Author: Chill
Extend
Think about the below as you’re exercising.
Longer life and longer health; every minute you work out extends your life (on average of course) 5-9 minutes and your healthy years perhaps even more than that. Also, people treat you vastly better when you’re fitter. Fair or not, ethical or not, it’s true. I’ve had a cute airline staff girl offer to walk me to my gate that I could see clearly from where I was standing, and a DMV woman who spent a long time on the phone on my behalf and waived all my fees because she thought I was hot.
None of that ever would’ve happened before I worked out and got super fit.
Also, and this matters more to me than any of that, it’s worth it to be the best version of myself I can be for me and just as importantly, for my partner. Why reach for mediocrity when you could instead reach for greatness? Why be a formless lump when you could be as a god?
Dream big, strive hard, do amazing things. It’s worth it and so much better than the alternative.
Knack
I’m so good at troubleshooting sometimes I even amaze myself.
What Wins
Unfortunately, jobs like technical writers, editors, proofreaders are becoming useless.
The commenter in the image above is correct. MBAs don’t care that it’s good. They care that it’s cheap. No matter what any of you think or your most impassioned pleas, that will win the day. Or lose, depending on your perspective.
Hoa No Goa
This is exactly why I refuse to live anywhere with a HOA.
RAM High
Really glad I bought 128GB of RAM when it was at its very lowest and a separate machine with 128GB of memory in it as well.
That was good timing given mem prices now. The 128GB of RAM sticks would cost 5.5x as much now.
Drug Information
Stopping obesity drugs means people regain weight and lose heart health benefits.
Surprise! When you stop taking a drug it stops working!
Who the fuck could have ever guessed. I mean, that’s unprecedented.
Hacker Brain Lacker
It’s unusual that there is one person in this Hacker News comments thread who actually understands how housing market pricing works.
Typically, there is no one. Observationist is correct. Institutional investors deliberately act as market makers because they have more analysis, more money, more ability to hold, and greater resources in general. In the housing market — which is small-volume and illiquid with high transactions costs — this matters a lot.
Literally every other person in the entire comments has zero idea how pricing in the housing market functions nor how institutional investors can and do manipulate it despite purchasing a relatively-small percentage of available stock.
I’m always surprised by how fucking dumb the “smart” people at places like Hacker News in fact are.
Just joined the club. 100% of US roles nuked, offshore untouched.
Online Age Verification Just Like Showing Your ID In Person.
Florida’s Surgeon General Is Now Peddling Fake Water.
500,000 Tech workers have been laid off since ChatGPT was released.
Thousands in Berlin Go Days Without Power and Cell Service After Cables Are Set on Fire.
Artificial intelligence begins prescribing medications in Utah.
We have a fossil closer to our split with Neanderthals and Denisovans.
Unavail Var
Nothing says a company doesn’t give a crap more than “Unavailable Variable.”
Compet
Best to just ignore that shit; it’s just female intrasexual competition at work. Yes, it’s mostly unconscious (she does feel genuinely affronted), but that’s that’s still what it is. There are many women who do wish to self-infantilize, though. No idea why. Easier than taking any form of responsibility or being held accountable, I guess.
Good gig if you can get it. Men can’t.
1980 Heavy
We should do that. In that respect, 1980 was better.
True Try
I worked for a sub-unit of a German company that made exactly those kinds of products. And I kid you not, their unofficial motto was, “We do not innovate.”
And in this case it was exactly what our customers wanted. These were all extremely large (many Fortune 100) enterprise customers that prioritized the tried and true, the stable, and the predictable. They did not want anything that changed like the wind every month or two, as is the usual tech industry way. If a product had been out and tested for 10+ years, they might consider using that “new” tech. And then adopt it over the course of the next decade.
More of the tech world should be that way.
Sodamn Annoying
Some book I was reading like a year ago mentioned “Coke” about 900 times. Definite product placement there. That one was glaringly obvious but yes, it is common.
Dys and Dat
Yes, because it’d be free of the bacterium that causes cholera and the various entities that lead to dysentery and that would’ve made a huge difference.