Might want to give notebooks like Jupyter a try - they make for a pretty good time when it comes to working with data.

Honestly spreadsheets are kind of great for some things. I’m sure most of their bad rep comes from being applied to the wrong problems - see businesses using it for basically everything.

For tech, check out Hard Fork.

To draw a parallel to the problem of health care - in systems of socialized medicine, a health insurer does de-facto exist, so health insurance does not get entirely abolished when switching to socialized medicine. It’s just that the health insurer is now the government, and the system is no longer ran to optimize for extracting money out of the system, but instead to optimize for population-level health.

Similarly, when trying to reform the housing market, landlords don’t fully go away - you can for example imagine a system where the government becomes a very large landlord and optimizes the system for maximum level of ‘people housed’ (or whatever you want to optimize this system for).

There are also various forms of housing cooperatives, where the landlord is a body consisting of all the tenants collectively.

The landlord most people want to be rid of is the rent-seeking kind, which optimizes the system for extracting money.

How does the nvim-extension compare to vscodevim?

Don’t do it, friend.

The better investment generally is to invest in index funds anyways, which makes your hands at least a little bit cleaner.

Fwiw, the picture doesn’t show someone setting themselves on fire, it shows someone having lit a Molotov cocktail.

It’s hard work to maintain and develop your own engine.

It’s not necessary for Rust, no.

This is only a problem for Python because of a design flaw, one which Rust did not copy.

Ruby has enough syntactic sugar to give you type 2 diabetes honestly.

The Twilight Zone - Nightmare at 20,000 feet, I believe

Is it really valid to call permalink() in that context, since it requires &self? There’s no self in that context afaik. Can’t test it now but it looks suspicious

EDIT: Invalid since the comment was updated

Layers - get a good base layer, merino wool is the gold standard for these. You also want to get a neck gaiter, plus some merino wool socks, and some kind of cap. These will keep you warm and dry throughout most cold weather. Add more layers on top when outside, and remember to remove layers proactively if you feel yourself starting to sweat - it’s never a good idea to be wet in cold weather. The base layer will make physical exertion a pretty hot affair quite fast, so you’d be surprised how fast the sweat starts pouring.

Barring societal collapse I believe I will be able to retire, but that’s only because I’ve gotten extraordinarily lucky in life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0InQkKyR54

I’m sure it’s possible to find some good places on the island, but in my opinion, why risk it? Thailand has so much other stuff to offer at way less of a risk.

Pronounced “poo-ket”, messing the pun up somewhat

Two of my least favourite places I’ve visited have been Cancún and Phuket. Both were minor stops in larger journeys, and I had fairly low expectations, but hot damn these places truly sucked ass. The countries they reside in have some truly great stuff, but you won’t find them in these places.

That seems like a great way to plug your own drains.

Also, I was under the impression that restaurants could sell their frying oil for recycling? This is a weakly held impression to be sure but I want to remember reading something about it.

I don’t think you necessarily need to have studied a lot of math to be successful in programming, but you will need it if you want to get a CS degree, which in turn can be a good lever to a fruitful programming career.

My advice when it comes to math - math skills build upon the concepts you’re expected to have learned before, meaning that if you didn’t fully get everything in the past, then your foundation is not in great shape and you will struggle at higher levels. Going back and repeating the fundamentals just so that you fully understand everything is very helpful in my experience.

I also think that understanding math is rewarding in itself, for what it’s worth!