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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Is getting answers to questions online a social skill? |
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Posted: 30 Mar 2021, 2:27 pm
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Replies: 7
Views: 599
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Is getting answers to questions online a social skill?
I often find online forums trigger my social anxiety. Is this a cognitive distortion / catastrophizing? |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is it weird to like toys as an adult? |
| Fenn |
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Posted: 30 Mar 2021, 2:19 pm
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Replies: 69
Views: 2,700
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| I was just reading where Apollo 12 almost crashed when it was hit by lightning and the gyroscopes stopped working. Luckily it was the electrical bus which has failed and when they switched to "auxiliary" everything started working again. It later landed on the moon. Lots of "kids toys... |
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Forum: Adult Autism Issues Topic: Is it me? |
| Fenn |
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Posted: 30 Mar 2021, 2:03 pm
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Replies: 79
Views: 517
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| Tony Stark is a hacker and he doesn't seem to have any trouble getting the girl - he does have real problems with narcissism and using tech like a drug. I was very amused when I mentioned MIT in conversation and my daughter looked up and said "Did you say MIT? Tony Stark went MIT!" - it is... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: How do I go into engineering? |
| Fenn |
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Posted: 30 Mar 2021, 1:17 pm
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,574
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| Ask 10 people. In "What color is my parachute" it says "the best way to learn about anything is ask 10 people". Posting on a list might get 10 replies but you are likely to learn more if you have 10 one-on-one conversations with people you know. Do you know 10 people you could / ... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Northern Lights Spilling Over the Canadian Border |
| Fenn |
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Posted: 30 Mar 2021, 12:50 pm
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Replies: 2
Views: 443
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Beautiful!
One of the 7 wonders of the world and the only one viewable while standing on American soil. |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Not enough work!! ! |
| Fenn |
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Posted: 30 Mar 2021, 12:45 pm
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Replies: 1
Views: 460
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| I once had a job where they gave me a desk and a computer and forgot about me for a week. I used the time to explore the computer system and learn as much as I could. I would listen to co-worker's conversations and ask questions, and walk around and look what people had hanging on their walls in the... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Meltdown! |
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Posted: 30 Mar 2021, 12:35 pm
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Replies: 3
Views: 594
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| I get overwhelmed at meetings too sometimes. I attend some meetings like this where people come in with no camera on - this can reduce a feeling of vulnerability. Zoom also has a chat / text feature which allows you to make comments without having to wait for someone to finish talking and can give y... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: What's in a Lichen? How Scientists Got It Wrong for 150 Year |
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Posted: 30 Mar 2021, 12:13 pm
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Replies: 6
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| Ok - I have always been confused if the word was pronounced "like-en" or "l-eye-chen" - so now I know. My son did a study of coral - they are symbiotic too. Some people think that the Mitochondria either are or once were symbiotic to humans and other animals - that was where Geor... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: What is your profession/occupation? |
| Fenn |
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Posted: 30 Mar 2021, 11:50 am
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Replies: 38
Views: 2,403
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| I do computers. I have a Computer Science Bachelor's degree - which was really hard to get - time management and organization skills are rather poor - ADHD - made the upper level classes increasing difficult - the only way I knew to "cope" was to wait until the fear kicked in as the deadli... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Why did you pick your Avatar / WP image? |
| Fenn |
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Posted: 30 Mar 2021, 9:43 am
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Replies: 52
Views: 1,767
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| I picked the planet Mars because it isn't a piece of sports equipment - it is a bit scientific and a bit topical - and I am currently very interested in the new space race and what Elon and Jeff are up to - from a scientific stand point and from a social standpoint in that we are running out of reso... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Any old PC collectors? |
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Posted: 29 Mar 2021, 9:25 pm
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Replies: 38
Views: 6,636
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| I have two Apple IIe machines in my garage - haven't fired them up in a while. I have an old laptop a co-worker gave to me - it has Windows on it and I replaced it with Linux - I had to get it to boot from a floppy, load the hard disk driver then boot from the HD. I still have Linux on two 3.5 flopp... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Python question |
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Posted: 29 Mar 2021, 8:58 pm
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Replies: 5
Views: 810
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| P.S. Have you made any progress? I tried to get your python running on my Mac but I couldn't get the pandas library to compile from pip. (I used Windows and Linux at work but have a Mac for my home use - not really built out for development - I bought it just to create my resume). I may try again wi... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Black Box - Snap Circuits Rover controled by Arduino |
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Posted: 29 Mar 2021, 8:50 pm
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Replies: 0
Views: 425
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| I posted a question about Snap Circuits and Arduino on the Arduino Forum. The only response I got was from a moderator who patted me on the head and explained that that was a Arduino Forum and what I wanted was a Snap Circuits forum. I don't think there is such a thing. What I was hoping for was a s... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Web Hosting a Microsoft stack website |
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Posted: 29 Mar 2021, 8:23 pm
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,563
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| https://aws.amazon.com/vmware/ vmware allows you to to put a complete virtual machine on AWS (Amazon Web Services). You can put a Windows 10 guest OS in the vmware virtual machine - then you have your MS stack. When people move to remote hosting they often also want scalability - so you can add &quo... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Could Cyanobacteria Thrive on Mars? |
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Posted: 29 Mar 2021, 7:27 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 594
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| Cyanobacteria is mentioned in a youtube video I just posted on Linkedin. StarTalk: Terraforming Mars with Neil deGrasse Tyson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XdkKMhAdnA If you like to read non-fiction science you should read "A Case for Mars". If you like hard-science fiction you might li... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Quantum computing as a field is obvious BS |
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Posted: 24 Mar 2021, 3:46 pm
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Replies: 32
Views: 1,500
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| The first time I read about a quantum computer I really thought it was a joke - like one of those long deadpan jokes from the Journal of Unreproducable Results. I later realized that it was not a joke. People are perfectly free to ignore things like quantum or decide that they are BS. People are als... |
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