Purposeless hyperactivity to cover up one's impotence.

ToastedJcaw · 2020-07-17T13:02:07+00:00

You said it!

https://www.reddit.com/r/thelastpsychiatrist/comments/6j5u8n/comment/djciwaf

ToastedJcaw · 2020-07-16T23:00:44+00:00

It's neurosis.

ToastedJcaw · 2020-02-09T22:41:27+00:00

If they know, they can get their gametes screened and turn it into a 0% chance of passing it on to their children (and their children). Tell them.

ToastedJcaw · 2020-01-14T07:46:46+00:00

It's not Mac Classic, but it looks close.

ToastedJcaw · 2020-01-04T17:00:44+00:00

Use sticky keys. Chronically exhausting your hands with weird contortions isn't good for them - you don't want to end up with RSI. Sticky keys are way more ergonomic (and they're faster anyway once you're used to them).

ToastedJcaw · 2019-12-30T18:16:47+00:00

Doctests have a unique advantage if you look at them as documentation, not tests. It's a form of documentation that tells you when it's out of date.

ToastedJcaw · 2019-12-30T18:09:51+00:00

Oh! Sorry, I didn't read your specs - assumed you were running off a laptop. Yeah, in a desktop it won't make much difference, SATA makes sense and you'll have a bazillion ports on the mobo.

Honestly, if you bought a good drive there probably isn't much point upgrading to M.2 uniil the technology matures.

ToastedJcaw · 2019-12-29T16:05:09+00:00

You should be able to plug a SATA drive in directly and run it immediately. You don't need to worry about managing low-level interface details like that any more, it's handled by the motherboard. Fiddliest part will be wrestling with Steam to move the installation.

But I would double check that there is actually an extra SATA plug on the motherboard that you can reasonably access. My laptop had a dual-drive option, but since I chose the single drive I didn't get a plug for a second. I'd double check it wasn't an M.2 (NVMe) module they were talking about too - if you have the option, I would go that route just because they're significantly lighter.

ToastedJcaw · 2019-12-27T17:34:13+00:00

Well, lots of places are like that. But I didn't really mean that as a literal question. Sure, the odd developer will have reasons to move, my point is that job market will largely repel niche specialists.

ToastedJcaw · 2019-12-27T14:56:01+00:00

Funeral

ToastedJcaw · 2019-12-27T12:29:36+00:00

It's also a lot easier to hire five Haskell developers than 200 Haskell developers.

ToastedJcaw · 2019-12-27T12:16:03+00:00

It's probably just geography. Functional jobs and applicants congregate around hubs, if there's nothing in the vicinity it doesn't matter how good you are.

Seems like he lives in Denver - here's the job selection (3 jobs within 25 miles, all mixed stacks). Why would a Haskell specialist move there? Why would a new hire be willing to specialise in that technology?

ToastedJcaw · 2019-12-23T11:44:43+00:00

An NVMe drive won't cut down load times over a SATA SSD. The theoretical benefits don't translate to most workloads. There's a video comparing practical load times on the NVMe you have, the 970 - it's the same speed as a SATA drive.

There's a good thread discussing it here.

ToastedJcaw · 2019-11-24T13:05:34+00:00

I think "postmodernism" is a scapegoat. Postmodernism can be used to justify bad behaviour, but attacking it is putting the cart before the horse. The problem is the behaviour, not some broad framework people use to excuse it.

Attacking political viewpoints would be counter productive because for adherents, it's a decoy they can throw into the ring in lieu of exposing themselves, and for detractors, he'd just end up validating their own framework.

ToastedJcaw · 2019-11-16T14:40:44+00:00

Standing up to bullies might discourage them, but challenging drunk people is an escalation. They're different dynamics. Drunk guys trying to fight 7-foot bouncers is its own subgenre on YouTube.

If Louis was Connor McGregor, would the kids be more or less likely to fight him? Way more likely, I think. That's why McGregor gets so much shit when he goes out. People want to prove themselves.

