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by throwforfeds 9mo ago
Yeah I agree. I'm very pro public transit -- I live in NYC and didn't get my license until my 40s -- but there is absolutely a need for last mile connections once you leave transit dense parts of a city. Or the occasional errand t
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by throwforfeds 9mo ago
I'm in the middle of watching this happen. The business owner chose a "low code" platform due to cost and "speed", against my team's recommendations, and now they're needing to do all sorts of customizatio
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by throwforfeds 9mo ago
The same reason why people take month long road trips anywhere, it's to see everything on the way. I'd guess their clients were 20 year olds wanting to go on an adventure. Honestly, if this had been a thing when I was 21 and out o
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by throwforfeds 9mo ago
I never said they're in opposition to each other. I'm an advocate of science and I think we should absolutely be studying what's going on with the body as we undertake these practices. If anything I find the Buddha's tea
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by throwforfeds 9mo ago
> You’re unlikely to see a buddhist missionary asking if you’ve heard to truth about emptiness on a street corner ;) That made me lol, because yes I've never experienced that. But then I remembered that SGI had a lot of controversy
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by throwforfeds 9mo ago
> What are the objective benefits of meditation - what is the exact/specific process and what specifically does it accomplish? There is no one form of meditation, and each practice has different results, but the majority of them sha
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by throwforfeds 9mo ago
Of course, and I wasn't arguing that we shouldn't have contemporary scientific inquiry into what's going on. The Buddha said that we should do the practice for ourselves and not follow it just because someone else said so, or
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by throwforfeds 9mo ago
> If this works, there must be some way to tune our meditation methods specifically for relaxing smooth muscle.... using awareness to track exactly how and where the body grips and lets go. It's great that westerners are exploring t
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by throwforfeds 9mo ago
I'm the same, I haven't lived in a house with a TV since I left my parent's house at 18 (I'm in my 40s now) and whenever I'm in someones house with one on I'm just flabbergasted that people watch things that lo
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by throwforfeds 10mo ago
Yes, but it does happen a lot. The case of Kalief Browder was one of the reasons for all the reforms around bail. [1][2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalief_Browder [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2019
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by throwforfeds 10mo ago
Yeah, I haven't used it to write Terraform yet and am not surprised that it would trip on itself with it. However, I did do a major refactor to AWS CDK using TypeScript and Claude worked really well. I treat it as a pair programmer, ha
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by throwforfeds 10mo ago
Well, people who aren't citizens still use the healthcare system, regardless if they have insurance or not. All those undocumented kids aren't just not getting sick -- they'll end up using the ER as primary care, clogging up
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by throwforfeds 10mo ago
I find it's really nice to just have Claude run the compilers and linters when it's done making a change, as it often has some mistakes and will catch them at this step. It lets me step in for review after some trivially stupid th
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by throwforfeds 10mo ago
Yeah, I think "vanity" is not totally the right term here, but I do think they have a point that there are diminishing returns with staying up on the news cycle. For instance, I think there is a difference between reading some new
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by throwforfeds 10mo ago
> Tourists that drive to the crater, take pictures, and drive down have no idea what they're missing. And for some reason blather on and on loudly up there when the most mind blowing sunsets are happening. Can we not be silent for 1
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by throwforfeds 10mo ago
I mean you could buy books your first semester of your $75k/year freshman year of college though! Think of all the new Calculus that'll be in the 23rd edition of the standard textbook that costs $150. /s
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by throwforfeds 11mo ago
Blood Meridian is one of the few books where I reached the end and then just started again right from the beginning. It's probably the book I've read the most amount of times and each re-read still manages to amaze me.
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by throwforfeds 11mo ago
For sure, I admit I'm an outsider in most of my life choices, including retail decisions. But for about 13 years there I was able to purchase phones that worked one handed before the market completely shifted away from that. I purchase
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by throwforfeds 11mo ago
I was still using my iPhone 13 mini until last week when I bought an Air. As a city dweller without a car, I'm constantly in situations where I'm carrying something in one hand and need to pull out my phone for something. Now with
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by throwforfeds 11mo ago
I bought an Air, coming from a 13 mini, and I largely agree with you on all those points except the battery life. I'm not sure why everyone keeps saying the Air has bad battery life, which maybe it does compared to the 17 or 17 Pro etc
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by throwforfeds 11mo ago
Absolutely, and the lack of decent pockets on women's clothing is probably a large reason I can no longer buy a computer I can fit in my jeans.
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by throwforfeds 11mo ago
For sure, I had that thought as well, that clothing is evolving alongside the things people are needing to carry. But, for me, it does seem like we're going in a functionally poorer direction. Just a few years ago I could have a comput
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by throwforfeds 11mo ago
I was just talking to my wife about this, literally 5 minutes ago. I just moved from the 13 mini to the Air and am hating that it doesn't comfortably fit in my jeans, to the point where I might go return it today. My young cousin was w
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by throwforfeds 11mo ago
Yeah, you're right in that it is highly dependent on the person and the set and setting. For me, I went into that first experience seeking a catalyst for insight into the things that were holding me back in my life, and got it. Intenti
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by throwforfeds 11mo ago
Absolutely. I've heard some Tibetan Buddhist teachers say you have to taste the chocolate for yourself, which is exactly the same sentiment.
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by throwforfeds 11mo ago
The visuals are like a fraction of the experience. Personally, I get very little in terms of visuals. It’s insight, wisdom, love, and the releasing of emotional holding patterns that is the most prominent thing for me. You can read about eg
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by throwforfeds 11mo ago
Yes, but I also know plenty of people that can't afford the loans that they have. I have friends and family that after a decade or more of repayment still owe the same amount they did when they got out of school. Some aren't payin
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by throwforfeds 11mo ago
I've been contemplating this a lot lately, as I just did code review on a system that was moving all the AWS infrastructure into CDK, and it was very clear the person doing it was using an LLM which created a really complicated, over e
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by throwforfeds 11mo ago
Yes, but older people vote and young people don't. I haven't owned a TV my entire adult life (in my 40s now), so I agree with you, but it's hard to imagine Trump and the current Republican party without Fox News.
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by throwforfeds 11mo ago
Yes, but Americans have an incredible amount of student loan debt too. Something like $1.7 trillion. If you can get into one of the best schools in the world that has a huge endowment, then sure, you'll get grants and whatnot. It may e

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