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by thimabi 2y ago
> What I've found that actually works well is alcohol; if I'm not tired at sleep-time, take a swig of 130 proof absinthe and I'll be asleep before long. I’d be wary of relying on alcohol to sleep, because the relaxation th
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by thimabi 2y ago
In my case, having a bedtime alarm would only leave me anxious and frustrated if I went to bed and failed to sleep at that time. But I have tried something similar: setting an alarm to decompress before sleeping. No phone, no TV — just some
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by thimabi 2y ago
That’s a bummer! Have you found out why that didn’t work? Perhaps something like caffeine or allergies was interfering with your sleep? If haven’t found out, I wholly recommend doing a sleep study if you can. It can shed some light on any o
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by thimabi 2y ago
I found the best way to ensure sleep regularity is by having a fixed wake-up time. If you don’t have one and you begin to set your alarm clock to early hours, the first weeks doing so will feel like hell. But eventually all will be worth it
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by thimabi 2y ago
You make a good point. Though I believe much of the “rewrite it in Rust” hype is about actually improving the security and/or performance of the software being rewritten.
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by thimabi 2y ago
> spread misinformation? Yes, several state-run and private media organizations operate without profits or at a loss in order to spread misinformation. > which major media operations are operating at a loss how for the public good (di
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by thimabi 2y ago
> The media wants to not go bankrupt. I’d say that depends. Many media organizations operate without profits — or even incurring losses — in order to serve the public good, promote an ideology, engage in activism, spread misinformation,
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by thimabi 2y ago
> The Philippine War started in 1898 in Cuba, and began US world expansion. That is not entirely true. The United States government and/or its citizens acting autonomously had global reach much earlier than 1898. Throughout the nine
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by thimabi 2y ago
At the time of the Mexican-American War, in 1846, there was no Spanish colonial presence in Mexico. In fact, the country had become an independent monarchy, soon followed by a republic, more than two decades before. Spain lost the vast majo
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by thimabi 2y ago
Most certainly not. Software rewrites usually are well-intentioned and might have benefits. Dental replacements like these are certainly not well-intentioned and only the dentist benefits from them.
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by thimabi 2y ago
> Curious how you're measuring this. Can you see it in Activity Monitor? I use an open source app called Stats [1]. It provides a really good overview of the system on the menu bar, and it comes with many customization options. [1]:
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by thimabi 2y ago
> Perhaps ~4 efficiency cores is simply just enough for the average MBP user's standard compute? I believe that’s the case. Most times, the performance cores on my M3 Pro laptop remain idle. What I don’t understand is why battery li
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by thimabi 2y ago
I guess it’s only worth it for people who would really benefit from the speed bump — those who push their machines to the limit and work under tight schedules. I myself don’t need so much performance, so I tend to keep my devices for many,
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by thimabi 2y ago
Yes, other M.2 SSDs have comparable performance when swapping, and other operating systems compress memory, too — though I believe not as much as MacOS. Although machines with Apple Silicon swap flawlessly, I worry about degrading the SSD,
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by thimabi 2y ago
At least in the recent past, a hindrance was that MacOS limited how much of that unified memory could be assigned as VRAM. Those who wanted to exceed the limits had to tinker with kernel settings. I wonder if that has changed or is about t
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by thimabi 2y ago
Nice to see they increased the number of performance cores in the M4 Pro, compared to the M3 Pro. Though I am worried about the impact of this change on battery life on the MBPs. Another positive development was bumping up baseline amounts
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by thimabi 2y ago
I found it brilliantly tongue-in-cheek! So many useful things could be done by a single multibillionaire, yet there are several of them in the world…
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by thimabi 2y ago
How do you recommend that practice to be like? Simply trying over and over to perfect each letterform on empty lined sheets, based on a reference? I’ve done a few handwriting workbooks, mostly consisting of block letter templates to fill.
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by thimabi 2y ago
I don’t know if they are the state-of-the-art, but handwriting recognition in iOS and ChatGPT do wonders for me — even with an ugly handwriting. Though these are more like 90% to 95% accurate, you should review the output before trusting it
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by thimabi 2y ago
From the title, I naively assumed this article would be about people relearning to make legible/beautiful handwritten notes after losing this ability. That is something I’m currently struggling with after many years of too much typing
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by thimabi 2y ago
Wouldn’t you say that the WaPo brand owns its prestige much to the journalists, editors and other professionals who build the newspaper on a day by day basis? These are not random people whose opinion matter as much as those of other random
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by thimabi 2y ago
I wouldn’t say this specific order is “clearly unenforceable” — after all, Wikipedia did remove what it was asked to remove globally, at least for now, didn’t it? Yes, people can use VPNs to circumvent the order if the banned content is ava
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by thimabi 2y ago
HN is not a living organism, it’s an abstract entity formed by the people who engage in the site. As it happens within any community, there’s no such thing as consistency. In fact, so diverse is this community that I’d wager that luck and c
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by thimabi 2y ago
I agree that the decision is wrong and unfair, and that it can be easily circumvented. That does not negate India’s right to legislate as it wants, nor does it prevent the Indian government from repressing citizens who choose to defy the la
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by thimabi 2y ago
I’d like to clear up some misconceptions about jurisdiction going on in this thread, purely from the perspective of international law. As a matter of sovereignty, a state can exercise judicial jurisdiction over its territory, over its natio
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by thimabi 2y ago
> Couldn't a simple answer here be that he felt Kamala is unqualified and terrible and as a newspaper with a lot of readership and influence, he decided against endorsing her? Sure, but why should the personal opinion of the owner o
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by thimabi 2y ago
Regardless of the motive, I do not view favorably his interference in the newspaper. If anything, he should have left editorial decisions to the staff.
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by thimabi 2y ago
I wonder how they are going to smuggle such a gigantic quantity of cheese out of the country. It’s kind of hard to move 22 tonnes of anything without raising suspicion, and doing so in a hurry poses additional challenges.
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by thimabi 2y ago
I concur. I’ve used ORMs in certain projects, but iterating and optimizing them later on became untenable. I’ve learned my lesson — all my new projects forgo ORMs by default.
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by thimabi 2y ago
You’re right, I forgot about that.

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