No one seems to have said it yet, but consistency. Waking up at the same time every day including weekends. Eventually, you just wake up early naturally. I get up at 5:30 am every day on the dot with zero alarm just because it's when I wake up. And I'm never groggy, because I've adapted to it. It's not early anymore it's just when I wake up
I think the second half to this is that it can't be a chore. You have to want to wake up. If you wake up and think about how much you hate being awake it will be all the harder
In the spirit of these kinds of changes, I'd love to hear some honest Linux distribution recommendations. I'm leaning towards Ubuntu because it is the most widely advertised and UX focused from my perspective. But I've also heard good things about Arch. Any others I should be considering?
I'll probably not go full Linux any time soon - I want at least one Windows OS to play games on - so whatever option it should be dual-boot friendly.
This reminds me of a question I have about the whole Monica Lewinsky scandal. Obviously, he was in a position of power and shouldn't have had relations with an intern. But it does beg the question: can any American citizen fully consent to relationships with the active president?
The issue is power and influence, but even the president's wife is subject to a certain level of his presidential authority. So where's the line? When is it "okay" in the eyes of the power dynamic.
Most people are probably reasonable enough to say that his wife, of course, can consent. But it still does make me ponder, and there's an invisible line in the sand somewhere for most people
Yes, but I had rented it at Blockbuster and so I didn't get anywhere close to beating it! But I remember liking it so I was going to try it after I beat the second game
That sounds like the very first game, which was more like a raising digimon game. You had to like run your digimon on a treadmill or something to get its stats up. I was actually going to potentially play that one next!
I used to drive an older Pontiac. It wasn't the fanciest car, so it wasn't the most performant.
One day, I was leaving a restaurant with a girl I was dating, and had to merge into traffic up a hill. I knew the car would need all the power it could get to do the merge safely, so I turned off the air-conditioning. Confused, the girl asked why I did that. I explained that air conditioning affects the performance of the car. She disagreed. She was raised a bit privileged and had only ever driven nice cars, so never noticed the performance hit of having the A/C on.
We bickered back and forth for a minute or two before I said "okay look I'll show you" and reached to turn off the A/C. Before I could, however, she hit me with "you know, you don't always have to be right". I didn't end up getting to prove it to her.
In her defense, I can be very stubborn when its something I am confident I'm correct in, and we actually argued a lot about stuff. Another example of an argument we had was over the fact that prairie dogs can carry the plague. She didn't believe me and I remember we had to look up the answer. And that was on our second date.
I think about that line she hit me with a lot. But I also realize that in a lot of our "arguments" I was still having fun. To me, there's a playful aspect to a good argument. As long as nobody is yelling or getting feelings hurt, it's a fun way to pass the time. Unfortunately, I didn't realize she wasn't having fun like I was.
Seems like we're outliers here 😄 I keep it for those acquaintances who aren't important enough to merit texting directly, but still might want to message me on messenger every now and again. Check in with it once every couple of months and see if anyone messaged me, scroll through the feed, get annoyed at all the "memes" and then exit.
There's a new extremely annoying trend where a post at a "local" company says "hey we need to offload this expensive item, type @highlight in the chat to enter" which ends up pinging your entire friends list. Very annoying, super scummy.
The video explores other questions as well, not just the fan question.
People enjoy thinking about things, rather than rote memorization, so a video that makes physics understandable and fun for people who aren't masters in physics isn't so bad.
The fan in the thumbnail (and the one he tries in the video) fails because the fan's intake is pulling the fan away from the sail (like an airplane propeller). However, I wonder if you redirected that intake to the front of the boat while directing the output to the sail, could you get more thrust? The fan's intake and output would then be working together.
Also the leaf blower could work in theory but I think there's too much friction for the leaf blower to overcome. If it did have enough to push you, then you'd also be pushed sideways by the blower's output as well
Cecily Smith by Will Connolly is just some bonus track from a musical I've never seen or heard but every time I hear it I almost weep.
I love my wife very much and the core concept of "life isn't about the things that we do it's who we are doing them with" is a core ethos to my life, so the song is personally very relatable.
NotNotMike @ notnotmike @programming.dev Posts 35Comments 299Joined 2 yr. ago
They're more expensive because they aren't filled with advertising. Consumer TV prices these days are heavily subsidized by brand deals and ad space