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 (3y ago)

Among a multitude of stars, one stares down at me. Among a multitude of people, I stare up at that one star. As the night grows deeper, it fades into brightness and I disappear into darkness. Where, when, as what will the two of us… you, one so warm, and me, one so tender, meet again? Encounter – My Kdrama Addiction

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 (3y ago)

The young man, who does not know the future, sees life as a kind of epic adventure, an Odyssey through strange seas and unknown islands, where he will test and prove his powers, and thereby discover his immortality. The man of middle years, who has lived the future that he once dreamed, sees life as a tragedy; for he has learned that his power, however great, will not prevail against those forces of accident and nature to which he gives the names of gods, and has learned that he is mortal. But the man of age, if he plays his assigned role properly, must see life as a comedy. For his triumphs and his failures merge, and one is no more the occasion for pride or shame than the other; and he is neither the hero who proves himself against those forces, nor the protagonist who is destroyed by them. – John Williams in Augustus I thought I’d have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35 (2020) | Hacker News

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 (3y ago)

You’re well-aware of the benefits of a healthier lifestyle: less pain, more energy, more mobility and autonomy, a higher life expectancy, and so on and so forth ad nauseam. Unfortunately, this knowledge doesn’t compel you to action. Your behavior mostly follows simple hyperbolic discounting - healthy actions pay off in the future, but the future is far away, and your TV / smartphone / snack is much closer. Why Take Care Of Your Health? - LessWrong

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 (3y ago)

People get into game development because they want to have fun programming. Getting projects done involves a lot of things that are not fun, so it usually goes nowhere because the incentives are misaligned. Accidentally making a language, for an engine, for a game | Hacker News

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The moral of this story is that secondary and tertiary effects matter. Technology not only affects what we can do with respect to technological issues, it also affects our social behavior. This social behavior can loop back and affect the original technological issues under consideration. The Lisp Curse

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 (3y ago)

I’ve always found that “living at my means” has paid dividends. To many folks, ‘round these parts, they’d consider it “living below my means,” but that’s mostly because they “live beyond their means.” Ask HN: How can I prepare for hard economic times? | Hacker News

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 (3y ago)

Everything related to compensation becomes much less confusing once you accept that hiring is a market. Like any market, supply and demand drives the prices. Nothing else matters much. Ask HN: Is your company considering inflation in this year’s comp review cycle? | Hacker News

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