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Ah yes, the mythical competent C developer; Who knows all the corner cases, implementation details and never makes mistakes?

This bridge doesn't need guard rails. A competent pedestrian wouldn't walk off the edge.

Can you?

No matter how many damn Google Assistant settings I disable in how many fractal menus, it STILL "helpfully" pops up if I say out loud "ok google"!

Like, "heyy I noticed you're trying to talk to me though I'm disabled, would you like to enable me?"

Stop spying on me you piece of malware.

Your problem, then, is believing that the pill contains something you can never generate without it.

This is a false belief.

You absolutely can, and should, make the conscious decision to be more like X in your everyday life, where X is how you behave under the influence of MDMA.

I had the same problem, and got a horrible down when the drug wore off, UNTIL I realized that what the pill actually does, is SHOW ME WHAT I'M CAPABLE OF FEELING. The very INSTANT I believed it was possible, all bad feels disappeared and I was left with an afterglow that lasted for weeks.

It's not a downside of MDMA, quite the opposite; a reflection of your own weakness, the knowledge of which helps you fix it!

Could you expand a little on how you're doing that?

I've been thinking about transitioning entirely to sqlite for all my data.

Only up to a week after the purchase. Make sure to TEST every game you buy on a sale; otherwise your old, never-played but doesn't-work games are dead without refund.

Interesting question. Was afraid of the shower drain cover's holes once, but generally no, have seen few human-made objects possessing the phobic quality. I think manufactured patterns are too regular and neat to trigger it.

It's not merely a 'dislike' though.

I've had arachnophobia (spiders). It feels like an intense, paranoid, startling horror which demands visual attention and quick jumping away of the body. If I know there's a spider nearby, I must be able to see it from a safe distance.

I have trypophobia (holes). It feels like my skin is crawling, like I'm being eaten alive from the inside, like my very essence of being is being violated by some cosmic plague, commanding me to look away and get as far away from the holed object as possible -- though without excessive urgency.

I can look at many things I dislike; many things I know for fact are dangerous. I can't look at certain kinds of clusters of holes.

Because they pay Google and isn't illegal either.

I just wish it stopped recommending me years old videos from my subscribed channels that I've already watched. -_-

In Finnish, it's an 'information machine'.

To use one is colloquially 'to data'; as in, a verb form of data :)

Last I heard it was expanding -- and the expansion was accelerating.

When we looked at the most empty spot we could find with the best camera ever built, we saw more universe than we could even have imagined.

Earth, ok, that's somewhat finite. Yet we're literally barely scratching its surface.

My experience is the opposite. Having switched entirely to light on dark (as well as adjusting the blue component of my screens to zero), switching the display of information back to dark on light feels like a nuclear blast of a million Suns into my eyes.

How can anyone stand staring directly into a bright lamp all day long? Well, having gotten used to it, you don't notice how unhealthy it truly is.

Chatting about news and weather in monochrome, apparently.

That's all the impression I got from this presentation, anyway.

I don't know. My bank "double spent" a hundred bucks the other day, that took them half a month to return.

There was some error with the debit card system where it wouldn't accept my card, then when the cashier rebooted the device, it informed me that my account balance was insufficient. Sure enough, checking my balance I see that somehow the first try "stuck" into the system as a 'pre-authorization' -- inexplicably unusable money. The bank just shrugged, it would fix itself in two weeks.

I stopped paying with plastic. Fear the day the ATM fails to produce the bills yet drains my account.

That's what I tell myself as I pirate everything online. Couldn't afford to preserve everything by buying it. The only way to guarantee preservation, personally, is to save it personally.

> It's not a matter of "supposed to"

Some expressions from the top of the article: "severely deficient", "impaired", "absence of".

Sounds very much "supposed to but isn't" to me.

Humans evolve. Computer systems aren't exactly "spatial", and virtually all attempts to model them as such have failed. We ought to strive for future vision.

That's just terrorific!

Consider this: To gain any information from a screen, you must actually look at it. You can only look at one screen at a time. The entire functionality of a second screen can be replaced with a single button: While that button is pressed, the screen shows whatever else it needs to show.

