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What are your New Year's resolution(s)?
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- Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks.
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Q: What looks like a cat, flies like a bat, brays like a donkey, and
plays like a monkey?
A: Nothing.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Sunday January 04 2015, @05:03AM
Is to break my resolution.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 05 2015, @01:14PM
From what I've read, I should not drink, smoke, or carouse with the ladies — I decided to give up reading!
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Tuesday January 06 2015, @01:23AM
Mine is to not make any comments on pointless polls ... oh wait!
"Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Subsentient on Sunday January 04 2015, @08:32AM
It's become so common to break them that setting them for yourself is setting up for failure. Therefore New Years resolutions are pointless.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday January 05 2015, @01:52AM
You could at least fuck on New year's, yielding the highest ranking birthday [nytimes.com] of 9/16 for your lack of contraceptive forsight and sloppy drunken spelunking and possibly a busted condom or two. [google.com]
(Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Friday January 09 2015, @04:37PM
You would do well to soak them in tequila too in order to decrease the chances of contracting genital warts.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
(Score: 1) by idetuxs on Sunday January 04 2015, @02:22PM
I don't do yearly resolutions anymore, but if any would be both Start a diet and Get more exercise. Though is unbelievable difficult it is to eat 6 times a day.
(Score: 2) by arashi no garou on Monday January 05 2015, @05:19PM
That's what keeps me from doing the "workout diet". I can do the workout part, but diabetes keeps me from doing the diet part properly. My doctor has suggested instead that I eat a large breakfast, normal lunch, and small portions for dinner, to match my activity levels (exercise before work, busy moving around a lot at work in the morning, tapering off workload after lunch, relaxing at home after work).
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday January 07 2015, @12:00AM
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by anubi on Thursday January 15 2015, @09:18AM
I have a diet all right. Always been on a diet. A seefood diet. If I see it and it smells good, I will usually eat it.
The fact I will eat a babe ruth bar means it doesn't matter all that much what it *looks* like, as I have seen a babe ruth bar damn near trip off an evacuation of a swimming pool.
A little kid I saw on a TV show had the right take on "diet food"... when he was asked what diet food was, he replied " this is food prepared without any ingredients " .
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 04 2015, @04:44PM
New Year's resolutions have a higher success rate compared to others made at other times. Part of the reason why is because people are more likely to have partners in the resolution activity or supporters that are aware of the resolution and remind the person.
If there was something you want to change then now is a good time to try. Set realistic short term goals, track your progress, pace yourself, let people know and ask them to support you, find partners if possible.
A well made application for habit formation and tracking is HabitBull.
http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oristats.habitbull&hl=en [google.com]
(Score: 1) by idetuxs on Monday January 05 2015, @06:56PM
Contrary to me I guess, the more I tell about the resolutions the more I'm lazy about doing them. Strongly prefer keeping it to myself, then telling IF the resolution is complete.
(Score: 2) by WizardFusion on Monday January 05 2015, @10:23AM
Bollocks to that. People! What a bunch of bastards.
http://i40.tinypic.com/6854sn.gif [tinypic.com]
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday January 14 2015, @06:26AM
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Covalent on Monday January 05 2015, @01:40PM
Save more, spend less.
And then donate a little of that extra cash to SN!
You can't rationally argue somebody out of a position they didn't rationally get into.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 05 2015, @03:13PM
It looks like it is permanently stuck on "$3,005.81 [23%]"
My New Year's resolution is to pray for a little help from God to reach the SoylentNews 'Funding Goal'.
Personally I am broke at the moment, but I promise to donate soon.
(Score: 2) by hash14 on Monday January 05 2015, @10:48PM
I have a lot of projects that I want to get done, but wind up being too lazy. Though it's not like I need a new year as an excuse to start doing this. I've been working on doing a better job at this for the past 3-4 months and so far it's been going okay.
Other coding-related things I would like to do once I reach a satisfactory point with the other projects I need to do include getting involved in open source projects (Devuan, open-rc, BSD, Soylent) and doing some teaching (software engineering, math, perhaps physics), but damn, it's hard to find the time and/or energy to get it all in....
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday January 06 2015, @03:03PM
Other coding-related things
I'm going to try onegameamonth this year.
That end of month deadline has a way of focusing the mind. I want to try to do more project euler or rosalind problems but theres no deadline and I really want to do xyz instead tonight and ... next thing I know, its been like 6 months since the last time I solved a new PE problem.
Also I get roped into giant multi-year projects at work and it would be an interesting experience to work a project as short as a month from start to finish.
(Score: 2) by hash14 on Saturday January 10 2015, @03:25AM
I've done quite a few Project Euler problems and understand what you mean. Project Euler is often simple enough that it can be done in 5-10 minutes of coding, or perhaps a couple hours and you don't have to vet your code for edge cases like more robust online judges like SPOJ. I never really got past the first 40 or so PE problems, but they were quite fun cause they were pretty easy to complete, plus they made a good excuse to make more use of Python's functional libraries.
I also tried doing a few on SPOJ but they're really time-consuming, and if there's no urgency or need to get it done, I just can't do it. Then you have to deal with silly things like making sure you're using the correct line-endings and whatnot, plus you have to deal with tons of edge-cases. But usually I find that I have the urge to get things done if there's a real-life need for it, and that somewhat falls apart when you're just doing a problem to submit it to an online judge.
(Score: 2) by lhsi on Tuesday January 06 2015, @12:17PM
Hopefully start submitting stories again.
Non-soylent is to keep in touch with friends more.
(Score: 1) by cngn on Tuesday January 06 2015, @08:37PM
My 3 main vices are Wine, Women and Song, I was have decided to cut down on one, on my doctor's advice.
My resolution for 2015 is to give up "song"
A belated Happy New to each and everyone of you, may it be peaceful and fruitful.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 07 2015, @12:02AM
Thanks God you didn't decide to hack women.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 10 2015, @01:39AM
And now it's beer, the ol lady, and TV.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 10 2015, @01:37AM
x55
(Score: 2) by novak on Sunday January 11 2015, @01:40AM
I'm proud to say my new year's resolution is 3840x2400. I built it a couple years back out of 17" laptop LCD panels, cost a bit shy of $450. It's about the same size as if I were to buy one of the cheaper "4K" displays which have since come out, which is nice as I enjoy a moderately high PPI display, but can still read my terminals with 6x6 font at full arms length. I also really prefer a taller aspect ratio, honestly 4:3 is awesome, but 16:10 is still much better than 16:9. On the downside, I do of course have a half inch bezel in the middle of my screen- but I double purposed the bezel to hold quarter inch plexiglas, so at least my screens are protected.
novak
(Score: 1) by SacredSalt on Monday January 12 2015, @07:23AM
Make more money! I had a combination of several years off from the labor force due to sickness and then attempting to retrain for something else. I'm playing catchup, and still paying down debts. So its not just a resolution, its survival.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by broggyr on Thursday January 15 2015, @06:33PM
Years ago I made a resolution to not make any new resolutions; so far, I'm sticking to that one!
Taking things out of context since 1972.