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Comment · 2 years ago
Hubris, followed by Nemesis when you accidentally delete that important config file that causes an outage. What if and backups are always a good idea when deleting via shell
Comment · 2 years ago
Sometimes the first time you try something the new experience can be overwhelming. You can focus on a specific part of an experience, for example the bitterness of a drink and quickly decide you don't like it. It can also be that the first time you try something you are in a bad mood or negatively predisposed towards something, eg. your parents may have said something tastes bad while growing up and you haven't tried it yourself.

Multiple tries of something can lead to different experiences by tweaking different factors.

In the end, some things we just don't like, but one try is not necessarily a good sample.

Comment · 2 years ago
Based on the fact that people speaking different languages can lack basic abstract concepts or reason about them very differently, I think thoughts do have a language or at least often follow a language.

Here's a link to a transcript of a lecture with some very interesting examples: https://irl.umsl.edu/oer/13/

A quote as a sample: So let me tell you about some of my favorite examples. I'll start with an example from an Aboriginal community in Australia that I had the chance to work with. These are the Kuuk Thaayorre people. They live in Pormpuraaw at the very west edge of Cape York. What's cool about Kuuk Thaayorre is, in Kuuk Thaayorre, they don't use words like "left" and "right," and instead, everything is in cardinal directions: north, south, east and west. And when I say everything, I really mean everything. You would say something like, "Oh, there's an ant on your southwest leg." Or, "Move your cup to the north-northeast a little bit." In fact, the way that you say "hello" in Kuuk Thaayorre is you say, "Which way are you going?" And the answer should be, "North-northeast in the far distance. How about you?"

Comment · 2 years ago
Thanks for sharing this, it's interesting to get an insider look into what's driving the prices here in Denmark.
Comment · 2 years ago
This might be because the mental processes that develop through exposure therapy are not centered around the specific fear itself but the patterns that create fear in general.

For example if somebody has found mental tools to overcome one type of fear (like emotional regulation skills), they can apply them to other fears as well, even the fear of the unknown perhaps.

Comment · 2 years ago
It helps because the instinct is to write lazy code that may fail and the rust compiler will annoy you until it compiles. Every annoyance to fix is a thing you usually need to think about in other languages.

For example, if I'm coding in C# it's easier for me to understand the impact of passing our resources that need to be disposed and good patterns to handle that after Rust has made me lose hairs on this concept.

Comment · 2 years ago
https://detective.kusto.io/

It's not SQL directly (it's the Kusto query language) which is more geared towards reading data and analytics.

I'm suggesting it however because the queries in it are also basically relational algebra (aka much of the knowledge is transferable to SQL - minus some special features like anomaly analysis), they give decently sized datasets with billions of rows and the challenges themselves were fun.

Comment · 2 years ago
My point was that the original comment is a low-level view with missing details that gives little insight on the complexity of the phenomenon, not a support for dualism. It's all brain tissues and the information they encode.

I think we agree and it was fun to write this out.

Comment · 2 years ago
Thus the experience of food is reduced to the release of saliva?

Your point proves that the experience of food is also not just a chemical process which happens in response to food.

Comment · 2 years ago
The point is that it is a phenomenon connected with memory and thinking processes. The reaction and release of hormones is part of the phenomenon, but not the entire phenomenon.

Take this in contrast to an allergy for example. Can you trigger an allergy by remembering the food? If you see an illustration of a food you are allergic to, do you get an attack?

A more similar phenomenon instead is a phobia. It is also a release of hormones based on some internal or external stimulus (you can apply all my examples about love). However in a phobia it's even more clear that the phenomenon is based on thinking patterns. Reducing the complexity to saying these are just "hormones and reactions" is the same as saying a computer is "instructions and interrupts". That is to say that a computer has these elements but what makes it work is that there are a bunch of other systems including the humans writing the software that organize these into a functional system.

Comment · 2 years ago
A simple proof that love is not just hormones is that love can last for some time. If it was just a chemical phenomenon why does it happen repeatedly. Why can someone feel love for someone just by bringing to mind the symbol which represents that person? Why can someone feel love by seeing an illustration of someone they love?
Comment · 2 years ago
They were probably not full time on that project. Since it's a contracting company, contractors can be assigned to many projects.
Comment · 2 years ago
Long lasting usernames across websites is the worst for privacy though, unless the username is not public. In general, it's best if the unique identifier is only known to the user.

Example: https://instantusername.com

I've seen quite personal details being leaked because sometimes even smart people don't realise how easy it is to cross-reference given a unique username.

Comment · 3 years ago
Maybe the issue was with company being a dinosaur instead of it having a union?
Comment · 3 years ago
Your first solution is called being a landlord and renting

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