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by mikrl 3y ago
The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley is pretty accessible and although not scientifically rigorous, provides an ahem ergonomic framework for thinking about psychonautics (which I have, of course, never engaged in)
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by mikrl 3y ago
The north-south split is the most striking, but yes south can be further divided into the GTA, SW (farm country and a small part of the rust belt, similar to the Midwest) and eastern (Ottawa and the townships: government and farms) Michigan
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by mikrl 3y ago
Ontario is culturally 2 provinces, southern and northern Ontario. The north is what you normally think of Canada: rocks, trees and lakes. The south is similar to the neighbouring US states of Michigan, Ohio, and New York but with a distinct
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by mikrl 3y ago
The ancient Egyptians couldn’t bury their royalty for 10K years, but I applaud this engineering project and hope it goes well for Finland.
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by mikrl 3y ago
I love that feeling of deep, basically throwaway connection. I met a guy in a hostel once and we never exchanged names or anything, but hit up some tourist spots together, shared life stories and smokes. In undergrad I once befriended and f
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by mikrl 3y ago
Not necessarily. Machiavelli certainly seems the type to play to the Medicis while simultaneously showing them up in a subtle manner. Did he believe what he wrote in the Prince was noble or just? Probably not, based on his democratic tenden
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by mikrl 3y ago
Try using a Russian Cyrillic е or к or у Sure no one will be able to install the app from the CLI (unless there is a bug in npm’s parsing logic) but you should be fine distributing hyperlinks to skim-readers ;)
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by mikrl 3y ago
It’s like the dark sibling of Keynes, eh? At least Keynesian theory had a notion of slowing an economy that needed slowing, and boosting an economy that needed boosting, through a complementary mechanism. The poisonous application on the ot
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by mikrl 3y ago
I don’t necessarily think it is an obvious satire, but IIRC, at the time he wrote it he was a persona non grata at the Florentine court and was attempting to curry favour. It was most definitely written to confirm the Medici’s biases and st
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by mikrl 3y ago
I don’t know, but hey you heard about that Ukrainian cat themed dating sim?
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by mikrl 3y ago
I wrote a script to replace all of my comments with an offensive string padded to the character limit, but I was not sober when I wrote it and have no idea where it is now.
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by mikrl 3y ago
Listen to the pattern of a babies cry. It isn’t just one WAAAAAA, it has stops and intonation. Similar to my cat (he is a loud purrer) who makes a Puurrrr-hurrr-purrr-urrrr kind of ebb and flow in the same way babies go WAAAAA-AAAA
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by mikrl 3y ago
That event always seemed so weird to me. I’m not the biggest fan of disco (some of the old and new stuff is danceable) but isn’t blowing up a crate of records similar in spirit to book burning?
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by mikrl 3y ago
>Yes millions of people across multiple countries/continents There doesn’t need to be collusion if it is in everyone’s self interest. If it is in the interest of wealth preservation to buy and then control land which will be less af
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by mikrl 3y ago
> thinking that I should learn lisp There was a programming language taxonomy thread posted a few weeks ago and I seriously think if you want to ‘git gud’ you should dabble in all of the families. https://news.ycombinator.com&
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by mikrl 3y ago
No recruiter I have ever worked with has done something for me because I was related to them. Come on man, are we really that cynical towards meritocracy that we are accepting nepotism as normal?
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by mikrl 3y ago
So tell me, how is it not nepotistic and overbearing AF? I’d be absolutely affronted, and forever doubting if my achievements were my own or not.
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by mikrl 3y ago
It’s stunting independence and setting a nepotistic precedent is what it is.
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by mikrl 3y ago
Speaking of nepotism: on LinkedIn via my network, I saw a senior manager in a Bay Area company asking publicly for internships for his university age daughter. I shook my head in amazement, then felt absolutely mortified on behalf of that p
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by mikrl 3y ago
I’m sure there is a trade-off here: - going hard on monetization will train you in how to… well, monetize and run a business - just enjoying yourself is the most sustainable way to build things quickly and strike upon your magnum opus The i
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by mikrl 3y ago
Memetic warfare I think they call it.
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by mikrl 3y ago
>not all Big Tech employees can deal with the hustle required at a startup Thank God for that. Who better to look at broken processes draining productivity and then say “oh, we solved this with X, when I worked at Y” ?
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by mikrl 3y ago
The analogy I can think of here is a pointer, but AFAIK the context would always need to go along with the prompt unless you could tweak internal state to bias towards the context. Otherwise, it might make sense to have a separate routine w
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by mikrl 3y ago
>Years ago i used chopsticks to eat snacks My partner ate cheetos with chopsticks while streaming, and it was initially quite a shock to behold until she explained her genius.
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by mikrl 3y ago
>I tip in the US to receive better service How does this work, unless you tip before being served?
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A lawsuit against the author, the intern who +1d the PR, the senior who approved the PR, the engineer who ran the linter, the engineer who changed a variable name, the engineers who got it into prod, the engineer who fixed it (and introduc
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by mikrl 3y ago
That fisherman’s name? Albert Einstein. (Then everyone clapped, and a bald eagle flew overhead and shed a tear on the etc etc bla bla shitpost on a shitpost)
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by mikrl 3y ago
«Tech bro» is so passé, I have my own (more offensive) names for the archetype to which the term applies.
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> The problem is that states are choosing to address this problem by bussing homeless to other states. What is stopping EU members from doing the same thing between each other? Why are US states exceptional in this case?
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One of my stoner friends in high school 10-15 years ago was dating an autistic girl, and he mentioned that it had some medical benefit for them. Obviously it was ‘pothead science’ without a mechanism etc but it has been a thing anecdotally

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