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1. 961.▲
   by mercer 7y ago

   I'm very happy with the "Magic" keyboard I currently have (the aluminum solid-wedge-shaped one with white keys). Of course, I mostly preferred the one before it because, aside from needing batteries, the keys had a bit more b
2. 962.▲
   by mercer 7y ago

   Isn't that pretty much Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (which is often referred as part of CBT as the 'umbrella' concept above it)?
3. 963.▲
   by mercer 7y ago

   Oof, same here. I have notes and journal entries going back at least a decade, but there are a few frustrating gaps where I used apps like Day One, or built my own rickety tool using, say, RethinkDB. While it's possible to somehow get
4. 964.▲
   by mercer 7y ago

   I've instead gone for a git repo hosted on my VPS. That way I can use all the version control features of git, as well as the various tools that make it easy to look through my history, etc.
5. 965.▲
   by mercer 7y ago

   I was surprised to find out that this 'flex' workspaces thing is not just a 'hip company' thing, but pretty common for government workers too. Not a fan, personally, but still.
6. 966.▲
   by mercer 7y ago

   Even Lenin, of all people, argued in favor of a (regulated) market economy. It's a weird of inverse no-true-scotsman argument. I haven't met many socialists who argue in favor of a fully centralized economy. The big discussion, I
7. 967.▲
   by mercer 7y ago

   Or, few rungs up the ladder, it's a convenient way to get in Sanders' way while claiming incompetence!
8. 968.▲
   by mercer 7y ago

   > For what it's worth, I strongly subscribe to the maxim of not ascribing to malicious intent that which can be better explained by incompetence. Me too, but it's really difficult to not suspect at least some malicious intent i
9. 969.▲
   by mercer 7y ago

   shhh ;).
10. 970.▲
    by mercer 7y ago

    Well, wait until you've researched DHMO! https://www.dhmo.org/facts.html > Should I be concerned about Dihydrogen Monoxide? > Yes, you should be concerned about DHMO! Although the U.S. Government and the Centers
11. 971.▲
    by mercer 7y ago

    I'll be the pedant and argue that if you want to figure out how to sound proper Dutch, there's a difference. "new" sounds like "neeuuuuu" in US English, and a diphtong "nuuu" in British English. &quot
12. 972.▲
    by mercer 7y ago

    While the idea of '60s' is interesting, in lieu of that I always err on the side of explicitly specifying the time units when the argument provided is just a number. Not doing so has bitten me too many times.
13. 973.▲
    by mercer 7y ago

    I'll add that Non-Violent Communication is an area that can help with issues like this.
14. 974.▲
    by mercer 7y ago

    Thanks for elaborating
15. 975.▲
    by mercer 7y ago

    That's a shame. I mean, it's not so much that I'm all hung up on avoiding 'non-christian' themes. It's more that I don't react well to horror stuff and a lot of the best games have a lot of that (Dark Soul
16. 976.▲
    by mercer 7y ago

    > If the Democratic party wants the best shot at winning 2020, they may be more open to the people's choice this time around I'll admit that I'm unusually cynical of the mainstream Democrats, so far from objective. That sa
17. 977.▲
    by mercer 7y ago

    Wow, that was a wave of nostalgia. As a younger lad it was a fun game to fly to specific destinations just to see if they were modeled in-game. as I upgraded my flight simulator versions, more and more stuff got added, and it was so much fu
18. 978.▲
    by mercer 7y ago

    While true, I think there's still a good 'conspiracy' case to be made when you consider that a clear win in the Iowa Caucasus is big news, moreso when the winner is someone like Sanders. Fucking this up takes some wind out of
19. 979.▲
    by mercer 7y ago

    haha, that's hilarious. Positive reviews too?!
20. 980.▲
    by mercer 7y ago

    Ha, Sekiro was the first game that came to mind as a possible way to play a 'Soulslike' without the demons. Although recently I found Nier: Automata, which scratches a similar itch with a more sci-fi theme (and a dash of horriffic
21. 981.▲
    by mercer 7y ago

    it wasn't so much the theme as it was, and is, the graphics. I can play horror-style games, but with a game like Doom the horror-style + gameplay is just too intense. I'd love a similar game with a less intense theme. For example,
22. 982.▲
    by mercer 7y ago

    Maybe psDoom? http://psdoom.sourceforge.net/
23. 983.▲
    by mercer 7y ago

    Good lord, that is the best content to terrible everything else ratio I've encountered in the past weeks, at the very least. Why do people do this?
24. 984.▲
    by mercer 7y ago

    I can't explain this other than just personal preference, but I find Doom extremely frustrating in a way that Serious Sam wasn't. I loved play Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and after a long lull, the new Doom games (Doom after Doom 3 and
25. 985.▲
    by mercer 7y ago

    As a former full-time pedestrian: thanks. more than once it's reminded me to be more careful!
26. 986.▲
    by mercer 7y ago

    While true, as others have said it could be rolled out piece-meal. For me, for example, simple text diffing would scratch a major itch, both for text and code.
27. 987.▲
    by mercer 7y ago

    Could you explain why (just out of curiosity)?
28. 988.▲
    by mercer 7y ago

    > Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
29. 989.▲
    by mercer 7y ago

    while I'm sure plenty of people in law enforcement haven't 'gotten the memo' that polygraphs don't actually work, I suspect in many cases they do them anyways exactly for the reason you describe. Reminds me of one o
30. 990.▲
    by mercer 7y ago

    Our senses are not objective, and our mental processing of said sensory input even less so. While generally I do agree that trying to be 'objective' in the way you describe is a solid approach, I've met plenty of people and h