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I play all my games on Linux via proton without hassle. I made the switch 2 years ago and haven’t run into any major issues. At one point, I was playing Elden Ring hassle-free while my friends playing on Windows faced stuttering issues. I am unable to play sim-racing in VR because iRacing uses a Linux-hostile anti-cheat, but that’s the only time I’ve had an issue. Personally, I’m fine avoiding anti-cheat because I don’t like how it interacts with my personal device. Currently, I am playing Baldur’s Gate 3 on ultra settings, and it has worked phenomenally since day one.
Overall, I would say my gaming experience is surprisingly better on Linux than it was on Windows, and I’m absolutely shocked that’s the case.
The primary study that spread the idea that caffeine dehydrates is from a 1928 study with a sample size of three men[0]. It may very well be that caffeine does dehydrate, but I have yet to see overwhelmingly conclusive evidence to make such a claim as matter of fact. For now, I believe it’s safer to err on the side of moderate and regular caffeine consumption not causing dehydration to a perceptible level. This could of course be entirely incorrect, but I haven’t come across research that has convinced me otherwise so far. My understanding is the reason a cup of coffee (or tea’ does not dehydrate the consumer is because it is almost entirely water.
I think an important frying to remember is that science is a field of research and discovery, so we should try to avoid arriving at conclusions and refusing to accept differing opinions. Look at how we treated Ignaz Semmelweis for an extreme example of that type of fallacy.
[0] https://jpet.aspetjournals.org/content/33/2/167
More studies:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3886980/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11022872/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21450118/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9194998
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...
The lack of HSR has absolutely nothing to do with consumers’ obsessions with cars and everything to do with business lobbying, difficulty in acquiring private land, and lack of government interest. It does not stem from the Texas citizens.
Further, DFW has (far more than) last mile transit from the airport with DART. How can you ignore that even if it’s not perfect? It can take you from Dallas to Fort Worth!
How has no one mentioned the actual reason it won’t happen? Texas citizens are not so enamored with cars that they prevent this from happening. Texans that frequently travel between Houston and Dallas fly Southwest Airlines because Southwest has spent an inordinate amount of money lobbying to prevent rail[0].
> Furthermore, HSR also requires some level of last mile connectivity by local mass public transit.
What do you think all the current business travelers are doing with their cars when they fly?
[0] https://www.texastribune.org/2014/03/07/firm-planning-texas-...
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As an aside, browsing this website on an iPad is terrible. It doesn’t respect my request to increase the font size, and when I zoom in, it starts moving and wrapping the text defeating the purpose of the zoom. That being said, the quote formatting and response is fantastic and how online communication should be.
> We cannot downgrade a subscription for you automatically, as only you can choose what data should be removed from your Proton account - it is impossible to downgrade the account to a Free subscription if it exceeds the limits of the Free subscription.
Add a button to delete all data in my account that appears when you tell me you can’t downgrade.
> The refund is automatically issued in the form of Proton credits which you can use for a Proton paid service in the future, or you can request the credits to be refunded back to your original payment method by contacting our support team
What is a proton credit? You chose to issue an unauthorized payment on my card in USD.
To summarize my experience, in order to cancel a subscription at the end of its period, one must:
- Set a reminder to cancel the subscription potentially years out because they cannot disable auto renew
Failing to cancel before being charged without a warning email, they must:
- Discover how to manually delete all of their files across various proton services to get their storage below a free tier threshold
- Email support to ask that their refund issued in proton credits be converted into their payment currency
- Respond to support’s email asking if they are sure they want a refund
Mullvad accepts my payment for a month of use at a time, and I manually renew it (after I receive a reminder) each month. If I don’t need a vpn the following month, I don’t pay for another month. I also find Mullvad works a bit better on Linux too.
