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throw4950sh06··on New iMac with M4
Fan boys usually care about the brand. ;-)
throw4950sh06··on Wasmer 5.0
That's what reference types (the Wasm proposal) are for, GC builds on top of that.
throw4950sh06··on What happens when people with acute psychosis meet the voices in their heads?
A person with delusions like that is a risk to themselves and others.
throw4950sh06··on What happens when people with acute psychosis meet the voices in their heads?
Call an ambulance. Acute psychosis needs immediate treatment, they may easily hurt themselves or others. The psychosis can be stopped with one injection, don't prolong their suffering. Before the ambulance arrives, try to reassure them that they are safe, there is peace around them and help is on the way. Once the ambulance arrives, go away - it might get messy.
throw4950sh06··on New iMac with M4
I'd buy any other brand if they produced something comparable in all metrics to a Macbook. That means the chassis, the display, sound quality and loudness, excellent trackpad and a very adequate keyboard, no fans or any moving parts at all, low temperature, very long battery life, size, thickness and weight.. I don't care about RAM, I was able to live with 8GB just fine. All the other metrics are much more important to me, more RAM just makes it a little nicer but otherwise doesn't make the experience.

Consider that the "fanboys" simply care about something other than you do. There was a time in my life when I had probably very similar preferences as you, but life changes.

throw4950sh06··on What happens when people with acute psychosis meet the voices in their heads?
Yes. What I mean is that doing it can have unintended consequences - so don't do it if you don't know what you're doing and/or not fully in control of the situation.
throw4950sh06··on What happens when people with acute psychosis meet the voices in their heads?
Yes, that would work. I was really looking for confirmation, so if she said something like this the issue could be avoided. But who knows what I'd come up with 10 minutes later...
throw4950sh06··on What happens when people with acute psychosis meet the voices in their heads?
You're reading into it too much. You don't think you're actually Picard or Kirk, you think the world around you is very similar to the stories, but not actually the story itself.

In my case, it went like this: Whoa, my crew is telepathically beaming me instructions and we are right in the middle of a mission. Where the fuck am I? Crew, give me my command protocols. Oh, I command a starship? Sure, sorry, the heat around here, I might be hit with something, I don't remember, help me! Oh, you're going to transport me? Sure, go ahead, let me just run away from this commando waiting on the hallway using the only other exit - the window... Now it makes sense that I'm a starship captain, why would a commando be waiting there otherwise...

(Your mileage may vary)

throw4950sh06··on What happens when people with acute psychosis meet the voices in their heads?
You're not suddenly irrational in a psychosis, you still have your logic working, just with crooked inputs. So it took me months to sort through some details and make sense of what actually happened and what didn't. There are some things I'm probably never going to be able to explain and I just have to leave it like that. But I don't believe any of my delusions happened, I just would like to know what happened.

All the voices, and the sense of urgency and danger go away immediately when you wake up after a dose of antipsychotic medication. Your first thoughts are that you lived through some weird things which are not happening at all anymore, and now there's a psychiatrist untying you from a hospital bed and handing you a cigarette, which puts stuff into context. You also probably feel the best you felt in weeks/months because it's your first night of sleep since forever.

I can easily imagine someone thinking "well, I had a psychosis, but there was shit going on". Fortunately that's not me.

throw4950sh06··on What happens when people with acute psychosis meet the voices in their heads?
In this particular case, it was sort of the opposite. I'm used to her always being honest, so when she told me it's 15 minutes I trusted her 100%. She was getting a friend to rescue me, and she was counting on me trusting her and waiting at home, but unfortunately that was of no use as I went off to the city before they could even pack their things after that call.
throw4950sh06··on Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO
It's the mindset, not the specific action.
throw4950sh06··on What happens when people with acute psychosis meet the voices in their heads?
Retrospectively, it was a total blunder - not truly hers since she couldn't be expected to act perfectly in that situation, but it's definitely something we've discussed as the TOP ONE thing to never do and always mention it to others when discussing situations like that.

