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I suspect that my wisdom teeth that did not warrant removal may be contributing to my tinnitus in my left ear.

Anyone get relief from wisdom teeth removal?

I had very similar idea about 13 years and it festered for years due to lack of time and fact it was originally implemented in Scala + Swing.

The concept is similar user must write code to solve problems involving a "rover" on a grid.

I took some time to make a ScalaJS + HTML version recently, but it still in perpetual alpha-alpha status. The language I invented is minimal and a bit esoteric. Not really a teaching language. It very primitive compared to Elara.

https://github.com/daltontf/coderover-js

https://daltontf.github.io/coderover.html

The fact that the most common denominator for publishing an application to reach the maximum user base is a web application is kind of a depressing one to developers. We know that to reach a maximum user base that we need to ship using bloated tech.

If an application that emulates a calculator was just now a new idea it would likely be first developed as a web application those would be an order of magnitude larger that it needs to be. It would use much more memory and cpu than a native version. You do get some things that could be a value like screen reader capabilities. It would show up in app stores but would be implemented in Electron.

In the "olden days" of the 1990's such an concept would likely been done in VB6 and distributed as an .exe since that the user base of Windows desktop users was the most significant. That resources consumes by the executable would be "nit" on today's devices.

Even though from a business perspective shipping bloated apps makes sense, developers are aware of the bloat and it bothers us.

Read a sci-fi book recently with that being a central plot point. Reasonably advanced species unable to escape the gravity of its home world. There is also a dearth of fissile material in the solar system that prevent a "nuclear option". Book was written as a bit of homage to "The Mote in God's Eye" with wanting to leave to planet being seen as a "Crazy Eddie" idea.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59554147-cold-eyes

I find these web desktop idea interesting but a solution looking for a problem. Part of me wants to post the Batman slapping Robin meme with Robin saying "Maybe I should develop a web desktop that runs in the browser"

I'm pretty sure that is DEFCON-4 (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087130)

Is the ideology of people living in a certain area really that much of a factor in the economic success of that area?

Or is is the more the other way around. A location that has attractive geography or abundance of some resource leads to people wanting to live there. Once population reaches a certain density, there is desire for more rules and regulations to prevent a "tragedy of the commons". Progressive policies are more a result of "success" than a cause.

In the US, the state Mississippi get stereotyped as failing area. Progressive policies can't do a whole lot there. Maybe higher taxes on the wealthy, but that could only go so far until companies and wealth can just go to other another state. Mississippi is more of a victim of geography than ideology.

People living and interacting in close quarters require more "refereeing". Usually in the form of government, but can be something like neighborhood home owner's associations. Referees are never popular.

Working from home can isolate you from people leading to mass media and social media becoming your window on the world. Such media tends to over focus on the scary or the outrageous.

We can use some "Congratulations to the crew of Apollo 8. You saved 1968." moments nowadays.

https://amazingstories.com/2016/12/thank-you-for-saving-1968...

I played in racquetball leagues in the late '80s and early '90s. Same thing happened.

Try to "park downhill". If you have to stop working on something leave it some state that will make resuming easier.

I didn't even do that well in high school (U.S.), but did score well enough on the ACT to get admitted to a good STEM university where I repeated the process of just doing enough to get by while seeing some high school higher achievers flame out.

I have a "feature bug" where I need to really be interested in something to want to learn it and then I can be borderline obsessive about it. Fortunately software development is something that I am interested in (most of the time). Once it get an idea about something that will improve the product or fix a bug, I can really "lock in" on it.

Sounds like what happened near me (https://www.atomichomefront.film/).

Watching Peacock's "Mrs. Davis" makes me think of this movie. Albeit, it is very whimsical take on the aftermath of an AI taking over the world with main character being a nun.

Would love to see a more up to date remake of "Colossus" that strives for a decent level of realism.

I just tried to find footage of a TV commercial of a women talking to an intelligent "agent" on her computer. The agent was autonomous enough to be in the process of finding her tickets to some event. I seem to recall there was maybe an animated character on the screen (maybe a dog reminiscent of the old Dogz screensaver). The commercial was maybe late 1990s or early 2000s.

The commercial seemed prescient to me. Anyone else remember this?

Seem that such corruption starts very innocuously. I remember police officer acquaintances saying being a cop means you can always use that fact to never get a speeding ticket. I never felt that they were shady people I think they are likely decent people with a difficult job, but something about that fact did sort of bothered me. I would like to think that a police officer driving very dangerously or even drunk would not being to get away with it that easily.

Superman The Movie was more prophetic than we thought.

The subpopulation that uses alcohol to deal with life stress likely skews male and more conservative.

I recently had a conversation with late '20s guy from a small town in Illinois who said guys in his town at any point in time were either working, hunting or drunk. He felt the need to get out of there.

I have some basic ideas that I have implemented in multiple languages. I think of them as "Rosetta Stone" projects:

- Bowling score - More of an exercise than a project.

- Sudoku solver - Also an exercise, but could be more with a UI.

- "Setting Sun" tile puzzle with UI. Saw one of these at a Cracker Barrel restaurant (https://www.siammandalay.com/products/setting-sun)

- Wordle with UI - I've only done one in Rust/WASM, but might do one in Dart/Flutter.

Started out interesting but devolved into a anti-"woke" soapbox. Can you prove that attention to diversity negatively impacted companies? The only evidence here seems to be more of a correlation-causation fallacy

Sure one can overdo "diversity" to the point of hiring incompetent people for diversity's sake. But striving for diversity can also be a way of finding and developing untapped human potential in less represented groups.

I consider myself to be part of the strong type system faction.

Sounds like Aaron Rodger's recent "darkness retreat": https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/aaron-rodgers-darkn...

Yes, Feedly

My dad was born in 1931 and I remember him saying that oftentimes people went to movies in the late '30s just because they had air conditioning and most people did not.

Put some weight in backpack or buy a weighted vest and your are rucking which makes it more strenuous without the impact of running.

Hopefully, the "stop showing me this ad" feature gets fixed. I'm tired of always being presented with an ad for the "Dixie Store". No, I don't want to shop for Confederate flags and other garbage.

Within the enterprise it seems that a lot of application used in internally are better suited to be used within a browser. For example, CRUD type applications like timesheet entry.

In the public space, people don't want to even take the time and are leery of downloading anything like an executable jar. People want to instant gratification of being able to play/use something in the browser. Wordle gets nowhere if it was an executable jar.

Think about the time period we lived through we regard to tech. The 2000s was a "gold rush" era of "web enabling" everything. Remember how fascinated we were when we first saw Google Maps running in a browser?

Reading it now. I'm reading an abridged e-book. Read somewhere that the Penguin Classics unabridged translation is preferred however.

I've putting together ideas for a post about applying Ikagai concepts (https://becomingbetter.org/ikigai/) to side-projects.

1. What you love -> How strong is the itch to create this side-project?

2. What you are good at -> Do you have the skills and resources for this project? Or least the aptitude to gain the skills?

3. What you can get paid for -> Most side-project don't directly benefit one financially. Maybe the question is will this project benefit me via skills acquisition or maintenance that could be helpful with my "real work"?

4. What the world needs -> Side-projects usually are not "needed:, but can be found interesting or entertaining. Definitely would weight "needed" > "interesting" or "entertaining".