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argellaon A Simple Framework for Architectural Decisions

The enterprise architecture group at my employer seems to do nothing but introduce unnecessary bureaucracy and mandate tech choices with no input from those who have to use it.

argellaon I Never Delete Any Email. I Just Archive It All

Great except when your employer implements a 90 day shred policy in your mail and says anything you want to save needs to be moved to project folders.

argellaon Big Banks Agree to Historic $30B Deposit Injection in First Republic

Big depositors are moving their money out of small banks and into big banks because they see that big banks will get bailouts if they get into trouble whereas small banks will only get the 250k insurance.

Nice bit of consolidation. will make it easier for the gov to roll out central bank digital currency and obtain even more control over our lives.

argellaon Gitlab loses one-third of its value after company issues weak forecast

Why don’t you just run gitlab community edition or gitea

argellaon Fed will make available additional funding to eligible depository institutions

Whoever said that doesn’t view inflation as something borne by taxpayers.

argellaon Ask HN: Taking 6-12 months off work?

Exactly this. Middle aged white guy problems I guess.

argellaon Ask HN: Taking 6-12 months off work?

I'd love to do this, and could afford it.

I'm old enough (40s) that I fear my career would never recover.

argellaon Who’s getting rich off of AI?

Aws, GCP, azure

argellaon Diabetes drug Mounjaro was available at $25/month, then increased to $1k/month

you said "constant" not minimum. don't move the goal post.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK572145/

argellaon The ‘next Ozempic’ became a social media sensation. Then everything changed

there it is, the real reason for your moronic refusal to acknowledge the complexity of obesity. if it's just a matter of willpower alone, you get to get a nice little sense of superiority and an ego boost. everyone else is just stupid and lazy.

argellaon The ‘next Ozempic’ became a social media sensation. Then everything changed

why do you think obese people don't simply reduce their intake?

argellaon The ‘next Ozempic’ became a social media sensation. Then everything changed

how is raising the price causing shortages?

argellaon Diabetes drug Mounjaro was available at $25/month, then increased to $1k/month

"The human body requires a constant amount of energy for basic operation and activity. "

no, it doesn't. the amount it uses for basic operation and activity will change. shrinking in response to your attempts to lose weight.

argellaon The ‘next Ozempic’ became a social media sensation. Then everything changed

"just cheer up"

"just eat less"

it's that easy. the people who don't do it are just stupid or lazy (in the mind of the fat haters)

argellaon The ‘next Ozempic’ became a social media sensation. Then everything changed

"When you say this do you mean "we have to look for the underlying causes of calorie imbalance" or do you mean "the human body is capable of materializing mass out of nothing"?"

when you say this, you reveal your ignorance of the biology that makes it far more challenging for some people to "eat less" than others, and that changes their metabolism to combat the weight loss if they do happen to "eat less" for some time.

argellaon The ‘next Ozempic’ became a social media sensation. Then everything changed

how would nationalizing the drug manufactures help in this particular situation? glp1 shortages.

argellaon Ask HN: Are you preparing for WW3? If so, how? If not, why not?

I'm not prepping at all. If a real "world war" breaks out with china I assume it will use bioweapons and other new shit and we'll all be done for fast (both sides).

argellaon Pool Noodle Cycling Hack

“ The hard truth is that bicycles are still largely seen as a nuisance on the road. ”

Often they are. Like taking up the whole lane and forcing a mass number of cars to bottleneck at bike speeds.

argellaon Coffee won’t give you extra energy, just borrow a bit that you’ll pay for later

Or to borrow the ideas of the paper, the coffee break served to shift energy to working hours by taking it from the off work hours.

argellaon Vinyl Chloride

Surprisingly little news coverage of the massive cloud of that shit headed east.

argellaon Universal Tracking Back – Data Still Destroyed

cointracker should probably curl up and die after this and their data breach

argellaon DuckDB – An in-process SQL OLAP database management system

Isn’t SQLite adding features for analytic queries that should take the wind out of the sails of duckdb?

argellaon The digital pound: A new form of money for households and businesses?

They didn’t freeze bitcoin addresses. That’s not possible. They went after centralized bitcoin to fiat exchanges.

argellaon The companies backtracking on flexible work

https://archive.ph/7iXMi

argellaon ChatGPT shows flagrant hypocrisy and tells a pretty tasteless and offensive joke

They built a healthy dose of tech wokeism into this thing.

It will be cool when it’s used to generate my social credit score and adjustment my bank account via the central bank digital currency.

argellaon MIT AI researcher Lex Fridman says ChatGPT is reasoning [video]

Is he still a researcher or a full time podcaster now?

argellaon Why would China use a spy balloon when it has satellites?

because it's not a spy balloon, it's a dry run of a delivery platform for an EMP nuke