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> Barring extreme cases of trauma we tend to be moderately happy regardless of circumstances This has been scientifically proved wrong. Sonja Lyubomirsky writes that people come wi…

This approach is simplistic. People can usually direct their anger and frustration, to some extent. Most of the time, there's little reason to be angry at a coworker. Even if they …

White lies are a necessary wrong; we just shouldn't turn them into a "modus operandi" at a company. Indeed I cannot wrap my brain around how white lies managed to turn into a socia…

> If everywhere smells like shit, it’s time to check under your own shoe. LOL, are you kidding? The human condition is mostly shitty.

> gallows humor I think that may be a very cultural thing. I love gallows humor (I understand, enjoy, and cultivate it myself), but some cultures don't even understand it.

Precisely. Fuck "yes people", and the commitment to lying to ourselves / to each other about broken things, as an institutional strategy. If we always dismiss the negatives, then r…

> improved safety tooling (bolts) were used to increase efficiency rather than safety "And so, amazingly, for the first 20 years of its use, the main effect of the most important l…

Thanks for the link to The Bitter Lesson. I indeed find the lesson that it describes unbearably bitter. Searching and learning, as used by the article, may discover patterns and re…

Previously on Hacker News (I had bookmarked it): "Antibiotics damage the colonic mucus barrier in a microbiota-independent manner" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41516419

> Grub is like a turd that won't flush. It's been completely unnecessary for years, is massively overcomplicated shim + grub suck, but bare bones EFI sucks way more, generally spea…

> "This was the right way to do it forty years ago, so that's why the experience is worse" isn't a compelling reason for a user to suffer today. On my system, "dnf repoquery --what…

> and was heavily sponsored by a vendor that was innately interested in cross-compiling and innately disinterested in Free Software, too

The author writes: "really stupid way in which GCC does cross compiling [...] Nobody with a brain does this [...]", and then admits in the footnote, "I’m not sure why GCC does this…

> a lot of user-space in Linux-land does not make the same effort I believe that, what the article misses is that glibc is maintained and extended with an entirely different commun…

> Give those of us who do 10 times less, but do it right, some kind of marketing advantages, it shouldn't be legal that they are competing with us. "Quality over quantity" should b…

Thank you for this comment! First, those in power rebased the diet of the masses to carbs. Consequence: an eternal epidemic of obesity, with the many known complications and illnes…