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by suzzer99 3y ago
This is certainly true for the American West. Unfortunately in places like Patagonia the lenga trees never had to adapt to natural fire, so man-made fires are catastrophic.
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by suzzer99 3y ago
I'm not sure about redwoods, but tropical rainforests take something like 5,000-10,000 years to return to pristine old-growth state.
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by suzzer99 3y ago
I love this one so much.
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by suzzer99 3y ago
I'm the opposite. I have ADHD and I function much better with meetings, talking it out with other programmers, and the cacophony of noise from an open office. Everything distracts me anyway, so I'd rather it be work stuff than my
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by suzzer99 3y ago
Yeah we use pull requests for the coarse-grained stuff and leave the small commits, which should also have good comments, intact. Maybe other shops use pull requests differently.
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by suzzer99 3y ago
This exactly. I'd rather pinpoint the issue to a small commit with only a few changes vs. "well I know which feature caused the issue, now to wade through 65 changed files."
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by suzzer99 3y ago
Same, and I've worked on some large, long-running projects. But never at the scale of a big tech company. I've used git bisect the few times I've had to diagnose an issue that wasn't detected immediately, which gets you
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by suzzer99 3y ago
Yeah if you could get NPM to allow JSONC in package.json, that'd be great.
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by suzzer99 3y ago
Can someone explain to me why JSON can't have comments or trailing commas? I really hope the performance gains are worth it, because I've lost 100s of man-hours to those things, and had to resort to stuff like this in package.json
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by suzzer99 3y ago
Regex is like half my questions to it. Hmm 15 minutes fighting with Javascript regex weirdness (wait do I have to backslash the backslash that backslashes the slash?), or 20 seconds with ChatGPT.
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by suzzer99 3y ago
I only ask it code questions. It saves so much time on stuff like bash scripts, which are not my expertise, but I still have to do every now and then. I've asked it stuff about the Mesoamerican calendar, which I already heavily researc
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by suzzer99 3y ago
Yeah I've told it thanks, and it was appreciative. But I know it doesn't really care. Again, I am crazy for stressing over this. I realize that.
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by suzzer99 3y ago
But google doesn't talk to me as if it was human. And you know what, I will start saying thanks and keep doing it. It makes me feel better.
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by suzzer99 3y ago
Am I the only one who feels bad for asking ChatGPT a "dumb" question that I know I should know, or not saying thank you when it gives me an answer? No? I'm just a weirdo? Okay. I have to push back really hard against my procl
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by suzzer99 3y ago
I imagine Pol Pot had similar justifications for his agrarian utopia.
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by suzzer99 3y ago
2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe, each with hundreds of billions of stars on average. Those events better be extremely extremely rare. To me it would be much more mind-blowing if our earth/moon system actually was a one i
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by suzzer99 3y ago
Here's something I've been wondering that maybe some smart hackernews-ian can explain to me. I watched a spider build a web last night. A ton of extremely complicated engineering went into it, all driven by pure instinct, presumab
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by suzzer99 3y ago
I think another big problem is that women will try out a new site until they have one stalkerish experience, and then they're gone forever. So each new site has a shelf life.
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by suzzer99 3y ago
The worst thing Elon has done to Twitter imo is elevate the paid blue checks to the top of the comment stream. The replies usually had the best information, and were my favorite part of the site. Now I have to scroll past dozens or hundreds
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by suzzer99 3y ago
Thank you. I have saved all of this for if this thing comes roaring back. Right now things seem more or less okay. Another contributing factor in all this is she lost her job, which gave her a lot of satisfaction. She has savings, so she&#x
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by suzzer99 3y ago
The last time we hung out before all this went down, we had a few drinks then she broke out the acid, saying we would just microdose and it would be mostly like a really strong cup of coffee. Of course we ended up doing another microdose, w
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by suzzer99 3y ago
This is exactly my experience. I almost never smoke weed, and only do when I'm in a comfortable place and among friends. Shrooms is more of a mid-level body/sensory experience for me, whereas pot is a deep dark journey into the re
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by suzzer99 3y ago
That's uplifting to hear. So far my friend has seemed more or less okay for a couple months. Fingers crossed. I honestly had no idea if these things could just go away on their own. It sounds like it's possible at least.
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by suzzer99 3y ago
I don't think she's a huge weed smoker.
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by suzzer99 3y ago
Yeah your brain is really good at lying to you when you're depressed. I know that's part of what she's been going through.
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by suzzer99 3y ago
Yeah I'm not arguing shrooms should be illegal. I don't think they're any worse than pot, and actually are the one drug I think everyone should do. But I think there are some serious risks to heavy, prolonged use that probabl
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by suzzer99 3y ago
She's not bipolar. I don't know family history other than her brother is an addict and her mom posts 20 political memes a day on FB that venture into conspiratorial stuff (but that describes a lot of people I know). The only signs
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by suzzer99 3y ago
As far as the risks, I have a friend who's been "microdosing" acid and shrooms for a while, and recently had a legitimate psychotic break, thinking all of her life-long friends were in some kind of Truman Show-esque grand con
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by suzzer99 3y ago
Yeah but that serotonin crash afterwards was bleak. At this point in my life I can do E about once a year. Any more than that and I get really depressed afterwards. Although I do know people who are clinically depressed, and the hangover&#x
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by suzzer99 3y ago
Related to the psychological vs. physiological discussion: I can say with confidence that the first time I did ecstasy changed how I look at the world. We went for a walk barefoot on warm pavement and it was the most wonderful thing I ever

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