seamyb88

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by seamyb88 6y ago
I must say, your name is apt!
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by seamyb88 6y ago
There are some pretty poor attempts to justify it, but "it's not that our police are bad, it's that our News is brilliant" has to be up there.
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by seamyb88 6y ago
It's a talented cop who can tie you to a murder based on your favourite JavaScript framework.
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by seamyb88 6y ago
To be able to write what Beethoven did, and the amount of it, I would say he had this ability too. Can't really say that wanting to hear better while he played is a sign that he didn't. What's a scientific understanding of mu
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by seamyb88 6y ago
> I would much much rather go blind than deaf. I used to say this too, but I'm sure, whichever you chose, you would regret the decision. Make sure neither isn't an option first...
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by seamyb88 6y ago
Responsible gun ownership is not a valid argument when you share a country with (many, many) people who can hold the opinions of QAnon.
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by seamyb88 6y ago
But the thing is that these people are the ones whose main prerogative is to score points. They are largely uneducated and disinterested, the world around them is complex and they feel inadequate. So they read something that tells them all
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by seamyb88 6y ago
Vim very much parallels a user's story with linux. Experiment just enough that you catch a glimpse of its true power and you become a snob. Your workflow is amazing and anybody who uses Windows/IDEs is a lesser mortal. I will say
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by seamyb88 6y ago
You really get to see who isn't happy with their lives at home. Many for reasons I'm sympathetic to, but a comparable many who really need to reevaluate their shit.
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by seamyb88 6y ago
Let's nest these comments to oblivion in tribute to the article.
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by seamyb88 6y ago
Looks like good information for beginners, but the hardest part of chess, for me, is the opening and how to play from move 4 onwards. It is less obvious why a strong position is a strong position early on, unless your opponent makes some ve
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by seamyb88 6y ago
TBH the greatest thing I ever found to help was to drink so much over such a long period of time that you get the most amazingly horrific withdrawal symptoms. Sober 6 years because I don't like to drink any more. YMMV
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by seamyb88 6y ago
And when you've been severely depressed and get better, I argue you feel better than anybody who has never suffered with it.
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by seamyb88 6y ago
Tomorrow's another day of trying to get better. It's not who you are, it's an illness that can perpetuate and dissipate. Every day is a project to get closer to the latter. Talking helps a shit load, but friends and family ca
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by seamyb88 6y ago
The prognosis for depression is excellent when the right help is given. It's a shame on humanity that the prognosis is poor. I was, what I thought, a special case of depressed. No hope of recovery. Hell, I didn't even have depress
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by seamyb88 6y ago
Even for "some innocent stuff like Tylenol", as the original comment puts it, you do not want to be taking 5x the dose. This is a very harmful drug in (not very) large quantities. I know of somebody whose boyfriend ended things wi
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by seamyb88 6y ago
I think you were quite reserved. If you were responsible for fixing something in a company and a colleague spoke to you like that, you'd have them in arbitration faster than they could apologise.
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by seamyb88 6y ago
The new coke? No. Until Oatly are complicit in the murders of organizing employees in countries they thought would save them billions [1], they do not deserve such a damaging comparison. [1] https://prospect.org/features&#x2
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by seamyb88 6y ago
I recently stopped taking my (self-prescribed) dose of 1,000 IU Vitamin D3. Before this I was on 2,000. I work all day and rarely leave the house, sometimes for a couple of weeks. I thought I was doing the sane thing. A good number of month
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by seamyb88 6y ago
> To be fair, the BBC is about as independent as your average non-state media company, and definitely less entangled with the past five governments than anything owned by Murdoch. Absolutely not true. From propagating the idea that life-
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by seamyb88 6y ago
> We shouldn’t try to downplay good actions just because money is also involved. I disagree. When there are thousands upon thousands of innocent people in privately-run ICE detention centres, whose economic value is solely based on their
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by seamyb88 6y ago
Banging rocks together has been a very fruitful method which is always limited by the technology. Many physicists believe that the rock banging should be an ongoing exercise which itself guides the theoretical directions. They also believe
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by seamyb88 6y ago
Using it extensively for my crypto PhD. Several well-known cryptographers contribute to it. It's an amazing bit of kit. But I'm not without criticisms. I feel it could do with the kind of fresh-start overhaul that really isn'
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by seamyb88 6y ago
Thoughts on Gnome glib, gobject, vala etc? I tend to use glib for my (academic) code for pretending C is a high-level language. It also seems to make up for implementation-dependent functions in C and many portability issues. Also, IMO, val
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by seamyb88 6y ago
Holy frickin crap I had what I thought was definitely whooping cough in November. Tested negative and thought well there is definitely going to be a new disease surfacing. Skip ahead and covid 19 happens. I thought, this is definitely what
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by seamyb88 7y ago
It would not matter one fuck were he a murdering, misogynist, insert horrible personality types here. The discussion is not about his personal attractiveness, but a selection of a few of his actions relating to wikileaks. You know nothing a
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by seamyb88 7y ago
Are you sure it only dulls the sweet receptors? Coffee (with no sugar or milk) tastes sweet when I brush my teeth. I always thought it was the sour and the sweet getting confused rather than the sweet going bye-bye.
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by seamyb88 7y ago
I went to a Grammar school and am finishing a PhD. Pretty damn nerdy. These gifted wonder kids you speak of... you reckon they aren't going to bully? I was selected at the age of 11 and told how magnificent I was. Growing up was still
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by seamyb88 7y ago
I added a "non" to the word in the title of the post to indicate the opposite of that thing. But my terminology.
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by seamyb88 7y ago
Do you have kids? Suppose you have two. One's into javascript and dungeons and dragons. The other's not great academically. No good at football either, and they still behave in a slightly awkward way. But great person, all the sam

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