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by skim_milk 5y ago
As a neurotypical, I hear all the time from others (especially coworkers in the field of IT) saying they're "a little autistic", at least to me these people clearly have done some research to conclude they can relate in some
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by skim_milk 5y ago
It's in some ways, depending on how you look at it, it's even more extreme than Marx - at least Marx wanted to give everyone meaningful work. Even if the anti-workers get what they want, computers and robots doing everything, h
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by skim_milk 5y ago
I don't think we can have 'too much' CPU or RAM. The stuff I'm working on as a single software consultant, give me a budget of 100k and I can put out software using .Net Core and Angular that you would have needed a 10
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by skim_milk 5y ago
For comparison, in .NET Core the default logger and all extensions in the dotnet/runtime repo are 9014 LOC (19.5k if including tests) find -E src/libraries -iregex '.*\.cs$' | grep 'src/libraries/Mic
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by skim_milk 5y ago
Anyone remember printf exploits? Feels strange to still be happening in 2021. I remember accidentally finding a printf exploit in an online Nintendo DS game when I was a kid, not that I knew what I was doing but it was fun to have my name
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by skim_milk 5y ago
Empathic emotional responses are absolutely required for society to function healthily, just look at our species' dark past! Living in a not-empathic, insensitive society would absolutely suck. But the pendulum has swung past healthy
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by skim_milk 5y ago
I've plagarized Alice Miller here before, here are her thoughts on the subject of psychological surveys on the subject of childhood trauma in the book For Your Own Good : Those who swear by statistical studies and gain their psycholog
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by skim_milk 5y ago
>Surely you realize some people are better in social situations than others Absolutely, and the cause of poor social function is almost only childhood trauma. Being sensitive to others emotions (pop-culture empathy) is not equal to actua
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by skim_milk 5y ago
This take floats on the assumption that the writers want those that aren't a "good enough cog" replaced. Perhaps the writers want those that react inappropriately negatively to situations get help in order to both improve th
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by skim_milk 5y ago
Nobody (that matters in psychology) considers "social intelligence" as an official metric. Most (minus maybe the genetic researchers) agree that various childhood traumas usually explain strange behavior. What if Kim had a trauma
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by skim_milk 5y ago
>25. That evolution happened to settle on this trick of “love” to serve the interests of evolution rather than, like, causing us to feel like we’re being burned alive every time we don’t find mates or feed our kids or whatever I liked th
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by skim_milk 5y ago
It's also great when other people do this - because it's a dead canary when you start seeing people's emails with +website being collected and shared. I remember like 6 years ago when someone compiled and publicly shared a l
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by skim_milk 5y ago
The thing I like about corporate law is that, unlike how organized crime usually works with the lowest members of the hierarchy getting charged and dealing the consequences of their actions that their bosses forced them to take, it's t
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by skim_milk 5y ago
Lots of organized crime operates in some way like this, it's a pretty successful system!
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by skim_milk 5y ago
1. Which age range do you fall under? 20's 2. Do you currently or have in the past worked in the tech field? Y 3. How long have you been using Hacker News? 5 years 4. How often do you visit HN weekly? - multiple times daily 5. Do you c
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by skim_milk 5y ago
Here's a real answer from one of the leading experts on narcissism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=achdyuKF9aI It doesn't matter. The narcissist is not psychologically equipped to use this information, if they e
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by skim_milk 5y ago
Sam Vaknin is one of the leading experts on narcissism, he says this all the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzj7wouSe7A might cover this topic. Also, I wouldn't trust anyone on YouTube on the subject of narcis
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by skim_milk 5y ago
Makes sense - narcissists have poor barriers, are the most likely to absorb other peoples' emotions and attempt to modify them. People with disordered emotional regulation (including anxiety) tend to attach to people that regulate the
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by skim_milk 5y ago
I wonder if it would be useful to keep track of known-scam crypto addresses for the purpose of informing policy makers. Say there was a website where you could upload evidence of crypto scams and, say, get points for the effort of uncoveri
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by skim_milk 5y ago
Wow, I would have just assumed that all the money in the wallets were laundered to give the impression of credibility, but it sounds like you're saying the quarter million dollars in those wallets are likely all from real people? And
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by skim_milk 5y ago
>people feel something and then rationalize the logic to justify their feeling Kind of sounds like projection. Depending on who you ask, it's generally understood in psychology that children raised by cold/rejecting/invali
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by skim_milk 5y ago
I haven't considered Tetris, but I'm researching the effects of Osu! (a rhythm game that requires heavy eye-movement and tapping) on people's public speaking anxiety. I can pretty conclusively show that people who stream wit
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by skim_milk 5y ago
I made the mistake of buying a .co.de domain and putting my professional email on it. One time it was down for a couple of days, no .co.de domains would resolve and I couldn't get my emails, so I took it upon myself to find out who to
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by skim_milk 5y ago
Samsung CPU performance meets AMD GPU performance per watt? I couldn't imagine a worse combination heh. I don't think this will compete with the M1 very well. At least I'm glad the industry is moving towards putting cheap
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by skim_milk 5y ago
Defender is definitely the strangest antivirus program I've ever used. On my windows box, some - but not all - programs are blocked from creating new files anywhere on the C:\ drive - I can only create new files on E:\. I literally c
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by skim_milk 5y ago
That was awful wording on my part, I meant to say that I had to remote into my client's machine to disable IPv6 because he couldn't connect to the Azure datacenters we were using half the time except when using IPv4. Literally po
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by skim_milk 5y ago
I had to tell one of my clients to disable IPv6 on his machine because our Azure Web App wasn't reachable half the time. And he lives in the UK! Support wouldn't do anything after I had to remote in to his computer and run trace
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by skim_milk 5y ago
The size of my armchair psychology blindspots cannot be described purely rationally!
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by skim_milk 5y ago
>With nothing beyond the discredited stage 4 to look forward to, it is mostly no longer possible for humanities majors to develop a rational, systematic self. As I understand it, the article says that Stage 5'ers are burning the bri
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by skim_milk 5y ago
Self hate is a very common result of childhood trauma/neglect. Childhood trauma/neglect is very common in every part of the world. Self-hate leads to projection, especially surrounding things experienced in youth (e.g. sex drive,

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