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I was a heavy alcoholic, and the ability to quite drinking was... amazing. Now that I'm off, I just remind myself I never want to get back at that dark place, but I'm so very glad it made quitting just... happen. It's wild how easy it was. A little mental control in terms of "no, don't go to the liquor store" but it was habit more than physical addition at that point. This was with Rybelsus. Sober 4.5 years now. It was definitely not an intended side effect but I'm glad I was rx'd when I was. I was not in a good state.

Yeah, both Ozempic and Trulicity have automated systems like this, just press a button and pop. Is there even a way to hit a vein? The needle is not very deep (it's subcutaneous, just barely under the skin). And it's the stomach, which AFAIK, doesn't have a lot of exposed veins?

Either way super simple and quick. Fairly painless. I had a weird rash one time, but apart from that a total of about 15 injections haven't had any issues on either Ozempic or Trulicity in terms of injections. Others may have difficulties, but it's been super easy IMO.

I think this is the only way to properly handle the current situation, but I don't think market forces will be enough to do so without them still needing to rely on some external sources. I think the most I'd want to pay for a browser is 50 bucks. The odd thing is the web is basically the OS for 99% of what most people do. So in that sense it's WAY worth it.

I agree that Mozilla is problematic that past decade or so especially, but there is not a lot of other options. I do think it would be cool if buying Firefox as a product gave you a "voting share". 1 vote per user. I'm not sure how well that would work, but it would go a way to make it the browser of the people and not just "the org" which pushes whatever it wants on you regardless if you like it or not.

Everytime I try to get away from FF I find there's really not anything else out there at this point in time. Servo in theory "is coming" someday. But I am not holding my breath even though that would be my preferred option. Ladybird, well... I'm not keen on Andreas Kling's general approach to organization, but if it's a good browser that supports standards and plugins and has power to block ads, it would at least provide some flames to FF's feet to start taking things seriously and not just suck in Google's teat.

We have to get them away from Google. I'm honestly worried they're going to remove v2 at some point then we're really fucked. But I have to keep coming back, if only because I don't want to give Chromium based browsers more share, and since it's the source/main of derivatives, it's better IMO to just use that than a fork which may or may not break.

"Wait 30 seconds to open bin of ($FRUIT)" or "Pay 10 cents to "unlock bin" early"

Time is money. Convenience is money. Money greases the wheel of time.

We owned this game growing up: https://magisterrex.wordpress.com/2010/04/13/the-best-classi...

It has those goggles in it. Still remember fondly to this day (not the game, the chicken goggles).

I was thinking this, too. Like maybe a few seconds of X flashing where you'll spawn next.

Hell yeah that was fun. 174, high of 185 in that session. But never got close to the 174 which was when I wasn't aware of what I was doing. The game played better without me, I think. Like when I get confused in a fighting game and somehow do better then. LOL.

Nice project!

You're the one making the claim and assumption and "gut feeling" so it sounds like YOU are the one needing actual data for your "gut feelings".

Sorry this is the same bullshit people do when they see a person able to stand for a few hours and say "WHY ARE THEY ON DISABILITY" and ignoring the rest of the time they aren't seeing, or the people recovering. This is just hearsay, and since you're the one making these claims, then it behooves YOU to provide the proof.

But it's a nice little racket, make a claim and then demand those who deny it provide the proof. That's now how science or respectable arguments work.

This whole thread is full of such bullshit. And it's so people can feel superior to those who they think are scamming the system (in an ever increasing need to "crack down" on those who "abuse" the system (slowly killing it over time, or until you can get a DOGE in and ransack it like a viking ship plundering coastal communities).

Anyways, citation needed, since you're the one making the claims.

Yeah Sweeney was really active on the programming theory site http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/

It looks like it's currently down (not sure if a glitch or what).

Yeah - is this THE Rick Rubin? Is there another Rick Rubin? Is this just taking the idea of his quote as inspiration and turning it into code? Has he had the time to step back from producing to learn JS and recontextualize the Tao Te Ching into this? What is up with this site?

EDIT: Found it: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rick-rubin-on-art-life...

(would be nice if the original person posting this on git or wherever put a link to this so we had an idea wtf is going on)

"But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother."

How much of pessimist philosophy have you actually read? Have you gone back to the German 1800s philosophers? Do you only know Schopenhauer and Mainlander? What about Schelling, Horstmann, Bahnsen, von Hartmann, Zapffe, Cioran? Or to a less pessimist extent but for some reason listed on wiki, Gautama Buddha, or existentialists like Kierkegaard, Camus and Sartre? LOL they have Nietzsche listed as a pessimist. As if.

A solid overview is the book Welzschmerz: Pessimism in German Philosophy

https://archive.org/details/frederick-c.-beiser-weltschmerz-...

