bloomthrowaway

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by bloomthrowaway 8y ago
No psychedelics, too much family history of mental illness. I've always been a YOLO type person in and outside of work. Risks are often greatly overestimated, and appealing to the corporate mindset disgusts me. I'm the type that l
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by bloomthrowaway 8y ago
It's one of those weird personal secrets, things that never come up. I realized years ago that lucid dreamers are fairly rare, and most of those that have had lucid dreams don't have many. It makes for a really awkward discussion
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by bloomthrowaway 8y ago
Sometimes things don't end up like I wanted either, but I've gotten pretty good at "ejecting" those situations rapidly, a few seconds, in favor of what I'm looking for. Not absolute God Mode, more like browsing an u
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by bloomthrowaway 8y ago
sure why not https://postimg.cc/gallery/1r7sd2iwo/ hit zoom button to undo the horrible default zoom
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by bloomthrowaway 8y ago
Yes. Once you're fully lucid you can do anything. I've flown across the US, into space, banged movie stars in the white house, drove Ferraris off cliffs, etc... Since your thought process is a bit disorganized the hardest part is
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by bloomthrowaway 8y ago
Hahaha you can't be 100% sure :) .
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by bloomthrowaway 8y ago
If I think about the dream right after waking up I can generally recall most of it. Working 9-5 these days I sometimes just don't have time to make sure I commit it to memory though :( . I don't do a certain reality check, but I&#
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by bloomthrowaway 8y ago
Many REM sleep studies are done on lucid dreamers because they can signal the researchers by moving their eyes during sleep. Most muscles are paralyzed, but its been found that eye movements match the dreamscape. They've used this to d
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by bloomthrowaway 8y ago
I think staying asleep is just experience. I remember my lucid dreams when I was really young were rarely longer than a few minutes. Sometimes seconds. Its really all about staying calm from what I've learned. And trying not to focus t
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by bloomthrowaway 8y ago
Hahaha, most of my flying is leaping off/out of whatever I'm standing on/in. Usually immediately after I become lucid. Could get interesting if I did psychedelics lol
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by bloomthrowaway 8y ago
No, mental illness runs in my family so I consider it too risky. But I've been told by a friend that lucid dreams occasionally, that lucid dreams are different from LSD/mushrooms in that you have much more control over the experie
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by bloomthrowaway 8y ago
Its a LOT like the matrix. Perception of your ability to alter reality makes reality altering possible, with the only limitation being your own faith in the extent reality can be altered. Very meta. I never consciously do reality checks, bu
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by bloomthrowaway 8y ago
I could believe it ruins sleep quality definitely. Even with experience it's hard to keep your mind from fully waking during periods of lucidity. I've managed to go an hour or two many times but it invariably ends with me waking a
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by bloomthrowaway 8y ago
Its pretty clear to me at least. I can sometimes remember the moment I figured out I was dreaming. With some great ones being jumping through a closed window and off a skyscraper.
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by bloomthrowaway 8y ago
Almost always exceedingly wonderful, better than anything 'IRL'. Except for lucid nightmares which seem to start out as regular nightmares anyways. Sometimes I'm able to overpower the nightmare and go fully lucid, other times
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by bloomthrowaway 8y ago
The only times I've had trouble telling the difference is immediately after waking up. Especially after the false awakening lucid nightmares mentioned below. Turning the lights on and walking around for a minute is enough to dispel any
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by bloomthrowaway 8y ago
same, I can't think of a single false awakening outside of trying to end a lucid nightmare. Maybe the same "your wish is my command" type control you get over reality perception is a double edge sword. You want to be awake so
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by bloomthrowaway 8y ago
yes, or get in the habit of ruminating on the dream for a while still in bed. Whenever I have a nice lucid dream I lay in bed and run it through my memory over and over for a couple minutes. Otherwise some mysterious process will clear any
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by bloomthrowaway 8y ago
It's not pleasant. Sometimes intense enough that I'm in a state of shock through much of the next day. Most of the pain I remember has been in the form of lucid nightmares. Usually snake bites, gun shots, knives, etc. Almost neve
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by bloomthrowaway 8y ago
Just throwing this out there. I've had hundreds of lucid dreams and it's the most amazing experiences I've have in my life. It takes practice to 1) figure out you're dreaming with some level of reliability 2) learn to t
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by bloomthrowaway 8y ago
what really helped me was reading about how airplanes work. The technology was fascinating to me anyway, but once I found out how crazy redundant all the systems were I feel much safer than in a car. A car has redundant brake systems, but t
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by bloomthrowaway 8y ago
if you like Spring Boot try DropWizard. Similar support for REST interfaces but none of the stuff you don't need
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by bloomthrowaway 8y ago
> Recycling cannot replenish supplies. Lithium-ion batteries last for 15–20 years, 3 times longer than the 5–7 years for lead-acid batteries Over 90% of car batteries are already recycled. Assuming this stays constant when batteries get
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by bloomthrowaway 8y ago
Spring is huge... The closest competitor might be Rails
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by bloomthrowaway 8y ago
I think it might be the other way round these days. Java programmers are outsourced because they're so expensive. Javascript seems like the best target now for low-skill outsourcing. Much lower barrier to entry, and arguably a much mor
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by bloomthrowaway 8y ago
Try RxJava or JINQ! I believe RxJava was actually first, RxJs being a port of that, if you would believe it :) .
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by bloomthrowaway 8y ago
I've used Spring and he's probably right :) . But there's better choices these days. Any Spring micro-services out there are probably by a team that knew Spring well and didn't want to learn a more suitable framework
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by bloomthrowaway 8y ago
A lot of Javascript's optimizations are fragile, as in they don't always hold true, so there's overhead determining if the assumptions still apply. For instance, Javascript's hidden class optimizations are disabled as so
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by bloomthrowaway 8y ago
Java's usage will never compare to compiled languages without GC because it has to cache a bunch of code in RAM and the garbage builds up between collection cycles. It's pretty bad compared to something like C for sure :)
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by bloomthrowaway 8y ago
IMO almost nobody is writing microservices with spring boot because its so gigantic. Hibernate isn't bad on memory use on its own. There's a raft of more sane choices these days like Play, Dropwizard, Vert.X etc.. They all use far

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