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by matrix87 3y ago
Why don't you set an example for everyone and go into a trade then?
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by matrix87 3y ago
> That said, I feel like I'm no longer interested in computer science and programming as a whole and that really bothers me It doesn't have to be your lifestyle. It can be "just a job" that you do for money. You don&#
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by matrix87 3y ago
> I've also been having trouble articulating why I stopped GAF about computing and technology. Whenever I go for a job interview, a question is "what tech do you think is interesting or exciting right now?" and I think it&
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by matrix87 3y ago
> There is no religion, outside of what we imagine. You're making a metaphysical claim here, good luck proving it Someone mentions religion and you come along and decide to attack it with the same cliche. Why?
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by matrix87 3y ago
I'm sorry. I didn't know that anesthesia could do that kind of thing
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by matrix87 3y ago
At the end of the day, you can either see a beautiful thing and share it with a bunch of people. Or you can see an ugly mechanistic thing and think that you're smarter than the people seeing the beautiful thing I don't think which
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by matrix87 3y ago
I used to do psychedelics frequently and tried really hard to get something out of them. Up until the last time I dropped acid, I just got high and came down. The last time I ever did a psychedelic, I dropped acid and was reading this book
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by matrix87 3y ago
Maybe because psychedelics wake up the part of the human psyche that understands religion
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by matrix87 3y ago
I don't really get this sort of dismissal of the education system. It isn't just for teaching vocational skills but for the formation of culture and for teaching people how to participate in democratic society
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by matrix87 3y ago
> In straightforward psychoanalytic terms, adolescents truant from parents as forbidden objects of desire, as the people who have deprived them; they truant for accessible objects of desire, for the possibility of making up for the inevi
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by matrix87 3y ago
> And almost in real time, I could see my interest in Magic wane and disappear. Instead of being fun, I began to see Magic as a chore, rather than something I just wanted to do for fun. You're using the same productivity strategies
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by matrix87 3y ago
It's a bunch of forced hype, like the metaverse but with the media on board
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by matrix87 3y ago
> YMMV. I took LSD. It didn't do a whole lot other than make me think I could play the piano when I definitely can't. The only life changing thing was I was down some cash which I could have spent on something else. A friend at
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by matrix87 3y ago
No way she'd say yes to that
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by matrix87 3y ago
> or because someone else wants you to want them How is wanting to make someone else happy a bad reason? Sure, not everyone has your best intentions in mind. People don't sit around wanting to make scammers happy, normally it's
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by matrix87 3y ago
Where in my comment did I mention government or gender roles?
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by matrix87 3y ago
> you can't find the benefit to you, reconsider, don't just do it beacuse you are "supposed to". Because they want to? I really don't get this attitude of rationalizing everything in terms of pros vs cons. It jus
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by matrix87 3y ago
If too many get laid off there will be less money in the housing market, it won't be able to soak up as much excess surplus value anymore. If AI kills the rat race, we're supposed to be sad about it?
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by matrix87 3y ago
> Harassment using pictures of yourself is different: That's harassment, and should be frowned upon. They are still using simple nudity to do it, and the nudity isn't the issue. If you had to view that harassment secondhand eve
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by matrix87 3y ago
It's actually worse. If you're watching something terrible like gore, there's still some distance between you and the thing that you're watching OTOH, if you're getting emotionally abused in a place that's alre
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by matrix87 3y ago
I should probably do 2 but I haven't as of yet. > In the new year, do you have any plans to enhance your mental well-being? I feel like up until recently I've been trying to be perfect and hide myself out of fear of judgement.
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by matrix87 3y ago
> Whataburger and Five Guys have better burgers. Can't speak for Whataburger but Five Guys is usually messier and the "little cheeseburger" is huge. Maybe the patties are better and the fries are objectively better but I w
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by matrix87 3y ago
Who the hell would get mcd when in n out is like 2x as good for about the same money. Absolute insanity
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by matrix87 3y ago
Imagine being a young adult with parents in the Bay Area, and you didn't happen to major in tech or biotech or anything that pays well What should someone do in that case? Move to a cheaper area? It isn't all that obvious
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by matrix87 3y ago
> It turns out that compared to the dedicated nerds of the previous generation, most new people just don't care that much about tech and don't want to go deeper than the bare minimum required by their job. The average day-to-da
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by matrix87 3y ago
Ig because it had user level threads before java, which apparently is adding them in an upcoming version
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by matrix87 3y ago
> Most conceivable changes implicate dozens to hundreds of mock expectation lines, and thus become more trouble than they're worth. I've experienced the same thing in java, and similarly with testing different conditionals&#x2F
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by matrix87 3y ago
> Do you find that the Go ecosystem is rich enough that you can find whatever you require? For what I require (which is atm concurrent web services, restful and grpc APIs, occasional CLIs, k8s tools), it's on par with java For colle
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by matrix87 3y ago
After using both java and go, I prefer go. The tooling is simpler and more intuitive, the feature set is less bloated (fewer useless things reinventing the wheel like streams api), it also isn't affiliated with Oracle In general java f
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by matrix87 3y ago
Sex without love is worse than no sex at all. Treating sex as an isolated metric is stupidity. Turning that metric into a status symbol reduces women to sex objects

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