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Cake day: August 19th, 2023

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  • A lot of guides can get overly technical but keyboards usually have a pretty standardised BT connection and all keyboards I’ve used have worked. Did you look up the manual and see if you need to put it into pairing mode/make it discoverable/reset it to connect to another device?

    If yes, you should provide the keyboard model so people here can help you with it.



  • Yeah, in general Gnome feels more like an entry point for Mac users and the default experience is super polished. KDE has made massive stability improvements and they don’t do the whole fiasco that 4.0 was anymore. I really like that it’s more oriented towards people who like a lot of settings to play with and you can pretty much make your own desktop UI without installing a bunch of less supported extensions.

    I currently jammed everything into a small bar at the top with a global menu, tasks, system tray, clock and quick notes, set up shortcuts for loads of stuff and removed the title bar. My screen space probably is the biggest I’ve seen and I feel like other people are in toolbar hell, lol.




  • Nice, let’s I’m going to nerd out a bit more.

    I’m happy you mentioned game theory since it has also a naïve econ type issue. The prisoner’s dilemma is a bad example of game theory since the game is only played one time. One time a bunch of guys decided to do a game theory tournament where they made bots play tons of games against each other and see which one does best. To the researcher’s surprise the sample “Tit for tat” approach was the best, it just did whatever the opponent did last.

    And of course people sometimes conflate Economics with hard science when it’s a social science. We can’t just make an alternate universe and run an experiment to see which policy creates the most GDP growth or whatever people are measuring.

    Also, assuming homo economicus is an accurate representation of humans just doesn’t work, but it does make the math a lot simpler. It’s the issue with economic models is that a simple model doesn’t accurately reflect society and a complex model, although a better simulation, is a lot harder to analyse and draw conclusions from. The superhuman homo economicus can assign monetary value to everything, is aware of all choices and can rank them accurately according to each choices utility. Nobody does that, everyone makes a shit purchase every now and then.

    Economics is great but it’s soooo incredibly oversimplified to the point where people are making claims that are opposite to what economics is actually teaching.

    Btw, have you checked out Money & Macro on YouTube/Nebula? It’s a channel from a professor in economics and he’s really good at getting into the economic nuances of current events.



  • Mint 100% to start with, install Nvidia drivers if you have an Nvidia graphics card. Install and run a game though Steam or whatever and if all the hardware works and you can get the refresh rate you want you’re good to go.

    If not, install Fedora KDE and do the same.

    If you still have issues on Fedora make another post here with some hardware details and say what you tried.


  • You don’t really need to be bleeding edge to have some hardware issues or Cinnamon Mint. Their wayland transition is still ongoing so HDR, variable refresh rate, fractional scaling and maybe some bugs for specific hardware might be present. X11 has also seen a lot less love recently after the major distros stopped actively supporting it.

    KDE has nailed the Wayland transition so moving to Fedora KDE would have fixed Wayland/X11 bugs.



  • Worst of all is that negative and positive externalities are also taught in Econ 101 but they are almost never mentioned by these types.

    TL;DR For positive/negative externalities: Company produces pollution, pollution negatively affects the economic value of things outside of the company’s business (e.g. kills fish in rivers), company most efficient process should be produce less at higher price.

    This means the supply/demand curve can be shifted with taxes (called Pigovian taxes) to correct the supply/demand curve so it accurately reflects the value of broader society. Conversely a healthy population is more productive so subsidising healthcare makes sense since creates more benefits than the benefit of the consumer and entity providing it.

    Taxes and subsidies can be an effective tool to adjust the supply/demand curve to maximise the benefit of society as a whole in many cases when used aggressively enough.

    You can effectively solve climate change pretty easily by taxing emissions from fossil fuels and providing the entire amount as energy subsidies. This way renewables get a massive advantage from the energy subsidies at no cost to the tax payer. You can count on the market to min/max based on the rules.

    These types still go “Hurr durr, bUt ThE dEaDwEiGhT lOsS”.




  • If it were my choice I would probably go for Vue since I’ve worked with it for about a year also Evan Yu is a developer I have 100% confidence in making it better over time. I mean, he made Vite after all. The transition from v2 to v3 was pretty much backwards compatible while angular breaks shit all the f-ing time. But out of the ones I don’t know Svelte looks the best. Do I need a “chart.js-svelte” package? Nope, just use the normal one. Dependency management looks soooo much simpler than having a less supported framework specific version of it.


  • I started programming in 2015 and I’m very surprised that webapps have managed to get worse in that time period. We have 10 years of work on the V8, 10 years of React and Angular, 10 years of DX improvements and my current work is C# takes a minute to compile and Angular takes 4 minutes for a production build.

    I know now we have TS and there’s a lot of safety that comes with it but somehow things are just slow, both building and on deployed websites. Websites should be snappy when everyone has a GPU that can go incredibly fast compared to 10 years ago and cores that are 2x faster and 4x as numerous.



  • Nothing beyond clarity. I always thought I was working around my own character flaws but after I realised I’m autistic it reframes it as me working around autism.

    It didn’t provide help but it did provide answers. I now sometimes say to clients that I have autism and I might ramble on too much about details and people seem to like it.