JenrHywy

Exactly. It's the configuration of the atoms, not their number, that matters.

Sure, but I thought that a successfully implemented CG'd language running on WASM would have been something worth noting.

Maybe we read different articles? I thought the context was how it was hard to do GC in WASM currently, which is why we don't have many language choices. With that context, C# running on top of WASM seems pretty relevant?

Admittedly I only scanned the article, but I didn't see any mention of C# or Blazor. I've only fiddled with it, but it seems that (when targeting WASM) Blazor loads a (partial) .NET runtime in WASM and then happily lets your execute C# code - which seems in stark contrast to the article's claims about GC.

There are non-subscription alternatives, though they differ from lightroom. I quite like Exposure[0] and although I haven't used the desktop version of RAW Power[1] its ipad app is quite good.

[0] https://exposure.software [1] https://www.gentlemencoders.com/

Because photographs are most powerful as a store of/trigger for memories, and my photographs are better at that than someone else's, for the most part.

That's not my experience, and I've been writing C# since .NET 1.1. Obviously though it depends on the scale of the app. If you have 1m+ LoC, you really need to have some sort of structure, regardless of the language.

> Just for comparison, $180k would be out of range for anyone outside the US

I don't think it's too far off the mark for Australia. Mind you, that's gross. US$180 is about AU$280k. Of that, you'd pay around AU$100k in income tax (and then there's a 10% sales tax).

This is a good point. In practice, you need to acknowledge effort, ability and outcome. If you're thinking about areas of study or work, you really want to pick something you enjoy where you can produce quality outcomes and that almost always means ability + effort.

One of my kids basically sailed through his first 12 years of schooling on pure ability and zero effort. He's now learning the hard way that innate talent only gets you so far. His brother doesn't have the same innate academic ability, but is a natural grinder. He's finding the later years of schooling are easy to adapt to because he can pick things he's good at and knows how to put in the effort.

In terms of praise, we over-index on effort because it's a cross-cutting concern. This is especially true at younger ages where kids can't choose what they're studying. So if they get a C in French but maxed out all the effort criteria, I'm more than happy with that - and it's something for them to keep in mind when they're picking subjects later down the line.

My house is wood frame, brick veneer. It was relatively cheaply built government housing back in the 40s/50s. It seems to have held up just fine with the weight of concrete tiles.

Yeah our (concrete tile) roof is about 80 years old. The only maintenance has been replacing broken tiles after a particularly bad hail storm.

I had a neurologist tell me that the scans he'd performed proved that there was nothing wrong with my wife, and he didn't know why she was choosing to act as though she had a neurological issue.

In neurology at least, I think a lot of the problem is that everyone is hyper-specialized. Luckily for us, my wife's insurance company convinced a generalist neurologist to come out of retirement and examine her, which put us on the path to effective treatment. But yes, that whole experience completely soured me on blind trust in the medical profession

I've added some custom instructions that have helped make chatgpt far more tolerable:

- When generating code, do not provide an explanation unless I ask you to.

- When generating code, prioritize brevity and performance.

- Do not apologize.

I find the responses much less sycophantic, even when not relating to code. I asked chatgpt about this:

> In general, your instructions guide me to provide responses that are succinct and focused on performance. They also signal your preference for direct communication without additional context or explanations unless specifically requested.

Plus you can self-host Joplin server and be completely I'm control of your data.

I think the implication is that it's race warfare is a tool used by the "ruling" class to wage class warfare on the poor.

I had someone from our diversity team say, in a meeting of 100+, that the problem that the team are trying to combat is "whiteness". This coming from a white woman who quite openly said that she'd only recently started identifying as diverse because one of her parents spoke a non-English language.

They may be more diverse in terms of race and sexuality, but have very little diversity of opinion and worldview.

One of Jung's more interesting concepts is that of enantiodromia - where things taken to extremes become their opposite. It's also a concept in the I Ching (where the "strongest" lines are the ones the ones changed into their opposite), and in Nietzsche's BG&E.

I switched to Joplin for this reason. I used to use git + text editor, but it's not the best experience on Android, and seemingly near impossible on iOS.

I do something similar, but switched from bash/vim/markdown to Joplin a while back. I lost the immediacy of bash, but seamless syncing and editing across multiple devices, especially mobile, made it worth it.

The main thing is that Joplin is still markdown, and I can trivially export if I want to switch to something else.

> It's extremely elegant and nice to use over creating custom endpoints for every use-case, but the N+1 SQL query problem is a giant thorn.

Having not used, but only read about graphql, this was the first thing that struck me. It seems great at minimizing data transferred to the client, but it doesn't (seem to) stop that data being fetched from the DB - it just post-filters it.

I'm imagining a scenario like a dashboard, where you're getting a small amount of data from a lot of places. With REST, we'd generally do that by having a dedicated endpoint for the whole dashboard that executes a single query, letting the DB do what it's good at (efficiently retrieving required data). My naive impression is that graphql would execute a bunch of queries, trim what's not needed and join it all together. With anything non-trivial that seems like a performance nightmare.

That's an interesting observation. I can't justify why, but : feels a lot more fluid to type than gg, even though as you say, gg has less keystrokes and still keeps you on the home row.

The most amazing thing about vim is that, even as a fairly basic user, I can read an article like this, learn a ton, and still realize that I have an easier way of doing something than the author (why use 100gg when :100 exists?).

It seems no matter how much you know about vim, there's always more.

I used to use the Ctrl-P plugin, but to be honest, these days I just use an IDE with a vim plugin. Usually if I'm in a remote terminal session, I don't have more than a few files open and can get by with :bn.

Moderators generally aren't checking for correctness - who would have that sort of time?

Not being snarky - but do you have references for that? Most research I've seen either conflates nicotine and tobacco, or finds 'pure' nicotine (eg NRTs) have close to zero negative side effects.

There are public static diffusion models trained on/like midjourney, but IMO they're still lacking.

Given Yudkowsky's stance on AI, it is hilariously jarring for someone to use HPMOR as inspiration for an article on prompt engineering.

The title reminds me that, in a previous life, our "architecture" team implemented a service bus using Lotus Notes email.

I've been thinking about this some more. Decision-making around parenting is extremely bizarre.

Parenting seems like an example of L.A. Paul's "vampire problem" - where you're such a different person after an event that it's not possible to evaluate it as the person you are before the event. But it's actually more complicated than that.

If I had to choose between being completely destitute and one of my kids' lives, it's not even a decision. But when considering if to have another child, comfort and affordability have a huge influence - even though, as a parent I already know that the moment the child is born, they would become incomprehensibly precious to me.

So I have the ability to bring into existence something would for certain massively increase the joy and purpose in my life, and yet I don't... for the same reasons that I criticized you for in a sibling comment.