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Well it is low-value, discretionary consumption, not an essential asset or expenditure.

Bring your own coffee cup filled with water, and you'll still fit right in, save the environment, save money and cut caffeine and calories.

I think the best move, IMO, is to cut socially-reinforced patterns of frivolous consumption: dining out, coffee, expensive new gadgets/vehicles, transportation rental services, movies, drinking out. Bring your own or opt-out most of the time.

- If you're in it just for the money, bounce now.

- Be curious.

- Push your comfort-zone, often. Do hard things: write a C compiler, design a pipelined/microcoded/branch-predicting MICMAC processor, write a kernel module, write a 3D graphics engine, and so on.

- Master the fundamental concepts, data structures and algorithms.

- Dig deep: computer architecture/organization, assembly, Linux from Scratch, source code of OSes/tools, etc. And, there's more out there than just FOSS; some very useful tools aren't new, OSS or popular. Get proficient at debugging tools.

- Don't get stuck, emotional or religious about any one domain.

- Master one or two domains.

- Be ambivalent, healthily suspicious of and open to "new" flavors of tech fashions.

- Practicing and reading books is all well-and-good, but trying to make something is the best teacher.

- Throwing away and rewriting a few times helps.

- Write for clarity, not cleverness.

- Work on something that matters.

- Avoid job security where you can by documenting and writing obvious code, because it will hold you back more than help.

- Don't write useless, giant comments.

- Don't write heaps of uncommented code.

- Literate programming can be awesome for tricky/complicated desired code behavior.

- Don't reinvent the wheel if you don't have to.

- Premature optimization is a faux pas.

- Small changes.

- The only good code is small pieces of low complexity, tested code; fragile, big function, "black boxes" are evil.

- Use mostly standard conventions.

- Have fun, break things and put them back together again :)

Population: 556

These sort of villages probably have massive unemployment, huffing chemicals and alcoholism too... which leads to fights and DV. In Canada, they're almost always "dry" (banned alcohol) areas for these reasons, but Prohibition doesn't address the underlying socioeconomic ills, only puts a small BandAid on it. Most work is usually fishing, farming, federal/state/local government or mom&pop craft or retail self-employment.

Corporate pension defaults, i.e., Sears, are another problem; retirees were promised an income beyond their working years, and then vulture capitalists come in and sell-off their formers employers in pieces.

Freedoms of being alone:

- no one asking favors

- no obligations

- no emotional BS dumped on you

- no judgements

- no going along with what you don't want to do or opting-out

- no one invading/pushing your boundaries

- no meetings to keep

- fewer liabilities

- no disappointments

- no hierarchy

- more projects and work done

Disadvantages to being alone:

- more stress

- more anxiety

- less potential fun

- less sex

- less humor

- less mental stimulation

- fewer opportunities

- less productivity for big projects

To each, their own; there are many trade-offs and no simple answers. Key question "better together?"

Two ants walk into a bar...

Maybe they do and we just don't know it? (anthropocentrism)

Libraries, at least in the US, are mostly silence zones apart from information/checkout areas. There are still a few independent bookstores left, and those are good. College is still the preferred and most popular setting to meet a quality spouse. Online should be considered one of many tools as an adjunct to IRL, but not the primary source.

The mind atrophies without enough actual social contact, and also a proven link to more stress and shorter lifespans.

"Crisis" may not be the correct word, whereas the sex ratio imbalance in China is definitely a crisis, the loneliness issue is at least a valid social ill because of the additional stress, anxiety, missing joy/opportunities and shortening of lives it creates.

- Decline of organized religion

- Rise of hyper-mobility

- Rise of the portable screen

- Rise of inequality necessitating more workaholism

- Increase of monopolized corporate media

- Heightened nationalism, xenophobia and politically-polarized, separate realities

are factors which atomize people from each other.

For-profit clickbait items reinforce unhealthy and unrealistic digital hallucinations to stay in business, and celebrity developer bloggers do much the same in order to advance their careers. You don't know how they are to work-with or if they have even earned their chops. Worse, the celebrity effect tends to ruin most people as they become insufferably entitled and/or uncooperative. These sort of people are often vastly overrated and can absolutely annihilate the morale of teams.

