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Collapse in MP, the minerals sector in general, and every high growth sector in the market is institutional derisking in the face of massive leverage ($1.4 trillion in margin loans…

Strange, I've always used glid, glided is so cumbersome in comparison.

Certainly at $41, a 52 week low, it's a fire sale (hit $100 back in October.

MP is well positioned in the REE processing space -- now if the share price would stop collapsing then companies in the critical minerals sector would be able to raise capital more…

Not sure why but I especially enjoyed, "I've got to get my ass together", it's almost like a koan.

Dart has the same glaring issue (yes, yes, you can use a codegen library but it's not the same).

Serialization support has been coming for years, I lost patience. Otherwise, yes, some support for expressions, some support for immutability, no support for optional semi-colons, …

Big turnoff with Dart is the lack of json (de) serialization -- kind of shocking to have to resort to source code generation libraries in a modern language. Also, statement based i…

Looking at a Thinkpad 16" P1 Gen 8 with 2X 1TB SSD, 64GB RAM, QHD+ screen, centered keyboard like MBP (i.e. no numpad), integrated Intel GPU, lightweight (4 lbs) for a little under…

It would be odd, but that name does ring a bell, Charlie Gordon is the central character in the ever poignant, Flowers for Algernon. Maybe Bellard identifies with the genius, but f…

What on earth, I've got a 5540 and Linux battery life is atrocious, maybe 3 hours under light usage. What are the specs?

My father had bladder cancer, which was caught relatively early as the cancer had not yet spread beyond the bladder wall. The doctor performed a rather uncomfortable surgery (the p…

Until now I'd only heard of Framework laptops, but am blown away by the build-your-own process -- incredible, spec the machine just as you want it. Going to dive into the details n…

Was just in an Apple Store yesterday mulling over whether or not to switch back to macOS after 15 years on Linux PCs. Both MacBook Pros and Airs are nice machines, but macOS, for m…

Same boat, @6 year old Dell Precision 5540 here and am looking to upgrade. Dell's latest offerings aren't particulaly inspiring, especially wrt pricing (absurdly expensive for what…

Migrated a Scala 2.8(!) era codebase to Scala 3. As OP explains, macros and abstract type projections tend to be the biggest pain points in complex applications; otherwise, with Sc…

$4 and change here for locally sourced eggs in San Diego, CA, at an organic food store no less. Meanwhile, $9+ at commercial supermarket for bottom of the barrel factory produced e…

See Esqueleto in Haskell, Slick and Quill in Scala, probably LINQ or some variant on .NET in C#/F#. All support building up arbitrarily complex queries based on statically typed qu…

In the US, for schools that use this form of grading, it means your senior year; 3rd form is freshman year and so on. We tend not to have a 13th grade, and when that does exist, a …

Looking at the images and the price of eggs I can't help but think... expensive toilet paper

Counterpoint, running Dell R430 rack server for nearly ten years -- in that time a single SSD in raid 10, 8 disk array, has failed. Maybe I got lucky? Similarly, my last three lapt…

8 years and still going on a Dell R430 rack server (8X SSD in RAID 10, 2X Xeon CPU, ...) One of the drives failed last year, but used one of the hot spares on standby to put out th…

I used to rent a studio on Parc Lafontaine in Montreal for around $400 USD/month. Beautiful space, clear view of Mont Royal, right off the park, ideal location (IMO) in the plateau…

What planet are you on? Paycheck to paycheck means there's (nearly) nothing left at the end of every month. Clearly you're not in that situation, and likely have never been anywher…

Pretty sure only M1/M2 supported, so none Apple's new offerings will fly...yet. Shame, I'd love to use Linux on Apple's latest and greatest MacBooks, but will stay with tried and t…