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thro32··on GPU glitches in 2016 MacBook Pro models
16GB was not much even 5 years ago. That "fantastic, accessible software" eats a lot of memory.
thro32··on Married to someone with anxiety
No, she was at home. I worked from home as well.
thro32··on Married to someone with anxiety
Yes. The problem is you go back to zero sleep and anxiety. If you can solve sleep some other way, there are no withdrawal symptoms.

Problem with this is that it 1) works, 2) resistance is developed fast 3) you are back to square zero very soon. So it has to be taken in small doses with long intervals, when anxiety is at its worse.

It is not addictive as other drugs, most countries even sell it without prescription.

thro32··on Married to someone with anxiety
I am giving advice against starting family with someone, who can barely take care of themselves.
thro32··on Married to someone with anxiety
I had to deal with something similar, and I think I would add a few practical advices (outside of my other advice):

- if psychotherapy does now work in first 3 months, than problem is somewhere else

- check sugar levels, diabetes.. it is often misdiagnosed with psychiatric problems

- if she has paralyzing fear, you should talk to good psychiatrist and get medication. Be careful what motivations he/she has, he might try to sell you expensive doses for long term.

- we had good experience with psychiatrist outside US. Most consulting was over skype

- MRI, blood test... usual general tests. Anxiety can be result of infection, head concussion...

- Phenibut is quick & cheap solution to anxiety and sleep problems. No side effects, but you develop resistance fast, so it can be used only once a week. It takes edge-off before proper solution is found.

thro32··on Married to someone with anxiety
I was married to such person for 8 years. I physically aged 40 years, and I got gray hair.

My best advice is to get out NOW if you can. Maybe things are working out now, but you are barely floating. Add normal family life into picture: children, job loss, some injury, any sort of accident... and you will sink to bottom faster than a stone.

thro32··on The Manhattan Project Fallacy
Go and Chess AI are SERIOUS and REAL problem. It is something which goes back for thousands years and will be remembered for another thousands years.

AIDS and other contemporary diseases will be soon forgotten after their extinction.

thro32··on Fake News
But I can say that. I spend several hundred hours arguing already. If you want some discussion, there are dedicated subreddits for that.
thro32··on Windows 10 informs Chrome and Firefox users that Edge is ‘safer’
defering upgrades is not really an solution, unless 'several months' is like 5 years. I need control over my system.
thro32··on Ultralight IKEA-Bag Backpack
REI has good ultralight backpacks for like $50 on sale.
thro32··on Manufacturing Jobs Aren’t Coming Back
I checked linked study:

> A human welder today earns around $25 per hour (including benefits), while the equivalent operating cost per hour for a robot is around $8 when installation, maintenance, and the operating costs of all hardware, software, and peripherals are amortized over a five-year depreciation period.

So human cost does not include total cost, just labour. Comparable cost would be around $100

thro32··on Manufacturing Jobs Aren’t Coming Back
> it costs barely $8 an hour to use a robot for spot welding in the auto industry, compared to $25 for a worker—and the gap is only going to widen.

This is just wrong. Author does not know much about welding or car manufacturing.

- Car welding is a best case for robots. Single task repeated many times exactly the same way. Try different case and you get $1M/hour.

- $25/hour human cost is too low. With pauses, errors, delays... $100/hour would be more reasonable.

- Germany is exactly in this situation, but does not have problem with unemployment.

thro32··on Windows 10 informs Chrome and Firefox users that Edge is ‘safer’
Downvotes are nice, but is there any other solution? I want just security updates without new extra functionality.

MS is unpredictable and I do not trust them. One day it might decide to put ads on wallpaper or something.

thro32··on Windows 10 informs Chrome and Firefox users that Edge is ‘safer’
Yet another reasons to blocks automated updates on Windows. Lets see how Edge becomes 'safer' in that situation.
thro32··on List of spacecraft in the Culture series
There is even parody film, how Federation is totalitarian state. It is filmed in Finland, Federation are Russians:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wreck:_In_the_Pirkinning

thro32··on List of spacecraft in the Culture series
That is funny, Excession and Consider Phlebas are only two books I could finish.
thro32··on A Better Alternative to Small Houses
You have 8 x Stackable Chairs at 4sqm?
thro32··on Android user locked out of Google after moving cities
Google has horrible customer support. That is well known fact for almost a decade.

I workaround most of those issues by using VPN. Google always thinks I am sitting in datacenter in Germany.

thro32··on A firm that starts work at 9.06am
> all have to be at work and ready to go at exactly 9.06am.

> everyone has to leave the office at 6pm sharp because staff aren't allowed to work into the evening.

I worked for similar company before. It was toxic environment.

thro32··on Why Native Apps Really Are Doomed, Part 2
"native apps are dead" is pretty loaded statement. Something "pretty good" in "early stages" does not cover that.
thro32··on Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It
Do whatever you want, but that does not make you a "good guy", just a vindictive weasel.
thro32··on German Cities Are Solving the Age-Old Public Toilet Problem
"poor refugees" is left-wing propaganda. Right-wind is anti-islam, terrorists...
thro32··on Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It
Is "lynch mob" and "getting fired" covered under "social consequences" or under "defend your right to speak"?
thro32··on German Cities Are Solving the Age-Old Public Toilet Problem
But I found workers, we employ mostly Albanians, some Greeks and one Pakistani who is here for 10 years. It is manual labor in warehouse. But I would expect more interest from "poor refugees who barely escaped the war".

Anyway this discussion is pointless.

thro32··on Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It
Public vs private is irrelevant. There are just bigots who can not tolerate different opinions.
thro32··on Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It
Most companies have no right to any sort of "core beliefs". We are doing business, not church or homeless shelter.
thro32··on Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It
There is also another aspect. In theory your personal life and work are separated. Your religion or political opinions should not matter at work.

But many people (sadly even on HN) think it is ok to fire people, based on their opinions.

thro32··on German Cities Are Solving the Age-Old Public Toilet Problem
Retirement age in Japan and Germany is around 65 years. Not everyone qualifies for social benefits (owns house, work history...). And regions like Bavaria are bloody expensive. So yes, some pensioners have to work even in Germany (but it was about Japan in reference to old people).

I would be happy to discus my "questionable ideas". I live in Athens and I actually tried to hire some of them for manual labor. Most of them had better shoes than me, were lazy as fuck, and all want to go to Germany.

To start a discussion, please post employment rates among migrants ;-)

thro32··on I had a health crisis in France
Reducing cost is always good. Is not that mantra of free market and capitalism?
thro32··on I had a health crisis in France
Real problem in US with health (and education...) is that cost has skyrocketed out of control. How much is hearth bypass ? $30k? Other countries do that for $4k with similar quality and better post-op care.

Public health care will just transfer more money from poor to corporations (like with education). You need to fix the leaks first, for example sponsor medical tourism to other countries, etc...

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