I’m running Windows 11 on my Ryzen 9 5900HX work laptop. Getting a virtual Mac up & running has been a day-long nightmare. I found various hacks on the internet for Virtualbox (csr-active-config, 6.1.30, VBoxManage — cpu-profile) — none of them helped me further than the chewed apple logo. VMware…

I come from a country very much plagued by the Lutheran work ethic. It doesn’t matter if what you’re working on makes any sense, as long as you work hard. If you can do in 2 hours what others do in 8, you mustn’t ever say it. Better to leave…

From stable ~5% growth to absolute zero by the second month of not paying. Why didn’t it go negative? It’d be perfectly natural for some people to find I’m not adding to their Medium experience and for them to nuke me. But 0. Like someone turned off the spigot. In…

Last August, I got into that typical family dinner table dispute over what constitutes a decent 10-kilometre time. For whatever reason, I felt 40 minutes or a 4:00 pace weren’t anything to write home about. I got up from the table, went, and did a 56:13. On rough terrain and…

Allegedly, people working in Russian troll farms have daily norms of how many comments they need to produce. 135 200+ character comments per day get mentioned here. Making Troll of the Month should be impossible if your content is not generating engagement. And thus, the simplest, most hard to follow…

Land Land is always valuable — an empire can never have too much. We’re at 9 orcs/km², we conquer Rohan, kill the Rohirrim down to the last child, and suddenly it’s an 8.8 or even 8.5. That’s some percentage points more per capita, which is better. Resources Today, it might look like…

Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili, Georgian for ‘Joseph Vissarion’s Son Shepherd’s Child’. Lead Russia and got more Russians dead than anyone before or since. Supposedly he was remarkably egalitarian and had Georgians tortured and killed the same as any other ethnicity. It’s still a hot debate, but he’s responsible for millions…

When asked to describe a lifeform as different one can, people often default to insects. Eusocial ones like ants and termites especially. With the Formics of Ender’s Game, it’s either them or us who must go. Such is the incompatibility of a communal culture with our individualistic one. People…

I think the most robust, one COVID stat to rule them all, is increased general mortality. It’s the hardest one to muck about with. Russia is a country very adamant about never looking in the mirror, but even they don’t hide their dead: They probably could temporarily. But that would…