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  • How do you guys cope with the fact that the world isn't getting any better?

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  • I'm going to address your question in two ways it may be read.

    The world is worse than it was

    I completely disagree, I think the world has never been better. Look back even 70 years and you have the threat of cold war, other wars (Korean War, conflicts in Vietnam, Cambodia, Middle East, ...), much more poverty, starvation (China's Great Famine), illiteracy, a lot more nasty pollutants that we've since moved away from.

    To go a bit more US-centric, although much of this is mirrored elsewhere to varying degrees, you had much, much higher crime rates (possibly due to lead in gasoline), women could be raped by their husbands and had minimal rights, gay people were persecuted, black people were killed for fun (lynchings) along with other deplorable treatment, etc.

    Right now you live in a world where practically all information is available at your fingertips at minimal cost, where most people will at least tolerate your presence even if you don't fit neatly into their ideal world, where we've made a lot of progress on limiting and reversing environmental damage (ozone layer). We have more medical cures & treatments, longer lifespans, greater nutrition, more education, incredible entertainment options (Netflix, Steam, YouTube, etc.).

    The world is better than it ever was, but the pace of improvement has slowed / gone stagnant

    Yeah I get the anxiety, things do seem more unstable than they were 10 years ago. I'm super thankful to be living in our so-far-the-best age but I don't take for granted that it can stay wonderful. Much of the benefits we now enjoy were hard-won victories that required hard work, and I suspect that to keep making the world a better place it'll require us to pay it forward by also working hard. But don't take it for a given that we're due for pain and conflict; human events are too complex to follow simple narratives and it's possible in 5 years we'll all be relaxed and thankful that these current problems fizzled out.

  • What podcasts did you listen to the most this year

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    • Tabletop Gold (Pathfinder 2 play through)
    • Not Another D&D Podcast (D&D play through)
    • The Ezra Klein Show (NYTimes opinion columnist, has super interesting guests and experts)

  • The Price is Wrong, Bob: Only a third of PC gamers pay full price

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  • To summarize for people who don't want to click in, different gamers are willing to pay different amounts for the same game. If you keep the price high then you earn a lot per customer but on a small customer base. Set the price low and you earn a little per customer but on more customers.

    Price discrimination is basically finding ways to charge each customer the most they'll pay - that way you earn a lot for the customers willing to pay the inflated amount while not losing the customers looking to save money.

    There are a variety of ways businesses do this - sales are one way. Grocery stores often use coupons, as higher income consumers often won't bother to deal with clipping coupons. Sometimes the exact same manufacturer will make both a brand name product and then the generic brand with a small tweak. For business to business sales, some companies do pricing per customer based literally on the most they'll pay.

  • Ubuntu Linux Squeezes ~20% More Performance Than Windows 11 On New AMD Zen 4 Threadripper Review

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  • They said they tested using the version of Windows preinstalled by HP, as (presumably) HP would have fine-tuned it for the machine.

  • on arch btw.

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  • Both i3 and sway are very lightweight so you do get good performance, but it's the easy tiling / no-nonsense looks that appeal to me.

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  • I'd hold off then as I would expect you to need to iron out wrinkles with regards to collaborating with others in the MS universe.

  • ShowMeYourBest: ugly person

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  • My first impression was gollum from the Lord of the Rings movie, although gollum's head is rounder.

  • Western Digital is spinning off its flash memory business as sales decline

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  • Thanks and I do indeed use Cloudflare DNS. Glad to know that it's not some bad IP reputation thing.

  • Western Digital is spinning off its flash memory business as sales decline

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  • Is anyone else having trouble reading the link (and can someone send me the original URL?). I just get stuck in an infinite captcha loop where I verify I'm not a robot, the page refreshes, and then it asks me again.

  • How to setup my own home server and make it available to anyone?

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  • I think you should take baby-steps and focus first on just getting something running for you to use. Maybe first experiment with configuring an application you'd like in a virtual machine before you spend money on hardware too.

