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It's terrible behaviour. Flip it around:

"Hey, would you like to come to a dinner party at my house on Saturday. There's a 50/50 chance that I'll turn you away at the door."

Don't make your indecisiveness other people's burden.

Not quite dating, but they used to have GRAY, which directed you to a Sugar Daddy service.

It's missing the most important section: "Known Bugs".

I don't think the average person knows themselves well enough to write a user manual, myself included. This is an idealized version of how he thinks about himself. Reality could be very different.

I'd be much more interested in a guide written by his wife or parents.

I don't think it's necessarily AAA games. I don't game much anymore, but the last five games I played are: Elden Ring, Red Dead Redemption 2, God of War, Super Mario Odyssey and Breath of The Wild. None of them have the problems mentioned.

It seems like it's really easy to avoid microtransactions, etc.

No, it's not a measure of strength. It's a measure of explosiveness, or rate of force production. They are actually very different physical traits. Strength can be trained to a large extent. Explosiveness is mainly genetics. You can improve it by 15 or 20%. That's it.

You ever watch the NFL scouting Combine? It's a stat every recruiter looks at for most sports. As a competitive volleyball player I (and my coach) obsessed over a 5% increase that came from years of training.

The evidence that you can train for the SAT is pretty scarce.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1745-3984.... https://nepc.colorado.edu/sites/default/files/Briggs_Theeffe... https://slate.com/technology/2019/04/sat-prep-courses-do-the...

Perhaps the best physical test for innate athletic ability is the standing vertical jump. There isn't an awful lot you can do to improve it. You can lose weight and train explosiveness, but someone with a 10" vertical will never be even average. Compare that to deadlifts, where any individual can triple their max through training.

I'm guessing there is an equivalent with mental capabilities. Somethings you can train, some are innate.

He immediately and thoroughly owned up to his mistakes regarding Russia. His credibility has increased in my mind.

People forgot that almost everyone who works in these restaurants also has a "common as muck" background. The fancyness is all an act they've learned. I'd say servers may even prefer customers like the author over another table of rich 60 year olds.

Former Newfoundland Premier Brian Peckford, one of the men who helped draft our Charter of Rights and Freedoms, is suing the government, claiming that these travel restrictions on Canadian citizens are unconstitutional.

It's a pretty remarkable situation to have someone who wrote our constitution pointing out that the government is in error.

No kidding. I did concrete for a single summer. Software engineering barely counts as work compared to that.

You have a very weird idea of what security guards do. They don't sit in front of the entrance all night, scaring off would-be robbers. They are inside the building, in their booth, probably looking over some monitors. They do not provide a deterrent, they just call the cops if something does happen. Robbers have no clue if they are there or not. The heuristic works fine.

I also recommend a response to every recruiter, but you don't need to explain your privilege, you don't need to suck up to them, and you don't need to justify your actions.

"Hey ____. Before we move forward, can you provide me with the company name, a job description, and the expected compensation. Regards"

I definitely used to think that way. It's the type of thing that is a lot of fun to be a part of, until it isn't anymore. It's a thrilling way to self identify, until it becomes your entire identity.

I hope they all end up ok.

6 years sober here. Most of the advice so far wouldn't have been much help when I first stopped drinking.

It's honestly hard, and the first year or two won't be great. Boardgames and cafes are boring as fuck compared to getting drunk. Sure, rafting and cycling and other examples might fill up a Sunday afternoon, but they don't work for Friday night.

Over time you adjust. I've made a few friends that don't drink. I have others that I can go out with and they don't mind me not drinking.

At some point you realize that you won't be having as much fun as getting drunk. But your life will be better in other aspects, and that will make it worth it.

Hey man, it's going to be ok. Feed them, keep them safe, love them. Enjoy it. 10 years from now you'll look back on this and smile.

I guess I'm drawing on memory, but not visually. Try closing your eyes. You probably still have a sense of the shape of the room you are in, without actually picturing it right? Like you know how far away the walls are and where the bookshelf is. It's similar with faces. I have some sort of "model" of her face in my head, there's just no visual component.

