arielweisberg

Can video games provide similar benefits?

This can be implemented without storing it. They could store a hash. No idea what they actually do.

I agree. Claude Code went from being slower than doing it myself to being on average faster, but also far less exhausting so I can do more things in general while it works.

“Classical state-machine replication protocols, such as Paxos, rely on a distinguished leader process to order commands.”

Isn’t that multi-Paxos? Paxos is leaderless.

Very odd opening sentence.

That's just an affordability question. A nice person from the dealer picks up the car from your house and then drops it back off when they are done. You just pay the bill.

Granted I DIY it all just for entertainment.

It's not a good idea if you can't afford it or it is distracting you from your real problems, but a nice car can be very fulfilling and makes the miles you are forced to drive or drive voluntarily many times more enjoyable.

Getting into nicer cars and real sports cars was one of the best calls I ever made.

Engineers punish themselves with pretty terrible cars when they could easily afford something that is better in many dimensions.

You can’t for funds that are only available at a single brokerage. This describes a lot of index funds and wrapper funds.

The funds come from selling stock as it vests. Stuff already in Vanguard stays there until I feel annoyed enough to move it.

I started using E-trade because of this instead of transferring my vested stock to Vanguard. Already had an account so it was zero effort to convert to my usual funds as ETFs which has the bonus of being transferable between brokerages unlike mutual funds.

I started buying Bluray/UHDs as a replacement for going to the theatre and purchasing/renting digital copies and streaming.

I was spending the money anyways, why not own a copy?

Streaming is primarily just for specific TV shows, subscribe, immediately cancel, watch the series, then resubscribe when something worthwhile exists. I can't stand the bugs, slow interfaces, forced ads in ad free tiers, bad audio quality, and bad video quality.

I have a few continuous subscriptions, but they are for weird stuff and they are pretty inexpensive (5-6$ a month). Dropout TV and some D&D podcasts for example.

What most streaming services are asking in no way aligns with the content they offer that is worth watching.

Had to log in to upvote this. The sheer arrogance of this not being obvious to people is telling.

Even very stupid animals can think about the future and have anxiety which is pretty direct evidence they are thinking about the good things and the bad things that happen to them. You could argue well yeah, but they don't have an opinion about it, but Occam's razor suggests otherwise. We are built from the same plumbing in most cases even if ours is better.

I am on Mastodon now. Not sure I want to?

I don’t want much and Mastodon lets me shout into the void just fine.

Social networking with people I know is so fragmented now it feels like no service really matters.

My mother ran a senior family home for 15 year. Private business founded by her.

I do not want to end up in a Medicaid paid for nursing home or family home.

Even the stories of her residents coming from other expensive family homes were horrifying.

Elder care is horrifying.

People die in pain all the time from neglect and incompetence. People who came to her were regularly on their way to a painful death and she brought them back by just not being an idiot and putting in some effort.

Broken bones and many other conditions went undiagnosed or improperly diagnosed/treated. Doctors prescribing medication after medication to deal with the side effects of the medications they already prescribed that weren’t needed in the first place. Dosages all over the map that are inappropriate for someone in the given age and condition.

You better hope you keep your brain to manage your own medical care or have someone who can do it for you.

In a country with not much of a social safety net and runaway medical/elder care costs is there really another option? You need to sock away massive amounts of money as quickly as possible if you want to reduce tail risk and as a side bonus you might get to reach financial freedom earlier.

My choices would be very different if I didn't think I was more or less on my own.