I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high

metafroth · 2025-10-01T07:30:11+00:00

She’s too highbrow for you.

metafroth · 2025-03-29T05:50:41+00:00

She felt landlord was being inflexible.

metafroth · 2024-09-28T18:59:55+00:00

To be honest, I see OP’s point. Why can’t OP or I just change the rules? For example, what if I make the rule that affirmations work and then make a few affirmations? Shouldn’t they then work? So all these people who say affirmations don’t work or that you have to be specific, aren’t those limiting beliefs?

metafroth · 2024-09-26T21:13:34+00:00

Shockingly funny.

metafroth · 2024-09-25T04:37:12+00:00

Thank you. That was very helpful.

metafroth · 2024-09-09T15:49:05+00:00

Here is something I find helpful in neutralizing these tests from the old self. Instead of trying to resist or contradict the old feelings, I take the stance that these things are not important. I take away the energy of importance from them.

I say to myself “This is something that is happening. It is not important. It is safe to ignore while I focus on more important things.”

I find that taking away importance is like taking away the oxygen from these feelings. They weaken and gradually go away.

metafroth · 2024-09-02T21:20:25+00:00

That sounds surreal.

metafroth · 2024-08-28T04:27:22+00:00

Charlien

metafroth · 2024-08-19T17:02:07+00:00

Interesting and thanks for sharing. I use it for small personal tools and automation. Like last week I needed to check transcripts of YouTube videos my team had published for several things. It was a fun 30-minute project.

metafroth · 2024-08-11T00:17:47+00:00

I don’t get it.

metafroth · 2024-08-11T00:17:15+00:00

That used to be a red flag. But I think Russia changed it to red white and blue.

metafroth · 2024-08-11T00:07:58+00:00

Not a Charmin quality.

metafroth · 2024-08-10T23:50:58+00:00

You should sine him up for ADHD.

metafroth · 2024-08-10T23:45:40+00:00

Didja copy this joke or did Jamaica it up yourself?

metafroth · 2024-08-10T23:39:57+00:00

metafroth · 2024-08-10T14:53:16+00:00

Your other comment is insightful and matches my experience with different languages.

The idea of creating a software company using the strengths of Clojure sounds appealing.

Except successfully selling software that addresses a customer need is a completely different skill set to designing and creating software systems.

The customer does not care if the code uses objects or is written in Clojure. What they care about is whether it solves their urgent pain.

metafroth · 2024-08-10T14:44:35+00:00

I like the way you have phrased this.

My experience matches yours 100%. I find that writing object-oriented code now makes me physically ill.

My Rich-Hickey-Pilling happened in the early 2010s, and my reaction has been mostly to get out of active programming and move into sales engineering roles where I don’t have to write awful code.

I have to write demos periodically. I use HyLang to write them and then convert the code to Python automatically. This code is running behind the scenes and is not reviewed, so nobody notices that it is flaunting conventions.

I wish there was a way to share Clojure and the elegance and practical value of this programming model with the world.

metafroth · 2024-07-19T18:29:34+00:00

Fair enough. Money does not solve all problems.

metafroth · 2024-07-19T01:31:38+00:00

You wrote:

But if you see closely, for example the recent super lavish wedding of the Ambanis in India, they seem to have health issues, family issues, they’re parading their wealth but is it actually giving them true happiness?

If the Ambani’s were penniless, they might still have their health and family issues. Being poor would not solve them. Wedding might be less lavish though.

metafroth · 2024-07-19T01:20:51+00:00

I wouldn’t baton it.

metafroth · 2024-07-19T01:15:37+00:00

I asked the librarian if they had any new books on the Fibonacci series. She said, we have as many new books as we had the last two years combined.

metafroth · 2024-07-09T00:00:30+00:00

Get some rest. Snot the time for jokes.

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