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I'm from rural Texas and it is indeed rinky dink town, not to far from the places you mention. But I moved to New England years ago and don't miss Texas at all. Keller, Southlake, even, sadly, Denton were overdeveloped hell holes then, but I never lived anywhere where kids were playing right beside an eight lane road. At worse maybe they had to cross a 4 lane road with a median if they were going somewhere outside their neighborhood, and you had lights and crosswalks for this, but mostly people lived in neighborhoods where there were... normal... roads.

Is this a California or Texas thing or something?

The hyperbole in this thread is wild to see.

If they could produce 100,000 of these instantaneously and sell at a 20K price point they'd sell all of them before the end of tomorrow and they'd immediately go out of business because they would be about a billion dollars in the hole, at a minimum.

I didn't say people making under 50k weren't voting for Trump. I was saying it's not exclusively some revolution of the poor (statistically it can't be). My larger point is it doesn't matter whether his voters make 50k or 200k, they are the lowest class in American society and voting for Trump and his attendant policies is against their own economic interests.

And despite economic prosperity being the cornerstone of his 2024 campaign, somehow it isn't anymore. Now his supporters have pivoted to this idea that we must all live in a kind of austerity so that collectively (waves hands around) we enter a new age of American prosperity. Literally this sea change in MAGA sentiment has happened in the last six weeks. It's baffling.

Plenty of his supporters are SMB owners or people that work in trades/factories. This is not a revolution of the indigent. What these people don't realize is even if they make 200K a year and drive an 85K financed F-250, they are effectively in the same class as someone making 50K a year managing a Dollar General. These people have no class awareness and they voted in a representative of the ultra wealthy intent on pillaging our economy. Some may believe that Trump will usher in some era of economic prosperity but they are wrong.

On the other hand Trump will deliver on another, implicit promise to them, which is inflict pain and suffering on a great deal of people they dislike for whatever reason.

For those in the states, Vivos occasionally show up on sierra.com and can be bought at a pretty good discount. Around 60% of retail is about the price point where I can tolerate the long term delamination issues.

I have found, in general, Google's ruby libraries to be non-idiomatic (instance checking optional Proc arguments instead of sending #call messages to the object) at best and at worst fundamentally incompatible (GRPCs pre-fork madness).

If somehow the broader ruby ecosystem made a concerted effort to become ractor safe I think google's ruby team would still hold the entire project back for years.

There are researchers out there investigating a potential link from CWD tainted meat consumption to CJD clusters. From what I've read it's a tenuous correlation at best. I really hope they don't find anything. If CWD jumps to either humans or cattle it's going to call for some really tough decisions on what to do with these deer populations.

It should be about the entity who brings something like this to a market and profits off it. In this case a corporation.

npm supply chain attacks are the lone thing that keeps me up at night, so to speak. I shudder thinking about the attack surface.

I go out of my way to advocate for removing dependencies and pushing against small dependency introductions in a large ruby codebase. Some dependencies that suck and impose all sorts of costs, from funky ass idiosyncratic behavior or absurd file sizes (looking at you any google produced ruby library, especially the protocol buffer dependent libraries) are unavoidable, but I try to keep fellow engineers honest about introducing libraries that do things like determine the underlying os or whatever and push towards them just figuring that out themselves or, at the least, taking "inspiration" from the code in those libraries and reproducing behavior.

A nice side effect of AI agents and copilots is they can sometimes write "organic" code that does the same thing as third party libraries. Whether that's ethical, I don't know, but it works for me.

Well in this case the "unfairness" (loaded term) would the lottery commission going out of their way to accommodate this scheme. If this outfit wanted to arbitrage the lottery they should have to go about buying the tickets any other party would have.

If the state wants to encourage this kind of large scale game playing, then they should outline the process for taking part in it clearly and ensure everyone has equal access to the tools that enabled it.

> “We fully expected that they would laugh at us and say, ‘Well, no, of course you can’t do this,’” he said. But the company agreed it would at least sound out the lottery agency.

> “We were very surprised that the answer was yes,” Potts added. “As a person and a lottery player, I cannot believe they said yes. I was shocked.”

Well Texas bills itself as the most business friendly state in the country. I'm not surprised that extends to some shadowy Maltese concern effectively purchasing the lottery jackpot at 25 cents on the dollar.

I'm not asking how to go about requesting his code, I'm asking whether the policy you cite allows him to decide what is public domain himself or if one has to work through processes and procedures to release and obtain that code.

Can one request all of the code this dude has written or is it as his discretion what is released to the public domain?

Probably true. I work in a regulated space and I have done this to get my zsh config to a secure laptop, but I have always had the common sense to mark the gist as hidden (can still be accessed if you know the hash, obvs).

What if I told you there is an amazing way to eliminate the national deficit, begin paying off our debts and reduce the taxes on the vast majority of people in this country without cutting costs indiscriminately...

> Apple doesn’t have a stance of not unlocking phones for law enforcement.

Yes and they have also made it such that they can't bypass all that by providing a mechanism to unlock the phone. Hence they don't unlock the phone.

