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Unlearn perfectionism by becoming mentally perfect. Hmm, could take a while.

Why do shopping malls build selfie traps into the walkways now? Why is everyone's backdrop on Zoom so aesthetic? Why are brilliant computer scientists spending their best years reinventing banking? Why are talented artists leaving their easels behind to draw pixel zombies?

In a world full of defib drones swarming the skies surely donut sales would plummet.

I can't access my own data.

Someone already signed up using my SSN.

That old Windows interface and the Netscape logo are like a portal to another universe.

I talk to God throughout the day and focus on listening. This includes some light Bible reading and expecting answers. Transparent, concise, empathic, respectful prayers seem to be answered with great enthusiasm. God is dad, but dad is also God. It is both odd and fantastic.

I was plagued by anxiety and negative thinking for twenty years. I could barely make eye contact with people. It wasn't until I started praying to God as best I understood him to be with as few words as possible, focusing on listening for the minutes and days to follow, that I was led to answers that cured everything in a matter of days.

For who of you, willing to build a tower, doth not first, having sat down, count the expense, whether he have the things for completing? lest that he having laid a foundation, and not being able to finish, all who are beholding may begin to mock him, saying -- This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

The original point of CSS was to remove style code from HTML. This made a ton of sense twenty years ago. Web content was often saved directly to static files, so imagine having to update styles across hundreds of HTML files manually without VS Code.

Tailwind seems like it could be very useful if one's UI is strictly component based. Otherwise it seems like a portal back into writing HTML on Windows 98 using notepad. Either way, thankful for innovation and more options.

Do something for someone else that makes them know they're loved, appreciated or at the very least seen.

I'm convinced even one genuine comment can profoundly impact the course of history.

Here's my 4 emoji-bit encoded opinion:

  facepalm parrot
  fire facepalm
  facepalm parrot
  fire facepalm parrot pirate
  facepalm parrot
  fire facepalm

A more direct approach to serverless technology.

Build something with zero practical value, but not necessarily with entertainment in mind either. Oh, and I want 10%.

Random guys on YouTube have saved me at least a dozen trips to the car repair shop; but there's all that noise I gotta sift through. Good luck and Godspeed sorting through all the quackery if you ever come down with a rare health issue. There are so many junior-whatevers that flat out shouldn't be putting out content for anyone anywhere; much less the internet.

It's a double edged sword.

It will be interesting seeing how cryptocurrency performs during and after worldwide panic surrounding the coronavirus, the fed printing a trillion USD and so forth.

I was astonished when Bitcoin rose above $30 so calling it a "crash" at $6,000 might be somewhat accurate short-term, but anything over $0.00 for randomized bits on a hard drive will always seem bananas to me.

That's legalistic though.

If you're withholding the fruits of labor from workers because "too bad, bro; you signed the paper" then you're not really trying to be kind to anyone. You just want to be rich and appear to be kind.

Isn't it just depriving the employees of the philanthropy money they labored to produce?

Can someone explain to me why it's more philanthropic to amass billions instead of sharing profits with employees?

Like why doesn't Gates or Bezos give everyone a $100k bonus and keep a billion?

One example might be the growing homeless population in California. Many of these individuals are responsible and hard working, but without an advocate they're trapped in a downward spiral with zero chance of reentry to society.

Hard to say "what it's like"..

Are you ever excluded or written off as crazy for going phoneless?

I can't say I agree with most of these points, but

Certainty is strength

[and survivorship bias]

This I have definitely seen and experienced. Back when I thought I knew everything some people followed me and copied what I did. I unwittingly became a leader simply by being arrogant. Now that I have a little wisdom that's all out the window.

Confidence is magnetic even if its foundations are nonsense. I think the mechanism is similar to clickbait but maybe less intentional.

I was able to see how the automation software I was designing would ultimately be an equivalent experience to its manual counterpart and thus be pointless to build.

This reads like common sense but it wasn't; there were thousands of lower level factors. Studying the mechanism of analogy and "sameness" seems to help the mind with abstraction. Perhaps because it is the differences in data which reveal what is most useful to know when creating.

In other words, I think a perspective that can see more of the similarities can "diff" and solve problems more quickly.

The practical takeaway for me is being able to see patterns and systems I never would have seen otherwise.

I avoid a lot more pointless building; sometimes entire projects. The things I do end up creating come from a much deeper place of true need.

I'm convinced she's right about our brains overfitting to the first belief that has persistent feedback even in complete absence of reason.

Because I'm doing it right now.

This seems to explain a lot regarding news feeds and their cause of so much outrage and odd beliefs. The fact that I can't even verify said outrage and odd beliefs in the real world is the real punch to the gut, and a good reason to get out more. And maybe unplug permanently.

I've found spreadsheet type programs to be sufficient for things like this. I can track whatever data I want, and custom graphs are typically built in.

Unpopular opinion: it's not a good career unless you are the best of the best.

IMO blue collar work is a better option because it's easier work and more stable, and lets you have a life outside work. In software the hours are increasing to no real benefit, and free time is burnt just keeping with the times. The evolution of tools, best practices and high availability of quality knowledge has made it trivial to spin up new hires which makes everyone highly expendable; not to mention that there are now millions of unwashed masses happy to accept lower wages just for their chance.

There was a HN post a while back where some guy was begging to pay for a code job. What does that tell you? Software workers are also now pitted against a global market with outsourcing and programs like H-1B which has raised the bar by increasing the pool of highly educated candidates and people who commit resume fraud. They're likely also more willing to work long hours for less pay just to be in the US. Software wages have also stagnated for ten years.

I used to be excited by new technology. Now I'm thinking we're just automating ourselves into a far, far worse existence largely driven by greed.

... are these people aware these images of their bodies are publicly available?

Email me your details.

I must set the jacket free.

The internet used to be a paradise of sorts. Sure, there was the occasional troll, affiliate link or Viagra ad in your inbox; but that was the spice of the 'net. Today it's all spice, no curry.