mudita

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by mudita 6y ago
I am writing this from my room in Wiehre right now, for which I pay 300 euro per month. Ok, it's a room in a flat I share with 3 flatmates, not everybody wants to live like this, but still, even Wiehre and Herdern are hardly quarters o
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by mudita 6y ago
The "Schwarzer Mann" of the children's game doesn't have anything to do with race. Historically it was a mythical figure used to scare children (Kinderschreck) comparable to the bogey man, visualised as a man with black
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by mudita 6y ago
His bottom line "when you find #000000 in your color picker, ask yourself if you really want pure black. You’re probably better off with something more natural. And if you’re feeling adventurous, try staying away from the left edge of
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by mudita 6y ago
I see and partly agree with your point, but to be fair to the author one interesting advice he gives is to use not only a less dark color but to choose a hue and increase saturation, so it's not just a "neutral" less dark gre
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by mudita 6y ago
No, that's kinda my point, there's no reason for me to pronounce it /sɑm/. The German version of Samuel is /zaːmueːl/, so if I'd try to make a short version of the German Samuel I'd use /zam&#x2
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by mudita 6y ago
Samuel exists as a German name and is pronounced in a German way, but as far as I know the short version does not exist as a German name and I would try to pronounce it as an English name when I see it.
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by mudita 6y ago
Most of the friends I have don't play video games. There are both bubbles where everybody plays as well as bubbles where playing video games as an adult is a very foreign concept.
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by mudita 6y ago
Did you ever try to reproduce this experience and experiment with writing under the of psychedelics?
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by mudita 6y ago
For everybody else who was wondering DAW = Digital Audio Workstation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_audio_workstation
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by mudita 6y ago
Here's for example an article in the Guardian from 2015: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/26/high-tech...
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by mudita 6y ago
The authors of the studies seem to believe that the "combination of physical activity and sensory enrichment" and “cognitive and coordinative demands” are the key ingredients. If this is the case then the results should also gener
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by mudita 6y ago
There is for example research showing that psychedelics have a lasting effect on the Big 5 personality trait "openness to experience": https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/unique-everybody-els... Whic
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by mudita 6y ago
I am 100% for respecting Scott's wish for anonymity and in general there seems to be a strong norm of not giving to much personal information to patients in the psychiatrist and therapist communities. But Scott doesn't exactly try
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by mudita 6y ago
Freeman Dyson studied in very unusual circumstances and got more support than most PhD students. He was regularly playing billiard and discussing math with famous professors at age 17. From his collection of letters "Maker of Patterns&
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by mudita 6y ago
The film has very little to do with the novel, actually. Verhoeven, the director, hated the book: “I stopped after two chapters because it was so boring … It is really quite a bad book. I asked Ed Neumeier to tell me the story because I jus
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by mudita 6y ago
Is it really just new online norms? As a German I am astonished that this is even legal, let alone journalistic norm. Here in Germany a “right to informational self-determination” is legally well-established going back to a judgement in 198
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by mudita 6y ago
Scott is less worried about his real name being known among readers of the blog, he mostly just wants it to be non-googleable to protect his professional identity. He has been consistent with this position since 2013, it was actually one of
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by mudita 6y ago
To me it seems that this connotation is very deeply embedded in Western culture (but not only Western culture, compare for example yin and yang) and doesn't actually have much to do with race, and more with day and night, light and dar
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by mudita 6y ago
I don't have any opinion on whether 302 or 301 is the better choice, I'd just like to point out that using 302 seems to have been a deliberate decision: from https://4042302.org/how/ : >We use a 302 and no
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by mudita 6y ago
The words "free and open" together, especially in this context, lead to a very strong association with free and open source software, so strong that a reader might not even notice the difference and think you're talking about
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by mudita 6y ago
Yes! Something that touched me a lot was also that they showed excitement together with some very real competence and detailed knowledge.
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by mudita 6y ago
It seems like it had a lasting psychological impact on the thinking of the generation of scientists, who lived through this radical revolution . I found very interesting this moment in an interview with Freeman Dyson, where he describes the
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by mudita 6y ago
Of course it's difficult to compare if they feel maybe a bit less heavy for me than for English speakers, but as a German capital letters do indeed feel heavy for me, as well.
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by mudita 6y ago
I, too, have no desire to put so much work into having a working system (but I guess, there’s no way around nix for me, if I want to use haskell and ghcjs). Unfortunately from my own recent personal experience it does indeed have a steep le
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by mudita 7y ago
I think that part of the allure and magic of ballet is exactly this perfection, this going for the last few percents. But I agree with you that dance without pointe can be great. I went a unconventional way as a dancer. I discovered dance
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by mudita 7y ago
There doesn't seem to be much to the god helmet, besides the placebo effect, but at least it inspired this great short story by Peter Watts: https://rifters.com/real/shorts/PeterWatts_Heathens.pdf
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by mudita 7y ago
While highly composite numbers relate to the number of divisors, an even closer fit to the Robin inequality are the somewhat similar superabundant and colossally abundant numbers, which relate to the sum of divisors instead. https:/&#
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by mudita 9y ago
Through this short story I also learned that Fermat's principle is just one example of a variational principle. I'm not an expert, but if I understand it correctly, many physical laws can be restated as variational principles. See
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by mudita 9y ago
https://www.sharktrust.org/en/tonic_immobility According to this site, this has been observed previously: "There is evidence that suggests orcas may use tonic immobility to prey on sharks. In 1997, in the waters a
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by mudita 9y ago
An interesting case is famous educator László Polgár, who believed that "geniuses are made, not born" and raised his three daughters to become very, very successful in chess with "two of them becoming the best and second best

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