Radiators? Nah, open loop. One end to the faucet, other end to the drain. If you’re on well water it goes right back down to where it came from.

I actually never thought about it until now. I hope it evens out since people who I like can use it too, and I like far more people than I dislike.

I hear you, but I disagree. My people are great at slacking me or each other when they need stuff. We have a great collaborative atmosphere. They set up meetings with each other and with me as needed, and I’ve heard over and over that they really like that. I have weekly 1:1 meetings with each of them, and usually we hang up after 15 minutes because they know what they’re doing and can get back to it.

Imagine actually going to daily standup, wow

I made a daily meeting invite, and told my team to never show up to it. Lets them show up to work an hour later since I put it in the calendar for 930-10.

They’ve been raised on systems where you don’t need it, and they fundamentally don’t understand how one talks to a computer. It’s actually quite a bit to learn, and if you didn’t grow up doing it, it seems like a big cliff.

Which will also mean a renaissance for classic vehicles for EV conversions. Currently the EV market is too small to really support them, but as EVs start hitting junkyards, it will become a big deal.

Also my fav OP :)

Rcpp is probably the best thing to ever exist.

I reject tidyverse though

It took about a decade to undo the conditioning I gained in college and grad school to wake up every day at noon. Now, ten years later in my early 40s, I’m able to wake up at 10 am.

Did you just stop reading there? I was saying those projects should have atomic architectures so that “rewrite small parts when needed” can happen

Boy do I ever disagree with this.

For big projects, with multiple people and man-years of work, sure. Don’t start from scratch. But in my humble opinion, those projects shouldn’t really exist. Instead they should be atomic, made up of small page-length units which individually can be scraped and rebuilt.

For small projects, rewriting is often superb. It allows us to reorganize a mess, apply new knowledge, add neat features and doodads, etc.

How come people use sql instead of just using text files? I just use text files for everything

I do, exclusively

Getting rid of caffeine (decaf still has a little) has been amazing for me.

I wish Ubuntu was just xUbuntu by default and that xfce didn’t have like 4 different settings menus for no reason. I’d also like it if there was a minimalist icon theme by default, and a dock like old school vanilla Ubuntu.

Oh and better multi monitor support

Nope ain’t no room for god in this holy war

I agree with that, it’s also not practical even if it was a solution.

Subjugation, however, has proved historically to be a great solution (even if temporary) to geopolitical disagreements. See: literally every war where the winners got what they wanted. WwIi, us civil war, the entirety of Mongolian history, Chinese history, wars against American Indians, Spanish conquest of South America, Ireland(sorry), etc. doesn’t always work, see Afghanistan, lots of Africa, the Incan empire’s pre-Colombian collapse, same for the Romans (well, after it worked for both), etc. but it CAN work.

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No it isn’t

Mutually assured destruction doesn’t go away because of conventional warfare. Nuclear powers have attacked each other directly and indirectly since the 70s and we haven’t had ww3 yet. The most recent example is US troops killing Russians in Yemen, or the US killing suleimani via drone strike. For previous conflicts, see India vs Pakistan and also China.

The risk of global war is at an all time low because of globalization. Nobody can afford it anymore due to multinationals. We have escaped the Pax Americana and now we are in the Pax Corporata.

lol are you kidding me?

Don’t get me wrong, I support their war (minus the fucking genocide, fucking hell) against Hamas.

But come the fuck on, you’re literally bombing kids. Cut that shit out, go to The Hague, get fucking hanged for it. In the mean time, get some people in the tunnels, kill Hamas. Then bomb some military sites in Iran and some Hezbollah shit in Lebanon, then fucking go home.

Gives them at least 3 months until Hamas 2.0, rinse, repeat, boost domestic military industry.

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