Of the ones I tried to read, Atlas Shrugged, and it’s not even close.

Canadian. Didn’t see this option yet. Anyone else?

I find it uncomfortable not to understand. It has taken me decades to make peace with the notion that being different is not only acceptable, but good. Many people don’t get me, but the ones who do become friends for life. Many people find things interesting or enjoyable that would make me cry from boredom.

I’ve chosen to find it charming.

You might be able to do that, too. If not now, then one day. It took me a long time.

Peace.

The Handmaid’s Tale

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Nightfall

The Terminal Experiment

Only if temperature distribution is a continuous function.

FWIW, both big chain grocery stores where I live (in Canada) mark the taxes charged on each item, albeit only with a single-character code that’s explained nearer the bottom of the receipt. I’m surprised that it’s legal anywhere in our respective countries to withhold that information.

And indeed, even though you can see the nontaxable items clearly on the receipt, that’s not made clear at the shelves where the prices are posted. That’s where they really need to show the price including taxes.

Some liquor stores in Canada, for example, show both prices: before and after taxes. I’ll let you guess which price is rendered in the smaller font.

Tens and twenties…

How is Swiss not on this list? Negative leg room.

I guess it’s time for a “mark this time so I can go back to it” feature, to reduce the need to pause. 🤷‍♂️

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I’m sorry that you find yourself in an environment where you struggle to freely be yourself. I can strongly relate to this. I feel like I have to be constantly on guard and protect myself from people and it’s a shitty way to live.

Standing up for yourself often feels uncomfortable in the moment, but you are very likely to regret not doing it. Whichever of the various tricks in the comments you feel comfortable trying or have hope will help, go for it.

Espresso in the morning. Cappuccino after meal. It’s been at least ten years.

It looks like I have a great place to land if fzf ever starts to make my life difficult. Thank you!

Dark side of the How to Pick Up a Duck videos, I guess.

This sounds to me like an example of locking into a solution, then mistaking it for the problem. I think societies are broken in which there is deep disagreement about how to decide what’s true. Recognizing some kind of absolute truth is merely one way to agree on how to decide what’s true.

Moreover, I expect that a person claiming that absolute truth exists means something more like there is only one reliable source of truth or way to decide truth. Some choose reason and some choose their preferred god.

It is natural for humans to want simplicity and absolute truth seems simple. Humans have evolved not to waste energy on deciding what’s true. What an advantage it would be to live as though truth were absolute!

I think MIT Open Courseware would be worth exploring.

Some people learn about the limits of their control over events by meditating. Even when you stop trying to do anything, your body tries to do things and things change around you and you have the impulse to control things. Repeated exposure to this impulse eventually caused me to start laughing at how silly I was to assume that I was in control.

Maybe something like that could help you. Peace.

I’m annoyed when things don’t work. I’m even more annoyed when something can’t be made to work.

I find the first kind of annoyance much more ephemeral.

What does the cat drink?

I haven’t used it on a project for money, but I have some tests in shunit2 and that alone encourages me to extract code to functions.