My dad did so much right, but his one failing was financial. He was an insurance salesman and had plenty of money when I was very young, but at some point it all dried up and he seemed unable to make more. He didn’t starve or anything, but at a certain point my brother had to step in and buy his house or he was going to lose it.

So now, I’m very cognizant of my spending and always having a good cash reserve.

But, he was also extremely generous when he did have money. His favorite way to spend money was on the people he loved and to make them happy.

So now, I also give freely. If it makes someone I love happy, and I can afford it, I’ll give them whatever I think might make them smile, if even for a day

This article was pretty funny. I loved the writing style

As for the subject matter, I have never understood these mods. When I was young I gave them a try in Skyrim but I remember it just being distracting. It feels like multitasking: I’m doing two things half as good. I really don’t see the point.

So that being said, I would love it if they had metrics on how long the mod stayed installed and how far into the game the player made it. Impossible, surely, but it would really clear up for me whether people are genuinely playing the game or whether they’re installing for a level and… Ahem… Moving on to another activity

Yeah, I’ve realized that you can’t really put people as easily into the “introvert” and “extrovert” buckets, because it entirely depends on the day.

I can be a social butterfly one day, hyper productive the next, then want to watch reality TV and not leave the couch another. It just depends on the vibe of how I’m feeling

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754

Floating point arithmetic

I’m desperate for better type checking in Python, and part of that is speed. So I’m very interested in these options

I recently started using uv based on a recommendation in another thread so I’ll probably give ty a whirl sometime soon

It’s definitely bizarre, because nobody in the story actually “works” besides the local militia and servants, yet everyone has money and is rich

It appears to be because you get a lump sum at some point (inheritance, dowry, whatever) then “invest” it and get interest payments. Or, in the case of Mr. Bennet, they have land that they pay others to work or lease out to farmers. Just really fascinating how hand-wavey the money is, it just “is” for the most part and you don’t explain how or why you are rich

I suppose then a more accurate description would have been horticulture; but I’m using “farming” here as in planting and growing things, not for subsistence necessarily

I guess on some level there’s something wholesome about it being a gardening game. I wonder how much of the success is owed to the natural human inclination towards farming

And changing minds is difficult, and by all accounts requires kindness and understanding rather than blame and dehumanizing.

I get frustrated with how most outspoken people on the left seem to take the easy answer of “they’re evil!” when talking about people who disagree with them

I tag mostly for humor, things I think are funny, unique traits about a person that I’ve noticed are a pattern. Some examples

• thinks the moon landing is fake
• documents tankies
• LOVES Taylor Swift

FYI for anyone not in the know, this is the Good Good Good Newspaper advertised by Hank Green

It only consists of “good” news and is very uplifting - generally every print edition features some kind of theme like “animals” or “medicine” or “art”

If you can afford to support, I think it’s a great way to encourage more uplifting news in our world

https://www.goodgoodgood.co/goodnewspaper/subscribe

Depends on your charisma stat…

This some 18INT nerd shit

In my mind, charisma is easily the hardest one to improve. The rest you can grind out or get better with age but Charisma is tough

I think mine would be around average in most:

• 7 Strength
• 9 Dexterity
• 8 Constitution
• 12 Intelligence
• 11 Wisdom
• 8 Charisma

I would probably focus on Intelligence and Wisdom, but I think having a higher charisma would be also be very nice

My advice would be to treat investing in unique assets - like shares in one company or Cryptos - as gambling: only put in what you’re willing to lose. Anything you can’t afford to lose should be saved or put into index funds with lower risk and volatility.

You just cannot know what an asset will do in 6 months. You can have a really good guess, but at the end of the day it’s still a guess. And that guessing is even more difficult when it’s a non-productive asset like Bitcoin, because then you’re just gambling on vibes. There isn’t much logic to Bitcoin’s price besides “what if” and FOMO.

So yes, if you can afford to lose the money, you can leave it in. But if that money going to zero overnight would impact your quality of life or ability to absorb unexpected expenditures, then liquidate.

And on a more personal note, you’re probably better off having the drone you want than flipping a (digital) coin and hoping it’s heads

The asset price spikes when lots of buying happens, not selling. If more buys are occurring, then sellers are able to sell their assets for more (simple supply and demand). A spike up in price means more buying (lower supply).

It’s comments like this that almost make me miss reddit gold

NordVPN on the same level as Arch? No way

I think the “high-speed” is the important part there. You have reduced speeds after the first 30Gb