Insanity

At least the dot com crash left us with m useful infrastructure. And it didn’t price regular customer out of the computer market.

Going to have to sell a kidney to build a new gaming PC the next few years.

True indeed, I definitely missed some sleep because of books.

Well, I guess both risk management and the 5 stages are inherently a human activity. Not too surprised that behaviour transfers across personal/professional boundaries. :D

Also, reading lowers stress. Which in turn improves sleep an overall mental / physical health. I always read before going to bed for at least 30 minutes, and anecdotally I have a much easier time to fall asleep that way.

And yet again the age of the universe is pushed higher. As our understanding improves, it tends to get older (and larger).

Poor title or poor understanding of 'Lonely'. Lonely means the negative experience of being alone / longing for connection.

I guess better phrasing is 'Maybe men like solitude', or 'Maybe men like being alone'. 'Being lonely' is bad phrasing.

But more OT, I definitely need my 'me-time / alone time' to feel happy. I'd go crazy without that. Doesn't mean I want to always be alone, and I'm happy to be in a relationship. So by no means would I ever describe myself as 'lonely', even during the periods of time when I am alone.

I didn't read Peak Mind, but two books that are somewhat in the same vain (based on your description) are:

1. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59794522-non-things

2. https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/236849376-attensity

First one I highly recommend. Second one I'm reading now, so far it's.. okay. The ideas in the book resonate with me but the writing is poor. The first book (Non-Things) talks about our relation to the digital versus the physical, and it convinced me to stop using my phone as much.

This resonates with me. I enjoy being at my grandparents’ home. And it’s exactly as you mentioned, if I would describe all the stuff in the living room it’d be called “cluttered”. Yet it feels “homey” and I feel pretty relaxed whenever I sit there to read a book.

And then on my side, for the past 15 years I moved to a new place about every 2-3 years. Never really invested in making it feel “homey” because I’m not sure how much space I’d have in the next place I move to.

I've been a paying customer for many years and can't recall the last time this happened apart from now. It's honestly been a pretty stable service and rarely encountered any issues with it.

Same here. I started describing it as the “uncanny valley” of text. It’s like a gut reaction that something is off with the text even if you can’t pinpoint it immediately.

Ah yes, remember how back in the day people spent about 6-8 hours reading the newspaper. /s

I think there’s just a decent component of “random chance” involved. You can live a healthy life and still die too young, or you can be a lifelong smoker who lives to 90.

When thinking about the impact of behaviour on health, it talks about humans in aggregate, not on an individual level.

+1. The base price for US healthcare is entirely removed from the cost of the service provided. And you can of course just look at other countries to figure out that the cost is much higher than it should be.

I tried a “cleaning sim”. I already forgot the name but it was just like doing chores with a pressure cleaner.

Have not tried the train / driving sim though.

I like this comparison. That’s a good way to think about it.

I never got the appeal for these sim games. From the screenshots, it looks like a beautiful game and I guess I could enjoy the visuals for an hour or 2.

But I don't see how it'd entertain me for hours on end. If someone here is into these sim games, what's the reason you keep going back to them?

They prompted the model by hand.

I did this but have (partly) reverted. I don't always want to read a wall of text that an AI regurgitates for search. The google AI snippet (1 short para) does seem better than the typical ChatGPT response.

+1. I’m in the exact opposite camp, I enjoy programming more than “shipping a product”. But the programming itself, coming up with solutions to tough problems, is the fun part. Shipping a product is a side-effect.

Betteridge's law of headlines :)

It was! Downtown near the financial district.

You definitely need infrastructure for that. Biking infrastructure in North American cities is.. not great. Definitely viable in some of the EU ones though.

Used to do this in Belgium. Still less convenient than driving, and kinda annoying to use during a Canadian winter.

And again, more limited space.

I commute by walking (1h per day) and typically avoid the car when possible, but for groceries there’s just no way I’d go back to walking to and fro.

I don’t but YMMV of course. Maybe if I was single, but it’s just inefficient to go multiple times a week.

And then there’s heavier things to carry (drinks).

I doubt this is true. I walk to the store when I quickly need to get eggs or milk or something random I forgot. But I’ll drive to do the weekly grocery trip because I can’t carry food for a week (for a family) on my own without driving.

It’s almost like the AI answering “should I walk or drive to the nearest carwash”. Sure I can walk, I just can’t complete the grocery shopping lol.

I live in a metropolitan area and can walk to many stores within a 30 minute radius. (First supermarket is less than 5 minutes away).

But there is the added complication of weight. I can’t buy food for a week without driving there. Nor can I go and buy a TV by just walking to the hardware store.

This is kind of non-news to be honest. Reporting on _having_ the conversations is much more valuable. And reporting of absence can also just means it's absent 'as far as we know'.

I walk to the office during warm days, it’s about 30 minutes to get there. I get essentially an hour of walking just by commuting.

If I drive, it takes me 15 minutes (Toronto traffic is horrible). So doesn’t even gain me much in terms of time.

Just sad that temperatures here drop so low I don’t want to walk for half the year lol.

Haven’t bought a physical game in at least 15 years (because of Steam). I do wonder how many people still buy physical copies these days.

Not sure what the sales are like on PS but at least on Steam you can find great deals for the digital copies as well. (You lose the reselling though)

A (sad/funny) anecdote. Someone told me earlier this week "Not using a coding agent today is like using Vim for development instead of an IDE, you're just lagging behind".

As someone who's been exclusively using Vim for my development (and can definitely integrate it with AI workflows), that's just an insanely silly opinion. But I guess it shows how the next generation thinks about these tools that they've heard of but never actually bothered to learn.