I guess in the US we have “market based” paid time off like we do with so many other things. The results are the same. Inequality. Poor people put through the grinder and get nothing while the rich just watch numbers go up while life stays exactly the same.

Looks to me like it’s pronounced weed.

Maybe they finally got rid of those fookin’ prawns all out of district 9!

You can build a big desk that is more than strong enough for you to stand on using nothing but basic pine from the likes of home depot and some screws or glue.

I actually just built one that’s 5 feet long and am assembling another that’s 7 feet. They will fit together to make a big L-shaped desk for a couple PCs and some other stuff. I use 3/4" plywood for the top surface.

I’m making a 3-foot long one too that’s going to be a stand for a 55 gallon aquarium. That’s about 450lbs / 200kg if completely filled.

Oh it’s way more than that!

After looking up some numbers, I note we could give every single square MILLIMETER on the planet its own entire IPv4 address space.

…And then every one of those IPv4 addresses could have its own entire copy of the IPv4 address space!

…And that would just be a drop in the bucket compared with IPv6! One good comparison I’ve seen is that you could assign an address to every atom on the surface of the earth (but not inside it) and have enough left over for 100+ more earths.

Rough math for the square millimeters:

The surface area of the earth is roughly 510 trillion square millimeters. Let’s round that up to a quadrillion or 10¹⁵.

The number of IPv6 addresses is 2¹²⁸ or 3.4x10³⁸. To be conservative again, let’s just round that down to 10³⁸.

10³⁸ / 10¹⁵ = 10²³ IPv6 addresses per square mm of earth.

IPv4 address space is 2³² or around 4 billion. let’s round up to 10 billion or 10¹⁰.

So then 10²³ / 10¹⁰ = 10¹³ IPv6 addresses per IPv4 address per square mm of earth.

10¹³ / 10¹⁰ =

1,000 IPv6 addresses

per IPv4 address

per IPv4 address

per square mm of earth.

And that was with the conservative estimates along the way. I think it would actually be tens of thousands.

Yeah, it feels like an actual life hack in the original spirit of the term, rather than the modern usage that just means a recommendation.

It’s such a simple thing, but one that’s easy to not think of because it’s just not that common to combine couch + desktop monitor(s). It is so damn nice.

And, if you’re middle aged like me, it’s even a bit nostalgic. It reminds me of the high school and college days where instead of doomscrolling on a phone for hours, we would sit at a desktop PC for hours enjoying that good old internet. That internet was old enough to be wild and free (not corpo-enshittified), but new enough that leaving home and going to college meant upgrading from <= 56kbps to 10Mbps.

I’m sitting here looking at C files that have existed for well over a decade, and this thread makes me feel like I’m living in luxury and only one notch below vibe coding.

also basic understanding of math, science, language, music, etc is just a nice thing for everyone to possess

Hear, hear!

You know, it also kind of sucks to live among a bunch of ignoramuses that don’t know how anything works, who fear and hate people who look and act different, and who fall for the most low-effort lies and propaganda out there.

And yeah, since my experience is that I enjoy and appreciate life more as I learn more about the universe, and I would like others to enjoy existence, it IS a nice thing for everyone to possess!

That listicle in the link includes as 2 of the 13 items using a protractor and knowing the pythagorean theorem.

I have needed both of those things just this summer, and just as part of a hobby! When building things even just knowing the 3-4-5 shortcut for the pythagorean theorem is incredibly handy.

Oh I’m well aware! The TV actually has a dedicated PC connected to it that’s hidden behind the wall. I’m going to move that PC out of there to a desktop for my kid, but I digress.

I mentioned the family context because that’s what makes the swing-out monitor awesome. We can be watching a movie or even playing a game together on the TV, but in my field of view I have the monitor floating off to the side of the TV. It’s like playing on a phone, but it doesn’t occupy my hands, it has a 27 inch 144Hz screen, and it’s a proper open platform that’s running linux.

Plus having my monitor in addition to the TV means that there’s already a 2-player LAN ready to go at all times. If it’s something cross platform where my kid can use phone or tablet (like Roblox which seems to have great cross platform support) then it’s 3-4 players with their own screens.

Yeah. I can’t stay away completely, but it is unquestionable how much better I am in general when I spend more free time outside versus in front of a screen.

Edit: I don’t mean to make screens sound like the bad guy. It’s more about engaging all of your senses and interacting with 100% of your immediate environment, rather than keeping your vision and mind focused on the 24/7 fire hose of only the 0.001% most potent triple-distilled negativity sourced from the entire fucking planet.

The internet is like having omnipotence but only for the knowledge that messes with our brains. We don’t get to see all the nice shit from across the planet 50x a day.

At this point I am team “use phones less, use Linux PCs more” unless I am away from home.

I’m just chilling on my couch with my family. Having a nice ergo trackball and a monitor on an arm that can swing out in front of me is a game changer.

Oh man, imagine how crazy things will get once management realizes they can stop paying all the vibe coders and just let the expert human coders at it from the start! They can even let them use the leftover AI licenses for shits and giggles.

That tracks so well that I’m sure it will happen.

Meta, Microsoft, and Google will still be worth trillions, Nvidia will be worth as much as all of them combined, and an entire wave of entrepreneurs taught to be dependent on these behemoths will be ruined.

Sounds like the system is working as designed better than ever.

gasp! You wouldn’t download a wheel!

Ooh, so I am thinking we make a black hole seeded with nothing but rice.

I think most of us believe decisions should be data driven, but in some edge cases gut instinct is valuable.

What you call gut instinct, I call the output of an immensely complex yet efficient organic neural network that has been trained on years to decades of relevant experience.

If business leaders think AI is so great, they need to get in on this shit while they can still afford it!

I was thinking of 10^16kg diamond storage inside a larger SSD that’s the size of a large moon, similar to how a real SSD has data stored in tiny little slivers of silicon inside a much much larger device.

I should have explained that one better. It’s easy to imply such details to keep text shorter.

10^24 is a lot bigger than 6×10^23

Well yeah it’s almost double, but I wrote the comment as a mental estimation of the order of magnitude, so it doesn’t change the substance of the discussion.

I mean at the beginning I arbitrarily picked a number in that 10^40 to 10^44 range and that’s a factor of 1:10,000 rather than 1:2, lol.

If you don’t limit it to valid positions/arrangements it’s like 10^120. Closer to the “number of X in the observable universe” caliber of number.