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You didn't really mention the context of your drinking.

For example, I've gone through periods in my younger life where I was working on tough projects with tight deadlines where there was a strong sense of camaraderie on the team - it was us against the world, pulling together to make the deadlines etc. Pretty much every night there would always be someone looking to go for drinks, and inevitably a good-sized group would be at the bar each night. What started as "one or two beers" typically ended up as rowdy drinking sessions until the small-hours before stumbling back home for 4 or 5 hours sleep before doing it all again the next day.

And you know what? The drinking stopped when I stopped working on those projects, but even now - years and years later - if I meet up with some of my old colleagues from those projects we always end up drinking fairly heavily.

tl;dr - are you drinking because of the people you're spending time with? Are you being being encouraged/pressured/expected (implicitly or explicitly) to drink by those you know?

Try some alternatives to spend the time - personally I have found that going for a good run helps to bring your brain down to a nice baseline state where nagging stress/concerns/wants/angers can be more easily controlled as I guess our lizard brains kick-in and concentrate on the running. TV/Movies/Games/Programming are too easy to both sit there and mindlessly eat/drunk/smoke at the sametime, while allowing your mind to wander back to the bad things.
I would like to second the "think of the children" argument. My father drank a similar amount and also said "(which is not that much, certainly I got used to it, so it doesn't put me in the drunk mode neither)". But he was irritable when he drank, and I remember playing a game where I'd come up and talk to him, and then run away laughing as he chased after me and knocked into the furniture.

It is easy to think you're sober when you're drunk.
Japan, too:

https://asia.nikkei.com/Japan-Update/Japan-enters-quantum-co...
You could put more smaller upper stages to some big rockets. And finally tank the spacecraft itself with a lot of hydrazine so it can fo course corrections later.

There is another option though. There's a tanker version of Musk's BFR being designed for filling up Mars bound rockets or propellant depots in low earth orbit. You could instead refill the tanker or two or three and stage them. Or use the Mars bound stage.
I use a Thinkpad T460p maxed out with a Core i7 HQ and 32GB RAM. Its the perfect workstation for me at 14“. I run Ubuntu on it.

I suggest you look at the new T470p.
Supermarkets don't have government price controls, and they also have very little government intervention. Yet I assume you don't worry about "back room extortion rackets" occurring with the pricing there.

This is because there is a healthy amount of competition with supermarkets, something the ISP market lacks.

Again, it comes down to lowering barriers of entry for new ISPs, rather than falsely labeling all network traffic the same, and pretending that solves a problem.
Thanks for giving it a shot. There needs to be better options to fund open source. I signed up for Code Sponsor last week, sad it's shutting already.
How to stop - your kids see their father under influence literally every evening. This is how they will remember you.
I've worked in trading for a while now, and after talking to a could people specifically about bitcoin, inter-exchange arbitrage isn't as big as it should be. The issues tend to be around clearing and counterparty risk (BTC on two different exchanges have different prices reflecting the difficulty in moving BTC off the exchange). There is a lot of friction in BTC movement which really shouldn't exist.

Also you assume exchanges operating financial information is open and trusted which is definitely not the case.

It's easy for the exchange to paint the tape with false trades and it doesn't cost them anything. A large player getting a fee discount can self trade without much loss either.

I don't think the order books are to be trusted with these BTC venues.
I'm happy with the 16GB i7 1.4ghz (turbo to 3.6ghz) Macbook.

It's retina. It's less than 1kg (2 lbs.). It has between 7-10hrs battery; I can work the entire long haul London to NYC/PHL no problem.

I can load a big data set into memory and crunch; I can work on a web app in all the different browsers that I need to (Parallels is brilliant). I have docker. I have Powerpoint.

I close the laptop, it goes to sleep. I open the laptop it's awake. I didn't even realise this was still a problem in 2017 until I tried some Windows laptops for a few months (a dell XPS and an HP EliteBook).

WiFi kicks on fast; easily within a second of opening the laptop. If I choose my phone from the WiFi menu, it turns on the tethering. If I disconnect, it turns it off.

The low travel on the keyword feels weird, but it doesn't affect my typing speed. Each key feels distinct, unlike the squishy feeling I get on the HP or even my older Macbook Air.
It's a great keyboard! Except for the reliability. Even small bits of dust or other dirt can easily prevent a key from working, and if you're not able to clean it from the outside, you're SOL and need a $400 keyboard replacement because individual keys cannot be removed without breaking them (unlike previous generations).
If you need lots of ram in a small formfactor: Toshiba Portege x30. Extremely Happy with it, i'd just wish it already had an 8th gen 8550u quad-core instead the 7500u dual-core.
Half bottle of wine is unlikely to make him hit furniture.
1. My country bans a lot of websites, so I'm often using netherlands VPN to circumvent this ban. Also internet provider at my work sends angry emails when I'm downloading torrents, so I'm downloading them over VPN as well. I don't really see any alternative to VPN.

