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*only if you're a dumbass who thinks illegal drugs are all bad.

As a former alcoholic, ethanol is the worst garbage there is. You might as well hit your toes/whatever with a hammer - there's the pain, the near instant release of morphine and the (very long) hangover :D

It is in our nature to disassociate with reality/consciousness imo, for many of us it's too much to handle.

There are much better alternatives out there and I wish they weren't so demonized.

No, it doesn't, I meant they'll either actually try to help or give you paracetamol/ibuprofen and maybe tell you to come back in 2 months

Looking at bigger/higher res monitors getting worse "ratings" over here (obviously they use more power lol), yeah these labels are dumb as hell.

On the bright side, there's more opportunity and mobility in the UK. Just have to get off your ass and hustle.

But that's something most people don't use or even like. A stable job and better safety nets are preferred, and here DE/FR/etc excel.

Belgium's system works way better than the Netherlands (or Germany's, both are very similar) btw. It's pretty good.

I'll just say that it's still better than the German system.

Same ridiculous waiting times for a 50/50 chance to just get a paracetamol prescription.

Private is expensive as hell, nonexistent or not usable.

Mental healthcare? Pay us, fuck you.

Medication newer than 30 years? Stop huffing that ibuprofen, Bruder.

But it's defended to death by the German Internet Chairforce, so it's got that going for it.

I hear it's still possible, through heretic magic, to limit a CPUs power draw and most importantly, it will not affect speed on any level (load will increase).

There's even people selling their souls to the devil for the ability to control the actual voltage of their chips, increasing performance per watt drawn!

But only Gods and top OSS contributors can control the power draw of chips integrated into drives/extension cards/etc

Whoa, OK, thanks!

Cool, I guess? I don't see anything actually useful.

Right now I'd like Google Translate/Assistant that would translate everything it hears and simply show the language next to the translation on screen.

Would make my talks with several coworkers so much easier.

There was a device that did exactly this, and it also seemed to do voice-to-voice pretty well but I can't remember the name.

I laugh every time Google's multibillion dollar AI shows me the same ads for already installed apps, still shows me ads for women's products (they 100% know I'm male) and can't understand I'm on an anime songs binge (or rock, or a certain band) this evening.

On that note, I can't update my OnePlus anymore. I know they stopped releasing updates, but I thought they'd keep the OTA update servers online. Guess AWS is too expensive.

And it's a great idea, good thought. I used bicycles in cities where it was possible. But that, and public transportation, only goes so far.

A personal car gives incredible freedom, especially to the poor. Suddenly they can live affordably far from work, choose better work places, do work on the side, transport luggage on the cheap.

Inevitably, the only way to stop people from getting cars is to make the licensing and their cost prohibitively expensive.

So they will take overcrowded trains that may not be on time, and/or live in closets or be lucky not to get into a serious accident on a bike/moped in a city not made for them.

Solving battery energy density and EVs are a good compromise.

But yes, you're right, cities should not be planned around cars. Imo, there should be more of them actually, but alas it seems that's a lost art and everyone's gathering in whatever big cities were made in the past couple of centuries or earlier.

Genocide is a dumb example stemming from my belief that death is better than life in squalor heh. Obviously most people don't think that.

Building PC cases and accessories. In fact, the hardest part is not even the money (which I don't have lol but I'm reasonably sure I can secure it even nowadays), but finding a work/business partner. I simply can't handle working alone anymore, not even on stuff I like.

Yes, I've started using illegal, what many consider "heavy" drugs just this year and it is changing the absolute trainwreck of a life I've had.

I only regret putting it off for so long because y'know, drugs are bad mmmkay.

I'll say that managing addiction is pretty hard, I seem to be able to do it even after falling into binges a couple of times (which is really dangerous).

I cannot stress enough that you need to have personal responsibility and really understand it.

But, when your only other option seems to be suicide (which I failed at, too), why not.

People arguing for restricting others' freedoms while enjoying them themselves is what I see.

Good old genocide is the ultimate conclusion to that and undeniably the most effective option.

Just skip the bs restrictions on people other than you and mass murder them.

Road to hell is paved with good intentions or something.

Heh, anything but allowing them to help themselves.

But Canada is way ahead here compared to most countries. Simply on account of cannabis laws. It ain't much though, still better than half of Europe (likely not the half you're thinking of lol).

If you have mental problems and are desperate (and/or have nothing to lose), do yourself a favour and look into illegal drugs.

Not surprising, the piece of diarrhea in the skull probably rewires itself faster than light.

