jareklupinski

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by jareklupinski 1mo ago
> the system prefers to breed anxiety a happy consumer consumes less than an anxious one :(
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by jareklupinski 1mo ago
> There was a recent, ridiculous SubStack piece about the Rise and Fall of AI Agent Civilizations. The author opined: Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. yup that sounds like a substack :P
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by jareklupinski 1mo ago
wow cowcatchers sure have come a long way https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowcatcher
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by jareklupinski 1mo ago
you're getting me sentimental about the last time i scrubbed the tiles :(
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by jareklupinski 1mo ago
> ... otherwise Britain will sunset before its time, like the decadent Doges of the long-lost Venetian Republic ... i love it when history rhymes
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by jareklupinski 1mo ago
instructions unclear; tried putting tiger into a cup, then a bottle now all my flows crash :D
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by jareklupinski 1mo ago
Option C: put the tiger in someone else's room :)
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by jareklupinski 1mo ago
when a coworker asked how i remembered the argument for increasing java heap size, i just said "oh from a previous job" :X
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by jareklupinski 1mo ago
aren't worth the tax: no matter how high you set the tax, it won't offset the amount you have to spend on rehabilitating the effects of the vice legality itself never stopped a vice from being indulged :) it's the cost /
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by jareklupinski 1mo ago
after the first fifty years? :) biological organisms develop addiction much faster than political processes
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by jareklupinski 1mo ago
> companies need to pay 40-50% of their gross revenue to the government. That's comparable to tobacco. taxing a vice is worth it on paper, but the second-order effects (nonstop alcohol ads, pervasive gambling app dark patterns) aren
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by jareklupinski 1mo ago
as long as they include a schematic for their products, i'm set i've always viewed m5stack / seeed / tindie as 'dev board marketplaces'; once i proof the rest of the design using their board, i take the known-w
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by jareklupinski 1mo ago
wild attempt: try to put your hand behind your back: are you aware of "where" your hand is, even though you cant see it? now if someone taps on one of those fingers on that hand behind your back, could you put that same finger dow
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by jareklupinski 1mo ago
> I'd seen that effect a bajillion times without really looking too hard at it. It's just what television does. But during one of my infamous 2am can’t-sleep iPhone research sessions, I learned it actually has a name: a squeeze
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by jareklupinski 2mo ago
i'd hand over one of those novelty Bill Gates dollars to show the shopkeeper i'm serious
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by jareklupinski 2mo ago
i only show tooltips if you wiggle the mouse cursor over an element
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by jareklupinski 2mo ago
i see 'hunter2'
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by jareklupinski 2mo ago
every time i try to 'streamline the computer setup' i get reminded that losing 'the desk' was the worst part / saddest moment
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by jareklupinski 2mo ago
if Vampire Survivors is a dopamine shortcut, then > This post is for paying subscribers only is a cortisol hack. thanks author :( i'm going back to actually having fun!
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by jareklupinski 2mo ago
mine is on a wallet chain like a pocketwatch
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by jareklupinski 2mo ago
i'll give it a shot: you and i meet and start to talk about the weather, then slowly get to some personal questions, and i mention that i prefer quieter places when talking to people. later, when going out with friends, if i ask "
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by jareklupinski 2mo ago
it's definitely a multi-axis thing :) Aladdin makes me sympathize with stealing to feed your family, though The Protomen helped me place a balance between sacrificing for your family and working for personal ambitions
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by jareklupinski 2mo ago
> a life made of choices of that kind will eventually leave you spiritually bankrupt. > I'd sure like to earn more money. i heard a lyric a while back about being "unhappy with the riches, cuz you're p**-poor morally&qu
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by jareklupinski 2mo ago
some mice still have "on-board" memory and i look for that when getting one these days, that way you can configure it using the program from wherever (my work laptops tend to have windows), and the profiles or whatever live on the
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by jareklupinski 2mo ago
welcome to tech?
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by jareklupinski 2mo ago
> addiction is the problem of the users which have nothing better to do than scroll the app - 1996 Purdue Pharma "began a massive marketing campaign", based on a "unique claim" for OxyContin, with FDA permission, that
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by jareklupinski 2mo ago
spoon still missing
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by jareklupinski 2mo ago
with the company slogan underneath: "Who Else But WBMason"
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by jareklupinski 2mo ago
> “dirt dirt dirt..rock..dirt” and that was wonderful reminds me of discovering minecraft for the first time a long time ago
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by jareklupinski 2mo ago
a crisp drink, sure; in a similar vein to carrot juice though, calling a carrot 'juicy' is cromulent.... but....

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