necrotic_comp

yeah, I started because my body was getting creaky after years of judo and I wanted something lower impact - it's definitely significantly less stress on your body than either wrestling or judo, but you still get jostled around and in more competitive situations (i.e. in my last tournament I gave myself a concussion and nearly got choked unconscious bc I was out of it) the chance for injury is higher.

It's definitely safe if it's the first thing you've ever done, as the lower levels of bumps are new, but if you've done similar things for a long time, you definitely feel the accumulation in your brain and joints. It's super dumb because it's literally my favorite thing in the world, but I want to be a sharp tack when I'm old and I couldn't sustain it.

That's what I meant, sorry. Japanese Jiu Jitsu isn't really full contact.

You get ancillary knocks and bumps in BJJ (catching a knee in side mount, or screwing up a takedown and bonking yourself), and while they're not that bad, after a lifetime of playing for fun, it was time to stop.

I had a similar thing with jiu-jitsu in my 30s. It's fairly low-impact as combat sports go (which is great!), but I had been playing other sports (judo and wrestling) for the majority of my life and those have periodic non-concussive impacts.

After 20 years of practice, I felt just a touch foggy, and I took a few months off to see if anything changed and if my brain cleared up. It definitely did, and I therefore had to quit so I could continue to do programming work at a high level.

Absolute bummer, but that's life, I guess.

Thanks. Few comments about email - I likely will use hosting I already have.

Thanks! I think I can manage this with using email I've already set up, e.g. installing mutt and pointing to a different smtp server, so I'm not too worried about that, but it's good to know.

Thank you!

I don't find this helpful. There's the idea of "well, we can't continue doing what we're doing if we want the Earth to continue to be hospitable" even if these predictions are false.

While individually we can't do much, that doesn't mean that we shouldn't push for those who can to do as much as they can. In the United States, this means pushing back on things like drilling in the wilderness, voting in politicians who want to keep antiquated, polluting forms of energy generation in place, etc.

If there is enough political will in the populace, the transformative effects can be powerful. We've seen it with the bicycle infrastructure in the Netherlands, and we've seen it with social issues in the United States.

So yes, we're polluting the earth and making it gross and we should stop that. Let's worry about living a good life, but let's define the good life at least partly about being a good steward of our only planet.

I feel like there's a middle ground here. I've mentioned in other threads that my team does (and had done previous to the pandemic bc we were distributed already) a daily teams call that's open all day. We drop in and out depending on our meeting schedules, but when you are at your desk at the office or at home, you're expected to be present.

It works remarkably well, and there's no real appreciable change in office vs. remote. We definitely had a leg up because we were destributed previously, but I feel like this is a good model, as it makes you feel like you're not alone and you see your colleagues all day just like you do when you are in person.

fwiw, I've always found the PureData/MaxMSP family of languages really difficult to wrap my head around.

SuperCollider is another alternative, but that's a whole other discussion, really.

Is there a good video or animation of what this looks like ? I've seen a bunch of text descriptions but I'm curious how this actually appears.

What I don't understand is what people who argue against climate change stand to gain.

The argument for climate change is: "humans are polluting the planet and it's causing a change in the environment and will have a disastrous effect on the climate." The arguments I hear against climate change always seem to concede that humans are polluting the planet, but argue in different ways (natural cycle/not really happening/etc.) that this pollution has no effect.

Even if this were true, why would it be a bad idea to reduce the level of pollution in the environment ? We know we're screwing up, why don't we do our best to clean it and make it usable for the next generations ?

I thought the same, but my Rog Zephyrus doesn't have a webcam built in by default and it's available at big box stores.

What works for me is, in advance, saying that I will be doing X thing for 10 minutes, an hour, or whatever.

Even when I'm waiting for something, I'll say: "I will leave in 5 minutes" and set an alarm, knowing and trusting that I will leave and I can relax until then.

I know it sounds paradoxical, but it helps for me to schedule both creativity and relaxing time since I know for those times that I'll be able to do be purposeful about my relaxing or making.

> buy a house In my neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY, a 1 bedroom is approximately a million dollars. COL in the area where your job is is critically important as well.

And luck. Don't forget luck.

Conceptually, though, how would it work, and who becomes the arbiter of what's good and what's bad, and what can be shared and what cannot ?