2. My home server contains some interesting services for me (file storage, movies, music, passwords), but I don't want to expose them to the internet, so I exposed it to VPN and protected with very minimal authorization (nginx checking value of specific cookie acting as a password). So I'm using VPN as a main protection for weakly protected services.

3. I didn't implement it yet, but I want to receive my mail on my home server. Currently mail server operates on VPN server, so I can't really be sure that nobody reads my mail. But operating e-mail requires static IP and reverse-ptr record which isn't available from my home internet provider. So I want to use some kind of port mapping with VPN to transfer everything to my home server. Though ssh would work well here, but I would need to think about reconnecting if network is down, I expect VPN to be more stable.
What is wrong with the government owning the lines, and a standardized process for any ISP to lease and maintain said lines?
You need lots of tracking equipment, lots of claims for damage and finally lots of lawyers. It's the lawsuit way of doing society, case by case.
Think of all the lawyer salaries and the great boost to the economy!
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I wouldn't recommend XPS. I have version 9350 and it constantly have one problem after another. In no particular order: slow boot time (it can take 7 seconds to see dell logo after pressing power button), coil whine, a firmware update killed the laptop once. I don't know how much of these problems can be attributed to Intel but I fear hardware manufacturers have adopted "release early fix later through firmware" mind-set. Good things about Dell: next business day warranty where a guy will come and replace the motherboard in case the update renders it useless.
In the electricity market, futures (base futures or peak futures) are almost always used
Bandwidth isn't free. You pay for it, I pay for it, Google pays for it, Netflix pays for it, everyone pays for it.

Bandwidth is what we pay for. Net neutrality does not mean we get bandwidth for free. People who use more bandwidth have to buy more bandwidth already.
There may be many different uses for those by bits by applications, sent via different ordering schemes (TCP etc) but the fact remains that internet consumers pay and should continue for the connection itself, not what goes down that connection.
Seconded. I used it for Java/web development for a year after switching from Linux and was delighted with the ergonomics of use. The multi-desktop swiping easily compensates for multiple monitors. The light weight and huge battery life let me work anywhere, from cafes to park benches to various spots around the office, for an entire workday. The performance was more than enough for 99% of the time. I valued the comfort od use much more than that remaining 1%.

I only switched to a new MBP when 8GB RAM became too tight for my work.
One of the examples net neutrality proponents have been pointing to in order to justify it is Vodafone Australia's packages allowing customers to add unlimited usage of various groups of services on top of the bandwidth they get in their mobile internet plans. There are hugely popular viral tweets claiming this is the terrifying future of American internet access if net neutrality is repealed. That's not simply preventing double dipping on both sides of the network, it's controlling what products ISPs are allowed to sell consumers and how they can price that internet access.
This is still achievable with a laptop. I have a good quality keyboard, monitor and mouse at home and at work, along with a proper desk and chair.

With a lightweight laptop that I don't mind carrying this means I have the exact same development environment when working from home or the office.

I'll agree I have to compromise on computing resources, but I find that to be less of a problem with a good internet connection and the existence of very cheap servers.
I sometimes wonder: what will happen to Linux when there is no Linus Torvalds as a lead architect anymore?

I just have an outsider perspective, but it seems that he still has to intervene every now and then to maintain a coherent architecture. Could anyone else fill this role, ie. be willing, able and empowered?
Nothing is has been more frustrating than constantly accidentally touching the TouchBar while my hands are resting or while typing. I had no idea previously how many interfaces handle the Esc key.
The linux kernel has a certain architecture which informs the design of every OS built on top of it. There is effectively no competition of core OS architecture ideas anymore because linux won. Now, linux won because it was better, but is it really the right OS architecture for the 3d xpoint / quantum-mechanical hardware stack of the future? The monoculture makes it harder for people to experiment, and slows down discontinuous innovation in OS design.

Or, just imagine microsoft won and you substitute windows for linux in this thought exercise. Wouldn’t that be a problem for innovation?
> Don't know how Aliexpress is so profitable since their website is worse than Amazon (yes, that is possible); they couldn't even hire a native English speaker to copyedit it.

