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by throwforfeds 5mo ago
Ah, I see, that's also very common. Taken all the way it can develop into nihilism, which is one of the two extreme views in Buddhism [1]. I fell into that early on and abandoned my practice for many years. I found that once I found th
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by throwforfeds 5mo ago
> I've never liked the way meditation makes me feel This is common. A true meditation practice brings up a lot of stuff, from general body aches and pains to deep emotional things you may be unconsciously suppressing. With time and
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by throwforfeds 5mo ago
> Is this not a form of meditation? It could be, but it depends on what you're cultivating. If you're spaced out, day dreaming, then you're practicing distraction. Meditation is practicing the opposite of distraction, to b
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by throwforfeds 6mo ago
I was naive for ever thinking the Tether stable coin scam would actually implode
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by throwforfeds 6mo ago
I had a few people from my life send me this article because they know I've been a software engineer for 20 years and were thinking "wow, see you could do this too!". None of them noticed they were misleading customers. None
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by throwforfeds 6mo ago
"That gave Matthew Gallagher breathing room to fix some shortcuts he had initially taken, like swapping out the before-and-after weight-loss photos for ones from real customers. Some photos on Medvi’s homepage remain A.I.-generated.&qu
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by throwforfeds 6mo ago
My teacher (former gelug monk of 20+ years) said during one talk years ago that Buddhism could be considered a form of Hinduism, as of course there are so many streams of Hinduism and no singular form of it. Buddhism had to be in dialogue w
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by throwforfeds 6mo ago
Yeah, agreed, there's a lot of misinformation. I'm always encountering people that say they just started, followed a guided meditation on the jhanas and entered fourth jhana within a week. And then the signs they describe are all
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by throwforfeds 7mo ago
I held off on upgrading because I heard how much people hated it. I bought the new XDR display last week and finally had to upgrade for it to work properly and... it's totally fine? I'm not sure what the big deal is. It's way
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by throwforfeds 7mo ago
Oh for sure, agreed. These lists do well to drive traffic and sell things, but I never put much weight in them.
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by throwforfeds 7mo ago
The Stranger at #1 sort of tells me everything I need to know about the list. It's a fine book, and I ended up liking it a lot more when I went back and re-read it in French many years later, but #1 of the 20th century. Yeah, not even
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by throwforfeds 7mo ago
well, it is a french newspaper surveying french people
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by throwforfeds 7mo ago
Or, like, not haze kids in their 20s for residency and make them take hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt. Whereas in Europe and other countries, residents work something like 50 hours per week and graduate with zero debt. I've wa
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by throwforfeds 7mo ago
well yes, of course. I'd assume any mind altering substance should have purity standards if legal and not treated like buying herbal supplements. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
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by throwforfeds 7mo ago
Do you mean it won't be legalized because of stigma, or you personally wouldn't try them because of stigma? People that think psychedelics are evil are just closed minded people that probably need psychedelics in their life. You p
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by throwforfeds 7mo ago
While I agree that I'd love to have a guarantee on purity, the way to do that is just to make LSD legal, rather than have some private equity backed pharma company tie up the supply. LSD should be a case like insulin or the polio vacci
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by throwforfeds 7mo ago
They can control the supply and make more money off of it. And you can pay lobbiests to make sure the original LSD stays illegal.
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by throwforfeds 7mo ago
> Notably to easily develop touch based applications. Ok, actually you're right, that's a use case where I'll agree it's probably useful. If you're writing iOS applications it might be nice to run it in Simulator
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by throwforfeds 7mo ago
I guess I'm just a luddite that spends my life on a CLI or text editor. Taking my hands away from my keyboard to leave finger prints on my screen just doesn't make sense to me. I think people that do do tasks where a touch screen
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by throwforfeds 7mo ago
Love that they didn't learn anything from the touchbar.
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by throwforfeds 7mo ago
A parent of mine was also a teacher, and other than grading their student's 9th grade math exams when I was in elementary school, I was on my own for most of my learning. So I agree that yes, just having a parent who is a teacher doesn
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by throwforfeds 7mo ago
Yeah I agree, an 8 year old isn't setting up these meetings and correspondences. I think beyond even having supportive parents, the most important part was that he had a parent that had a degree in the field that he happened to be a ge
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by throwforfeds 8mo ago
The thing that stood out more to me than the n being low is "the participants reported not previously using noise to help them sleep or having any sleep disorders." Sleeping with pink noise seems like something that you'd end
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by throwforfeds 8mo ago
You're welcome! Here's the one I've been using: https://github.com/ankimcp/anki-mcp-server I've definitely hit walls with Anki over the years, and while the community decks help a lot, it's rea
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by throwforfeds 8mo ago
Agreed, Anki has really helped me with learning new languages. The creation of cards was always a slog though, so recently I've been playing with an Anki MCP server hooked up to Claude. I can dump my iTalki lessons in, or ask Claude to
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by throwforfeds 8mo ago
Sure, Siri is, but do people really buy their phone based off of a voice assistant? We're nowhere near having an AI-first UX a la "Her" and it's unclear we'll even go in that direction in the next 10 years.
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by throwforfeds 8mo ago
It's definitely cheap and delicious, but I found that it actually started giving me breakouts on my forehead, especially around my brow line, when I started putting it in smoothies after training 4-5x per week. Switching over to using
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by throwforfeds 8mo ago
Gentoo forced me to switch to Apple. jk, I wanted to install Ableton and now it's been 15 years.
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by throwforfeds 8mo ago
Both. I'm not sure why the meme on the right is that the left wants to protect Biden or anyone else. Who cares, they all can come crashing down.
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by throwforfeds 8mo ago
I'm surprised and also not. We're a long ways away from 90s hacker culture, and even then there were plenty of upper class kids that were just in it for good pay working for the giant tech corps. We like to romanticize everyone dr

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