not_alexb

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by not_alexb 7mo ago
> I don't know many people who would rather live in a house without climate control than an apartment. A house from 1936 with no improvements is worth very little. When purchasing a house like that you're mostly buying the land
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by not_alexb 2y ago
Those details are not necessarily his firsthand account of things. I mean, in your own comment you quote something where Williams is posing as something else in order to take someone else down, why should it be any different in the case o
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by not_alexb 2y ago
I've lived all along the West Coast from Tijuana to Seattle. There is no place along this coast which I would call homogeneous except the Bay. I would challenge your locals statement, but at this point, I've wasted too much time o
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by not_alexb 2y ago
I'm pretty skeptical that cheating to that level is plausible. Ohm's law is so fundamental that finishing an EE degree without knowing it would be akin to writing a paper on Gravity's Rainbow without knowing the basic rules o
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by not_alexb 2y ago
I've lived in high crime areas, and SF doesn't have the kind of high crime that would actually deter me. The monotony of a homogeneous population is enough to keep me away from the Bay for as long as I can; and I know plenty of ot
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by not_alexb 2y ago
California is massive though, and I would argue there is nothing in the rest of California that resembles the Bay even a little bit. Redding is nothing like the Bay; Joshua Tree is nothing like the Bay; Orange County is nothing like the Bay
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by not_alexb 2y ago
My high school had majors and one of them was effectively EE; the 14/15 year olds in my major had those formulas down inside of 3 weeks... what EEs did you know that couldn't outperform teenagers? ...I mean, I didn't even go
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by not_alexb 2y ago
This has little to do with human society. Western society, maybe. Plenty of other societies don't assert a distinct binary for gender (which doesn't even exist in sex; intersex people exist at the same rates as people that are red
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by not_alexb 2y ago
This writing has a lot of parallels with the writings of men who are scared of women after the metoo movement. Anyway, you're conflating fear with disgust. I haven't seen much fear, if at all; what I have seen a lot of is, hate th
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by not_alexb 2y ago
> Some saw the book as especially dangerous because it claimed to be based on rigorous science, was published by an imprint of the National Academy of Sciences, and argued that MTF sex changes are motivated primarily by erotic interests
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by not_alexb 2y ago
> The trans activists don't want that. Equal treatment and tolerance isn't enough for them, they demand dominance above all else. Equal treatment and tolerance.. Ever since I started transitioning, people have treated me much w
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by not_alexb 2y ago
Alcohol is usually far better at all of that for me. For grief particularly (and I've tried this a few times), alcohol has made me feel far better than my initial state, whereas Marijuana amplified the pain from grief by a couple order
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by not_alexb 3y ago
It's wild how different experiences can be. Even as an intern I appreciated not being told what to do far more often than the opposite (and other managers definitely appreciated that within the organization; they tried to poach me a fe
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by not_alexb 3y ago
> anything that does not break you, will make you stronger. Not even remotely true. Plenty of people have to spend years in therapy to undo their parent's trauma. Let's put it another way, do you think a rape victim in college
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by not_alexb 3y ago
> Is it really too much to ask it with heated seats built-in? For a luxury automaker... Lol. Porsche takes this to a whole other level in my experience.
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by not_alexb 3y ago
Funnily enough, stuff not working on my m1 over the past year or so is precisely why I stick with Ubuntu on my thinkpad for all of my tasks except the ones that require macos! I don't think I've ever needed to debug any of my thin
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by not_alexb 3y ago
Wow. As someone who has driven from LA to Seattle without breaks quite a few times (which is around 1,000 miles), that really puts in perspective how small Europe can be at times. I guess that shouldn't be surprising as that's sim
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by not_alexb 3y ago
> Arch also has "no instability ever". Lolwat. I've tried it in earnest several times over the years on basic thinkpads (once on my only development machine, in which my only customizations were basically installing intell
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by not_alexb 3y ago
I use iife for stuff like this. const c = ( ()=> { try: {...} } )()
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by not_alexb 3y ago
> The bad actors in most cases won't follow them anyhow, no matter how draconian they are. IIRC, I heard a very liberal biologist (Robert Sapolsky @ Stanford) say capital punishment does stop a certain amount of the population.
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by not_alexb 3y ago
I've been using Linux for around 20 years, but I hate configuring things these days. It's possible to buy machines that require zero configuration on the user's part; most of my thinkpads over the past 5 or 7 years didn'
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by not_alexb 3y ago
It seems like you're implying that the police care what those, outside their force, promote.
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by not_alexb 3y ago
Nearly everyone has experience with 20+ partners? That seems like a huge stretch.
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by not_alexb 3y ago
I did not.
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by not_alexb 3y ago
I've heard both express the same sentiments independently and on their own accord.
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by not_alexb 3y ago
I've definitely had more than 23 and I love my current partner of 6 years far more than anyone I've loved before. If anything, all the other partners have made me appreciate how amazing of a partner I have. I absolutely could not
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by not_alexb 3y ago
> How often do you tell people no? A few times a day. > I find it pretty common to get a visceral reaction when I disagree with people, I only find this common with people who are very sensitive (not that there is anything at all wr
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by not_alexb 3y ago
In fact, bribes can walk up to you without any connection to you (re: corrupt police)
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by not_alexb 3y ago
I have an M1 and several thinkpads and the M1 always feels like such a chore to use, so no, not even remotely in my case.
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by not_alexb 3y ago
I would be grateful beyond even my wildest measure (two middle fingers).

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