I appreciate the empathy and the context. It definitely helps.
> I spent some time working as a consultant
Did you consult on your own or work with a company? If you were on your own, how did you find clients? I've got a business entity ready to go and am heading to meetups to try and network. What else should I be doing?
> I was a consultant so was ready
While I'm enduring this current layoff I'm thinking about consulting for local businesses in my town.
Any tips on how to get this off the ground? I've got the business entity set up and I'm going to meetups to try and network. What else should I be doing to land my first clients?
I wish they would’ve focused a bit more on how it impacts athletic performance
As a runner, I would imagine anything that brings smoke into your lungs (assuming that’s how it’s ingested) would make them less efficient at gas exchange and consequently any aerobic exercise like running
Nothing against the stuff, just guessing it impacts performance
It's a bit of a weird double edged sword. Cannabis can act as a bronchodilator and relax the airways which can help breathing. But on the other side ingesting via vape or smoke and it can act as an irritant at the same time making you cough.[0]
On the other end of performance things, I do wonder if when doing stuff while under influence of cannabis since it can seem more exhausting/labor intensive for some users. Does this mental state of things being harder during exercise have an effect on the exercises effectiveness?
E.g. Do same distance run whilst stoned vs not. It's going to probably feel a lot harder when your high. Does this mean it would be the equivalent of doing a longer but just as exhaustive run when not stoned? Can we make shorter exercise sessions more effective by making them feel harder to a user because they are stoned?
curiously, on top of all of this, as someone who regularly takes cannabinoids while running long distances, I have to say that it absolutely impacts my performance (and those I know who do) positively.
My uptake method is usually through either THC infused sports drinks or supplements, so that might be behind why I get the positive effects without the negative ones, and while the science isn't there (yet, for some reason), I can only conjecture that it would argue microdosing would have a positive effect.
Certainly. TFA states the cannabis users experiences more exertion, while also contributing to more positive effect, enjoyment, and runner's high. Sure, if you took two identical runners the non-smoker would run faster/longer, but there is no such thing as two identical runners and the effects of smoking would be negligible compared to other factors such as sleep, diet, training, and recovery. If smoking cannabis can significantly improve any or all of those factors for the athlete their performance will be better overall than the benefits that not smoking grants.
That's what I'm curious about — everybody went up significantly in 2022, but if China was paying double for imports, then why wasn't everybody else having to pay double as well?
China procures most of their lithium through trade, so they're tapping the same global markets as everybody else.
For example if there was not enough shipping routes to China from where it's made then that could be an issue. Or if their demand was up, and there wasn't enough unloading capacity for lithium (not sure how this is being shipped over there) then there can be price spikes.
Australia is a large supplier of lithium, the world's largest actually. Due to trade restrictions and irregularities arising from disputes, trade between China and Australia wasn't operating normally in 2022. Trade has now mostly resumed and the first bulkers left Australian ports for Chinese ports early this year carrying lithium ore. I suspect the absence of the Australian market meant that Chile could set their prices, and it looks like they set their prices pretty high. Plus, Chile is a longer and thus more expensive trip for any ship, including a bulker.
The high lithium prices in China were the Chinese side of the trade restrictions causing economic pain.
They dramatically increased demand lately for solar production, so they were probably the cause of and epicenter of the global shortage - paying the premium as a cost of doing business while lithium production caught up.
Just wanted to say you’re a great employer to be so incredibly accommodating to the point you get them an Alienware and let them roll an accessibility solution
I think generally the consensus of Apple Silicon is that they're great _for a laptop_, but still aren't going to beat a dedicated graphics card + high-end CPU like i9/Ryzen 9. Biggest thing going for apple is the performance/watt though which is critical for a laptop.
I think this is missing the main reason to use Apple Silicon, which is that your dedicated graphics card probably has 24GB or less of RAM, whereas e.g. an M2 Ultra Mac Studio can have 192GB of RAM with a far superior memory bandwidth to anything on x86. This is important because even a "small" LLM like Llama2 13B would require quantization to fit in the 24GB RAM that the dedicated graphics card will give you, whereas the Mac could run Llama2 70B without quantization (at FP16).
They're better than most consumers x86 CPUs but worse than using a GPU. Where they shine is when the ML model can't fit the GPU's VRAM since you have better options for ram size with macs.
>Just wanted to say you’re a great employer to be so incredibly accommodating to the point you get them an Alienware
So gracious, to give a software developer some hardware to run the software they need to work, that costs a whopping nothing more than what other people in the industry get on the average.
>and let them roll an accessibility solution
"You're such a good employer! You let your employee build their own accessibility ramp to the back entrance in their own time, and even got them a mortar spatula to do so!"
We need more support for employees like this!
I didn't downvote, but I considered doing so because nowhere that I saw in GP does it say in his own time, and that's a critical piece of the equation. Hallucinating that datum means they got the argument wrong, and worse they were harshly critical of the company based on that wrongly assumed information.
It reminds me of the Homer Simpson quote, "I don’t mind being called a liar when I’m lying, or about to lie, or just finished lying, but NOT WHEN I’M TELLING THE TRUTH!" I would be equally critical if it was warranted, but when it isn't it's deeply unfair to the accused.
If the person wanted to build their own ramp, and the employer let them do it on the clock, that's a completely different scenario than the employee having to come in during their off-hours to build the ramp just so they can go to work.
Yeah, it wasn’t on his own time. He had a full budget and this was right in line with stuff he had already done research in anyway, so he just went for it.
> He had a full budget and this was right in line with stuff he had already done research in anyway, so he just went for it.
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So you're saying, not only you didn't pay him extra, but that the company got to benefit from him building the system as it was already in line with your other projects?
Unless his working hours were reduced, he did it in his own time.
Unless his pay was increased, he did it in his own time.
Unless the expectations for him were scaled down, he did it in his own time.
Merely allowing them to hack on a project that is in line of his work is exactly like having someone build their own ramp because "it's already in line with other construction they did on the project".
>nowhere that I saw in GP does it say in his own time
Nowhere did I see that GP said the employee was paid extra, had the expectations on other projects reduced in writing and deadlines shifted, or had his working hours reduced at same pay.
Saying "oh hey, you can work on this during 9-to-5 as long as you get your other shit done on time" means the project was done in his own time.
>Not sure why you're being downvoted. Literally the equivalent of building your own ramp.
Because we are on Hackernews, where everyone likes to think themselves a scrappy startup owner, and not a person with a disability who might need accommodations from one.
> If Samsung was told "You can't let anyone pay you - have to show a screen with four competitors and let the user pick which one they want as default"
What if I’m the 5th messaging app? How do I get a place over the first 4? How does Samsung decide?
What if I’m the 20th or 50th? Do I deserve a shot? If not where is the cut off? How do I become a winner and not a loser in this situation as the first N shown will have a huge growth advantage
That’s an unfairly over complicated thing to ask an EU bureaucrat to think about. They are much to busy thinking about much more important things like finding ways to snoop on their citizens private messaging.
Yes, it would be a disaster for a payment mechanism where nothing is ever final, and a year after you sold a MacBook to someone for $1500, suddenly that $1500 gets clawed back because someone social engineered Zelle. It would be a useless system if you never know if you are going to keep the money or if it could suddenly disappear one day.
> I spent some time working as a consultant
Did you consult on your own or work with a company? If you were on your own, how did you find clients? I've got a business entity ready to go and am heading to meetups to try and network. What else should I be doing?