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by meken 4y ago
I never thought I had trauma, but this has been my exact experience with labeling, and I’ve recently begun working with an IFS therapist as well.
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by meken 4y ago
I like a version of this technique the best for curing writer’s block. When I sit down and try and write the “perfect paragraph”, I get paralyzed. But if I just start barfing out semi-coherent thoughts line by line, I find I’m able to get u
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by meken 4y ago
Seems like the more wealth you have the harder it is to make risks…
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by meken 4y ago
What kind of volunteer teaching do you do?
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by meken 4y ago
ACT therapy is nice and was an important step for me to develop more mindfulness, but not the full solution. I found ACT to be a bit like relying on willpower. There were only so many times I was “willing” to move forward with my feelings w
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by meken 4y ago
One thing that’s missing in video calls is eye contact. You both are looking at each other’s faces, which are not the camera. Seems like it would be possible to transform the person’s eyes so they’re looking straight forward, not down. This
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by meken 4y ago
I’m not sure I follow, but I’m really interested in fixing eye contact. Can you elaborate?
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by meken 4y ago
kicked to the curb *
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by meken 4y ago
It’s weird. Society has tried to influence me that money, wealth, status, career are beneficial. I was raised middle class. But I’ve never quite seen the point in all of it. All it’s really led to is a lifetime of beating myself up and ask
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by meken 4y ago
Could you say more about this? What historical events are you referring to? I consider myself a disaffected male, and am curious to understand my situation from a historical perspective.
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by meken 5y ago
> If I had the courage to protest... I would use filmmaking as a tool to fight all injustice. Love the honesty
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by meken 5y ago
This was my favorite video, too. Absolutely life changing. My other favorite video of his is on boundaries. “Why you can’t set boundaries with family and friends.”
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You Are Burned Out and Don’t Even Know It [video](youtube.com)
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by meken 5y ago
What is a “dev shop”? How do I go about searching for one? FYI I’ve been a software engineer for like 5 years, but took the past 1.5 years off.
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by meken 5y ago
It’s crazy how much trust plays a factor in the success of open source. And if that trust is eroded, the whole system comes crumbling down.
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by meken 5y ago
This is crazy. The monetary system is fracturing, now the open source system could be fracturing. If I was Russia, I might start seeing the need to develop in-country versions of open source packages, as a matter of national security.
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by meken 5y ago
Regarding the “hi” ping, it would be funny to create a bot to auto respond with “hi”. And auto respond to “how are you doing” with “good”. The sender can now type their question.
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by meken 5y ago
The only exception I can personally think of, is when I fall really behind at work, and I am feeling a lot of shame over it. And I’m really just sending out an SOS in the hopes that someone shows some kindness back towards me, and really he
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by meken 5y ago
nohello.net seems aggressive to just respond with. I would just ignore the hi, until it becomes an issue, which causes a problem. At that point, I would follow up with them saying, “hey, in the future, could you include your request with th
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by meken 5y ago
That’s where you can follow up with saying “It’s ok if you don’t know. If not, do you know someone that might?”
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by meken 5y ago
I think perfectionism is rooted in a fear of rejection and ultimately a lack of confidence. Exposure therapy can help. So, practice intentionally shipping something with a missing feature, or intentionally getting rejected. Doing both of th
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by meken 5y ago
I wish konbini was sold in the US. Seems like airport vending machines would be a great place for them.
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by meken 5y ago
Which company do you work for? I researched pair programming companies a while back and didn’t find any.
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by meken 5y ago
> My friends. Just so expendable in the eyes of my employer. This is a cold, hard reality. Good to be aware of it, and work on accepting it, processing it, rather than avoid the truth. We are expendable. Each and every one of us. And tha
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by meken 5y ago
That’s interesting. Any chance you remember which study it was?
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by meken 5y ago
I don’t believe it’s scientifically validated, and I don’t have a direct link off hand, but check out Trataka, which is staring at a fixed object for a set amount of time (e.g. a candle or an image with a dot). HealthyGamerGG YouTube channe
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by meken 5y ago
Sure you can. You would just have to be careful not to accidentally feed it the same problem as in the competition. That would be cheating.
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by meken 5y ago
I haven’t used copilot, but don’t you specify what you want first, in comment form, then copilot spits it out? I get that you have to do subsequent editing, because it’s not perfect.
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by meken 5y ago
Hmm it intuitively seems like the editing part should be the easy part, because the output is basically a template, and you just need to fill it in, and tweak it a little bit… I get with code it’s a bit less so, but still, there are plenty
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by meken 5y ago
This gives me an idea. You know how you can break writing down into 2 phases: creative and edit? What if you did the creative part, braindumping all your ideas and vision into a word document. Then had an AI edit your incoherent story into

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