I’m really bad at spending stuff on myself also. I like prioritising paying back loans, buying stock and so on since it pays itself back later on.

The way I look at it is that the less I spend on luxuries the less I have to work (currently and in retirement) so I don’t feel weird about it.

Another rule of thumb is to delay purchases by 3 months and it doesn’t set back your financial goals. If you’ve been wanting this Macbook now for 3 months and you have the money for it and you feel comfortable with your current financial situation I’d tell you to get it. If it’s an expensive car it’s a financial catastrophy usually so don’t get it even if you’ve wanted it for 3 months.

No idea if that helps but don’t feel weird about being frugal. Frugality is incredibly useful and can set you up for an easy life.

Not sure why you said that. In programming I lean DRY unless it’s a separate use case. The repetitions come from the hundreds of left pad implementations in node_modules

I should learn C because of Unga Bunga reasons. I fully agree that lower RAM usage is better and cache misses are absolute performance killers but at the company I’m at there’s just no time or people or scale to do anything remotely close to that. We just lazy load and allow things to slowly cost more RAM while keeping the experience nice.

“Mature ecosystem” it’s called in JS land.

I wish nodejs or ecmascript would have just done the Go thing and included a legit standard library.

As a programmer myself I don’t care about RAM usage, just startup time. If it takes 10s to load 150MB into memory it’s a good case for putting in the work to reduce the RAM bloat.

Can’t ban chemtrails but you can reduce contrails which play a weirdly large part in warming up the planet irrespective of fuel consumed.

Just putting the word out for an underrated climate thingy.

Coffee and beer, my two favorite drinks

Yeah Adobe just doesn’t play ball with Linux but there are people that have used it successfully on Linux though.

Yeah, I love reading these and I’ve been using Linux for 8 years. I recommend Linux regularly and I want to know enough about new people’s experiences to know what questions to ask.

Do you use Photoshop? Do you have modern hardware or fancy monitor? What GPU?

Good thing we can all boot up TempleOS and find the answers we seek. 🙏

I see, it’s about flying under the radar if you’re up to something illegal. That makes a lot of sense for something like having weed in the car.

I treat a serious prod issue as annoying because it is.

Can someone provide a couple of practical examples?

I figured there has to be someone that likes it.

I think the default styling of browsers is pretty neat in a lot of cases and I hate animations. Layouts, spacing and grouping are the things that actually provide value.

Instead of a fancy popup with a cart contents the button should just say “Adding 1 item…” and “Added” for 2 seconds.

I hate infinite scrolls, especially when there’s stuff like opening hours at the bottom of the page. Just give me a “Show more” button and preload the content.

My dream world would be that styling would only be about layout and the rest is up to the user’s theme.

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Up arrow on top of a cloud, I think that one is standard now

I think the download icons will become synonymous with saving. It’s functionally the same, move thingy to a location on your computer.

It connects it to another computer symbol, the folder which is seen plenty of times as the thing containing files. It’s a solid solution.

You can open the link and find out. It’s 11%.

Nah mate, it’s very much exactly what it says. A ambiguous statement would be “Share of Linux devices on pornhub grew by 22.5%” which could be either in relative or absolute terms. Traffic increase is pretty much number of requests made from a Linux machine grew by 22.5%.