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I'm guessing you probably don't have to worry about going too off-topic since your instinct is to stay on-track.
Personally I can recall learning a lot from teachers' tangents. Sound advice.
Yes. I lined it up so I quit right before a vacation (I don't recommend doing this, but I made it work) so I got to spend the first 10 or so days on a tranquil lake in the Appalachians. I woke up early and worked on short fiction every day, spent a lot of time around my loved ones and spent a little more than I could afford (I am still catching up). I am trying not to dwell too much on the last thing, because this was the first time for a long time that I let go of some of my inhibitions. Coming back to reality, I have had to work a little harder, but I think I appreciate that work twice as much now.
I think, like your (ex?) CEO, that playing to your strengths is generally a good bet, even though you might not be in the right place at the right time. (@SimpleStacker's post from earlier today is worth the read and related. Environment and peers can be either silent killers or really raise you up while you might be performing optimally.
Do you have some idea of what you'll do next?
Files that appear in lost+found are typically files that were already unlinked (i.e. their name had been erased) but still opened by some process (so the data wasn't erased yet) when the system halted suddenly (kernel panic or power failure). If that's all that happened, these files were slated for deletion anyway, you don't need to care about them.
If we lost you then can someone
mklost+found to get you back?Thanks for making me the beneficiary of these zaps.
This is a hard one -- I wish I'd been the won that asked :/
Need to think about it @remindme in 1 hour.
Not to be a wet blanket on your new kitty toilet party, but a while back a friend of mine showed me some reviews of similar contraptions that caused their cat to get stuck and .... ☹️
I'm sure you guys did your research, but I'm sharing so others beware of this. Sorry, I know it is not a nice thought. I wish I had never had to think about that either.
What do university students know anyway? Are they undergrads? It's very possible I was wrong back in the day about some of the profs.
The fact that you are working on it says a lot, not to mention your Pleb Economist series.
This is a really great post. I'm glad for your response.
A lot of it was my own fault---a naivity about what editors and referees are looking for, and honestly just not putting in enough effort to network with top researchers in the field.
One thought I had when reading this section was that I don't believe it is your fault, even if you were "naive" as to the expectation of these journals. The sad thing I noticed with academia during my stint was that it always felt like the higher you climb, the more out of touch you become, and the more you have to pander. Many of my tenured profs always came off as stuffy and a little distant.
Your students are lucky to have a professor who is none of those things.
The point of editing is to retain your writing signature while removing impediments to readability. That's what I tried to do here.
If you are writing to confuse your reader and thats an aesthetic choice, then that's one thing. This post did not come across as being that. Now I know for the future.
I was thinking about this post yesterday during my workout. I like the Darthcoin narrative style. Blunt. Matter of fact. No B-S. Here are just a few minor improvements you can add to make it awesome. I indicated some changes with boldface, [square brackets], and strikethrough
Thanks for posting your bathroom musings in this territory. Hopefully we will get more.
OK I will try something funny, a first post on this new territory. A story from quite some time ago that really happen.The bathroom bath
[the bathroom bath--I don't get this title. Did you mean "The Bathroom Line?"]
I stopped at the gas station, on the highway, to put some gas in andtakeget some snacks and, if all I was there [rephrase--phrasing is unclear], I went to the bathroom. It wasn’t an emergency. Reservoir at half [I like this turn of phrase].I approach the bathroom and see a huge line. Like in old times in communism to buy bread. End of weekend, pretty normal. It wasn't that serious yet to be standing at that tail, but [since]ifI wasallthere~, I say[id I'd]I'lltake a look to see what the situation is.And then I noticed that there were only women.Next to the tail, leaning against the door, was a more purist guy."Excuse me, doesn't it seem that all this big line is only for women and this one from here is the line of men?"He doesn't have time to answer, when a woman says:"That's exactly right."I look at their tail one more time. It was a mess of a tail. Like a relic. [I really liked the hyperbole here, I only wish you laid it on thicker.]Technically, the tail of the “boys” was not even of the “boys.” Because the men’s toilet was faulty and the men also made the necessary [interesting phrase, non-conventional in English, but I like it] into the one for the disabled. Ican'tcouldn’t the situation too well, because he had already relieved himself in the bathroom.[It was] niceatinside the one for people with disabilities. It is elegant, you also have some barsin the[be]sideofthe toilet, from which you build [yourself up], in the end, to flushwell,another life.Still, I felt stupid.I was thinking about the women, the old women, who had been waiting in line for about 20 minutes. [I was not being(?)]Was notcynical. It was urgent.Especially since, when I left, there was only one guy in the [queue for the] boys' room. Someone had to do something. To balance the situation. And you know, I can't get enough. Especially since the solution was logical and simple to reach an equitable result.So I went and told them, pointing towards the handicap bathroom, from where the guy who came in after me was already coming out:"Ladies, do you see the other toilet? There's no queue for that. And this is because men know how to urinate efficiently. Maybe you should learn and you will be faster, jap-jap and ready, look, you sit in the bathroom for months, God forgets you [as you] lookingin the mirror for ages and you still suffer! Learn something from men, because that's why we're here!"
I think you are right.
I chose the quote because I've always appreciated how it shows the "collectivist myth."
On the one hand, the lone wolf may not be helping himself/others; on the other, they are doing the individual work (maybe to a fault) that collectivist attitudes can eclipse.
I think there is a healthy middle ground. Meaning, between the two extremes of 'lone-wolf in the mountains' and NGU/generational-wealth maxi who 'participates' in freedom money by hodling, there are the stories of individuals using the tech helping themselves (and others) to be free.
Just some of my thoughts, though they may be wrong.
Thanks for writing that.
I feel you have shared here quite enough, and if I may, I'd hazard to guess that you've done quite some hard work to liberate your mind from (fiat) systems of oppression.
This "untelevised" part of the revolution is just as interesting to me.
Thanks for sharing and well done. I hope this means you'll be 'around' a little more.
I haven't yet read the piece yet, but what you shared already resonated with me.
I left a position in August, a dying enterprise. Besides, the work had started to feel morally compromising which was the main reason I'd walked away. I had nothing else lined up so the next few weeks I took to myself as I looked elsewhere. Now I've found something I enjoy doing more and the pay is actually better.
Not sure how that works. Maybe there is something bigger at play.
@remindme in 8 hours to finish reading
Can you share some of your favourite relays?
I've always found this to be true, but it is hard to figure out which relays are worthwhile.
I cherish my off switch.
Thanks for sharing these. You have me hooked -- already looking forward to the next chapter!
I badly wanted it to be something and then I got fat fingers
But I like where you went with that, that would have been fun
Tofu
I always thought his name was Topher, like short for Christopher (?).
I zapped 2 sats because I agree with the sentiment that the show can feel very low energy (Although, I hesitate to echo the boring or grumpy sentiment). I am no entertainer, nor do I care to try to explain on how to be one, but I do get the feeling sometimes that you guys don't really want to be there, whereas I'd rank enthusiasm and showing that you want to be there is probably number 1 for generating viewers who want to listen.) I'd say it would be better to take a week off if you're not feeling up to it than to record a lackluster episode.
I think it would be neat if they tried some new things. One idea is a "Exploring New Frontiers" segment, where you feature top posts from less represented territories. I'm near certain that ~the_stacker_muse, to take one example, is not the only territory that has never had a top 5 story (maybe never will -- since it is barely "bitcoin" adjacent.) Still, there may be interest and it may attract a more diverse audience to hear more about the goings on in other worlds.
Thanks for broaching the topic, Darth. Hopefully everyone here continues to be constructive eith their ideas.