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by mwattsun 4y ago
I've written my own program that loads and saves my files with encrypted zip files. C# and .Net make this a breeze to implement. I use a long password so even if someone gets the file it will be hard to crack. I don't encrypt that
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by mwattsun 4y ago
I've taken a course in Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) so part of my writing is to practice it
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by mwattsun 4y ago
Without self awareness, man acts, speaks, studies, reacts, mechanically, like a machine on the basis of 'programs' acquired accidentally, unintentionally, mechanically. He is not aware that he is acting in accordance with program
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by mwattsun 4y ago
Thanks. Part of my journaling is collecting quotes I come across if they are particularly thought provoking or mysterious. I forgot one of the best. I know it's the best because Eastern and Western thought both start here: Knowing y
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by mwattsun 4y ago
Journaling for me is an essential tool for emotional regulation and self-knowledge. This wasn't always the case because I learned in school to write for someone else. If I'm not writing for someone else then who am I writing for?
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by mwattsun 4y ago
I figured out what I was missing. - J) We are meant to identify with the androids. Their struggle to wake up and take charge of their own life is our struggle. The abuse they suffer represents the abuse we suffer at the hands of the corpora
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by mwattsun 4y ago
I appreciate you taking the time to engage in a more positive way. I thought about it and realized I made a mistake that I try not to make, which is too many details and qualifiers. It makes it tough to speed read, which a lot of people do.
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by mwattsun 4y ago
> this is an idiotic post Like I said, I've seen Westworld before. I'm reviewing it so don't need to watch the parts that don't interest me. Also, like I said, human aggression like yours doesn't interest me
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Ask HN: What is Westworld about? Season 4 starts Jun 26th
5 points by mwattsun 4y ago|6 comments
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Facebook Made This 29-Year-Old Rich; War Made Him a Billionaire(forbes.com)
44 points by mwattsun 4y ago|17 comments
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by mwattsun 4y ago
The increase in rental prices in Santa Cruz reflect that. It's good for my family since we've been there 90 years but I'm currently in San Jose because I can get a nicer place for the same amount. It's not bad because I
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by mwattsun 4y ago
I'm generally opposed to jargon in tech writing so the use of 'holotype' caused me to look it up. I'm not sure it works. For example, by the definition Hotmail should be the holotype instead of GMail, which would be the
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by mwattsun 4y ago
This is conventional wisdom, but I take a contrarian position: "Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing…after they have exhausted all other possibilities" -- Winston Churchill (allegedly) I've been followin
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by mwattsun 4y ago
Cassandra was a Trojan priestess of Apollo in Greek mythology cursed to utter true prophecies, but never to be believed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra https://www.google.com/search?q=books+abou
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‘Extortion’: Why Web3 is making a lot of software developers angry(smh.com.au)
70 points by mwattsun 4y ago|165 comments
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by mwattsun 4y ago
I'm gobsmacked at the amount of money people have entrusted to experimental beta software whose behavior at scale is unknown. It's fascinating to watch these systems spin out of control in a new kind of flash crash https:/&#
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by mwattsun 4y ago
As a retired programmer, the main part of my career was last century so if I could communicate this situation with my 20th century self he would be horrified by (among other things): 1) The lack of privacy 2) Being location tracked 3) The e
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by mwattsun 4y ago
I don't really have a comment except some random associations having to do how people feel about objects and processes. It sounds to me that Dustin Curtis and the HN people responding favorably are searching for material objects that g
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by mwattsun 4y ago
> Ironically, he ended up running it from 2017-2019 I didn't realize that. I laughed out loud. He couldn't remember the third 'E' department he wanted to abolish.
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by mwattsun 4y ago
Football without regulations is Rugby I think. Rugby looks like anarchy, but I don't know the game
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by mwattsun 4y ago
Interesting: I assumed Texas wasn't connected to the national grid because they hate the Federal govt (I remember Texas' Rick Perry saying he wanted to abolish the Dept of Energy.) But Michael Lee says it's because they can m
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by mwattsun 4y ago
> ITT: People who've never done any research on this issue making very American conclusions As an American, it could be that I've experienced and heard of active hostility to bicyclists. It seems like a uniquely stupid American
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by mwattsun 4y ago
https://archive.ph/dqzNI
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Cryptocurrencies Melt Down in a ‘Perfect Storm’ of Fear and Panic(nytimes.com)
20 points by mwattsun 4y ago|4 comments
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by mwattsun 4y ago
So if I understand this correctly, shorter trains are better because when they derail they take down less cars? Or are super long trains harder to control in varied terrain? Both probably.
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by mwattsun 4y ago
I watched on your recommendation and it's a damn fine movie. Thanks.
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by mwattsun 4y ago
It'd be interesting to see a comparison of Apple's "Strictly controlled interface between groups on a need to know basis" and Amazon's "All teams will henceforth expose their data and functionality through serv
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by mwattsun 4y ago
I lived through the dot-com crash and got out safely after hearing something so ludicrous that I had to ask myself "How insane does this industry have to be for someone to think they can build a high growth internet company out of home
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by mwattsun 4y ago
Thanks, now I get it. Programmers have these kinds of arguments all the time.
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by mwattsun 4y ago
That's why I qualified "waste of time" with "in my humble opinion." What I didn't say is that's it's a giant trap that I fall into when organizing my files and that's what I meant when I said it

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