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  • This is about project management

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  • Well, mine is abysmal, thank you for asking, BUT I have seen people drive for life goals like that with single-mindedness and actually achieve them. I imagine you have to widen your "acceptable" target landing zone quite a bit most times.

  • This is about project management

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  • If you take out the implied over-precision, it makes a lot of sense though. It's good to know what you're looking for, even when it's very vaguely scheduled. "Get married and have kids around 25-30" is a decently vague expectation that is not at all useless when making life decisions.

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    Opinion|Trump has been fooled - but Maga haven’t even noticed yet

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  • Step one: bedazzle the US President with pomp and circumstance and a “rare” visit somewhere special. In Britain’s case, this was Windsor Castle. In China, it was Zhongnanhai – the secretive compound for the Chinese leadership set in ancient imperial gardens.

    Step two: follow the King’s example in Washington last month. Fob off the Great Narcissist with warm words about friendship between their two great nations before shafting him with such a subtle – but profoundly barbed – message that Trump is either obliged to pretend he hasn’t heard it, or has genuinely failed to grasp its import.

    Xi warned Trump in Beijing to stay away from “clashes and conflicts” over Taiwan’s status and reinforced this point by urging him to avoid the “Thucydides Trap” – the theory that war breaks out when a rising power challenges a declining one. It took a while for the penny to drop that Xi thought America was in decline.

    This led to some delusional spinning on Truth Social later that the Chinese leader was really harking back to the US under Joe Biden. “When President Xi very elegantly referred to the United States as perhaps being a declining nation, he was referring to the tremendous damage we suffered during the four years of Sleepy Joe,” Trump claimed.

    Trump’s usual Maga cheerleaders were so perplexed by the China summit that they mostly ignored it. Sean Hannity of Fox News didn’t have that luxury, having travelled with Trump to Beijing. In an interview, he tried to press Trump on whether Xi had agreed Iran cannot have nuclear weapons, as Trump had claimed.

    Well, not in so many words, Trump admitted. “He’s not going to respond too much. He’s a pretty cool guy. He’s not going to say that’s a good point.”

    One popular Maga YouTuber, Benny Johnson, had valiantly attempted to project optimism before Trump came home empty-handed.

    “Trump is winning BIG Today,” he initially claimed on X. “China trip is going better than anyone could have imagined. China helping bring Iran War to an end. Buying American oil. Massive trade deals. Stocks roaring.”

    He later sounded more sober, saying Trump “thinks” President Xi will help the US reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

    In fact, Xi had said nothing about reopening the Strait. Returning home on Air Force One, Trump admitted he hadn’t even asked for China’s help. “I don’t need favours,” he said. “I think automatically he’d like to see it opened up.”

    Xi didn’t grant the US any greater hoped-for access to rare earth minerals, either, and Boeing’s share price dropped four per cent when it turned out China was only buying 200 out of 500 expected aircraft – and possibly not even that many. The tight-lipped Chinese foreign ministry wouldn’t say.

    Once again, Maga can’t cope with the truth. There were no shouts or murmurs about the presence of middle son Eric Trump on the trip, even though Trump went ballistic over Joe Biden taking his son Hunter to Beijing in 2013 as vice-president.

    Eric Trump’s net worth has risen tenfold to $400m since his father was re-elected, according to Forbes, but he was just in China in a “personal capacity”, according to the Trump Organization, which he represents.

    Trump didn’t believe Biden when he said the same about Hunter, describing his presence in China as “a horrible thing” and clamouring for an investigation, but sure, let’s give Eric the benefit of the doubt.

    When Hannity tried to press the President to repeat his previously extensive criticisms of China, he demurred. Trump U-turned, for instance, on whether China should be buying up tracts of land from farmers in the US, including near military installations – having railed against this on the 2024 campaign trail.

    “You want to see farmers lose a lot of money? Just take that out of the market,” he chided Hannity.

    He went on to sound like a raging liberal about the presence of Chinese students in the US: “I frankly think it’s good that people come from other countries and they learn our culture.”

    Back in the US, Trump faces the reality of rising inflation, now at 3.8 per cent, fuel prices upwards of $4.50 a gallon and deepening hostility to his handling of the economy – 70 per cent disapprove and only 30 approve, according to the latest CNN poll.

    It won’t help that Trump said before leaving for China “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation” when considering the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran. “Not even a little bit,” he explained.

