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by sph 2mo ago
there is more to 'ambition' than being a maths nerd at a young age. and there is more to great work than being a child prodigy, except for those that have peaked at 21.
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by sph 2mo ago
Why not? - William James Sidis
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by sph 2mo ago
Yes, I know it's not that hard, but lately I've been going through a period of low mood, and I really cannot stomach the idea of diving deeper into the Abyss for a couple weeks while my receptors downregulate. It's hard enoug
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by sph 2mo ago
I'm kinda doing a self-experiment right now with coffee dosages, using how scatter-brained I feel during meditation as indicator. It's amazing how productive I believe I am when I drink coffee, yet my attention is all over the pla
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by sph 2mo ago
There's a lot to do on a farm, yet no farmer is expected to be working a full 8 hours a day, 40 hours a week, at moderate intensity. No farmer has to do something within the next hour or their boss shouts at them. No farmer has to fe
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by sph 2mo ago
> In "Four thousand weeks" by Oliver Burkeman, he breaks down that this obsession with action Great book, but I have pinned down my obsession with action to my daily single cup of coffee habit. The idea of relaxation doesn&#x27
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by sph 2mo ago
If you want to see some change, you gotta accept a little blood on the streets.
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by sph 2mo ago
That only works if you are on the winning side.
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by sph 3mo ago
In fact, the people I see during my walk out are more my people than those I meet on the Internet. They speak my language, are immersed in my culture, and find local neighbourhood problems very relevant. Then I go online, and there's a
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by sph 3mo ago
> How would a kubernetes optimized for lisp look like I imagine it would look a bit like Erlang's BEAM. No need to stop and start the application, but write a script to do hot updates of a live image.
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by sph 3mo ago
I miss the colorful interfaces of DOS, before standardisation and "human interface guidelines" were even a thing. As a kid, running an .exe from the floppy discs my father was bringing home from work meant being blasted with unkno
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by sph 3mo ago
Please produce your evidence that Mussolini's ascent or style of government was a "society ruled or controlled by people of great wealth", as defined by Wikipedia. Fascist political philosophy is about racial purity, militari
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by sph 3mo ago
Only American-style political discourse is accepted on the Internet, where either you're with us or you're against us.
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by sph 3mo ago
Words have a well-defined meaning. Fascism, as established by Benito Mussolini, has nothing to do with oligarchy or plutarchy.
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by sph 3mo ago
The first part of your comment is correct, the second part is both wrong and unnecessary glazing of Gates. There's plenty sociopaths that give to charity, because it's a socially accepted display of wealth, and because it is quite
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by sph 3mo ago
English link on the shindo scale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Meteorological_Agency_se...
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by sph 3mo ago
The Forth (and Lisp) posts will continue until the entire HN population has been converted. I am glad that this forum that has mostly been colonized by the ‘normies’ still manages to keep these two languages in the conversation, capturing
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by sph 3mo ago
> And getting close to the upper atmosphere of Giant's Deep for the first time, staring, thinking about the atmospheres of real-world gas giants, knowing that I need to take the plunge. I recommend the game Exo One then. It's a
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by sph 3mo ago
> Melanoheliophobia, which is fear of black holes Thank you for mentioning this. I am an avid space nerd. One day I decided to try Space Engine, and one of the first thing I did was get warped to a black hole. Seeing a literal hole in sp
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by sph 3mo ago
I guess I'm not be reading the same type of science fiction. You contact NASA because you found a meteorite with clear signs of alien life, a black helicopter will pick you up, you get put in a dark cell, interrogated, and then told to
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by sph 3mo ago
You know what is scariest? That on democrat Reddit posts about this, people were overwhelmingly agreeing that Obama should run for his third term as well, and they’d be glad to vote for him. Their rationale is that you have to fight fire wi
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by sph 3mo ago
You are not.
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by sph 3mo ago
> one of the biggest terrorist group in the world Clearly the biggest tell that you are anything but Iranian. You might dislike the regime but no one calls their own government a “terrorist group”, a term reserved for foreign agents. Sto
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by sph 3mo ago
They’re called birds. They fly and make weird noises.
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by sph 3mo ago
> the lack of daydreaming I would also blame the Western commercialization of meditation. I have recently learned that in Buddhism meditation is just one side of the coin, and it’s usually diametrically paired with the opposite technique
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by sph 3mo ago
I keep seeing people using Sherlock as a verb and I fear I am not hanging around in the same Twitter circles.
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by sph 3mo ago
Don’t even need to look into Trump’s pockets. The entire US economy and the bet on AI depend on OpenAI & co. doing well. If you can download a Chinese model and run it on your own hardware instead of giving money to an American corp, a
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by sph 3mo ago
I would have liked for git to ask me first (like direnv does), rather than disabling them altogether, but this is good enough for now, so thanks.
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by sph 3mo ago
Ok, how do I disable git hooks unless it’s in a manually blessed directory?
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by sph 3mo ago
A KGB spy and a CIA agent meet up in a bar for a friendly drink "I have to admit, I'm always so impressed by Soviet propaganda. You really know how to get people worked up," the CIA agent says. "Thank you," the KGB

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