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by mercer 4y ago
There are plenty of studies in the West that aren't too positive about eating meat in general (in the quantities that are common). I also don't recall hearing much about sex being bad from 'Western science'...
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by mercer 4y ago
Equating non-drinkers with 'risk-averse bland people' is an attitude I mostly find among my friends with drinking problems.
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by mercer 4y ago
It was a major storyline in Friends as well.
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by mercer 4y ago
Hmm. I do see your point, but if anything I feel 'alcoholism' as a concept could use some 'downplaying'. Too many people think of an 'alcoholic' as, more or less, someone who has a red nose, looks homeless, and
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by mercer 4y ago
Same here. More than once I asked a question on the channel (now on Libera?) and the first person to answer would be Jose. I can highly recommend the series of interviews that the Thinking Elixir podcast did with him where they go through t
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by mercer 4y ago
You or your company hiring, by any chance. I've been using that exact stack for a few years now, and Elixir+LV jobs are hard to come by :P. I probably need to focus more on 'vanilla' back- and frontend stuff, but man has it b
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by mercer 4y ago
Shouldn't you hit me with a stick first, or break a pot?
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by mercer 4y ago
My domains with DNSimple, and my servers are on Hetzner. There should be no dependency on CloudFlare, and yet they are down too.
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by mercer 4y ago
Same here, except DNSimple.
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by mercer 4y ago
But how does any other approach, entirely novel or otherwise, become time-proven without testing and tweaking on a society-level scale? Much of the social change we've seen, happened despite enormous pushback from the status quo, and w
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by mercer 4y ago
I use it for ps4/ps5 too!
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by mercer 4y ago
Little Snitch (Mac) can be very helpful in these situations. When I'm on the road and using my limited phone data for internet, I turn on the 'limited' profile where Little Snitch doesn't allow most internet traffic (wit
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by mercer 4y ago
For me stoicism was more of a stop along the path, and for now zen buddhism is where I'm at. The main issues I had with stoicism was that 1) it struck me as a bit too much tied to a particular type of person (that I am perhaps not), an
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by mercer 5y ago
They do say that about the Acropolis where the Parthenon is!
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by mercer 5y ago
Exile 3 is probably still my favorite CRPG ever...
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by mercer 5y ago
I think it's more about the variety that one cares about. I love both BotW and Elden Ring, but I could see either one 'lacking' somewhat in variety depending on what I choose to care about more.
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by mercer 5y ago
While I agree with your comment, and while this is probably a bit pedantic, I'd argue that gutsy implies there being a risk. Sure, with Nintendo the risk is not something like bankruptcy, but then again the word 'risk' does
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by mercer 5y ago
I suppose Odyssey got us partway there too.
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by mercer 5y ago
I'm 30+ hours in, and I rarely play for longer than an hour at a time. The copious amounts of graces (like bonfires, to save at) and the list of stuff to do that doesn't require much commitment make it perfect for shorter bursts o
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by mercer 5y ago
So far I've found (and heard) that if you avoid a boss until you 'finished' much of the content in a region, they can often be beating in much fewer attempts. So far I just roamed and enjoyed myself for tens of hours, and I k
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by mercer 5y ago
I never got far in other Souls games, but with Elden Ring the crucial difference is that if you leave and 'grind levels' before facing a particular boss again, it's not really grinding most of the time. There's so much u
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by mercer 5y ago
To me it sounds similar to all the reports of motion sickness (or worse effects) from playing Doom back in the day. I also suspect most people who do suffer from it can get used to it over time. OTOH, considering how many people keep having
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by mercer 5y ago
iirc, women with autism in particular are often misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder or borderline personality disorder.
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by mercer 5y ago
To of?
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by mercer 5y ago
Maybe it's time to have 'the talk'... https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-3
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by mercer 5y ago
I use Keyboard Maestro for this. "iins" for IO.inspect(), "ppry" for require IEx; IEx.pry, and ">>" for |>. This way I can use these shortcuts in IEx, emacs, vscode, LiveBook, etc.
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by mercer 5y ago
Well, thanks for that earworm...
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by mercer 5y ago
> I have a vision of software literacy- where 99.9% of people can write their own. I think the problem is that much of 'software literacy' not about writing code that does what you want, but about nailing down WHAT you want and
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by mercer 5y ago
While I can't judge how good your plan is, FWIW I've often regretted saying 'maybe' when later I realized it would've worked, or at least been worth trying. But then it was no longer a good idea...
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by mercer 5y ago
No Clip also has good documentaries on how various games were made.

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