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Everyone else here will hit you with the "ritual" and "learn to enjoy without"
I am the same as you - and I will tell you what worked for me.
I tend not to drink on weekdays, but when I do drink, I drink to get drunk. The holistic stuff didn't work for me, I love drinking, I enjoy the social aspect of it. I have terrible willpower and a very hedonistic attitude.

Naltrexone works for me

I take a tablet on Wednesday to Saturday before bed.

I don't get any side effects (YMMV) but what it DOES do is basically take away the majority of the buzz from drinking, I lose interest after 2 or 3 drinks

Those weekends I want to go out and get smashed with friends, I just don't take the tablets.

Talk to your doctor, its cheap, low level side effects if you do have them - but its the one thing that works for me, I now have a couple of social drinks on weekends and I never thought I would be that person
OMG! I came here to post a question asking if anyone remembered this, thinking surely someone in the HN crowd familiar with it would see this post and click into the comments! Where can we learn more about it?

I heard about it sometime between mid-2006 and late-2009.
Interactions like these are why medicine always feels 30 years behind technology.
It’s reasonable to have tickets that are “is this API interesting to us?” or “how do clients use this new system?” It’s not a “problem”, and there aren’t definite goals. The task is open-ended, and it’s ultimately up to the developer’s judgement to decide that they are done.

To define terms, “the problem” is the issue faced by the client or the customer. The task isn’t the problem. A team should tackle tens or hundreds of tasks while still learning to understand the full problem. This is the motivation behind iterative processes like Scrum.

The author’s message is that if you don’t fulfill all 50 requirements _at all times_, you don’t even deserve to be a software developer (not even a junior). I disagree. I think I get the message that these rules are trying to send, but I think they are, as a whole, unreasonable in a professional, business environment. Everyone should be a product engineer, but being product-focused necessitates speculative activities that exist for no other reason than figuring out the boundaries of the problem being solved. And those activities need to be repeated as the problem is being solved, to evaluate if the problem is correctly understood. Someone, whether that’s a junior or a senior, needs to be spending time doing things that aren’t articulateable so that everyone else can articulate exactly why they are working on their current tasks.

As I become more senior, I’m starting to appreciate all of the tasks that don’t go onto the sprint board and aren’t articulateable. They exist because I need to know enough about Product’s or Account Management’s job to communicate with them, and I won’t know what exactly “complete” is until I’ve reached completion on those tasks. That’s part of the job, and I reject any list of rules that leaves no space for those activities.
Wipro firing 300 WFH employees over moonlighting opens debate on detection
> 15% smaller file at 240% increased backup time is not worth it.

Doesn't this depend on the bandwidth of the connection the file is being transferred over? You also have to factor in unzipping time.
Highly specific commonalities between Satoshi Nakamoto and PayPal co-founder Elon Musk

https://medium.com/coinmonks/highly-specific-commonalities-b...
Have some kids. It'll be torture when you have a headache and they're up before the sun rises.
The idea that wealth is performed, not possessed.

Wealth is compensation. One must prove that the wealth they gained is less than the effort they put in. A billionaire sacrifices his life, his marriages. An actor or rock star becomes a drug addict and goes through hell and depression. People assume higher salaries come with poor work-life balance, even when it's more efficient to have healthy, rested, happy employees.

Wealth also has to be consumed. Often via taxes, but also sponsorships, charity etc. How many rich people oppose tax on the rich? Amazon famously has minimum profits.

If not properly performed, then society finds a way to deprive people of their undeserved wealth. Then you get minimum wage laws, more tax, revolutions, etc.

Theives also frequently view themselves as taking from the undeserving rich, and compensating the inadequately compensated poor. You see this not just in robberies, but those justifying piracy and running red lights.
If there are other people in your family with drinking problems, or you have a mental illness, you should probably get professional help with quitting, because the chance of alcohol eventually ruining your life is significantly higher.
So China has a more equal gender distribution of both oppressors, and the oppressed? Indeed, very progressive.

The context for any general points raised by my comments is readily available from any online source of your choice. It’s widely known that in China, big tech intersects with anti-democracy, oppression and social control. I specifically mentioned anti-democratic tendencies in Chinese tech for this reason.
The script triggers a cycling of the scroll lock indicator to indicate success. They only need try again at some point.
Not really. The y-chromosome started out as a tiny variation of the x-chromosome. So all those genes were duplicates of genes on the x-chromosome.
I recently took a month or so off drinking for health reasons, and found that the latest generation of alcohol free beers really helped.

Most of the time I reach for a drink, I realized it was more about habit than any need to be drunk, so simply replacing real beer with Heineken 0.0 helped me “scratch the itch” without the alcohol.
We're working on snippets! It'll take a while longer to get there though.
> Look at the timeline on the wiki. It’s supposedly closer to midnight now than ever before—-far closer than during the Cold War!

