My experience with all these high-powered laptops is that they overheat and throttle when under load. I prefer the low-wattage CPUs and intel graphics: they don't overheat and the battery lasts much longer.
Readit Newstasuki commented on Do I not like Ruby anymore? (2024) sgt.hootr.club/molten-mat... · Posted by u/Vedor
Lack of types is one thing that turned me away from Elixir when I was trying to learn it.
I didn't know how to think about the types so I wanted some way to annotate them to help think through it, but went through it. And then the compiler complained at me I was passing in the wrong type to a function. I mean yes thanks? But also give me a way to figure that out BEFORE I try running the code.
Try Gleam!
Really sad that modern life/society is generally not structured for actual wellbeing. One thing I will complain about forever is the sheer lack of time one has. After work/study, chores, and basic self care, there is no time left in the day. I would exercise more if it wasn't competing on a list of 100 other things I need to do today in the 1 spare hour I have. By the time it gets to the weekend, I'm so tired I don't want to do anything much, let alone difficult exercise.
> After work/study, chores, and basic self care, there is no time left in the day.
I find that hard to believe.
I'm a single parent and manage to find the time for exercise. I wonder what life situation you have that you have "1 spare hour".
> By the time it gets to the weekend, I'm so tired I don't want to do anything much, let alone difficult exercise.
I can't help but think you just don't want to exercise...
tasuki commented on Woz: 'I Am the Happiest Person' daringfireball.net/linked... · Posted by u/mariuz
I used to be a software millionaire back in the 80's. My discovery is that money does buy happiness so the phrase should actually be "Money does buy happiness, but can't cure clinical depression." The list of wealthy people who have committed suicide is long, starting with my contemporaries Kurt Cobain, Chris Cantrell, Anthony Bourdain... and almost me. The money is gone now but I'm happy with enough to live comfortably.
> The money is gone now
How did it happen? Millions in 80's sounds like a whole lot of money...
> but I'm happy with enough to live comfortably.
Congrats!
Is there any reason to run Debian as a user, as opposed to a sysadmin? I love running Debian on my servers, it's boring and rock-solid, but why should I run it on my PC instead of a derivative distro?
To flip that on you: as a user, why should I run a derivative distro on my PC instead of Debian?
I ran away from Ubuntu to Debian and am very happy: it's still the same system, just without the things that were becoming annoying (eg snaps).
> These are people who've been making over $100-200K in tech or tech-adjacent for over a decade.
Oh, ok, these are the people the OP is worried about. If they have been at all reasonable with their money, they'll be fine...
tasuki commented on Why are there so many rationalist cults? asteriskmag.com/issues/11... · Posted by u/glenstein
Shitposting comedy forums were ahead of the WHO when it came to this, it didn't take a genius to understand what was going on before shit completely hit the fan.
Yet the stock market mostly didn't get it. I know some people who made some money based on the knowledge that a pandemic was coming.
tasuki commented on Lördagsgodis (Saturday Sweets) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C... · Posted by u/dmichulke
When I grew up (Norway), the portions were quite small. And we didn't have that big of a selection.
If you go to the super market today in Norway, you'll likely find tens to hundreds of different flavors. Same in Sweden and Denmark. Interestingly enough, I don't think this kind of candy ("smågodt", which you buy by the weight) is too popular elsewhere? At least I haven't seen it too much in convenience stores when I've been traveling or living abroad. In Norway it is ubiquitous, almost everywhere you go shopping.
Also, inflation has really hit chocolate hard here. One small bar of chocolate will easily cost 30-40 NOK, which is equivalent to around €3-€4. The big bars can cost up to €6! But he smågodt / pick'n mix prices have remained quite stable. So a lot of people will just buy chocolate off those. Much, much cheaper.
Candy-by-weight is available in most supermarkets in Poland, but I've never seen it in the Czech Republic. Perhaps the Baltic states have it too? Or Germany?
tasuki commented on Show HN: Move to dodge the bullets. How long can you survive? dodge.trickle.host... · Posted by u/samdychen
Didn't move at all, top 81% of all time.
Seems about right, no? What number would you expect?
Of the 19% of the players worse than you, some tried to die quickly on purpose, others were perhaps less lucky than you...
> The US is a significant global outlier in healthcare.
What has the US to do with any of this?
> Despite this high spending, the health outcomes are average to below-average on a wide range of key metrics
That's because health outcomes are mostly affected by lifestyle and luck, rather than high spending.
> And there's no silver bullet, you'll need multiple great solutions.
(Only slightly tongue in cheek) There is a silver bullet: Get rid of the cars, start using self-powered modes of transport, such as walking and cycling.