The OFFICIAL programming thread
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@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
Since we went to WFH, I can watch porn all day on my personal computer while pretending to work on my work computer!
Laptop class rules! Suck it Musky!
45% price drop! Makes me wonder what’s wrong with it.
GTFO
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Apparently I am doing this tech thing wrong.
Free riders…
Elon Musk takes ketamine. Sergey Brin sometimes enjoys magic mushrooms. Executives at venture-capital firm Founders Fund, known for its investments in SpaceX and Facebook, have thrown parties that include psychedelics.
Routine drug use has moved from an after-hours activity squarely into corporate culture, leaving boards and business leaders to wrestle with their responsibilities for a workforce that frequently uses. At the vanguard are tech executives and employees who see psychedelics and similar substances, among them psilocybin, ketamine and LSD, as gateways to business breakthroughs.
“There are millions of people microdosing psychedelics right now,” said Karl Goldfield, a former sales and marketing consultant in San Francisco who informally counsels friends and colleagues across the tech world on calibrating the right small dose for maximum mindfulness. It is “the fastest path to opening your mind up and clearly seeing for yourself what’s going on,” said Goldfield.
Goldfield doesn’t have a medical degree and said he learned to dose through experience. He said the number of questions he gets about how to microdose has grown dramatically in recent months.
The account of Musk’s drug use comes from people who witnessed him use ketamine and others with direct knowledge of his use. Details about Brin’s drug use and the Founders Fund parties come from people familiar with them.
Musk, his attorney and a top adviser didn’t respond to requests for comment. A spokeswoman for Brin, the co-founder of Google, didn’t respond to requests for comment.
In a tweet following online publication of this article, Musk said he believed ketamine is a better way to deal with depression compared with more widely prescribed antidepressants that are “zombifying” people.
The movement isn’t a medical experiment or a related investment opportunity, but a practice that has become for many a routine part of doing business. It comes with risks of dependence and abuse. Most of the drugs are illegal. Before he was killed in April in San Francisco, Bob Lee, the founder of CashApp, was part of an underground party scene known as “the Lifestyle,” where the use of psychedelics was common. Lee had ingested drugs including ketamine before his death, an autopsy showed.
Silicon Valley has long had a tolerance toward drug use—many companies don’t test employees regularly—but the phenomenon is worrying some companies and their boards, who fear they could be held liable for illegal activity, according to consultants and others close to the companies.
Users rely on drug dealers for ecstasy and most other psychedelics, or in elite cases, they employ chemists. One prolific drug dealer in San Francisco who serves a slice of the tech world is known as “Costco” because users can buy bulk at a discount, according to people familiar with the business. “Cuddle puddles,” which feature groups of people embracing and showing platonic affection, have become standard fare.
Some start dabbling with psychedelics in search of mental clarity or to address health issues and end up using the drugs more frequently at Silicon Valley parties or raves, where they have taken a role similar to alcohol at a cocktail party.
Invitations to psychedelic parties are often sent through the encrypted messaging app Signal, rather than over email or text, so they can’t be shared easily. At some high-end private parties, users are asked to sign nondisclosure agreements and sometimes pay hundreds of dollars to attend, according to people who have attended or received invitations.
Spencer Shulem, CEO of the startup BuildBetter.ai, said he uses LSD about every three months because it increases focus and helps him think more creatively. While working alone after hours, he will sometimes take a low-enough dose where he said no one would know he was on LSD. Other times, he’ll take a larger dose alone and connect with nature on a hike.
Shulem, who lives in New York City, said the high expectations of venture-capital firms and investors in general can lead founders to turn to psychedelics to provide an edge. “They don’t want a normal person, a normal company,” he said. “They want something extraordinary. You’re not born extraordinary.”
He said he is cautious about sharing his LSD experiences at work unless someone asks. “I am not having a preaching seminar every Friday about the joys of drugs,” he said.
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@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
Since we went to WFH, I can watch porn all day on my personal computer while pretending to work on my work computer!
Laptop class rules! Suck it Musky!
45% price drop! Makes me wonder what’s wrong with it.