Lmao. OP items like these reek of people looking for shallow poser shortcuts rather than digging in.

Non-s T480 has dual batteries and a 10 hour real runtime.

Thinkpad X is too much like Apple: impractical, excessively over-designed

Thinkpad T4X0 is the way to go for 13" (T440-T480; T490 is too Appleized also)

Thinkpad T440 - T480

T490 is no good: soldered-in things and no dual batteries.

Original battery for many generations older Thinkpads: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/accessories-and-monitors/charge...

Try Googling next time.

Beto O'Rourke, POTUS candidate and currently in COTUS, was part of cDc.

Only Cantos I and II were available in 1819.

XVI and unfinished XVII were available in 1823 and 1824 respectively.

Nope, not in Berkeley. Electricity: grid or self-renewables.

Electrical heating is extremely efficient, but currently costs more than NG.

Clearly, the move is away from FF because unsequestered carbon fuels/energy isn't good for climate change. It'd be nice if LNG power plants burned their fuels and returned CO2 underground into BE/CCS (if net energy possible).

Other areas of energy consumption and fuel/petrochem need to follow suit soonish to be consistent per the climate change emergency.

Ridgecrest quakes shifted some area over a meter.

For those without a satnav lock yet: Datum is a defined 3D geometry model used to translate a physical coordinate given by satnav into a latitude, longitude and altitude.

Different datum -> different lat/long/alt.

Disclaimer: Trimble alum

Pyramids are awesome feats of engineering and construction.

Also reminds me of the muon detection tech that can probe through solid material. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/ancient/cosmic-ray-muons-...

In other countries, they have:

- higher standards of living

- longer life expectancies

- better healthcare

- higher taxes, but the money is used more efficiently and for better results than on mass incarceration or the largest military-industrial complex

- very easy tax payment processes

Taxes aren't universally "bad": fire departments, police departments, roads, schools. And guess what? That's "socialism." So is Social Security and USPS. The myth of anarchistic hyperindividualism (libertarianism) is a self-delusion because there are benefits to common infrastructure no individual could build themselves alone.

PS: Why don't most Americans know how bad they have it? Is it their lack of passports or lack of honesty in paying attention outside of their filter bubble?

Oh my, you don't know how laws get "designed." Congress ostensibly writes the laws, but they're now often allowing outside special interests and lawyers to pass along laws for introduction nearly verbatim. Furthermore, Intuit was caught lobbying to keep the tax submission process complicated and not free.

Exactly. You usually gotta "color outside the lines" if you want anything cool, i.e., jailbreaking (jb) or hackintoshing. I'm surprised no one's tried hackiosing on custom hardware, although it would take a pile of enginerding and gnidrenigne.

iProxy for iOS (FOSS) used to work over WiFi if you setup a peer network and manual IP on endpoints and phone.

I miss TetherMe. Is JB even still possible (has anyone done it/which ver?) on modern iOS?

Pipelines are different than trains.

- They can leak much more in an unit time than trains... hundreds of thousands of gallons, and regulatory enforcement on leaks in the US is very weak because of corporate capture.

- They are built usually by legally-stealing land (easements, eminent domain) from people along the way.

- If they leak on people's land, they don't have much recourse.

- All the safety tech and building codes in the world don't matter if the operators don't really care about leaks because the risks of fines and lawsuits is so comparatively small.

There are hundreds of oil leaks per year, and they can be absolutely huge, but because they're usually in the middle of "nowhere," they rarely make the mainstream news.

Pipes: bad.

Trains: worse.

Clean(er) energy generation and chemical manufacturing: mucho mucho better.

It seems you're not familiar with the history of US pipelines. It doesn't matter what theoretical technologies or regulations exist, because oil extraction industries get away with leaking hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil with little or no punishment or recompense, including on the farmlands they steal from people to run their pipelines across.

See the thousands of dots? Each is a spill.

https://projects.propublica.org/pipelines/

More:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/10/dakota-acces...

https://theintercept.com/2018/01/09/dakota-access-pipeline-l...

https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/16/us/keystone-pipeline-leak/ind...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pipeline_accidents_in_...