E.g. the Russian Revolution (one of the main workers' requests in the events leading up to the Revolution was the 40 hour work week and fair treatment).

The unions were just a symptom to mediate the threat of violence in exchange for a larger share of the added value generated by the worker.

12100F was the ultra-budget gaming king 4 years ago and still is now (efficiency too).

Unless you need 6 physical cores for productivity, in which case the 5500 is best (way cheaper per core too at $70/6).

You can say nearly the same of someone obsessed with social media and brain-rot. If you don't actively resist, soon your world view becomes the algorithm that you are being fed.

Very few people are able to resist this.

With small/insufficient muscle size, you simply run out of stored glycogen before you get tired cardiovascularly.

> Because if you need to fit 560 minutes of cardio and then also fit weight lifting 3 times a week that's a lot of time working out

Proper exercise is absolutely a lifestyle change and a big commitment. Not only do you have to exercise several hours a week, but also eat healthier macros and fix your sleep to make sure most of the benefits stick and aren't wasted.

People try to half-ass it all the time by doing weird diets or going on 15 minutes walk during their lunch break, and yes it's better than nothing, but not by much.

And how many tokens would that buy?

Twice in 1 year I've had my bootloader entry just disappear after a reboot. No idea what happened. Wasn't tied to any particular update either.

If I were non-technical, it would ruin my week.

Also, some of these things are definitely not like the others.

I should have clarified that industrial fertilizers (and other modern Ag) come from non-renewable fossil fuel exploitation, just as the 90% of the things you listed.

Antibiotics and GMO crops are nice too, but if you don't have the energy inputs to grow and distribute the food, it all goes tits up.

Malthusian observation can still be true...It only has to be true once, and the only reason people say it isn't right now is due to industrial fertilizers and short memories.

It's not correct to say that it's being smug, because when people are being smug, we do it for a purpose - e.g. to signal higher social status or superior knowledge.

A machine has no such imperative, so what you call 'being smug' is statistical mimicry.

Maybe you are. I like getting to a reasonably correct model of a topic or issue. Bad human takes can still be useful here. I just get inevitably tired of the people crying about potential LLM comments all the time.

> Would you really rather just be talking to LLMs here?

Obviously we're not there yet, regardless of what I want. But there is a great number of HN threads posted here that touch on topics that have been discussed so many countless times, that an average LLM summary would do better than most comments.

The reason I'm not simulating the experience with an LLM is because:

1. It costs more time to do so, because I have to prompt it to create a single comment. Multiply that by the typical number of an HN thread.

2. I suppose in a way you need bad takes to form your own view of a topic or an issue. LLMs would also be unable to provide truly unique experiences, such as some of the veterans who sometimes post here who were part of the living computing history as we know it.

> I’m surprised you’re here and not just simulating the experience with your LLM by yourself.

That's something you imagined that I claimed I want. If you read my comment again, you'll see there was no such thing.

This just makes me wonder...so what?

Some of the oldest posters here with the most karma continue to post absolute garbage takes on topics ranging from US healthcare to history of USSR, that are trivially disproven by learning the very basics from a Wiki article (e.g. not a high bar).

To be fair, this opinion slop is also present for new users and LLM bots, but is one kind really worse than the other, if both of them contribute to killing the community?

We already know what kills communities. It's the eternal Septembers. Infighting within leadership also doesn't help, but time and time again it's the influx of too many new users that nosedive and drown out quality contributions.

The group that uses the rhetoric like "which groups shouldn't be allowed to vote". You tell me which one that is.

There is a base level beyond which you can't save much, so first order of business is maximizing your income (e.g. better job/raise/promotion) without going bananas and sacrificing your health for it.

> He had to stop to help take more care of my mom, and quickly, he just fell out of all these things. Cognitively. Health. Ability to do anything decision wise or to better himself just tanked.

It's a nice "just so" story, but when you're in your 80s, you are already in multiple stages of decline across the board. One small injury can cause a cascading failure of systems.

> The poor health came after being forced to quit.

I don't know how you can so authoritatively state this about a man in his 80s. (e.g. - past the average life expectancy). 80 is just really really old. How fast the decline gets you at that point is really mostly a genetic lottery.

But if the anecdote helps you be more active personally - more power to you.

Personally, I'd love to FIRE. I have at least 5-10 years of personal projects in my head that I would do if I didn't have a 9-5 job. Unfortunately, graduating into a shitty 2009 market and not having nepotism connections means I am unlikely to ever FIRE outside of some expat poverty FIRE in a cheap country.