I've been reading Zapffe a bit off and on recently which feels the most "accessible" out of the bit I've seen (I've read some Mainlander (but all the translations are very difficult and dense; I think the one I bought on Amazon is actually not as good as the one you can find on reddit, which feels more appropriately philosophically minded, or maybe the heaviness/specificity of the transliteration makes me dig/read harder than the more fluent prose of the one English version on Amazon, published the past couple years). Thacker feels a bit too light to me, but seems to be more a 'popularizer' but also abstract I wouldn't necessarily recommend him.

Ligotti's book on the topic (The Conspiracy Against the Human Race) is bleak but very well written and accessible, it's where I got the start to read more and delve into it as a philosophy.

Personally I don't find Byung-Chul Han that compelling, and maybe it's the translations. I admit I only found a sample chapter, and maybe it just dropped me in the middle where I had no context, but it felt very, as you imply, flowery and abstract.

There's a variety of pessimist writers, and I wouldn't lump them all in with this particular writer, just because you find his work empty.

There's also Anti-Natalist authors who contribute to the pessimist orientation, though I'm not listing them here as I'm not as familiar with their work, but they also have a bit of an older lineage despite it seeming like a newer orientation.

Anyways, if you seriously mean these questions and want to know, asking in a tech forum is probably not the best place, but it can point you to some good starting points, which I hope I have done.

I, personally, am pessimist to my bone, from experience. That doesn't mean people who aren't are invalid. They have a different outlook due to their experiences, and whatever constitutions they have. But I will say reading about pessimism from the heavier thinkers has allowed me to put my finger on things (even if I can't put my tongue to explain the details) in a way that I hadn't seen before, and helped me understand my own interior making.

I wasn't always like this, I was a hopeful, youthful libertarian then socialist, and while hopeful, still, I don't retain it as a likely outcome. Some people are cosmic pessimists, some are more immediate pessimists, some only see it as a personal emotive choice (that's less philosophy than state of mind) but others do see an overarching bleakness in life, despite the beauty all around. Some may even find comfort in pessimism, in known that "one day too, this(they) shall pass".

I know what printing ghost guns are. I know who Luigi Mangione is.

But I parsed this as "We 3D-Printed Luigi's Ghost Gun. It Was Legal."

I thought, why wouldn't Luigi's gun to zap ghosts from Luigi's Mansion be legal.

Using Cachy after testing some distros. I tried Nobara but it was too limited. Before this I've used Debian based distros (ubuntu, debian), Redhat/RPM (Redhat, Mandrake, OpenSuSe) and even Gentoo.

So far I really like Cachy. It's been great for the bit of gaming I do. I had a bit of audio grief, but installing a different kernel seemed to have fixed the issue. Overall I'm pretty damn happy with it. It was much easier than default Arch. I tried Endeavour and though it was nice, there was something about it I didn't quite like (I don't recall what). I'm off Windows entirely - between shoving their AI stuff and Ads everywhere, after decades of off and on use, Linux is my forever home.

And yeah, KDE is pretty nice and solid now.

It's interesting a lot of us saw this and thought "Tracker" and I googled to see if there was a TUI tracker, and on simple search I don't see one. It seems like that's an interesting idea waiting to be made...

From a capitalist perspective all it means is "more money extracted from the same amount of labor".

I agree with you in general regarding personal productivity. However from the capitalist perspective, even if you aren't as "productive" in the later hours, it's still a production cost that they no longer have to hire another person for. Every person hired is not just an "hourly cost" but an extra capital incentive. It's why they love to fire people and make more people take on a heavier load. To us, on the bottom it feels like less productivity (and man do I feel you there!), but to them it's one less cost. And that's what "productivity" is in their eyes. As long as they can extract enough value without having to take on the extra expense, they will call it "productivity increase".

Another interesting book about some of this is a stochastic approach to economics (from a left-wing perspective) - The Laws of Chaos: A Probabilistic Approach to Political Economy: http://symbioid.com/pdf/Politics/laws%20of%20chaos%20probabi...

They did Turbo Pascal dirty with those icons... I get that Borland C++ also was blue/yellow for the DOS versions (looks like they stopped the DOS version of it in 1993 with version 4). And I assume these were from the early days of Windows so it was a DOS product at that point, but... Man. Poor TP, getting the shaft.

I loved TP, in 93 it was the language we learned for programming in high school. My first compiler was Borland C++ 4.5 bought used from ebay LOL.

I do my best to filter ai topics here using ublock, and it's blocked about a third of the posts, and yet every day there's a new variation, whether a new technique/technology, a new product (open source or commercial), etc... that I have to add to the filter. It's really offputting. Yet apparently this is the only site besides lobste.rs that has programming related content that is of any depth that I know of. I really wish hacker news had the ability to tag posts and let me filter (and tag them generally not have to get specific on each new buzzword or product).

You're compensating the youtube video creators for this, how? Are you asking their permission? Or is this similar to how all the AI scammers operate and just extracting value from other peoples work without compensation? Just curious if this will help the people who are actually doing the source work or if it's just another way to take other people's labor and make money off it without anything in return for them.