Yes I agree. Recently sat down and wrote some test ractor code to see if I could max out all my CPUs with a single ruby process running only ruby code and was pleasantly surprised to see that it works.

The ruby systems I work on now scale to demand via kubernetes so it's not practical to find edge cases where I could apply ractors, but the future looks promising with real multi-threaded-like parallelism.

Trump had no actual interest in who he nominated, he just followed the guidelines of organizations like Heritage. That's my point: Trump does not have an interrogative bone in his body and he can be manipulated into making decisions by much smarter people that are thinking multiple steps ahead of him.

What's interesting to me is that Apple's stance of not unlocking iPhones for law enforcement has led to this paranoia on law enforcements part. Honestly? Good.

Even supporters of Trump routinely say that you shouldn't take him on face value, vis-a-vis tariffs, etc. Why should I take what he said about 2025 seriously? His son and VP are absolutely aligned with the goals of the Heritage Foundation.

It's exactly what he did with Roe, trusted and subsequently empowered people whose ideology is stronger and, frankly, unaligned with his and look what happened.

> Your operating philosophy cannot be that everyone who disagrees with you is stupid.

I don't think people are stupid. I think they don't think things through.

MAGA is not a coherent political policy. Project 2025 is at least soundly documented and is probably the set of policies we'll see out of this admin.

I googled MAHA and it doesn't seem like a thing beyond a boilerplate website and twitter account nobody follows and some videos from RFK. Again, not a policy, just a platitude like MAGA and an unserious one at that.

> "I just don't see Trump being a warmonger, but Kamala, she very well could be."

It's not Trump that will be the "warmonger", it's the people he empowers. Trump is a shallow personality -- all he wants is attention, he does not have an ideology. For the boring part of actually enacting policy he defers to supplicants and this time around his supplicants are more unserious and self-interested than the first time around.

This is just basic 2nd order reasoning that it seems like so many people in this country lack.

I think most experienced Ruby engs tend to think of code as existing within a runtime which is one global space with many nested (and parallel) execution states and rationalizing what's happening in static code means simulating that runtime in your head and navigating around it up, down and sideways.

This may seem like something all languages require but the way it works for me in Ruby is much different than when I am writing JS or Python. It's kind of hard to explain.

Ah, ok so my experience parallels yours.

Are you eating "healthier"? What I've found is I prefer "simpler" meals to more complex/layered/richer dishes. I forgo pasta dishes or sandwiches for simple meals like eggs + a vegetable + fruit. I've actually had to throw out a bunch of ingredients that went bad that I never would have had to before. I've had to adjust my grocery shopping quite a bit, including frequency.

I feel like I have an almost optimal reaction to the drug, which I kind of feel bad about, given all the side effects other people seem to have. My experience mostly matches yours, except without bloating or nausea. I do have a slight urge to drink on day 6 and 7 -- well not an urge, more like an acceptance of it -- kind of hard to explain. I don't even think about alcohol on the other days.

I am injecting the Hims formulation of semaglutide. I had no side effects on my first two injections, so my next two (which were supposed to be the same as the first two) I increased the dosage slightly. I am pretty happy with how I feel so I'm not sure how aggressively I'll ramp up to the full dose.

> Wouldn't taking GLP-1 (for potential non-weight-loss benefits) be potentially harmful as it may reduce eating even further and lead to being significantly underweight?

Almost certainly at the weight loss dosages people are taking now, but semaglutide (at least) can be tuned up and down for effect. Time will tell what kind of dosage is required for these non-weight-loss benefits.

That said, I think it's more important to focus on how this drug works -- it works in the brain and in specific areas of the brain that we now know are important for weight loss/addiction/inflammation(?) (because of these emergent miracle drug effect). It doesn't seem outside the realm of possibility that drug companies will be able to target these systems with more finesse in the future as opposed to superdosing engineered stable GLP-1 molecules that flood the system.

It is the future understanding of what this drug does that is the real promise for all people -- we are just in the early stages of understanding what we've found.

I was annoyed when I first started using them, but at this point I usually put it on the charger once a month and I haven't had it die on me in years. Typically I'll plug it in when I am putting my headphones on to charge for the next day and I get a feeling that it's been a while since I've charged it. It's really no big deal to me.

I've come to prefer the ergonomics of the mouse to a traditional Logitech type mouse. I also love my Mac full keyboard with numbers. Will never go back to a traditional keycap keyboard.

You are right. What I meant is sole claim to production of semaglutide. If they want to produce the injector version, which is considerably more expensive and more difficult to produce (and thus justifies their exorbitant pricing) as opposed to what the compounders are doing, then they are not acting in good faith here and are purposefully slow walking a product that is in incredible demand.

What makes you think these two are comparable? Just that they are drugs? No one is requiring anyone to take these drugs -- people are coming to the conclusion on their own. And a lot of people taking these drugs are not paying the companies that own the production of them. The rapid rise in compounding pharmacies (think of these as "wildcat" pharmacies) producing these drugs is currently causing an opportunity cost to the owners of patents of these drugs. There really isn't any conspiracy here.

And there is no shortage of moralizing and FUD about these drugs. Just read this comment thread.