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I'm a senior engineer with 15 years of experience. Pretty sure I have a good grasp on "complex" vs. "unnecessarily complicated," and I see the latter a lot more than I would like t…

I've read that post. It's effect on me was the opposite of what the author intended. That's where I first learned that Forth defines things like IF in Forth itself... and I totally…

Your post makes me think I should talk to a professional to check if I have ADHD. Over the years I’ve read many things that hinted at it, but this is by far the most relatable thin…

Same here. I’ve been down the rabbit hole of Forth and embedded systems for about a month now. I’ve been learning more and more every night since I got started in it, and it has al…

> Humans don't like simple things. It's amazing how true this is. You can see it very clearly in your day-to-day as a software engineer. The vast majority of people you will encoun…

Look up "Hadza people" on YouTube. They don't seem to have perfect teeth. Not sure how representative they are (in this aspect) of hunter-gatherers these days though.

I think it's a matter of what kind of IM culture you grew up with. As a kid and young adult I used IRC and messengers that limited message size, so doing that was pretty common and…

> your towns and cities are full of rule-followers doing herd-passive-aggressive self-enforcement, and live-and-let-live is a rare feeling Can you give examples of what you mean by…

Oh man, that was perfect :)

Also not OP, but I can think of a number of reasons: 1. Awareness that alcoholism runs in the family, so better play it safe and not drink 2. Association between alcohol and past t…

I think that's what's implied in > Momentum for the Clean Network program is growing. More than thirty countries and territories are now Clean Countries, and many of the world’s bi…

I’m not even that old (early 30s) and I curse at 99% of the tech I use. Especially tech that we use to build other tech. I started my career as a software engineer writing C, then …

We don't see health care systems collapsing due to herpes infections. Look at what's happening in Florida, Texas, Arizona with COVID-19.

I've been using https://mailbox.org and really like it. I only disclose my actual email address to a few people. For everything else, I set up specific addresses such as shopping@,…

Thanks, I had my definitions wrong :)

> SARS-CoV-2 is much less virulent than SARS or MERS. Can you provide sources for that? I thought it was the opposite.

Have you ever read A Canticle for Leibowitz? It's fiction, but I can see this project being important for future civilization.

Thanks for the laugh! I needed that today :)

Strong A Fire Upon the Deep vibes thinking of future archeologists studying that.

I'm a Brazilian and I gesture a lot . People here in the US find it funny.

I started my career doing systems programming (specifically, working on a special-purpose HTTP server written in C), then switched to desktop application development (in the Geolog…