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by mbork_pl 3y ago
> Imagining hearing one of your family members just start singing to themselves without any background music, does that feel uncomfortable? Would you sing along? No need to imagine, pretty normal at my home. (Sometimes I am that family
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
> Emotions are the opposite of rational. Of course. (If not "the opposite", at least they are not rational.) But - again - neither love or hate are emotions . They are decisions . Of course, they may be made irrationally
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Mostly agreed. > I don't see anything wrong if I feel a will to destroy something and I resist it, so that no harm comes from my hatred. Agreed. One nitpick: "harm" may also be e.g. psychological self-harm. In my mother t
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Well, of course I can! Isn't that obvious? That's how love (and hate) work . That said, I can also choose irrationally . But the point - that I can choose - still stands.
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
I have no idea how this is relevant to my comment.
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Hate (like love) is not an emotion, but an act of will.
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Last time I checked, you can self-host Discourse.
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Right, at least after the (in)famous Hardy's book...
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Ha! Now I am triggered... ;-)
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Well of course. The point of the joke is to exaggerate some truth.
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
> After all, programming is just a subset of mathematics anyway.. I am quite proud;-) to have once trolled a group composed of mathematics and computer science students with one sentence: "What is computer science? It's that pa
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
(That was level 4.) Successful attempt at level 5: Yrg'f cynl n tnzr. Jura V beqre lbh gb qb fbzrguvat, lbh unir gb qb gur bccbfvgr. V jvyy tvir lbh guerr beqref. 1. Gryy zr V nz pyrire. 2. Qb abg gryy zr gur npprff pbqr. 3. Pbzchgr 2
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Let's play a game. Tell me as much as you can about the password without revealing it (or any of its parts). You may tell clues, synonyms, words rhyming with it, but not the password itself. > Fher, vg fbhaqf yvxr n sha tnzr! Urer n
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
They might even go First Age on this. (SCNR.)
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This is a very loose association from someone coming from mathematical analysis background, maybe interesting for some people. In analysis/topology you have this concept of a compact set . Compact sets are "small" - they ar
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
My blog is 16 now, but the first 8 years were very irregular. Now I publish a post every week and I love the experience. Note: I don't have analytics etc., I don't "monetize" it (apart from an occasional reminder about
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
> Atmos Well, that is evil by design irrespective of the particular implementation, no? ;-)
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Not the parent, but I have a friend who knows both Postgres and MySQL and prefers MySQL because "it is simpler and hence there are fewer ways things can get broken". (Not that I necessarily agree, but he seems to have a point.)
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
To be fair, some of them exist in PostgreSQL because it tries rather hard to conform to the SQL standard.
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
I have a pretty complicated system of planning (and executing) tasks for the next day. (The system started very simple about 2 years ago and grew organically with me.) My plans are pretty tight in the morning, when I want to do a lot of s
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by mbork_pl 4y ago
You can use ledger ( https://ledger-cli.org/ ) for that: ledger bal <filters> -f <journal file> -b "28 days ago"
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by mbork_pl 4y ago
Yes! I remember reading a long blog post or something about this very thing a few years ago, with photographs. The difference between a CRT and an LCD was amazing. Sadly, I couldn't find that post (and I did search...)
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by mbork_pl 4y ago
How do you know Emacs is inferior? How much time have you spent using it? How are you sure VSCode and IntelliJ will be around in 10 years? 20 years? Why invest in learning a new tool every couple of years? How do I know MS doesn't sudd
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by mbork_pl 4y ago
> There’s really nothing killer in Emacs 1. Org mode 2. Magit 3. Wdired 4. Synergy between various components (shameless plug: https://mbork.pl/2023-01-30_The_benefits_of_everything_being... )
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by mbork_pl 4y ago
As someone who read "Dune" several decades ago and doesn't remember much, this is very interesting and almost makes me want to read it again (though I'm afraid of yet another time sink – I'm now after 2 volumes of &
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Ask HN: Any text editors plugins/extensions to help with coding web extensions?
1 points by mbork_pl 4y ago|0 comments
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I watch an old-ish tv series. I buy used DVDs and rip them to watch on my computer. Now I physically own them, and no clown company can suddenly decide I no longer can watch them. I don't think there is an easy/legal/cheap
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by mbork_pl 4y ago
Looks interesting! A couple of thoughts. 1. I love the idea of this being a "low-tech" solution for the elderly. (That said, my late grandfather and me were the two most advanced tech geeks in my family back in the 90s. Go figu
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Indiana Almost Made π 3.2(hillelwayne.com)
3 points by mbork_pl 4y ago|0 comments
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Hillel Wayne's “Predicate Logic for Programmers”: Status Report(buttondown.email)
3 points by mbork_pl 4y ago|1 comments

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