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by nxc18 5y ago
> Beyond the logical fallacy I won't get into how do you explain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness where people/animals are having actual struggles and yet depression settles in ? Learned
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by nxc18 5y ago
> What's you angle ? Depressed people are spoiled brats ? Depression is not a real struggle ? Only bored people get depression ? Just say so and stop sugar-coating what you think. I’m sensing a lot of defensiveness. I’m sorry if I’m
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by nxc18 5y ago
I think you’re missing the point. My thesis, perhaps not well stated: depression and anxiety are linked to a flight/fight, motivation system that isn’t well tuned to a world completely free of any actual risk. Thesis handily answers yo
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by nxc18 5y ago
Sometimes I wonder if a lot of depression and anxiety in western society (I say western because I don’t know enough about others) is due to life just being too comfortable. Almost all direct threats (animals, attacks, wars, etc) have been e
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by nxc18 5y ago
Indeed, the Windows Research Kernel itself is on GitHub. Kind of amazing that Microsoft is hosting their own pirated OS kernel. https://github.com/cnsuhao/Windows-Research-Kernel-1
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by nxc18 5y ago
Evidence?
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by nxc18 5y ago
You shouldn’t sleep on China, they move and change quickly. https://www.bloombergquint.com/global-economics/china-to-all...
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by nxc18 5y ago
The Chinese have not been successful in getting people to have more children. Recent news is that they may be covering up for the early stages of population decline. https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-report
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by nxc18 5y ago
True, all good points. I just wish software companies were more motivated by craftsmanship and love for users. I remember in college they would always emphasize user obsession at the recruiting events. Apparently I drank more of that koolai
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by nxc18 5y ago
I just want them to include a Windows license in my Microsoft 365 subscription and let me install it on my M1 (or Intel) Mac. I don’t understand why the business folks at MS haven’t noticed that opportunity. Separately, I’d like to see a re
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by nxc18 5y ago
If Microsoft really wanted to, they could find a way to squeeze the old panels into the new UI. They can run x86 binaries on ARM, and all sorts of other tricks, its not like they lack the engineering talent. They also do loads of shims&#x2F
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by nxc18 5y ago
This reads like a hit piece. There was a pandemic. Rightly or wrongly, basically everything slowed to a halt. If you look carefully at the timeline, there was a pandemic slowdown, activity resumed when it was clear finances weren’t actually
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by nxc18 5y ago
Toolbars in mac apps tend to be really good about this. I didn't realize (coming from Windows) that many apps (Notes, Safari, Mail, Finder, others) are using the built-in toolbar system, which gives you a very large degree of customiza
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by nxc18 5y ago
I find it hilarious that even in such a comprehensive post, the author missed some: Some apps are now shipping with “Fluent but inconsistently round”, mostly the ones that use WinUI. Maps is a good example where this is noticeable. You can
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by nxc18 5y ago
It’s not about driving or not, it’s about whether you take the risks of driving seriously. Speeding around a motorcycle while going over a hill is a good example from the article. See also: distracted driving, DWI, driving while overtired,
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by nxc18 5y ago
The reason that doesn’t work is because you can’t sustain it. If you save your startup from the brink of death in under a year, sustainability isn’t needed. Plenty of people do university in similar circumstances. People in China do 996 and
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by nxc18 5y ago
Obsidian.MD works pretty well and meets all of the stated requirements. Everything is markdown on disk, but the tool is maintaining an index for linking things. The index powers search and graphing, but otherwise everything works just as we
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by nxc18 5y ago
Copying Apple would have involved announcing their new OS at their major developer conference and Microsoft couldn’t even pull that off… what a joke
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by nxc18 5y ago
Yes but you’re missing the part of the conversation where it was established that US workers work more. https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2003/european-vacatio... Anecdotally, it throws a wrench in the works
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by nxc18 5y ago
Again, very small-scale thinking that misses the forest for the trees. Yes, you don’t care about processor performance. Fine. What I care about is the people in my life not wasting time because of shitty Android phones. I care about things
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by nxc18 5y ago
If you stopped working, society wouldn’t care. If everyone did, there would be a problem; no more good food or vacation accommodations. I’m frustrated in the lack of big picture thinking in this discussion generally. Imagine how much better
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by nxc18 5y ago
Not all of us have boring jobs. Geospatial intelligence is a severely underutilized technology (read: extreme growth potential). Remember the John Hopkins coronavirus dashboard making the rounds last year? You’ve probably had a use for the
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by nxc18 5y ago
I have wondered this. I work at an American company with many European employees and it is just really hard to see a complete lack of ambition/competitiveness. At some point being on vacation so much must hurt, I know projects are dela
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by nxc18 5y ago
The problem comes in when their parents die and they have no path to supporting themselves. Not everyone has an inheritance to look forward to. Living at home and working isn’t really a problem, but entering the labor force at 40+ is not go
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by nxc18 5y ago
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204895 They’re also good about giving a “what’s new in Big Sur” notifications after upgrade and as part of the OOBE iirc. Can’t be restarted from what I can find, unfortunately. Tips a
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by nxc18 5y ago
As someone preparing to transition from C# to Swift dev, async/await was a big missing piece. I’ll be curious to see how quickly the ecosystem picks it up as I move forward on my journey. My experience interacting with teams and devs t
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by nxc18 5y ago
It isn’t necessarily critical, but it does get them a few things: - Because their processors are so overpowered, their phones last a long time. This adds to the premium experience (e.g. put a 3 year old galaxy and a 3 year old iPhone side b
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by nxc18 5y ago
Seeing as Microsoft had a major lead with Skype, MSN/Live messenger, Xbox chat/parties, and Lync/Skype for Business among others, and was also in the phone space before Apple, it is kind of amazing messaging isn’t a far super
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by nxc18 5y ago
Same. I was turned off by the “my way or the highway” mentality on trans issues shown in their Twitter. Failure to defend 2A rights, now that NRA is clearly not principled in any way (maybe it never was), also bothered me. It is hard to ima
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by nxc18 5y ago
This turned into a story, tldr at the end. I’m in a similar boat, or have been. I’ve got a new hobby - civic engagement - but it mysteriously looks very similar to my actual work; lots of reading, writing, planning, coordinating. It isn’t h

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