> Morals are the things you value, like liberty and happiness

I disagree, the conventional and I think the more widely understood meaning of 'morals' would be 'principles' or 'standards of right and wrong'. I think the term 'values' would do just fine.

> simple network mail protocol

SNMP is Simple Network Management Protocol You probably want Outlook to do SMTP, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.

You are correct!!! I typed too fast! I've worked with both of them, but ... I've been known to make that mistake before!

Where in the Bible is this polygamy blessed by God?

Peppered moths experiment is discredited: http://natureinstitute.org/pub/ic/ic8/moth.htm

It is hard to explain so kindly forgive the butchering. But there was a point in my meditation where everything was perfectly still and calm, and suddenly, I don't quite know how to explain it, a thought formed in my mind. It is not a thought in the tautological sense, where one idea flowed to the next, but it arose from a state of nothingness.

At the same time it couldn't be nothing, because how can something (a thought) come from nothing. It wasn't quite gross enough to be perceivable hence I termed it subtle nothingness..

Elaborate. Often ideas you are not ready for will seem like nonsense.

> eddy_chan 1 hour ago | parent | on: Writer's Block, or the Wantrepreneur Blues

> I have had way too many evenings after I get the kids in bed where I think, "I'll just unwind on my phone for a few minutes and then work on something." There's a hack for this which I find works, just go to sleep at 8pm or 8:30pm instead right after the kids. Wake up at 4pm-4:30pm (yes I need a full 8 hours every night, not negotiable), you'll have much more willpower to tackle your side project in the morning before your kids wake up. Given the choice between reddit and side project, reddit will win. Given the choice between reddit and sleep...it's much easier to pick sleep even if reddit is more tempting.

That's a great way of thinking about it.

p.s I think you mean 4am.

> Wake up at 4pm-4:30pm (yes I need a full 8 hours every night, not negotiable), you'll have much more willpower to tackle your side project in the morning before your kids wake up.

This is the exact tactic used by a friend studying PhD with five young kids. She got the PhD in four years.

Also if you do a lot of manual labour - gardening, stacking shelves whatever - sleep becomes the obvious choice.

Honest related question:

Does HN think putting 2-15KB JSON blobs in a Postgres DB running on Docker on a router is a good idea? Oh, and the table stores log data, so there's about 2 million rows after 5 days uptime. What do you think?

EDIT: This was not entirely related but it goes to the notion that it seems like a lot of myopic decision-making has somehow become even more acceptable and I would say this leads to dumb situations as above, and Node.

"Don't turn on the TV or <punishment>."

> Should we genetically manipulate ourselves to increase our pro-social behaviours? It seems clear that if society flies apart then all the critiques I've mentioned will be true simultaneously, I do not see how that can plausibly be positive. What about genetic intervention?

You had me and then you lost me.

Do you mean you don't agree or that you don't see what I meant?

Typescript is essential for large codebases / many devs.

> My company has abandoned JavaScript wholesale with great relief. If it was a physical object we would have tossed it off the balcony.

I would like to do the same with our gigantic SPA-ghetti.

There's no time like the present to start! Typescript's allowJS compiler option and comment-based approach lets you start with the spaghetti you have and slowly transition to Typescript.

(Though I'm still fan of the "rip off the Band-Aid" approach I used in a few projects back in the day: rename every .js to .ts and then fix compiler errors until things compile. allowJS is a great option now.)