Aliexpress sells to Chinese people which makes it profitable, but also to drophippers and reseller which makes it even more profitable but also to international buyers across the world and (with alibaba) sells bulk.
All at affordable prices and with a glitch in the matrix in shipping fees.
They also charge you in your local currency to avoid additional currency exchange fees.

This beats amazon.com not selling their products outside the US and having to contract a US reshipper and adding customs fees and international shipping on top of it.

I'm not sure why the bad mouthing of aliexpress and Chinese sellers, I've been doing business on aliexpress for several years and I'd say 95% of my orders went flawlessly and maybe 2-3% were not up to par in term of shipping. I got 99% refund for those.

Also yes amazons and ebays have a lot of Chinese sellers and resellers of Chinese stuff, most of the time with a hefty markup but sometimes cheaper than aliexpress, go figure.
Yes, obviously. But there's enough Strava users that that's a pretty good proxy.
Unrelated to his problem, but I hate this kind of culture. You are more effective when you slept well and did not drunk that much. Especially when you do intellectual work such as programming.

But, it does not matter how much I actually produce in such startup. People who stayed late were seen as hard workers doing a lot for project, despite them being under influence, sleep deprived and generally not in state to be all that much rational.

Everybody braggs about how how hard working they are, but huge bulk of it is just socializing and drinking.
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Not sure if it will be down voted for the illegality aspect, but psychedelics have shown promising signs in the treatment of addictions.

http://www.maps.org/news/multimedia-library/2982-lsd-for-alc...
Are you serious about the 20 hours battery life? So far I haven't seen a laptop that would break 10+ hours on the login screen.
Out of curiosity which version do you have?
Your situation is not as bad as many. It sounds like your problems mostly originate internally, rather than being the result of external pressure. It’s not like your friends are calling you up every day for a bottle; you’re drinking alone. So the only person you need to say “no” to is yourself (granted that might be harder than saying no to someone else).

What works for me dealing with addictions / bad habits is to turn the habit around on itself. Start thinking of it negatively, derisively, until you hate it so much you’d be embarrassed and disgusted to engage with it.

Beyond that, find a way to get a dopamine hit from saying “no” to yourself. Relish the control it gives you. Personally when I say “no” to friends engaging in some illicit but fun activity, it feels good. I feel like I accomplished something just by saying no. That’s a powerful motivator and a critical element of developing the positive feedback cycle necessary to break a habit.
I was in a similar situation for years, and alcohol was the lesser of my intake problems. I was drinking mostly to stave off boredom; let's call it being comfortably numb.

What eventually helped was getting serious about playing music - practicing every night. I can't practice if I drink. I was excited enough about music that gave me an escape from boredom.

A few years later, I decided to start a part-time online Masters degree, and I'm excited enough about that to keep me from of boredom's abyss. It also fills most of my spare time.

I guess I replaced drinking with something that addressed some/most of the underlying cause. Also important to package the change as something positive; _start_ a degree is more motivating than _stop_ drinking.
Data is the same. Bandwidth is the same. Use more bandwidth get charged more. Use more data, get charged more.

Should I be charged differently for using that bandwidth to view facebook instead of your personal blog?
> If I choose my phone from the WiFi menu, it turns on the tethering.

I wonder why we still can't put a Sim card into a laptop.
I believe there is a chance of making it happen through donations like Patreon did for creatives. A Patreon for OSS would be a good pivot, don't you think?
My advice: Ignore all points except the last one. I've seen a lot of startups trying to hire a technical co-founder on their own, even following advice similar to point 1-5, but still ending up with a co-founder that was a bad technical fit ~80% of the time. With the involvement of a technical person in the interview process, usually either referring the candidate or having an additional technical interview with them, that figure drops down to ~20%.
I was in a similar situation until my mid-late 20s. I managed to get out of it by getting new friends who weren't interested in alcohol. A lot of my drinking was because of peer pressure, and any kind of social event was usually at a bar. Although it may sound a bit extreme, finding new friends was really the only solution for me.

Find something that interests you and focus on making new friends in that area. Running is probably a good area to start with, as people focussed on sports are going to be more conscious about how drinking affects their performance. Here in Eastern Europe it seems like a lot of people are aware of the problems alcohol can cause (from seeing it in older generations), and want to actively avoid it, so don't feel alone.
I am ashamed to say that I have a similar probalem (but I don’t have a family) but, let’s face it, you already know the solution because you asked the question—you know that drinking is a problem in your situation.

Just stop if you love your family at all and tell yourself that you need to get your shits together and prioritise your family.

