jakeva

How do you figure?

What a great read. This resonates with me. At one point in my life I was desperately close to homelessness. At the time I was lucky to still be enrolled at a university and could therefore easily take out as many loans as I needed. It was a horribly risky gamble I wouldn’t wish on anyone, but without going into more details of my life story I barely managed to graduate and find a successful career. I was able to pay off all that debt (nearly 150k) in 4 years. I recognize soberly that my story is the exception and far from the rule. I had a lot of luck. But from that experience I can say nobody should have to experience this. Especially not in the most wealthy nation in the history of the world.

- edit: I just want to add the experience nearly broke me, to the point friends and family barely recognized me and the looks I remember in their faces still haunt me. That transition after graduating and starting to make money to being a person who could interact with others who never got so close to total disaster was just as hard.

Please be kind. You just don’t know what someone has been through.

Aesthetic? That feeling that we're in the future and this isn't grandpa's laptop? Some other intangible quality from which I derive subjective satisfaction?

That you can fit your laptop into a bag doesn't seem to me to be a reason to be happy with thick laptops.

  Things no one cares about:

  . thin

I won't try to speak for everyone like that, but I for one love having a thin laptop.

Ok, well let me add that I do find it good. I never seem to have the problems people complain about. I don't know why, so I'm always baffled by all the complaints.

Comments like these always make me wonder if I'm the only person in the world still delighted by Apple products. I mean I alone can not be responsible for their sales volume.

And then I start to wonder if I should be more critical of Apple, so I fire up my Windows machine and think silently "No, this is still a worse experience". So I fire up my Ubuntu and have the same reaction. I just don't understand the vitriol some people have for Apple, to me it is hands down always the better platform.

Making playing cards, IIRC. Was that considered tech back then?

In which case it should be easy for you to explain, yes?

I'm curious what you think is which? For me, "live like you'll never die" is more motivating than "live each day like it's your last".

I'm surprised House of Leaves isn't mentioned, a terrific book about a house bigger on the inside full of labyrinths.

Can you give an example outside the M1 Macbooks?

I wouldn't be, the M1 isn't available in that form factor yet and even if it was it would be first gen, and in the meantime you still have a really great computer.

Another typo, I think "Apples, Bananas, or Pairs" is probably meant to be "Apples, Bananas, or Pears"

> git complains that somewhere around commit 4 there's a conflict.

That sounds like a rebase merge, which might be the setting in the repo. A normal merge wouldn't attempt commit by commit.

I was confused and thought you were talking about Ulysses the iOS and macOS app https://ulysses.app/

I've done the same thing. Idiocracy be damned, it seems like we're already pretty close to there. At least I will be able to enjoy my life knowing I'm not going to have to be responsible for a life or lives in an increasingly destabilizing climate.

We use mocks a lot on my team, and I don't think we've ever seen what you describe. Maybe you're using mocks incorrectly?

My girlfriend is Chinese and she's the best cook I've ever met, so there's one opinionated bit of anecdata for you.

What is it with people registering domains and building websites around single concepts? I don't get it.

I'm confused, would you be making a pretty good salary or would you be making more money flipping burgers?

What makes obvious a law?

Only 65. I grew up listening to Van Halen and spent a crazy amount of time trying to play guitar like Eddie. I think their first album was released when he was only 22. What a legend. What a life. Taken too soon. :(

I have always found bash syntax super confusing. I always enjoy Julia's take on different topics, but I have to confess I was hoping for a little more here than "[[ is bash syntax. it’s more powerful than ["

I use both kubernetes and OTP supervisors and don't find it misleading, rather I quite agree but maybe I'm missing something. I'm curious what you mean by that?

I don't think it worked out well in his times either

Then it seems the rational thing for you to do is to buy hardware that allows arbitrary software to be run

Any justification for forcing a hardware maker to allow arbitrary apps on their hardware, aside from your personal experience with being rejected?

That may be true, and maybe the professor was right to discourage that track. A key difference I'd point out, however, is that one is more universally accepted among researchers as pseudoscience than the other.

For instance, the first sentence of the wikipedia entry for homeopathy: "Homeopathy or homoeopathy is a pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine."

First sentence for cold fusion: "Cold fusion is a hypothesized type of nuclear reaction that would occur at, or near, room temperature."

The failures of Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann, or the fallout of that case, do not in my mind constitute pseudoscience. Skepticism notwithstanding, it is an actual area of research still funded by universities around the world - from wikipedia, as recently as 2015 "the Indian multidisciplinary journal Current Science published a special section devoted entirely to cold fusion related papers. https://web.archive.org/web/20170805185756/http://www.curren..."

I personally think it's more interesting than homeopathy or linking vaccines to autism. I think the research has yielded more tangible real world benefits, such as improvements to the sophistication of calorimeters. Furthermore, I think lack of reproducibility is not the same as proof of its impossibility or that it is pseudoscience.

Maybe it's my personal longing for a future with cold fusion speaking - and I don't think it's a good career move to focus on it - but I don't like seeing it dismissed in the same pile of detritus as homeopathy.

".. is known to be pseudoscience" could be correct, until it is not. Dismissing someone's research interests is not just rude but also the attitude that led to this individual dropping out of academia altogether.

This is the sort of response the doctor who suggested washing hands after surgery received and is not particularly useful.

Unlike how it is now?