kill, and I swear to god if you’re still there when I ps, I’m getting out the -9

It’s a place that lets people charge subscriptions for blogs.

It also is a nazi bar

Avoid it and encourage others to do the same

Oh, I guess I’m a stoneager with a penchant for functional elitism then.

Though I will admit OOP is valid for involved data modelling, everything else should be functional though.

I’ve also trained myself out of most short variable names for maintainability reasons

On the flip side, what might be an unfathomable horror for a superior being, might not even register to us

Like us showing The Grudge to an ant

So Gaspar Noé, H.G. Wells, Charlie Brooker or Lovecraft get to write your afterlife?

What a strange user

Dopamine

It’s the same place the “made my life worse to own the libs” energy comes from.

They have fucked up reward systems and are seeking the brain chemicals they get from thinking they have succeeded in winding someone up

“Don’t feed the trolls” is because that’s literally what they want. They don’t care about winning anything, the goal is to get you to reply

I think it’s a mostly automated voice with me saying my first name at one point

That’s if it’s still even enabled, I should check that…

I wish I still had time for advent of code…

Oh that’s cool to hear, I was under the impression in research that whilst a lot of the processing actually happens in FORTRAN-written code, it was nearly always reusing already-written functions and primitives in a higher level language (such as python, via the aforementioned SciPy). And then those libraries being maintained by a handful of wizards on the internet somewhere.

Can you elaborate on the kind of research where people are still actively writing directly in FORTRAN? Did people typically arrive with the skills already or was there training for learning how to write it well?

Isn’t it more COBOL than FORTRAN in terms of getting paid?

I thought FORTRAN was pretty much exclusively used via SciPy in research & academia these days.

COBOL is still powering the world economy on mainframes

John Cage - 4’33

Everyone just has to sit in silence and think about why having a nationalist song is kinda weird in the light of the modern day

Not a doctor and I don’t have an exact answer to your question, but this might be helpful:

This may not be a thing in Italy, but check if you’re actually able to get enough vitamin D naturally all times of the year where you are.

if you live in northern England near where I am, for example, you can only really guarantee you’ll get your RDA of vitamin D from the sun during the summer months. I believe in north Scotland it’s not ever possible to reliably get enough naturally.

I try to take a 3000/4000 (honestly which one depends what’s on offer) more or less daily outside of summer. During summer I still take them but maybe every few days.

I would probably try what your doctor recommends (assuming you’ve already flagged your specific concerns, otherwise I’d do that first), it’s entirely possible the 50,000 pill is formulated in such a way it manages to be (somewhat incredibly) slow release. If you experience any issues, schedule an appointment as soon as you can, so they can do some tests to help figure out what’s going on. Your doctor has a degree in this stuff, so it’s good to try what they suggest and discuss any changes with them

This also might not be much of an issue for you since I assume you’re getting your supplements from the same, trusted place. But if not, there’s a load of fake and low quality supplements out there, make sure you research the brand you’re getting has been tested and had its contents verified independently. Any issues could be down to unexpected adulterants rather than the vitamin dose itself

When there is a finite amount of something and someone with more money wants it, it makes the price of it for everyone go up to make it so that some people can no longer afford to compete for the resource, making it available for the higher spender. (Yes there’s also infrastructure being built, but they will out compete us for that too)

Same thing with land & property on it, the working class can’t afford to buy housing now, because rich people want to use housing as an investment vehicle.

Food is another (though also tied to land ownership)

Ultimately it’s the same problem across the board and the solution is generally a wealth tax to prevent densely concentrated capital from distorting the market.

Specifically for these companies, they’re simply too big. They need to be broken up and need to be prevented from getting this size again. If they truly cannot be broken up, they should be nationalised.

Failure to address these issues will result in these companies and people holding a total monopoly on all the resources available. More expensive electricity is only the beginning.

Yeah, for audiophiles this is actually a better situation now tbf

You can get inline USB-C DACs that are head and shoulders above the DACs that were used in 95% of smartphones out there. Or more frustratingly with Samsung, they used to (probably like 8-9 years ago now lol) include half decent DACs but configure them terribly which could only be fixed with custom ROMs, so I had to choose between shit audio or my banking apps.

Average Joe that doesn’t care about that just uses Bluetooth today anyway since you can get cheap Bluetooth headphones for about the same as cheap wired headphones (where the audio is going to be crap whatever you do). And of course there’s the cheap but passable inline DACs they used to include with phones that you can pick up for pretty cheap if you really want to use cheap wired headphones for whatever reason.

It was definitely annoying when they all just got rid of them, but at least now when I want to use my wired headphones on a device, I know it will actually sound good and isn’t down to what was the cheapest DAC they could get away with putting into the device itself.

Notification priority

There’s loads of apps I want notifications from, but I want to go to them at my leisure. Apps don’t get to decide to interrupt me, that’s my decision.

99% of my apps are set to not display the notification icon and not buzz my phone. If I open the draw they show up under any notifications I’ve deemed important enough to still be allowed to interrupt me.

Edit: caveman typo

I am both

I look more like a scaled up person than a conventional tall guy

Honestly not much generally, life is for living, I’m privileged enough to be in a decent paid job that affords me that luxury. Though if I’m on a run of not saving for a few months, it’s time to find something to dial something back a bit, because that’s a sign I’m potentially living unsustainably

I learned the hard way when I was younger that living financially sustainably should be priority one, every month you live unsustainably is at least a couple of months it’ll take to climb out of the hole. And once you’re pretty deep things take their toll on your happiness

Significant enough to talk about

Desperation forces rational people to act irrational

If you can tell yourself you don’t want something because you believe it’s bad for you, when the real issue is you can’t afford the treatment, it hurts less emotionally

Particularly if you happen to be in America where everyone is propagandised into thinking everything bad that happens to them is a personal failure

Thanks to the internet, conspiracies get wings, and now we have American-originated conspiracies making meaningful impact in Europe

8% feels like a pretty low estimate that’s probably based on the high end where the margins are high enough they can absorb some of the cost.

I’m already expecting the cheapest options are probably going to roughly double in price