With a specific mix of spiteful grumpiness toward windows and a naive optimism, born of youth and abundant nerd resource at university.

That and a stoic acceptance that shit breaks, but it also broke on win 95, 98, XP and especially millennium edition. Which is the timeframe I switched in.

Going full time was fully enabled by reliable virtualization. When I could run a win XP VM and expect no issues in a work day, I was about to ditch windows as my main OS. Over time, I used fewer windows only applications, now I barely need the VM.

You don’t ration Discworld, you reread it every 5 years.

And maybe revisit a favourite or six every other year.

It would be for just a couple minutes.

Narrator: that couple of minutes turned into many hours in the hospital.

Sometimes men don’t fell comfortable expressing themselves with women around.

If a space is toxic, men don’t express themselves there either.

Space where men can properly express their feelings are extremely rare. Between the toxic masculinity and men feeling judged by women and other men.

Even if you are completely correct and this person conspired against you; holding onto this is not great for your mental health.

The best thing for you is to acknowledge that you were hurt by this and accept that. Then move on, what they did was about them and not you.

From your text, it could be that they were just selfish and you were collateral damage. My advice stands, give yourself the freedom to move on.

As a father of three boys. This is enforced far more by the mother’s of girls than anyone else.

My oldest made friends almost exclusively with girls before he was five. Without fail mother’s would move their girls away and toward other girls. This happened in a few situations, both structured and unstructured environments.

When it was dad’s with daughters, it was only about 1/4 of the time, and mums or dad’s with sons never did.

I have seen it the other way also, where boys were steered to other boys, but it was far less often.

I used to go to a men’s only yoga class, I was far more comfortable there than in a mixed class. The class was discontinued, not because of lack of interest… but because the instructor got pregnant, it never restarted. She was a great instructor very professional and targeted the exercises to men’s problem areas.

Men’s only spaces are important, as much as women’s spaces. Men’s mental health is often overlooked, and men’s spaces are an easy way for men to vent about shit that is bothering them.

Also “our current time” is a little strange, history it’s full of segregated spaces, even of just by social convention. Our current time is far more accepting of mixing than a lot of history.

I’ve had the 3x spicy ones, they are very hot that isn’t to much of an issue for me. The problem is that they don’t actually taste any good.

I like spicy foods, but I also like flavour, I find a lot of the super spicy foods only really taste of spice.

I wouldn’t get them again, they are too hot to be enjoyable and don’t have great flavour to compensate for what I would class as a “challenging” level of spice. If they tasted awesome, it would be a different story.

I don’t tend to sweat from spicy foods. So maybe there is some genetic component. Two of my three boys like spicy foods.

Use anki, it is a great tool for learning

I guess I’m not that grumpy.

There are levels.

Like all food, cheap mass produced version is generally bad. Home made with the correct ingredients can be wonderful.

So not an industrial automation engineer. Nothing but windows software.

Ignition for scada works on Linux, but nothing else does.

2001 first introduced to Fedora (1?) A friend installed on my laptop. Used it for a little; but it didn’t do the things I wanted. A little while later I was back on XP.

I tried Ubuntu 6.04; it wasn’t ready. Back to XP.
I tried Ubuntu 8.04; it was really close. Back to XP.
I tried Ubuntu 10.04; and have had Linux ever since. I have jumped to various distros over the years, I kept coming back to Mint though. I currently have a couple of computers running Bazzite and the rest on Mint.

I do keep Windows VM’s around; XP, 7 and 10. But they barely get turned on these days.

I haven’t had Windows installed on a machine in 16 years; even in 09 it only lasted a couple of months till I got time to replace it.

I’d compare you to a colostomy bag, but they are at least useful!

Party planning is going well for president Trump’s upcoming 90th birthday; now in his 11th year of his second term. He said via his speaking box “this will be the greatest party, possibly ever in the history of the world, many people are saying it”

Thanks.

4 was such a big one; I knew I couldn’t do it justice in a shortish post. But it is a fundamental assumption that is very wrong.

You are correct; information asymmetry is one big driver of people making “non-rational” choices.

I see it as an unstable economic model; it will either devolve to capitalism with monopolies capturing most if not all sectors; or devolve into communism with a single state-like entity controlling everything. At which point; no matter which way it went; it will collapse under its own weight.

The way it swings will depend on the people who are there at the start.

The modern version of libertarianism that we see most of; is based off some really bad assumptions:

• (1) the market is perfect
• (2) barriers to entry are irrelevant
• (3) monopoly is not bad
• (4) humans are rational actors
• (5) if the market can’t address the issue, it is irrelevant

(1) The market is perfect:
This leads to the assumption that all regulation is bad; and that it merely works to reduce personal freedoms and the ability of the market to produce things in the most efficient way possible.

It completely ignores history and the reason regulatory bodies were created. It also ignores that the market is not a thing unto itself; but is composed of people (see 4).

(2) Barriers to entry are irrelevant:
This follows directly from (1); even the simplest business has some barrier to entry. You have to buy somethings that your business needs to run. These are real costs, and will provide a barrier. Obviously, the bigger the barrier then more entrenched players have an advantage (see 3)

(3) Monopoly is not bad:
This is a subtle acknowledgment that (1 & 2) are completely false. Basically it is a cope, that even if monopolies form; clearly this is the market producing the most efficient production framework.

This ignores history; the major monopolies that were broken up. The crazy shit that went on to protect their monopoly status.

(4) Humans are rational actors:
Most economic models assume that consumers will make rational choices; they will make the most economically rational choices. Libertarians (in my experience) love this.

This ignores so much of reality; it also assumes that the values of all are the same as their own.

There is really too much in this point to cover here. So many things that we actually do make no sense if you were a rational actor, such as brand loyalty.

(5) If the market can’t address the issue, it is irrelevant:
There are many things that the market cannot address; but in the libertarian model these things are ignored.

e.g. fire fighting; this is the classic example where a market solution didn’t work.

But equally; policing; education; major infrastructure; functional health systems. There are so many examples; where if left to a purely market solution, simply would not get done.

Keep your flexibility… Almost impossible to get out back once it’s gone.

You can do alright, but keeping it is soooooo much easier. It will never get back to what you had if you don’t work to keep it.

Kurzgesagt covered it nicely.

We used to be. The rules changed about 10 years ago.

A lot of big appliances require higher power. Dishwashers, clothes dryers, fridges.

Some powers tools, drill press, plainer.

I never worry about load splitting,.

The benefit of the AS/NSZ plug, is that it isn’t much bigger than the US plug, but has a higher power density.

AS/NZS 3112

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