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You have to weigh it against "If I had behaved like they did, would I be happy with myself?"

This sounds very much like a few programmers I know/knew except that the alliances and relationships were between bits of code and/or infrastructure.

Agreed. EDIT: _Mostly agreed_. Religion never proves itself. It just demands that you have faith.

Happy Birthday! Also, if I may be so presumptuous as to offer a suggestion: try contacting someone from earlier in your life. Many times, people are lost in their own world, their …

By definition axioms can't be proven but they are assumptions which we take for granted upon which we build science. However, in science, the axioms are such that they can be obser…

If you've come to the comments before reading the article, please do observe the URL before clicking on it. The page (because of the title) might be flagged by keyword filters in w…

I invite you to try different climates around the world. It is not at all unusual to be drenched in sweat from just walking outdoors for most of the year in many parts of the world…

While getting scratched now and then is part of life for someone who raises cats, it is not normal to have one's cats scratch guests unless the guest has provoked the cat. It is no…

"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" It's not about Zen or motorcycle maintenance. However, it _is_ a book that will make you think about the nature of work and how one way …

This is an exercise that I recommend: https://drcolleencarney.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Const... This is called "worry time" and it has helped me in the past. Another article …

I don't know how you consider it "lowest hanging fruit" when beef is so tasty. My current diet, I do not wish to state. However, I was a vegetarian in some phases of my life. If mo…

Much like the scarecrow, I chased after wit. Presently, I came upon a singular fact: the Tin Man's quest is Noble and mine vain. Being considerate, compassionate and sensitive towa…

Good form deadlifts.

If they are not all water soluble, you might be taking too much of one (or more). This is not always safe.

For the future, if you use yubikeys, yubico authenticator is a drop in replacement for google-authenticator and you can save your google-auth setup on multiple yubikeys. So, even i…

Ensure you've eaten well. Pick a drink which has a taste to your liking. Relish it while you drink it. Drink a glass of water between drinks. Stop after a couple of drinks. This is…

Does it also bother you that a lot of people tend to say "amount of people" instead of "number of people"? I think of cannibals talking about their food whenever someone says "amou…

Exactly! And of course this ought to go further and only the desperate are ultimately deserving of that job. They won't even demand safe working conditions. They'll be grateful for…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

"looked it up wrongly and did the wrong thing" "Everything is slow, cumbersome" You may want to evaluate if this is going on even in other spheres of your life and see where the cr…

While I detest the notion of science being religion, often I too have thought about your first point (thus I did make it a point to vote your comment up in the hope that more peopl…

I hope you are being sarcastic. While there are reasons to complain about the current state of the internet, it _is_ an achievement of mankind which has transformed the world in ma…

One aspect of placing yourself in their shoes is to feel how they feel. Another aspect is to see what they understand from what you are trying to explain. This requires a different…

If you are able to put yourself in the shoes of the people to whom you are explaining something, the rest will follow. Consider what they already know and how you can bring them to…