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It is weird overpriced ARM workstation that does not even support Linux and GPUs. MacBook is not the real problem :)

Increase density. More people per room > more profit > more bubble! Cut unprofitable people, around 4% of all deaths are from euthanasia.

I really do not understand why people still can have any illusions about Canadian government after last 3 years.

Anything to distract public from important things! Last week it was sub, now UFO. Did anyone even noticed Watergate^2?

Visited France or UK recently? :)

For an western expat it is more difficult to move to Turkey. Administrative and government stuff. Economy as well.

So far quite opposite is happening. Until about 15 years ago, Istanbul was very cosmopolitan city. You could meet people from all corners of Africa, Asia and Europe there. Even locals looked very white because of all slaves Ottomans brought into Istanbul. To some extend Istanbul was culturally not part of Turkey (something like London and UK).

Hovewer over last decade or so, Istanbul is being assimilated into Turkey. Many orthodox muslim turkish immigrants from east part of Turkey. More radicals... Foreigners are not so welcomed anymore...

I am doing pretty well (crypto). But "long term lease" would be like $300/month condo near beach, tourist resorts are pretty cheap out of main season.

paragraph suggesting that longer term lease

Changing locations every few weeks wears you down, some recovery is needed.. And "making some friends" is an euphemism for mating if you have to know, very hard to get quality stuff if you are just passing through.

I get the whole "building community", some people are really into it, but some others are not!

Look into article, it is all Phase 1, Phase 2.... like an elevator. And absolute top is helping community like proper tradcon. It does not even count with possibility, that people do not really care about such things. There is no basic reasoning about "should we do it"? Usual endgame is to settle down with bad partner.

I like hiking and traveling. I am always in climate that has nice temperatures, usually near sea. Sometimes I sleep on beach, sometimes in hotel. All via super cheap deals (you get very good at that over time).

If I would have less money, I would probably live healthier lifestyle. I would cut alcohol and meat, eat more veggies. I would also take long term lease, make some friends, that is another win for mental health.

freedom money can buy as it relates to your work.

power of money resides in its ability to provide a better life for our families.

I really hate this mentality, it sees money as power to buy freedom and eventually to "buy family".

For me the key is to minimize expenses to some reasonable minimum. It does not matter how much I make, it does not affect my lifestyle much. Maybe I would buy a nicer laptop. I gave up on being slave to money long time ago.

That includes being a slave to family! I am open to serious relationship, but most people think I am cheap bum. I have no reason to change their opinions!

Important are drivers. Integrated intel or AMD GPUs are fine. Also KWin has CPU software rendering, that works mostly fine.

It would be interesting to track other stats. With alcohol person can be active while intoxicated, they can move and talk... Some other drugs may knock them out much earlier.

So if people start using harder substitute drugs, there may be raise of drug overdose, while domestic violence goes down.

Also in some countries effect may be opposite. During covid lockdowns people were not allowed to go to pubs (leave home) and domestic violence raised. Lockdowns were effectively strong prohibition.

Per driving license. It already works like that with truck driver and other professional drivers. They may have 5x more accidents than normal person, but they drive 20x more miles.

Most countries have penalty points on driving license. If some driver is violating traffic rules too often, they should lose driving license! Self driving cars should not have an exception!

Stuff like this is why I prefer to take a bus in Germany.

Trains are overbooked with free tickets and promotions (free pass for entire summer for 50 euro). While underlying infrastructure is not ready for such load. It leads to delays and mistakes. Plus railway stations in Germany look like homeless shelters!

On other side Germany has excellent motorway network. Flixbus is very cheap, quite comfortable, goes all the way to airport, and always on time!

product managers need to influence others without authority.

This is BS! If manager has no authority, he does not matter! It is probably just some BS role to tick the checkbox!

Manager handles resource allocation. It protects its workers from being allocated away by other managers and departments. It also needs to make sure they are actually working on stuff that is needed!

This "trust" argument just offloads responsibility from management to low level workers.

