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by sph 6mo ago
> Are any of your sub saharan african relatives giving interviews to press pontificating on such things? I assume no. No, but the first thing they say to a Westerner like me is "what are you fretting about? You white people are alwa
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by sph 6mo ago
Is having a park or woods nearby a symbol of wealth? Do you live in the middle of the Sahara desert?
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by sph 6mo ago
"Desire is the root of all suffering" — Buddha You'll have a hard time finding more suffering than in Wall Street. Meanwhile I haven't found more content, relaxed people than when I visited my distant family in sub-Sahar
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by sph 6mo ago
Already ranted about comments like yours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919820 It's shows true ignorance about what happiness is and where it's found. You can probably find more smiles and hope for the fu
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by sph 6mo ago
Your comment is exactly what successful and rich people say. You can find a lot of joy and acceptance among the poorest of people: the mind is remarkably adaptable, yet it's only those that always strive for more that cannot enjoy life
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by sph 6mo ago
(d) making you feel like an idiot because you care about the craft and intimate knowledge of the software you're working on
937.
by sph 6mo ago
How many of those billion users are using it because they keep being told to become proficient with AI or risk being left behind? I guess a decent enough slice, as the FUD campaign is getting more persistent everyday.
938.
by sph 6mo ago
See the terrible DLSS 5 fiasco.
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by sph 6mo ago
Many such cases. Both the priest anecdote, and AI-critical posts being AI-generated.
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by sph 6mo ago
#1 rule of slop: anything that can be written, can be AI-generated now #2 rule of slop: even posts critical of pervasive AI usage and how it's ruining the world can be AI-generated
941.
by sph 6mo ago
> In the west, government is optimizing for "loads and loads of moooney" More appropriately, government is optimizing for 4 year electoral terms. No one cares about longer timescales necessary to tackle hard problems. This is w
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by sph 6mo ago
> Statecharts seemed to be getting traction in the frontend/UI ecosystem Yes, I stumbled upon statecharts checking out this Godot plugin: https://github.com/derkork/godot-statecharts
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Statecharts: hierarchical state machines(statecharts.dev)
314 points by sph 6mo ago|86 comments
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by sph 6mo ago
The hyprland developer is extremely talented, for his age, but still the mistakes of youth are very apparent: rash decisions, changing for change sake, my way or the highway, etc. If he sticks with the project until he grows out of the impu
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by sph 6mo ago
Super+side mouse buttons, which also works because niri workspaces are vertical. Also my right hand is always on the mouse.
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by sph 6mo ago
I mentioned elsewhere that scrolling WMs shine when you use a workspace per activity. You should never "have stuff all over the place", you should be working on a single one until you context switch.
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by sph 6mo ago
Fewer problems such as? For me niri has been rock solid.
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by sph 6mo ago
I've always (KDE, GNOME, niri) used a workspace per activity/project. I have a workspace with Steam open and a game wiki I was consulting earlier, another workspace with Emacs and browser with documentation, a third workspace with
949.
by sph 6mo ago
What does your "for your information" bring to the table, other than sidetracking the discussion? What are we supposed to do with it?
950.
by sph 6mo ago
Nonsense. Did people already forget the prohibitionism? Did people already forget the war on drugs? I remember liberals were talking about drug decriminalisation 10 years ago, has everybody turned into a puritan nowadays? Also, very hypocri
951.
by sph 6mo ago
So? Go play the morality police elsewhere.
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by sph 6mo ago
The wave/birds juxtaposition is very Escher-like
953.
by sph 6mo ago
"To prove I wasn't addicted I stopped for a week. I felt depressed and tired. I'm back to my 3 cups of coffee a day as it cures my depression." — every HN thread about coffee
954.
by sph 6mo ago
500mL of Americano (diluted coffee) is not 500mL of espresso. I challenge you to drink half a litre of espresso in one sitting.
955.
by sph 6mo ago
Is it? Keynesian economics created the economic framework to finance World Wars.
956.
by sph 6mo ago
It's not, really. Coffee is an anxiety and insomnia machine for me, while nothing made me as calm as amphetamine (even my heart rate was lower). I do have a professional diagnosis for ADHD.
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by sph 6mo ago
I used to be prescribed lisdexamfetamine for ADHD and after 3 years it did feel "a bridge too far for me" as well. My stimulant of choice now is low-dose nicotine patches which I feel is extremely underrated, and demonised because
958.
by sph 6mo ago
A lot of people and research focus on coffee suppressing appetite, which is downstream to the cortisol-raising effects of fight-and-flight response which raise blood sugar among a myriad other things. What they forget is that elevated blood
959.
by sph 6mo ago
> It actually impacted my blood glucose, and when I read more of the research, sucralose actually did cause an insulin reaction in many people who consumed it Yeah the research has been pointing this out for a while now: even if it doesn
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by sph 6mo ago
Oculus? Not created, but if you buy a VR headset, Meta Oculus is one of the top choices.

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