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The real message is that, even if you don't get rich and can't buy that clothing item that is 10x your nest worth, your work can provide for your needs and your family - rent, groceries, helping extended family...

(Worked at a couple of startups, didn't get rich, but had good experiences, paid for family needs, and put aside investments for the future.)

Sounds like what they call "bla ra" in Thailand (Northeastern Thailand has a lot of Laotian influence). Thick/chunky, unlike the more refined "fish sauce" - "nam bla".

Lived in a house for a while with neighbors making it - slow fermenting pots of fish. Not a pleasant olfactory experience.

Once I ordered extra pickles and I got them - in a vertical stack of about 6 pickles.

Constant change in position, dynamic motion, strong & brief muscular exertion of whole hand and arm, even including the shoulder vs constant static position w/ small repetitive motions, where the fingers really are doing almost all the work.

Don't allow your head/chin to drift forward.

Welcome to "tech neck" - upper crossed syndrome, from looking slightly down.

You're inviting some surprising symptoms, not just neck and back pain, but things like numbness, tingling, or pain shooting down your arms. Really not fun.

Key posture correction seems to be pulling head back. Some physical therapy exercises can help as well.

https://deukspine.com/blog/tech-neck-forward-head-posture-tr...

Straight wrists is good, but hovering like a pianist is not good for extended computer use.

I smoothed the sharp corners of the notch by the keyboard, and smoothed a corner where it got dinged from a drop, but nothing this extensive.

Respect.

I definitely empathize with "concerned I would file through the machine."

Closing the strait for 1 week is 1.9% of annual traffic if equally distributed, so it is very similar.

Refactoring w/o removing all dead code.

I finally subscribed to Dr. Dobbs for the Michael Abrash graphics articles, about a month before he ended them.

I doubt anyone thought the sticker made it actually legal.

More along the lines of "65 miles an hour? I was only out for 30 minutes..."

When gate-checking carryon bags, staff told passengers to take batteries out of the carryons.

It seems like something that is high risk during flight shouldn't be left to passenger compliance with spoken instructions.

More current discussion:

I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574707

One of these years is going to be the year of the Linux desktop!

Hmm: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Linux+desktop&...

I think there's some truth to this - you may still have the tendencies to be introverted, neurotic, disagreeable, etc., but you can choose how much you let those tendencies drive your behavior.

You have a choice of how to respond to your feelings - if you feel introverted, so you never talk to people, it dominates your life and personality. If you feel introverted, but you frequently talk to people anyway, you can make friends, participate in activities, and reduce the impact of those feelings on your life.

"I have a tendency (diagnosis), therefore I'm excused" or "I have a tendency, so I've created habits to create good results in spite of it."

And with practice, it gets easier, though it may always take work, and much more effort than for people to whom it comes naturally.

Maybe this doesn't change your personality to "I naturally socialize with others", but maybe it lets you change to "I can enjoy socializing with others".

You may be thinking DVI, which is a subset of HDMI, and lacks audio, and can have a passive DVI->HDMI connection.

We had tried video in the car for our teens, but found that audio books worked a lot better - shared experience, nobody has a bad angle/line of sight, can still see the scenery and engage in the travel, less looking down prompting motion sickness, etc.

Though now that everybody has a device, we have to intentionally opt for a shared experience, rather than 1:1 devices.

Wow, politics seems the opposite to me. It has the morbid fascination of a train wreck. You can't stop it, you know it's going badly, yet you can't look away.

Family and building things are much more positive sources of energy to me.

Looks like others have reported similar issues. Entering a navigation route may help?

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/map-location-and-rou...

To be fair, "write an interpreter for a subset of scheme" is a core use case for lisp-family languages.

If it had been,"write a real-time driver for a memory-limited piece of hardware", you may have had a different preference.

The recent Wizardry remaster encouraged me to go back and play other nostalgic games - finished Ultima I and II, but the nostalgia wasn't strong enough to keep going through the busywork and UI impedance of others.

I'll keep this one on my list for when nostalgia strikes again...

Also from that article:

"while China was responsible for more than 60% of global increase in overall oil demand between 2013 and 2023, it represented less than 20% of last year’s rise, largely as a result of its slowdown in fuel use."

Yes, looks like ground control points for photogrammetry. https://www.pix4d.com/blog/diving-into-underwater-photogramm...

The article was published in 2016, and the authors extrapolated from 7 data points (!) over about 7 years of progress in the world record. This is obviously insufficient to project 30 years into the future.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27446911/#&gid=article-figur...

That record progressed

  2008 18.58
  2015 15.71 

If we check in on more recent progress since then, we find the current record is 15.66 set in 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20241222175947/https://www.guinn...

Another 7 years, for an improvement of 0.05 seconds, or about 850 years of linear improvement to reach Bolt's 9.58 seconds.

Anyone wanting to bet on beating Bolt by 2048?

...less fit for their environment excluding human fishing pressure.

...haven't /INTENTIONALLY/ discriminated by size...

The article says smaller fish could more easily escape the nets. Though it doesn't cite studies documenting that, it does seem reasonable.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/infant_mortality_r...

I wonder how the consistent gestational period adjustments would affect the statistics for the various states.

Like eating a vegetables and proteins is just more of the same fats and sugars?

I live a long distance from my parents and siblings - technology helps me retain some closeness with them that would not otherwise be possible.

I live close to my children. Technology could be a barrier to closeness with them.

Thanks!

Any bets which link stays valid longer?

I also like this related comic: https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1995-07-12 https://web.archive.org/web/20150309041557/http://dilbert.co...

Hardware happiness - I've enjoyed checking in to these specs every few years...

35" monitor 20 megs of ram 1.2 gigabytes of hard disk space

https://web.archive.org/web/20150205042406/https://dilbert.c...

Please consolidate with existing post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44003445