One, we’ve been in the second Cold War since the late 1990s.

Two, yeah, duh.

This is like the first Cold War, without the stabilizing patterns of interaction, and with a major direct vs. proxy superpower conflict like Vietnam or Afghanistan, but much closer to the heart of the directy-involved superpower and the heart of the other superpower’s alliance and chewing through the directly involved superpowers forces much faster (about equal to US Vietnam casualties for the whole war—or four times the USSR’s Afghanistan casualties—in less than a year rather than a decade or more.)
The Merriam Webster defines a beverage as "a drinkable liquid"[1].

If there is no one there to drink it, then it is not drinkable. A beverage requires both a liquid and a drinker to make it drink-able.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beverage
> Like surely I can’t prevent any new array methods from ever existing by making a website with a list of known array prototype properties and throwing an error if any new ones show up, right?

No, and that’s not what’s happening here. MooTools was very popular and is still used on many websites.

They are adding ‘flat’ even though in some obscure corner of the internet that’s going to break something.
(2016) hehe. I'm sure we'll get flying cars and a cure for the common cold, too.
He didn’t cause the collapse, but he failed to deliver on his promise to his customers that Celsius was structured to protect their savings from market volatility. In fact, the promise was fake — it was never possible to fulfill, from the outset.
they did it before! twice!
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These online doc systems seem to lend themselves to massive proliferation of orphaned docs that are still accessible, versus ones that go away as they're on machines. Similar to issues with the internet never forgetting. And because it's good at not forgetting you have a fight to delete docs vs fight to retain them.
I slept poorly one night and decided that nothing was worth that effect on my wellbeing. I also read that there alcohol is neurotoxic at any dose, and I value my lucidity: https://www.ndph.ox.ac.uk/news/new-study-finds-even-moderate...
Yep. Literally a bunch of corporate PR bullshit around a nearly two decade old technique. There's multiple pre-made firmwares for uCs to do this sort of thing.

The fact that they hit the MacOS keyboard wizard shows that apparently nobody on their team had experience with such a basic, ages-old technique.
Because nuclear war would ultimately have net positives for the environment in the long term
I don’t have any good advice on stopping drinking, but what I will say is that some people have a physiological addiction response to alcohol that others do not and those who do not usually don’t realize this, so they can blithely say things like, “just don’t drink” without realizing that this is a genuinely difficult thing for others.

I, fortunately, am not among those who have the addictive response and when, as an undergraduate, I realized that my drinking was getting very problematic, it was easy enough for me to cut out the worst aspects of my drinking (straight vodka in a 20oz tumbler—definitely not recommended) and restrict myself to beer and wine and these days I almost never drink that either.

But I know people for whom doing things like making it through a month without a drink is a serious challenge.

I think your best bet is to find some form of support, whether that’s AA¹ or just a trusted friend who can help you stick to your choices.

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1. The literature on AA points to mixed efficacy, if I recall correctly, but I think the whole concept of having a network of trusted peers you can turn to for support whether you succeed or fail is probably the key aspect of what makes it work and since it’s so widespread, if you’re in any decently populated area, it’s likely you can find a meeting any day of the week and can drop into one whenever you need it.
> Nice and usable

Perhaps you could clarify your criteria for usability further, but each of my service-client’s methods are 100% type-safe. This is because Nest and Fast encourage the use of (and subsequently export type information from) the DTO pattern. Service-clients constructors have plug-holes for obvious stuff like url & headers, you make API requests via method, I never feel that I’m needlessly repeating myself. Can’t imagine what else there is to meet usability needs, it works great, I can even make the method names pop out camel_case on the service client if I want to.

Perhaps my only gripe about the technique is that some request/response object types, specifically ones with recursive typing, become a hassle to code up as DTOs with the type annotations. I don’t understand why it’s a problem because it shouldn’t be, but it can knock you out of your flow if you don’t get it right the first time. The alternative, manually updating my service clients or using fetch libraries, is not type safe and thus is far worse, so frankly I’ll take it.
Failing is human--please never hate yourself for that.

You don't seem to be in a bad place, but you should talk to your doctor about some mental health counseling.

Specifically, you should try to get down to the bottom of what causes you to feel a need to binge on a 12 pack in a weekend when you can live without alcohol for weeks otherwise.

Good luck.
Okay, I think the OP instead meant that server-based rendering is more "stateless" because you do a full page refresh to get any new content, as opposed to a SPA where state management is a big problem.
I’ve noticed this trend lately as well, I’ve even commented about it on here a few times, and I attribute it to an increased push from opponents to climate reform because real climate legislation has actually started to be passed and enforced. Just look at how the Supreme Court has started to neuter the EPA as soon as they actually started to clamp down on emissions.
Is it possible to poison future web API implementations by making a really popular library that would fall apart if any new Array/Object methods were added, or something like that?
I found your article well intentioned and organised but frustrating, because it contains not enough examples for the non expert public it addresses. E.g. what are examples of "sticky and starchy foods"?
And then there are Balwani, Gangwal who took their companies down with them.
> Prevent YouTube from tracking your play/pause/seek activities.

