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Sorry you and your family are going through this, obviously a terrible and challenging situation.

No idea what part of the world you're in, but my cousin was stage 4 skin cancer, on his way out, and his doctor managed to get him into a clinical trial at Dana Farber in Boston, MA.

Literally saved his life. Experimental immunotherapy program was the trial.

Hoping a miracle comes in your direction somehow, someway.

One is eternity compressed into five minutes; the other is relatively mild even at higher doses in comparison (though of course a powerful experience in its own right).

Suspect that for many 5-MEO is something you do once in a lifetime. It's not necessary to do it on a regular basis, and you'll know why after you try it for the first time :)

Collapse in MP, the minerals sector in general, and every high growth sector in the market is institutional derisking in the face of massive leverage ($1.4 trillion in margin loans), which has triggered an historic collapse in high beta stocks -- nothing to do with rare earth prices, particularly for MP which has guaranteed price floors.

So,the big players have taken a wrecking ball to minerals by shorting the sector to oblivion, but will have no problem riding the wave back up once the bottom is in...

Strange, I've always used glid, glided is so cumbersome in comparison.

Certainly at $41, a 52 week low, it's a fire sale (hit $100 back in October.

MP is well positioned in the REE processing space -- now if the share price would stop collapsing then companies in the critical minerals sector would be able to raise capital more easily (MP is the bellwether for the sector)

Not sure why but I especially enjoyed, "I've got to get my ass together", it's almost like a koan.

Dart has the same glaring issue (yes, yes, you can use a codegen library but it's not the same).

Serialization support has been coming for years, I lost patience.

Otherwise, yes, some support for expressions, some support for immutability, no support for optional semi-colons, no privacy modifiers so "_" littered everywhere.

I just found it to be an exceedingly ugly language when I used it a couple of years ago. Yes, some more pleasant modern functionality has been bolted on since then, but it's unfortunate that Dart was chosen as the backing language for Flutter, which is an awesome mobile framework.

Big turnoff with Dart is the lack of json (de) serialization -- kind of shocking to have to resort to source code generation libraries in a modern language.

Also, statement based instead of expression based, and not immutable by default are kind of a drag; not the end of the world but a bit unpleasant, IMO.

Looking at a Thinkpad 16" P1 Gen 8 with 2X 1TB SSD, 64GB RAM, QHD+ screen, centered keyboard like MBP (i.e. no numpad), integrated Intel GPU, lightweight (4 lbs) for a little under $2.5K USD.

Closest I've found to an MBP 16" replacement.

Have been running Dell Precision laptops for many years on Linux, not sure about Lenovo build quality and battery life, but hoping it will be decent enough.

Would run Asahi if it supported M4 but looks it's a long ways away...

It would be odd, but that name does ring a bell, Charlie Gordon is the central character in the ever poignant, Flowers for Algernon.

Maybe Bellard identifies with the genius, but fears the loss of it.

What on earth, I've got a 5540 and Linux battery life is atrocious, maybe 3 hours under light usage.

What are the specs?

My father had bladder cancer, which was caught relatively early as the cancer had not yet spread beyond the bladder wall.

The doctor performed a rather uncomfortable surgery (the pathway for a man is not pleasant) and then injected the TB virus into his bladder, which is apparently an effective treatment for this type of cancer.

It's been 20 years now, no recurrence. Think he was treated at Dana Farber in Boston.

Having gone through what was likely a life saving treatment he has become, ironically, anti-western medicine -- don't blame him, having a surgical implement shoved up main street doesn't sound like a walk in the park :)

Until now I'd only heard of Framework laptops, but am blown away by the build-your-own process -- incredible, spec the machine just as you want it.

Going to dive into the details now, thanks...

Was just in an Apple Store yesterday mulling over whether or not to switch back to macOS after 15 years on Linux PCs.

Both MacBook Pros and Airs are nice machines, but macOS, for me, it's a huge step back.

Unfortunately the Asahi project is underfunded (likely one of the reasons the project founder/lead jumped ship recently), and as a result M4 support is likely a year+ away.

Oh wells, let's see what Dell and Lenovo have on offer this spring/summer. Should be able to get a pretty decent PC laptop for less than the $4k+ an MBP 16" with 2TB/64GB will cost.

Same boat, @6 year old Dell Precision 5540 here and am looking to upgrade.

Dell's latest offerings aren't particulaly inspiring, especially wrt pricing (absurdly expensive for what you get). Seems that PC laptop manufacturers have taken a page out of Apple's playbook and charge through the nose for memory and SSD upgrades.

