jackdawed

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by jackdawed 4y ago
https://deconstructingyourself.com/do-nothing-meditation.htm...
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by jackdawed 4y ago
You'd be surprised. Even very realized people like Chogyam can be boisterous, womanizing, drunks. There are plenty of examples of highly awakened people doing conventionally bad and egocentric things. Unfortunately, this kind of stuff
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by jackdawed 4y ago
Alice says a blunt remark that hurts Bob's feeling (unintentional wrongful speech). Bob lets Alice know that he is hurt. The average person would feel guilt/distress and apologize. Instead, Alice is equipped with attainments from
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by jackdawed 4y ago
You'll love this chapter on MCTB https://www.mctb.org/mctb2/table-of-contents/part-ii-light-a...
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by jackdawed 4y ago
I still meditate daily, but more in a maintenance manner, the same way a power lifter goes to the gym out of habit, for health, without the goal of setting new PRs. Most of the time, my mind meditates itself automatically. I am very good at
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by jackdawed 4y ago
Forgive me, English is not my first language so at times I struggle finding the right word for it. The pali word is "sila", the closest translation is morals. To be deficient in sila is to be deficient in morals, was my thought pr
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by jackdawed 4y ago
It is like living in a video game with the FOV slider turned to max. It has made me very good at "deep work" and I have a much easier time managing day to day stress and emotions. However, it brought out immense periods of sufferi
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by jackdawed 4y ago
I'm on the third stage of enlightenment, if you have any questions about my day to day experience.
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by jackdawed 4y ago
One of the core practices of insight meditation (Vipassana) is to be mindful of your inner thoughts, like through "noting", and observe them through the lenses of the 3 characteristics. You use one-pointedness concentration (Samad
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by jackdawed 4y ago
This is a forefront issue that Buddhism tries to address, both modern pragmatic Buddhism and fundamentalist Buddhism. It's why right speech, right action, and morals is one of the first things they drill into you. Most pragmatic practi
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by jackdawed 5y ago
> That's to be expected. These programs are "cash cows". And they send a pretty bad signal [0] [1]. I read these two articles along with many others in the gap year I spent after undergrad, before deciding. I was pretty co
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by jackdawed 5y ago
A browser environment designed for researching is something I've been investigating lately. I want to stay with Chromium for convenience (Chrome for work, ungoogled-chromium for personal). Right now I see two paths that might work for
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by jackdawed 5y ago
Keep in mind this is for an international student paying out of state tuition with no aid. The 50-60k number is more reasonable for US citizens, <30k if you're coming in with a scholarship. 2 years is the average amount of time for
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by jackdawed 5y ago
I was in the same research lab as the author, but from a different school (BU). When I found out that most of my peers were also doing their master's part time while working, I wished I could do that. But as an international student, t
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Hanabi board game strategy, 200 page reference(hanabi.github.io)
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by jackdawed 5y ago
I agree, I own both (plastic V60, Kasuya ceramic). I switch it up depending on the weather, as well as the amount of coffee I want to make (300ml vs 400ml+), since they use different filter sizes.
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by jackdawed 5y ago
I've made my coffee using this same method for over 2 years with a plastic V60. It is super simple and requires very little thinking for a consistent cup. The only variables I have to adjust when I get a new bag is the grind size.
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by jackdawed 5y ago
From talking with my PhD and MS friends, it's mainly about time. PhDs work around 40-60 hours a week. Full time MS students are juggling courses, research, and part time work, also around 40 hours a week. That usually leaves little tim
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by jackdawed 5y ago
You might be interested in the Rust implementation dbrgn/tealdeer. There is also denisdoro/navi which can use both cheat.sh and tldr, and you can also write your own cheatsheets.
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by jackdawed 5y ago
I imagined it has to do with how the water coming out of a faucet is affected by gravity, and gains velocity. If you imagine two cross section slices, one near the faucet, and the other near the sink, the bottom slice is going faster than t
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by jackdawed 6y ago
I'm pretty curious what portion of HN's audience is aware of techwear and the work of Errolson Hugh at Acronym or Taka Kasuga at Arc'teryx Veilance. I've noticed that SWE's make up a substantial portion of the techw