If anything focus gets better without sugar and excessive carbs for me - but those work well for outdoors or workouty days I find.

Definitely, carbs means alternating drowsy, hunger cycles with blood sugar level. While an even level enables the zone.

Looks like it's true that low-carb adapted athletes rely more on fat oxidation during exercise but performance suffers nonetheless because of increased oxygen demands that basically cannot be met.

If your employer gets you a nvda card or openai subscription, it doesn't automatically mean you are getting richer, agreed?

And the richness of life it's another philosophical discussion altogether...

Yoir choice between the red pill, the blue pill or no pill is pretty obvious but this choice is highly subjective.

Also pfizergate featuring von der leyen.

I'm with you on this. People who pathologize themselves or others - assuming they're malfunctioning rather than acknowledging they might simply be living a life that doesn't fit - have a very limited way of looking at things.

> ... in professions where skill is essential and performance is both visible and attributable to a specific person, particularly in fields such ... fund asset management ...

Laughing out loud)))

How is it unstable? It's one of the most reliable pieces of software I have used honestly.

In any case 'nix-shell -p erlang|elixir' does not seem too complicated to me.

Flakes is still experimental despite being very widely used.

Flakes is also more stable than many "stable" projects. Flakes is more stable than Python 3, for example.

Well Nix is the only sane way I know to manage fully reproducible envs that incorporate programs/scripts spanning multiple ecosystems. Very common situation in applied data analysis.

Nix is a 10x force multiplier for managing Linux systems. The fact that I can write python, go, bash, jq, any tool that is right for the job of managing and configuring the system is amazing. And on top of that I can patch any part of the entire system with just that, a patch from my fork on GitHub or anywhere else.

Top that off with first class programming capabilities and modularization and I can share common configuration and packages across systems. And add that those same customized packages can be directly included in a dev shell making all of the amazing software out there available for tooling and support. Really has changed my outlook and I have so much fun now not EVER dealing with tooling issues except when I have explicitly upgrade my shell and nixpkgs version.

I just rebuilt our CI infrastructure with nix and was a able to configure multiple dockerd isolated daemons per host, calculate the subnet spread for all the networks, write scripts configuring the env so you can run docker1 and hit daemon 1. Now we can saturate our CI machines with more parallel work without them fighting over docker system resources like ports. Never would have attempting doing this without nix, being able to generate the entire system config tree and inspect systemd service configs befor even applying to a host reduced my iteration loop to an all time low in the infrastructure land where 10-15mins lead times of building images to find out I misspelling Kafka and kakfa somewhere and now need to rebuild again for 15mins. Now I get almost instant feedback for most of these types of errors.

Yeah I think there's no point denying that we humans need and are affected by narratives. At least on the psychological level, which, in turn, may have impact on the body as well.