The fact that a seemingly “reasonable” person like you is asking this question is because you are conceited and you think that the people around you are dumber than you (at least for now) and won’t understand.

So... just deal with it and make it right by your wife and kids? Otherwise you are just giving yourself excuses to keep running away from the problem, like asking this pointless question that you already have the answer to.
For big metal rigs like supercomputers, there is almost no choice but Linux. Combined with Linux' dominance of the server market in general, there's a risk emerging to get stuck in a monoculture on the OS layer.

Most companies, including very big ones with a long history of OS development are abandoning their efforts in favor of just using Linux. The perception is often that there is no innovation that can be done on the OS layer that will earn back its investment.

This leads to a lack of experimentation, tunnel vision, and in the long run stagnation.
Another advantage of 2 is that it works even if the two pointers do not start on the same element.
You only need to do that when charging the battery.
If you don't actually have the BTC you can't sell.

For example you are a miner and trying to lock in the correct BTC price or if you are expecting payment in BTC and don't want exposure to BTC price moves.
I don't know why, but that font is giving me some serious comic sans ms vibes.
Just one opposing data point -- I frequently switch between a 13" MBP running at 1920×1200 and a 13" MBA running at 1440×900 and I can't really feel a difference, let alone feel it's a nightmare. I wouldn't enjoy squeezing back my IDE to the MBA screen, but that's about it.
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I think everyone (I guess other than emergency services?) should pay the congestion charge and the money should never go back to the general treasury and be directly earmarked for subways and buses only.
Often, because in the calculation of the provider, one factor never appears. Training-time, if a superior tool comes along, making it necessary to retrain to do the same work, its not superior, its inferior until the gain is so big that the productivity loss is visible to the customer.

That is why even with superior software it is necessary to add a "Legacy"-user interface, that allows for a easy switch from old software, while at the same time retraining people to use the new interface. This changes the transition costs.
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Excellent post. It's short and doesn't waffle. It has a coherent idea and at least I learned something new.
They don’t have price controls, but they do have sanitation standards, quality of goods laws, food standards legislation and mandatory returns requirements and restrictions on misleading pricing.

If you don’t like the price at a Supermarket you can usually drive 5 minutes to the next store, but changing ISPs can take weeks and you’re locked into long contracts.

Maybe if we can lower the barriers to entry and give people a genuine choice of ISPs first. That would be the equivalent of talking to the customer about special deals for certain content and giving the customer the power to choose. Do that, then we can talk. Wiping out net neutrality without a genuine choice for consumers is a blatant stitch up.
You can, but got need to get the right laptop.
This is very interesting write up. Kudos for the author for completing it and showing the whole process. Nevertheless, coding skills were still necessary.

Right now I'm working on a tool to achieve such kind of automation of a website, but without code. Mostly without the glitch part from the post. Working on any kind of hosting, no matter what underlying technology - WordPress, GH pages, whatever. With interface similar to IFTTT where you connect 3rd party apps to a website to populate content - like in the example from the post - data from Instagram on the website. Or data from Slack bot on website (D&D example).
UX for this project is not an easy stuff. Also, we are thinking what services are most important to be on the platform at the very beginning. We would love to hear any kind of feedback. If you are interested find my email in my bio.
4chan isn't, it seems quite mixed over there.
> Sometimes I think I drink because I'm scared to actually succeed with this side stuff, and somehow unconsciously I sabotage myself.

On a related note (I only drink socially and rarely), I also feel like I sabotage a lot of my projects. I don't do it by drinking, but by letting them go at the end and switching to another one because I'm certain this one will fail. I also have seen this behavior on other people.

I call this "success anxiety", and I don't hear about it often, but I'm certain it's some psychological ocurrence.

As a cure, I guess we should be aware that this is happening and push through it, knowing that our brain is working against us.
A laptop doesn't have to be uncomfortable. With a portable stand + keyboard/mouse, and given a good chair and desk (flex desk, library, definitely not cafe stool), it feels very comfortable for long work sessions.
This is more of an economic / business problem than a technical one.

Just who do you think would be the owner of the replacement battery packs?

If your answer is Tesla, then you've made huge and IMHO unrealistic assumptions about Tesla's capital allocations.

If you expect haulage companies to buy and charge batteries around their most likely needed locations then you are even further off. In nearly every case, their business demands extreme routing flexibility.
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I didn't said it's wrong it's just not happening.

btw. I live in germany and a long time ago the government in germany owned the lines, however they outsourced it in favor of "innovation".