Pasha
Defend Kebab
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Pasha
Defend Kebab
1d ago
"Out of the Gobi". I never realized how much of an insanity the Chinese Cultural Revolution was. Reading the accounts of a teenager caught in the middle of it is definitely very interesting.
Pasha
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1d ago
I finally did it. Arranged Ozempic with an online clinic after failing to make any starts with losing around 10-15kg I wanted to lose for years. Any tips and tricks from mottizens?
Pasha
Defend Kebab
2d ago
Naipaul's "Among the Believers" is definitely a masterpiece of that genre. Also, definitely read the Congo forum posts series OP has linked. It is incredible, one of the most hilarious and captivating travel stories I have ever read. Took me many days to finish though.
In general I think international travel after smartphones+internet is an experience almost unrecognizably different than before. Even if you opt to somehow not use the support of these tools, entire human infrastructure and culture is structured around them in even the most backwards places imaginable so there is really no escape.
P.S. If you want something entirely different, but stil fascinating, check out "Africa Addio".
Pasha
Defend Kebab
2d ago
I use claude code on a pretty big and complicated code base. The main use so far has been to make it possible the sort of things I would normally not have time to work on (i.e. CLI tool to make and certain packets with certain UDP multicast configurations. Wouldn't be worth the 1-2h I would have to put on this normally, but I can just tell claude and it is ready in a couple minutes), and "explain me this class/function/logic", "review code I wrote for possible mistakes", "find me examples of this pattern in this repo" etc. These sort of tasks, it has been really excelling at.
Pasha
Defend Kebab
2d ago
What sort of work do you do that lets you create small apps like this in a couple hours with only human attention being the limiting factor?
Pasha
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15d ago
How do mortgages even work with 26% interest? I haven't been adult through anything but very low rates so not able to comprehend. Are the loans just very low duration? Do you see 25% wage growth as well?
Doing keto was the only time in my life when I purposefully lost weight. But it is really difficult to sustain for me without having a lot of free time to meal-prep etc. Do you mean you weren't losing weight on it without also doing keto?
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