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Putin doesn't need Ukrainian civilians to stage war crimes for him, he manages just fine by himself. Tolls of civilian casualties are skyrocketing since the first few minutes of the invasion. There's also tons of footage of russian rockets and missiles targeting civilian apartment complexes, or even carpet bombing intersections and the like.

So why don't you develop software on your iPad Mini? It costs less than a desktop machine or a Macbook Pro, and has more than enough to ~make a full album~ write a full program.

Just because something costs less and can still technically do what another thing can do doesn't mean you should use it. You wouldn't go to a programmer and try to convince him to use a raspberryPi instead, it costs less and can do all the same things!

What makes the Dirtywave M8 Tracker unique is it's handheld format (similar to an iPad Mini), it's haptic features, say shape, surface, buttons, etc (much, much better than an iPad Mini) and it's purpose-built software. While you can exchange a purpose-built device for a general-purpose device, it doesn't make sense from a usability and efficiency standpoint.

Seems like you have an axe to grind here, care to elaborate a bit?

How exactly does your old laptop have anything to do with a global shortage?

Thank you!

That's totally fair! Thanks a lot for the links!

Is there somewhere you are writing about this, think yesterday's "Do Things, Tell People" post? This sounds very intriguing!

Totally understand your viewpoint, sometimes I do feel the same way. It tends to feel a lot like programming because in a sense, it is. It can feel very deterministic and absolute, especially when you are fatigued and stressed out from work/studies. Sometimes you have to take a step back and reconsider what is possible. If handled the 'right' way (there is no right way, just what sounds good to the creator) you can create some quite unexpected stuff, almost feeling like you are distancing yourself from the absolute, deterministic and hard-edged nature of it.

My 'day job' is being an engineering student so I'm kinda short on time and energy as well.

Currently my main hobbies consist of riding bicycles (fixed-gear, singlespeed), analog large format photography, bouldering, and hardware synthesizers making mostly hard techno/industrial tunes.

I am saying 'currently' because these do tend to vary over time, sometimes some of them fade out, others take their place or maybe the others take over their spot. Hobbies are somewhat fluid for me and I think this is beneficial for me as it prevents hobby burnout somewhat, I found.

Just like user f0e4c2f7 said in the sibling comment, I'd advise you to check out hardware synthesizers if you are looking to create electronic music without being in front of a monitor. Maybe take a look at Teenage Engineering's Pocket Operator line, a bunch of synthesizers in pocket calculator size. They are extremely limited but if you know how to work them they can create suprisingly complex tunes ranging from hip-hop beats and R&B to industrial and hard techno; and of course everything in between.

Currently I am toying around a lot on an Elektron Model:Cycles, a roughly Letter-sized FM-Synthesizer (Frequency Modulation) box that harnesses great potential, much more than I can dream of using right now; but it's a journey, right?

Beware, it's easy to fall into the rabbit hole of modular synthesizers because they allow the maximum degree of control, meaning full, over the sounds you can call into existance.

That put a smile on my face. That's good to hear, friend. Have fun in your newfound learning journey. Take care!

Seconded.

I too call photography one of my hobbies and when I started out back then (it's been 7 or 8 years now) I'd run into creativity blockades all the time. So I did what most would do and took to the internet, especially forums, which told me to just do the 'Photo a Day' challenge for a year straight. Well, suffice to say it just made me feel even worse about the hobby and nearly made me sell my gear back then because it just drained every bit of creativity I had left.

My anecdotally-based advice in this situation: take a break, put your gear somewhere it is easily accessible and in arm's reach but, most importantly, out of sight. You don't want to be reminded of it every day if you need a break. For me it went so far as to me selling every piece of photographic equipment I owned which wasn't a smart decision financially but after two years of not shooting at all i suddenly had the urges again, bought all the necessary (and none more) gear and got back to it, better than ever before!

Long rant, point being: take a break when you feel like it. Hobbies are just that: hobbies. They shouldn't feel like a job, you (hopefully) already got that covered; don't make it one.

And lastly: have fun with whatever you deem fun, don't stress out too much :)

Can confirm this. I recently used keybr to unlearn QWERTY and learn Colemak from scratch, since I wasn't overly relentless it took me about 3 or 4 weeks, although I used the layout everyday even when I wasn't fast yet and that helped a ton.

I can't fathom waht you must be feeling. It's horrible when we get into these random life-changing events.

I'm sorry you had to endure that.

Highly concerning. This reads like a mixture of gunpowder and a projectile waiting to be joined.

I assume you are talking about the US there, since here in Germany we are racing to booster as many folks as possible right now as the nth wave is tsking over the country again. Hard restrictions for unvaccinated people, as makes sense. But the thing that counts is: our health care system is on the brink of collapse. The hospital staffs around the country are edging on breakdown. Health care workers simply can't hold off the storm much longer and we are headed right into a big wave of infections and thus bad disease courses. Unvaccinated people are clogging our ICUs, directly leading to deaaths of multiple groups of people waiting for surgery of various means. There's also an uptick in healthcare professionals leaving the field and major mental health issues even leading up to higher suicide rates.

That's literally what he is doing, isn't it? He thought something was off, and instead of spewing his opinion all over the place he requested information from folks more versed in the domain than him. He is literally being curious, not judgemental.

Google Search has a market share of over 85% [0], if that's not a monopolistic market share I don't know what is.

