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For me those two changes weren’t directly related but I believe meditation can be very helpful in strengthening willpower and regaining focus on long term goals which is very helpful in the pursuit modifying patterns of behavior. For me it certainly works that way.

I was “lucky” in the sense that cannabis began having very negative effects on my mind so quitting was fairly easy. I know from other friends it’s not always like that so I wish you all the luck in your attempts to quit or cut down on your consumption.

I began meditating every day after I wake up four years ago and it has been the most beneficial change I ever introduced into my life, quitting cannabis securing a stable second place.

I began with five min and worked my way up to 15. Now I have an iOS shortcut “hey Siri, start meditation” which sets a timer randomly between 15 and 20 min to counteract the body clock expectation of a fixed duration.

Ok(Event::Mouse(_)) => { // no animal support yet } ;)

Laying at the side of the pool during my vacation in Turkey with a fresh smell of sunflower oil and the sound of an approaching tram.

Excellent project, this simplifies the process I currently have of searching many different sources and applying a cc filter (mostly Flickr and Google images).

The two image filters I use most often there are image size (larger than) and orientation (portrait or landscape). If these would be included here it would be perfect.

It hasn’t been a big issue the past five years I’ve been there. It’s for professional artists and designers so they all have a common interest in taking care of it. It’s been going for almost 50 years.

The bigger problem comes from what kind of production you allow. We focus on large scale production but it’s not a production line. Nobody needs permission to work on anything specific but some people have exploited the subsidized rates and then you need to step in.

Agree with your argument, it was unnecessary to nitpick your choice of examples.

Happy to see this article on the front page of hacker news, it feels like it ties together two important parts of my life. I help run one of Swedens biggest communal workshops for artists and designers and its hard to underestimate the value of communal workshops of the sort highlighted in this article.

Most of us who dwell here live in a world where the infrastructure is digital. Need to build a bigger thing? Just upgrade your instance or scale your cluster. Need stronger tools? Just find it and read the manual.

For artists and designers working in the physical space it's not that easy.

Got a commission for a large public sculpture that won't even fit in the door to your studio? Spend all the money you earn on it to rent a commercial space. Need welding machines, casting oven or a ten meter textile printing table? Contract it out and loose creative control.

The ability to share resources and tools is essential for the creative professions and the fact that their purpose is highlighted in this article is a positive sign.

Spaces like these are not guilds which restrict supply or inflate the price. They are more like docker containers which allow complicated infrastructures to be run and built on you local physical infrastructure.

We can get by without coal (and oil once most cars run on electricity) as long as we embrace nuclear.

Would you mind sharing some more precise reasoning with regards to this statement?

This summarizes the utter incompetence on both sides of the political spectrum in Sweden. Not a proud day to be a Swede.

The story states there is no way to opt out but in preferences / contacts / privacy there is the option "Appear in suggestions" which I assume solves this but should have been opt-in.

My grief with Skype goes deep, not to mention Skype for Business and the idiotic impossibility of adding contacts between S4B and Skype.

Exactly this has been on my mind for the past year except as a stand-alone key cap that can be placed on any keyboard. If anybody want to makes this a reality I would completely back that Kickstarter.

It appears that there are similarities in Vue 3.0 with Aurelia, at least on the surface. Things like class based components, proxy-based observer mechanism* and the move towards typescript all remind me of Aurelia.

Been using Vue 2.0 for personal projects and Aurelia for a big work project over the past year and I have to say I am very happy with both. Personally I prefer the single file components in Vue but the class based style of writing them in Aurelia. Seeing these two things converge in Vue 3.0 together with the performance improvements looks very promising.

*Not sure that under the hood Vue 3.0 works the same way as Aurelia but the mentioned points in the slides lists array index / length mutation and later the observable function are familiar from Aurelia.

I lived in Barcelona for eight years and I would not say that my experience was that the intellectual atmosphere was very high. In my view excessive tourism and Catalan nationalism play a negative role on both the intellectual and cultural spheres.

Felt just like reading about Kevin Mitnicks adventures. Such a brilliant piece of work this.

Disappointed to see the discussion here revolve around the podcast production style when the core topic of determining a world wide consensus for what is or isn’t considered ok to publish is such an impossible and simultaneously interesting problem.

Another gem from this blog: http://javlaskitsystem.se/2012/09/the-doctor-that-rocks-the-...

Anybody know if the military in any country is looking into using similar strategies to manage real wars?

Anybody have any idea why gen_all.py is python and filt_cnn_artifact.m is written in Matlab? The latter seems easy enough to write in python as well.

Is there something about what this file does that is easier accomplished in Matlab or is it just two different people preferring different languages?

Postgres / Django / Vue / Redis / AWS

Found Dr. Matthias Moench to be the real gem in this story. Here is the translated version of the Die Welt article:

https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&...

Correct, sloppy calculation.

There is a 25% vat tax and then on top of that you have income tax which is around 25% at that income bracket.

The interesting metric in this relationship is the amount of money that actually goes to the artist.

A recognized artist at a mid-high level gallery is usually promised a show approx. every 18 months. Average earnings for such a show is commonly expected to be around $100.000, (10-15 works each selling for between $5.000 and $10.000).

That would be a decent amount of money for that time but here comes the crux; the gallery takes 50%.

This leaves the artist with an income of $50.000 before taxes. Say you live in Sweden, where you have to tax nearly 50% for sales in a private company that leaves you with $25.000 every 18 months in disposable income, hardly something you can get a flat in Stockholm for.

What's even worse is that if you are tied to a gallery you are most commonly prohibited to sell privately or show with other galleries.

Now I understand why it's so slow.

Not true, you can think, as long as you think like everybody else.

More like "Be humble or we will exclude you from society".

You learn about this when you grow up in Sweden.

Wise people will tell you to disregard it as it won't get you anywhere.

Wise listeners will take that advice to heart but also refrain from mentioning their progress too much as that might put sticks in the wheels when moving through society.

The end result is perhaps something resembling humbleness. Which, if it comes from the heart, is a beautiful quality to have and strive for. But when its imposed on you by society gets a slightly more ominous tint.

Yesterday I was blown away by both tetris and snake golfed out to this degree and now this. I feel like this is the modern reincarnation of obfuscated c.

Can somebody explain to me how: "a[i]+-~j" is the same as "a[i]+(j+1)" ?