In no way shape or form am I defending the nasty stuff or saying that it should be allowed, but when defending privacy and liberty, there's a real question about how we deal with hidden lawlessness that uses the same tools people use for legitimate purposes, or, more importantly, how people use these tools in a way that a government views as illegitimate or a thought crime but are in the defense of liberty.

I think there's a notion of policing that comes out of this discussion that is not part of the technology but rather a complement to it. I don't know what shape that would take.

There's the unfortunate reality where if you make one thing censorable, you make the entire thing censorable ; there's no notion of only letting the 'good stuff' through.

Isn't this more or less the idea behind Gentoo ?

I know that when I initially started setting my system up, it was a bit of a mess trying to figure out what USE flags I needed/etc., but once it stabilized, it was great to know that I had a system that worked and there was no trace of software or libraries I didn't want or need.

It definitely is a bit more legwork to do up-front, but I feel like the idea of "this is what I want, please build only to that spec" has saved me a bit of heartache as I've been using my system and while the leanness doesn't matter per se, it feels like it's helping my system be a bit more organized.

"Poor people have kids all the time, a lot of times they are even smart!" is extraordinarily classist. It makes a joke that based on the assumption that the majority of the time poor people are stupid.

Not a good look to say something like that.

Not for nothing, but what you're saying is both classist and doesn't take into account the reality of friendships and roots that can take hold in a place after you've settled in.

Things may be expensive, and you may feel trapped on the hedonic treadmill, but moving to a new city or a lower COL area may not be a realistic option for many people.

Yes, messageboards, etc. should be considered read-only at best on work devices.

yep - I came in here to talk about "familiarity" as the bedrock of how we listen to tunes. In my estimation, music is a constant juggling act between familiarity and novelty, and bending too much on one side or the other trends towards boredom.

I would argue that some of the pure intonation music (i.e. Michael Harrison's Revelations) or alternate tuning (i.e. Lamonte Young's Well Tuned Piano) is striking initially because of how alien it sounds, but to my ear a lot of it doesn't feel like it does too much more than that both as a function of the tuning and the difficulty in building a moving composition in something so foreign.

The standard tunings in Western Music are well-worn, but they can give a rich vocabulary for dissonance and consonance and have the psychological familiarity to build up emotional abstractions that some of the more adventurous scales do not.

"up or out" seems like such a strange concept - I understand the idea of trimming fat, but I've seen a firing of 5-10% annually, and it's demoralizing and terrifying as a worker.

You're basically put in a position where you don't want to do too poorly, as you're guaranteed to get fired, but you also don't want to do too well, because then you may hit your ceiling too early, end up being "overpaid", then underperform and be set up for the cull.

I've seen both, and the yearly ritual of managers coming in and tapping people on the shoulder, them walking out to never be seen again ... I hated that.

yep - I second this. There's definitely a lurking thought about what'd happen if you're sick they find something or what happens if your landlord decides he doesn't want to rent your apartment any more, and now you have to move to a new neighborhood that's 30 minutes further away from work and less safe, or, god forbid if I had kids, in a worse district, etc. etc.

I've been working at a high level for 15 years now and I feel like I'm just barely making it out of the swamp. I have no psychological safety because a single bad decision or an incident of bad luck could completely derail my life.

Individual Contributor

Exactly. This lets configurations accrete over time and ultimately get to a place where you don't have to think about your changes and they "just work" for you.

I think emacs is more likely to have breaking changes, but I haven't used it a terrible amount, so I can't really say.

I think it's the other way around - bridge your slack/discord/whatever into matrix, and then bridge the matrix results into IRC channels. That way everything stays put in your IRC client and you don't have to have a webpage open just to chat.

My hope is that bc it's an open protocol that it'll be simple to create local bridges to services and then hook those into an irc client. I agree with the parent that Discord and Slack are absolute messes and all I want is text on a screen with hyperlinks for chat.

To that end, I tried to set a personal server up on a local box that I have running, but it didn't take. I'm surprised there aren't any good tutorials sitting around to create a local instance/bridge.

It wouldn't be a bad idea to teach kids how to create a professional environment on their computer, but at the same time, the tooling around programming environments is much more complicated than a word processor and it's extremely valuable to teach the basics for credit.