michael1999

Interesting to learn this wasn't really covid-related.

No. The other driver almost hurt himself following too closely, and not paying attention. There is nothing exceptional about emergency braking in a residential neighbourhood. Your prime responsibility when driving a car is in the direction of travel.

Crawlers ignoring robots.txt is abusive. That they then start scanning all docs for commented urls just adds to the pile of scummy behaviour.

We're well into it already. Corneal implants, pacemakers, titanium hips, closed-loop insulin pumps, cochlear implants, etc. We've been using glasses and wooden teeth for centuries, but we're really getting going now.

And will until we have an effective ban on non-therapeutic use of antibiotics in agriculture.

I'm looking at you, USA and China.

The core thesis of TBKTS is self-evidently true. Thoughts and emotional experiences can be encoded in the body in self-perpetuating ways that operate outside conscious thought and persist long after the event.

Consider something as simple as a limp that persists after the acute injury has healed. A sharp pain from a sprained ankle quickly teaches the body to discover a new pattern that avoids the pain. They weight different toes. The hips shift. The stride shortens and becomes less symmetrical. People chose different paths on uneven ground. Etc. But once healed, there is no corresponding salient "I'm healed" signal to prompt the body back to a more neutral posture. People will complain of their chronically aching hip, or back. When they try to run, it feels weird. If you try to force them to move in a certain way, they will refuse. Posture and movement planning are highly stylized in a complicated organism like humans, and nobody should be surprised when there are feedback loops and meta-stable attractors there.

I don't need to use loaded words like "trauma" and "therapy" to explain this. There are simple facts. Thoughts can raise or lower the heart-rate. Bracing the body can restrict breathing. Shallow breathing changes the acidity of the blood which then activates the sympathetic system which changes thinking. Psychologists really do fix many panic attacks by teaching people to consciously manage their breathing. TBKTS takes this to 11.

That said, the many assertions about the specific mechanisms by which "trauma" is encoded in the body, and the paths by which they feed back into current thoughts and feelings are more speculative. Some are at best premature, and at worst absolute bullshit like so much of the psych literature.

The value of the book is in the thesis, not the long argument.

Either can create the other. Thoughts can raise or lower the heart-rate. Bracing the body can restrict breathing. Shallow breathing changes the acidity of the blood which then activates the sympathetic system which changes thinking.

The thesis of TBKS is that the body can continue a feedback loop which encodes a prior strong emotion without active thought. Consider something as simple as a limp that persists after the acute injury has healed.

Incentives, friction, and trust make nice additions to the list. Thanks. The number of times I’ve been pushed to move my docs out of the tree to somewhere far away is too many.

We're doing something like this internally. Our monorepo context files were much too big, so we built a progressive tree of fragments to load up for different tasks.

I am struck by how much these kinds of context documents resemble normal developer documentation, but actually useful and task-oriented. What was the barrier to creating these documents before?

Three theories on why this is so different:

1) The feedback loop was too long. If you wrote some docs, you might never learn if they were any good. If you did, it might be years later. And if you changed them, doing an A/B test was impractical. Now, you can write up a context markdown, ask Claude to do something, and iterate in minutes.

2) The tools can help build them. Building good docs was always hard. Especially if you take the time to include examples, urls, etc. that make the documentation truly useful. These tools reduce this cost.

3) Many programmers are egotists. Documentation that helps other people doesn't generate internal motivation. But documentation that allows you to better harness a computer minion to your will is attractive.

Any other theories?

I am also struck by how much these kinds of context documents resemble normal developer documentation, but actually good. What was the barrier to creating these documents before?

That's great press, but I'll wait until the design is finished and licensed before I get excited.

But it is looking good!

https://x-energy.com/media/news-releases/canadian-pre-licens...

The big ones can be really loud. As the blades get longer, tip speed becomes truly impressive.

My mother received ultrasound ablation as brain surgery to treat idiopathic tremors. It was wild.

Power-only usb next to nema is common and convenient.

Power with network is less common since nobody wants to mix high and low voltage runs.

https://www.amazon.ca/TOPGREENER-Ultra-High-Speed-Receptacle...

So Powell volunteered to sell Cheney's lie to the UN, knowing it to be a lie, because he wanted to stay in power rather than tell the truth like Shinseki? If Powell knew it to be false, and presented it with his credibility, I see no reason to not call it Powell's lie as much as Cheney's.

That's even worse than I thought. But fits with Powell's history in Vietnam.

It was normal for large firms to build schools. All the big 5 accounting consultancies had a month or two of residential boot camp. Toyota built a school. GM too. When you’re that big, you can make your own weather.

You could call that excess capital as easily as a labour shortage. Or a shortage of training pipelines in an irresponsible industry.

When GM realized they needed more mechanical engineers than existed, they built a whole university. These days, capital just whines. If you can spend $100 BILLION on data centers, you have the budget to stand up a proper school.

The crypto movement often advocates for this (e.g. code is law, not-your-keys), but their perception and commitment to it is usually paper thin.

That's only true for the young. As they get older, or the exit grows large enough, some people smell that last iteration and defect hard.

I think it's the latter -- Microsoft was unable to look internally, or able to pretend they were ignorant. But the Guardian report was just too detailed to ignore.

And remember how quickly Powell’s “Yellow Cake” fairytale fell apart once they resorted to sharing the docs. The docs were fake! Actual evidence can be interrogated and disproven. While anonymous, evidence-free reporting is unfalsifiable.

Correct. I got lost in the threads, and lost context here.

I have never heard of the NYT deliberately inventing falsehoods. They do have a history of credulously repeating falsehoods as truth to serve an editorial goal. I’ll grant that distinction.

Note that does nothing to defend the story in question.

You completely miss my complaint. Perhaps I was unclear. The Pentagon Papers is the exact opposite! Ellsberg actually shared the documents; there were literal "papers" involved in the Pentagon Papers. That's the "real evidence" I demand.

Off-the-record conversational, "I'd never lie to you" BS, from anonymous sources in the "intelligence community" is a lead to investigate, not a story. They weren't called the Pentagon Whispers.

Judith Miller reported total fabrications and helped lead the entire country into a disastrous invasion of Iraq.

Judith Miller taught me that either the NYT is totally corrupt, or easily misled. It is completely reasonable to place almost zero weight on stories they report on "national security" from nothing but anonymous sources from the intelligence community.

Real stories have real evidence.

If you ever get a chance, the Hunterian Museum at Glasgow has a permanent display of some of Lord Kevlin's instruments. You can look at the actual tools used to characterize the volt, the amp, and the electro-static forces.

https://www.gla.ac.uk/collections/#/details?irn=16534&catTyp...

This is going to be fascinating.

States like Texas use property tax to replace income taxes. So where do they go for revenue if the red guards demand the repeal of property tax? Are they wild enough to implement a head-tax? Or do they close their police departments?

No. That’s what makes CALEA so damaging. It is ILLEGAL to encrypt covered traffic in a way that isn’t intercept-able by any random sheriff’s office in any county of the USA.

I wish. They are mostly dumb racists who believe you can invent magic encryption that only white Americans can crack.

Yeah. Turning exploit production into a “respectable” business didn’t help.