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Yes, nix complements your system's package manager, but doesn't replace it

They’re both stimulants with a dopamine re-uptake inhibitors.

That's not how amphetamine works. It's correct for cocaine, but amphetamine promotes dopamine release, it doesn't inhibit reuptake.

In the end, both increase dopamine availability… but through different mechanisms and they're chemically different as well.

healthy amphetamine breakfast

Now that's a pleonasm

Coke isn't an amphetamine

Or am I incorrect. Is this just standardising the API in Vulkan and it gets forwarded to the same video encoding driver? Could we not have Mesa doing a better job? 😒

This is how I would read it. But if you have Mesa do it, it's in software, and you might just be using a software coded directly then, it's much easier.

From my understanding, it's the hardware that produces bad results. There's no encoding logic in the drivers itself. That's why the encoding is accelerated in the first place.

E.g. if the hardware doesn't support b-frames – which for long it didn't – a new driver won't do jack. This is just about how video data gets into and out of the card, any encoding logic is handled by the hardware.

The States previously had European partners though, so your argument is a strawman at best

This should be a warning to all countries looking to enter alliances with Russia - they're not actually a reliable partner.

But I guess some rulers who recently did so were more interested in lining their own pockets and having some Wagner thugs around in case your people rebel against you.

And I understand that African nations don't want alliances with former colonial powers. And I wish for them that they reach a situation where this kind of military support is no longer needed.

But until then, I'd think twice before relying on Russia - Armenia also found out how much their CSTO payments actually got them when Azerbaijan attacked them and got basically nothing. Yet people act surprised when countries choose NATO instead (not that this is the only factor, but you get the point).

It's good that you feel empathic with the vulnerable, and I truly mean that, but I fail to recognize the connection to the actual news

Haha I still remember finding that out

God how dumb

What are you on

What made the release exciting for you?

I just roll along on NixOS-unstable, so for me changes just trickle in over time.

On the last day actually, haha

For anyone interested, this was due to a curl regression AFAIK. 24.11 was supposed to release a week ago but a lot of stuff had to be rebuilt.

Foobar2000

Dang dude, I had just gotten over foobar2000.

Ahh! It was such a step up from Winamp. I think I started using that around 0.7… and actually used it with Wine when I started using Linux as my main OS in about 2008. But there is nothing quite like it.

Issue with LSD is that it's somewhat overwhelming, so not really something for parties, at least I can't really imagine myself partying on it.

2C-B on the other hand…

The only good distribution is my distribution.

Six times the price of coke in the US?

I mean it makes sense because of logistics, but still.

Never tried cocaine, but from what I heard it's not really worth it, looking at price, effects on health, addiction potential etc while the high is just too short and not that great to begin with...

People will now come out and say that proper coke is better but you can't convince me. I'd rather try MDMA or DMT before touching coke

It's something I don't understand. Writing this on a 5 year old phone that cost me 130 euros back then. I do have the money to buy any reasonable phone on the market (not some vanity ones for rich people to show off, but like the top of the line iPhone or Pixel, whatever).

But why would I when the old one still works and does everything I need? Why would I order food when I can just make something myself? If I want to treat myself, I go to a restaurant that I actually like and spend like 30 euros tops. That's once every one or two months. Why do people overspend on this?

If you have kids and actually struggle with basic goods, that is something completely different. But I get the point you're trying to make - some people just feel entitled to a standard of living that they can't afford, and corporations gladly exploit that. And honestly, they'd be stupid not to. A sucker is born every minute. It's up to the legislative to stop this predatory behavior because the market won't regulate itself in this regard.

And you're right, it's not up to school to teach this - I wanted to comment on this one as well - school is supposed to turn you into a person that can think for yourself and realize that a high interest rate is something to your disadvantage. Not to exactly tell you what to do in situation X should you ever encounter it. Because society and its problems change and then suddenly what you learned no longer applies.

In the end, I can't tell people how to spend their money. But once might make the case that with BNPL, people spend money that's not not actually theirs yet. And once these people need help, is going to be society to foot bills, not the corporations who made money off it.

Oh, I don't think Moscow would get bombed anytime soon if the war doesn't escalate into a full NATO - Russia confrontation. My comment was more about being drafted

they're the ones really burying their head in the sand pretending they don't know this is happening and couldn't do anything to stop it.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."