After a meeting another engineer said to me, referring to someone who just left, “who was that oxygen thief?”

I replied, “my manager”… Putting the laughter in slaughter with that comment.

Looks great.

I use Firefox, so I can’t give it a try.

The idea that you could do this isn’t a bad one.

It could be interesting, to build a generic recommendation algorithm. Would it be like a browser add-on?

Something like a news feed, but you have all the data under your control, so you could see why something was recommended.

I tried the Reuters app a while back, I couldn’t deselect sports as a category of interest… Why the fuck not? Why do they care of I like sports or not… Uninstalled pretty quick.

Tell me you are not in New Zealand, without telling me you are not in New Zealand.

I was going to ask the same.

Those goals are not even that “out there”, but to play the devil’s advocate here for a moment.

Is it because your family know you, and you tend to flit from one “big idea” to the next, and they are worried about you putting in a lot of time and effort, to then get bored and move on to the next one. Or perhaps you have always been an outdoors kinda person, the idea of you sitting in front of a computer for hours on end, just is way out of your “normal”.

I’m not saying they are correct, but if they genuinely care about you, maybe ask why they think it is a bad idea.

In saying that, maybe they are just cunts.

There are so many variables, like an you just out of school or university, are you mid career on your 40’s and looking for a change, are you recently retired and have always held an interest…

Weird, I have 100’s of thousands of files synced.

Been using it for years.

Linux, windows and Mac in the circuit. Never a problem that wasn’t user error.

Philosophy.

Ask it to act as Socrates, pick a topic and it will help you with introspection.

This is good for examining your biases.

e.g. I want to examine the role of government employees.
e.g. when is it ok to give up on an idea?

that is exactly what Syncthing is, my desktop to my server to my laptop to my phone…

Syncthing!

I don’t even know what to compare it to, I have been using it so long.

But not none!

This is the way.

The shared sense of alarm, just before a stamped, in herding animals.

e.g.

The air was electric, the shlarmled herd on edge, it felt like a fly landing on an ear would start the stamped.

Was going to say this, if no one else did

Anti fragile… Could have been a 2 page essay, with a page of examples… This concept did not need a whole book.

Disagree on subtle art, as someone with 3 kids, the core message of choosing what to care about is super important. There is so much in life you don’t need to concentrate on.

I’ve read rich dad poor dad, somewhat interesting but ultimately not that helpful.

I’ve heard of 7 habits, not read it though.

Not heard of the other one.

Bullying, weather it is physical, intellectual or emotional…it just grinds my gears.

Almost everything.

So much is taken for granted, taking it away is the only way to appreciate it.

One example: refrigeration…so powerful, but so mundane… until it’s gone.

I hear that truth social is a “target rich environment” for scammers.

There are the great walks

But then there are places like Sanctuary mountain

So many options, it really depends on what you want.

I believe it is called Liquid democracy