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by virtualwhys 1mo ago
One is eternity compressed into five minutes; the other is relatively mild even at higher doses in comparison (though of course a powerful experience in its own right). Suspect that for many 5-MEO is something you do once in a lifetime. It&
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by virtualwhys 2mo ago
Collapse in MP, the minerals sector in general, and every high growth sector in the market is institutional derisking in the face of massive leverage ($1.4 trillion in margin loans), which has triggered an historic collapse in high beta sto
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by virtualwhys 2mo ago
Strange, I've always used glid, glided is so cumbersome in comparison.
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by virtualwhys 2mo ago
Certainly at $41, a 52 week low, it's a fire sale (hit $100 back in October.
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by virtualwhys 2mo ago
MP is well positioned in the REE processing space -- now if the share price would stop collapsing then companies in the critical minerals sector would be able to raise capital more easily (MP is the bellwether for the sector)
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by virtualwhys 7mo ago
Not sure why but I especially enjoyed, "I've got to get my ass together", it's almost like a koan.
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by virtualwhys 8mo ago
Dart has the same glaring issue (yes, yes, you can use a codegen library but it's not the same).
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by virtualwhys 9mo ago
Serialization support has been coming for years, I lost patience. Otherwise, yes, some support for expressions, some support for immutability, no support for optional semi-colons, no privacy modifiers so "_" littered everywhere. I
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by virtualwhys 9mo ago
Big turnoff with Dart is the lack of json (de) serialization -- kind of shocking to have to resort to source code generation libraries in a modern language. Also, statement based instead of expression based, and not immutable by default are
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by virtualwhys 9mo ago
Looking at a Thinkpad 16" P1 Gen 8 with 2X 1TB SSD, 64GB RAM, QHD+ screen, centered keyboard like MBP (i.e. no numpad), integrated Intel GPU, lightweight (4 lbs) for a little under $2.5K USD. Closest I've found to an MBP 16"
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by virtualwhys 9mo ago
It would be odd, but that name does ring a bell, Charlie Gordon is the central character in the ever poignant, Flowers for Algernon. Maybe Bellard identifies with the genius, but fears the loss of it.
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by virtualwhys 10mo ago
What on earth, I've got a 5540 and Linux battery life is atrocious, maybe 3 hours under light usage. What are the specs?
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by virtualwhys 1y ago
My father had bladder cancer, which was caught relatively early as the cancer had not yet spread beyond the bladder wall. The doctor performed a rather uncomfortable surgery (the pathway for a man is not pleasant) and then injected the TB v
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by virtualwhys 1y ago
Until now I'd only heard of Framework laptops, but am blown away by the build-your-own process -- incredible, spec the machine just as you want it. Going to dive into the details now, thanks...
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by virtualwhys 1y ago
Was just in an Apple Store yesterday mulling over whether or not to switch back to macOS after 15 years on Linux PCs. Both MacBook Pros and Airs are nice machines, but macOS, for me, it's a huge step back. Unfortunately the Asahi proje
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by virtualwhys 2y ago
Same boat, @6 year old Dell Precision 5540 here and am looking to upgrade. Dell's latest offerings aren't particulaly inspiring, especially wrt pricing (absurdly expensive for what you get). Seems that PC laptop manufacturers have
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by virtualwhys 2y ago
Migrated a Scala 2.8(!) era codebase to Scala 3. As OP explains, macros and abstract type projections tend to be the biggest pain points in complex applications; otherwise, with Scala Rewrite tool it's pretty straightforward. I think i
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by virtualwhys 2y ago
$4 and change here for locally sourced eggs in San Diego, CA, at an organic food store no less. Meanwhile, $9+ at commercial supermarket for bottom of the barrel factory produced eggs -- strange times...
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by virtualwhys 2y ago
See Esqueleto in Haskell, Slick and Quill in Scala, probably LINQ or some variant on .NET in C#/F#. All support building up arbitrarily complex queries based on statically typed query fragments. String fragment "composition"
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by virtualwhys 2y ago
In the US, for schools that use this form of grading, it means your senior year; 3rd form is freshman year and so on. We tend not to have a 13th grade, and when that does exist, a PG (post grad) is generally there because they excel at a pa
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by virtualwhys 2y ago
Looking at the images and the price of eggs I can't help but think... expensive toilet paper
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by virtualwhys 2y ago
Counterpoint, running Dell R430 rack server for nearly ten years -- in that time a single SSD in raid 10, 8 disk array, has failed. Maybe I got lucky? Similarly, my last three laptops have all been Dell Precision -- only issue until I switc
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by virtualwhys 2y ago
8 years and still going on a Dell R430 rack server (8X SSD in RAID 10, 2X Xeon CPU, ...) One of the drives failed last year, but used one of the hot spares on standby to put out the fire as it were. Amazing longevity, perhaps I've jus
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by virtualwhys 2y ago
I used to rent a studio on Parc Lafontaine in Montreal for around $400 USD/month. Beautiful space, clear view of Mont Royal, right off the park, ideal location (IMO) in the plateau. Granted, this was around 15 years ago -- I shudder to
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by virtualwhys 2y ago
What planet are you on? Paycheck to paycheck means there's (nearly) nothing left at the end of every month. Clearly you're not in that situation, and likely have never been anywhere near it with that privileged view of the world.
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by virtualwhys 2y ago
Pretty sure only M1/M2 supported, so none Apple's new offerings will fly...yet. Shame, I'd love to use Linux on Apple's latest and greatest MacBooks, but will stay with tried and true Dell Precision series until the year
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MVCC – the part of PostgreSQL we hate the most (2023)(cs.cmu.edu)
382 points by virtualwhys 2y ago|137 comments
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Valhalla – Where Are We? By Brian Goetz(youtube.com)
2 points by virtualwhys 2y ago|0 comments
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by virtualwhys 2y ago
Left: Write, eat, brush teeth, scissors, chop vegetables, etc. Basically fine motor skills on the left. Right: Throw a baseball, shoot a basketball, play tennis, etc. Power movements on the right. Could always do some sports lefty, like swi
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by virtualwhys 2y ago
Exactly, ambidextrous people are freaks of nature, like a professional baseball player who can pitch with either hand from inning to inning, and even then there will be a stronger side -- in other words, it is unlikely that a human being c

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