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What are your favourite things under 50$ that make your life a bit easier or more pleasant?

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  • Probably a bit out of the $50 budget: a massage.

    • What are some of the best optimizations you applied to your code?

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  • I just recently updated a database call to return the last 7 days of data instead of all data from all time. It went from taking 30+seconds to around 2-4 seconds. Still a long way to go to make it "good" but at least it's not timing out now.

    • What are some of the best optimizations you applied to your code?

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  • If you think it’s slow, first prove it with a benchmark

    So many crimes against maintainability are committed in the name of performance. Optimisation tears down abstractions, exposes internals, and couples tightly. If you’re choosing to shoulder that cost, ensure it is done for good reason.

    • Judge in New York fraud trial threatens to jail Trump for violating gag order

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  • Unfortunately I believe there is a long case history that prevents courts from forcing them to say things as it violates the 1st amendment. Similar to forcing engineers to write code that puts "backdoors" into security systems.

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  • Biometrics are a terrible security feature IMO. MAYBE if used in conjunction with other things like a username and password, but never on its own.

    • What are you playing this week?

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  • Core Keeper with a friend mostly

    • What single item improved the quality of your life over you got it? (Buyed it/got as present/made it)

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  • I've been using the Breathe Right "Extra Strength" ones. They are the only ones that have reliably stayed stuck to my skin overnight and strong enough to keep my nose open.

    https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07F4B4HQL

    • What single item improved the quality of your life over you got it? (Buyed it/got as present/made it)

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  • A knee pillow. I have always struggled with the occasional back pain because I would sometimes twist my legs/back at night and be in pain the next day(s). A knee pillow has massively changed that for me. I pretty much never have issues with my back caused by sleeping weird now.

    In a similar vein, nasal strips. My nose often gets obstructed at night and it caused a ton of sleepless nights because I had a hard time breathing. Finding the strong nasal strips I'm now using pretty much eliminated that problem.

    • What's the worst example of not "reading the room" you ever witnesses?

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  • CEO decided to lay off a huge portion of the company. Then he had the nerve to have an all-hands saying that the company's financials were great and that they were on track to make $X billion in revenue in some years. Most off the laid off people were still in the fucking call.

    • What's something that's not common knowledge but you think everyone should know?

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  • How can birds have laws if they aren't real?

    • About electric vehicle. If you add the maintenance cost for battery, how does it fair compare to gasoline vehicle? On cost we have to pay.

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  • I've had an EV as my only vehicle for about 5 years. The biggest cost of maintenance was replacing my tires. Then replacing one of the new tires after I ran over something and put a big hole in one of them.

    The regular maintenance on it has been effectively zero. I don't have any fluids to change (other than windshield wiper fluid) or other regular maintenance tasks other than tire related things. My parents have had an EV for something like 8 or 9 years and their experience has been similar.

    • Steam's Oldest User Accounts Turn 20, Valve Celebrates With Special Digital Badges - IGN

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  • Incredibly, some of Steam’s early adopter accounts are still actively in use today, a full two decades after their creation.

    There are dozens of us!

    • What are some video games that made you a better gamer?

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  • GTFO. It has honed a ton of skills for me. Coordination/cooperation, accuracy, ammo conversation, fast problem solving, the ability to switch from fast to slow and back very quickly, the list goes on. It's the most intense game of red light green light I've played.

    • Sisko was kind of crazy...

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    • Sisko was kind of crazy...

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  • It also fits with what we know about her. Janeway was always second guessing her decision to ultimately strand her crew in the Delta quadrant. She felt extremely guilty about all of the people on her ship that got killed through those 20 years (especially Seven of Nine) and wanted to do something about it.

    • What topic do you LOVE to talk about, but rarely get to?

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  • Another interesting fact about WWI: There was a lot more movement than people tend to envision, especially during the first months of the war on the Western front.

    WWI is also a hot bed of really interesting and weird firearms development. They tried some wacky stuff around that time.

    • What topic do you LOVE to talk about, but rarely get to?

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  • I remember this scene being depicted in From The Earth to the Moon. Really awesome mini series.

    • Google’s Search AI Says Slavery Was Good, Actually

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  • It got you to click on the article didn't it?

    • Numerous Tesla owners say they've been trapped inside their EVs after they lost power.

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  • I've had a lot more people accidentally open the door with the manual override than the normal door release because it's a lot more obvious than the normal door release. There are a ton of reasons to criticize Tesla, this is not one of them IMO. This article reads like a lot of other anti-EV "news" articles.