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The author's point, though, is that folks tend to wait four months and then hire "someone imperfect", which they could've done now.

I find drivers of nonwork pickup trucks to be particularly aggressive on the road.

I don't know if this is where you read it, but this advice is also given in Clean Code.

    >  Serious founders don’t just whiteboard, brainstorm, theorize. They become their potential customers, treating the task as a full-contact sport.

This is why the advice to scratch your own itch is quite common: you don't need to become your potential customer because you already are your potential customer.

This is a good point. I certainly feel like I can lift more (weight and reps) when I've eaten more carbs. It's a bit of a balancing act to keep the weight off, but also have enough energy to exercise hard. To address this, after the initial weight loss I was less aggressive in avoiding carbs.

He works at Jane Street and was recently on their podcast§. An interesting chap, for sure!

§https://signalsandthreads.com/building-tools-for-traders/

I can't put a number on that, unfortunately. I don't do well with diets that require I keep track of all the details — it feels like a chore and I tend to give up — so I decided instead to adopt a simple rule of thumb: avoid carbs where possible. In practice, this means no breads, no pasta, no doughnuts, no sugary foods, etc. Instead, I eat more protein. This works well for me and I lost 15-20 lbs quite quickly and I now maintain a good weight. YMMV, though.

As for cushion time, my practice is very basic: just 10 minutes of mindfulness meditation each day (usually after working out). I feel calmer, less irritable, and more present in everyday life. It's not a panacea, but I find it helps me.

To lose weight. I was at the cusp of being overweight, so decide to get my BMI (an admittedly flawed, but still useful metric) firmly into the middle of the expected range rather than at the upper bound.

    > And the truth is, there is a lot a person can do to adjust or mitigate these things, through simple lifestyle changes like diet and exercise.

This is spot on. I'm 46 and I've been fortunate to be healthy and in decent shape my entire life; however, a check up that was fine but trending in the wrong direction prompted these lifestyle changes.

I lift run or lift daily, have reduced my carb intake significantly, stopped drinking, perform a short yoga routine each morning, and spend some time on the cushion each evening. I only wish I'd done this earlier because I feel so much better than I ever have.

Fennel[0] is a Lisp-like language that transpiles to Lua. It was originally developed by Calvin Rose (author of Janet[1]), but is now maintained by Phil Hagelberg (author of Leiningen[2]).

[0]https://fennel-lang.org

[1]https://janet-lang.org/

[2]https://codeberg.org/leiningen/leiningen

I feel pretty dense, because I still struggle to get my head around automatically adding changes to a revision. Sometimes, I'll make a change locally to a file that I'll use during the development process that I have no intention of committing. With regular git, I never stage that file so there's no danger of accidentally pushing my change to the remote repo, but it seems with jj I'll need to somehow unstage that change or something to prevent this. Perhaps it's just habit, but I feel more comfortable explicitly saying what I want to commit rather that defaulting to everything. Or have I totally misunderstood jj?

Is it entirely maintenance or does she also build new stuff with COBOL?

Does anyone know if they're able to support themselves purely on donations via Patreon, etc., or if they need to do contract work, too?

While I understand the aversion, I can't help but think that people miss out on some really cool experiences when they balk at stuff like 1-based arrays or parens in Lisp or whatever. Sure, those quirks may remain deal breakers after you've given the language a thorough try, but you may also gain super interesting new perspectives in the process.

What is jank's tooling like? Clojure's felt very much like an afterthought, unfortunately. I do like having a decent set of tools right out of the box. I think Gleam was smart in this respect.

But when you have multiple jobs, doesn't admin end up being a greater proportion of your time since you have to deal with it for several companies?

At the C-suite level, I'm noticing more "fractional" positions, which — as far as I can tell — is a fancier way of saying part time. (This may be the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon at work, though.)

This is exactly the part I got hung up on, too.

    The exact reasons aren’t important for this blog post, but neither the reference implementation [...] nor the other open source Go Lua intepreters I could find were a good fit for my needs.

I'm intrigued because presumably the shortcomings of the other implementations are important to how they chose to implement Lua here.

This story reminds me of another told by a keynote speaker at a CERF conference. IIRC, the story goes that US government scientists on the west coast were trying to figure out where the salmon spawned in a certain region and thus conducted a comprehensive study. As outreach afterwards, they held a town hall meeting to inform the locals — including a panel with elders from the native community — of their findings. After listening quietly to their announcement, one of the elders asked, "Do you know what the name of that place means in English?" The scientist didn't. "It means, where the salmon spawn."

Task* is another alternative, although I admittedly only use it with simple hobby projects in C so I can't speak to whether it scales well or not.

*https://taskfile.dev/

The Janet Street folks, who created this, also did an interesting episode[0] of their podcast where they discuss performance considerations when working with OCaml. What I was curious about was applying a GC language to a use case that must have extremely low latency. It seems like an important consideration, as a GC pause in the middle of high-frequency trading could be problematic.

[0] https://signalsandthreads.com/performance-engineering-on-har...

AI weather is making great progress with the likes of GraphCast, Aardvark, NeuralGCM, Aurora, etc. It seems like the teams that produce these models often include folks from Microsoft and Google, which makes me wonder if there's much cross pollination within those companies which is helping these advances or if researchers are siloed and the development of these models is entirely independent of one another?

You had me at

    > DayLog ah ahh ahhhhhh, fighter of the night log ah ahh ahhhhh.

I'm excited to give this a try, as I think I'm the target audience. I tried using Helix[0] (my editor of choice) with mpls[1], but it didn't quite scratch the itch. These days, I use a sturdy notebook and cheap (but awesome!) fountain pen, because I just need something simple. No bells. No whistles. This seems ideal!

[0]https://helix-editor.com/ [1]https://github.com/mhersson/mpls

And don't even think about starting a sentence with 'and'.

I think we're taught rules like this to prevent us developing bad habits at the outset. Then, once we have more experience, we know when it's okay to break the rules.

    > Do schools even teach lisp these days ?

IIRC, grads that I interviewed from the University of Waterloo tended to have experience in Racket.

I had a similar experience in the Netherlands. We could have a 30 second exchange in their perfect English or a laboured 2 minute conversation in my abysmal Dutch. I struggled to improve because everyone would immediately switch to English.

The Guardian frames it differently:

    Microsoft, based in Redmond, Washington, said the layoffs will be across all levels and geographies but will focus on reducing management levels.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/13/microsoft...

    > I have never actually answered a SO question because it feels like you need to answer perfectly or get torn apart. 

IME, this is heavily dependent on the language and, therefore, the subcommunity. For example, for Clojure and R I've found the SO communities to typically be kind and positive, whereas I've found the JS folks there to be dismissive and aggressive, but YMMV.

I like fineliners for everyday use and opt for Sakura Pigma Micron #05s. They're quite reasonably priced and are very enjoyable to write with!