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The only sensible inner practice I've found is refinement of character. It works both when practiced publicly and when practiced privately.
And aspects of character can be built, sustained and recycled. Like anything.
It's a lack of exchange caused by lack of specificity of requests and a lack of discernment on the part of the hubs.
5. Political situation - not a warzone? Not under sharia? Very democratic, or key to world issues you consider important?
4. Climate - no tundra/sahara? Would you benefit from living near the sea?
3. Food - is the local food edible? Is the local food cheap, including the restaurants? Or is it just very good?
2. Access to nature - do you want to try mountain ranges? Forests? A kind of people you like having around? If I feel disconnected from the city, I just use the public utilities more: coffee, beer, parks and benches for reading on. Not quite collecting mushrooms in the forest but I'm getting there.
1. Culture and language - any cultures you want to learn about? New languages? What would bring your personal and professional development in harmony?
Good luck!
P.S.: The Netherlands are decent. Everything is very "duidelijk", clear, and direct. People don't mind speaking English and speak it well. Weather is mild, can be a bit rainy but not half as bad as Britain. Housing aplenty for a programmer's salary. Consider visiting for a week or so if it peaks your interest.
If this were to be levied at me accusingly I'd throw a programming Bible at them, get thee hence and study.
"Elliot Rodger's Retribution" was posted on YouTube. How is this situation distinct from the Isla Vista one? E.g., why should YouTube not be blockaded, other than for reasons of corruption and nepotism?
By acknowledging the possibility that you may have done something wrong, you make yourself vulnerable to judgment, and by doing so confidently you gain respect. Facing judgment is a sign of confidence and it requires making yourself vulnerable.
In a more subtle example, showing signs of vulnerability in personal relations is a way of letting others know you, and that takes courage. There'd be no point to having social interactions if you were invulnerable, any interaction would literally be inconsequential for you and thus unmotivated.
You "dress up" the vulnerability with a higher level strength (e.g. the capacity to listen to and analyze your own shortcomings), and then it's all good.
There's a difference between being vulnerable, and putting yourself in a situation that will hurt you. It's fine to show yourself vulnerable if you can do so in a way that incentives good behavior from your peers.
I got overloaded by the page being fully editable/interactive AND with errors AND with foreign mathematical constructs. Somehow the possibility to edit it makes me walk on eggshells, even if it's just a local edit.
It otherwise looks good, I'd probably enjoy reading it if I was more fit. I'm going to take a walk outside now, thanks for the unintended inspiration.
Like for instance rebases?
We're in a period of closed chat ecosystems (Joe Schmoe doesn't use Matrix, IRC or XMPP) and fairly spacious smartphone storage, which in my circles means that people tend to be quite willing to install an extra app for chatting.
A bunch of my friends use Signal, and the ones that don't I communicate with on WhatsApp.
Maybe ANFO bombs aren't that powerful, but those can't be the only easy options for DIY bombs.
I don't really see how it's a useful priority to try to physically stop terrorist attacks. There obviously aren't that many people who successfully commit them (because the number of related deaths is tiny) and the talk of "well we're stopping a load of them you just don't know because it's classified", yeah... they say that, but why should I believe unqualified statements about other people's secrets?
Why not focus on the factors that make people radicalize, and work on reducing those?
I guess it makes shitty headlines compared to "Kevlar-coated military drone hunting eagles kick evil khaki-person ass".
Reports like this tend to trigger a Google search for my own name and correspondence with all sites that show up, "please delete all my shit".
Finally deleted my Facebook account last week, too.
Maybe we need a religion that forbids using social media, or more broadly, your real identity online?
I do wish there was an actual Rust interpreter.
And there have been versions of the Intel ME in the wild with known remote exploits AFAIK.
I thought that was the most interesting part of the experience; the spaceships looked pretty flat in the distance and I was sad that my hands in-game didn't move along with my controller (as they do in some games).
More specifically, how do they not get sued into oblivion for copyright infringement? They are after all redistributing content they are not licensed to redistribute.
Would you happen to know a good video or writeup on why language-specific package managers are a bad idea? I mean, the situation with C and C++ libraries seems significantly worse to me, and I personally really enjoy having the fully Crates.io index at my disposal on any box that runs Cargo.
Russia is getting tonnes of flak for basically doing some hacking. They're just a useful distraction from the massive civil rights violations by the US government now people are starting to become less amenable to the "AGAINST TERRORISM!!!" theme.