In both scenarios the profit margin is removed, or the customers are bearing the significant increase in cost. Hence the recession - the stock market plummets or inflation goes up. Or both.

When my employer reimburses me fully, I will pay for two connections. But they don’t, even though they (could) save a ton of money by closing the office.

I clicked the button to make a link but it didn’t work. :)

I just looked back and my first vault item dates back to 2010. Time flies.

I think enshittification is slightly an overstatement. They’re under VC pressure now and moving aggressively towards a subscription model with capabilities increasingly behind the subscription. I bought a few licenses for Mac and PC a while ago; the software still works but no browser extensions - need a subscription for that. Also, take a look at their job postings. Same job pays double in USA vs Canada. Funny way to do things if they’re Canadian.

It was a password safe before password safes were cool. https://www.pwsafe.org/2002.shtml

Personally, 1Password, but their enshittifaction is serious.

Work, Password Safe. But we’re moving to CyberArk.

The original movie was made very much with an audience from 100 years ago in mind. Boomers have nostalgia for it, so can’t change the script too much. Meanwhile, millennials are socially aware and see the problems with the story. Disney tried to make everyone happy, and generate a little bit of free press, and failed to make anyone happy.

This was a remake that should never have gotten off the ground.

Oh man the depression hits so much harder for me after I’ve gone dry for a while.

Depending on your poison, the NA beers are getting pretty decent. Or just soda water, honestly fits the bill for me.

Thats very true. If I average under the weekly guidelines but hammer through the weekly guidelines in 90 min, it’s quite unhealthy.

Binge drinking is defined differently depending on the jurisdiction. Some require a time window (5 drinks per 2 hr window) and some require it to be a “session” (6 standard units in one session). Some refer to it as “high intensity drinking”. Psychology of Addictive Behavior lists five drinks consumed on one occasion at least once in a two-week period.

Personally, what I mean is that I don’t drink Sunday-Thursday, then Friday I’ll have 3-4 pints of heavy beer, a glass or two of wine, and maybe again on Saturday. On average that puts me over weekly guidelines and also hits some binge thresholds. It’s social, not trying to get excessively drunk. Regardless, it’s unhealthy - no amount of alcohol is. (Just for the people around me, right?)

Sony took full control of Stolen Picture in 2022 after originally buying into the outfit in 2017. As part of the 2022 deal, Pegg and Frost resigned as directors and have since stepped away from day-to-day operations.

Less caffeine, less alcohol, sleep hygiene, less news cycle (I swore I wouldn’t get sucked into the trump bullshit, but when he’s making EOs that directly impact me…).

Moving my caffeine away from my medication (shifting meds 45 min later).

L-theanine, magnesium, B-complex.

Honestly though, caffeine and alcohol are bad. I didn’t have much caffeine, but the alcohol was a bit of a binge habit. None during week, but weekends were well above the national guidelines.

Some parts of MASH hold up pretty well. Some parts do not, but I think they’re the minority.

Battlestar Galactica (new) - just watched this the first time through with my partner, second time for me. It’s doing really well.

Sitcoms generally age poorly, but they weren’t too good in the first place.

It has gotten so much better over the years. Which is more testament to how unutterably awful it was at release than how good it is now.

Several years ago I inadvertently (because I didn’t realize who they were) got in a twitter argument with someone who I seem to recall as the creator of electron about how it was fucking embarrassing how bad electron apps are. At the time I kinda felt bad because he seemed like a decent guy and I let loose but I wonder what the carbon footprint of his little side project is…

I think what started the rant was that back at that time, if you scrolled one page back in a chat, it would display a graphic representing a chat while it loaded the chat. And the fucking software was sitting there using a GB of ram and couldn’t keep 5 min of conversation cached. Just inexcusably bad.

I don’t know who at Microsoft had such a hard-on for electron back then, but it seems to have spread and it’s still nowhere close to the good old windows GUI for resource usage.

Thankfully it has gotten better. Slightly. Still pegs my CPU but I think that’s because I have a shit CPU with integrated gfx

Michelle Drerup, the director of the Sleep Disorders Center at Cleveland Clinic, explained that even though a cool room is ideal for sleep, it’s important to keep your feet toasty. “It sounds counterintuitive, I know, but by wearing socks to bed and warming your feet, you may actually lower your core body temperature and fall asleep faster,” Drerup told CNN

Hopefully saved you a click

It uses a fucking inordinate amount of resources to accomplish its task, mostly.

Don’t overthink the “calories burned in cardio”. Once you subtract your resting metabolic rate you’re going to come up with a number that’s probably disappointing. The additional fatigue may cut down on your non-exercise energy output as well.

You don’t need to do cardio to lose weight. Do cardio to make your life better and live longer.

All these numbers are estimates. There are ways to calculate your actual total daily energy expenditure using spreadsheets, inputting your caloric intake and weight on a daily basis. Personally, I find it a lot easier to use MacroFactor. No relationship, but it is really a great app. It starts with an estimate and with daily tracking will give you weekly updates to adjust caloric intake to meet your goals.

If you haven’t trained before, and given your weight which isn’t terribly high, you don’t really need to adjust calories significantly to gain muscle 100-200 calories is reasonable, at first at least. But you need to adjust the macronutrient composition to ensure that you’re getting enough protein.

You don’t need to do cardio to lose weight.

Spend 30 min a day doing some straight compound lifts (strong lifts 5x5 is a simple starting point) and 30 min doing some low impact cardio. Really, that could be walking at first. Optimally, you want to separate your cardio from lifting, but that’s a bit more towards the top of the pyramid of priorities than the base. Similarly, isolation exercises (like a bicep curl) is less of a priority than compound movements like a pull-up (or a lat pull-down).

What sort of isp supplied residential equipment doesn’t block inbound connections? Pedantically, you’re correct.

You have a firewall. It’s in your router, and it is what makes it so that you have to VPN into the server. Otherwise the server would be accessible. NAT is, effectively, a firewall.

Should you add another layer, perhaps an IPS or deny-listing? Maybe it’s a good idea.

Not just salary - H1B are also good at following orders, because if they lose their job, they will get deported.