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6figurelenins
·anno scorso·discuss
The geopolitical stability is now cheaper[1] than the debt service.

Naturally, that calls into question the incredibly low interest rates, and the reserve currency status.

If you need to blame Trump, the last straw was COVID.

> At incredibly low interest rates, most investments are positive ROI.

Step 1: Hold short term rates at zero, forever Step 2: ??? Step 3: Profit Step 4: Wow, that's a lot of debt

[1] https://www.cfr.org/blog/first-time-us-spending-more-debt-in...
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·anno scorso·discuss
Layman's guess: wings push air down, air pushes wings up.

An everyday experiment is sticking your flat hand out the window of a moving car. With slight wrist rotations, you'll find even slight deviations from neutral (parallel to the ground) cause your "wing" to rise or fall, with a force that seems proportional to the angle.

We can hypothesize that a symmetric wing, with zero angle of attack, should experience no lift:

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/a/35139
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·anno scorso·discuss
Not to pick on Rails, sorting files into "models / views / controllers" seems to be our first instinct. My pantry is organized that way: baking stuff goes here, oils go there, etc.

A directory hierarchy feels more pleasant when it maps to features, instead. Less clutter.

Most programmers do not care about OO design, but "connascence" has some persuasive arguments.

https://randycoulman.com/blog/2013/08/27/connascence/

https://practicingruby.com/articles/connascence

https://connascence.io/

> Knowing the various kinds of connascence gives us a metric for determining the characteristics and severity of the coupling in our systems. The idea is simple: The more remote the connection between two clusters of code, the weaker the connascence between them should be.

> Good design principles encourages us to move from tight coupling to looser coupling where possible. But connascence allows us to be much more specific about what kinds of problems we’re dealing with, which makes it easier to reason about the types of refactorings that can be used to weaken the connascence between components.
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·anno scorso·discuss
Not Linux specific, but the thermal paste is pretty poor. Mine disintegrated in two years of heavy use. (13", Intel 12th gen)

Popping off the heat sink to apply a fresh dab is no big deal, but I didn't find out until the top-center keys (y, 6) began failing.

Replacing the keyboard is $50 and about a hundred tiny screws.
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·anno scorso·discuss
If it had any "parts," there would be seven trillion dollars' worth.

But it's actually all just taxes.
6figurelenins
·anno scorso·discuss
> To say that the government is too big and complex and it should be smaller and simpler feels like a drastic oversimplification and incredibly simple thing to say.

I can stipulate there must be essential complexity. I think we have to dispute any suggestion that this hypothetically-essential complexity has grown at the same rate as the spending[1].

It's not obvious that fairness, charity, national defense, public health, postage stamps, corn ethanol... [or air traffic control (cough), clean water (cough), non-derailing trains (cough), levees (cough)]..., ad infinitum should require a static percentage of the economy. Essential or not, those costs fundamentally cannot continue to outpace real GDP growth.

Rather, it seems obvious to me that the political class has scope-creeped "governance" into spending as an end in itself.

Practically, and morally, the government is too big and complex, and it should be drastically smaller and simpler.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget#H...
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·2 anni fa·discuss
Terminal, sadly.
6figurelenins
·2 anni fa·discuss
Turnkey web hosting. Drag and drop your build folder, get a URL. Or point it to your git repo.
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·2 anni fa·discuss
> in my experience drug addicts are not very good at hiding it when they lose control

Not sure if it's relevant, but psychedelics (mushrooms) broke a college friend after minimal recreational use. Like, maybe twice, with zero past history of any other controlled substance.

His delusions were similar to what you described. In hindsight, I wasn't qualified to handle his deeply troubled mind.

You did the right thing contacting family and seeking professional help.

If he harms himself, it's not your fault.