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by martopix 4y ago
I don't, when I get tired, I stop. Weeks or months later, I decide to have another go, and often find that that problem I was stuck on is actually easily solvable, so I get another burst of motivation for a while.
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There's a beautiful poem by Giovanni Pascoli, "Aléxandros" in which Alexander the Great gets to the Indus river with his army after having conquered half of Asia; he knows it's the end of his conquest and thinks - it was
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Artificial neural networks have been called like that since the 1940s. So that's just how they're called. I assure you that people in the field know the difference very well.
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Essential sailing knots: https://www.discoverboating.com/resources/boating-knots
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I believe a customs union and common market are not nothing. The article is a bit too optimistic in speaking already of a federation. The EU shows that a political union is difficult, but simultaneously shows that a union of currencies, cu
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In west africa there are plans for a single currency (beyond the already existing CFA franc) https://www.dw.com/en/ecowas-west-african-bloc-aims-to-launc...
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what's a buttfor?
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I remember a high school friend once telling a non-joke to us. We did find it hilariously funny at the time. I did not manage to make anyone laugh with it since. She was very good at it, but as you say the audience matters.
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I studied Aristophanes in school and read some of his plays. It's astonishing how 2000 years later, some things can still be funny.
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It's not clear to me what the author is suggesting. Yes, I agree we focus a bit too much on self improvement and perhaps should relax about certain things. But if I start to believe that, for medical reasons, or any other reason, I rea
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I agree for me it really is a matter of identity. Unlike you, I struggle with the idea that I might be seen, but more importantly, that I might see myself as a failed academic. But I'm very slowly accepting that I may be happier buil
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I think what OP meant is that if you have an organisation with 100 votes or 100 organisations with 1 vote there's no difference in linear, but there's a huge difference in quadratic.
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This is very well said, but even if you limit the scope to people who can afford it, many really struggle to let go. Including me. I have a good salary and savings and I keep saying to myself that there's nothing preventing me from h
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When I first visited the US I was pretty appalled. Silicon Valley towns are huge stretches of residential areas where you can't even get a coffee on foot, you might be ok by cycling if they're not too large. In inland non-ancient
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As in, paying for that engineer was a mistake all along?
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Except in Switzerland.
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I actually read a book that made a similar claim, although I can't remember the title right now. It essentially said that depression as we know it is an illness for the contemporary world for the reasons you list. However, it made the
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The article says that.
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Environments don't help you if you want to use different versions of Python .
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My two cents: if you have to use `python -m pip` because it might be the wrong pip or something like that, if you have multiple versions of python and you don't know which one you're using , it means you have a mess in your syste
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pipenv and virtualenv are not "some other package manager". The package manager is still pip, which, by the way, does its job as a package manager fairly well. The problem is when you want multiple environments for multiple projec
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If this makes you feel better, I studied philosophy in high school (rather common in Italy), and it was 100% history of philosophy. We spent inane amounts of time on presocratic debates on whether water, air, or apeiron was the fundamenta
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> What if I also told you that memorising facts is not the same as learning? That is hopefully obvious to anyone that had a decent education. That learning through teaching works is also obvious to anyone who tried. I didn't know Fe
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I'm curious why history | grep and not ctrl-R?
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Same in Switzerland. In the UK (where I did my PhD) it was quite a bit better imho.
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There's a great song by Titãs, Epitáfio, which imagines a gravestone with all these thoughts, "I wish I had watched more sunsets, I wish I had cared less..."
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For example, the OP seems to know (he writes it in the post) that he was fighting with his wife because he was generally stressed. It would be interesting to know if, once he had this realisation after changing jobs, he actually sat down an
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Not OP but can't wait.
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Those are not trademarked. Anyone can make them as long as they follow the rules (including origin).
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The Closest Ten Airports(willymaps.github.io)
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