And no, I don't consider "they get extra views" a valid answer. Especially if you expect to make the windfall you want to make off their labor.

Yep - never buying from them again. They've always been hostile to emulation but the past couple years have been even more ridiculous than normal from them. I don't need another Mario game while forking over yet more money that are user-hostile.

I know it won't place a dent in their profits, even if many of us who feel this way, since there are so many more people who just "wanna play the game" and don't know any of the politics of it. But this is still my personal stance, I just don't want to give a company like this money. Likewise, it's why I hopped off Windows, even though I really really thought they turned a new leaf with WSL, but Win11 Rolls around and ads & AI shoved in that I don't want.

I'm tired of giving corps what they want just because they're "the default". I'll live a cheaper life, with less FOMO. No skin off my back. Maybe this is just me getting old and dressing it up in a guise of moral superiority.

I got bit by linux audio issues after moving from Win10 to CachyOS (arch based distro). It seemed to be working fine, but I noticed when switching to speakers a terrible digital distortion that wasn't there previously. (I'm not a linux noob, have used since Debian Bo in '97, for example, plus many other distros off and on through the years)

I spent so much time messing with alsamixer, removing pipewire, installing pulse, uninstalling pulse, readding pipewire, resetting ports and connections.

I realized it had something to do with the audio buffer (due to the echo and the distortion was "shaped" like the feedback/if that makes sense). like a half second delay feedback.

Ultimately I read up on the buffering mechanism and found that switching to the Bore-LTO kernel fixed everything. I was so desperate I was literally swapping ends of my cables between the PC and speaker, in theory it shouldn't matter but before realizing the issue when I noticed the noise was based on a delay/feedback, I had no other alternative and was at my wits end.

Haha i had a 486/dx2-66 laptop and my first try using linux was in 1997 with Debian Bo, IIRC. Downloading over 28.8 modem (maybe it was 56k at that point?) took a LOOOOOONG time, and then trying to get XFree86 to work was no luck with that chipset, even thought it was an IBM computer. It didn't help that the only source of info was the computer itself so getting online in text mode with a usenet client to ask questions and then try to reboot and fail and getting back online etc.

It's amazing how far we've come with video drivers.

sound drivers on the other hand.

Upvoted for your rational stance and thanks for pointing that out. I could have expressed myself in a better way anyways.

Yeah I realized that as I went to the site. Egg on face, I'm a big disgrace... (etc etc). Also boo to me for going against the "site vibes" here. I will admit I could have been a bit more chill about the issue.

(ugh, while my point stands I guess technically it's a dead project, so I got egg on my face, gloat everyone gloat at the pathetic clown :P)

I hate name collisions and this sort of thing only reinforces my ire. It doesn't help that I'm already team anti-AI, but it would annoy me regardless of the tech. Why don't people even bother to look and be original? (I feel like I'm going "against the ideals of the site" when I get angry like this, but come on, people, it's a simple google search. If you can't be arsed to do that, why should we even give you money - would be my FIRST question as an investor, but I'm just an idiot not a world famous inventor of a non-released LISP and checks list - uh. Yahoo Storefront.

Still though, come on man, why people why. I remember when we had "domainsquatting" but I guess AI doesn't give a fuck about people's copyrights/trademarks anyway.

(Sorry to vent as a reply, but it was nice to see SOMEONE mention it at least, and had to give a hard agree on pointing it out).

WHY DO YOU PEOPLE DO THIS? STOP WITH THE NAME COLLISIONS ALREADY. https://github.com/ogham/exa

TUIs are often more responsive in general. Some of us like the terminal and want to minimize as much mouse usage as possible (yes hotkeys exist in good GUI apps, but they're still primarily built around the WIMP model).

Command line often requires a lot of switch memorization. Command Line doesn't offer the full interactive/graphical power in this sort of situation. Command line is great for scripts and long running apps, or super simple interfaces.

Different apps have different requirements. Not everything needs a TUI, not everything needs a GUI, and if you want something similar to a GUI while staying in the terminal. Perhaps you don't have access to a windowing environment for some reason; perhaps you want to keep your requirements low in general.

Finally, why do you care? Some people like it others don't. Nobody comes in and shits on any programs that are GUI if they don't like it, they just don't use it. So, to quote The Dude: "That's just, like, your opinion man". Sorry for the snark, but... It really is, and you're free to have it. But it seems an irrelevant point, and there may be better forums/posts (maybe an "Ask HN" question would be a good option) to discuss this question in depth beyond snark.

This sounds like it should be an AITA post on reddit based on the comments in this thread.

Not particularly relevant to the core article, but just a dumb thought re: the LSP/LS annoyance mentioned in the intro.

I think maybe some of it stems from 'ls' the command. If I saw something called py-ls instead of py-lsp, I may think it's a python based ls command. "Name Collision" as it were.

Anyways off to read the rest of the article...