  • NVIDIA Beta driver 545.23.06 released for Linux, plenty of new features

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  • How is NVIDIA for Wayland? I heard that previously it was an absolute nightmare, but I have Sway setup on my laptop and I'm wondering if it's time to switch my desktop too.

  • do you think the framework laptop is a good long term investment?

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  • It's not a bad option, but probably the best choice would be to just buy a new Framework entirely and sell the old one. Other than other home-labbers I'm not sure who'd be interested in buying a last-generation Framework mainboard, as anyone with a Framework already would likely upgrade to the latest.

    Big laptops aren't really my thing, but you may be interested in the 16-inch Framework that's coming out as it has a slot for a dedicated GPU.

  • do you think the framework laptop is a good long term investment?

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  • To be honest you probably won't save money as you'll be more likely to upgrade regularly. I bought my Framework 13-inch last year and already bought a gorgeous new matte screen for it, and I'd been eyeing upgrading the mainboard with the new AMD one now. In the past with laptops I'd hold onto them for years until they couldn't perform, and now I'm considering upgrading my device a second time within only a year?

    I really do love my Framework, but the easier upgradability makes upgrading more likely, which means more expenses - unless you can restrain from upgrading more often than you would on a laptop. Since budget seems to be a concern for you this may be worth keeping in mind. On the other hand though, I'd be concerned about how long a $500 laptop will last you anyway (the ones I used for years were more like $1200).

    One final thing - some parts can't necessarily be carried over when upgrading to a new generation. For example, to upgrade to the AMD mainboard I'll also have to buy new RAM as the generation upgraded to a newer variant. If I want to use my old mainboard as a home server, I'll also have to purchase replacement parts for what it loses in the upgrade (new hard drive, new expansion ports, cheap case). It's great if you had an existing need for a home server, not so much if you didn't. Since I hate throwing out electronics I'll end up buying more to keep it operational, even though in practice I won't use it very much.

    TL;dr - Framework makes upgrading and reuse cheaper and easier, which if you're like me makes you spend more money and upgrade more frequently.

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    Would you take a cheap and effective once-a-day anti-aging pill? What if it were a suppository?

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  • No. I guess the idea with the question is more around how often you'd take the pill. People can extend their lifetimes already by exercising and eating healthy, but how often do they keep that habit every day. If the pill only worked for one day at a time, how often do you think you'd skip taking it because you'd only age one day and you had a really busy day?

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    Would you take a cheap and effective once-a-day anti-aging pill? What if it were a suppository?

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  • Relax, and I'd be taking it too. Clearly people have enjoyed the question.

    I am somewhat interested though in how often people would keep up with taking it, as I'd imagine people might skip it every so often (oh it's just a day).

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    Would you take a cheap and effective once-a-day anti-aging pill? What if it were a suppository?

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  • No more effect than taking one - otherwise some people might opt to make it a once a week thing and then the question is less interesting.

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    Would you take a cheap and effective once-a-day anti-aging pill? What if it were a suppository?

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  • Ahh I see what you mean. The pill is able to both allow you to continue to learn new information and develop normally while preventing negative age related effects like dementia from forming. Of course in reality there would likely be some contradiction there, but I'll just wave my hands and say the pill has magic fairy dust (harvested from happy fairies who are happy to share it so there's no ethical considerations there).

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    Would you take a cheap and effective once-a-day anti-aging pill? What if it were a suppository?

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  • You aren't aging so it's preserving the integrity of your organs. But it's not a time machine pill and everyone can buy and use it if they want, so it's not a Groundhog Day situation.

  • 95% of NFTs are Worthless: Report

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  • If the values fall low enough relative to transaction fees then there won't be any transactions at all for creators to collect royalties. Also values can drop to literally $0 if it isn't even worth a buyer or sellers time to deal with the NFT (i.e. seller can't find buyer at any price or doesn't bother trying).