That’s interesting. I figured I’d look it up on a map, see if I could find it without using the search function. I went past Guinea-Bissau and I saw a bunch of little islands with Portuguese names. It took me a while to realize I needed to go further south to find Equatorial Guinea.

I know Angola used to be a colony. You can kind of see how Portugese colonists stayed close to the west African coastline and stopped on offshore islands.

I wonder if there is any connection between Lagos, former capital of Nigeria, and Lagos, Portugal?

Edit: Wikipedia has a source that states it used to be called Eko but Portuguese traders renamed it Lagos for Lagos, Portugal since it was the basis for maritime expeditions to west Africa.

I’m married with 3 cats, got 512 GB storage of which 50 is in use

I see. I’ve made it my objective to get caterium up and running as quickly as possible to unlock smart splitters really early. Then I go looking for scraps at crash sites to unlock more in the MAM. Aiming to get the dimensional depot quickly but low priority on that one.

I host a dedicated server and I play with some advanced server settings, namely instant awesome shop unlocks to get access to cosmetics immediately as they are unlocked and instant alternate recipe unlock so that I don’t have to roll the dice on hard drives.

5 all day everyday

Do you start a game from scratch or do you unlock evening from the start and just build as nice a factory as you can? I’m currently just starting steel. But it’s kinda frustrating to have to wait for resources and unlocks sometimes

If you haven’t yet, I can really recommend reading Satoshi’s whitepaper on what Bitcoin is really for. The fact that crypto is now used as an asset to trade in order to gain ‘old’ money really spits in the face of the ideology of a decentralized ledger. And the fact that a dollar value is assigned to it means it becomes the target of a lot of scams. The fact that a decentralized ledger also means greater anonymity has made it a popular target for illicit activity as well.

But by design, it really only wants to take power away from banks in order to stop devaluation, make it impossible to charge people for transactions and to put control of assets into the hands of individuals. The amount of money currently in circulation is way more than the actual physical amount available, because banks can lend you money they don’t even have. Bitcoin would make this impossible.

I think it’s awesome that Ólafur Arnalds is carrying in Eoin French’s legacy as good as possible. Talos has made such beautiful music and the world of arts will always be missing French’s voice.

It’s funny that the Dutch version is pretty close to what the English one should be: bemoei je met je eigen zaken, literally mind your own business.

Good job, Europe! Now I wonder what it’ll take to really shut down coal production.

Money is an IOU. Bitcoin is an IOU but the ledger is decentralized rather than in control of banks.

Once you start seeing the value of any currency as one of itself rather than trying to express it in a different value system, a Bitcoin needs nothing but its inherent worth as payment.

That said, because we all still use traditional forms of currency, a Bitcoin is now worth, say, 112000 breads. It’s worth two new mid-sized cars.

Value is based on scarcity and demand. If something is hard to come by, like bitcoin currently is, the price is hardly affected. But if demand is higher than the supply, prices skyrocket. Demand dies down the moment people feel like crypto is a scam. Supply will stop since Bitcoin has a physical limit (of the top of my head 21 billion). It is no longer realistic to start mining the stuff and receiving it for payment is just silly at this point.

But to flip it around, what is the value of a US dollar, without expressing it in terms of another currency? It used to be tied to gold. You can’t really state one dollar is equal to, say, one bread. The price of bread has fluctuated. Or, has the value of a dollar fluctuated and has a bread always been worth one pair of socks?

Baseline: everything is worth one of itself and trying to express it in another value system is just a snapshot, a moment in time which will have changed soon after.

They didn’t even get it a shot on target

I’ll be glad if the orange man go

I stopped smoking weed right before I graduated from college. Those days are pretty much behind me. Alcohol is still a big one though.

And thanks! I will report back in a week or so.

My story today: I’ve been debating getting a smart watch for some time now. Well, I had one, but it only lasted about a day and I couldn’t be bothered to wear it anymore.

I’ve now bought a hybrid smartwatch which lasts over a month. As a bit of an analytics geek, I like tracking stuff like exercise, sleep, body weight, etc. I also like the idea of being able to see trends over time truth historical data.

And my watch told me that I don’t really sleep deeply. Which is a factor in restoring your energy for the next day. Factors that affect this are going to bed late and drinking too close to bedtime. So I’m on a sort of experiment to see if I can get back some deep sleep by not drinking for a while, or at least be more mindful of it on weekdays. I started this last Sunday and I’m still doing okay, even though I had a bit of a tough day at work yesterday and I felt like having a drink but I didn’t.

I really hope at some point I will wake up refreshed and my watch will tell me the same. If it doesn’t, I feel I might as well have a lil drink each night…

And before anyone tries to tell me that my watch isn’t showing me empirical truths and it’s just guessing based on heart rate and movement metrics, I know. I just need the confirmation bias at this point.

Well based on the principle of compounding interest I think that number might be right. It really kind of depends on your returns every month.

His logic flaw here is that millions gamble on startups like that and hindsight is very much 20/20.

Buying stocks is kind of like sports betting for a different target audience this way.

Spend forever asleep, because life pales in comparison to living the dream

#deep

I don’t disagree with having it help out a little or be better at autocomplete but having worked with Databricks’s Genie or whatever it’s called I am just now annoyedly hitting backspace when it suggests something stupid again but enter also autocompletes rather than just tab.

Not seeing any European airports but last time I flew within Europe they were cool with bringing water aboard. Also the shoes thing is something of the past if you fly within Europe.

Het is ook wel schrijnend hoe deze nieuwe orde van Nederlandse politici in hun functie zitten. Lubach had een tijdje geleden een aantal interviews van een aantal van deze lui laten zien, die niets inhoudelijks te melden hebben een vrijwel nooit in de Kamer zitten. Gewoon een zeteltje bezet houden zodat de fractievoorzitter zich kan gedragen als 37 mensen.

En misschien moet er wel iets veranderen aan de manier waarop de Tweede Kamer functioneert. Maar weglopen, apathisch en lethargisch doen is geen basis voor goed bestuur.

Helaas heeft de kiezer nog minder interesse voor hoe bestuur functioneert en zal dit soort zakkenvullers gewoon weer de helft van de Kamerzetels leeg laten tijdens cruciale debatten.

Portable as in wireless? I think that JBL monstrosity takes the first spot, but it’s not exactly good in terms of overall sound quality. It’s just mostly amped bass.

Now if you’re looking to go really small I’ve got a Sonos Roam 2 which is pretty good. Don’t expect it to be thunderous in the bass department.