I can’t open that link on my phone for some reason. I can see the specs in the url though. How much are they asking for it?
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
Since we went to WFH, I can watch porn all day on my personal computer while pretending to work on my work computer!
Laptop class rules! Suck it Musky!
45% price drop! Makes me wonder what’s wrong with it.
I can’t open that link on my phone for some reason. I can see the specs in the url though. How much are they asking for it?
799$, USD I think since its the “.com” website and not “.ca”
Says its 600$ off.
Good deal I guess.
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Yeah, wow that’s cheap.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
Yeah, wow that’s cheap.
Years ago I bought a samsung tablet that had a price drop like that only to find out a few months latter that Windows 8 was being upgraded and the thing became a brick when windows 10 was forced on everyone.
This makes me very suspicious.
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Yeah, my 4070TI cost me about 1200$CAN by itself lol.
I don’t know shit about AMD processors though so i don’t know if that’s a good one.
512G SSD will also fill up pretty fast nowadays.
Still better than Zepp’s nintendo.
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If anyone here does web dev with vuejs, react etc and you want a really light weight framework for personal or throwaway projects:
I keep coming back to a combination of mithril.js and tailwind css. I don’t think it’s possible to build modern web apps with less code. I haven’t worked out a lightweight state solution (vuex, redux etc) but I usually get away without one for small projects anyway.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
I keep coming back to a combination of mithril.js and tailwind css. I don’t think it’s possible to build modern web apps with less code. I haven’t worked out a lightweight state solution (vuex, redux etc) and I usually get away without one for small projects anyway.
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I outsource web development.
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@Hog So is my web project done yet cheap third world labor?
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Hog So is my web project done yet cheap third world labor?
I negotiated with a guy briefly last year who kind of implied that because I was living where I do, I should charge third world rates. I told him that wasn’t going to fly. Dude would have charged me out at 3 times that rate and put the difference in his pocket.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Hog So is my web project done yet cheap third world labor?
I negotiated with a guy briefly last year who kind of implied that because I was living where I do, I should charge third world rates. I told him that wasn’t going to fly. Dude would have charged me out at 3 times that rate and put the difference in his pocket.
Damn that was my plan too. That actually happens here too quite a bit with Indians looking to get a green card. They work for other Indians in contract service companies and apparently there needs to be some chain of service companies involved to get around some immigration requirements. I can’t remember the details but one Indian consultant was telling me about it. Anyway the workers get paid shit and charge at slightly below market rates and pocket the difference and the workers put up with it to get their papers.
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Interesting. So if the EU doesn’t want us to have dossiers on all the commies over there, wonder if that will lead to split markets for platforms or whether the platforms will just locate and wall off their data transfers in the EU? The latter seems more likely but further regulation could impact their business model such that it’s not worth serving the EU?
Facebook data transfers declared illegal
Meta ordered to shut down US data transfers for Facebook and fined €1.2 billion for GDPR violations. The decision impacts European data transfer cases and might lead to a Facebook blackout in Europe.
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the much dreaded Facebook blackout
Seriously?
Maybe it’s just my friends but Facebook seems dead these days.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
the much dreaded Facebook blackout
Seriously?
Maybe it’s just my friends but Facebook seems dead these days.
Same, though some are still posting. Fortunately I don’t have much politics or “look how wonderful my life is” people on my feed. But I don’t really look at it as much anymore, especially since 90% of the posts are that recommended shit to try to get me engaged. I am less engaged because of that shit because I can’t find the posts from my friends that I want to see.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
the much dreaded Facebook blackout
Seriously?
Maybe it’s just my friends but Facebook seems dead these days.
It is. I think the only thing it’s used for is interest groups and marketplace
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
But I don’t really look at it as much anymore, especially since 90% of the posts are that recommended shit to try to get me engaged. I am less engaged because of that shit because I can’t find the posts from my friends that I want to see.
So much this. It used to be worth wading through the relatives who post a dozen times a day to find the post by someone I hadn’t heard from in a long while. Now it’s just as likely the algorithm has decided to never show me that post no matter how many of their unrequested videos and memes I have to scroll through.