Live 20+ years feeling like the worst garbage? Sure. Jump off a bridge? Hell naw, man, here's reasons to live and stuff.

But the end result of both is the same. Survival instinct is a bitch.

> more indication that an almighty creator exists

Has that ever not been the case? God has been the goto explanation of anything modern humans didn't understand.

The most brilliant minds at various points couldn't have thought "aye, if we cut a tiny thing inside a metal heavier than lead or glue these tiny things inside air it can create more energy than lighting/gunpowder/dynamite".

Or that wireless communication is possible and sending a manmade moon out around the Earth is also possible, and you can do both for instantly sending light signals, nay, whole books around the globe.

Or virtual worlds that are not bound by any physics (maybe we're dumped into one at birth which can make any observations rather pointless heh).

I can't imagine FTL (although far out theories exist), but our current method of choice is chemical explosions, so there's some massive improvements to be made there.

Mobile Reddit, Instagram, Twitter, Tiktok, Facebook, pretty much any poor man's digital crackeine, have it figured out.

Yeah, it's a wonderful new Web that makes you apply forehead to brick wall.

Many bureaucracies took "throughput, latency, user friendliness" personally.

So, out of sheer spite, they decided that should mean "the slowest, least responsive, least friendly thing ever so people give up and piss off" :D

Also helps a lot of "fixers" who work in the system, get paid government wages and want to make some actual money.

I've been an IC at a company providing IC services to small companies in the buildings next to FAANG HQs. I've worked as an IC designer, have been involved in a lot of IC (obviously) and I also have several years of experience in IC. So clearly, ic wot ppl mean when they type IC.

As an IC on various forums for over a decade, I've only started commonly seeing this abbreviation in the past 2 years.

Just don't.

It's not that incredible considering availability, requirements, time from arrival to country to getting the keys, etc. But yeah, once you are renting it, it's pretty nice until you have to move.

As individuals, and even as companies, we can't do much. Worrying about it is just stressing for no benefit to anyone.

Governments, elected by the citizens, need to address such strategic concerns.

And they actually do. In case it's not clear, most people just don't give a fuck. Hence the weak response to climate change, etc.

So don't stress, just live while you can.

You could try to guess based on dark spots maybe but that's more like gambling. Boards that smelled "burney" worked fine while others just failed - the cause of failure was heat as in most cases the thermal pads weren't touching the heatsink or the component, were missing or were crumbling.

SMD elements can fail either open or closed/shorted, the latter is more likely to cause a worse failure but it's not exclusive. Due to protection circuits elsewhere they can fail without visible marks so it's hard to diagnose.

Thermal pads dry out because of heat first, their quality second, with load coming in last imo. So the fact that it's been used for mining alone doesn't mean much.

The conditions under which a card was used and the time matter more - if only sellers told you the average temperature, case type, ambient temperatures, whether the cards were undervolted/overclocked and how long they actually ran...

Makes sense I think for anything that requires at least some intelligence to perform/finish.

Baiting animals (incl. humans, for that matter) into making the first moves gives you a distinct advantage, as you are reacting consciously to their unconscious. Practically controlling the fight.

That was a joke - the lazy way (and a meme) to transport people to another world in various manga/anime is by having them get hit by a truck.

It's still possible to get somewhat of an accurate understanding of what you're buying if you read some reviews.

I read ~10 two star reviews, ~10 four star reviews, much more depending on price. One stars tend to be full of stuff like "product hasn't arrived", "garboage", user errors. Five stars are plagued by spam and paid reviews, and also a lack of details. Three stars seem to be split between very picky buyers (esp. hate the "I paid $3.50 for this and it's not the omega particle!") and people afraid to leave lower ratings for reasons.

While incentives are pretty fucked (Instacrack being worth more than SpaceX, etc), allocation of labour is not a problem.

We simply have a lot more best and brightest in everything. There's so much talent it's unreal. There's not enough money to hire everyone, or technology to equip them in engineering.

It's kind of like art (pictures, movies, music, anything) - there's so much of it, so high quality these days that there really isn't anything that will stand out on its own. Same for celebrities, for that matter. Actors/singers/presidents? Meh, go to Instagram and OnlyFans and take your pick.

The only reason people 100 years from now will show something as an example of early 00's is marketing and survival.

I guess you're right. In 1700, I don't think instant worldwide communication was in anyone's wildest predictions of the future. Or even weapons capable of leveling a city in seconds.

I'll be happy if I get to see a scramble for the solar system thanks to some sort of anti-gravitational device or full dive VR tech (or isekai-as-a-service by Mitsubishi).

Laptops have proven Li-Ion works well enough, too