Underground techno parties. Lots of cool people.

And LLM is mostly for investors, not for users. Investors see you “do AI” even if you just repackage GPT or llama, and your Series A is 20% bigger.

Upper middle class gays somewhere in Gilbert Arizona who just want to see their retirement savings to go zoink. You have your walled swimming pool and Trader Joe’s nearby.

It kind of fails with certain protocols. I once wrote an async MSSQL client for Rust, and some data doesn’t say its size in the headers. So this kind of forced the business logic to be async too.

Never had one, just partied in the uni and dropped out :D

So basically your typical network protocol is something that converts an async stream of bytes into things like Postgres Row objects. What you do then is you write a synchronous library that does the byte conversion, then you write an asynchronous library that talks with the database with async functions, but most of the business logic is sync for converting the data coming from the async pipe.

Now, this can also be done in a higher level application. You do a server that is by nature async in 2024. Write the server part in async, and implement a sync set of mapping functions which take a request coming in and returns a response. This can be sync. If you need a database, this sync set of functions maps a request to a database query, and your async code can then call the database with the query. Another set of sync functions maps the database result into http response. No need to color everything async.

The good part with this approach is that if you want to make a completely sync version of this library or application, you just rewrite the async IO parts and can reuse all the protocol business logic. And you can provide sync and async versions of your library too!

That’s why you write your protocol as a sync library, then implement the async IO separately and mapping the data over the protocol modules.

Like the whole stress of needing to pay anything if needing medical help… If I would avoid that, it is worth even a bigger monthly pay.

Like, in Berlin I can just walk to a doctor, to a hospital or to a pharmacy, plug my insurance card to a machine and it is all settled. I never see any money changing hands, or at maximum 10 euros copay if getting expensive prescription drugs.

Completely removing the stress of having a huge bill suddenly is worth the money I put into the insurance every month.

Is it possible to get health insurance with no copay at all in the US? My insurance in Berlin is about 1500€ per month, for which my employer pays half. If I lose my job, the unemployment office pays it and the price drops to 100€. The same happens if my salary drops, because the insurance cost is a percentage from my salary.

But if I came to the US, what kind of insurance would I get with $1500 per month?

GitHub account since 2008. I think I started to use Gmail around that time, but I do not use that at all anymore.

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/tn-panel-twisted-nematic-definition,5767.html

Old thinkpads let you to save 20 euros to get a TN film panel to your company laptop. Great for bean counters, awful screens to look at. Never buy these, always get an IPS screen.

One rule of thumb is to be really sure it doesn’t have a tn film screen. IPS at least and even those were really bad up until T490 etc. X1 series has better screens, but you cannot upgrade almost anything to those.

dbg!(1) all the time…

They are not usually very good, depending on the city, of course. In Germany, where I live, it’s a struggle to find good Mexican food. It’s never spicy enough and often kind of trashy. There are a few okay, more upscale places with 6-7 euro tacos (yikes) and 13 euro margaritas (yikes). But it’s not as good as in our visits to the US.

Weirdly, when I visit my parents in Helsinki, that city actually has a quite good Mexican restaurant scene. Damn, Helsinki of all places. It’s one of the rare EU cities with Taco Bells (yeah, not Mexican food, I know), and some of the finest Mexican restaurants I’ve visited in Europe. They are quite expensive, but the tacos I’ve had there have been surprisingly good.

In general, Mexico is far from Europe. You can easily find amazing Italian, French, or Georgian food here. In the US, I’ve mostly been disappointed with the selection of French or Italian food. I haven’t found Georgian cuisine in any US cities. So, I tend to enjoy Mexican food when I visit that side of the planet to see family, and mostly focus on European food in the EU.

But damn, I wish there was a diner serving biscuits and gravy in Berlin. Biscuits are one of the things that just don’t exist in Europe.

Helsinki has multiple Taco Bells. One of the rare cities in Europe for that. It is quite different compared to the US, better quality ingredients and many vegan options.

It creates a set of symlinks so every program sees exactly the dependencies it needs.

https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/09-automatic-runtime-dependencies#automatic-runtime-dependencies

You can also create a container:

https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_Containers

Or you can create reproducible docker containers with nix:

https://dev.to/anurag_vishwakarma/a-better-way-to-build-reproducible-docker-images-with-nix-2k59

The secret sauce with nix is reproducibility. If it builds once, it will continue building exactly like that forever. Bit by bit.

Nix can build you a bit-to-bit exact environment for your app. It is a superior environment, but is hard to use in the beginning and users can feel snobby sometimes. It is awesome, but YMMV.

Nix user arrives to the room.

Marinara Starita in a restaurant called Starita in the city of Naples. Sourdough crust and amazing tomato sauce. After that New York style pepperoni pizza and detroit style vodka sauce deep dish.

It is actually quite nice. You sudo something in the terminal and can just swipe your finger to the reader without needing to type your password.