More like a tax on weight over roads

I’m not saying it’s good, I’m saying I expected it to be even worse.

I agree it’s pretty stupid to pay a tax just for owning something. Let’s change it so they pay it every time they use it. Much more fair.

Damn now how am I gonna live without “Change my cursor to Sims 4”?

Reading the paper, AI did a lot better than I would expect. It showed experienced devs working on a familiar code base got 19% slower. It’s telling that they thought they had been more productive, but the result was not that bad tbh.

I wish we had similar research for experienced devs on unfamiliar code bases, or for inexperienced devs, but those would probably be much harder to measure.

Wife has been binging Law and Order SVU recently and I noticed there’s a lot of episodes where they have abused children turn into abusive adults, with the explanation that it’s a natural response of the brain trying to get in a position where it will never be vulnerable again.

No idea if that theory has any merit, but if true I wonder if that can also happen in a larger scale, to an entire society instead of just to an individual.

To get rid of lice

Back in school, one of my first sex ed classes, teacher says: “boys have a factory of sperm in their bodies”.

Me, trying to be funny: “oh so that’s why sometimes there’s smoke coming out of my mouth?”

Thankfully it landed well with the classmates, but the teacher was really worried I took it literally.

Not like there’s much else worth watching on Netflix these days.

Worked on a personal game for 7 years nearly every day. Signed with a publisher and gave up on the project the following year.

“what are you saying? That I can quit vim?”

“no Neo, what I’m saying is - when you’re ready, you won’t have to.”

It’ll be over one day and I don’t know how high the DPI will have to be, but I’m currently at 160 and I still see room for cramming in more pixels.

I started using computers at 640x480, sometimes 800x600. 1024x768 was a blessing. Since then I’ve always cherished every extra pixel I could get. I would never dare use anything above 1x scale.

But they also keep you in your toes. Nobody ever worries about what their fish is doing while they aren’t looking.

$ 200 billion for ICE?

That’s pretty good, webrtc deserves that money.

Why are people who understand what they talk about always so pessimistic? Pessimism is not good for your health - they shouldn’t be dismissive of anything just because of what might/will happen in the future. Learn something from the folks who talk out of their elbows and start living in the moment. The world hasn’t ended even once before, so why worry about it? Let people do whatever they want and if that leads to the end of the human species completely, then we deal with that after it happens.

Edit: I’m confused about the downvotes - is the sarcasm not clear enough and you’re downvoting because you think I might actually mean it, or is the sarcasm clear and you just feel like the comment deserved a downvote?

Audio communication is too slow. If Humans can’t evolve to communicate telepathically, language itself should evolve to account for this. Here’s what I propose:

• we develop a mathematical formula to generate a fingerprint/signature for sentences we intent to say;
• before saying anything, we calculate this fingerprint in our head, then say this fingerprint result, followed by the actual thing we want to say
• the listener then gets this fingerprint result and keeps in mind; whenever it tries to predict what the full sentence from the speaker is going to be, it calculates the fingerprint for the predicted sentence and compares it to the fingerprint received at the start.
• if the fingerprints match, then the listener reports: “I got it” and the speaker can then skip saying the rest of their sentence.

Surely this is bound to improve communication for everyone and would have no downsides whatsoever.

(Sorry, the amphetamines must be kicking in right about now).

I somehow managed to get pretty good at getting a good feeling of “did this person understood what I want them to understand?” and I adapt my level of overexplaining based on that feeling.

It’s something I wish other people did to me as well, as I hate it when people keep talking more to make the same point I already got. Tbh sometimes I even wish people would stop mid-sentence if I already autocompleted their sentence in my head.

Brazil.

If I’m at home and simply unwell, I can walk to the neighborhood clinic (one specific clinic based on my address) and get checked - that usually takes half an hour to a couple hours, but it may not always have a doctor available.

So most people skip the local clinic completely and go to a municipal hospital instead (something doctors often plead people not to do). These should always have a couple doctors available and they’ll see anybody - even if you have no documents. When you get there a nurse will check your pulse and stuff and ask some questions to determine your priority level, then the waiting time can go up to 4 hours if it’s low priority.

If you need specific exams, that will depend on how well equipped the hospital is. Many will do it right there, some will request it from other cities and that may take time, so there’s the option of doing it in private clinics too.

No matter what you may end up needing, if you do it through the public health system you won’t need to pay anything at all. Even experimental treatments and surgeries can get arranged. But there’s always the option of going to private clinics as well. Those can have much shorter waiting times.

Based on my limited experience, this is what people seem to do for each kind of visit:

Emergencies: pretty much everybody go to public hospitals. Most places don’t even have private options for this.

Basic check up: most people will use the public system first, unless it’s something very specific and they are well financially.

Dental care: most people who won’t be financially crippled by it will go private. People tend to stick with the same dentist once they find a good one. On the public system you never know who you might be seeing.

Eye doctor: 50/50. There are nearly as many private options for this as there are for dental care, but a lot of them suck.

Expensive exams and operations: people will try to get them for free at first, or through some Health insurance plan they may have from work. Everybody knows someone who’s been waiting months for something on the public system.

It’s a completely different launcher, I just like the way they list the apps that are not in your home screen (very similar to windows phone). I still prefer smart launcher for its categories but sometimes for the apps I rarely use I liked Niagara’s list.