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Async anything is hard!

Were water mills, spinning jennies, and printing presses dehumanizing too?

Is there an equivalent of ninja for rust yet?

Neither does the precursor to the Big Bang. It's the same exact thing.

Not many people these days like to hear this (I myself was one of them), but the answer to this is in Genesis.

There's a reason some of the most famous mathematicians, scientists, engineers, and philosophers of all time believe(d) in God.

The Hebrew name of God, YHWH, literally means "He Who Is." In other words, the Self-Existent One. The father and originator of all things that were, are, and will be, who exists outside of spacetime.

Ah, I see now. Thanks for elaborating on that. I’m not accustomed to Maven but it makes sense that other languages and frameworks have different naming conventions.

Cysteine protease inhibitors could be used to reduce free cysteine available to cells. Some natural sources of those are papaya, kiwi, pineapple, fig, apples, and rice.

I love PURLs, but the namespace attribute smells. It’s way too arbitrary.

What’s the point of com.something.other? Why are we using dot notation when everything else is kebab case?

Sweet, just what I needed.

This will make it even easier to migrate all my Apple Notes™ to Obsidian.

It would be awesome if Messages, Mail, and Notes rendered Markdown.

System-wide Markdown editing would also be awesome, perhaps as a feature of the keyboard.

> The challenge that you have with unmanned systems today is you’re going to have to do something that is a little bit out of the ordinary to address all of them,” he said. “They’re not particularly expensive. Their impact is probably way outsized.”

This isn’t a dismissal of drones at all. It’s an acknowledgement of how diverse and inexpensive drones are.

A stinger missile is ~150k USD. A grenade duct taped to a drone is ~150 USD. That’s three orders of magnitude, so you can see why a manpad isn’t an economically viable countermeasure to most drones.

Electronic warfare/directed energy usually fits the bill for the smaller drone threat profile.

Lua is a good language. It's like C, if C were a scripting language.

It's got an awesome C API. It's fast, lightweight, and embeddable. It's more performant than Python. It's a staple in video game scripting.

Subhuman is a rather severe (and incredibly reductionist) judgement. Sure, being anti-free lunch for children is morally objectionable… but they’ve failed to probe that line of reasoning. They’ve encountered a bug, but instead of debugging it, they’ve closed their IDE and walked away.

Sometimes an honest conversation—with carefully placed, introspective questions—can be revealing to all parties. When we use our tongues to learn about others and build them up rather than tear them down, we’re actively making the world a better place. When we resist the tendency to judge others, we’re actively bettering ourselves.

Another anecdote for never using flat rate/subcontracted movers if you can avoid it.

My employer clearly picked the lowest bidder (naming and shaming Atlantic Relocation Systems) for a long distance move across 3 timezones (~2000 miles).

Upon arrival, all of our wooden furniture was destroyed. Every drawer falling off the tracks. Expensive tools missing from my tool bag, such as my Ideal SureTest circuit analyzer. Strange stains on our sofa, reminiscent of animal urine.

The $5000 dollars that we received in damages was a pittance and small multiple of the cost of repairs. Our still broken furniture is a bitter reminder to never trust these kinds of movers.

At least we got our stuff… some lost everything. It would be better to just downsize and circumvent the need for movers completely. We would all be better off with less shit.

Maybe I'm an out-of-touch nerd who needs to touch grass, but I would love to see a world where Markdown has supplanted this glorified suite of XML editors.

Markdown has docs, slides, tables, diagrams (via Mermaid), and can be read on any system that has a text editor. It's simple, non-proprietary, and future proof.

This repo says it all: https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown