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by qbit 9mo ago
I’ve always been somewhat dissatisfied with image viewing/browsing software. Gqview and Sequential came close to being what I wanted, but there were things about both that I didn’t like. I finally just wrote my own custom viewer using
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by qbit 2y ago
A chicken once beat a friend of mine at tic-tac-toe at a state fair.
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by qbit 2y ago
I just wanted to mention how I cope with occasional restless leg syndrome. I find that a wall sit for two minutes right before trying to fall asleep works every time. I have to do it long enough and push hard enough to make my legs really b
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by qbit 3y ago
I disable js in safari (which is my main browser) on ios. If there is something that I really want to see that requires js, I switch to brave which has js enabled. But most of the time if a site requires js, I just leave the site. I now f
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by qbit 4y ago
Great story. But the end bothered me. Particularly this part: “Some of you will succumb and some of you won't, and my sending this warning won't alter those proportions.” Of course sending the warning will have an effect because i
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by qbit 4y ago
Also relevant and mind-expanding essay: Simulation, Consciousness, Existence Hans Moravec, 1998. https://frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/project.archive/general.articles...
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by qbit 5y ago
I would make an even stronger assertion that this is almost certainly the case. ;-)
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by qbit 5y ago
If you can find a copy, the first edition of ‘Introduction to Functional Programming’ by Richard Bird covers the concepts of functional programming in a language-agnostic way.
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by qbit 6y ago
Another perhaps more esoteric approach is pointed to by Ramana Maharshi (and others) who encouraged people seeking happiness to inquire into "the one who is unhappy". In other words, to ask oneself, "Who is it that is unhappy
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by qbit 9y ago
"You need to..." is one of my favorites. I'm often guilty of it myself when offering advice to others, but recently I've realized how off-putting it can be and have made an attempt to stop phrasing things in that way.
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by qbit 9y ago
"The Ants" by Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson.
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by qbit 9y ago
The reality is, everything comes down to luck. We are all ultimately a product of our genes plus our conditioning, neither of which we control. And any decisions we make are a function of those two things, so they are also out of our cont
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by qbit 9y ago
It seems to me the standard argument for legalizing cannabis is tax revenue. It reminds me of when Kansas was considering abolishing capital pinishment. It wasn't due to any ethical or moral reasoning, but because of the economics of h
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by qbit 9y ago
It's interesting that whenever the subject of legalizing drugs comes up, people rarely argue for legalization from the perspective of cognitive liberty. Why we allow certain people to decide what states of consciousness are allowed for
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by qbit 10y ago
I'm curious and I think others might be as well. How does one possibly go about finding a therapist who is a good fit? It seems like searching for a needle in a haystack -- akin to finding a good life partner which requires lots of tri
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by qbit 10y ago
> And as long as we live in a democracy, they're entitled to structure their society as they see fit. I strongly disagree. There are certain human rights that should not be able to be voted away in a democracy. I believe that the ri
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Girl builds a camper van – 32 months in 4 minutes [video](youtube.com)
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by qbit 11y ago
I'm really curious about this. Was stopping your inner monologue as a teen a conscious decision or did it just happen? If it was a conscious decision, how did you do it?
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by qbit 11y ago
I'm curious how long you did the three minutes per day before doubling to six, and likewise for the time before doubling to twelve.
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by qbit 11y ago
I am one of those people who finds this question fascinating. I am neither a philosopher nor a physicist, but it seems to me that one of two cases must be true: Either the universe has existed for an infinite time in the past or the univers
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by qbit 11y ago
I think the author may have been referring to time dilation due to relative motion of the clocks as opposed to gravity. In that case, to an observer on the ground, the clock on the plane goes slower than a clock on the ground.
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by qbit 11y ago
If you don't mind answering, which Haskell frontend are you planning to use?
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by qbit 12y ago
I don't mean to speak for RMS, but his stance seems pretty clear. He values freedom over convenience. When given a choice between the two, I think he will always choose freedom. I agree with his principles and I admire the fact that he
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by qbit 13y ago
That's exactly right. You don't need a conspiracy when interests align. Especially when the interested parties have a lot of power.
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by qbit 14y ago
"And you will have experience that proves to you that the urge is only a suggestion. You are in control." This is the most interesting part to me. Don't we always act on the urge that is strongest at the moment? If I decide to continue to m
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by qbit 14y ago
This might be inspirational for you: http://shelterpub.com/_lloyd/skateboard.html
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by qbit 14y ago
The counter example that comes to mind is a detective who gathers physical evidence in order to convict a criminal. Where is the deception there?
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by qbit 17y ago
Haikus on HN? What has the world come to now? Still, I can't resist.
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by qbit 17y ago
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "demolishing your self" and how you did that? Are you talking about the buddhist concept of emptiness?
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by qbit 17y ago
Interesting. Would you consider yourself an introvert or an extrovert, in general? I am an introvert and when I did 10 days of silence and meditation, the lack of social interaction was the easiest part for me. In fact, I think it made the

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