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Comment · 5 years ago
> Speaking in effective time, it is obviously more than 60 minutes, I would say rather 160 minutes in the beginning and then getter lower with experience and getting used to it.

I seriously disagree with this. 60 minutes is more than sufficient if you aren't screwing around. I also think it's baffling that people are still recommending Starting Strength when there are far more efficient and productive programs to start off with.

Especially as a beginner, you can get a significant training stimulus without having to waste 2-3 hours of your day. How absurd. Think 80/20. I even think spending that much time would be more detrimental than beneficial in the beginning.

Comment · 5 years ago
> Exercise requires persistence. You can't really have gaps in it, because you lose your progress.

Well, maintaining your current level of strength is far easier to do than maintaining continuous progress (especially at more advanced stages, which you have to do a lot of fuckery around programming/scheduling in order to realize any progress at all). You just can't do nothing, but the same goes for languages. If you don't use a language at all, your proficiency atrophies over time as well.

It's just not something people really think about. If you were to reach a level of strength you were happy with, you could just figure out a maintenance program and focus your physical energy on other pursuits, extreme sports, slacklining, bouldering, hiking, whatever.

Comment · 5 years ago
Well, more than diet, anything that isn't technical in nature. Economics, (geo-)politics, biology (particularly humans), etc. There's a lot of that fallacy around here that being knowledgeable/smart in one area means that obviously it transfers to every other field.
Comment · 5 years ago
There are a lot of things we can do, but that requires the EU, the US and China's neighbors to work together. It requires US to have a vision for countering China's growing sphere of influence. Unfortunately, the US is content to let China grow into the void that the US has left as it abdicates its role as superpower. The EU isn't fit to function as a counterweight to China.

I say all this as an EU citizen. For all its faults, the US is the one ally we have that could possibly coordinate an appropriate response (no, not military - financial, political and social, but also military if need be) and it's a tragedy that the US is just ... giving up.

Comment · 5 years ago
> This is totally the right move. I am a (very happy) user of Stadia. If you haven't tried it, you really should...it's an amazing piece of tech. I can find myself with 20-30 minutes worth of downtime during the day, fire up Cyberpunk 2077 or Hitman or Assassin's Creed in moments from my browser on a macbook and play at high settings with no noticeable lag.

There's zero chance I'm ever going to give Google any support in trying to take over the gaming industry. The best thing they can do is kill Stadia, considering how anti-consumer it is.

> The company plans to begin offering its Stadia tech to publishers, opening up the possibility for Stadia to become the streaming tech for other video game companies.

This alone scares the fuck out of me.

Comment · 5 years ago
Have they tried Ritalin? I hear it helps quite a bit.
Comment · 5 years ago
Primarily tabs losing their position, not maintaining their hierarchy, weird behaviour around moving tabs around, crashing and freezing. Also all-around bad performance. Maybe it's improved since I last used it a year ago, but it was so infuriatingly buggy for such a long time that I'm just not willing to give them another chance. Especially when Sidebery just works (99% of the time) and it's more performant than TST ever was.
Comment · 5 years ago
Personally, I've switched over to Sidebery from Tree Style Tabs (which I used for years). TST was just too buggy for my liking.
Comment · 5 years ago
> Well... no warrants were issued, no search conducted, and nothing seized.

The violation is that they were able to sidestep legal processes like warrants by buying the data. If you don't see the issue with that, then I'm not sure what to tell you. It doesn't become okay just because they're purposefully avoiding legal scrutiny. It's like saying HSBC's money laundering is totally fine because they're successfully avoiding legal or law enforcement action.

Comment · 5 years ago
Scrollbars are all about physicality. We are creatures fundamentally rooted in a physical world and we think in ways that are deeply connected to spatial properties of the things we interact with. Scrollbars reflect many of these properties in a natural way on a limited 2D plane (as demonstrated by all the other comments). Mouse wheels aren't able to replace that function in any way. It's not their purpose.
Comment · 5 years ago
The issue isn't just military equipment though. When your entire economy is reliant on electronic chips, it's untenable for all of those chips to come from a geopolitical opponent. That gives them a lot of influence over business and politics without having to impact military equipment.
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Comment · 5 years ago
Afaik none of that data is stored server-side anyway.
Comment · 5 years ago
I haven't really seriously looked into Matrix before. I've briefly skimmed what I could find about it, but didn't see any simple way to get something running where I could easily onboard friends/family. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this seems like the single biggest issue with Matrix.
Comment · 5 years ago
> I've recently been watching Kirk McKusick's course on the design of FreeBSD

Wow, that is one pricey course. Are you watching it out of personal interest or because you need it for something in particular?

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