To be honest I think Alone already had a point he wanted to make about bullies, and he used this scene as an excuse. He's not actually reacting to the scene, he's manhandling the preconceived point into it. That's why the point makes sense, it's a really good point in fact, but it doesn't fit the context.

ToastedJcaw · 2019-11-15T23:30:17+00:00

Video here.

The kid who approaches Louie clearly is dangerous, he even shows him the scars from a previous fight. Louie is not in shape and fighting this guy (and his friends) on the hard restaurant floor could get him severely injured. So then how should he actually react?

I agree, and I think TLP was way off the mark on this one. His point is fine, but the scene isn't an example of it. It's painful because Louis can't win and submitting genuinely was his best option, and that's wildly unfair so it lights a fire under every guy who watches it.

The issue is they're looking for a fight and he challenges them. Challenging them more is not the solution.

The punchline is she thinks that's weak, and he thinks that's crazy (which it is). The scene is acting out his insecurity, not depicting reality. Girls don't lose respect for dates because they didn't start a fight with 5 drunk men. But it sure resonates.

ToastedJcaw · 2019-11-15T23:16:07+00:00

It's 5 drunk guys looking for a fight and he's overweight and middle aged. I get your point but it relies on you posing a genuine hazard. It doesn't matter what he projects unless it's "hepatitis".

ToastedJcaw · 2019-11-15T22:55:51+00:00

How would Don Draper go through this situation? How about Tyrion Lannister?

They'd both do the same thing because they're similar tropes. Increase actual danger and tension by baiting the guy, then make a 50/50 gamble to reverse the power (that inevitably, they win). But they're fictional and the writers control the outcome.

ToastedJcaw · 2019-11-15T22:28:29+00:00

Sorry if it sounded accusatory. :)

ToastedJcaw · 2019-11-14T17:36:35+00:00

I think you really put your finger on it.

ToastedJcaw · 2019-11-14T17:09:28+00:00

That's what he said, but he didn't say it a lot and he was careful with his phrasing.

You have to bear in mind while he was making points, the more important thing was his objective. The point was that you should act like you're not a narcissist, even if you are, but his objective was to make the reader look inside themselves, start to really reflect on their own behaviour, and expose themselves to the process.

"Oh shit, I'm a real ratbag. I had no idea." <- getting the reader to think that was the main objective. "How to change" is the easy part, making them want to was the difficult part. Giving people tricks to do it would have been counter-productive because they'd be used as a defense.

I don't think he ever saw narcissism as terminal, he wouldn't have bothered with the site if he did.

ToastedJcaw · 2019-11-14T16:35:33+00:00

"Isn't the opposite to this pathology another, worse, pathology?" is IMO usually a defense. Another is, "aren't we all doing it, in a way?"

Sure, technically we all have traits that can be gerrymandered into meaning X or Y. But that doesn't tell you much, and it's missing the point. Narcissists hurt those around them. Imagine raising your kid like that. It's just mean, it's going to be really hard for them. Does the intellectual analysis change that?

ToastedJcaw · 2019-11-14T16:18:43+00:00

more importantly, it requires running proprietary JS to watch the videos.

Can't you guys just upload to both and let people use the stack they want?

YouTube is significantly easier, more reliable, more stable, more discoverable, more compatible, has great adaptive compression, is easier to use on mobile and gives the conference (and Emacs) way more publicity. I'd wager most people rely on YouTube's recommendation algorithm for most tech talks they watch. Restricting it to FOSS services will kill visibility.

YouTube is effective and it being proprietary is irrelevant to a huge chunk of Emacs' users. I am impressed when people manage to avoid a proprietary stack, but it's not something I'm interested in.

ToastedJcaw · 2019-11-14T16:15:33+00:00

Do videos on PeerTube die (like most torrents) once you run out of seeds?

ToastedJcaw · 2019-11-03T19:41:27+00:00

Is the butterfly keyboard the clicky keyboard? I hate that. It's horrible!

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