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Hey buddy. I suffer from a remitting/relapsing autoimmune disease called UC that has me urgently sprinting to the toilet 15 to 20 times a day. Sometimes it feels like I’m chained t…

You don’t have to wrestle with the guilt of producing a living being that is capable of profound suffering. You’re improving the environment monumentally by preventing a new lineag…

I fully agree. Some other observations I’ve noticed as a mid career engineer: - Boot on the ground doing the most work getting rewarded with the most labor - Promotions are used st…

AI is probably the only thing that will be able to help humanity clean up the mess that it’s still noisily making. I’m talking about real AI, not the Mickey Mouse data science buzz…

C/C++ dev here. Remember that it’s not the language that matters. The underlying programming concepts that you know, thanks to being a C/C++ programmer, are translatable to every o…

One shouldn’t have to justify whether or not they are a victim of racism when they make a statement or claim. This isn’t Scarlet Letter. You seem to place more value in the views o…

It’s something nice to put on the shelf and fantasize about enjoying, one day, when there’s time.

> A placebo presented as a stimulant may trigger an effect on heart rhythm and blood pressure, but when administered as a depressant, the opposite effect. If placebos have been exp…

The brain is so powerful that just by believing something will work, it actually can work. This is the placebo response. We don’t know the mechanism [0] yet, but I think it is prob…

A design pattern boilerplate generator in different languages like Python and C++ is something I’ve been thinking of lately. It would be super useful for new devs at work too.

You seem to imply that consent is required. Consent is not required if you are not gathering data that needs to be consented to. If my tools are gathering data behind my back and n…

I’ve been concerned about this. My tech stack is built on various products, including no-code site building tools, and I believe these tools employ JavaScript/cookies at layers whi…

Hardware is the gating factor to all human progress. Materials science is so woefully behind that we’re still charging up electrolytic batteries like it’s 1859.

Why does this have to be ASCII art? Is there a technical limitation to terminals that prevents the full color space of the video sensor from being rendered?

> As an adult, you're making your own decisions and building your own family. Yeah, this is 100% true. You can, and should, sever ties with abusive individuals where you have the p…

Dollar cost averaging is my favorite strategy. No anticipation of risk, no timing the market. Just gains all the way up.

Leaving this here for those who might be interested in the concept of an inner child [0]. I like to think of the inner child in mathematical terms: if I am 40 years old, then it al…

Remove all external stimuli. Grab yourself a blindfold, ear plugs, and immerse yourself in a sensory deprivation tank. Stop observing your surroundings, and most importantly, stop …

It's time to retire the concept of creating new programming languages to "fix" old ones. This is software, and it is updateable. We need to stop thinking in discrete terms and star…

I did not expect to be reading partial differential equations regarding the mechanics of asking and offering help over my morning coffee.

I'm going a step further to say that these companies break interoperability between each others browsers and services.