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> Musk orders Twitter to cut infrastructure costs by $1 billion all sound and fury, signifying nothing

I believe David Simon said somewhere that one way to think about The Wire is they took Greek mythology and replaced the gods with institutions.

I have a thing that I do since years since I live in Vienna. I basically go around to at least 2-3 cafes a day, sit and work in one for a couple of hours, then walk to the next one…

very much this, I'm a very restless person and I _need_ to move every 2-3 hours. Cafe hopping is very very important to my general flow. I also need noise and general life happenin…

No, no humour was intended by a purely subjective statement that intense exercise is more or less a deeply unpleasant experience for my body and my brain. The fact that it is benef…

Any sort of intense exercise makes it impossible for me to actually think or concentrate on listening. It's a heightened state in many ways biochemically and is very different from…

Yes haha, I've also been 'cheating' myself to walk more. Grocery planning as you mentioned, also picking up food from far away restaurants that I miss due to the lockdown.

I hate gym culture and I hate running too because the exercise is the 'core' of what you're doing in that time. Walking works for me because I can listen to new music and podcasts …

The word 'rational' is one of the most abused in western intellectual history. Hegel considered his system 'rational' and I think it is fairly self-evident that that has nothing to…

I agree with this take, having dropped out from my PhD. I have reluctantly come to accept over the years that my intellectual interests need to be catered to separately from whatev…

hah so funny to see this here! I first came across this in the following review of Shortparis' album Easter (ПАСХА). One of 2019's music highlights for me. https://thequietus.com/a…

The last time I tried to bump webpacker from 3 to 4 at was absolute hell. The fancy chunk splitting logic was spewing out non-deterministic bundles across different machines in our…

Ha! I grew up in a small (by Indian standards) city in India and our school library for some reason had tons of Agatha Christie. I think I read like 80% of all published Hercule Po…

He said somewhere that he wants to portray the 'madness in the hearts of men' and I think that is a very good guiding principle to view his oeuvre from.

It's actually really cool in a weird way in that it's measurably consistent. I live somewhere in the west and have skin of the moderately darker variety and the amount of general s…

Yes, a fair amount of middle/lower-middle class women in big cities in India make some side cash with this system. Basically just cooking extra portions of lunch and dinner of what…

This is sort of regurgitated. Regular Ordinary Swedish Meal Time was quite popular around 7-8 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8Wu3Bps9ic

Tangential but I just found out that the author is the son of Singapore's PM Lee Hsien Loong.

> based around the idea of understanding supply chains end-to-end if you know more companies / projects in this area, I would love to know. It's of course wiser and easier to do b2…

They lowered this to 2k a while back though. EDIT: It seems it's completely removed now. https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=4969

Putting the 'personal' back in computing, this is great!

This is on the EU roadmap though, for what it's worth. Sometime in the next few years, we should see instantaneous transfers within the EU.