on our 5-person Zoom calls. After compression and denoising the extra sharpness and low noise of a high end camera doesn’t add much benefit. This was my experience exactly after testing di

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