based on the relative differences between the m1 and the m1 pro/max, and also the comparisons shown by apple to other laptops from the MSI and Razerblade both featuring the RTX 3080.
Not so much the food, but I am heavily addicted to Coke Zero. I tried on Monday to quit it after a 2 week focus to prepare and I failed within 2 hours. I have previously quit nicotine for example so it's blown my mind why I can't handle stopping this simple drink.
How did you fail within two hours? Was there still some in your home or did you unconsciously walk to the store and purchase more? Getting it out of your house is key. It's important to raise the friction to act on the vice as much as possible or else you will engage in it without thinking.
If its caffeine you are physically addicted to, I will say the withdrawal is probably just as bad as a nicotine withdrawal. Nicotine withdrawal seemed to hit much faster (for me it was within 15 minutes of my last hit of nicotine vs coffee I just needed it bad in the mornings), but other than that the effects of withdrawal felt the same to me between the two stimulants. In both cases, if you are able to deal with a terrible migraine headache and feeling underslept and sick and nauseous for the two weeks it takes to get through these symptoms (in my experience at least), you will have successfully quit. I have cut back my coffee to maybe 3-5 cups a week (after a long initial detox) and I haven't used or craved nicotine in years.
Seems like an addiction you have through mental/memory association or routine that has been created over time for you. If "Diet Coke" is still bearable for you, or even if not, try switching to that to disconnect the addiction within your brain, then perhaps it may be easier to quit. I am not a psychiatrist though, just a suggestion.
Do other drinks / sources of caffeine work to replace it? I know it takes a couple of weeks to get over caffeine withdrawal, during which you may feel really tired or get headaches.
The black label Coke Zero uses aspartame instead of saccharine, is strongly carbonated, and has a noticeable caffeine bite. Sorta similar to Barq's root beer, which is less flavorful than A&W and other competitors but has caffeine and was marketed with "Barq's has bite."
The newer version tastes a lot more like regular coke, but to get that flavor, it seems that it is meant to be poured over ice.
Wow that is an amazing achievement, those waves are scary, especially being so far from assistance in such a small boat. Did you manage the whole journey without major issue?
Around 4-5 years ago, I seen a baby seagull had fallen out of it's nest into my garden so I immediately noticed seagulls for the first time. I would feed it cheap haddock cuts. At first the parents were in attack mode but I feel that eventually they accepted me. It was cool to see the baby learn to fly and the parents seemingly being involved.
Anyway although it is hard to tell by looking, each year one of the parents comes back. The only way I feel I know is because in spring if I hang my washing out, all of a sudden this seagull will land and mooch around on the grass, sometimes I have to nudge it with my foot as I go along the washing line to get it out of the way. It's pretty odd given how cagey seagulls are and it doesn't do that if I am not alone.
Edit: I feed it bits and pieces which is the reason of course, but it's nice to see the association none the less.
Anyway I call him Steve as in Steven Seagal. Hopefully it's a male.
Oh god, he is such a complete bull shitter that it's embarrassing.
A while back, I was like "This Elon Musk guy is really an example of what we need more of in the world".
It makes me cringe.
This was the days of solar rooftiles, Boring company, going to mars soon, the hyperloop, battery technologies, self driving vehicles.
All of it was complete horseshit.
The worst thing of all is that, I can hold my hands up and be laughed at but since then there are armies of Elon fans that don't recognise it.
In for a penny, in for a pound.
EDIT: Even on hackernews, there are people with this fetish. "It isn't his fault, the public is to blame for thinking that fully automated self driving cars, meant fully automated self driving cars". Ugh.
Elon Musk has start up ideas, and most start up ideas fail. Yes, he overhypes the ideas, but this is common in the start up world.
The difference is he has been involved with three large successes - ebay, telsa, and spacex. This success/failure ratio is leagues better than just about anyone else. And he did this in three very different industries.
So his self driving car effort will likely fail, or at best be very late.
But we do need more people willing to take chances like this who can also execute as this is rare.
Taking chances on a startup is one thing. Knowingly lying in the position of CEO of a publicly traded company and selling something that will never exist is fraud. Fake it til you make it isn’t legal in public securities nor should it be.
As much as he might stretch the truth, the most beautiful Elon trait is he dreams and is not afraid to share this dream world in the world no matter how foolish, foolhardy, or stupid it is. The rest of the FAANG CEOs provide a vague statement about how some vague description of AI will change the world and how their compy will lead the charge, which gives investors confidence but says nothing. For all his bullshiterry, Elon will provide an explicit goal versus a vague concept, which means a lot.
The line between "sharing his dream world" and "committing securities fraud" is evidently in the eye of the beholder. I admit that I'm surprised he doesn't get sued more for his blatant lies.
I think the issue is that he has had enough successes that people are assuming his current ideas will also, necessarily, be successes. And his self-confidence conveys that.
The thing people need to realize is that people can start hitting misses at any time.
Elon Musk is perhaps a con man (in the fully expounded sense of the term "confidence man"), but particularly one who believes his own bull.
I'm not sure he's a bullshitter exactly. He's wildly overoptimistic and is immune to reality to a large degree. The thing is, those can be really good traits for advancing the state of the art and developing new things.
If he wasn't like that, he might not have done some of the worthwhile things he's done. I definitely wouldn't take anything he says at face value, but I think there's value in him being like that.
I'm might have a better BS detector, or just older. But my thought was all Musk really does is prove how bad the management at automotive companies are.
My point is any of the auto companies could have done what Tesla did and done a better job. Except their managers in large totally suck. How bad to they suck? Musk is actually mentally ill.
Consider Toyota. 25 years ago their upper management was capable of fostering the development of hybrids. Now they seem to be unable to change direction.
VW is doing a better job. Probably because Germany threw some of the previous management in prison.
