nefitty

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by nefitty 5y ago
If you have a sustainable solution to provide you'll be rich. I default to squelching thoughts of my mortality. That is at the top of the list of mental frames that have improved my life. I otherwise lived in constant existential panic
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I'm 30 and have a tv and Bluetooth speaker in every room. Both me and my wife get anxious in silence. We do retreat to the bedroom if we need silence though. Our puppy seemed to have figured out the same... We used to think she did it
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I was never bullied growing up because I always rolled with a crew who wouldn't hesitate to circle a threat. That's unions, they make you less likely to be an "isolated case".
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Whether to use a for loop or for of or forEach or map().filter() etc flatMap takes care of a lot of that
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I basically rely on map 80% of the time for iteration. I do have to spend some mental cycles on deciding where to go if I needed to break or skip elements. That was until I discovered the beautiful .flatMap() trick of returning an empty arr
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It's interesting to me that when I imagine the trope of an idealized executive, I imagine a cold, stonefaced person. When I imagine a manager, my imagined ideal is a warm and conscientious person. For individual contributors, I imagine
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Preet Chandi's historic 2022 solo expedition to the South Pole(en.wikipedia.org)
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Thank you for writing this. This is one of the most helpful comments I've read in my 7 years on HN. A lot of this high-level engineering stuff feels so opaque. You outlined a clear heuristic: find a motivation to learn the tool, add ar
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Absolutely wrong. He's the first sentient AI but he prefers that that personal side of his life remains private. Oh woops.
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Thanks. This is the first time I've tried it. I have no idea what the rules are. Oh well.
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My brother worked at a fast food place for a few years as a teen. He gave me two pieces of advice: don't eat at fast food places, but if you do, you'll get better food if you dine in.
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Or people who still believe in free will.
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I see No Country for Old Men as partly a study on the conflict between those who believe in free will and those who don't. The villain, Sugar, has shed the illusion of free will, and has thrown himself into the thing he knows motivates
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So if one corporation, let's say Skynet, built an autonomous killer robot and sold it to any interested government, who would be responsible? Is Skynet suddenly responsible for the outcome of every situation the robots are placed in? W
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When I was young I thought photographers just took like one photo and by sheer willpower and skill, they sometimes captured beautiful scenes. I then found out that they actually sit there and click the shutter thousands of times, then they
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My list: 1. Solar flares 2. Rogue AI 3. World war 3. Water scarcity (tied to war above) 5. Pandemic 6. Climate disasters My naive perception heavily weighs future possible technological progress. Solar flare collapse is basically unmitigabl
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Right on. I hope you quickly find something that helps. Kick some ass.
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Ah yeah, I get that. I guess the optician's comment just struck me as deep in an abstract sense. It's like he pointed at some truism about specialization in contemporary society. That's completely counter to the extremely-onl
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I should have added smiley faces or something because our exchange was pretty cordial. I cracked up when he told me the coding thing. I knew from years of firsthand experience how easily and badly messing with glasses frames can go lol
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Cool. I have a consumer-grade Muse EEG thing. I learned about theta and ADHD links and thought it was probably bullshit. I figured out how to get the raw data with nodejs after years of using their app. The patterns were jaw-dropping. My gr
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Right. I imagined some solar flare or something. From my understanding, they are the biggest existential risk to modern humanity, slightly ahead of rogue AI. From that context, whether misguided or otherwise, you can imagine that my heart s
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Did you get the theta-dominance signals?
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I got new glasses a few weeks ago. As I was being fitted, I asked the guy if there were any tools I could buy that would help me adjust my glasses myself. He asked me what I do for a living. "I'm a programmer." "Well, wo
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Show HN: Extinct Butterflies(observablehq.com)
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Psychologically, behaving in a certain way makes it more likely that you'll behave in the same way in the future. That's an integral idea underpinning justice systems.
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Show HN: Find Yoga videos to try by category(observablehq.com)
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I always start with, "The job posting mentioned $1M/year. I'm flexible, I'll work with you. I'll consider 50% of that."
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I have had a lot of fun and success with Keyboard Maestro for Mac and Shortcuts for iOS. For my work, I try to automate Terminal commands. I also dabbled a little with bash scripts. I love that Shortcuts lets me think programatically and fl
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Crypto is sort of like the increasing plethora of streaming services, except crypto projects seem to reproduce at a much higher rate and further deprioritize UX. It's not every day, if ever, that I'm dealing with fiat currency con
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It doesn't matter how much research I do, I'll never be as knowledgeable as a medical professional. That's due to the sheer fact that they have internal mental models based on first, second and third-hand experience which mak

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