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by l_t 7y ago
Exactly, which is why it's such a valuable concept for opioid marketing. The line between addiction and pseudoaddiction is vague. Doctors can't judge it; nobody can judge it. Only the patient -- and the patient wants the drugs in
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by l_t 7y ago
Beyond the devil's advocacy, my personal opinion is that the industry is currently swung too-heavily towards prescribing opioids. We need to swing back the other way. The trick will be not swinging too far, which is I think the brunt o
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by l_t 7y ago
Devil's advocate position (mostly from a book, "Dreamland", about this topic): "Pseudoaddiction" is deliberately defined such that it's indistinguishable from actual addiction. The concept was popularized by Pu
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by l_t 7y ago
Have you considered remote work? Sounds like it would be right up your alley. (Good) remote companies work based on results, not "butts in seats," so you're free to work in whatever way works best for you. Of course, you stil
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by l_t 7y ago
Maybe containerd [0] is an alternative? It's being used in k3s instead of Docker. [0]: https://containerd.io/ edit: I didn't notice that you mentioned this in your comment, my bad. Can you explain why it doesn&#x2
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by l_t 7y ago
I think technically, if constraint propagation can't solve the puzzle, that means it's either contradictory (zero solutions) or ambiguous (multiple solutions). However, it seems Norvig was feeding his program with all three types
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by l_t 7y ago
In my experience, keeping BL out of the DB is a practical concern, not a dogmatic one. Usually there are two things: 1. Performance. Business logic is usually horizontally scalable, databases are usually not. You want to pull as much BL ou
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by l_t 7y ago
Self-checkout is significantly slower and more error-prone than using a cashier. It would be one thing if you could just walk your cart under a scanner and get a bill. But self-checkout is exactly the same as regular checkout, but with nob
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by l_t 7y ago
Thanks for calling that out, I'm not trying to imply that these are only personal risks. In fact, it's often the risk to others that causes anxiety. So I wouldn't read too much into my use of the word "project" th
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by l_t 7y ago
This is a personal comment, but if you're like me, I bet that anxiety is not just related to time. I would be telling myself: How can I commit to a lifelong project like children? How can I decide what career path to choose, when there
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by l_t 7y ago
I've experimented with fasting and weightlifting and I want to share some thoughts. First, fasting does not require that your overall calorie intake is reduced. If your cut-goal is 2000kcal per day, you can fast in the morning and eat
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by l_t 7y ago
I've followed Todo.txt from the beginning. It's an interesting project because it started without code, as just a Lifehacker post (back when it was very popular) about GTD-esque formatting for text files [0]. The actual applicatio
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by l_t 7y ago
For non-religious, more "empty mind" meditation, you can also look at Zen Buddhism if you haven't already. Zen meditation techniques usually involve focusing on breath or using simple visualizations. I recommend the book, &qu
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by l_t 7y ago
surf [0] does that. "It is able to display websites and follow links." [0]: https://surf.suckless.org/
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by l_t 7y ago
I've made hundreds (thousands?) of batches of chocolate chip cookies. They're my favorite dessert! I think this is a great article but I wanted to highlight some of what I've found to be key points for making the best cookies
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by l_t 7y ago
You might've looked at this already, but you can use a program called f.lux to globally change the color temperature of your screen. It's intended to eliminate blue light to make it easier to sleep, but it's highly configurab
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by l_t 7y ago
I think it's a heuristic signal. Old tech stacks are usually used in old projects that solve old problems. I doubt the OP would mind building a J2EE project from scratch to solve a novel problem. But nobody does that -- usually if th
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by l_t 7y ago
I've lived in multiple open-concept homes. They can be done well. But in many ways, I've come to see an open concept layout as an inefficient use of space. There are two factors: - Area / Perimeter ratio. If a room is too l
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by l_t 7y ago
I have found "Thinking in Systems" [0] to be a good book for crystallizing "systems" concepts in abstract. For example, it includes discussions on feedback loops, bottlenecks, equilibrium, etc. IIRC, it has been used as
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by l_t 8y ago
My strongest experience of something like this was always when half-asleep on public transit, commuting home in the evening. Those rare times, I was indeed "tricked" by what amounted to a lucid dream. I knew I was on a bus, becaus
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by l_t 8y ago
> The more I read about this the more I feel that the variety in reported inner experience is more to do with the variety in reporting than of the experience itself. I think there is very strong truth to this. Words get in the way when t
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by l_t 8y ago
Maybe your Brain-VCR is missing the Rewind button. :) It's super interesting how memory works. Like, I can remember the content of songs because they have rhyme and rhythm and pleasantness, but I can't remember anything else word-
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by l_t 8y ago
Chiming in as someone with fairly strong visual imagery (I think...) I think there are generally a variety of ways things can "appear". However it's never the same as true AR. For example, with true AR, you could be fooled in
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by l_t 8y ago
Have you ever noticed a similar effect with sounds? Or does it feel like a purely visual/spatial thing? For example, once I've heard a song enough, I can just replay it in my head, and it feels the same as actually listening to it
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by l_t 8y ago
Interesting point. I think I've been feeling this lately as a desire to have, basically, smarter compilers. It's actually incredible to me when I think about how many minutes of human thought are wasted among myself and my peers t
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by l_t 8y ago
I've gotten a new appreciation for OOP (and TDD) after reading "Growing Object-Oriented Programs Guided By Tests." It's made me start thinking of programs more as multicellular organisms, or communities, where each part
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by l_t 8y ago
Not the OP, but I might have some context. I think of OOP as a message passing paradigm . It's concerned with how messages are passed from one part of the system to another. It is not particularly concerned with how those messages a
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by l_t 8y ago
Pet peeve -- the article says music "significantly impairs" creativity. But I believe the paper only found evidence that there is a "significant chance that music impairs creativity." I'm not a stats expert, but I f
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by l_t 8y ago
They do address this in the paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/acp.3532 . It seems this type of test is fairly common. I guess there are a lot of different kinds of creativity. This seems
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by l_t 8y ago
It's valid, but not interesting. The "old legacy" system was once modern, too. And before that it was <script>. Better to talk about the technical benefits of the solution instead of how new (i.e. modern) it is.

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