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This isn’t that complicated.

Both financial and tech debt are trade offs between future and present, leveraging the latter in detriment of the former.

But financial debt is authorized by corporate finance, which is empowered to do so by the C-suite and implicitly by shareholders. Whereas technical debt is created at ones own risk by the Individual Contributor, who didn’t ask the shareholders if they liked the trade off.

I tried a couple of projects that are way too small to get alternatives listed. I got 404s, I expected a page with the libhunt design with some basic metadata and a vague assertion that they will be checked out.

Also: you should be logging those misses.

People are unusually angry about fat activism. I mean, it promotes unhealthy habits, but so does pro-ana (which targets vulnerable younger girls, too), careless discourse on psychedelic mushrooms (even on mainstream media like Rogan) and even marijuana (it’s really not for everyone, and people do experience psychotic breaks from time to time).

I’m bipolar and fasting is a mania trigger. Even just skipping lunch because I’m late for work. (In the bad old days I used to work in a noisy open office and lunchtime was the best time to work.)

Edit: not everyone experiencing their first manic breakdown notice it; pdocs tell me people usually go to them after the crash. I encourage everyone experiencing unusual feelings or omnipotence and euphoria (or, on the contrary, a restless kind of angry anxiety) that can’t be explained by drugs to take the Young Mania Ratings Scale, there are several copies online.

I got in a loop.

I volunteer on 7cups and recommend everyone who can spare the time to do the same. It’s basically chatting with strangers in distress, although the system keeps reminding you to focus on “active listening”.

Those R-squareds are really low.

I have a 9mo and we don’t cook usually so we’re feeding him industrialized baby foods (slowly introducing eggs, alphabet noodles, etc. His appetite is growing crazy fast and baby food isn’t cheap…)

What is “stock”?

If you have extra information about vertices you can use it to generate coordinates. Also: you can always augment coordinate proposals with something like the Louvain community detection algorithms at different resolutions and then MDS or UMAP etc.

You should be aware of certain “minimum milestones” that are not average but signal problems that might merit intervention (I have a nephew that couldn’t talk or understand human language by age 3), but otherwise let your child develop at his own pace.

I have a 9 m.o. myself. Kid’s way out of whack, plays my (digital) piano somewhat convincingly (can’t hack notes and scales, of course, but alternates hands and sounds musical in a Cecil Taylor kind of way) but seems to be behind with the babbling. I mean, whatever — I didn’t sign up for a gifted child, I signed up for a child period.

It may help to remember the poem that says “your children are not your children — they’re sons of Nature…”

I wonder if this will work for running Java GUI scientific apps (Gephi, Concept Explorer) that are pretty much impossible to get running correctly on Linux.

I found many small flaws with Julia for my work purposes. But then got in the habit of writing numeric inner loops in Rust and exporting them to Python with pyo3. Maybe I should find out about writing some of that in Julia instead.

This comment was only three days ago, and I’m already in the process of munging my Wordpress exports to make .gmi format text. Gemini is yabba dabba doo awesome.

Arguably much of the “infrastructure” and visual language for GUIs have evolved in the light background/dark text scenario, and “dark mode” has been pretty much improvised in the past couple of years.

I work mostly in the daylight and thus mostly in light color schemes for coding (doubly so when I’m forced to use glossy screens) but I get the appeal of not having a full white spotlight in your face when coding something in bed at 3AM. But: I’d rather most of my screen be dark (eg with terminals) but still have my editor viewport to be light-background, even if it means shrinking it.

A reader-mode browser. Refreshing.

I wonder if one can make a Gemini browser for iOS bypassing the Apple rule that its own engine must always be used.

At one point with Apple’s Continuity I had Gchat, Facebook messenger and SMS on a single window in my MacBook.

Idea: market interoperability as a metaverse thing.

I don’t know, “coming of age” seems to imply that there’s some pre-maturity period out of which something is emerging.

Math is “regular” enough that you can get away with using math at a higher level than one understands. All “practitioners” are using fringes of math they barely understand, which is ok — book says Theorem XYZ guarantees. But that’s also where your mathematical growth is stunted. Learning “higher math” is always standing back a little.

The epitome of this is the feared Real Analysis class where many people realize they’re pretty much incapable of understanding high school calculus. But it keeps happening.

I had a beautiful poster of this as a child.

“These teachings are like a tree trunk you hold onto in order to cross the river, and the discard”. Quoting from memory.

I use Rust a little these days but still find the “wizzgrep just like grep but in mother-frakking (party horn) ruuuuuust” off-putting.

I think advertising the language is useful in two contexts only.

- it’s JavaScript (so available on the client end) - it’s a library FOR x_lang.

I mean — a mini-kanren written in Prolog would be droll, as would a REST API framework for NetLogo, but anything that’s useful is useful.

I disable tabbed browsing altogether and rely on multiple workspaces + auto tiling WMs.

Then alt-tab on Windows or something like rofi finds your browser windows by name.

¿Cual?

Grothendieck worked in algebra, this is analysis.

One can almost hear Hubert Dreyfus going tsk tsk from the grave.

That sounds like a personality trait (high on conscientiousness, low on openness to experience. I’m the exact opposite.)

In Microsoft Excel: “radar chart”.

I’ve been writing and writing on abstract ideas regarding theories of values (i.e. axiologies) since 2018 or so. Some people find my essays/blogposts interesting and become followers of sorts. (Most find them incredibly wordy and roundaboutly.)

This is perhaps HN-flavored although I consider it obsolete. https://asemic-horizon.com/2019/03/13/the-wave/

This is maybe a better example of my more contemporary approach. https://asemic-horizon.com/2021/02/10/we-have-never-been-ase...

— edit: those are more about ethics, this may be closer to OP: https://asemic-horizon.com/2021/07/31/zero-chroma-infinity/

Oh man. I miss Fravia.

Hubert Dreyfus worked on Heideggerean critiques of AI while at MIT rubbing shoulders with Marvin Minsky and the like.

There’s a good documentary called “Being in the world”; last time I checked it had been posted on YouTube.