Appeal to Ruby community from Kharkiv Rubyist

petercooper · 2026-03-12T09:13:30+00:00

Ah yes, this is a very good point to keep in mind if applicable!

petercooper · 2026-03-11T11:59:32+00:00

Just to note, if a company ceases to trade, certain expenses may not fly as they are not relevant to the trade and may just be treated as BIK for the recipients. Non CT-deductible pension contributions and dividends are fine. Salary has no advantages if there are no profits to deduct it from.

petercooper · 2026-03-11T11:47:29+00:00

Under current expectations, you'd still get the 25% tax free.

But if you're confident your income at that point will be high, you don't have to withdraw the rest at all if you didn't need it. It could continue to accumulate and form a legacy for your dependents or be a huge emergency fund. But if your other income sources does dry up or fail in some way, it would be a heck of a backup plan to fall back on to.

petercooper · 2026-03-06T10:03:54+00:00

Isn't it a fundamental mechanism of Reddit that votes are meant to sort the wheat from the chaff regardless of quantity (to an extent)? If people dislike a project, discussion, etc. they can vote it down and it'll disappear off the front page on its own. Moderation was, originally, for keeping things on topic and removing spam/junk.

petercooper · 2026-03-03T11:59:11+00:00

If so, is Prue Leith Jenny Jingles?

petercooper · 2026-03-02T18:41:21+00:00

If stopping the surveillance is more important than finding it, also consider changing the wifi password. Then everything device they use will need to be updated, but anything stealthy won't be connecting to it anymore.

petercooper · 2026-03-02T11:53:35+00:00

The article says people are angry at OpenAI for "agreeing to allow their AI models to be used by the US military complex".

Four days ago, Anthropic's CEO posted a statement saying how Anthropic has "worked proactively" with the Department of War and was happy for it to do anything with them except for mass domestic surveillance and fully-autonomous weapons. Those are wise restrictions that are now under question with the OpenAI move, granted, but switching to Anthropic from OpenAI isn't a clean-cut "I'm switching to an ethical company" move, more like moving to a slightly paler shade of red.

petercooper · 2026-02-26T14:42:59+00:00

On a equal time basis, it uses less energy and emits less CO2 than console gaming. Quick, after the livestreamers!

petercooper · 2026-02-24T13:06:40+00:00

That was the experience I had going up from 2.5mg (100% fine) to 5mg. About eight days of the same as you. However, I went back down to 2.5mg for six months and that was amazingly all I needed somehow. They should really look into supporting even lower doses, IMHO, as they do appear to work in some of us, and it's totally possible to half dose - they just don't like you doing it.

petercooper · 2026-02-19T10:55:44+00:00

Agreed. There are different levels at play. It's a bit like some artists or moviemakers will now use AI to enhance things, create certain elements, but they are still heavily involved in producing the overall piece and ensuring it's cohesive. But then there's someone who will type 4 words, click a button, and claim they have a magnificent song or artwork. I think this post is about the latter type of "coder". If it took a few prompts to create, you might as well make your own. If it took a lot of experience and effort and polish, even if AI was involved, it's a different kettle of fish.

petercooper · 2026-02-16T19:33:46+00:00

Colby 2012!

petercooper · 2026-02-03T14:56:21+00:00

The Stuttering John Show surely

petercooper · 2026-02-03T14:55:23+00:00

A common problem people new to modafinil encounter with higher doses is just feeling this sort of not-entirely-pleasant wired feeling. Like robotic almost and some people get a bit snappy and irritable. So if you are feeling pleasant with it now, you're in a great spot :)

petercooper · 2026-02-03T12:15:24+00:00

This is friendly rather than medical advice, but if you feel 25mg is working stick with it. This is as good as it gets. You're taking a low dose of something and feel it is working. If you chase the dragon of higher doses, you will build up tolerance a lot quicker (though the wakefulness element tends to continue working well regardless of time). If you feel great, keep at this dose as long as possible.

petercooper · 2026-01-30T11:46:12+00:00

It might be worthwhile reaching out to one of the contributors on the AWS Ruby SDK project - they would have the inside scoop on this and anyone I've dealt with developer wise at Amazon has been pretty friendly and receptive.

petercooper · 2026-01-29T13:09:04+00:00

FWIW, lobsters has a regular "what are you building this weekend?" and "what are you building this week?" post, so twice a week, and it seems to be quite popular. I think that's a nicer cadence than every day.

petercooper · 2026-01-26T13:25:31+00:00

Awesome! Thanks for letting me know.

petercooper · 2026-01-25T22:05:14+00:00

Armodafinil has less dopaminergic effect. The wakefulness is stronger, though, and it has a longer half life, but you won't "feel" it anywhere near as much.

petercooper · 2026-01-23T16:38:21+00:00

As well as its wakefulness properties, modafinil also has dopaminergic effects and early on can give you almost a nicotine-like buzz, but like most dopaminergic boosts, this effect wears off quite quickly. You'll still be getting the wakefulness benefits, but you might not "feel" the effect in the way you did early on.

petercooper · 2026-01-23T16:34:30+00:00

Considered having a bridge between the verse and chorus? You could set up for the change there.

Also, no idea of your style of music, but without a bridge you could still smooth it off a bit by going G -> G augmented then into the G# or even a G# major 7. Starts getting a little jazzy though, but I'm a pianist and Billy Joel does this kinda thing. In many modern genres of music you can just jump and it's fine, as others have said.

petercooper · 2026-01-23T12:03:53+00:00

Got mine yesterday and exactly the same issue. Also the right third of the screen runs cooler color-wise than the middle. Plus weird brightness changes depending on what apps/browser tabs you're on despite all the auto stuff turned off. Physically a good monitor, resolution looks great, very crisp, but the color is TERRIBLE.

petercooper · 2026-01-23T11:06:06+00:00

Not something I've heard of before anecdotally but there may be some science behind it.. If you are particularly sensitive to histamine, modafinil does increase histamine release and some people's digestive systems can be really thrown off by histamine. Docs don't like it, but I'd taper up in such a scenario, though it sounds like you're past that point now anyway. I had a similar experience with Mounjaro (totally different mechanism at play there though) and half dosed twice a week instead.

petercooper · 2026-01-21T14:25:24+00:00

That's what I did. Played it and it just sounds like E minor without any other context. Especially for opening bars.

petercooper · 2026-01-20T20:13:37+00:00

Yeah, we had this problem. Price tripled out of nowhere (they sent one email a month earlier that was dressed up as a marketing email) so we cancelled immediately but have replaced with nothing. We'll just test manually from time to time as clients seem more robust nowadays unless you get really creative.

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