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by lumb63 4y ago
I also find (and have heard from others) that the act of writing things down helps you to remember them better (which somewhat obsoletes the note). It also, in my experience, forces your brain to think about them more because it has to exte
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Most people I know consider me a “disciplined” person. I’m a fitness junkie who has very rarely missed a workout in the last 10 years. I maintain a not-as-strict-as-I’d-like-but-seemingly-better-than-most diet. I prioritize habits that help
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I love the spirit of this. Caveman-level simplicity is awesome! I think I am personally too Grug of an audience for Grug Notes, though; my current note taking scheme is vim on text files in a notes folder.
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Thanks for the thoughtful comment and showing compassion. I appreciate it. I’ll keep what you’ve said in mind in discussions in the future and will probably be a better contributor for it. I agree with some of your comment and disagree with
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I can go further in justifying my position if you’d like, but I’d rather not unless you ask me to. I have no interest in explaining why I believe men have a lower life expectancy as a direct result of the system if you’re just going to tell
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It's convenient that you ignored the majority of my post because I am "too deeply entrenched", and then cherry-picked its one weak point while claiming I am cherry-picking and dishonest. I'll try the same tactic next tim
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They are out of the mainstream, but only because "systems people who have exchanged any hope of losing their virginity for the exciting opportunity to think about hex numbers and their relationships with the operating system, the hardw
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I'll cover up their rhetorical technique with statistics: Women have outpaced men in Bachelor's degree completions since 1981, and Master's degrees since 1986. At present they are 57.7% of Bachelor's degree recipients an
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I didn't mean to make this a "women vs. men" problem; I meant to make it a "men" problem, and I believe it would be accepted as one, if you replaced "men" with "women". For instance, we acknowled
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I don't think it's fair of you to characterize my comment as "ridiculous". I'll focus on the US, specifically, since that's where I'm from and is the society I'm most familiar with. I am glad you used
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Just to be clear, the “we just need a way to reproduce without men” comment was a paraphrase from another comment, here on HN [0]. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34833340
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It is disappointing to me that how this issue impacts men is largely brushed aside. It is well documented that testosterone levels have greatly declined in the last 100 years. If you couple these two facts, it seems impossible they are inco
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When you couple the decline in sperm count with testosterone levels which have plummeted, doesn’t that seem concerning?
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Why do you say diversity of opinion and experience are not the answer conservative folks want to hear? It strikes me as strange, given that the vast majority of media outlets in the US are left-leaning.
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I shared this sentiment in one of my comments recently: “certainly I can’t be the only one who wants their search engine to search, right?”
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I’m exhausted of hearing the “class warfare” battle cry from the upper 2%, against the 1%.
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I see this as being in agreement with what the OP is saying. This study more or less says that people intrinsically have motivation, not discipline. Hence, as the OP says, a need to cultivate discipline. Also, saying “science calls BS” is i
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Thanks for sharing. This is about what I would have expected from Google, so it’s nice to see my assessment was accurate. I’d say that focusing on racism after firing someone for their work on AI (un)ethics was tone deaf, but it sounds more
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I switched to DuckDuckGo initially and had similar gripes over search results. The last straw was when I started to hear about censorship and suppression of sources on DuckDuckGo. I switched to Startpage and the results seem much better. It
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I’m glad to see some folks in the comments section here using this. My first thought on seeing the headline was, “why not just use grep?”, which the article addressed. My second was, “who in earth wants to search all of GitHub?” I’m happy s
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Am I the only one who feels like Google is missing the mark in more than one way? First off, I have no idea what Google uses AI for today in any of its products. Google today is about as useful (or useless, perhaps, since I’ve switched sear
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I don’t think that’s what they’re saying. They’re saying that there is utility in understanding what you’re getting with a memory-safe language like Rust. Why would a programmer care if they’re getting memory safety and thread safety if the
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You may be interested in what Ted Kaczynski says in his Manifesto. He hypothesizes that, with the majority of our biological needs fulfilled by society and technology, we are left with mostly “surrogate activities”: activities which do not
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How is it at present 10x’ing any engineers, and how is it going to 20-100x them? Legitimate question, because my understanding of these tools is they, at present, generate something that you have to entirely vet and have a limited mental mo
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I love to see work being done to improve Rust compile times. It’s one of the biggest barriers to adoption today, IMO. Package management, one of Rust’s biggest strengths, is one of its biggest weaknesses here. It’s so easy to pull in anothe
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Can you say more about what challenges on what positions changed your opinions? Have tour political opinions changed on both social and economic issues? I’d be very interested to hear more. Specifically, I am curious what the most influenti
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Agreed. Convincing folks who think that of anything else is quite difficult. I’ll promote here one of my favorite reads, The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul. It feels very apropos here as we embark on an new smorgasbord of technologi
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I grew up in Connecticut. Killingly is not an unsafe area by any stretch of the imagination. It’s quaint by all my measures. This is absurd. I’d have been very quick to retort to the officers, upon being informed that there were sex offende
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This article was missing something to me. There are definitely inequities in “luck”: genetics, upbringing, etc., that one has no (or very little) influence over. The author uses this to draw the conclusion that, more or less, if you’re unlu
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Why not both? I believe that I have no conscious free will. I do not think I have ever consciously “made a decision” in my life. They all ultimately arise from unconscious processes. My brain, at least, seems to be a complex system mapping

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