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by gerbilly 11y ago
Thanks for posting that! I wear an Xcel wetsuit right now, but based on your story I think my next one will be from Patagonia.
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by gerbilly 11y ago
There's a Paul McCartney song about it too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7ErrZ-ipoE
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by gerbilly 11y ago
>Then we discover that these categories aren't really real. They're real, like, but not really real, you know what I mean. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reification_(fallacy)
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by gerbilly 11y ago
Gôdel Escher Bach Douglas Hofstadter, 1979 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach
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by gerbilly 11y ago
I prefer the security of sending a fax over sending an email. To eavesdrop on a fax transmission would require you to eavesdrop on a telephone line just at the right time. It's a point to point communication over a private line, as opp
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by gerbilly 11y ago
The basic of all plots is the story. A story is a series of events centred on the actions of one character. A story is about the character facing a difficulty, and demonstrating which action the character took to overcome that difficulty. S
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by gerbilly 11y ago
> it's the pathology of a "system", not (just) that of the people in it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_violence
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by gerbilly 11y ago
It seems like parsing is becoming a lost art. Maybe because it can't be easily approached by the iterative development style that is in fashion these days.
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by gerbilly 11y ago
> I can't think up any other motivation other than greed or addiction to money/power. Here's some possibilities: -The desire to please others? -Not knowing what else to do (Often the jobs are filled by kids who only know h
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by gerbilly 11y ago
I'm not an expert but neurons aren't like wires, they send electrochemical signals. You can squeeze a copper wire all you want, short of breaking it, and electrons will still flow. But in neurons, it's actual ions that have t
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by gerbilly 11y ago
It's not the fault of the researchers if the terms extroversion/introversion have been incorrectly popularized. What exactly is your point? That this personality factor does not exist, or that there are no such things as personal
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by gerbilly 11y ago
Yes it seems to be. It is one of the big five personality traits. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits ) Also, introversion does not imply shyness, awkwardness or fear of social situations. A bett
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Industrial farming is one of the worst crimes in history(theguardian.com)
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by gerbilly 11y ago
Because after a while some of us get totally fed up with living life the 'normal way': that is to say chasing one fragile form of happiness after another.
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by gerbilly 11y ago
If it's really that important, why not host your own gitlab or pay for a self hosted github installation?
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by gerbilly 11y ago
I remember a time when Sunday shopping was a topic being debated in Canada. (At the time there was a law mandating that most stores be closed on Sundays.) Now stores are open 7 days a week and sometimes 24 hours a day. Whenever I see a stor
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by gerbilly 11y ago
When a company hires you they are getting: your availability to work, and your capacity to work. When problems are well defined (you have workable requirements) then you availability becomes less important, so your capacity to work becomes
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by gerbilly 11y ago
>So that you don't care about the virtual problems you solve for virtual company X, is perfectly normal and healthy. They are not your problems, they are not even remotely life-threatening, and so they are not relevant for survival.
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by gerbilly 11y ago
You may like this: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/resona...
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by gerbilly 11y ago
I don't see the big deal either. Our brain is able to observe some of its own functioning and that is called consciousness. We can only observe a tiny fraction of that functioning, mind you. Practising Buddhists, who train at observin
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by gerbilly 12y ago
I'm weird too, and I'd add that I think Autoconf is also awesome.
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by gerbilly 12y ago
> Decisions can be made given a better understanding. This might be the root of the problem. You have to accept that most of the time you need to make decisions with your _current_ understanding. There are some situations where you will
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by gerbilly 12y ago
Exactly this. It's one thing to knowingly keep use simpler data formats or approaches (callback based concurrency model) to build systems that are small, _and will remain small_. That's defensible. But what I see is a bunch of new
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by gerbilly 12y ago
It's just a startup-a type of work organization operating in the first world, staffed by people who can find another job in a few weeks if it should fail. It's basically an exciting game for privileged people with too much time on
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by gerbilly 12y ago
Totally agree, you have to keep some energy in reserve to handle the unexpected. To go further, if you want to do more than just handle the unexpected (which is kind of like putting out a fire) you will need to bring wisdom to the situation
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by gerbilly 12y ago
One should judge a tree by it's fruits. If Alan Watt's enlightenment didn't prevent him from being an alcoholic who couldn't take care of his family, then I don't think that is an enlightenment worth pursuing. The B