thro32's comments

16GB was not much even 5 years ago. That "fantastic, accessible software" eats a lot of memory.

No, she was at home. I worked from home as well.

Yes. The problem is you go back to zero sleep and anxiety. If you can solve sleep some other way, there are no withdrawal symptoms.

Problem with this is that it 1) works, 2) resistance is developed fast 3) you are back to square zero very soon. So it has to be taken in small doses with long intervals, when anxiety is at its worse.

It is not addictive as other drugs, most countries even sell it without prescription.

I am giving advice against starting family with someone, who can barely take care of themselves.

I had to deal with something similar, and I think I would add a few practical advices (outside of my other advice):

- if psychotherapy does now work in first 3 months, than problem is somewhere else

- check sugar levels, diabetes.. it is often misdiagnosed with psychiatric problems

- if she has paralyzing fear, you should talk to good psychiatrist and get medication. Be careful what motivations he/she has, he might try to sell you expensive doses for long term.

- we had good experience with psychiatrist outside US. Most consulting was over skype

- MRI, blood test... usual general tests. Anxiety can be result of infection, head concussion...

- Phenibut is quick & cheap solution to anxiety and sleep problems. No side effects, but you develop resistance fast, so it can be used only once a week. It takes edge-off before proper solution is found.

I was married to such person for 8 years. I physically aged 40 years, and I got gray hair.

My best advice is to get out NOW if you can. Maybe things are working out now, but you are barely floating. Add normal family life into picture: children, job loss, some injury, any sort of accident... and you will sink to bottom faster than a stone.

Go and Chess AI are SERIOUS and REAL problem. It is something which goes back for thousands years and will be remembered for another thousands years.

AIDS and other contemporary diseases will be soon forgotten after their extinction.

But I can say that. I spend several hundred hours arguing already. If you want some discussion, there are dedicated subreddits for that.

defering upgrades is not really an solution, unless 'several months' is like 5 years. I need control over my system.

REI has good ultralight backpacks for like $50 on sale.

I checked linked study:

> A human welder today earns around $25 per hour (including benefits), while the equivalent operating cost per hour for a robot is around $8 when installation, maintenance, and the operating costs of all hardware, software, and peripherals are amortized over a five-year depreciation period.

So human cost does not include total cost, just labour. Comparable cost would be around $100

> it costs barely $8 an hour to use a robot for spot welding in the auto industry, compared to $25 for a worker—and the gap is only going to widen.

This is just wrong. Author does not know much about welding or car manufacturing.

- Car welding is a best case for robots. Single task repeated many times exactly the same way. Try different case and you get $1M/hour.

- $25/hour human cost is too low. With pauses, errors, delays... $100/hour would be more reasonable.

- Germany is exactly in this situation, but does not have problem with unemployment.

Downvotes are nice, but is there any other solution? I want just security updates without new extra functionality.

MS is unpredictable and I do not trust them. One day it might decide to put ads on wallpaper or something.

Yet another reasons to blocks automated updates on Windows. Lets see how Edge becomes 'safer' in that situation.

There is even parody film, how Federation is totalitarian state. It is filmed in Finland, Federation are Russians:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wreck:_In_the_Pirkinning

That is funny, Excession and Consider Phlebas are only two books I could finish.

You have 8 x Stackable Chairs at 4sqm?

Google has horrible customer support. That is well known fact for almost a decade.

I workaround most of those issues by using VPN. Google always thinks I am sitting in datacenter in Germany.

> all have to be at work and ready to go at exactly 9.06am.

> everyone has to leave the office at 6pm sharp because staff aren't allowed to work into the evening.

I worked for similar company before. It was toxic environment.

"native apps are dead" is pretty loaded statement. Something "pretty good" in "early stages" does not cover that.