And as I read that over, I realize it's a terrible explanation. I have no clue how to respond usefully.

Very difficult. I can't fold the cube up in my mind. I tried for a few minutes and just felt frustrated. Instead I needed to look at angles of the numbers relative to each other and eliminate wrong answers.

I always thought "picture in your head" was a figure of speech. I was also really confused how police sketch artists worked. I have zero mental imagery of even my wife's face, yet people could somehow describe features of strangers? A lot of things made more sense once I learned about aphantasia.

I can play back very long and complex pieces of music in my mind. I can recreate tastes and smells from years ago. But nothing visually. Even my dreams are missing the visual element.

Food safety is about temperature and time. Not just temperature. When you see a temperature like 165 it means that the moment the meat hits that temperature it is safe. You can lower the max temperature as long as you increase the time the meat is held there. Chicken at 136 degrees for 70 minutes is just as safe as momentarily reaching 165 degrees.

A nice overview: https://blog.thermoworks.com/chicken/thermal-tips-simple-roa...

I think you're also attacking a position no one really holds. Of course it's incredibly complicated. But we do know quite a bit about tonic and phasic release of dopamine as well as the effects of dopamine depletion. The video is by a professor of Neurobiology at Stanford. It's not pseudoscience.

The author is attacking a position that doesn't really exist. You obviously don't fast from dopamine in general. You fast from dopamine peaks. Continuous spiking of dopamine causes your baseline levels to drop, and you feel shitty and unmotivated. A dopamine fast (of the spikes) is intended to let the levels rise back.

If you have 2 hours there is no better guide than Andrew Huberman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmOF0crdyRU

> your impact as an individual is limited

People such as Solzhenitsyn prove that your impact as an individual can be staggeringly large. Individuals can shift the course of nations and effect the lives of hundreds of millions.

> ignores the reality that you have no weapons with which to fight

Again, Solzhenitsyn proves that you have the written word and it can be an extremely effective weapon.

> there's not much you can feasibly do other than watch it

You should really read a bit about this Solzhenitsyn fella for some counter examples. But of course very few individuals are willing to bear the burden it entails.

How well can copilot write unit tests? This seems like an area where it could be really useful and actually improve software development practices.

Is it really a partnership? Do they have as much say in your continued employment as you have in theirs?

What I found works best is giving them advanced notice of what type of feedback is expected and when. Schedule a one on one a week in advance. Let them know what you are looking for. Don't combine it with anything else.

The worst thing you can do (and what almost everyone does) is tack it on to the end of a yearly performance review.

Off topic, but is there a new site that replaced lambda-the-ultimate? It's such an amazing source of PL discussion... but mainly from 10 years ago.

> It felt like one literal crazy dude going on disappointing adventures and then (spoilers) it just ends with him dying, having regretting everything he did, which in my mind, sums up the book pretty well.

Ah yes, and Moby Dick is just about a man who really hates a whale and wants to kill it.

I never know how to respond to reviews like these. If you actually think that sums up the book pretty well then the problem isn't with Don Quixote...

And I'm definitely not a literature major.

Ok but 5 beers for a big guy isn't even close to what most people think of as a hangover. We're talking about trying to exercise after 15 beers and 4 hours of sleep.

I can't imagine that there will ever be a political solution.

Let's say that 100 years from now we have solved climate change. What will history show? I doubt that the western powers plus China, India, Nigeria, Congo, Pakistan, etc all came together to successfully agree upon and implement a plan. That's what a political solution would require and I don't understand why anyone thinks it would ever happen.

Instead, I bet we will look back and see a few revolutionary tech breakthroughs which, with some government backing, provided most of the solution.

I think people forget what high school is like. I had something like what you've described. It was called "Life Skills". Most students treated it like other courses - they didn't care at all and learned almost nothing.

I'm someone who liked school for the most part, and even I treated it as a "just pay attention enough to pass the test" class.