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I think it’s called "sunk cost fallacy".

"The last output is so close to exactly what I wanted, I can't not pull the machine's lever a few more times to finally get the jackpot..."

Semantic shift happens over time. A 2026 article is supposed to communicate to 2026, not 1996, readers.


Germany is a bit backwards.


Wut? The headline is from Krebs on Security, not from the German authorities.


This week's "unintentional irony" and "lack of self-awareness" awards go to...


I just cannot fathom comments like this. I’m preeetty sure that the vast majority of people spend half an hour a day doing nothing, in front of a screen of some type. How many people do you think there are there who don’t have thirty minutes of leisure time once per week?!


There's a world of a difference between being able to carve out 30 actually uninterrupted minutes (and realistically more; most people don't have a sauna in their home, so they'd need to spend some time getting there and back) and being able to zone out and stare at a screen for 30 minutes in bed or on public transit.


> and realistically more; most people don't have a sauna in their home

Most people have a sauna in their home, this is Finland.


And those that don't have usually access to one in the building that they can use.

Or if they don't have that, can just go to one of the numerous public saunas.


Is this actual stat? Or do you mean “have access to” instead of actually “at their home” i.e. a private sauna they can use at any time 24/7, because from my lived experience I doubt the latter.


Essentially all residential buildings in Finland have saunas. Freestanding houses have private ones, apartments have communal ones but you can book a private time slot.


Yeah, so the latter as I suspected


Not having an hour of uninterrupted leisure time per day, never mind per week (most Finns don’t go to sauna every day) still sounds pretty unfathomable, except maybe in some specific circumstances like being a fresh single parent or similar. In any case, in Finland people go to sauna together with even fairly young kids (like 3+ years old), with breaks as needed of course, even most adults don’t usually spend thirty continuous minutes in a 80°C sauna.


Virtually everyone everywhere can find free 30 minutes. And turn their devices off. Those who think they cannot would do well getting to a state where they can do this, at least 6, preferably 7 days a week.

Skipping screen time between waking up and getting up will might solve this problem for a significant fraction of the first world population. My 2c.


And it is so hot that you can't use your phone full of addicting apps that ruin your sanity.


You're describing a tool. It can destroy your sanity yes, but it also enables sanity if that makes sense.


Fresh parents without relatives to help out.


If it's winter, put the baby in the pram outside, while you do a quick sauna session?


Infants sleep a lot. You have to adjust to their schedule, though.


Check out the screen time log for fresh parents.

I remember the first few months being so crazy. Feedings every two hours, and each feeding took an hour.

But still time for naps, short walks, etc. part of the survival was to work in little microbreaks when the baby was sleeping.


Huge difference between constantly being in passive alert mode waiting for the kid to wake up and cry their heart out, and proper uninterrupted “I know have x minutes for myself, no matter what” time.


> being in passive alert mode

AH, MANY THANKS! That was the wording I was actually looking for when our twins arrived - I couldnt even sit down to read a printed newspaper article with 2 pages....


Yeah it's awful huh. People think you get time when the kid sleeps but really it's just.. the worst :-)

Sure thing my kids were cute when they were small but I'm pretty glad they're bigger now!


I've never read as much on my kindle as when my son was born. I didn't want to use my phone so any micro break was spent reading. Much harder to do now that my son is 4 years old, I'm less sleep deprived but there's less opportunities for micro breaks when I'm with him.


We still managed fine. All young kids sleep quite a lot. Newborns a crapton. Older kids who don't are old enough to sauna too.


Are you even living if you're not spending every single minute breathing and shitting your work and/or kids?


The meaning is either ‘I’m too busy to have time to relax’ or ‘I’m too poor not to work all day’, at which point I think of a quote from Office Space: “you don’t need a million dollars to do nothing. Look at my cousin, he’s broke and he don’t do shit.”

It’s a typical crab bucket mentality, wanting to make you feel bad because you have a minimum of self-respect. Can’t have that in this economy.


You "cannot fathom" the privilege your have or life experience you lack to believe this unconditionally.


The classic Sopwith clone from the golden days of the Finnish shareware game scene, Triplane Turmoil, turns thirty this year. It was open sourced in 2009 and community-ported to more modern platforms via SDL. Was a lot of fun back in the days of shared-keyboard multiplayer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triplane_Turmoil


I love this game so much - the theme music randomly pops into my head at least once a year :)


Now that St. Helena has an airport and all, it’s good to know that even more remote alternatives exist.


Problem is that like vector fonts without hinting, naive automatic "pixelation" of images does a poor job. You have to work with the limitations of the medium, and sometimes it entails drawing something in a very different shape than if you had more resolution and color. There are image gen models that do an okay job at pixel art these days though.


There’s this thing about trade secrets that like all secrets, they stop being secret the instant they’re leaked. You can’t DMCA third parties for distributing your trade secrets. The only one you can sue is the party that was contractually bound not to leak them and then did anyway. Now, copyright is a different thing.


They're two separate photos, just taken at different exposure settings.


Sure enough, thanks for the correction!


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