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My plan is to mediate more consistently. Hopefully every day. I’ve found it to help my mental health immensely when I am consistent and recently my mental health has been poor.

But in addition to mental health, I somewhat recently left an extremely rigid religion and have found myself looking for some form of healthy spirituality in my life again and I’m hoping that mediation coupled with a mix of views and philosophies from various eastern religions will help in that part of my life. I don’t expect to believe metaphysical claims from them per se, but to explore them and adopt what I do find makes sense rationally and then also through my own attempts at a spiritual practice.

“Crime and Punishment” was by far the best book I’ve read this year. Not that I necessarily agree with all the ideas presented by the author, but I found it to be written so well that I couldn’t put it down. Really didn’t expect that for classical literature.

Yeah I agree, but I read papers mainly in domains I do have university level degrees in. So while I’m not as expert as a lifetime professor, I do know the fields relatively well.

And I don’t think it’s rude, that’s why I included that statement!

Watch a GM chess match. They’ll play memorized moves till a point and then they’ll be “out of the book” and will have to start dealing with novel positions outside of what they’ve learned or prepared prior. Do they memorize? Absolutely. Can they also play completely novel positions better than anyone else? Absolutely.

I think this almost every time I read the paper. It’s like Linus’ “show me the code.” I just want papers now to “show me the data and the code.” And include a discussion about why these results are important. I think it’s a great time for the scientific community to improve transparency on these fronts.

Sincerely, someone who reads a lot of research but contributes none because I’m an amateur.

Edit: when I say data, I mean the raw data.

The photo of the Princeton students is honestly a little terrifying. It looks like they just had a boxing match.

… a very smart human

Interesting, I’ve never been asked for food etc. I don’t typically really bushwhack or go off trail a ton, but I guess I also don’t frequent really popular trails for the thru hikers.

There have been my own times where I’ve gotten very close to asking for help, but haven’t had to… yet

And I agree that fast hiking and making miles isn’t really my style, but it is fun to do 20+ mile days every now and again.

I spent two weeks out there and had the same experience with vulnerability. I was a very experienced backpacker by then, but that was a a different experience in terms of wilderness.

Where did you go in the park?

What a good holler!

If the brain anticipates relief from pain, wouldn’t the parts of the brain relates to pain be depressed rather than activated?

I love that site. I’ve fixed a few classic bikes with its help.

I’m also interested in this

I’ve got a neuroscience degree and did a fair amount of psychology as well. As I read the book I knew that type 1 and 2 were oversimplifications and that some of the studies he cites were weird or suspect, but I also enjoyed the book because the overall message that humans sometimes struggle to think about things logically is largely true about many topics. So I guess if you’re looking to read it, read this article and some other critiques first so you’re not carried away in incorrect info, then enjoy it for what it is. My two cents anyway. Probably not worth much but there you go.

I just went from two years of professional Rust development to Go, and I’m right there with you. Thankfully we have some terrible C++ that looks to be a good candidate for a rewrite.

Starting? On certain topics it’s been an echo chamber for a while. I personally stick around because sometimes there are incredible comments and articles that I never would’ve found otherwise. But I’d say a lot of HN in the past few years especially have been echo chambers.

From the context of the comments it spins like the individual’s PI coerced or forced them to publish inaccurate or falsified data in order to have a paper accepted. That was about the best I could figure.

I dislike when management decides to join a technical meeting randomly and then spends the whole time being confused and trying to get folks to explain something to them. It’s happened at every place I’ve worked so far. For the record I’m not saying they’re unintelligent, it’s just that explaining something like how a kernel module actually works to someone who doesn’t know what a kernel is tends to put a damper on the meeting if it takes 30+ minutes.

Send you one that maaay be challenging :)

Looks like the form for submission is closed now?

Man I love it, and my battery lasts weeks! Sorry to hear yours doesn’t. And yeah, I wish it had Linux drivers. I thought I found some software somewhere that allowed this (I don’t really use Linux as a desktop, just terminals). Maybe I’ll try and find it and put a link here.

Brenden, I’m co-opting this comment to thank you for your work in BPF world. Due to you I discovered BCC and bpftrace two years ago. Now as part of my full time work I write BPF programs and applications using libbpf. It’s been a defining part of my career.

Also, sometimes I think it’s a bummer when stuff like this comes up when tons of work has already been done. It’s pretty reliable that unless you have a very specific use-case, there’s probably a BPF tool written to do something.

This is honestly better than some other Viking metal I’ve heard before…

Screwtape Letters?

You know, even if you go “off the beaten path,” you’re still just a tourist. Just one who is “off the beaten path.” It’s like the conversations about experiencing the “authentic” culture of a place. If you want true authentic, move to wherever for a couple years and just live it. I enjoy traveling and I almost never do touristy stuff, but I have no illusions about not being a tourist and trying to get some sort of authentic experience that only scrapes the top of a deep culture.

Couldn’t you essentially make a Linux distribution that has these by default?

I’m currently taking my first foray into the world of MS applications for work. Have to write something that interacts with an EWS server and I’ve been… overwhelmed with not only the disorganization of their docs, but also the super strong push to do everything in C# instead of just telling me which SOAP (yes that soap) parameters/documents to use for certain actions. If anyone here wants to defend MS and tell me I’m horribly wrong and point me to some fantastic docs somewhere I would be so delighted to be proven wrong.

My appliances are not allowed to have strong opinions. And when they have opinions at all, they’re not allowed to communicate them except for the most subtle of ways. “Oh you’re emitting a nice, quiet ring because you think the fridge door has been open too long? That’s nice, it’s going to be open a bit longer.”

Heaven help my toaster if it ever stops mid toast because it thinks the bread is already done.

Sounds like you gotta do squats!

What sensor are you using? Just curious.