You are arguing from engineering point of view. Even if you come with very solid case, it may not work. Reasons for this decision may not be engineering related, and any reasoning you come up is simply irelevant!

Make sure there is paper trail. If it is medical device or something life critical, and testing is actually legally required, do what you have to do. Maybe start looking for a new job.

But it is your boss decision, not yours!

Do you have someone in factory who could run code for you?

Send them some stuff, put as much logging, sniff all network traffic... And make sure to cover your ass, your boss ordered this, he should have a full responsibility!

the unfailing superiority of open markets, liberalized trade and maximum efficiency — look to be running off the rails.

Open markets still work, but West has opted out! Africa, Middle East and other parts of world need grain and other resources to survive! They are not going to sacrifice themselves!

If West does not want to facilitate the trade, someone else will! Open markets rules!

Some people just do not do Haskell (Lisp, Perl, C....). They tried, they failed. Sometimes they failed several times over couple of decades.

Contributions can have several forms, not just Pull Request on github!

I am first one to throw stone at diversity, but I disagree with this article.

- Problem is a widespread corruption, not diversity specifically. Soviet union, Iran, Saudis, even Nazi Germany had this common problem. Healthy society would fix inefficiencies, unhealthy society promotes them. Diversity can improve efficiency if done right!

- Complex systems will survive, even thrive! Societies like late stage Soviet Union could maintain complex industries, electric grids, space program etc very well. Even 3th world countries are capable of maintaining complex infrastructure while society starves. For example North Korea develops satellites, nukes and rockets... It is connected to ruling class and essential for its power.

- End result is that "non essential" will decline. Stuff like life expectancy, fertility, health care... We can already see that.

Czech Post has an app that does. Local price is like a $1. It works worldwide regular international price.

I am not familiar with Red Hat, but other companies have proprietary verification tests. It takes several decades of machine time to complete.

For example Suse participated over 25 years on Ext3,4, ReiserFS/4, XFS, BTRFS.... This know how is not public!

Is this an example of positive lab culture? To me it reads like a horror story!

Imagine you are poor, take a massive-life-crippling loan, and pay $100 per hour for education at top university! And they come with this kinder-garten stuff!

Btrfs is significantly more complex and very different case. Bcachefs is designed by single guy with different motivation.

Main problem with Bcachefs is its in unknown state. There was no major testing done on that. When some company (like Oracle or Suse) puts it through automated stress test matrix, it may do exceptionally well or completely fail.

There is a solid argument that everyone should read and write. Common literacy is a cornerstone of modern society and is widely enforced. And there is argument if driving is a basic skill, or a privilege...

Reddit went down the drain for several years. Several communities were nuked over years. It needs to die!

Sorry reddit search does not work for you. But moderators did that, not Reddit! There is 2 TB reddit dump on internet, there are services that provide search over that.

And? Reddit is a centralized platform full of censorship. Horrible GUI and API, power trips from CEO... It was circling drain for several years now.

If power users move to some more reasonable decentralized platform, this problem disappears.

I agree with Reddit on this one. Like it or not, Reddit is a private company! Moderators are abusing their power and holding communities as a hostage. Reasons why they do it are irrelevant! Next hot issue will be global warming, elections or whatever.

If you want API access, ask your representative and put it in a law!

Fair enough, I checked it was 60 meters, not 100m [1]

However I do not buy "stable for a very long time wrt human history". There was little ice age in 17th century. 11th century had very warm and fertile weather in Scandinavia, population boom and Vikings... We can go into Egyptian history and droughts that lasted centuries... Entire Sahara was garden in living memory, when pyramids were build...

take action to mitigate

I guess I should buy Tesla then? Do you own any stock btw? Perhaps slight conflict of interest?

We will have to drastically reduce our life standards. Not to "take action" but to live within our means! For US that means no more 4000 pound cars, but small electric bikes!

[1] https://www.e-education.psu.edu/earth107/node/1506