stoicShell

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by stoicShell 7y ago
I presumed wrong, sorry, it seems I was guessing or rather projecting. I think I see. You come from a different place than me, surely. Our initial make-up I mean, whether innate or acquired. The thing is, I speak of a "struggle" t
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by stoicShell 7y ago
I'm afraid you misread my intentions. I can plead guilty of seeking attention (I figure 'commenting' is the first such step), but I thought the very length of that post is already by far its most salient aspect. I don'
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by stoicShell 7y ago
You're welcome and I'm glad my intention quite perfectly matches your expectations. I'm pro 'reader's choice' indeed! An informed 'skip' button up top is really just good hospitality while someone rea
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by stoicShell 7y ago
Well, that's a +1 for my list! Thank you for the recommendation. Love the title and fourth already — it seems that Mr Miller gets it in a way that would speak to me. I've seen the same objects multiple times now, they seem close
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by stoicShell 7y ago
OK, I get it. I totally agree with everything you said. What you are rightfully criticizing goes under different names — "positive thought", "creative thought", "the secret". It's all the same woowoo indee
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by stoicShell 7y ago
Disclaimer / TL;DR: This got out of hand. Too much time on my hands that I didn't have, today. Anyway. The gist is: yes, there's crap in "self-help", but it's the current name for "the practical, applie
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by stoicShell 7y ago
It's actually much more than that, it's failing 99 times to get that one break; rinse and repeat 1,000 times to build something meaningful in 1~10 years. Failure is the mother of all learning. The more you fail, the more experie
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by stoicShell 7y ago
There is one word missing from this post that contains a whole lot of the argument on the environment side: chaos . Those who learn to thrive in chaos are most dangerous out there, for they have this contrarian impulse to rise when there&#
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by stoicShell 7y ago
I've always known I should have been born some 420-490 millions years in the future¹. Now it's science fact! [1]: A good day for me is more like 27-28 hours, on average. Don't ask. Yes, I'll donate my hypothalamus to sc
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by stoicShell 7y ago
The useful gist: > "To fully compromise EPID, hackers would need to extract the hardware key used to encrypt the Chipset Key, which resides in Secure Key Storage (SKS)," explained Positive's Mark Ermolov. > "How
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by stoicShell 7y ago
I, for one, as a human being whose root ancestors¹ infected planet Earth² which eventually produced me³ , am will to use a definition that qualifies viruses as very much alive. ;-) ____ Tangentially related, I sympathize with Earth parasit
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by stoicShell 7y ago
That's true and I'm certainly not advocating for dictatorship. There is a vast space of possible regimes and political systems in between total freedom and total slavery, though... ;-) Look, I won't pretend having "the&q
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by stoicShell 7y ago
The saddest truth is perhaps that functionally, we have the leaders we deserve. It's a simple projection from voter space to elected space. As a former pol.sci. student/researcher, I've grown disillusioned by the fact that re
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by stoicShell 7y ago
Joe Rogan has had such an ad hoc expert just this week, highly recommended. A sobering cold and factual shower.
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by stoicShell 7y ago
> Screening mammography aims to identify breast cancer at earlier stages of the disease, when treatment can be more successful. Despite the existence of screening programmes worldwide, the interpretation of mammograms is affected by high
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by stoicShell 7y ago
Here we have a strong move towards what is possibly the next phase in the seemingly eternal tension between concentration/core convergence of resources versus distribution/meshing. The last swing was strongly in favor of concentra
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by stoicShell 7y ago
I think it's cultural, acquired indeed. I've pondered on dates and how to divide the year down to how long weeks should be — for way longer than I care to admit. The thing is, we basically need there characters to map dates (it wo
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by stoicShell 7y ago
> Already speaking English is a massive advantage in understanding and working with all of that. I think we're past that, it's become a de facto prerequisite now. You just can't become a programmer without at least writ
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by stoicShell 7y ago
It's no wonder why the latin alphabet got chosen, the same reason why it became popular in the first place, thousands of years ago. It's just efficient to use 26-ish letters, like numeral systems are easier to manipulate with 8~12
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by stoicShell 7y ago
Oh my, don't get me started about Excel localization. It played a big part in my decision 20+ years ago to switch all my computers (any electronics actually) to US/English locale. Years later when I began programming seriously, I
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by stoicShell 7y ago
Wow, that is everything I asked for and more; thanks a lot for taking the time and effort to summarize all this. Now I feel like I can get started with this tomorrow. Couple remarks: > CORS Oh, that may save me lots of time... Seems rela
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by stoicShell 7y ago
A few questions, as I don't know AWS much beyond basic VMs. - Is all this easy to do following their docs, are we talking 1 h setup or 1 day? - Cost: how much are we talking per week/month? (assuming no traffic but yours)
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by stoicShell 7y ago
You're right about cathedrals, and it applies to several such big architecture projects (temples, etc). It's also how science operates when you think about it — that quest so far has always been far bigger than anyone, you know yo
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by stoicShell 7y ago
You're right that "startups" are harder statistically I'd suppose, more moonshots. Still these numbers are general, not tech specific. The mindset in entrepreneur circles: - failing is ok. Happens to most. Those who even
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by stoicShell 7y ago
Haha I wish The gist of it, according to experts, is that fusion is so cheap and powerful that it's like sailing on Earth: didn't take "that long" (few thousand years) before we circled all of it. So give us fusion, and
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by stoicShell 7y ago
Here's to one more step on the road to a Kardashiev type 1 civilization. If we harness the power of fusion, we basically remove the biggest roadblock to a space-faring, galaxy-spanning civilization. And we'd solve so many pressing
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by stoicShell 7y ago
As I see it, if it comes down to such criteria to decide which path you'll take — i.e. you're in tech for the money — then it makes no sense to dabble in startups. Statistics clearly don't lie in this regard. What I meant how
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by stoicShell 7y ago
So the exact statistic is indeed about "entrepreneurs who make it ", those who eventually create a successful business, how many time did they have to try? Average is ~3 times, and your typical successful business (across sectors
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by stoicShell 7y ago
I wish. We live in a rented flat downtown a mid-size (100K pop) city. It falls down to city management, putting chargers on every street corner or just about... Suffice it to say it's not happening right now. :(
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by stoicShell 7y ago
Agreed, it's insane. I don't know about most countries, but in France, some brands (Japanese iirc?) would have you go to their branded car dealership to charge. How crazy does that sound? (I couldn't believe it when he told

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