$ uptime

22:22:45 up 3748 days 21:20, 2 users, load average: 1.42, 1.36, 1.02

It's very funny, I think it's because my laptop battery died and when I replaced it, it had to update the time from 10 years ago? I'm not sure why, as the laptop is from mid-2012.

> 17:27:20 up 1112 days, 10:36, 50 users, load average: 0.20, 0.19, 0.18

I thought I had a record going here with my Dell laptop, but I guess you win. After a certain point, I just decided to see how long I can make it go.

The French will lead the way.

The French are on their way to put a far-right government in power next year, don't count on them.

I imagine that the rabble will need to eat only a few before the rest catch on.

My favourite example from my own experience is cycling through hail. I used to hate it. It made me miserable. My face hurts. My body is cold. I just want to die.

Once I started playing around with the ideas of Stoicism, I decided to try an experiment. The next time I got caught out by hail while cycling, I raised my fist up in the air and said "fuck you Universe, this is exactly what I wanted, you fell for my plan!".

I felt a lot better. I like to think of it like the Sith in Star Wars. Whenever they get their butt kicked, they go "It is as I had forseen!" I no longer get surprised by events.

That comparison to the Sith is great! I'm going to try to adopt that approach in my life. If nothing else, it will keep me amused, which is worth something.

It's impressive how the US intelligence agencies must have been gutted under Trump. I'm guessing if there were anybody competent left, this is the kind of thing they would have known.

I can't imagine the level of secrecy it would take to hide something like this from a competent NRO - the amount of construction work, the little girls coming and going - what did they think, it was a military Epstein island?

They've hit about 8000 targets.

One in 8000 is incredibly good for an actual conflict.

There are only about 120 versions to target if you pick each individual age - or a handful if you bracket it. You can simply create a lookup table for eachage group and let the user's device decide which one to show.

> If you don't see the value of laws being written down

I don't think this is helping much in the US right now. The orangefuhrer has shown he is willing to ignore clauses that are inconvenient.

Nobody claimed it's helping or hurting. The debate is over what constitutes a constitution, whether good or bad. There have been great governments without a constitution and terrible governments with one. "You don't have a constitution" does not mean "your government sucks", but it seems somehow people take it as such.

> If you don't see the value of laws being written down - especially the most important ones! - I can't really convince you of it here on HN.

It's a shame you can't really explain it. It's ineffable, isn't it.

"I like scrambled eggs."

"I do too, but the way Trump is behaving, pretty soon it will be illegal to ..."

Pretty soon you won't be able to afford eggs.

> paying 71% income tax

Do you have a citation for this? I'm interested in how this figure was extracted from where it came.

I think they're confused/disingenuous and talking about the _marginal_ tax rate at 100k.

There's a segment of a few thousand pounds where your marginal tax rate skyrockets because you lose your tax free allowance at that income level.

It's stupid, annoying and has some minor economic effects, but it's very different from a 71% income tax rate.

It was a rhetorical question, of course they were being disingenuous. Marginal tax rate doesn't have the same ring as 70% tax.

Can't you run a 5V supply from where your router is all the way to every god damn device in your house, and then pretend the wifi is also going through it? If you just want it to be inconvenient, there's no reason to let a lack of PoE stop you!

Hey now, I call linear regression AI if I want senior management to get excited about something.

And only exists because of Google.

Are you sure? If chrome didn't have a choke hold on the web, I have a feeling firefox would have been fine.