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RIP, his later articles really echoed some of my personal experiences. Thanks Jake for taking the time to write what many others couldn't.

Spend time with your loved ones.

It's also ok to give your opinion on your personal blog without needing to put a ton of disclaimers, trust your readers at least a bit.

I'll keep reading all those updates until the last. Thank you.

My dad was also lung cancer, we got some more time (almost a year between diagnosis and his death).

Sadly, I'm already the 4th person in my friend group to lose their dad even though we're less than 30 years old. It also means I had other people that understood and that I could talk to. I hope you're talking to friends or professionals.

I know it'll get better.

Hi Jake, I lost my father to cancer this year, he was 59. I hope you know your memory lives with the people that are with you, now and in the future. I understand what your family is going through even though I can't understand your pain, thanks for putting your writings out there, take care.

I have used tailwind on and off and I still find this pretty easy to read tbf.

Agreed ofc but it's still only one company.

Same and with lots of Kotlin code in the wild on Android, I'm not too afraid to language will fade away. Bu in terms of active development like KMM; I don't like JetBrains being pretty much a single point of failure.

Maybe I'm getting cynical but in terms of longevity, I don't know how long JetBrains will be around and I'm not trusting Google to maintain a project for a long time. Can't believe I'm saying this but for perennial projects in that sphere, Java seems like the better option :/

That's fair but I'll say that the time and number of concepts you have to deal with before going into the code, per the docs; is quite big and I think the critic in the article is warranted.

I understand that but if you look at the Python implementation (or at least as it was 1-2 years ago), you have a lot of god objects that hack __new__ which leads to hidden flows when you create new instances of tracers for example. I'm not saying I have a better idea but when you put that together with the docs and the (at the time) very bare examples, it's just annoying.

It resonates. As an intern I had to add OTEL to a Python project and I had to spend a lot of time in the docs to understand the concepts and implementation. Also, the Python impl has a lot of global state that makes it hard to use properly imo.

Ok? That's just being pedantic. The point I'm trying to make, is that we need to find why people use Discord and offer something better for our (devs+technical users) use case; that'll also need to go the existing network effect.

Then you're not the public they're targeting but if we want things to change, we need to be cognizant of why people like Discord.

I feel like we have this discussion every month, one way or another.

People use Discord because it's useful and they like the experience. Discourse is nice for purely written communication but if you want to setup a call, direct message and, more importantly, write bots (presentation, topic organization, news, modding, now even AI Q&A); people will fall back to Discord.

Pointing at Discourse when it doesn't have the same value proposition and blaming users is just not useful at all.

You can use structured generation instead of fiddling with the prompt, which is unreliable. https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines

Thank you!

If you ever plan on writing on what you're working I'd be interested. I have notes in Markdown or Org forms as well as PDF's I can convert to text easily. I'd like to be able to run a small model locally and tune it with the content i have in the future.

This is terribly depressing. How can we, as citizens, protect ourselves and vote with our best interest in mind?

I just wish it was easier to get started with Guile tbh. I'm an Emacs user so I don't have to learn Emacs to use Scheme and I still find the experience pretty bare-bone. There aren't many tutorials about creating Guile projects, writing tests, debugging, etc.

Thank you!

Thanks for the answer! Not gonna lie, I don't have the background to understand all your articles, just enough to see that you're pushing the boundary on what's possible and it's really cool!

Is there a reason we're not seeing linear types in more languages? I'm not familiar with how difficult it is to implement or if there are usage issues that end up showing only after a while?

Not sure I understand all the ideas presented but it was an interesting read, thanks!

It does look absolutely interesting but I feel like I'm already downloading too many books and trying to follow too many different technologies but I'll come around.

That was a super interesting write-up for someone who has a passing interest in Elixir but was curious about some of the issues you mentioned, thanks!

You would usually use Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) such that comparison between countries is possible, because as you pointed, comparisons in absolute values between countries are not useful.

What is not mentioned in the article is that productivity is much more important than the number of hours worked. By productivity, I mean output per hour worked, which is usually an estimation made from the total output of the country (GDP) and the numbers of hours worked by the working population.

Anything by minad is great tbh!

There's also the excellent `org-modern`. https://github.com/minad/org-modern