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sersi··on Hollywood's Video Game Era Is Here. Will It Be Any Good?
Yup, would love an apple tv production of Gabriel Knight...
sersi··on Migrating a Synology NAS to a UniFi UNAS Pro 8 with Robocopy, SMB Multichannel
I tried that before and ran into issues due to the fact that synology's btrfs implementation has quite a few patches. I forgot exactly what issues I had, just ymmv.

The fact that synology's btrfs is incompatible with a normal linux distribution and that the official instructions from synology for reading it is to use an older kernel together with ubuntu 16.04 lts convinced me to switch away from synology.

sersi··on Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
What do you use for virtualization for tools from developer repositories? Run them in a VM or sandboxing like bubblewrap?
sersi··on Hello, me. It's been a while
Yes, the wait is annoying but I do love doctors like this. It's a sign of a great doctor. Just always found it funny that they don't just adjust their appointment time given that the estimate they have is never actually attained in practice.
sersi··on Hello, me. It's been a while
> Also, it’s a deeply eastern European thing to have to wait around too much at the doctors office. I remember waiting for an hour or so at the doctor's office in France. The doctor would give appointment times that assumed he'd spend 15 minutes per patients but he was friendly and patient with answering questions so he'd always end up being very late by the time evening came. Had that with multiple doctors so doesn't seem to be unique to Eastern Europe.
sersi··on Hello, me. It's been a while
I've found that swimming helps me to do that. When I walk, it's too easy to take my kindle and read but swimming, it's a relaxing and repetitive movement where I can only focus on thinking.
sersi··on Midlife Vascular Risk Burden and Dementia-Free Survival Years
You can add having a child to the list. Nothing has caused more disruption to my sleep as my son has done
sersi··on Mea Culpa – Dark Hours
Gruner is a true fan and tends to be overly positive about Apple but I don't doubt his integrity for a second. In cases when his reporting is overly favorable to Apple in my eyes, I do believe that he truly believes what he says.
sersi··on Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023)
It's been the standard recommendation for dealing with jetlag in the last 15-20 years. And usually people who regularly experience jetlag due to repeated international professional trips are not elderly.
sersi··on The Boeing 747 begins its final descent
Lufthansa first class on the 747 is definitely something to try once.
sersi··on A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison
How would they have been able to install a hijacked Chrome if your computer was on the lock screen?
sersi··on Ice water drowning survival of young patient (2025)
I've done it (it's standard in many countries). Honestly, it's a bit horrifying because you are completely at the mercy of someone else but it's bearable. Colonoscopy is definitely easier.

My only experience with global anesthesia was as a child waking up with a massive asthma attack unable to breathe so I try to avoid it.

sersi··on How to earn a billion dollars
Would jk rowling have been as popular without the marketing from her publisher? What about the work of the editor from the publisher?
sersi··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Cheaply designed datacenter that don't use a close loop for watercooling and use too much water are a problem
sersi··on Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows
At the Montessori school my kid goes to, children read a lot. They have access to the Library, can ask the teacher to go there when they need/want to. The school has a no phone policy, children are not allowed to bring them to school. Computers are only in the computer room for children to access when they want to do research and there are no laptops in the class room.

It works well and the children are both happy and do well academically

sersi··on Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony
> Let's say they are correct. What would the solution look like from there? Personally after being diagnosed at 36, I started taking concerta occasionally. Mostly once a week to deal with all the things I have a tendency to not do otherwise. It's helped a lot.

And I'm saying this as someone who lost circa 120k in work I never invoiced because of ADHD

sersi··on Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
Interesting, thanks. Actually slightly cheaper than I expected.
sersi··on Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC
oh I just told it it could install any dependencies it needed. To be fair, the VM runs arch linux and well arch does come with foot guns.
sersi··on Toy Story 5 shows 'terror' of children's screen addiction, says Tom Hanks
which one?
sersi··on Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
Only $3mm needed?
sersi··on Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
If the S&P adopt those rules would there be any index fund that is S&P without the new rules?
sersi··on United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert
Usually the mile high club doesn't involve walking around in the nude though?
sersi··on Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC
It's why all of my agent run in a vm. I refuse to have it run on my own machine. Claude code once managed to render the vm unbootable, I was back in action 5 minutes later after regenerating the vm
sersi··on United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert
> Main post: https://old.reddit.com/r/unitedairlines/comments/1tse6mq/ua_...

> All the redditors on board: https://old.reddit.com/r/unitedairlines/comments/1tse6mq/ua_...

> A passenger with a hilariously illtimed username: https://old.reddit.com/r/unitedairlines/comments/1tse6mq/ua_...

sersi··on SF startup is testing robots in Airbnbs, and trashing them, lawsuit claims
I was on the fence about investing in them and ultimately passed on it. Reading the article, glad I did so.
sersi··on I manage teams without a single call
I don't see those lines in the article text anymore. Wonder if the author edited them out..
sersi··on Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says
And how much does the Trump administration understand and embrace the values and worldview that created the American political system. How much do they agree with the Founding Fathers? ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.’?
sersi··on Why Japanese companies do so many different things
I worked for a software consulting company in Japan, we had a contract with a big well known company. The contract gave a precise date for the delivery with huge fines if we delivered late but there was also a long bug fixing period after the initial delivery.

So we had overtime for 2 months working from 10am to 4am just so that we could deliver the "feature complete" software. If any bugs were found they were classified as either blockers (feature cannot be shown without) or scheduled to be fixed after delivery.

My boss knew it was stupid, he didn't like it but it was the standard contract from that big Japanese company and we were small and they weren't going to change that.

sersi··on Claude for Small Business
Sometimes watered down though. When I summon the soul of Linus, he is nowhere near as scathing or biting as the original :)
sersi··on Claude for Small Business
Yes, as long as context size increase and llm improve at least there's a way out through using AI but once the progress stops...
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