I just got hit with a 2 year auto renewal charge from proton for my old proton account (email, storage, vpn) for roughly $200 with no email reminder. I thought I had cancelled the auto renewal, but I apparently hadn’t. When I went to cancel it after receiving the charge, the process was full of dark patterns and offers to continue my service, ending with the inability downgrade because it required me to manually delete emails for 30 minutes to free up storage to downgrade to the free account.
It feels like proton has shifted their focus to metrics and profit growth over user experience while Mullvad simply provides a great product with no trickery.
Does anyone have advice on what I should call myself? I was a senior in public accounting (~3 years of experience) when I switched into software development after self-teaching for 5 years on the side. I settled for an entry-level role to get my foot in the door, but after 7 months I was made the lead of one of a few teams with the rest being led by principal engineers. I think it’s fair to say im clearly not a recent college graduate and am performing like I have already been a software engineer for a few years now.
I now have 2 engineers below me. My technical skills have grown much stronger than an entry level, and my non-technical skills are on par with the other principal engineers. My team has been thriving and has received quite a bit of recognition from the company.
I’m coming up on a year and ready to ask for a raise since I believe I’m vastly outperforming an entry-level role compared to my peers, but I don’t know what to push for since these job levels are less clear than they are in accounting. Level II? Level III? Senior? It’s tough to rank the experience gained from my CPA and accounting background (that would be very valuable if I were still an accountant of course). Naturally engineers want to devalue it (fair enough), but it’s clearly paying dividends in my ability to deliver the company value.
- Nicotine helps mitigate the negative symptoms of ADHD, but US society has seen a major drop in tobacco usage
- Having access to a secretary greatly compensates for workplace related tasks that are difficult for those with ADHD. I have had a few conversations with people at my company much older than myself about how the number of secretaries has vastly shrunk. My boss’ secretary used to reach out to me about a meeting she had scheduled for us. Now my boss doesn’t have a secretary, and I have to schedule those meetings, update them, and communicate this with multiple parties while also having a full plate of my own dev work.
> I don't think there's any task in which someone with ADHD is more suited to than someone without; there are tasks which are less difficult for the person with ADHD than other tasks, but ADHD doesn't bestow many, if any, advantages over a neurotypical person.
Your experience is totally valid! I can only speak for my own experience, but I find compared to my neurotypical peers, I am much more capable at learning a breadth of topics. My peers are significantly better at performing 40 three-way matches for invoices in a work day while I would totally fail at that. But let me make my own video game where I have to learn how to program it, design art, and create music, and I’m great at that! My power comes from the ability to bounce around things depending on what I want to focus on that day. I create an environment for myself where I have dozens of tasks I can do, so that I always have something that will grab my interest.
The way this usually plays out in the actual working world is that I struggle with boring, repetitive tasks, but now that my boss knows how I work, he has let me set a more friendly set up and now frequently sees me deliver major changes that would have taken another developer weeks to accomplish given the diversity of tasks I have solved. Meanwhile the other developer is delivering on certain types of tasks I would be much worse at accomplishing. Our team plays to our strengths.
I’m great at deeply learning various concepts then hyperfocusing and delivering significant code changes at work. Some days I’ll complete 3 major jira tickets complete with testing because I’m so focused. Now of course there are other days where it’s much harder to get things done. But setting up that environment where I have diverse things to work on lets that aspect of my ADHD shine.
I will note that I’m properly medicated and have a great diet that helped a lot. School was always really tough for me. Then I discovered when I was studying for the CPA exam, that I learn much better from books than from a teacher in a classroom. I experienced this again when I self-taught CS. These days, I view my ADHD as less of a hindrance and more of a different approach. It’s true that it has downsides compared to a neurotypical, but I feel that it absolutely has its upsides as well when in a healthy state.
You’re completely misrepresenting ADHD, so I don’t see how this anecdote proves your point.
