Self interest & the interests of others are not opposites. You can mutually benefit, that is a thing. Being taken advantage of & having unfair trades of energy is, by contrast, not friendship. Great friends don't keep score, they rely on the other person to "pay their debts" on their own schedule
I'm pretty sure that government software always blows because they think software can be written according to a fixed schedule and budget
It's tempting to think it's like building a house, and if you have the blueprints & wood, it'll just be fast and easy. Everything will go on schedule
But no, in software, the "wood" is always shape shifting, the land you're building on is shape shifting, some dude in Romania is tryna break in, and the blueprints forgot that you also need plumbing and electric lines
Let's all of us stop making the mistake of trusting big tech. They always make a good product you actually want then rugpull once you're settled. YouTube music is passably okay but there's a dozen bugs and issues that I'm still struggling with that didn't exist in Google music
He's not actually, and if you read it, he warns that assigning meaning to meaninglessness is a fallacy. People feel bad because there's no meaning but then that's applying meaning to it. Transcendence of meaning frees you from it entirely and leads to Buddhism, which also embraced "emptiness" at the core of reality
Ah it's one of these things that they probably could be profitable, and certainly their almost billion in sales per year is healthy
It's worth remembering that corps pay no taxes if they spend more than they earn. VCs will often be happy to cover that shortfall with the idea of a big sale later. So nobody pays taxes and then eventually they sell or IPO for big bucks and roll that into more investments. The economy keeps on pumping
Man that's wild that ChromeOS started as Ubuntu but then changed to Gentoo as a base. Then they launched the Linux VM thing and those images are based on Debian
The article math linked lays it out but it's always the same formula. Someone declares an emergency (like Blinken just did for Israel) and then just goes ahead and appropriates the funds
But broadly, presidents may issue executive orders for just about anything. The way this works is congress reviews them after the fact, and new presidents tend to review them when they come into office
Read the wiki page on Executive Orders, history, and constitutionality if you think I'm lying. And yes, Trump even declared an emergency and took privilege to build the wall in recent memory. But there's been literally wars, desegregation, ordering all mined gold to be given to the treasury... by executive order
The big picture is that American presidents have extremely broad powers and the only real recourse is impeachment. This is generally a good thing, it makes the government tremendously more efficient
The other big picture is that the Pentagon refuses to explain where they use 1-2 trillion dollars per year. This is dark money that runs the world, and that's not a secret. They don't pass audits, and they barely try. So most of the country's money is used for military spending, and frankly it's hard to imagine they can't find some cash for key nato borders
Yes the hypocrisy and showmanship here is out of control. Of course Biden could send aid to Ukraine without Congress, but I guess it's better for him to make the Republicans look bad before the election. Pure evil stuff
It's shady shit like this that is a constant reminder, that we are being painted a false dichotomy by the ruling parties. And people eat it up, chanting "Republicans bad" and downplaying the genocide. Of course Palestinians don't have nukes so America & Israel can just go hog wild and bathe in the charred bodies of children with no awkward escalation problems
I used to be a tiling wm arch purist, even worked on a tiling wm called Awesome. Until one day my boss pointed out that all any dev wants is a terminal with splits and a full screen web browser. It was this moment I became enlightened
Conventional wisdom is to keep a balanced circadian rhythm. Sleep at regularish times. Your body clock is set by when you first see blue light from above, so going outside first thing and looking up. Meal times too. Consider your diet and pre sleep habits - sugar, tv, caffeine tend to mess with sleep. Alcohol disables your adrenaline and helps fall asleep but then lowers the quality. Weed largely removes dreams and helps feel rested, but then there's a slight hangover that encourages you to keep smoking
In short, it's a holistic lifestyle thing. Everyone is different, so keeping a journal and experimenting helps. And of course your daily level of stress is a factor
Hmm usually this is where you use the "reset" command in your terminal. Yes there's a command that's specifically for dispelling demons. Not sure how do in vscode, as I am a NeoVim elitist asshole
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