I do think that a lot can affect one's baseline though: health, drug dependency, stress from life, emotional baggage, etc.

And, I think that happiness can be achieved through practice (gratitude, letting go, etc..).

But yeah, that baseline - life gives some people a below neutral baseline.

A few people are naturally positive. They're just happy most of the time. Their bounce back state is happy, rather than neutral.

And, a few people are always depressed. A bad experience makes their state of being much, much darker. A good experience may bring them to the neutral line or perhaps slightly above, but they go back to depression as their normal state of being soon enough.

If I were to guess, I would say that early childhood trauma is the greatest contributor. Children deserve better everywhere.

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To me, facing defeat with an open face means to not remain defeated forever.

Some of our best entrepreneurs and scientists lost many times before they won.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/vietnam-urges-people...

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I would like to:

- upload a bunch of surf footage

- let it sort through the surfers

- pick the three longest waves surfed by each surfer

- create a montage grouped by surfer, ordered by shortest to longest wave for that surfer.

Thank you!

You can check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/@soncsd

You can set multiple filters. Filters have an "and" relationship. Filters are regular expressions.

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1) Block said online service using the hostfile until addiction becomes manageable / goes away. Repeat as needed.

2) For work, keep a notebook. Review and set goals at the start of each day or week. Review and update notes / goals at the end of each day and week. Your own agenda, your game to keep yourself motivated.

Now, since your addiction is blocked and you have something to do, you'll at least get it done before turning to your addiction to kill time / unwind.

Back in 2010, the trendy language was Ruby. Many companies were built on Ruby. Yet, PHP programmers were the silent majority. More recently, Rust, Elixir, Zig, Kotlin, TypeScript and others have been getting a lot of attention. Yet, in my industry - web development - PHP may still be king of the hill on the server, and JavaScript on the client.

My guess as to why this is - they became big first and were "good enough" - and no one's rocking the boat by introducing big changes on a regular basis.

My research shows that in aviation, Ada is still huge. In banking, Cobol. In automotive, C/C++. In embedded, it's C/C++. In data science, Python. In enterprise systems, Java. But, I don't know the "why", although I can guess.

Yet, if you were to browse Hacker News, you'd be lead to believe that the new kids on the block are absolutely crushing it.

I think Rust might be the go-to language for Crypto companies, but I don't know for sure.

It's difficult to separate signal from noise. So, that begs the question: in your industry, what languages and tools are dominant? Why? What's the penetration of newer languages like - is anyone losing sleep that their bread and butter is going to go out of style? How about No-Code tools? have they taken over?

Thank you!

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