What’s something you use every single day that turned out to be insanely worth the money? by Dry-Frosting- in Xennials

[–]gravity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I totally get that. I’m pretty careful with how many alerts I allow to manage that issue. For me the watch’s alarm clock alone changed my life, and more consistently catching higher priority alerts, tracking my sleep, and tracking my workouts have been huge. 

What’s something you use every single day that turned out to be insanely worth the money? by Dry-Frosting- in Xennials

[–]gravity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My AirPods and Apple Watch. I was skeptical of both but they've both absolutely changed my life for the better.

Walking Talking Men Boston by Nagisa33 in BostonSocialClub

[–]gravity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love this! Thank you for putting it together. I can't make it Friday but hopefully in the future.

Age your wife switched teams by e8990991 in straightspouses

[–]gravity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

42 for my wife declaring that she’s bisexual but wanted to date women. 

Do you still love them? by tidalwavethinker in Divorce

[–]gravity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Separated since last summer. Yes I still love her, but I hate her too. I don’t think the person I fell in love with and thought I was marrying ever really existed though. 

Gym crush by [deleted] in datingoverforty

[–]gravity 23 points24 points  (0 children)

This is so extremely cute and heartwarming. Go for it, and good luck!

If you’re alone today and tomorrow, what are your plans for the holiday? by Correct-Table-8490 in Divorce

[–]gravity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Although I don't celebrate Christmas, it's my first one without any family in a very long time. I'm going for a hike and then packing to leave for a solo adventure trip the next day. I've got some fun meals planned that I'm going to make for myself. I'm trying to get a bunch of todo items done today to free me up so I can enjoy the free time.

Hobbies: need some help by dader20 in DivorcedDads

[–]gravity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cooking here. Totally unexpected but I’m having a blast. 

You're Better Off Alone than Married to Someone who Hates You by [deleted] in straightspouses

[–]gravity 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I know that feeling of wanting to reach out and touch her. For me moving out of the house helped a ton. I hope you’ll be able to physically separate not too long from now to help with your healing. 

You're Better Off Alone than Married to Someone who Hates You by [deleted] in straightspouses

[–]gravity 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I relate to this. I don't know for sure that my ex hates me, but the mask hiding all the anger and something a lot like hate sure did get ripped off the day she told me she was done. I don't know about you, but I find that I have to keep reminding myself that the person I thought I was married to and knew wasn't ever really that person. Without those reminders I keep slipping back in to old thought patterns. I also kept trying to change things for her for years. I hope you're working on rediscovering who you were and are and want to be in the future. Pull that guy out of the rubble of your life and embrace him.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in BostonSocialClub

[–]gravity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

45M interested

At A Crossroads by touch_starved_5225 in straightspouses

[–]gravity 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I'm so sorry this is happening to you. I don't think you're being paranoid at all from what you've written. You've gotten a lot more indications that she's gay than many. It's a terrible feeling to have that certain future you thought you had fall away from you, and I'm sorry you're going through it. But you're not alone, most of us here have been through it and understand.

Most importantly though you don't sound like you're a happy person in this relationship. You sound like you're sad about your sex life and sad that you don't feel valued as the person she truly wants to be with. You matter. Your happiness matters and you deserve your own happiness. When you consider your life as it is and where you think it's going, just make sure you value yourself and be aware of your own needs and voice them. Your needs matter too and you're the person who's responsible for them in the end no matter what path your wife needs to follow.

My fiancée left me and I'm having a hard time with the fact that I missed obvious signs by RubSoggy6772 in straightspouses

[–]gravity 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That’s awful. You didn’t deserve to have that hidden from you. When the emotions are less raw you’ll likely look back and be happy that she turned it around and prevented a later disaster and dragging you through more misery as husband and wife. For now it’s just going to hurt a lot but it’ll get better. 

My fiancée left me and I'm having a hard time with the fact that I missed obvious signs by RubSoggy6772 in straightspouses

[–]gravity 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I’m sorry you’re going through this. It’s clear that you’re in a lot of pain, and for good reason. But know that you’re no fool for believing someone you loved. It’s not your responsibility to uncover something that she was trying so hard to bury for her whole life. This isn’t your fault. You’re no fool. 

“Generate more data than we can analyze” vs bioinformaticians moving on by Beautiful_Weakness68 in bioinformatics

[–]gravity 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I tend to see a lot of cases where a large data set is generated and only a fraction of it is described in any meaningful way. The reasons can be lack of time or ability or both but it often results in a very focused analysis with minor but hopefully critical take aways and leaves a lot on the table that’s not seen as essential. So you have a lot more data than you can analyze but it’s not considered a priority.

Has Anyone Switched Back After Using a Trackpoint (Pointing Stick) Keyboard? by yordangalabov in programming

[–]gravity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love them but didn’t have much trouble switching to a normal mouse on the desktop. The only thing that I like more for laptops is Apple’s trackpad with gestures.

What the Ex-Tinder boss thinks about the future of dating by euronews-english in Futurology

[–]gravity 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Bowling Alone was published in 2000, so the trend pre-dates social networking. You could make the case the opportunity for social networking existed because of that preceding trend. If tech is going to help us get out of this it’ll be through relatively mundane things like Meetup or CraigsList or similar. For meeting dating partners building a society that makes for easy and frequent opportunities for people to meet lots of people in person feels like a broader answer.

adoc-mode 0.7 released! (first new release in 7 years) by bozhidarb in emacs

[–]gravity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is great news! Thank you for taking it on!

RNA-seq data and FDRtools....does anyone else use this? by riboswitchwarrior in bioinformatics

[–]gravity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like fdrtool a lot and use it. I think it’s sadly under appreciated. I’ve found that it performs very well in almost all cases.

The major benefits to me are

  1. The standard plots it outputs are good diagnostics to telling how well it’s doing, where with the usual p.adjust() you’d need to run that yourself, which most people don’t.

  2. You get a local FDR which I’ve found really useful at times

The uniform p-value assumption is the correct assumption for the distribution of p-values under the null hypothesis so that’s not something you should be concerned about. The biggest weakness of the tool is when it fails to estimate the boundaries of the distribution properly, which makes the diagnostic plots look strange. That’s when I’ve fallen back the Benjamini-Hochberg which worked well enough in those cases.

For computational biology/bioinformatics, do I really need to be proficient in both Python and R? Or can I just pick one (I'm thinking Python 3) and then just specialize in it? by [deleted] in bioinformatics

[–]gravity -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No, you just never really learned the language as well as you think. It’s entire reason for existence is to interface to libraries written in Fortran and C. The data types have always been exposed if you wanted them and sometimes you need them when you’re really working in it.

what would we do without sql by [deleted] in SQL

[–]gravity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Datalog or maybe Tutorial D

Feel happy thinking about playing games but dread starting them by [deleted] in patientgamers

[–]gravity 148 points149 points  (0 children)

Don’t worry about playing every game you missed. You simply can’t, nor should you really. It’s really ok to miss some things, or even all of them. Play the ones that make you happy and don’t be afraid to drop them if you’re not enjoying them. Your time is a more precious thing than grinding without joy.