UnbornTao

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  1. Learn to discern hoopla from a communication. The following is an extremely obvious case of the former. Also, it's just funny as hell:
  2. @Eskilon I had finished writing a long response but ended up deleting it. This is just too superficial and inefficient. It would require a course or a seminar. Just be grounded. Enjoy.
  3. I'd look into the work of someone who knows what they're doing, like Gabor Maté.
  4. I admire your dedication to the craft. With AI, it's too tempting to outsource most of the coding work to it these days. Not that this is necessarily bad. It depends on your goals. Ahh, yeah, I remember lurking on one of those websites many years ago for your book list and downloading your commentaries/journal, but I never got around to reading them (just some fragments).
  5. Didn't watch the entire video. Too depressing. What kind of people do that? Monsters.
  6. Do you often code from scratch? Best I can do is *Markdown*.
  7. There is, once again, a conflation between listening and gullibility or agreement (or disagreement, for that matter). As usual, we tend to see listening as "saying yes" to things. Anything that takes the form of a straightforward position against a stance comes across as not having heard. Understandable, but wrong. And don't forget that the same position could be taken by the other party: "I'm the one not being listened to - don't be so closed-minded." Listening isn't incompatible with recognizing what something is - deluded, accurate, plainly false, biased, a manipulation, and so on - whatever purpose it may have had when it was invented. This is why questions are asked in the first place, especially basic, common-sense ones that people somehow tend to overlook. Educating people on this would easily take a good hundred hours of work. Why do cult dynamics always implicitly emphasize a certain kind of "open-mindedness"? You can begin to intuit what that's about. So yes, being critical and listening are not mutually exclusive; in fact, they complement each other. Without the former, what you may end up with is a kind of lightweight spiritualism, which is quite common. "The Earth is a rectangle."
  8. Discussing listening while some kind of noise keeps making him pause, like on the other video. The guy knows what questions to ask.
  9. Do you not get scared despite the apparent predictability? I mean, you know it's a horror game, that's its job.
  10. I'm not familiar with most of those frameworks, to be clear. I taught myself basic CSS and HTML as a teenager and set up a tech site with a friend, but don't remember most of it at this point. If you're serious or genuinely curious about it, taking the tedious path is worthwhile - you can then understand how the wheel works and recreate it any way you want when it comes to CSS.