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Running an old T440 Thinkpad to do my work programming. Mostly doing data analysis. Never ran into an issue with any kind of speed or capacity, and I love the keyboard.

I have a gaming laptop as well that I don't bother to carry around. It's just not necessary unless you're doing GPU programming or model training. Even then, I'd rather just work with a cloud instance.

Devs, you're supposed to know how to make a computer meet your needs! Don't outsource it to someone else. Even 5+ year old computers run pretty damn quick if you use a lightweight linux distro.

I was in the "$100 phone, cheapest possible carrier" camp for years before getting a Pixel 2. I was using my phone for work and really needed something with clearer reception. It doesn't seem like call quality is really affected much though. I honestly regret the decision. I don't do anything that actually requires my phone to be this quick, and I haven't noticed any change in call quality, at all.

Is anyone really surprised?

"We're not going to pay you enough to ever actually own anything, so you'll have to rent most things for the rest of your life, and you're still going to be living paycheck to paycheck."

"Gee, maybe I'll find something else to do than maintain the institutions you rigged against me because you didn't want to invest in your own retirement."

We really messed up the "superstar" aspect early on. Anyone else remember John Romero? He single-handedly made an entire industry reconsider "Great man theory". After that, the idea of the "rock star developer" sort of died in gaming.

Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence.

Did you sleep through 2008? Only poor people experience recessions now. Corporations put up record profits.

I've really wanted to dig into functional languages like this, because I love the theoretical benefits they provide, but haven't really sunk my teeth into one in a way that would let me understand the flavor.

Let me ask, were you immediately drawn to Haskell and Erlang, or was it a feeling that grew while working with them? Would you recommend working with Haskell or Erlang directly before trying out a language like Elixir, or should I go high level down?

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I'm nervous about the effect that losing this will have on people. How many people have you heard stories about where they "dropped out" for a couple of months/years and came back with a completely different view on life? What are the people who otherwise would have dropped out to recollect going to do in a world where you literally cannot escape "real life"?

Google analytics is really easy to set up, and would allow you to see what lead to your page. That would mean you have a google tracker on your site though.

It's going all the way through to the other side, in the spirit of Camus. The world is so saturated with absurdity that absurdity is the only place to grab hold.

I don't think anyone was surprised by his choice. It was part of his person. He knew the other side well, and didn't try to hide it.

That's what made him stand out to me. He wasn't singing the praises of every place he went to. He was a real human being, exploring and talking about what he saw and felt while he was bouncing from place to place. Always a little dismissive, but not because he didn't care about the people or places he was visiting. More because he was an observer to the world, not a participant.

This sounds like a great opportunity to just go build the thing they needed then offer it back to them as a service or for a licensing fee. Then you have the option to offer it to other companies as well.

We're not getting stronger as a country.

A handful of corporations are gaining massive influence over our political and legal systems. The "small farmer" is precisely what our country was founded on and was considered our strength. It allowed us to be something closer to a true democracy as opposed to the functional oligarchy we're running at this point. You're not an independent citizen if you have to depend on an employer to keep you fed, sheltered, and healthy.

It's only more efficient if you consider "generation of theoretical GDP" the ultimate badge of efficiency. If it's sitting in some banker's pocket, extra productivity doesn't really benefit anyone.

This might not be particularly useful, especially if you're not the owner, but the relative sizes of elements on the page reminds me of early phone browsers in a really uncomfortable way. I couldn't look at the page for more than ~30s before my eyes started to hurt.

I have no idea why, maybe I need more coffee.

Eh, I liked it. Many writers in the tech space are trying to be as concise and clear as possible. If this article had been more 'academic' in that sense I think I would have lost interest after a few paragraphs because, well, nothing in this article is really new. It's just a fun anecdote about the reality of cyber security.

It's a remake of Warcraft 3. Kinda like the final fantasy 10 remake

So your intention is to skip all of the other nutrients your body needs to recover after a workout? That doesn't seem wise. I guess it's your body though.

A real meal has everything your body needs to recover. Shooting back some sort of energy drink is a stop-gap, at best, and prevents you from noticing your body's needs, at worst. Hence ending with "Go find some protein". If you're considering whether or not your muscle-glucose levels are going to be replenished, you've already missed the plot.

No. That's just more software engineer hand waving to avoid taking responsibility for the way their products have changed the emotional landscape for real people in the last couple of decades.

It's like saying the CIA wasn't trying to destroy communities when they were handing out crack, because "moral people wouldn't have taken it". Every single person building these platforms knew how addictive they were. It was the entire reason these companies were valued from the start. It was the end goal.

Yeah, a junkie can decide not to go find another needle. But if that is your response to the drug epidemic, you then have marginalized people who you've decreed "not worth saving". And I don't like what that has looked like over the last 60 years.

Per volume? Not quite, but not really measurably different. The CO2 dissolved in the solution has to take up some small amount of space. Otherwise it's basically identical; our bodies interact with enough CO2 in a day that you simply aren't making a dent.

"Natural flavors" are essentially adding sugar and a couple chemicals to the water. You can think of it as being effectively the same as drinking an equivalent amount of H2O and taking a tablet that contained all of the "natural flavors". No real difference in hydration, but taking in a bunch of sugar after a workout is generally frowned upon. Go get some protein instead.

I think the comment you're replying to is trying to strengthen that ability. Now you don't have to convince some critical mass of your friends to switch over; you just switch over to the new platform, which everyone is connected to via some open source API/protocol, or the company running the data service is not running a front end to present the data. You continue to get the data from your friends and family while using a front end that you feel safer in.

It would require regulating the companies who hold personal data and divorcing them from the entities that tailor feeds and provide a user experience for the data. I don't think it's that ridiculous of an idea, really.

Nah, just use a js file from a different "free template!" for every function on the page. Added benefit of stressing the templating engine depending on the back end.

Yeah, that was kind of the point. You have a car because the alternative is absurd rent or absurd travel times. You lost the tutoring money because that's how the world works. Income streams disappear, without a real reason.

This is honestly pretty accurate as simulators go. There might be technical flaws but the feel is there. The actual numbers you control are $40-50 variances, while the costs are an order of magnitude higher. Getting ahead in that scenario is virtually impossible. You might save an extra month's worth of expenses every year, if you budget flawlessly and don't give in to a single indulgence.

The tree is too big to fail? That's it. I'm done with 2018.

Someone made a chemistry joke that went over your head. Dextrose is sugar. Common in corn syrup, to be exact.

It was also harder to hire outside of the US back then, so the latter may be more likely.

I like the tutorial, but I don't know why you would use PyQt these days. Tkinter is more permissive and has wrappers like appJar which make it disgustingly easy to put together a quick, ugly GUI. If you're building a desktop app that needs to really look good and be fast, why are you using Python?

I think that's what he was referring to by "bottom-up programming". Essentially, make your abstractions air-tight and grok-able and you never have to worry about what the abstraction contains again.

Just wanted to say, as someone who's been following this on the fringe for years, I really appreciate you using words that were easily searched. Really let me step through what you wrote effectively even though I didn't recognize the interpretations by name.

I'd be a bit worried that was like playing Russian Roulette. At some point, the companies have to actually correct right? I imagine the reason they were able to take the hit was the number of people waiting to buy low already. That number of people has to be consumed to a certain extent each time a cycle happens.

I mean, if there's fundamental problems, it eventually has to reflect in the stock price... right?

Please?