Would you rather be lucky or good?
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"I'd rather be lucky than good." --Lefty Gomez
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@evan it’s mostly luck that I’m good
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@evan I think it would depend on what we're talking about. For performing arts for example, good is probably more desirable than lucky. But gambling (or trading stocks)? I'd rather be completely lucky.
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@evan Luck is just privilege and I'd rather be good at things than bad at things but have position because of privilege. That said the world we live in is driven by privilege so... :/
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@evan sounds like you’re developing a Napoleon complex
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@evan in my day i've sometimes been both good and lucky, and that's great when you can swing it, but if i could only have one i'd choose good every day <3
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@evan I am already pretty lucky so I opted for more good than lucky, even though I might feel different if I were a baseball player.
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@evan well, i do feel very lucky to be so damn good,
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@evan I would rather be more good than lucky, but being more lucky than good seems to have worked really well for people over the years
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@evan sounds like you’re developing a Napoleon complex
@thaggie I don't understand.
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@thaggie I don't understand.
@evan he’s attributed “I would rather have a general who was lucky than one who was good”
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@evan he’s attributed “I would rather have a general who was lucky than one who was good”
@thaggie oh, good to know. "Napoleon complex" means something else!
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@evan I think both are aren't real things, but things we convince our selves are real. And chasing lies leads to sorrow, regardless
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@evan being good "skilled" at things tend to "breed" good luck
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Thanks to everyone who replied. I'd say more lucky than good.
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Thanks to everyone who replied. I'd say more lucky than good.
@evan i can work on good, on lucky, not so much
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@evan i can work on good, on lucky, not so much
@halcy I don't think that's entirely true!
Part of being lucky is exposing yourself to a lot of opportunities, being aware of when they are paying off, and doubling down when they do. I think that's something you can practice.
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@halcy I don't think that's entirely true!
Part of being lucky is exposing yourself to a lot of opportunities, being aware of when they are paying off, and doubling down when they do. I think that's something you can practice.
@halcy another part of being lucky is being the kind of person that people go the extra mile for. A lot of that is privilege, and some of that is attitude. If you leave your hat on the table at the restaurant, a big part of whether it's behind the counter when you come back, or if it went in the dumpster as soon as you left, is how you treated the staff. "Luck" is in part how much other people want good things to happen to you.
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Thanks to everyone who replied. I'd say more lucky than good.
@evan that's what I said
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@dank I looked up the relevant law yesterday, and unfortunately I believe my pharmacy is in compliance with it. Psychiatrists can't prescribe 90 day supplies, but Psychiatrist can write three 30 day prescriptions in advance, and the pharmacy is not allowed to fill the written prescriptions before their start dates. So if you are consistently able to get your medication 3 days in advance, you're either consistently picking it up 3 days late or your psy or pharmacist is out of compliance.
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@evadm schema chiaro e utile, grazie. Conferma i punti critici per i quali ho deciso il mio voto
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@aeva they still treat them weirdly and require calling in to get them filled, and there are often shortages, and those are inexcusable practices.
the best way i've found to get around this is scheduling refill appointments with my prescriber a week before i run out, calling the pharmacy to make sure they order the meds and fill as scheduled, and almost always calling the day they decide i can have life-saving meds again to make sure they actually fill
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@aeva our persecution is inexcusable, pernicious, and openly malicious.
however, whatever policy your pharmacy is claiming to adhere to, it's not real. i'm at most 20 miles from you and i routinely get fills for my schedule ii meds as early as 3 days before the prior fill runs out. this has been the case for phentermine, dextroamphetamine, and lisdexamfetamine, from 2012 on which is when i first started filling these meds.
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@mason Very nice 😄
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@kertinker @landelare also if you happen to be on linux could you paste the output of glxinfo to a pastebin somewhere and link it here?
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@rabidchaos @flesh @alice @aj
If it is treating that null as a proper null there's a good chance there's constraints in place that'll fail and the app won't even check the failure...Which can be fun, or not, depending on if it counts you as logged in after you submit the form or not
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@landelare as of version 1.1.0, GLEW signals extension availability with variables containing boolean values, so while the examples KT is posting look like name constants, they're mutable binary values that the initialization code sets up. relevant docs: https://glew.sourceforge.net/basic.html
@kertinker what GL version are you targeting and what platform? for a sanity check, could you post what GLEW_ARB_vertex_program is after init?
