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To add to this discussion as someone who had above experience this winter, after (literally) years of mood fluctuations, fatigue and brain fog.

I have started taking SSRI after a harder-than-usual body collapse, and after no matter what I did my mood hasn't improved for a month. Regular running, meditating, writing, crafting, coding etc were my antidote to my mood swings but this time it didn't work. Started taking SSRI and continue doing all this things, and I was reborn.

My therapist said that a big chunk of why i am feeling better is also because I kept doing things that are good for me. That she sees with a lot of her patients that they think a pill will magically change the situation. It doesn't work on itself, you need to show up and do things that release serotonin in your body.

But seriously, unbelievable, years of frustration and friction in my life disappeared and I have never felt better.

Maybe I don't entirely get it, but what is stopping you to just continue coding?

Interesting, can this be an expected outcome of AI adoption? Mergers of big competitors?

Reading him, Wallerstein and Arrighi was life-changing for me and it completely altered my view on society, economy and history. Can't recommend it enough.

My Finnish gf told me that the police in Finland is so reasonable and human, that often they will stop by just to check in if everyone are safe and well and if anyone needs assistance. She mentioned countless of times she was with her international friends partying, or doing sauna or skinny dipping in the lake, often all the three things in the same night of course, when her friends got nervous when the police stopped by, and she was like "ahh no, don't worry, they just want to check if we are all okay".

Police asked if they are all safe, nodded and wished them a nice party.

It seems like this, but it actually not true. What's interesting in F1 is that you have to find the right balance between innovation and consistency.

James Vowles, current Williams TP ordered his team to "break everything" in order to improve and change: https://youtu.be/nYzwvTSffiY?t=3129

What is often forgotten is, that all F1 cars are prototypes, they NEED to constantly change and innovate, and every year it starts from the beginning (almost).

There is a fantastic book called Total Competition, which is a conversation between two ex-team principles, one of them Ross Brawn, probably most successful F1 engineer. In it, Brawn says: "But where I think Formula One is very strong is in the culture. If you wanted to develop a concept and to drive things forward at maximum pace, utilize it in Formula One. The composite companies love Formula One because we are willing to try things. If they’ve got a new resin system or a new type of fibre, they give it to the Formula One teams to explore for them, to look at the applications and come back with the feedback. If they put it in the aerospace industry, five years later they would have an answer. Put it into Formula One and five months later they have got an answer"

> Here’s the thing, though. To experience VR properly, you need to be able to walk arbitrarily through space

This is why racing games are such a good use case for the VR. Seems to me it is the only place where VR is used regularly

My new life motto, thank you very much! You just made a stranger's day better

Not trying to be rude towards you, but I am always a bit shocked and a bit sad hearing people take their life as an investment strategy. I understand your point of view, but life also needs to be lived, not experienced as a constant chart moving up and right. My brother was/is like that, who is calculating profits and opportunities when hanging out with his friends, and will stay friend with someone as long as he will get something out of that himself. I find it a bit weird.

However, I understand if you are coming from a poor background, most of your life resolves around how to improve it, so me not knowing anything about you, I am not judging you for this, just find it different.

This is almost 40% in Slovenia, but for a moderate without a clear program.

Every second election cycle Messiah like that becomes the prime minister.

In this particular case I call a commercial api by supdata

And I use youtube api to extract metadata of the video(s)

My very first thing was automation of placing my journal entry to appropriate Google Drive folder. I write my brain dump/journal everyday in Google Docs, and if I just click "New document, it places it in the root GDrive folder, and I had to move it manually which I am to lazy to do it.

LLM helped me write a python script that searches the root folder, finds the right document (name is always the date of the day), and searches for the right folder in assigned Google Drive repository (and creates a yearly or monthly folder if a new month starts).

It also helped me create a yaml script for Github actions to trigger this once every day.

I felt like a magician. Since then I created second brain databases, internal index of valuable youtube videos, where I call the api to get transcripts and send it to llm, other note taking automations etc etc

+1 over this. As someone without a deep technical background, LLMs enabled me to improve my life unimaginably, being able to quickly sketch and develop small features that remove every day annoyance.

I find the analogy with the car in the beginning a bit weird. He says it is not important to know, and only a handful of readers will learn something from it.

But later he states that "the essay is something you write to figure something out". So why contemplating about the audience and how important it is to them in the first place?

Maybe I was nudged because I enjoy reading and listening knowledgeable people about (classic) cars, but i wonder if pg would make the same statement if the subject of the essay would be a computer science technicality or obscurity.

Wow I find this very useful, thanks! Bookmarked.

Did at least their competitors seed?

Slightly related thought, but I have a popular Slovene name with letter Ž (pronounced as g in mirage) in it. Since I started living abroad, I use the letter Z, even when introducing myself. It often throws people off guard completely and it is much easier to use just Z.

So I guess some cultural aspect of names will also disappear, I know I want I children to have a bit more "international" names.

A lot of things are net negative and straight up dangerous

But we keep doing them because enough people can get money out of it

Sure, here is a scripture from the Cambridge history professor https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/nov/16/blitzed-drugs-...

I can push another scripture towards you that states that drug use didn't significantly influence military strategies or outcomes: https://www.rogermoorhouse.com/blitzed-by-norman-ohler-a-his...

Sorry for being pushy, am not a historian so don't take my aural confirmations for granted

I heard that it is not very well historically accurate and that it wastly overstates the role of drugs in Nazi Reich for the sake of sensationalism

Yes same, my first video was a dad recording his two young sons on sofa just playing around. Very up-close to their faces, I felt very uneasy having a feeling of breaching someone's privacy of their own home

Enjoy all the mail that you will receive now

But you can still open multiple windows?

Did you see the Civ VII announcement? ;)

is Civ big on HN? I rarely see it mention. Its my favorite, so would love to find people here who enjoys it as well

Did you have any success with the servers you joined?

I want to start using it as well, but I just feel like an old person, not really getting it

Thats hilarious! :D

Yeah, I was a recreational amateur beer drinker, to the point where it was almost my social identity. Would lie if I'd say i never tried to tone down

After I was diagnosed with gluten intolerance, I stopped drinking it overnight without any problem. Very interesting, but it just comes down that the consequence overweight the immediate gain. Hangovers were never a big enough reason for me to stop drinking, but the overall negative consequences of being glutened overweighted that

Do you think fediverse is a good direction as response to that?

What a great idea! Thanks! it never occurred to me to do this