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It’s an important step, yes. You are the master of your own happiness. Take care!

I’ll add one: to appreciate the beauty of life itself, or in other words: be happy.

That does tie in with the “it gets better” and you’ll have to trust me when I say that happiness can be found.

But for whatever it’s worth, I wasn’t always happy, and I went through very dark places in the past. Yet I found happiness in multiple places and I honestly don’t feel like I need to pretend anymore.

However that might not mean a lot if I didn’t give some pointers to help you find it. To find happiness the best thing you can is to find peace within yourself, which implies becoming at peace with who you are. First of all, don’t let the sadness in the world distract you from your own happiness, because the best way to combat the world’s sadness is by being happy yourself. Then you can become an example for others to become happy too. And second, don’t assume it means nothing. We live in a spiritual place that’s mysterious and wonderful. There’s endless happiness to be found there. If you don’t think that’s true, I believe you owe it to yourself to explore so that you may find it. Because you can. And when you do, things will get better. Trust.

Silver actually interacts horribly with and ruins the flavour of some foods. There’s a reason why silver cups often have gold plating on the inside to not ruin the taste of wine.

I’d stick with the steel any time.

That’s not just pedantry, that’s unnecessarily narrow-minded. Ever heard of the corrupted heart? According to your definition, that’s an impossibility, unless the heart belongs to someone in authority, or something, I guess.

The point is, there is more than a single interpretation of things, and there is not a singular definition of corruption. Anyone can be corrupted, and giving examples that show that lawlessness permeates every level of society is a great way of showing that corruption is likely endemic in the culture.

I’m Dutch too, and I used to work 8h/day 4 days a week. And my productivity became even better than when I worked 5 days a week. I could kill it those 4 days, and be rested enough the next week so I could kill it again. It worked wonders.

I like the rhetoric, because it means that my employer got something out of it too. But I don’t think it implies that was the only reason it should be given. I obviously enjoyed the time off for my own reasons.

This rant actually turned out to be more thoughtful than I expected on the surface. I’m afraid a lot of reasonable readers will be turned off by its title and either not read it at all or be primed to dismiss it from the start. Too bad, it deserves an honest read.

I dunno, I have a Framework laptop and had a keyboard issue with it. It still worked, but one of the keys didn’t register well. So they sent me a new keyboard and I sent them back the old one after I’d swapped it. Not a single day was I without my laptop, which sounds quite unlikely compared to other laptop brands and the support you get (or not) with those. No buyer’s remorse here.

Captchas are getting out of hand.

I can take this one: Because he doesn’t actually care about creating anything of value. If he truly believed in it, you’re right, Twitter or even Tesla’s software engineers would be on the chopping block and he’d replace them with AI as soon as he can. But he doesn’t.

He knows this is a longshot. Most likely to fail, but very profitable on the near-impossible chance that it works. But he doesn’t care even if the odds are truly impossible. Because this is an investment opportunity, so people will throw money his way, no matter what the odds.

People assume he’s an idiot, and he is. But he’s not stupid, at least not in every way. He certainly has a skill for separating others from their money, which he happily takes advantage of.

Don’t tell that to the kids in Finland 😉

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That’s fair, although technically you could catch SIGSEGV and release resources that way too.

Also, given that resources will be reclaimed by the OS regardless of which kind of crash we’re talking about, the effective difference is usually (but not always) negligible.

Either way, no user would consider a panic!() to be not a crash because destructors ran. And most developers don’t either.

“An abrupt exit”, more commonly known as a “crash”.

If you’re going to argue that an exit through panic!() is not a crash, I will argue that your definition of a crash is just an abrupt exit initiated by the OS. In other words, there’s no meaningful distinction as the result is the same.