Happy new year
Happy New Year HN!
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#262Happy new year!
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#263I used to have friends in uni with whom i could share very nerdy/technical conversations. near graduation we no longer get together sadly. this has taken a toll on me. HN is a place that feels like home, even if I'm usually just lurking around and overhearing conversations. Thanks everyone for sharing!
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#264MORE LASERS!
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#265Thanks everyone for all the links and posts and thoughts! Happy New Year!
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#266Happy New Year to all of you as well. 15 years and counting here, can't believe it's been that long already. 2023 has been a pretty wild ride, a lot of our possible futures are riding on some key decisions that will be made in 2024, I hope they will all fall in the way that will lead to a more stable and peaceful world.
Same, clocking in at 13 years and I still visit this place multiple times a day and enjoy it. Also, learned life-changing things here.
> Also, learned life-changing things here.
Especially that.
If HN had been around when I hit on some good stuff in the 90's it would have made a huge difference. So much knowledge floating around here.
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#267Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm fairly confident that yes, this will be the year of the Linux desktop: 2024 = 20 | 24 20 x 3 + 16 = 76, which is the ASCII value of 'L'. 24 x 3 + 12 = 84, which is the ASCII value of 'T'. = LT = Linux Torvalds
It's fun I know. I want to know why you multiplied them with 3 and then added by 16 & 12 respectively. Any relation
A mathematician never reveals their secrets! Good thing for you I ain't a mathematician and barely finished high school!
I started out with wanting to get 76 and 84 by multiplying with 3 (because 3 is a magic number), then just adding whatever to get the number I wanted.
Yes, it's all a sham and a bamboozle. I'm sorry to let you down.
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I think sometimes you have to realize that it's OKAY if you're always the one to keep in touch, and no one else seems to make any effort. As long as they're happy to talk when you call, or they show up at the group event when you badger them enough: that's fine. Some people are just not initiators, and it's either you make the effort, or you lose touch with them. You can't insist on reciprocity.
Nope. If someone doesn’t reciprocate that’s an indication of their level of interest. This is true for friendships and romance. If the other party is always a passive recipient of attention, they aren’t interested in the relationship. It’s pointless to invest one’s time and emotions into such a relationship.
I agree. We could use a different terminology to make a much better sense out of it. Perhaps the word "give" and "take".
If I am the person giving and the other person is just the one that takes, without giving back anything, then nope, I am leaving that relationship for reasons that should be obvious. Another term to call the "takers" would be "leech" or "parasite". It does not sound good now, does it?
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Is it OK? I'm genuinely not sure. I have been considering a new year's resolution not to keep propping up relationship that aren't reciprocated. Are they "not initiators" in all relationships, or just with you? Why do you conclude that it's ok (genuinely interested)?
It's entirely natural that some people become "initiators" as a relationship develops. At the beginning of a relationship, person A will initiate X% of the time, and person B will initiate (100-X)% of the time. Unless X is exactly 50 (unlikely), this means one person will naturally initiate more than the other. And then, over time, the person who initiates less will realize that the other person tends to initiate, an…
> the frequency of initiation is not a good proxy for the health of the relationship
it may not give a 100% accurate picture. but it's certainly one of the variables that plays into the health of the relationship.
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Sorry if this is a nosy question, but - I lived in Amsterdam; and needing that long of a commute sounds weird, since public transport is pretty good, and you can bike some of the way. Even farther from the center, where it's cheaper, it should still not be _that_ long... can I ask what was your commute route?
Our office was in Amsterdam Oost and I lived in Almere Filmwijk. An hour and a half is the average door-to-door time. Sometimes odds played in my favour and I could get home in 1h10min. The commute started by taking the bus or cycling from Filmwijk to Alemere Centrum, which took roughly the same amount of time. Then I would take IC or Sprinter to Amsterdam Muiderpoort, take another bus or walk, which, again, took rel…
Ah, well, yes, with a wife and two children, it's a different story. As a single person or a couple you might have found something in, oh, I guess maybe Diemen, or maybe in the Bijlmer region somewhere.
As for the bike: The trick is that you need a lock that's at least half the bike's price... that deters the thieves, who will go for easier-to-steal ones.
I got my bike stolen twice when I lived in Amsterdam, and even wrote a post about it, asking for advice:
https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/q/36959/24429
... and got some pretty good ideas.