mikrl

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by mikrl 4y ago
Why use a fancy word like bad, terrible, frightful, or vexatious when you can use the easily understood and versatile ungood?
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by mikrl 4y ago
I’m no entrepreneur but from the media I’ve seen around recently (podcasts, articles, think pieces) you should be selling before you code, that is, eliciting problems from clients. Intuitively it seems harder to sell a piece of software whi
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by mikrl 4y ago
As a former obsessive 4channer, wooooow. I’ve seen some wild stuff online but some of this just seems gratuitous. It’s not just for maladjusted kids on an Indonesian throat singing forum either, it’s being beamed to everyone’s phone.
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by mikrl 4y ago
It’s a positive stereotype but still negative. I’ve had a few E Asian buddies who were about as successful as me in that life stage with similar interests (some not wholesome) and their home/social lives seemed so stressful. They’re ‘f
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by mikrl 4y ago
Maximizing engagement is tangible and pays well. You’re wanting to optimize for something intangible, philosophical and something most people would just prefer to ignore. Technology can still help though… look, you learned about it from HN!
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by mikrl 4y ago
> Many of them just can't speak English correctly. I’m someone who loves seeing well written and hearing well spoken English. The standards I hold myself to are quite high. However, I have never had a problem with people- native or
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by mikrl 4y ago
This might sound facetious, but my biggest regret is spending time regretting things. I was socially awkward and tried to overcome it: had fun, had panic attacks, learned some tricks, but still just as socially awkward. Many other flaws of
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by mikrl 4y ago
Heh, business insurance is one thing. Some of the guys I’ve worked with are another. One swore up and down he couldn’t be functional before a toke and getting lifted was safer for us all.
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by mikrl 4y ago
>Go in with an idea of what you want out of therapy. My friend struggles with this. She feels mostly comfortable with being odd and feels like she is successful. It’s easy enough to avoid (or mask up with) people who don’t or won’t under
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by mikrl 4y ago
How do you define good therapist? Obviously it’s not straightforward and YMMV, but are there heuristics you use, red flags, green flags etc? My friend has avoided mental healthcare for her entire life (pathologically stoic) and thinks that
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by mikrl 4y ago
When I was in a warehouse slugging cast iron and black steel all day I could barely walk by the time I got home. Spending all day on your feet, loaded with a large mass going up and down, and wearing the least shitty boots you can afford do
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by mikrl 4y ago
SWIM is often used in online discussions on sensitive topics to avoid self-identifying as a member of a stigmatized or criminalized group: Someone Who Isn’t Me. However, I have a friend called SWIM, who is the referent in my posts. I’ll upd
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by mikrl 4y ago
The Devil Wears Prada too.
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by mikrl 4y ago
>Mania lets one live at a greatly accelerated rate...It often gives me a deep understanding of how people work My friend experienced this for the first time recently and can relate, although she does not think it helped her understand pe
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by mikrl 4y ago
How did you start down the diagnosis pathway? My friend feels like the symptoms (clinical and social) fit her to a T, has felt depersonalized for most of her adult life, and often feels the need to explain and rationalize her experience to
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by mikrl 4y ago
But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin’ else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you’ve got the internet?
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by mikrl 4y ago
In my experience cats are remarkably aloof and seem like they couldn’t care less about me if they tried. More social animals such as dogs seem to care a bit too much about what I’m doing, and I feel like they could care less. </pe
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by mikrl 4y ago
I’ve liked Azealia Banks for ages even through her politically incorrect meltdowns and her music just keeps getting better. A zoomer I was at a party with recently said “yaaa she’s good but like sooo controversial” in a hushed and nervous w
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by mikrl 4y ago
As a fellow emacser, I’m also incredibly scatterbrained and just kind of intuit my way through things. When I make plans, systems and processes I do better with less stress until the inevitable stressor completely wrecks my flow and I forge
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by mikrl 4y ago
The classics are important because they are typically ‘classic’ due to their applicability over space and time. The authors managed to distil ever-recurring human drama and pathos (and the happy stuff too) into something timeless, though of
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by mikrl 4y ago
Mine are like marbles, blue green, but as I’ve aged have darkened into more of a stony grey. Needless to say my (hazel-eyed) partner gets hours of fun out of them and I too admire her various shades of light brown and amber.
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by mikrl 4y ago
That adds an additional temporal component to the scanning process which makes me hesitant. However, the idea is ridiculous enough to greenlight.
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by mikrl 4y ago
brb patenting higher dimensional barcodes / tensor barcodes Finally, we can use holograms for something mundane!
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by mikrl 4y ago
I think it does depend but there is something approximating an absolute distinction. For example low functioning autism or severe schizophrenia would be debilitating in all but the most advanced societies. However, high functioning autism o
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by mikrl 4y ago
The history of philosophy, sure. The history of philosophers, I would disagree. I once saw someone post online that the best way to get into someone’s thought was to read a biography of them. After all, their thought is a reflection of them
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by mikrl 4y ago
I’ve always lived in places with crap driveways but this one is nice, paved and level. Unfortunately no room for a garage or shed so yea, I spend about 20 minutes hauling various tools out of the basement (and hoping they don’t get stolen)
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by mikrl 4y ago
>requires very fine motor control and you are still just soldering tiny components I thought the key fob for my used Impreza just needed a new battery but the relay had actually fallen off the board. I had to buy a soldering iron and fin
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by mikrl 4y ago
Reading up on what is called neurodivergence, I can’t help but wonder if many mental illnesses are just normal human reactions to a state of domestic and world affairs. For example, if society moved in a way that rewarded behaviour that wou
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by mikrl 4y ago
>The two groups rarely see eye-to-eye but collaborate powerfully This resonates with me. I’ve worked with some programmers who I respect a lot but doing CRs my mind got blown because they took the hyper-efficient approach of “do the mini
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by mikrl 4y ago
Akchually the Russian economy was in the toilet until the mid 00s which is also when the iPhone was invented. I’m kidding of course, but those systems that kept the city running are probably obsolete and forgotten about in the 2020s.

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