John BS @johnabs@qoto.org

@lucifargundam 500 I think? Somewhere in there.

So it turns out my bike's battery can be charged with only $0.08 of electricity, and with a maximum range of 70 miles or 25 miles on maximum assist. So I can pay $0.00114 per mile (assuming I'm even using the assist)!

With current prices of gas, it's $0.08 per mile with no chance of pedaling, bikes (and e-bikes) are awesome!

My laser cutter just came in, and I'll be posting pictures of some of my new inlay stuff once I get it fully configured! (And if I decide to mod it, I'll post a build guide on my website if anyone is interested 😄 )

@BerLinguistin @vicgrinberg I'm glad to hear you found everything and didn't lose your laptop! As an aside, thank you for the reminder to back up all my stuff...I have so much research code (and account passwords, 2FA recovery codes, encryption keys, etc) on my computer that if I lost it I would probably have a complete mental breakdown.

@vbuendiar Have you tried using the JLD package instead? It's quite convenient as it can export any object or set of objects as a dict and you can easily re-load them into their original variable names. https://docs.juliahub.com/JLD2/O1EyT/0.4.0/

Currently 8 days without food, and 12-15(somewhere in there) days with less than 500 calories.

Mouth holes? Healing faster.

Hunger? Minimal, but pops up occasionally.

Fatigue? None.

Exercise fatigue? Lots (probably need more electrolyte powder)

Amount of money I'm planning on spending when I can eat again on delicious Korean barbecue? Potentially all of it 😂

@barefootstache Well I've already got the momentum, I'm just gonna keep it going 😉

I've lost 15lbs (~7kg) in ~1.5 weeks from not being able to eat due to having my wisdom teeth pulled out and having some complications. I'll take it!

I've been trying to lose weight for a while, and being hungry is better than dry socket pain (literal agony 💀) or infection (potential agony 😂). If I keep it up until my holes are healed up as planned, I'll be able to buy those second hand tweed suits and jackets I've been eyeing for a while on eBay 🤤

@vicgrinberg The Dutch really excel at commuter bikes (and bikes in general), but I'm glad I got an ebike due to the hills in my area, as there's no way my prior beater bike's crappy gearing would let me get up the hills, but this makes it much more manageable.

And thank you very much for the well wishes! 😄

@vicgrinberg I just got a gazelle and I'm loving it! I've not been able to ride particularly far yet due to surgery issues, but I'll be riding it to and from work once the semester starts! Good job fellow bike buddy 💪 (bro? benefactor? pick an alliterative "b" word of your choice, lol)!

@freemo @trinsec @jimvernon

I more or less agree with freemo (with some big caveats), but I want to add some context and potential solutions:

Assume that each job has a set of requirements that we'll call {R}, and for each unique {R} there exists a real value produced when a person that meets those requirements is employed there, called V. Thus, for the set of all jobs {J} there exists the set of all requirements for all jobs {{R},{R},{R},...} and values produced {V}, and people are compensated for a portion of V they provide to the company by doing the work.

If we assume that requirements are correlated to someone's intelligence (again, *assume* is the key word), even if we also assume that jobs are distributed IDENTICALLY to the intelligence distribution, freemo has a point.

Namely, there may exist jobs with values of V that fall below the minimum wage, M. If this is the case, those jobs must be collected and extended such that their values V > M; however, this necessarily expands the set of requirements for these now hybridized jobs (or {R1}+{R2} => {R1+R2} for all jobs where V<M).

Thus, if the minimum wage is raised too high (or alternatively, there are too many applicants with insufficient requirements for the lower end of the requirements distribution), we risk creating a class of unemployable people as a vertical line moves left to right along the bell curve chopping the lower end off completely. A great example of this in the intelligence space was what the US discovered when they relaxed their IQ requirements when training soldiers for the Vietnam war, and why those IQ requirements were reinstated. Unfortunately, that means that 10%(not sure of the actual stat here, but I think it's close) of the populace in the US is "not fit for military duty", and in that case, there are vanishingly few jobs for which they will provide value and thus be employable.

Now, there are a lot of assumptions baked in here, and I don't think this outcome is the *right* one. There are a lot of screwy things going on right now with the asinine "'growth' at all costs" mentality (and the private equity firms that accompany it) currently plaguing our economy and as a result vulnerable people are marginalized. I am of the mind that "Welfare Capitalism" that was pioneered by early GE and other US companies can and should become the more popular method of economic growth and stability, as it was what provided the conditions of the 50s and 60s, and that everyone should be able to find work. With that being said, in our current economic environment, and without substantial changes to it, I have to reluctantly agree with freemo.

@trinsec Good to know: don't go to Belgium...except maybe for the waffles? 😂
We have a few of those steep hills here in central pIndiana, but not nearly as bad as certain places around the States.

@trinsec A few miles, probably not much by your standards, but if you've never biked in the Midwest US, you may not know those few miles tend to be harrowing 🙃

@trinsec Mine is also Gazelle! I only got the electronic version because I live pretty far from work and there are some icky hills and times when I'll have to keep up with cars because 'Murica...hence the jealousy 😑

@trinsec HEY! I just got a cool Dutch e-bike and I wanted you to be the first person I told (aside from my wife who okayed the purchase, and my mom who kept me on the phone while I drove out to pick it up...but they don't count lmao). ITS SO NICE, and now I'm even more jealous of your country. If you have any tips or tricks for your fancy Nederlander bikes, please lemme know, otherwise if this was weird, you can also tell me that and I'll stop 😂

@jradavenport Oh buddy, you've officially rustled my jimmies with this one.

The university claims to pay us X dollars which includes the so-called "tuition waiver"; however, we never see this money and STILL have to pay fees for tuition (it doesn't even cover all of it) even when I'm an in-state vs out-of-state student. Thus, in the past I was making "60k" as an out of state graduate student (take home pay was equivalent), whereas now I only make "26k" since I lived in the state for long enough to qualify, and yet I still have to pay the same out of pocket "tuition" fees as everyone else.

Secondly our health insurance is bloody atrocious which I suppose is a uniquely American problem, but still, you'd think a university with a multi-billion dollar endowment and nearly 50000 total students on campus could negotiate better plans.

But the best part, the absolute *best* part, was when they had the audacity to tell me that because of a registration error (which was not under my control) that the burar's office was going to claw back every red cent that they paid me and invalidate any insurance claims, despite not a single person informing me about the apparent credit discrepancy impacting my "full time student status" despite working well over the number of hours I would need to qualify in terms of credit hours. And, of course, this was the same year they accidentally fired me.

I value my education, and I appreciate my advisor and his funding of a majority of my work immensely, but the university money vacuum is a cancer on the ass of society and I want it fixed yesterday.

@zpartacoos If I may make a minor note that I've found helpful: you need not accept suffering, only pain. Pain is inevitable, suffering is a result from how we react to pain. This is a useful stoic principle, in my opinion.

You can do this, and if you're having issues with recurrent infections, particularly respiratory ones, I can recommend a HEPA/P100 PAPR. They're expensive, but you can build one yourself for cheap and look like daft punk when you go outside....which I can no longer find the video of, but it was on "the thought emporium" youtube channel/instagram. Look up DIY PAPR if you don't want to drop $1500 for one 😅