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by j_crick 2y ago
> How do you fix something like this if you can’t diagnose what’s wrong? You don't "fix" it, you just fine-tune your behavior models. Make of yourself something that people need and/or want (which is often something t
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by j_crick 2y ago
When I read the submission title here I immediately wondered if it was Sabine again and, well, there she was.
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by j_crick 2y ago
> How other people experience it, I just have to do my best to imagine it. Imagine somebody planted a virus on your desktop, or just sneakily RDP-ed into your session and took control over your mouse and keyboard, like kids were joking o
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by j_crick 2y ago
Oh, we all do run on them, I think, because our experiences are moderated by chemicals in our brains anyway. Shift your hormonal balance here or there just a bit, and this or that part of your identity or behavior can get marginally out of
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by j_crick 2y ago
A phone is a very personal item that people interact with multiple times a day, and it's only natural to have strong opinions on how it should operate, or being angry about how it one day stops operating the way you got used to in prev
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by j_crick 2y ago
Hopefully they'll also bump up the SE next spring and keep the button on it.
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by j_crick 2y ago
For that reason, I bought some Fuji X100 and just take pictures with it if I need, for at least it's a fun exercise for actually thinking about what exactly do I really want to capture and why.
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by j_crick 2y ago
That they know they got a bad deal and they keep going along with its badness, and/or do it to look morally good to themselves, or something like that, is exactly what buckets them as clueless.
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by j_crick 2y ago
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by j_crick 3y ago
> Show me a test that determines what their future is with some kind of accuracy Are you some kind of arbiter of bodies and lives of others? If not, what's your business with that?
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by j_crick 3y ago
See, much like others you put an accent on physicalities (how she’s not in some dirty hole in a very poor and dangerous country), and then switch to relativities. But WHY do you consider it fair to compare her condition to others’? You don’
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by j_crick 3y ago
> I'm just not sure that a 28 year old is really facing incurable depression. That you don’t have or see one doesn’t mean it’s impossible.
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by j_crick 3y ago
Choose both options from your suggestions, it's not that they are mutually exclusive, y'know.
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by j_crick 3y ago
Poverty mentality often mixes up with frugality in lifestyle, a certain disdain, discomfort, anxiety or even outright fear about living better than you "could" or "should", partly based on being afraid to lose what you p
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by j_crick 3y ago
I sympathize with your point of view and kinda share it, and enjoy cash myself very much, but I'm afraid "fairness" doesn't really exist, therefore it's a bit pointless to call for it. The rules of "the game&qu
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by j_crick 3y ago
> If authorities mistakenly place a distress or freeze First I wanted to write that good luck suing you government, and even if you win, getting your money in several years… Maybe… > personally paid by the government employee responsi
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by j_crick 3y ago
> sliding into irrelevance on the global stage There’s the rest of the world out there, where these guys are nowhere near irrelevant.
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by j_crick 3y ago
Human nature won't change. How companies work, how humans interact, how users behave -- I don't see how that'll change anytime soon at all.
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by j_crick 3y ago
Why should I want to tap the bars in the first place? Why can I tap the largest bar so much that it can become as small as others in the end? Why can't bars just auto-resize when I scroll the page horizontally? You're the designer
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by j_crick 3y ago
If I open this on iPhone and tap a bar, they eventually shrink down until they look like this https://ibb.co/B2PJXD7 and stay that way. What’s the point?
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by j_crick 3y ago
I don’t know if that’s just my OCD, but if they care about the looks so much, then it seems like the arrow right key, the screen and the knobs are not aligned or even at the same margin from the right edge…
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by j_crick 3y ago
My thoughts exactly... No numpad? No normal arrows? Naaaaah that's not a keyboard of my dreams at all
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by j_crick 3y ago
> Long story short - yes, Spotify isn't perfect - but dear god, is it (and related services) amazing relative to what I had when I was tiny Comparing a product to what it was like decades ago and declaring it good is not the same as
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by j_crick 3y ago
I’d say if money doesn’t provide a stable platform for seemingly reliable dissolution of your unhappiness then probably you aren’t spending it enough .
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by j_crick 3y ago
For some reason this page doesn’t load on mobile Safari because it crashes. Reader mode doesn’t render anything either.
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by j_crick 3y ago
Can you precisely describe the cascade of thoughts and feelings that provoked you to write this comment?
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by j_crick 3y ago
How can {deliberately doing harmful things for a desired harmful outcome} and {doing whatever things with lack of judgment and disregard to consequences at all} be the same thing? In what situations?
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by j_crick 3y ago
Cars bad, horses good
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by j_crick 3y ago
Except for when it's actual malice vOv
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by j_crick 3y ago
Ask that about small houses and it’s not even a bad list: 1. Jacques Selosse Initial Brut 2. Franck Pascal Harmonie Demi-Sec 3. Gaston Chiquet Demi-Sec Tradition 4. Larmandier-Bernier Terre de Vertus Premier Cru Extra Sec Maybe throw in som

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