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It is very likely that yes, he would in fact be happier with an extra 20k a year.

You don't know he'd have a new mustang; that's just you projecting. He might put the extra 20k a year into savings for his kid's education - I know that feeling like I'm setting my kids up for future success makes me happy.

Me too. I don't trust Tesla to get that right.

Do you trust Space Karen enough to make that assumption?

Tesla vehicles have a lot of software onboard, and they build it like a regular SV tech company. That is frightening to me.

If I respond to this insult, though, that's not "curious conversation".

The moderation on this site is total horse shit.

Hey, me too. Or at least, I used to. I've done most of those things but you know what? There are specialty tools that do almost everything better than emacs does it.

Emacs calendar is inferior to Google calendar, thunderbird, or even Apple's calendar app.

Org mode spreadsheets pale in comparison to libre office and excel.

Emacs's email handling is straight up dog shit.

Doing simple calculations is better/easier in a python or sbcl repl than am emacs buffer.

Generation of static sites is easier, more flexible, and generally better dx with a shell script.

Actually writing text is better in vscode. It's more performant, for starters. Imagine a program in 2024 that locks up the GUI if you make a network request. Oh wait that's emacs. Embarrassing.

I've used emacs since the early 2000s and I am not afraid to admit VS Code is a better text editor than emacs.

This meme really needs to die.

I use emacs a lot, but the attitude that it's not just a text editor leads people to accept UX mediocrity.

Emacs has fallen behind VS Code in many ways, including text editing.

The hubris displayed in thinking that HN is "a group of some of the smartest people on the planet" is revolting.

What percentage of Amazon shoppers make repeated, back-to-back purchases of washing machines or kitchenaid mixers? I'm certain it's vanishingly small.

What percentage of people who just bought a kitchenaid mixer would be interested in baking pans, or whatever? Probably more. But if you buy a kitchenaid mixer, tHe AlGoRiThM just sends you ads for more kitchenaid mixers.

I actually think the core problem is that Amazon just isn't competent at deriving insights from consumer behaviour data.

If I buy a vacuum cleaner on Amazon, based on the Amazon web store recommendations I fully and without a shred of sarcasm expect Alexa to think that I've developed a vacuum collecting habit and recommend a vacuum conference if I ask it for events.

Because of the performance? Or for another reason?

Awesome!

Any particular recommendations?

The FreeBSD handbook, for example, directs the user to manually edit wpa_supplicant.conf. If you want to switch from a static IP to a DHCP lease you need to run some commands as root and restart the daemon manually.

Ours is supremely irritating because the duvet gets folded over or bunched up inside the cover and shaking it does not fix this.

So I have to get bodily into the fucking cover and stick each corner in place. It's infuriating and I hate duvets for this reason.

If calories-in/calories-out didn't work, then it would be impossible to starve to death.

Where people get confused is that the number of calories changes as your metabolism speeds up or slows down.

If you are ingesting fewer calories than your body requires, you will lose some combination of fat and muscle. There is no possible way for this to be false.

This is not correct.

Reddit has nothing to offer investors but Paul needs a return so he's trying to make sure someone else ends up holding the bags.

There's a certain demographic that can't accept that indigenous people might not be nature-worshipping druids that never pollute and are infallible stewards of the land, so through that lens of course they don't need to be subject to environmental regulations.

See for yourself.