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by gerbilly 5y ago
I wasn't really focused so much on where in the brain the two types of attention were located. It may be as he describes it in the video, or it may not. For meditation, however, I feel strongly that the goal is to achieve a balanced
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by gerbilly 5y ago
I think you're right. There seems to be two sorts of attention in the mind, narrowly focused attention and broad diffuse attention. I see the goal of meditation not so much as alternating between the two modes but rather like balancing
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by gerbilly 5y ago
Introversion may also appear on Myers-Briggs, but it also one of the 'Big Five' personality factors, one of the most robust findings in psychology.
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by gerbilly 5y ago
I read your comment last night and it bothered me enough that I had to google it to find it this morning. tl;dr: Look for things that spark joy and double down on them. Forget about success, focus on fun in the moment. I beleive you have a
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by gerbilly 5y ago
Well lambdas are also cheaper than virtual servers. (Cheaper that is if you don't value your employees time, which most large companies don't.)
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by gerbilly 5y ago
> serverless hype didn't mean that programmers would only write business logic Yeah, I've found that when we recently tried serverless, we ended up wasting tons of time bikeshedding multiple CI/CD pipelines.
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by gerbilly 5y ago
I have a theory that even though the serverless trend is sold as a technical revolution, it's mostly due to accounting practices. Serverless is purely about CAPEX, vs OPEX. Companies are so loath to make capital expenditures (CAPEX) th
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by gerbilly 5y ago
Also disc brakes can give you brake fade. I have a hydraulic disc with a 203mm rotor, and even that huge disk sometimes fades on long descents.
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by gerbilly 5y ago
> The issue is that in the west, and particular in the US, being poor is considered a character flaw. This is the Just world hypothesis in action.¹ 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis
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by gerbilly 5y ago
All right more flexibility, good point. However what languages are you thinking of when talking about this? I've done a lot of Java programming where we commonly use threads and thread pools, although there are non blocking libraries o
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by gerbilly 5y ago
It's not that I don't see the benefit of the CPU doing something useful when waiting for I/O, my confusion comes from the fact that people like to express this using promises/await. Why not just arrange it like this?
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by gerbilly 5y ago
Can someone explain to me the attraction of async programming? I don't really do JS, where a lot of this seems to be happening, but the code I have seen with the huge ladders of callbacks doesn't seem so great to work with to me.
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by gerbilly 5y ago
Every time I see a cycling story, I like to do a Cmd-F for the word 'rules' to see how many rules pedants there are in the thread complaining about how cyclists don't follow the rules of the road.¹ 1. Apparently, cyclists hav
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by gerbilly 5y ago
> it can't help much for other species Many of the solutions for reversing monarch also have positive side effects for other species. All life is connected. One species can alert you to the deterioration of an entire ecosystem.
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by gerbilly 5y ago
Yes, sorry I replied to a different interpretation of your question I guess. I was trying to say that YC may be looking past the solution to the real underlying issue. To me this would make sense. We often start out with a problem that bug
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by gerbilly 5y ago
Because, just like the author of the blog, most of us have trained ourselves not to share these kinds of feelings. In his pitch the founder conceived/pitched the solution as a veiled way to talk about his real problem. I see it at my j
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by gerbilly 5y ago
So far so good on the Toner. I _think_ I heard that the guts were the same as an IBM printer, but I might be wrong on that.
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by gerbilly 5y ago
I was fortunate enough to buy a 1990s laser printer. Back then companies were still short sighted enough¹ to build them to last. It's an Apple Laserwiter 12/640PS. It's still chugging along today, with 64Mb of memory no less!
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by gerbilly 5y ago
>It is the human brain and human potential. No. Just no. The most valuable thing is the ecosystem, of which we are just one small, temporary, and insignificant part. It’s exactly this kind of hubris and overconfidence that is leading us
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by gerbilly 5y ago
Trees make their own rain, it’s a known thing, and if the moisture was only from the ocean then you’d expect it to rain to the west of the mountains not to the east.
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by gerbilly 5y ago
>We're literally just hitting the part of economic development where the highest impacts to output are not resource intensive but rather intellectual property intensive I hope they issue patents on good edible paper then, because if
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by gerbilly 5y ago
To an end user, a computer isn't a computing device, it's a communication device. They didn't want the PDAs from the 90s in their pocket because they weren't good as communications devices. That and the server side apps
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by gerbilly 5y ago
For me, the most germane question becomes: 1. Can it be blocked without recompiling Firefox? 2. If so, how?
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by gerbilly 5y ago
NoSQL == NoCare about data integrity and consitency concerns. NoSQL allows you to start coding fast (no need to learn any awkward 'legacy' concepts). More importantly it allows you to kick the can down the road for all those prob
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Software Burnout Is for Real(medium.com)
2 points by gerbilly 5y ago|1 comments
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by gerbilly 5y ago
> These are not lies, these are changes in our understanding of viral epidemiology Stop arguing with the guy, I'm not sure what his motives are, but whatever they may be, facts will not change his mind. It's just reactance if y
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by gerbilly 5y ago
I always admire somebody who has the courage to side with the powerful. They are so downtrodden and really need our help!
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by gerbilly 5y ago
I've never run windows, ever . The last MS OS that I used was DOS. I'm going to wait this whole windows thing out.
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by gerbilly 5y ago
Why do we complain only when it's done to children? I'll never have an open mic installed in my house (alexa, google etc...) Yet it seems the generation of young engineers that built these things sees nothing wrong with them. Why
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One Thing We Can Agree on Is That We’re Becoming a Different Country(nytimes.com)
1 points by gerbilly 5y ago|0 comments

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