scott_paul

I disagree with almost all of your political opinions, and some of your positions I very much hate. But we should be free to have the argument, without the thread of handcuffs or the threat of starvation. Although I use my real name here, sometimes I prefer not to, and that should be allowed.

The right to actual real privacy is the same thing as the right to actual real freedom of speech, and we should harm anyone who is trying to take that most basic foundation of all rights away.

I agree with Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

20 years ago boredom wasn't a thing and we weren't addicted to screens? No, no. This dopamine-addiction screentime crap has been a thing for several generations. It's what fucked up the Boomers, I think, and it was definitely a thing for gen-X'ers like me.

This isn't some new thing that just happened to the kids these days, it's a longer term trend that everyone talking here grew up with, and we should examine it as such.

That's a feature not a bug.

A few thousand years ago we used to literally set them loose in the wilderness with some wolves for a few years, and it was fun & educational.

We understand reason and organization because we have explored the chaos, in our youth. It is necessary to explore the chaos, in order to fully grow into a fully functioning adult human man.

You don't get wise men from boring kids.

Yeah, sounds like it's just a rehash / re-compilation of Christopher Tolkien's work. I'll pass.

The claim is "filter-free", but the device also uses an "electromembrane". So... how is that not a filter? Because it's electrified?

The selling point of this device is that it doesn't need filter changes in the field. Okay. So, how many liters of seawater can in process before it needs an "electromembrane" change?

It's not my field of expertise, maybe I'm just really missing something obvious. Or maybe it's hype and BS tarnishing an otherwise good advancement. Can't tell.

Anyone else amused just reading the commit comments?

Well, for starters Gab is banned from the App Store for their near-absolutist stance on free speech.

More than that is the general culture of suppression of the "wrong" view of reality. Most people who were merely to the right of center moderates in the 00's are now accused of being absolute evil if they voice any opinions. I've been told by well more than a dozen former co-workers that they're afraid to say anything or let anyone at work find out about their political opinions because they're afraid of getting fired & won't be able to feed their families. The suppression and censorship is very real.

One or two exceptional counterexamples do more to prove the rule than to disprove it.

I showed this to a non technical guy who is trying to learn git. He said he liked the cats but this didn't help him understand it any better.

Anyone else notice that Calcifediol is the most expensive vitamin-D analogue on the market? What a huge surprise that the study chose that form of vitamin-D specifically.

I'm not commenting on how anyone else does it, or saying that there aren't bad patterns out there. I'm telling the room about a strategy I found that lets me twist the bad into good.

When I interview a candidate, I'm explicitly and intentionally looking at how they respond to stress, how (if) they're able to say "I don't know", and how they communicate complicated ideas. I open with soft-balls to put them at ease and get them opened up and talking. Then dive deeper into technical things. All the questions are technical, but the main answer I get is how they communicate, how they relate to people, and how they deal with the unknown.

If you understand that a technical interview assesses anxiety, and you roll that into the plan, if you know what the game is, then you're 1/2 way to a win-win already.

It's just red meat for the base. The administration doesn't actually want to restrict immigration, they just know that they were hired to restrict immigration, so they have to appear to be working on that. Notice that every single time they've done any kind of immigration restriction, they either walk it back within 72 hours, or allow themselves to be stopped in court. It's all just a sham for the voters in an election year.

This mostly shows me what other customers of my VPN in various countries like to download.