ADHD isn’t the inability to focus. In fact, it often comes with the ability to hyperfocus better than neurotypical minds. ADHD is the inability to regulate focus on specific activities, particularly ones that are boring and not what the individual finds stimulating. Camping and fishing are not what I would typically consider a difficult task to focus on for someone with ADHD. Especially because it’s a physical activity, which are often better suited for an ADHD mind rather than mental tasks that involve being sedentary.
Perhaps what you’re unintentionally getting at is people with ADHD are much better suited for specific tasks than neurotypicals, and society is largely set up to favor neurotypicals at the expense of those with ADHD.
https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/26/magazine/gm-vs-ross-perot...
- How did you go about setting it up?
- What are the benefits of adding one?
- Can you use it with 4 HDDs installed?
- Which NVMe do you use?
I upgraded the RAM on mine to 20GB and saw massive performance gains, so I’m curious if adding an NVMe cache down the line would have similar performance increases.
I did briefly have a 2020 M1 Air for 2 years. It was fine for carrying around. It failed for portability primarily in its inability to dock to a 2 monitor workstation. I still vastly prefer my Nano as a portable laptop to travel with (e.g. plane or bus travel outside of my city). The Air indeed weighs very little, but it still weighs 40% more than a Nano! I usually travel with a portable screen that weighs half a pound, so my combo still weighs less than just an Air.
It’s hard to describe the experience with an Air, since weight is about physical feel, but that weight saving does make a difference. The Nano is so lightweight that I can quickly pick it up and use it on the sofa as comfortably as an iPad. My Nano even has a 5G SIM card slot that I can pop my cellphone SIM into. However, that only works on the Windows side for now. Finally, the keyboard is much more pleasant to type on with the Nano. It really is a great travel laptop. Add in the ability to natively run Arch Linux, and I’m happier than ever with it.
On the other hand, I cannot stand my work M1 MacBook Pro, but that’s primarily because it weighs so much and the keyboard is pretty mediocre, so it’s not fun to travel with. It’s more of a docking laptop, which defeats the purpose of a portable machine for me.
This is sometimes how I feel about Athens. It’s such a cool city, and the Acropolis is a marvelous site to see from a rooftop across the city. Yet I have this desire for the city to properly restore the Parthenon, paint it again, and turn the Acropolis into a public space of gathering. Many would object to that idea for legitimate reasons, but it makes the city look like a has-been, long past its peak. Ancient Greece was an area full of beautiful colors[0] rather than white and brown marble. I would love to see a return to that.
I need to give Tokyo a visit. I’m interested in cities that keep their character while also maintaining themselves and driving forwards.
[0] https://theacropolismuseum.gr/en/exhibition-programs/archaic...
It looks like a 5-pack of Provia 100F is really expensive from BH, and my local film studio charges a bit more to process E6 compared to developing C41. Ektar seems to have a much more reasonable price. I'm not good enough yet to justify spending too much.
For photographing nature, would you generally recommend using 100 ISO film? I'm not planning on using a tripod since I don't want to carry one around while traveling. I'm looking for vivid colors akin to the National Geographic of old.
My lenses for the Nikon F4 are:
- Nikon 28mm f/2.8 Series-E
- Nikon 50mm f/1.4 NIKKOR-S Auto
- Sigma AF 50mm f/2.8 Macro
- Nikon 80-200mm f/2.8 AF NIKKOR ED
- Tamron AF 200-400mm f/5.6 LD IF 75DN
The CPA exam was a mix of practical information and a bit of unnecessary gatekeeping in my opinion. I felt that I had already learned most of that information during my undergrad degree and that my graduate degree was overkill. Having to spend more time studying for the exam after two degrees and then spend a year working under someone was too much in total. I believe that accounting is a craft that can be learned while working under a master. I feel similar about my software engineering career now.
My experience with all of the credentials to become a CPA is a big reason why I decided to self-teach computer science rather than pursuing another degree. I recognized that if I studied the fundamentals and then worked underneath someone highly skilled, I would be able to build up my skill set as a developer. So far I think that direction has worked out.