It didn't postpone anything. I called her because I knew I'm going mad and wanted to confirm if it's true or not. Of course I didn't word it this way, though. What she said confirmed the delusion, nearly got me killed and even though I didn't jump, I got lost in the city, hurt myself, nearly hurt others, until someone called the police few hours later.

throw4950sh06··on What happens when people with acute psychosis meet the voices in their heads?
At the beginning, you know you're mad. I remember the first hour or so, I was thinking "no fucking way this is real". But it feels so real that you quickly stop believing anyone who says otherwise and you mark them as the enemies. Your head keeps inventing reasons why is it real and the voices keep explaining it - in some cases it's religious experiences, in my case it's hyper-advanced technology enabling telepathic communication.

I didn't think it's the Star Trek from movies, I just thought we somehow made it work in secret and now I'm on it too. Paranoid people aren't paranoid just so, they are paranoid because there is a brutal mismatch between their perception of reality and what people tell them.

At one point, in a different situation, I knew I'm in the middle of psychosis - and my voices told me all about super-agent-psychiatrists who are trying to help me by doing James Bond-style interventions. So yeah, you can simultaneously know you're right in the middle of it, and discuss the situation with your delusions, while thinking the delusions are real.

throw4950sh06··on What happens when people with acute psychosis meet the voices in their heads?
Don't do it without supervision, I nearly jumped 100m because the voices in my head convinced me I'm a Star Trek captain and will be transported to my bridge mid-jump.

Never do anything to confirm a paranoid person's psychosis unless you have total control of the situation and a psychiatrist supervision. Never try to peace them by saying unrealistic things, you never know what's going on in their head that you just confirmed. My GF tried to reassure me by saying she will be with me in 15 minutes, but she was 100km away and I thought "okay well that makes all of this real, let's do it".

throw4950sh06··on Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO
They probably bought an expensive one that should be working longer than that. You don't get rich by buying cheap shit that breaks often.
throw4950sh06··on Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO
Msft had a stock split during that time.
throw4950sh06··on New iMac with M4
I'd buy that rather than 32 GB anything else.
throw4950sh06··on New iMac with M4
I don't know, still better than all the other hardware vendors with their devices that are bad by specification.
throw4950sh06··on The Coming Technological Singularity (1993)
Sometimes you need to produce megatons of a thing, but sometimes you need to produce a million different things. I bet on the humanoid robot in that case.
throw4950sh06··on On Good Software Engineers
It's completely opposite to the idea that a person's success in today's capitalism is only luck.
throw4950sh06··on Cloud exit assessment – a framework for leaving the cloud
Cloud is an abstraction that lets you stop thinking about individual physical servers in direct relation to specific applications. Doesn't matter whether yours, someone else's or both.
throw4950sh06··on We Can Terraform the American West
Where?
throw4950sh06··on Rider is now free for non-commercial use
The extensions are how you make it a proper IDE. I use cca 60, makes it better than VS ever was.
throw4950sh06··on Rsbuild – A Better Vite?
Yes, I know. But in the US this is not considered a lot of money - they actually got considerably less money they could've gotten if these founders had a product in another market. And, making the money back in the US market is easy - this is really not a lot; just 5-10 senior engineer yearly wages...
throw4950sh06··on Rsbuild – A Better Vite?
Rollup/rolldown is a component of Vite, not full replacement
throw4950sh06··on Rsbuild – A Better Vite?
The real answer is that this is not a lot of money in the US.
throw4950sh06··on Ask HN: Which size of laptop do you prefer?
Macbook Air 13" because it's exactly the same size as A4 paper and fits into most small city bags.
throw4950sh06··on Ask HN: Software devs who went to work to Middle East how did it go?
I'm especially interested in hearing people's experiences from Saudi Arabia
throw4950sh06··on Why you should use Go
No, I don't think so - because I chose tools like Golang that do the job for me.
throw4950sh06··on Why you should use Go
I can't code review every one of 150 devs under me. I can't depend on heroes saving the day. Heroes go do their own thing eventually.
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