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well-read undead posted:counterpoint: elon musk, the most miserable sack of poo poo on the planet counterpoint: he chooses to be miserable instead of buying happiness with all his money
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polyester concept posted:i don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone earnestly say that money doesn’t buy happiness, it’s just one of those phrases that exists and everyone disputes all the time. like some kind of reverse urban myth it’s the kind of thing that non-rich parents say to their kids when they get old enough to notice that rich people have more stuff than they do its also true. money buys pleasure, not happiness.
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Terry Pratchett's description is a good one: money doesn't buy you happiness but it can buy you a lot of things that look, smell, and taste like it.
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There have been a few studies showing that money absolutely buys happiness up to about the “upper middle class” amount, I think in the US like $150k? and then the effect continues but tapers off extremely sharply. Like having the house and TV and car, yes, but the yacht only reminds you that poor people exist as they work around you.
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well-read undead posted:actually i have a time machine and have verified that in every possible timeline your still bad at poasting yeah because what i experience is your even worse posting!!!
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Shaggar posted:counterpoint: he chooses to be miserable instead of buying happiness with all his money yeah, Elon uses his money to actively stay in and wallow around in the poo poo. look at MySpace Tom. he got his bag from selling MySpace and hosed off to travel and take pictures and most importantly, not be obnoxious about it
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Shaggar posted:counterpoint: he chooses to be miserable instead of buying happiness with all his money elon is the mythological king midas doing everything from destroying his relationship with his daughter to emotionally starving to death in all his splendor while desperately trying to be liked by anyone
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rotor posted:it can also be dismissive, and frankly i think thats far more common. Yeah I did some of the hardest work there is and guys were still telling each other how lucky they were not to live wherever and since then I've seen a lot of the imaginary people they thought they were living better than... and they weren't.
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i think the quip about money and happiness to some extent speaks of a different era where "money" is intended to be read separate from having ones basic needs securely fulfilled, with a house of your own, a happy family, health, and a fulfilling job and so on. which in present day are things mostly people with a lot of money can have.
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Its just some poo poo that boomers said to feel deep while everything was handed to them on a silver platter.
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my favourite variant on it has always been money doesn't buy happiness but it does mean you stop worrying about money
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money doesn’t buy happiness but it makes misery much more comfortable
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We know now that happiness is more serotonin, dopamine, and oxytocin in your brain, and you can buy drugs to make all three of those go up!
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https://youtu.be/mZ4Mv8qnpOM?si=EIFRja7HLWMLB51q
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Beve Stuscemi posted:yeah because what i experience is your even worse posting!!! gently caress!!
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:I think the people I know that studied history became accountants I studied history and became an embedded Linux programmer v0v Turns out history gave me a bunch of free time to gently caress around trying to write a MUD and stuff and accidentally learning C++ and Unix
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polyester concept posted:i don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone earnestly say that money doesn’t buy happiness, it’s just one of those phrases that exists and everyone disputes all the time. like some kind of reverse urban myth imo it's a case of the nuances of it getting squashed down and over simplified -- it's not "having money will never make you happy" it's "money can't guarantee your happiness" and "the pursuit of money doesn't make for a fulfilling life"
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feedmegin posted:I studied history and became an embedded Linux programmer v0v I imagine you also had to spend a lot of time sitting in silence and dealing with libraries of ancient texts written by men with beards which probably helped
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speeding up windows vista by connecting a flash drive and using ready boost
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Wild EEPROM posted:speeding up windows vista by connecting a flash drive and using ready boost fffffuccckkk
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Wild EEPROM posted:speeding up windows vista by connecting a flash drive and using ready boost oh man I forgot about rolling your own SSD
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I only just threw away my old 64gb SSD boot drive from my vista or maybe win 7 machine, it had been sitting in a drawer for years
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couldn't you get PCI risers that let you stack compact flash cards or am I getting mixed up with those ram disk things with the backup batteries?
