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Many people seem too pent up in presenting some version of themselves to actually relax (social anxiety), which I partially put down to the decline of drinking, the traditional equalizer. Many people just aren't comfortable in themselves, and alcohol therefore represents a threat to their carefully constructed cardboard cut-out caricature. Then there's the 'all about me' meme, where people are horrid conversationalists who can't entertain an idea unrelated to self-reporting, with personalization expectations on consumption: little Bobby needs X, little Harry has to Y, little Prescilla can't Z, and woe betide anyone who doesn't do the done diet. Another element of conversation failure is the distinct lack of experience and interests in such a great swathe of the population, who seem to vacillate between survival mode and televisual fiction

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Those who don't understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. - Henry Spencer .. via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

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This made me think of my favorite quote attributed to Einstein: Nationalismus ist eine Kinderkrankheit. Er ist die Masern der Menschheit. "Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." ... quote via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

Love it :) Excellent quippy summary of the zeitgeist. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

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"Computers are useless, they can only give you answers" - Pablo Picasso, via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup I was looking at the fungi in my garden recently and realised there's such a variety of forms, there's no obvious reasons for many of them to exist. Are the fuzzy ones fuzzy because it creates vortices in the air affecting spore distribution? Or is it simply to avoid being eaten by certain types of critters? Are the tiny ones tiny because they are resource-starved, because their strategy is to avoid greater dehumidifying airflow and direct sun exposure above the grass-protected layer, or because they somehow produce greater viability spore distribution and don't need the volume of surface area to do so? Or are they planning to be eaten and have spore travel through digestive tract of slugs? The same question could be asked o

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There will always be a market for smart people who are willing to be fearless of the unknown, willing to be lifelong learners and who are in technology because they can't imagine doing anything else. Nice. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

FWIW, I've mostly maintained long term PHP projects, and I've had nearly unaltered codebases running for ~25 years since php3. No frameworks, just core PHP. People dump on PHP, but it's a very good tool if you're focused on maintainable output and pick the right functional APIs to cede to mature unix tools. You can expect decades of solid, maintainable output. Experienced programmers will not pick up a "built on shifting sand" stack, because they can acutely perceive the pain and suffering before it happens, generally from past experience. With fast-crumbling stacks, you need to execute quickly and move on, and treat the whole codebase as an expiring entity. Stacks I personally try to avoid: anything node/javascripty, anything Androidy, anything iDevicey. Those who don't understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. - Henry Spence

Some nice pearls of wisdom in here. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup