shoes_for_thee

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Central Vacuums: Spiritual, Social, Economic, and Hygienic Consequences(vac.bpe.xyz)
7 points by shoes_for_thee 3mo ago|5 comments
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by shoes_for_thee 3mo ago
I stood in the middle of the living room holding a hose and I thought: I have owned vacuums my entire adult life and I have never once used a vacuum. This is an essay about entropy, I think.
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The Physics of Ideas: Reality as a Coordination Problem(bpe.xyz)
54 points by shoes_for_thee 8mo ago|15 comments
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The Physics of Ideas: Reality as a Coordination Problem(fuck.fail)
2 points by shoes_for_thee 9mo ago|1 comments
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by shoes_for_thee 9mo ago
I’ve been working on a framework that treats 'reality' not as a metaphysical constant, but as a coordination problem. The core argument is that shared noetic certainty—what we collectively take for granted—acts as a physical const
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
I don't think the issue is whether or not people are more or less rational now than in previous era. The issue, from my view, is that people are just as irrational as they've always been, but the consensus facts of reality are sud
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
Burned out hard af this year around September. My wife loves WFH. I hate it. I wound up quitting my job at the start of November and taking a couple months off before starting the new gig. I think that time off helped. I'm still eager
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
I fully agree with you. When it comes to technical problems, I find the conscious mind is useful for absorbing the facts of the matter, but the subconscious seems to do most of the heavy lifting. It does the heavy lifting better when it&#x2
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
It likely is. I need to start doing more running. I do have ADD but the medications fuck with my heart, which means my life is difficult all the time. Sigh. The meds work so well... it really sucks being unable to use them (including the at
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
Incidentally I have found that I am more productive when I have a hangover because all the boring shit I have to do becomes more challenging and thus more interesting. I don't drink very much these days.
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
incidentally, the rainbow gathering web site still uses FRAMES https://www.welcomehome.org/
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
and this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_bomb
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
/shrug. i can think of any number of totally hypothetical reasons why demonstrating incompetence would be a strategic or tactical win. - now your enemy is complacent, secure in the knowledge that you are super super dumb - now your ene
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
I am also puzzled about the intersection of people savvy enough to own bitcoin and dumb enough to think musk is gonna give them free money.
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
bullshit. this measure is twitter deferring the arbitration of truth to actual authoritative sources: "People on Twitter, including candidates for office, may not claim an election win before it is authoritatively called"
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
I wouldn't straight up call this 'awful,' but I do agree that probability should be expressed by the color of the end slots.
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
I was a bored 13 year old in the mid-90s who had spent too much time reading old issues of Phrack and C programming manuals. Linux represented a big, mysterious system and I had nothing but time. I got a job working at Erol's Internet
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
> Later found out that phrase has some religious meaning. Yeah just the Hebrew name of God is all
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
A bit soured on being a team lead here. Things to ask: - Will I be responsible for my the results my team delivers? - And if so, what tools are available to me that are not available to me in a regular dev role? This is to say: Will I be a
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
funny though, the future may indeed read like elon musk fan fiction.
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
It's easy to miss the point of any analogy if you try hard enough.
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
Okay so Movement through space (in any direction) is movement against time. Is positive kinetic energy the direction opposite time?
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
My question -- and I am not being glib -- is there something to the idea that we can "raise our vibration" and would doing so decrease our speed through time?
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
Beats me. I can speculate a bit: Perhaps professionals would be less likely to remove casings because they do not expect to ever go to trial, or know that the gun they used can not be connected to them (because perhaps it was issued to them
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
I'm just saying that I'm now looking. I am not fired.
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
It's funny -- as a young adult I thought that "time is an illusion, mannnnn" was such bullshit. As I get older and have this longer relationship with time, the more I realize there's something to it. How long ago was it
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
Yeah, I don't know how to change a diaper.
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
Yeah... I just can't agree with the premise of this article I've spent sizable chunks of my life in DC, NYC, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Barcelona, and Bangkok. These cities all feel wildly different to me.
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
Well that'll usually be installed by the factory between the engine and passenger compartment.

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