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Wild EEPROM posted:speeding up windows vista by connecting a flash drive and using ready boost it's back, in quote:The Dev Drive utilizes ReFS enabling you to initialize a storage volume specifically for development workloads, providing faster performance, and customizable settings that are optimized for development scenarios. ReFS contains several file system specific optimizations to improve the performance of key developer scenarios.
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:I only just threw away my old 64gb SSD boot drive from my vista or maybe win 7 machine, it had been sitting in a drawer for years Why throw out? These are useful for embedded devices or using with a Raspberry Pi or other small servers. E: maybe not useful to you but at least give that stuff away instead of landfill ewasting it.
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funnily enough afaict most of the optimization involved is that ReFS doesn't support all the various filesystem hooks which e.g. antivirus and such rely on. which is not an intended design feature or anything, but devs at microsoft used refs partitions to speed up tools touching files a lot (so all unix-derived things), and decided to just label making a refs partition as a "dev drive".
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:funnily enough afaict most of the optimization involved is that ReFS doesn't support all the various filesystem hooks which e.g. antivirus and such rely on. which is not an intended design feature or anything, but devs at microsoft used refs partitions to speed up tools touching files a lot (so all unix-derived things), and decided to just label making a refs partition as a "dev drive".
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mystes posted:that's incredibly dumb most funy tech poo poo is
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mystes posted:that's incredibly dumb and yet my builds are 2x as fast using this "feature" it's so beautifully stupid
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:couldn't you get PCI risers that let you stack compact flash cards or am I getting mixed up with those ram disk things with the backup batteries? You can convert them to IDE with a little passive adapter. A long time ago I ran a pile of CF cards in raid as a dumb project and it was cool but saturated the IDE bus pretty quickly.
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those were popular for upgrading old ipods when cards were still pricy
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Apple selling all their computers with lovely "hybrid drives" way past the point when real SSDs were ubiquitous
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Mantle posted:Why throw out? These are useful for embedded devices or using with a Raspberry Pi or other small servers. nobody wanted it  I think I did chuck some old <1tb HDDs as well but they did go into recycling.
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taqueso posted:You can convert them to IDE with a little passive adapter. A long time ago I ran a pile of CF cards in raid as a dumb project and it was cool but saturated the IDE bus pretty quickly. today, just one of the latest "UDMA 7" CF cards will saturate the IDE bus. like 6-7 years ago i bought a bunch (6, their entire stock lol) of 64 gb toshiba UDMA 7 CF cards when i saw them on clearance at century 21 (rip) of all places, they were $10 each. using them with a USB 3 reader (which apparently uses an ATA -> SATA adapter internally, they present a SCSI interface) shows they can actually hit above 167 MBps, i'd love to use those in RAID. i suppose that'd need some kind of protocol adapter to fully benefit too though, idk as it is i use them as little SSDs anyway, one has an activated windows 10 "windows to go" image on it with drivers for all of my computers, another has an intel clear linux image, etc.
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which reminds me, "windows to go" lol as of windows 10 iirc it's not a supported feature, but you can use something like rufus to create an image anyway. it even still works with windows 11 plus it doesn't actually need to be on external storage. if you activate the windows to go image, copying it to some other drive is an excellent way to install windows without installing windows and it'll stay activated
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i just remembered how when you used to install stuff you would download an exe and install it. Now you have to dowload a helper app that pushes ads at you and tries to get you to install a bunch of other crap before it downloads the exe and installs the thing.
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to be fair the process was usually download the exe and install it, then spend a week hunting down all the extra crap it didn’t tell you it was installing
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rotor posted:i just remembered how when you used to install stuff you would download an exe and install it. Now you have to dowload a helper app that pushes ads at you and tries to get you to install a bunch of other crap before it downloads the exe and installs the thing. most mac apps are still mount disk image -> drag to applications though there has been an uptick in things that use installers, which i frown at every time
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Sagebrush posted:Apple selling all their computers with lovely "hybrid drives" way past the point when real SSDs were ubiquitous Or goons modding their Macbooks Pro by removing the dvd drive and installing a small ssd and a large platter drive in its place. No idea if that was better or worse than apples deal.
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