From your other replies it seems like you’re unsure you want kids in any case, but if you do there’s a simple thought experiment here: do you wish your father hadn’t had you? If not, it’s reasonable to think your children would be just as grateful to be alive as you are, sick dad or not.
Respectfully, this is why we can’t have an actual conversation about healthcare in this country. What’s objectively a societal good? Medicine? Sure, but I’m not proposing that we stop practicing medicine. Universal access to healthcare, free at the point of delivery? Also good, and a feature of most healthcare systems in the developed world. The specific funding model where the government runs the entire healthcare system through taxation?
I dunno, seems like it gives good, but not great, results, terrible staff morale, and a permanent state of crisis.
Fair, but I don’t think they will, and I don’t think people will stop voting for them forever, as much as I’m looking forward to the next general election. Even under Labour, though, the NHS gave great value for money, but middling outcomes.
The British NHS should be replaced with a system of national insurance. I’m a staunch labour voter, but the current system is subject to endless tinkering by the party of the day, and it’s broken.
In the UK, the NHS is one of the only institutions that attracts broad unreserved support, though, so this is about as popular as “all college athletes should be locked in churches and those churches should be burned to the ground” would be in the US.
The current steam deck isn’t going to be obsolete just because a newer model comes out. I’m happily playing through the new System Shock right now, and there’s a gazillion things in my steam library that I can install and run any time I like.
At some point there will be a faster, better deck, but this one is going to do me for a while. It is, in that sense, like a gaming PC. The lifetime of it isn’t determined by the manufacturer in the same way, because you can choose when it’s worth paying more for a better experience.
Like a gaming PC the first question you need to ask is “what’s my budget”, and the second “what would I like to be able to play”. When you have those answered, you can decide whether the current sale price offers value for money. There is always going to be more power available for a higher price.
Write down on a bit of paper “I want to spend more time with my son, I can always find another job”, then flip it over and write “I’m going to spend my time on work, I can always have another kid” and see how you feel.
This is going to happen a lot, I think, while things shake out. If Beehaw don’t trust Lemmy.world to ban toxic users, then defederating makes some sense. I think it’s probably self-harming, though, because it’ll lead to communities like Technology being replicated on other instances, and those are the big Beehaw draw.
You can always have multiple accounts on multiple instances. A pr0n alt was common on Reddit, and is the only way to get at adult material here. Maybe in the fediverse it’ll become common to have a safety alt, and a spicy alt too.
When I first started programming I used a text editor, UltraEdit32. When I moved into .Net, I initially used Ultraedit and wrote all my own build files, but switched to using Visual Studio with all the bells and whistles. When I moved to Python/Node I adopted Vim, and these days I tend to use Doom Emacs.
There’s a spectrum from visual studio or eclipse, with complex project structures, through vscode and rider which are simpler, to programmers editors like Emacs or neovim, to plain editors like nano.
I think the most important thing is that you’re comfortable with your tools. I could crunch out a lot of code with Visual Studio and Resharper, but I use Emacs as an IDE, note taking tool, and email client . The familiarity makes me productive.
It is super helpful to have syntax errors or warnings highlighted when working on code, and a decent editor will make it easier to navigate code - jump to the definition of a function, find the documentation for an API call etc.
As codebases get larger, you need all the help you can get. You may also find, when you work with others, that their opinionated tooling clashes with your opinionated hand crafting.
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It’s a hypnic jerk.
They’d no single agreed on cause, but they happen during the transition from wakefulness to sleep.
Set it up and I’ll sub.
It’d be slow, though, like a lot of the darknet protocols, and would mean that whether or not your post is visible depends on which users you’re connected to. I think the usability problems would likely rule it out.
P2P works great for filesharing because you’re reading small numbers of large things, so if each thing takes a minute or two to start, that’s fine. It would suck for reading the memes community on a social network cos you need to read many small things, and if they don’t load quickly the experience is ruined.
Ja, but you need an index for each thread, some kind of time partitioned thread index for each community, same for all.
Then you need to query all comments or posts by user, so that’s another index, then you need some way of querying for hot, or controversial or what have you.
It’s doable, but fiddly. Tempted to have a go though!
Seems like storage is the cost prohibitive part. Search is going to be difficult, too. I wonder whether the model there might be community supported shared services. A bunch of instances could jointly run an elasticsearch cluster or Algolia instance and charge for API access to cover costs.
Some things can go faster if you add more workers, some things can only go faster if you make the workers bigger or faster .
If you’re tidying a garden you can get it all done more quickly, and tackle bigger gardens, by getting your friends to help. That’s horizontal scaling.
If you need to get a parcel from your house to Burkina Faso the only way to do that more quickly is to use a bigger, faster machine. That’s vertical scaling.
The way Lemmy is designed right now (says the op, I don’t know the detail) you can only support more users by making the server bigger and more expensive, not by using lots of smaller servers.
Edit: note that Lemmy as a whole scales horizontally: more instances == more users, but each instance has to scale vertically.
I saw someone use “Lemmurs” the other day and I’m sticking with that pending a better idea.
Mostly, it’s the must-have Indie darlings, with a sprinkling of AAA fodder.
I’ve loved:
I’ve found that I enjoy playing offbeat adventure games on the deck more than I did sat at a PC. Detention, Norco, Loretta, To The Moon, that sort of thing is perfect for playing in bed, propped against the pillows.
I’m personally a huge fan of project zomboid, though I had to tweak the controls a little to make it work well.
I’m sure Stardew Valley is a perfect match for the deck, but I’ve played it too much already.