guntherhermann

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by guntherhermann 3y ago
>How would you feel if, instead, I said "your gratitude practice is actually new age hippy trash"? I would say: "I don't care what you think. It works for me, if it doesn't for you then it doesn't."
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by guntherhermann 3y ago
I took a 'mindfulness' course a couple of years back, and the biggest benefit for me was learning to be grateful. It sounds riduclous typing it out but there it is. Practicing gratitude daily, e.g. giving myself reasons to be than
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by guntherhermann 3y ago
They eat broccoli, but not for protein. I'm not a vegetarian or vegan either, stop looking for an enemy when there isn't one :) Also, whey protein powder is vegetarian, so I would say it's not the 'anti-meat' crowd
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by guntherhermann 3y ago
Vegetarians don't eat broccoli for protein. They eat legumes. Chickpeas, lentils, beans, etc. Meat is still superior, but not as extreme as your initial dichotomy.
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by guntherhermann 3y ago
"Trust but verify" is a nonsense statement. If you trust, you do not need to verify, and vice versa.
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by guntherhermann 4y ago
Not following a proscribed political viewpoint is now "extremist trolling". Yeesh! Some of these points aren't even controversial to most people in the real world, just on the Internet. See: men in women's sports. Go and
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by guntherhermann 4y ago
SS13 has given me some of the best memories playing games, ever. A playable AI, objectives that each class needs, a few PCs playing sinister characters... it was so. much. fun! My favourite mode was the "Thing" mod, where one play
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by guntherhermann 4y ago
The title is misleading; giving the wrong idea or impression. People who work in the field may understand what is actually going on, but I get the feeling that your target market is much broader than that, and I doubt that the majority of t
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by guntherhermann 4y ago
Ok, but what does it actually do ?
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by guntherhermann 4y ago
In the UK they still call them "blackboards", I've never seen a green one over here.
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by guntherhermann 4y ago
There are 9 superhero/marvel films out this year. I sit on the side of "It's because the modern entertainment industry has become stale."
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by guntherhermann 4y ago
> C-style for loops can almost always be replaced with iterators in a more concise manner. Not if you want to optimise for performance. A simple example: I search through a list of n items to find item m, iterators typically don&
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by guntherhermann 4y ago
This is an 8 year old demo of a SHARP Memory Display, for those like me who didn't know exactly how it looks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmronCahqd8 The fast response time is the key, I was expecting it to be like
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by guntherhermann 4y ago
the document says it is "violent language". the reasoning for "three amigos" is that it is "racially loaded language"
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by guntherhermann 4y ago
What about: master blacklist/whitelist crazy/idiotic/stupid "skin a cat" "black market" "black box testing" / "white box testing" "three amigos" "war games" ? T
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by guntherhermann 4y ago
Very cool. We had a bootleg version of this on the Amiga 500 called Emerald Mine, it evokes very strong nostalgia! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l9pf-SdCM8&t=72s
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by guntherhermann 4y ago
Same, from a working class background, can't really call myself "working class" anymore, but the upbringing remains. I refer to myself as a "programmer", and when speaking to people who revere what we do I explain t
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by guntherhermann 4y ago
> - adding mass to objects even when their main purpose depends on users moving them. I prefer a heavier mouse to a flyaway one. For me it is not "objectively worse", it is subjectively better! Flimsy, lightweight elec
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by guntherhermann 4y ago
XML?
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by guntherhermann 4y ago
Why do we want to "normalise" or "encourage" discussion around gender on a source control platform? I can't see it as anything but an utterly pointless waste of time.
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by guntherhermann 4y ago
My MP gave me the same response.
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by guntherhermann 4y ago
I can't be the only one who finds headlines that tell you what to do highly irritating. How about you don't tell me what to do. Convince me. Show, don't tell.
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by guntherhermann 4y ago
Robot: "What is my purpose" Rick: "You pass butter" Robot: "Oh my god"
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by guntherhermann 4y ago
1) Cool it with the snark 2) Ebola, Yellow Fever, HIV & Hepatitis aren't airborne, so probably wouldn't be the kind of viruses that the parent is talking about
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by guntherhermann 4y ago
> A reset button would be nice to undo the horrible mess I made. The (...) button next to "Your jam" -> Clear does the job for me
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by guntherhermann 4y ago
> Doing only things that you otherwise despise but which advance you somehow is also a way to a major depression, or some other mental injury. > OTOH diving head-first into your passion and ignoring everything else, including such th
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by guntherhermann 4y ago
> It's a project to build a standards-based, fully open source RISC-V laptop "for all children age 9-99". The infantilisation of humanity continues... The project is light on details, and consists of a 3D rendered laptop w
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by guntherhermann 4y ago
by whom ? Spotted Dick worse than pickled pig's tongue? I'm not having it. Edit: It looks like this is a crowdsourced food encyclopedia. Peladillas being rated as the 80th worst food item in the list is baffling. They're nic
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by guntherhermann 4y ago
FOSDEM is a diverse conference, it's great. If you've never been, go and then criticise if you don't like it. Don't rely on second hand information to make up your mind.
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by guntherhermann 4y ago
The immigration stats for 2022 are skewed by Ukrainian refugees and HKers fleeing to UK. Still, there must be many reasons why asylum seekers in Calais are trying to get to the UK, when they passed through a number of EU countries first.

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