hermitcrab

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by hermitcrab 3d ago
>It's just that they are larger-than-life personalities That is a very generous assessment of Frank Dux and George Dillman. Dillman at least started off as the real deal. Dux was a total fantasist. I still find it hard to believe an
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by hermitcrab 3d ago
Some context. Many styles of Kung Fu/Gung Fu do not spar in any meaningful sense. Consequently, they have an overinflated opinion of their own ability and generally do very badly against MMA fighters (who do lots of sparring and pressu
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by hermitcrab 3d ago
>Run it on a throwaway system, pick a codebase you’ve always wanted to fix something about but didn’t have the time. Thanks for the suggestion. But I don't have a throwaway system. All 3 of my codebases are commercial software that
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by hermitcrab 3d ago
I thought it was Xenophon. MSCopilot assured me it was Herodotus. The irony! ;0) (I spent a few minutes checking, but couldn't find the original quote)
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by hermitcrab 3d ago
Japanese martial arts generally come in 2 forms. -do (the way) and -jitsu (the art). -do forms are about self improvement, -jitsu forms are about effectiveness. You can see this with judo and jujitsu. Carmac is clearly aware of this differe
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by hermitcrab 3d ago
Herodotus wrote about finding people living in the ruins of a great city (Babylon) who had no idea who built it or how they built it.
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by hermitcrab 3d ago
I thought stringly-typed was a typo. Apparently not. https://www.hanselman.com/blog/stringly-typed-vs-strongly-ty...
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by hermitcrab 3d ago
This resonated with me as someone who: has read the book of 5 rings (translated), has done quite a lot of martial arts and has been coding for ~50 years. I work for myself developing apps and selling online. So I have no employer pushing to
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by hermitcrab 3d ago
>AI-assisted coding, on the other hand, rekindled my passion for computers. I would be interested to know what you mean by AI-assisted coding. I've been coding for 50 years (40 professionally) and maintain several largish C++ code b
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by hermitcrab 5d ago
Hypnogogic and hypnopompic auditory hallucinations occur when you are falling asleep or waking up, so it might be something different if it is happening if you are in deep sleep. (not an expert on this)
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by hermitcrab 5d ago
Proctalgia fugax ( https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/proctalgia-fugax/ ), also known as "shooty arse": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USB90D7ywiE
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by hermitcrab 5d ago
>About the second thing, I have felt something similar. Especially the part about it originating around the collar bone and neck. It's probably something like a nerve misfiring. Possibly. Or a pinched nerve. I don't think it is
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by hermitcrab 5d ago
>if I’m about to fall asleep and I happen to hear a loud noise nearby, https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/hypnagogic-halluc... >I also see a flash of light with my closed eyelids. You might want to t
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by hermitcrab 5d ago
I believe sensation of a presence in the room is very common in sleep paralysis. Interestingly the belief of what the presence is has changed with culture. It used to be demons, now it is more likely to be aliens.
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by hermitcrab 5d ago
Why do you miss it? It is usually described as being terrifying. BTW sleep paralysis is likely the cause of many 'alien abduction' reports: wake up, can't move, presence in the room, sexual element (e.g. probing!).
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by hermitcrab 5d ago
I also had something like this. Again as a kid, with fever. Very unsettling. But I don't remember having it as an adult. Strange.
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by hermitcrab 5d ago
Interesting site. I get the occasional Hypnopompic auditory illusion ( https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/hypnagogic-halluc... ). This is when you think you hear a sound as you wake up. For me it is normal
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by hermitcrab 6d ago
"The wrong trousers" is also close to perfect.
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by hermitcrab 6d ago
You will be happy to read this then: https://www.ciwf.org/media-and-news/press-releases-and-media... "Other Minds" is definitely worth a read.
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by hermitcrab 6d ago
Wallace and Gromit have bought a lot of joy to multiple generations of my family. "Curse of the Were-rabbit" is as close to the perfect comedy film as I have seen. Hard to think of any way in which it could be improved.
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by hermitcrab 7d ago
The article linked ( https://www.404media.co/automattic-automatic-trademark-matt-... ) is behind a paywall. But reading https://www.searchenginejournal.com/automattic-disputes-use-... it sounds like the cla
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South Park creators rename show 'South America'(bbc.co.uk)
122 points by hermitcrab 7d ago|30 comments
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by hermitcrab 7d ago
>Most recently, Automattic attempted to claim it owns the word “automatic.” What is wrong with these people?
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by hermitcrab 7d ago
The sociopaths running the show at present are probably hoping for a future that looks like the film "Elysium".
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by hermitcrab 7d ago
>I want smaller phones. You want a Zanco phone. They are tiny. Apparently designed to be small enough for prisoners to keep in their orifices.
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by hermitcrab 7d ago
But only if we buy lots of his chips?
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How the Heck Do QR Codes Work?(perthirtysix.com)
1 points by hermitcrab 7d ago|0 comments
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by hermitcrab 7d ago
Your faith is touching.
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by hermitcrab 7d ago
We are entering a Kafkaesque world where all powerful companies are the gatekeepers, but there is no chance to talk to a human to appeal their decisions. Your only hope is if a) you have an inside contact or b) you can create enough stink o
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by hermitcrab 7d ago
I sympathize. My Google Adwords account (that had been running continuously for 10 years at that point) got suspended for (I shit you not) hyperlinking to another domain. I believe it was due to a very poorly trained contractor. The whole s

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