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Disco Elysium is truly a wonderful game for adventure/rpg fans. I have a small fraction of the time I had as a younger man to play games so I have to be very selective with my choices and Disco Elysium has taken up a large portion of that time for the past few months.

If it makes you feel any better, that's about the age I started functioning mostly like an adult. It started around 30 but took a good decade to take hold.

You certainly don't need to have someone in your life -- as someone who married late and has two kids now I sometimes look back on my long period of begin single with fondness -- but I would also recommend being very honest with yourself. Very few people are totally undesirable and expecting others to meet some predetermined standard is very common among people that don't interact socially very often (I speak from experience). While I'm lucky that my wife is very bright (and in many ways much smarter than me) the most important thing that she has given me is new perspectives on life and seeing that it's more important to be kind and helpful than smart.

It's very hard to see outside of our early conditioning without outside perspectives. We may have a vague sense that we might not have been given the best tools for social development (we may even be brutally aware of it), but having someone that has the skills that we are missing is often more important than that they have equal skills in areas we are strong in. Having a good partner can make you realize things about yourself and open you up to things that you never even realized were there.

It's not that one.

Anything that contributes to you not needing to actually "think" and instead just "react" is going to be bad for you because it is simply engaging your reward system. The only way LLMs can be a net good is if they free you from drudgery and allow you to work harder on the things that actually matter. (Think dishwashers and laundry machines). If you are using them as an "easy button" so you can finish your work (poorly) to have more time to scroll your timeline then yes, you are turning your brain into mush.

I'm purposefully not engaging with whether LLMs are actually even good at what they do, which is another discussion.

Basically? It's a "sense" or "vibe". "There was a guy begging on the street" is what I remember. Not the actual words or a picture, just the "vibe" of that sentence. Definitely no touches, sounds, smells, or pictures.

My wife, who has a very visual and auditory memory, to the point that she can basically re-watch movies in her head, is still dumbfounded by this fact.

I "know" that I saw someone begging on the street. I might remember other "facts" as they seemed appropriate. But that's it. If you asked me what color their hair was or what they were wearing I would have no idea unless I had chosen to make a note of that fact.

Personally, I remember "facts" about the event. Like, who was there, when it was, what was said. I don't have mental images of an event.

If you have something to describe "in your mind's eye" then you don't have aphantasia. We can't "see" anything in our mind.

  Calculations show that everything we see today, from atoms to galaxies, 
  exists because just one extra particle of matter survived for every billion 
  matter–antimatter pairs.

Everything about the Universe boggles the mind, but I was unaware of this.

So in our entirely sanitized and sterilized environments we would be free from airborne and waterborne disease, but the moment we step outside of it our underdeveloped immune systems would be incapable of fighting off the common cold? That seems like a bad idea.

Get in the habit of putting your phone down when you are in the room with your child. Don't have it on the dinner table, or anywhere you would socialize with your children. It's really best to just avoid using it as much as possible around your kids. Obviously, if you have to make appointments and stuff, that's different, but scrolling social media, reading news, etc. should be left for the evenings after kids are in bed. Kids don't really care what you say as much as they are always watching what you do.

I don't actually disagree with anything in this article, I would just argue that at some point you might want to consider why you are so interested in "fast career growth". Is it more money? More recognition? More power? To what end?

The standard cliches are true as far as I can tell (as I approach 50). "You can't take it with you", "no one wishes on their death bed that they had worked harder", etc. In 10 years, no one at your office is going to care how much time you put in at the office, but your partner and kids will. Do you want them to resent you for it?

Until microcomputer boom of the 70's and 80's there was the calculator boom of the early 70's. The availability of the microprocessor made small calculators widely available for the first time and they were very popular among the type of people that probably would've read Hacker News had it existed.

I find it ironic that there's a big "Follow @index@simone.org via your Fediverse account (like...)" over this article that I can't seem to close and covers up part of the article.

As a backend developer, I have a lot of respect for frontend developers that have to deal with edge-cases and minutiae that we don't have to. Building APIs and interfaces for computers is easy. Building them for people is HARD.

Because every computer record has a host of qualifiers on it (like "programmable", "fully automatic").

When I was first diagnosed I ate Subway for about year. It was the only thing that didn't make me completely sick. Now I can't touch the stuff.

Mine is primarily in my large intestine, so it's like a weird combination of Crohn's and UC, which could be why it causes so much nausea. Remission for me was just sort of luck and time. I was first diagnosed at 28, was on a ton of steroids followed by about 20 years of Imuran. After a colonoscopy my GI doctor said that my colon shows no sign of damage anymore and that since Imuran increases risk for cancer that I should consider trying to reduce my dosage. After about a year of reducing I was totally off with no return of symptoms. Now I'm just on mesalamine. So, TL;DR, I got lucky. Good luck with your treatment.

As someone with Crohn's disease (thankfully now in remission) I can fully relate. Nausea is the worst symptom because it is so debilitating. You don't want to do anything when you are nauseated and when it goes on for months that affects every part of your life.

Mattias is a wizard of woodworking. His other site has numerous amazing projects: https://woodgears.ca/index.html (like a 26" bandsaw: https://woodgears.ca/big_bandsaw/26in.html and pantorouter: https://woodgears.ca/pantorouter/xl.html)

"VVV" in Morse code means "attention, incoming message".

Cool to see amateur radio and fldigi in a Hacker News article.

I don't think we ever thought they were particularly good or realistic, just the best we could do with the limitations of the time.

Yeah, this was an incredibly unique game that I played hours of in high school. It obviously looks dated now, but was amazing at the time.

Well, it's been shady for at least 2.5 decades.

NASA, probably more than any private organization has reams of documentation. Every bolt is documented. Maybe, just maybe, electronic systems are more complicated than bridges and buildings that literally just sit there.

I do agree that we need to do a better job of celebrating the people that do maintenance which is what the vast majority of our field is based on.

Turbo Pascal 6 was the first high-level language I learned after BASIC and my first job out of college was doing Delphi development. I loved programming in Pascal, not so much because of the syntax (it gets a bit clunky at times) but because of the speed and ease-of-use of the development environments. Similar to having a REPL in a language, fast compilation is amazingly helpful for development iteration. If you can test ideas quickly, you can reason about things more quickly (at least in my experience).

For a very engaging documentary about the remaining team of Voyager 1 scientists, watch "It's Quieter in the Twilight". The ending kind of tails off, mostly due to the Covid pandemic, but it's a great look into how a group of aging scientists and engineers (the last to really understand how Voyager 1 works) are keeping it alive.

I think the primary benefit of ARRL (and the main reason I'm a member) is that they do regulatory and legislative advocacy for amateur radio bands.

https://www.arrl.org/regulatory-advocacy

Relevant:

https://meshtastic.org/

https://github.com/meshtastic

https://meshtastic.org/docs/configuration/radio/lora/