It is true that pressing a button is ever so slightly slower than moving your eyes. But considering all the benefits from saving a whole screen (double battery life! reduced manufacturing cost! smaller device size!), dual screenage is really just a gimmick.

All you need is a button dedicated to "screen" switching in software.

Making them round is so inefficient for the machines. Make 'em long -- that way you merely need to pass dough through a conveyor. Then, use the money you saved on the simpler machinery to do an advertizing campaign to change the public's perception of what shape a pizza should be.

The boxes are already square. Two long rectangle pizzas in a box. As a bonus, it's easy to pack two DIFFERENT pizzas with different toppings into a mixed box, for group orders. And variety.

Having found something that works well doesn't proclude finding something that works even better.

Before capitalism, violence used to solve more problems than any other means.

Slavery also lifted people out of poverty. Because, you know, the slaves weren't considered 'people'.

Let's start calling this what it really is.

Evil pattern.

Thanks, will look into that. Expanding on my findings:

Grains -- Wheat, barley, oats, rye and spelt cause mild depression and psychosis. Yeast causes skin infection. These combined, rule out all bread. Maize, rice and maybe teff seem ok so far.

Meats, red and white, feel like falling into a coma for hours after consumption, simply for being so tough to digest. In contrast, plant foods give an energetic feeling -- there's no immobilizing digestion period.

Milk and cream products cause a kind of.. tension in my head. Like a silent headache. I feel much clearer not consuming these. Includes organic and lactose-free varieties. Experiments on cheese still ongoing.

Sugar appears harmless, but I've noticed it eats a significant portion of my food budget if I permit myself to buy any. Super addictive. Hard pass all food that contain any added sugar whatsoever. It's a food industry dark pattern designed to make you crave their product. Can get rid of sugar addiction by substituting it entirely for honey.

Similar to sugar, I vehemently avoid all food products containing any artificial flavorings and additives whatsoever. These are designed to fool your body into thinking you're eating something you're not. Some of them are downright dangerous -- sodium laureth sulfate, an additive to toothpaste that makes it foam, causes lacerations in the mouth. After I switched to a toothpaste without it, all spontaneous wounds of the mouth stopped appearing completely.

Of course, the effects of diet is very sensitive to your gut microbial environment. If you're used to eating certain things, their effects are... hidden, at least, if not lessened. And it takes time to adjust, time to experiment.

How I perform my food experiments: I eat the same thing for a month, almost to exclusion of everything else, to see how it makes me feel. I stop eating something completely for months, to see how going without it makes me feel; then see what happens when I do eat it again periodically.

Nylon socks last practically forever. See US seller We Love Colors Inc. (welovecolors.com)

Spot on. The difference in noise pollution, air quality, crime and drug needles laying around is staggering! Having found a wife, neither of us likes going downtown anymore. We have our own sauna and an apple tree!

The only downside is, electricity is way more expensive.

It annoys me to no end that nearly all dietary advice boils down to "losing weight". I have this metabolism where I can eat literally anything, or nothing at all, and my weight maintains exactly the same. I've never gained any, I've never lost any.

The way I've developed my diet is by observing energy level, mood, ethic, cost, convenience, and allergic-ish reactions, which my skin is prone to.

But there is near zero actionable advice on diet available to me, because weight is never an issue.

I have a mechanical wristwatch, and love it. Scenario: I want to know how long something lasts (e.g. lunch)

Wristwatch:

1) raise arm 2) pop crown 3) twist crown to align hands at 12:00 4) push crown 5) twist crown to wind

And now I can view at a glance how long it's been since I set it.

Same function with my smartphone:

1) dig smartphone out of pocket 2) press power button to activate screen 3) swipe my unlock figure (sometimes twice because it doesn't register correctly) 4) tap clock app icon 5) tap timer tab icon (out of three extremely similar-looking icons, sometimes tap wrong one) 6) tap 'reset' then start icon 7) press power button to deactivate screen 8) put smartphone back into pocket and everytime I want to check that timer: 9) dig smartphone out of pocket 10) press power button to activate screen and the timer's displayed.

Twice the effort, thrice the hassle.