(/rant)

I know this it heresy to say on HN, especially coming from someone who whines about gov surveillance as much as the next person, but I personally love YouTube's recommendation system. And I know from experience it uses what you actually spend time watching to make recommendations (not just what you click on). So I'd personally miss having them be able to measure that...

I feel like YouTube knows me better than any other service I use (besides maybe Spotify which also measures what you actually listen to) and I pay to be a YT subscriber so I don't se ads on iOS mobile (jailbreaking doesn't provide with me ROI).

I hear a lot of HNers complain YouTube recommends conspiracy or negative politics stuff (see: Twitter and Reddit for that who also completely suck at recommendation systems despite aggressive analytics) but to me it sounds like a) they don't actually use YouTube often enough to tell it what you want or b) they are using blockers/not logged in so it can't learn what you like.

BUT THAT BEING SAID, getting to use a minimalist <video> tag sounds very nice otherwise.
This is the difference between “person who knows stuff about wine” and “person who trains blind tasting”. The former can rattle off obscure facts but can’t tell the difference between a red and white wine without seeing it. The latter knows how to detect the level of tannins in a wine and is able to deduce that the wine without tannins is a white wine.

I suspect your acquaintance may have been in the former camp.
pzstd can decompress in parallel if the data was compressed using pzstd. Although zstd is so much faster for decompression that you rarely need multiple threads.

For xz, pixz can decompress in parallel.
Well, the NSA was diverting shipments of Cisco networking gear to install custom firmware with back doors.

But...this sort of hack is around two decades old and doesn't represent anything new in the field. There are at least a dozen toolkits one can use to implement this on a number of USB-friendly microcontrollers.

I would expect someone working for Google's red team to be able to bang this device out, from scratch, in one day.

Google probably spent more on the voice actor and graphics for the video.
>Food inputs are usually a trivial fraction of retail price. IIRC the restaurant rule of thumb is 1/3.

1/3... So, it's 'trivial' about as much as housing costs are trivial in household budgets.
My favorite perspective on investment is you should only invest in things that are low risk, high reward. The good investments are invisible to the masses. A great investor has an unfair knowledge advantage. Anyone who views themselves as great investors think they have that knowledge advantage; same goes for gambling.
I haven't had a drink in 27 days, which is the longest I've gone in a while. Left to my own devices, I tend to settle into a pattern of 2-4 drinks per night, 5-6 nights a week (I actually tracked this for a while with a spreadsheet).

It's not like, ruin my life, wake up in a gutter type situation, but it leads to just feeling somewhat crappy all the time, and I didn't like it, so I wanted to stop.

Some things that helped / are helping:

I have an app Habit Tracker. It's a pretty simple app with a list of habits you want do do, you can set on some schedule. When you do them, you tick them off and it keeps track of how many times, so you build up a streak. I made a "don't drink" habit, and check it off in the morning if I didn't drink the day before. It also shows a notification bubble on the app if you don't check it off and I hate that. It's like this little negative reinforcement that I have to live with that bubble all day if I drank the day before. It's silly, but it helped.

Reading the book This Naked Mind and listening to The Huberman Lab podcast episode about alcohol (#86) also helped. Alcohol messes up your body in a lot of ways, even at what's considered "moderate" or "normal" levels of drinking.

/r/stopdrinking on Reddit

Alcohol is an addictive drug and when you stop after using it regularly, you're going to feel cravings. It's not a moral failing, it's physiology. They do get less intense and less frequent after the first two weeks or so.
IMO if the clock isn’t advanced to less than a minute to midnight they will lose legitimacy. We are getting very close I feel the end is within reach if the right sequence of events occur.
Al Gore could change everything about his life and effectively change nothing about the climate, what’s your point? It’s a complete non-sequitur to point out one advocate’s lifestyle when it’s a global problem. It’s actually just disingenuous.
I moved from San Jose, CA (lived there for 30 years purely for work) to the outskirts of a relatively small town of approx 40K people in an adjacent state not quite 2 years ago (and retired not quite 1 year ago). I couldn't be happier. The non-housing cost of living is somewhat lower, with housing being much less expensive. Although I haven't been commuting since before I left SJ, when I do need to drive around, traffic is almost always moderate or light; not rage-triggering gridlock like it was back in SJ and elsewhere in the SFBA. In the town core we have all the same types of big-box stores that SJ has: Home Depot, Lowes, Walmart superstore, Target, 3 major supermarkets and plenty more, with online shopping delivery to our door just like in SJ. Internet service hasn't been great, but according to a chat with a Cox Comm scout driving around 1 month ago, they'll be laying fiber to our neighborhood by the end of 2022 (which would be huge). One drawback, which I'm uncertain is unique to this locality: finding reliable, competent contractors to perform home repairs and improvements is a nightmare.