0: https://www.statista.com/statistics/216573/worldwide-market-...

Why would they do that when they can just make sure yt-dlp/youtube-dl doesn't work all together. :) No need to ban users who download content, just ban the service itself (ban as in build roadblocks to deny the downloader service access to your content).

I recently came across a recording [0] of Prof. Dr. Jordan Peterson telling his students about Hitler's goals towards the end of the war. His point was that, while Nazi Germany was losing WW2, why would you spend so many resources to find, group up and then systematically kill millions of people? Not just that but those killed could've been used (speaking from Nazi Germany perspective, obviously not my own!) for slave labor instead. Why waste those resources? Thst professor speculated that instead of winning the war or losing and coming to a peaceful end, Hitler's goal was to seed mass mayhem and as much destruction, pain and violence as (in-)humanly possible. Shortly after I read this article [1] about an American journalist that found out about him being on Obama's Kill List, officially called Disposition Matrix, from one of his sources. His own government was trying to kill him with drones at least five times in a short period of time. No due process. No explanation. Nothing. They just wanted to take him off the board. He went on to sue Obama et al and the judge basically told him "hey, this Kill List is out of judicial control, they can literally kill anyone they want. Oh and if you think those targets on the Kill List are handpicked by senior officials based on clear and rigorous evidence? Nah, it's based on metadata algorithms. This made me think, if the US Government is trying to kill journalists of their own country, are they really trying to "win" the war? To disperse democracy? To improve Middle Eastern people's lives? No, they are trying to create mayhem.

[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=jMqQBLZwRIE

[1] https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/how-...

I suggest Harmonic for Android, an app front-end to HN with a similarly minimal aesthetic but a pleasure to use on mobile.

Please tell me more about how Amazon progresses society?

> That $11B would give about $18000 to all of those people. At $1000 a monthly rent that would house them for nearly two years […].

Let's not change algebra to fit our conclusions, shall we?

I really don't understand how people are getting angry at $11B in space exploration funding. Consider the following:

a. Go through some of the cutting-edge technologies humankind has at its disposal nowadays (yes, yes, the kids starving in Africa do not, but that's an entire new tangent) and have a look at how they were invented. Chances are a lot of them originate in space exploration or space experiments. Modern navigation systems that power basically any systems you can think off that you use everyday. The high-tech tracking systems making sure the laser scalpel during LASIK eye surgery doesn't destroy your sight but rather restores it? Yea that was developed from a program that developed automated docking and rendezvous laser tracking systems for space dockings.

b. Can't you think of many more money sinks that would deserve to get defunded before thinking of space exploration? How about you start with the US Military? Last year the US spent over $750B on defense costs, that's over 68x the $11B figure quoted for James Webb. Surely we can deduct a billion or two here and there? You know what? that'd be double positive since you wouldn't create a whole portion of hungry humans at the same time since you're not going to war with half the world anymore. Stop the stupid fucking military complex first, then you can talk about defunding space exploration.

What started out as a comment seemingly focusing on pedantry became a very insightful comment about the (very interesting and frustrating) history of the three F-35 variants. Glad to have read, thank you!

Same here! Running an X250 with 8GB of memory and an i3 for engineering in university. Of ciurse I'm not doing any simulations or computations with it but for everything else it's an absolute dream. One of the last ThinkPads to have the hot swappable battery system and it's highly repairable. 12" screen size is perfect for an on-the-go laptop in my opinion. I'm running Fedora with i3 on it to maximize the screen real estate I can get out of it and it's lovely. Even compiling programs and similar sctivities aren't a bother to be honest. Very happy, let's hope it stays with me for a few more years!

I can't believe we still have to bring this up two years into this shitshow... Being cautious isn't just about you. It's about the people around that may be nore vulnerable than you. Show solidarity, be cautious.

That math doesn't add up. If a single stream makes (0.04×0.01) dollars or 4% of $0.01 on average, thats $0.004 per stream. If your friend has 1.2M streams a year, that's $4800 in payout per year. Can you elaborate please?

That is absolutely not comparable and equates to FUD. In a healthy and normally operating ecosystem hierarchies of animals exist and make sure the ecosystem stays in balance. Yes, there are predators killing octopuses and crabs out there in the wild, but it's not to sell them in underwater restaurants and boutiques for a hefty markup to finance the underwater economy. Every animal that kills other animals, apart from humans, does so either for nutritional or recreational reasons. If it's the latter, it is never out of proportion. You don't see a wolf population completely eliminating a population of [animal in a lower hierarchy], they will reduce their population but never endanger the species themselves. What humans are doing is exactly that: we are killing such huge amounts of different species, tagt we are often enda

yikes.

Bacon-wrapped filet mignon is worth sacrificing the only planet we have? You don't care about your carbon emissions at all? We are introducing such big amounts of greenhouse gasses just from our consumerism lifestyle and the convenience of it all is big enough to just "[not] care". And then you brag about having eating dogs like this post couldn't get any worse. When this is the mindset and opinion of average people, which I'm pretty sure it is then we're at a loss for fixing this mess we're in.

He mentions having a huge pile of student loans and credit card loans to pay off due to having to finance his college years by himself. So while your general advice for buding wealth is correct, switching to mostly stock-based compensation probably isn't an option for him by the sound of his writings.