    Never mind though. The big conclusion he drew from his visit, as posted on Truth Social from Air Force One was: “China has a Ballroom, and so should the U.S.A.!”

  • The era of 15GB free Gmail storage is ending (Update: Google responds)

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  • IIRC, they launched with 1GB (which was ridiculously much for the time) and later only had "unlimited" in the sense of "continuously slowly increasing". Until they reached 15GB and never budged from there again.

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    Round-the-clock renewables: New report says clean energy now challenges fossil fuels on price

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  • Fully dispatchable renewable with sufficiently deep buffers against dunkelflaute is prohibitively expensive(BESS 120 usd/kWh) , and this ruins your EROEI which is already marginal to start with.

    Renewable energy sources that can be switched on and off at will with sufficiently deep buffers against lulls in generation are prohibitively expensive (Battery Energy Storage Systems cost 120 usd/kWh) , and this ruins your Energy Return on Energy Invested ratio which is already marginal to start with.

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    Trump Explodes At Female Reporter After She Asks An Uncomfortable Question

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  • There was an actual scientific study that found there is a correlation between having an easily triggered 'disgust' reaction (in general) and being right-wing.

    EDIT: seems the are multiple such studies. Here's one.

  • People who journal, why?

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  • Exactly. And journaling on paper is essentially useless. Ctr+F is the main reason to journal for me.

  • Pete Hegseth is now bringing his wife to Pentagon meetings: report

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  • TIL cotton was used as boat armor in the American Civil War.

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  • It was also used as splinter padding by the Japanese navy, in the form of rolled-up hammocks, shown here at the battle of Tsushima:

    They continued using hammocks this way well into WW2, although I don't understand how the increased risk of fire wasn't a problem.

  • What book would you recommend to a person in their final days?

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  • Whatever book you remember reading first, read it again at the end.

  • xkcd #3239: Simple Machines

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  • The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon

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  • That looks indeed awesome. I didn't know Elite was developed for the BBC Micro... 22 kB for a 3D open-world fighting/trading/mining flight simulator using only 8-bit integer addition operations. I had no idea...

  • When was the last time you thanked the person who affected you the most?

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  • Ah, no, just giving a glimpse of my own very subjective perspective, based on a relationship where the language of gratitude was decidedly a one-sided affair: neither appreciated nor reciprocated by the other.

    I obviously don't know your situation, knew even less before you mentioned ten years, and know less still about the situation of other people reading this conversation, so this was a general comment. We can sometimes miss the fact that other people have completely different interpretations of things that seem almost axiomatic to us.

  • When was the last time you thanked the person who affected you the most?

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  • Unless they have a matching personality, showing a lot of gratitude can easily turn unattractive to most people, because it often comes from a position of insecurity... Have a sense of measure even for gratitude is what I'm saying (but this is very much like a patient advising the doctor, because I'm very gratitude-heavy myself).

  • Help Me like Penny Arcade

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  • I think they've got low to medium tier jokes, but with excellent pacing and timing and without any fear of going into fantasy space. They kinda keep you hoping for a much funnier one, but yeah, they're not knee-slappers.

    This one is decent and pretty typical: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/09/09/home-city-usa

  • Trump claims US has total control over strait of Hormuz after Iran seizes two container ships

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  • The man is in Super Extra Platinum Nobel tier at this point, a lot of people are saying it.

  • Do you want the US to "win" AI?

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  • Nice, but even that is too optimistic... No player asks if the pawns want to play. There are no moves at all for most of us.

  • Is there a strategy game or there about managing a post war economy?

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  • There's an in-browser game, a political simulation for Germany's inter-war period from the point of view of the Social Democratic party (the biggest at the time, soon to be ousted by the Nazis): https://red-autumn.itch.io/social-democracy

    You basically have to make lots of tough political and economic choices to try to slow down the explosive growth of the NSDAP party. It's tough but very replayable.

  • The Onion relaunches Alex Jones’ Info Wars as a satirical site

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  • It's a tiny bit premature to claim final ownership (unfortunately):

    “…[I]t is not effective until Judge Guerra Gamble approves it, and Mr. Jones could appeal any ruling,” notes The Times. “That means the fate of Infowars remains in limbo until the court rules, probably sometime in the next two weeks. Mr. Jones continues to operate Infowars.com and host its weekday program, ‘The Alex Jones Show.'”