Being an (extreme?) introvert with family responsibilities, I never had significant engagement with Meetups or conferences, or a particular need for like-minded people: I'm not much of a joiner.
I too love drinking. I used to close bars every day of the week. I had changes of clothes at work so that I could go straight from the bar to work the next day.

Eventually I had to want something else more than I wanted to drink. I started adding up the financial toll of my drinking and looked at how much that set me back from other goals. Then later it was my health.

But finances was the biggest thing. Social drinking was like buying a brand new car every year. It kept me from going anywhere in life.

Making that connection is what worked for me.
So I ended up on a combo of meds that had a “No alcohol” provision. One was your standard mental health medication; but the other was terbinafine for a toenail fungus that wouldn’t die. The latter pretty much got me to stop drinking. Whenever I would have a drink anyway (thinking, how bad could it be anyway) the hangover the next morning was brutal - and way out of proportion to the amount drunk.

A single 12oz beer with moderate (6%) ABV would leave me with a hangover that felt like I’d tried to keep up with a bunch of 26 year olds with a death wish.

Anything more would make me actually wake up with a death wish.

This amount of negative reinforcement made it pretty unbearable to drink for the year plus I was taking the medication, and it just sort of stuck after.

To make this useful advice - maybe try doing something terrible the morning after; perhaps posting a bad programming opinion on the forum of your choice.
No, this is why I do not get into a lot of discussions on HN, where its an argument about semantics with people who are more or less in tech (which you can behaviorally be generalized into a few groups of people). I merely made a point about discussions Ive had over several years with people who have lived in the area for decades, with observations Ive made after living in the affected area for several decades and responding to the question about if it's a good idea to put a casino into everyone's pocket (the original post). The world runs by peoples experiences and not studies, you're lucky if you get people to see both, but by and large society is dumb, leaders are dumb (in a different manner) and none of it matters as for big ships turn slowly and cash rules the world. Online gaming will pass because it brings in cash to everyone who has a hand on the rudder.
I don't think a web app can do this, but a browser extension, which is on our roadmap could!

Regarding auto-categorize, how would you want that to work? I imagine this could be a machine learning problem, but I wonder if there is a naive solution that solves most of the problem instead of just throwing ML at it?

Text search across pages has come up multiple times in this thread. I shall add it to our list of features to investigate.
In Display PostScript the clients emit PS as their interface and for graphical output - its execution of a self-contained page/screen description language from the outset. HTML and CSS are very much not that. I think if anything this is more akin to "Save [this web page] to PDF".
I'm talking about talking to the people who you check out. People tell you stuff if you ask questions. Most offer it willingly. An old lady showed me her bank slip with $175k balance because her card wouldn't scan and she was embarrassed.

The same people helping other people check out, the same people showing up on the 1st/2nd 15th/16th when government payments go out to buy groceries.

Disabled veterans who produce tax exempt cards are getting huge payments from the government.

When someone says, "I just got my SS payment this should go through..." and they are under 40 it's ok to assume it's disability. Either way, it's a remittance payment.

You are right. I am filling in the gaps with some assumptions.
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My kids are also Jewish, from my wife’s side. It is interesting to hear the comments of people when they have no idea.

Voting for split representation is a perfectly reasonable approach. I personally think DeSantis is pro-power, not pro-freedom. His stunt with asylum-seeking migrants is a great example. Also the fact that Florida doesn’t have things like legal weed, legal sports betting, legal abortion, and more.
I didn't mean to say it was 'exec'ing anything directly, I meant that people are reinventing 'exec' and hidden interpreters. Building up methods from runtime data is the problem I'm referring to.
sort of, you can only get a "free" one if you dogfood or get one using the health benefit
This is somewhat of a simplification. The wine $40+ is also likely to mature into something more interesting over time, which the $15 wine likely will not. You are partly paying for future appreciation in quality.

Of course the vast majority of wine drinkers just guzzle the bottle as soon as they come home from the store, so I can see why one might come to the conclusion that wine $40+ isn’t worth the price.
Just their domain.

I don't believe for a second that protonmail generates more spam than gmail.
Emacs is completely programmable so I don't think it needed to be invented for these specific use cases. The entire point is that you can program it to do what you want it to do!

Emacs can certainly be a little clunky at times though which can put a lot of people off. It does take some configuration and tuning for your personal preferences to feel good, but the upside is that it can do way more than the alternatives can do if someone/yourself puts in the effort to implement it. Magit is a great example of such a thing, the interface and functionality is extremely nice, even compared to something like Intelli-j's git GUI which is a pretty impressive feat!

With that being said it's not for everyone (and that's okay)!