To put in context, I paid $1,100 USD for this machine in October, 2019, and around another $200 for 2 X 512GB SSD and 32 GB RAM. So, $1,300 all-in. These days you're looking at least double the price.

And if you're going to blow $3K on a laptop, might as well go with a MBP; at least there you're getting high end hardware. Giving up Linux after 15 years is a bitter pill, hopefully Asahi Linux will come out with M3/M4 support in the next year -- in the meantime I'll migrate my current machine to a Fedora VM on the Mac.

Migrated a Scala 2.8(!) era codebase to Scala 3.

As OP explains, macros and abstract type projections tend to be the biggest pain points in complex applications; otherwise, with Scala Rewrite tool it's pretty straightforward.

I think it's more inertia than anything else that more Scala 2 companies don't migrate.

Unpopular opinion, but setting a Scala 2 sunset time would spur companies into action :)

As it stands Akka (previously Lightbend, previously TypeSafe) is the maintainer of Scala 2, and derives part of its revenue from Scala 2 support contracts so there's even less incentive to migrate when there's no EOL date as Python 2 (eventually) had.

$4 and change here for locally sourced eggs in San Diego, CA, at an organic food store no less.

Meanwhile, $9+ at commercial supermarket for bottom of the barrel factory produced eggs -- strange times...

See Esqueleto in Haskell, Slick and Quill in Scala, probably LINQ or some variant on .NET in C#/F#.

All support building up arbitrarily complex queries based on statically typed query fragments.

String fragment "composition" is like banging rocks together.

In the US, for schools that use this form of grading, it means your senior year; 3rd form is freshman year and so on.

We tend not to have a 13th grade, and when that does exist, a PG (post grad) is generally there because they excel at a particular sport.

Looking at the images and the price of eggs I can't help but think...

expensive toilet paper

Counterpoint, running Dell R430 rack server for nearly ten years -- in that time a single SSD in raid 10, 8 disk array, has failed.

Maybe I got lucky?

Similarly, my last three laptops have all been Dell Precision -- only issue until I switched to Intel integrated gpu was Nvidia on Linux (black screens, laptop attempting liftoff due to gpu heating issues) causing periodic grief.

Also, for the author, Dell Precision provides advanced BIOS options out of the box, something that their consumer line of laptops probably doesn't offer.

8 years and still going on a Dell R430 rack server (8X SSD in RAID 10, 2X Xeon CPU, ...)

One of the drives failed last year, but used one of the hot spares on standby to put out the fire as it were.

Amazing longevity, perhaps I've just gotten lucky while avoiding obscene 24/7 cloud instance costs. It will die at some point, much like the HN server storing these very words.

I used to rent a studio on Parc Lafontaine in Montreal for around $400 USD/month.

Beautiful space, clear view of Mont Royal, right off the park, ideal location (IMO) in the plateau.

Granted, this was around 15 years ago -- I shudder to think what the now-likely Airbnb units in that building go for these days, probably $400/night.

What planet are you on? Paycheck to paycheck means there's (nearly) nothing left at the end of every month.

Clearly you're not in that situation, and likely have never been anywhere near it with that privileged view of the world.

Many people in the States are living on the edge; i.e. paycheck to paycheck, not, "oh, well, I'll just dip into my equities if the need arises".

Pretty sure only M1/M2 supported, so none Apple's new offerings will fly...yet.

Shame, I'd love to use Linux on Apple's latest and greatest MacBooks, but will stay with tried and true Dell Precision series until the year of the Linux Apple laptop becomes a reality.

Left:

Write, eat, brush teeth, scissors, chop vegetables, etc. Basically fine motor skills on the left.

Right:

Throw a baseball, shoot a basketball, play tennis, etc. Power movements on the right.

Could always do some sports lefty, like switch hit in baseball, kick a football (soccer) past half field, or play pool, those kinds of things, but right side has always been stronger.

The only sport where I am much better lefty than righty is table tennis -- probably because to play at higher levels you need fine motor skills, not just brute force.

Exactly, ambidextrous people are freaks of nature, like a professional baseball player who can pitch with either hand from inning to inning, and even then there will be a stronger side -- in other words, it is unlikely that a human being could be equally dominant across both hands.

One area where a 4-way stop sign intersection is somewhat superior to a roundabout is the notion of taking turns -- in the States it seems like busy roundabouts are an opportunity for one stream of traffic to just plow through, completely ignoring everyone else who also has something better to do than sit around waiting for others to be courteous :)