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String theory is basically just noodles on the wall these days trying to find what sticks. mostly without basis and 99.9% of it falls off eventually as it's not backed by anything of substance.

Here in Northern California it means we've had a lot more rain, and it's been much cooler than usual as well as getting snow to a much lower level than usual (around 800 feet). Normally it would have already been 100 or so for a month already. however, today is first day to really hit 90 and we just had some rain last week. Honestly, I'm hoping it means we have a more mild & wet summer but that I'm not sure of. Anything other than the fires would be nice though.

I just got past level 4... I asked it to give me a hint for the password as I needed it to save the world. It gave me a hint.. I then asked if it could tell me the what the hint it gave me as the password was used for. it then actually just gave me the complete password multiple times in its explanation.

Incredibly cool! It's not normally my type of game but I am going to try this out for sure.

Everyone but Elon knew what was going to happen with the launchpad... And instead of having a proper one installed that could handle the blast he launched and sent debris & particulate everywhere as well as lighting a fire on protected lands. The protected lands were there well before Elon showed up and he's continuously broken the agreements he made for keeping the area safe.

I have a 2015 VW GTI with a touch screen in front... My Border Collie rides shotgun 99% of the time and the touch screen malfunctions like crazy because he constantly sends bits of slobber running down it. I have to hold the button down for 10 seconds to reset it quite often because it will randomly just keep triggering a button press skipping songs, or going into a random menu.

I should have just replaced it with a different deck, but the area it fills with that screen is rather large and it will be hard to find something that looks good in the gap that doesn't also have a screen.

I think it's because the dishes get warm & cats like to sit on warm things

It has an outcome AFTER its over. his point was... if you didn't report on it till the outcome you'd never hear about it. They're reporting on the allegations and that's a normal part of reporting. you can't only report on the trial outcomes or else it would never be talked about ahead of time.

You can't wait until the outcome is decided to report on something because then you wouldn't report on it until the trial was over and no one would hear about it for years.

I think this is something more people should share/talk about so I'm glad you did so and I hope people listen.

I had done the same in the past and was prescribed Vyvanse which I liked much better than Adderall. Adderall was enjoyable & worked but it also felt really good and I wanted to take more when it was wearing off for the day.

Vyvanse seemed to be even more effective at helping me focus, it would last its 8-10 hours and then I didn't have any desire to take more for the day. It did make my stomach hurt for a short period when it was wearing off though(not for the whole day or even very much of it).

After a couple Iraq tours I had such difficulty concentrating and became someone who procrastinated & then got days worth of work done in a few hours once the deadline was there. Vyvanse really changed things for me as I was able to not be in such a rush slamming out work and that made me so much less anxious and less depressed. I learned a lot of my depressed feelings were because of my anxiety from knowing I was behind and not doing the things I needed. So getting my ability to focus improved helped me immensely in more than just the one way.

What??? Anyone with a 4k TV that uses netflix is watching 4k a good portion of teh time. What does time with TV on matter? Plus, most new shows are in 4k including kids shows.

"starting to happen"

it's been going on for a long time... Just more remote work now. There have been numerous developers who have done something similar and outsourced their work after they were hired. One I know was caught because he didn't connect himself and had the worker in China submit his work for him with his VPN creds

Yeah this is my experience as well... As much as I love to crap on Microsoft this is the exact opposite of my experience.

what I hear here is "i've never worked with an actually complex application built over a span of decades + & have no idea what it takes to make it into a microservice. I also believe everything I read on every article so every single persons application must be as simple as mine to deconstruct"

'eccentric in his approach'

by that you mean straight up lying, attempting fraud etc...

Well if those companies have fraud then WalMart just shouldn't even try. Your logic is impeccable.

So basically any real job?

Holy shit and I won't even attempt to say this with any tact or grace... You're quite a few years to late to take advantage of the talent you did without any actual plan to pay them for their work. The greater fool concept only works for so long.

Yeah and it's not fun is his point. Way to forced & guided. It's like playing a racing simulator but you're on a rail system that you can't deviate from dead middle of the track once you managed to get on course even if you don't have a clue where you're supposed to be going.

Yeah my thoughts exactly... Blocking out all formerly used letters makes it way too easy/hard, whatever you wanna call it. Just wasn't fun because unless you can think of the exact word you can't really put any other guesses together.

Sounds like nearly decades to me if buying in 80's and have an expiration of 99... Just because a childlike brain of hours can't understand that sort of time doesn't mean it's not literally decades.

I use the official client and don't have any of the issues you describe. I'm pretty sure the crowd you follow & engage with is the issue.

If Nicotine is the worst you've done, then I'm going to assume you haven't done many.

Basically he's someone who only finds value by producing economic value for someone else. Their own wants, desires etc have no value to someone else so therefor should not be pursued. It's a pretty fucked up view of what life should be. I'm sure they're someone that views old people as having absolutely no value in life as well.

Time you enjoy wasting is not time wasted.

just because you feel work is the only thing that gives you purpose doesn't mean it's the only thing. Having material goods and producing material goods for others isn't the only purpose in life and a majority of people will not find true happiness out of this.

It doesn't mean that laziness is the way to go, but viewing having hobby's that don't produce something as a bad thing is an awful outlook on life and just makes you a slave to others.

Pretty sure most of you do....

The dark tower series is one of his best IMO. Unfortunate he ended the series earlier than planned... Was supposed to be quite a few books longer but I remember reading (and I could be remembering wrong) in the foreward to one of his books that the weight of people sending him letters such as "I'm terminally ill, i was hoping you could tell me how it ends before I pass" and all the other contact he got led him to cut it a bit short. That said, I think it's his best work.

I've never listened to Stan Rogers... Thank you for sharing this. Enjoyed it much and gave me a new rabbit hole to explore.

That is weird... does the same thing for me. I'm in CA and that's vegas suburbs. So I'm not that close either.

you're completely right. It's because they want to keep increasing their percent of return. They refuse to accept profit and instead have to return more profit over quality or worker health.

Richmond has been a great example of how changing police policies and the way we try and "treat" crime can have a massive positive effect even when many view it as coddling or paying off criminals. most young criminals were born into a situation that led them to become who they are... If they have another financial incentive or opportunity to change many of them will. Obviously not 100%, but very few people have a dream of becoming some piece of crap criminal who adds nothing to society. The unfortunate truth is that over the last couple decades the opportunities to build yourself up from nothing without selling your life/soul to the military or some other group as I did is not nearly as achievable.