But in general it’s just understanding what makes people happy: dopamine. And then understanding how that specific person varies from average.

Like, it’s entirely possible they keep doing all things that would make most people happy, and they’re just wired differently so it’s not working.

This is where my answer would go to. I’d extend on what you said about dopamine though in two specific directions:

• Learn what drives you as an individual. Besides chemical inducements, what actions/accomplishments/behaviors give you a sense of satisfaction? For most there is some form of creative or active pursuit like artistic painting, dance, woodworking, moto racing, skydiving, sport, memorizing trivia, study of a field of science, organizing, home design, or any number of the endless activities that exist. Figure out what it is that you like doing, and do more of it.
• Cut back on the chemical inducements of dopamine. If you can get the 10x-100x the dopamine hit you need from just putting a chemical in your body, the tiny bit of natural dopamine you get from a non-chemical activity won’t even register with you. You’ll be desensitized to the natural dopamine you get from the things you like doing. The things you like doing that would normally give you dopamine won’t anymore that you’ll be able to detect. This means you stop doing the things you like. So the only way you can get any measurable amount of dopamine you detect is by the chemicals.

Remember when the church used to sell “indulgences” for cash as pardons for sins? What trump is doing is the modern day version of it and its just as disgusting.

Before the TSA existed (pre-911) airport security was run and paid for by the airlines.

I’m glad it was helpful!

In the USA at least, apparently the Amtrak Auto Train is one of the largest passenger capacity trains and can hold about 692 people.

A single Boeing 777-9 can hold 426 passengers.

So yes, a passenger train can carry more, but only about half again as many. So because of how much slower it is, the plane can carry more in the same amount of time.

The cost problem for medium or long distance trains is the cost of human labor.

In a given 10 hour work day (apparently common for airline flight attendant) how many flights can that worker work? Let say New York to Los Angeles flights. So the answer is about 2 flights per day. Compare that to the time it takes by train for the same distance, which is about 77 hours. Because of this length this means you also have to have more than one set of crew available to the train passengers.

The staff have to be paid significantly longer on the train to transport far fewer people simply because of more elapsed time. It may be worth it for a nation to subsidize long distance train travel, but understand that that is the problem with profitability vs airplanes that can simply move more people in less time, requiring few paid human hours of labor.

I would imagine you’d be able to file an amended return for a prior tax year so you could get the money you paid in tax back, but executing that likely requires more brain cells than these newly minted Proudboy/ICE thugs have.

He got an authentic girlfriend experience. Girlfriends don’t like being treated like sexual objects and having their values dismissed by their mate.

Kent Walker suggested that this initiative would stifle innovation and deny people access to the “best digital tools.”

Perhaps in specific scientific or engineering situations the “best digital tools” may be needed, but isn’t that just a tiny fraction of the European userbase? How many office workers need bleeding edge tools to make a quarterly report or send an email?

It was probably a law written expecting the use case to be temporary power perhaps for an event or temporary maintenece need. The drafters of that law likely didn’t think someone would blatantly skirt the spirit of the law by simple placing the generators on trailers as a permanent fixture.

In short, the state needs to update its laws to remove this loophole.

“We’re here to tell you about the horrible sin of flowing water and how we together can stop it.”

Printhead compatibility: HP 63 (US), HP 302 (Europe)

“Commander, can we have Starlink?”
“We have Starlink at home.”
Starlink at home:

Use the Google flag of “before:2022” added to any search. This will limit returned results to only those captured before 2022, which is when AI slop feedback started. Obviously this doesn’t work for current events, but if the data you’re looking for doesn’t need to be recent it can be useful.

Example:

Are we living in the national version of Brownback-istan? The time when Kansas went full on GOP mindset and bankrupted the state while simultaneously providing far fewer state benefits to its citizens only to hand the Governor’s office to the Democrats to this day?

TP-Link

I hope its not one of the 32 TP-Link cameras that have unpatched auth flaws allowing malicious actors to reset the admin credentials in them.. This is a local exploit, so you’re probably okay, but these exploits could be used in concert with others to compromise your security/privacy.

FYI, nested virtualization has been available on GCP for at least 3 years. You have to create the instance via CLI or terraform with the parameter added. Its been awhile, but I don’t think there is the option to enable it in the GCP console.

Yet being able to uncover what they did after the fact seems hella sketchy.

Not really if you know how this kind of computing/information technology works.

A file consists of the data itself, and a pointer to the data location on the storage device or index record. When the computer wants to retrieve the data, it looks at the index to get the data location, then goes to that location to get the data. This is how the majority of computers/devices work. When a file is “deleted” the index is usually the only thing that goes away, not the data itself. Over the course of time, the data is eventually overwritten as its in areas marked as “free space”. So other new files will occupy some or all of that space changing it to hold the new file data.

If you want to get rid of the data itself, that is usually considered “purge” where the data is intentionally overwritten with something else to make the data irretrievable.

What the Google engineers were able to do was essentially go through all the areas marked as “free space” across dozens (hundreds?) of cloud servers that hold customer Nest camera data and try to find any parts that hadn’t been overwritten yet by new data. This is probably part of why it took so long to produce the video. Its like sorting through a giant dumpster to find an accidentally discarded wedding ring.

And the NEST camera apparently has some sort of free tier that saves a short amount (the last few hours) of video by default, so NEST users shouldn’t be surprised at all that their video feed is sent to the cloud as its one of the features of the subscription-less model.