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One component of the 'gamers are lazy' stereotype probably comes from the fact that most of the people authoring that opinion are the gamers' parents; who'll just perceive it in the way they will. They are also the gener
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https://www.dslchecker.bt.com/ About as accurate as you'll ever get.
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https://meaningness.com/
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I think there's plenty useful to meditate on in the Tractatus, 6.0+ has most of the exciting stuff but it's worth working through to get there. But at the same time I totally get what you mean.
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For video-game inspired animal biology/evolution, Tierzoo brings fresh insights with each new video: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHsRtomD4twRf5WVHHk-cMw
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When lines > quality, deep/tech house is good: Stimming, and Oliver Schories While thinking/reviewing/learning, generally instrumental jazzy/stoner trip-hop stuff: Jan Jelinek - Loop Finding Jazz Records: https:&#x2F
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Yes, deliberate practice is my favourite topic. I find ego to be persistent, expansive and not very deliberate. Mythical or fictional identities are deliberate, perhaps through their ephemeral nature, limitless yet constrained. For me it&#x
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> The simultaneous arguments (that get repeated often) [...] are quite at odds with each other I think. Yeah, I can see your point, but I think both can reasonably appear true: credentials are very 'sticky' concepts which seem
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I find it's much more effective to think of yourself as a secret agent, superhero or a magician. When you can catch a flying plane a bit of calculus is a small hurdle, when you can cast arcane, mystical spells, struggling with the borr
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I think people often do approach researchers. It's just nigh-on impossible to expect researchers not to try and get published in Nature, for example. The effect on credentials (and career) is too great. And of course the department t
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I believe the author was referring to work done in reason, logic and 'natural philosophy' from the time of Kant/Hume/Leibniz onwards, so, 18thC+. One of the reasons philosophy doesn't seem so well these days - I thi
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As to your second point, in Lisp (well, Scheme) I know nothing better than HtDP [1] for that purpose. http://www.htdp.org/2018-01-06/Book/index.html
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Well, that's just as much something that can be learned through CBT or other means, and it's worth keeping in mind that negative effects are not unheard of [1]. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014&#x2
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I only think I get what you mean by "beating", could you clarify for us/me? I'm thinking of the particularly sonorous pulsing you sometimes get when playing those intervals. Having played guitar from a really early age I
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I am also the older brother to an autistic sibling. Thank you for writing this, I have the same thoughts and fury. To be glib, I wish there was a specific category of disorder for those people who reflect the tale of the Princess and the Pe
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There's a ways to go, sure - but there's no prizes for coming second in the doomsayers category.
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I think it's fairly safe to say that we've entered a new era: as MOBAs superseded MMOs, so BR games have superseded MOBAs.
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Matthew 7:5, "You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother’s eye." These particular people truly do lack self-awareness, to criticise PHP as JS user
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Easier on the eyes surely, but I understood it that dark themes only save battery for OLED/AMOLED screens. For LCD/TN dark themes use slightly more. I am not an Electrical Engineer though.
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Curious, for what reasons am I supposed to hate it? What am I ignorant of? I use KDE neon which uses a mildly stripped-down Ubuntu 16.04. I surf, do some web development, attempt to learn Clojure, and make my desktop look very pretty. So fa
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Well I never.
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Though I can't seem to access the text source where I first read it, it can be listened to (read by Asimov himself) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3U30wSAV4Q I think it is my favourite short story, and it provi
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Reminds me of this result: http://newsroom.cumc.columbia.edu/blog/2015/07/02/long-term-... Kandel himself gives some wonderful lectures on this, easily found on YouTube. It leads me to wonder how many ot
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OLGA was heaven. I still have the print-outs of Metallica tabs I made all those years ago. My first experience of bitterly hating the 'thorities... Iirc there was a torrent which had hundreds of thousands of tabs saved in plaintext fro
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Hah, I think this was one of the first things I read when I got into speedcubing, back in '08. The history of the puzzle is fascinating, whether you wish to learn to solve or not. Plenty of vintage websites to explore, too. Cubers now
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I've come to thinking: there's no method which makes the system fairly accessible to all those who need support, which also doesn't allow for some level of exploitation by bad actors. As the level of fraud is reduced to zero
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This is probably the best course of action, plus, you can always search for topics from the textbook, and presumably find the most useful sources for your needs organically. In my personal exp as a late-twenties self-learner: finding high-q
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No: the author of Cloud Atlas etc.
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>not science. That's a brave position. I think it's not exactly Freudian dream theory. Though the 'just-so stories' characterisation can be fair... Saying that, behavioural biology is without question a scientific end
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If you want a brilliant and lovely person to listen to about the facts of ADHD, look up Dr Russell Barkley. That factoid is a myth: the difference is that ADHD meds provide those with ADHD the focus needed to function in modern society, and

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