Moved in with my wife fairly shortly after we started dating. I’d say within 3-4 months. It just felt right to both of us. Married 20 years now.

Shameful.

Wasn’t the pipeline closed after the contract expired at the end of 2024?

I can’t emphasise how badly you need to travel. I’m old and very well travelled, much of it for work, like easily 20 countries all across the globe and it has been a huge eye opener to experience different cultures, foods, make friends with fellow travellers, locals and has broadened my horizons on so many fronts.

Yes it can be expensive but it is something you will never regret if you can scramble the money together for it. Embrace it. Deeply.

If you’re in North America you can experience lots of cultures and experiences like the national parks in the US very reasonably. I’m guessing you’re not in Europe because travel is cheap AF here.

I honestly think it will bring down many of the current barriers you express.

When you say “until I close my eyes” does that mean I revert to being a male non-millionaire after?

If so, definitely rewriting my will to give everything to the old me when I revert. Yoink!

Which Irish tea?

Barry’s gold blend is the business IMO.

I actually enjoyed the read. The watch analogy is a good one.

Ah go easy on yourself. It’s all niche knowledge.

I’m my first job I worked in a chip company. There was an entire department dedicated to the interface between the chip and whatever it connected to. I learned just how incredibly specialised individual knowledge has become and how much cooperation between those niches is required to enjoy the things we all take for granted.

My dad used to say that all you really need when traveling is your passport, tickets and cash and that’s true enough IMO.

It’s brave though. At a minimum I always take clean t-shirt, undies and socks. It has paid off more than once.

I didn’t either. Others saying it’s a mud dauber which is a type of wasp.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud_dauber

*screeching Irish noises*

It’s true that it all comes down to the deficit but it’s easier to create a calorie deficit when you include exercise. When “making weight” in the run up to fights I used to meticulously calorie count and aimed for a 1000 calorie a day hole.

When you’re burning 3500 calories, eating 2500 doesn’t feel uncomfortable at all (except towards the end where your fat levels get very low and your body is just constantly telling you you’re hungry).

But yeah, it’s all just numbers in the end.

You can make nearly all images small enough to upload and still look good without dropping colour depth. There are 3 ways to achieve it basically:

• Resize it to a lower resolution (1280 x whatever looks just fine on a screen)
• Reduce the quality
• Change to lossy (JPG) from non-lossy (PNG)

The resizing is usually enough.

The quality reduction is something that google pagespeed focuses on too. For most apps that means choosing a lower “quality” when converting to jpg or saving as a new jpg. 85% of original is good.

If you happen to have imagemagick installed, I have a little script that I use called “resize_to_pagespeed.sh”. The jist of it is this:

convert inputfile.jpg -filter Lanczos -resize 1280x1280 -sampling-factor 4:2:0 -strip -quality 85 outputfile.jpg

I just ran this on a 2.4MB photo (below) and it came out at 186KB. That’s a 13x reduction. Right click -> open in new tab to see it full size.

If the image isn’t square, imagemagick is smart enough to figure out correct dimensions.

Yeah it’s definitely a really good one. Not sure how much it’ll hold up to a rewatch though.

I watched it last night. A hell of a ride! Thanks again.

Sold! Thanks for the recommendation.

I highly recommend Perfect Days. Lovely little movie.

Our small company paid a prominent (of that specific driver) open source driver writer for prioritisation of some work more than once. All the code was GPL.

I know it’s only one data point but it’s one way.

Some days, I even think maybe I might be a good person too

You sound like a good person to me. That level of self reflection rarely / never leads to being a shithead in my experience.

Crazy story but a very interesting read. Thanks for sharing.

Australia has mandatory voting which is an interesting one. Quick search tells me the last turnout was nearly 90%.

Wow. I was there in the late 90’s and looks more or less exactly how I remember it. Is that the “gaslight” area? (I think that’s what it’s called but it was a long time ago, maybe “oldtown”?)