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DJIA touched 40,000 for the first time.

If you're going to read the old blog posts, you should probably read them in chronological order: https://wiki.earlyretirementextreme.com ... ed_by_Date

I started writing the ERE book around summer 2008 and finished writing it around January 2010.

@J_ Here you go. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1098190/VersaillesVR__the_Palace_is_yours/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1862880/Guildford_Castle_VR/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1165850/IL_DIVINO_Michelangelos_Sistine_Ceiling_in_VR/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1341280/NotreDam...

How/where can I get such VR experiences? The least expensive headset, as far as I know, is the Oculus Quest 2 (what @Sclass has or had) for $199. https://www.amazon.com/Oculus-Quest-Advanced-All-One-Virtual/dp/B099VMT8VZ The easiest way to find and acquire VR titles would likely be on Steam https:/...

Very interesting distinction between fitting in and belonging. Especially when they are combined. Fitting in but not belonging depends on masking. Fitting in and belonging is life on easy-mode. Not fitting in and not belonging requires finding your tribe or playing alone. Your tribe may be very smal...

As for eliminating tourism IDK. A lot of travel seems to be done to tell other people where you went. I have this test for all kinds of purchases and activities that basically starts with “if you cannot tell a soul what you bought or went would you still want it?” VR doesn’t have that. It’s sounds ...

The cable is 10+ years old and looks very cheap/sketchy. I still see red light coming through it, but I have no way to gauge/know if it's bright enough.

The cheapest attempt would be to replace the cable. They're $3-8.

Mission accomplished! I managed to get motion sick, yay! :-P After fiddling with the settings in DCS, I increased the framerate from the 16-20fps (borderline unplayable) to a playable 30fps. (Most want at least 50-70fps which is also what I get in 2D+headtracking). I'm definitely barely meeting the ...

Does anyone have experience with these things? We have an old LG TV that's connected to a ZVOX 220 soundbar by an optical cable via the digital out on the TV. The TV is fed by a Roku. This used to work. However, over the last year or so, the soundbar failed to detect the sound input from the TV for ...

Yeah, I'm not really considering the totality of these wants and the cost of ownership. I guess your question makes me wonder: with everything I own, should I try to have every part of it, even something that at first glance looks like bothersome work, really be aligned with my values? Is it okay t...

Is there a theory of this process or at least some terminology? Like I understand what you mean by "abstract-concrete" rule, but where did you get that term from? What are the other types of rules? Is there a theory behind identifying this kind of thinking? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

With that said, it is still wild for me to see 2 years of personal expenses drop off in a month. A bad day on the market might be 2-3% down, so depending on how many years of stash you have, it could go a lot faster. To take a year off of 25x requires 4% and that's almost half a correction (or a me...

I also think it is easy to overcomplicate some of this by geeking out on the theory too much. Going back to the example above on health/movement/time-saving devices, one could have a pretty solid start to a robust system with some basic rules like make all/most of your food from scratch, walk or cy...

Stahlmann wrote: ↑

Tue May 14, 2024 4:04 pm

@jacob
What kind of arena shooter do you play?

The slowest one of the all: viewtopic.php?p=288420#p288420

If money is abundant, why wouldn't I try to own certain things that free up my time**, or even potentially subscribe to them***? The answer is that those things end up owning you, which circles back to my question: how do we balance these trade-offs? [...] Curious how you guys think about the non-m...

Lemur wrote: ↑

Tue May 14, 2024 8:18 am

Gamestop going bonkers again. Up 74% yesterday. Up 134% pre-market now.

Apparently roaring kitty (the original reddit promoter) came back. There's a documentary with him on netflix.

Scott 2 wrote: ↑

Tue May 14, 2024 8:45 am

A high score does not indicate autism. The test is used to inform diagnostic strategy, especially in adults. A high masker can fool standard criteria, maybe even unintentionally. But a person could be a high masker for many reasons.

Ah, okay. So e.g. a salesman would likely score very high.

I "won" @Slevin's HTC Vive on the "swap thread" and so I got a chance to try VR for the first time. Wow! This is something else! Setup: The HTC Vive is from 2016(?) which perfectly matches my computer build which is from the same era. I run a GeForce GTX 1060/6GB graphics setup, ...

16+27+37=80 ... It's like I don't even try to understand or hide how I basically don't care for most social interactions beyond knowing enough not to make a scene :-P One comment on the test is that is that the scores between autistics and neurotypicals are very close together. The difference is onl...

And I guess my questions with the needs of modernity are: how do we decide what to "own" vs "subscribe to" vs "quit entirely"? How do you think about those choices? This decision can be complicated(vb) as much as you want, but here's a way to get started (also see ERE ...