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Wow this kind of hit home! A lot of familiar ground. When I was 12 and living in San Diego I started a BBS, also using WWIV. Called Xcellent! BBS. When we moved back to the UK I tried to keep it going, but the BBS scene in the UK was a lot further back. I believe I had a connection through a friend to WWIVNET or something similar but I had to do that through a call to the US from the UK which in 1992 was ridiculously expensive so I stopped.

Thanks for the post :)

It is all just another presentation of the mind :)

Micronaut or Quarkus seem like good competitors, does Spring Boot have the edge over them?

One of the things I believe the author is missing is flow efficiency vs resource efficiency. To reduce handoff and waste, sometimes the utilisation of a single resource may go down.

If you define your transformations in DBT (data build tool) you can view high level lineage documentation in the form of interactive diagrams. But if you haven’t started this way it is likely a labour intensive and poor way to get documentation.

Yes - this is primarily how I use mine. It doesn't have close to the polish of something like iBooks unfortunately, but it works.

I had acid reflux for a number of years. It got more and more acute until it felt almost like how I imagine a heart attack to feel. In the end after a week in hospital I had my gallbladder removed and subsequent to that any very occasional mild acidity has gone away after a drink of water. Another anecdote that might be worth adding to the collection.

Do you happen to know what sort of thinking leads a team down this path? It seems a fundamental mistake. Resume driven development?

Thanks, yes the area I think is relevant to Gary Bernhardt's presentations. Thanks for the link.

If I find the article I will reply again to your message.

I find it quite interesting that a natural inclination of some people is to believe that if it was simple for someone to think, in some way, of the feature they want, that it should also be simple to implement. Have seen this a lot.

I've only ever plugged my LG Ultrafine 5k into the right hand side of 2016 15 inch, but I find that if the room is warm (perhaps > 22 degrees C) I have 'kernel_task' apparently maxing out my CPU. Anecdotally until I discovered that aiming a fan at the underside seemed to make this problem go away. It doesn't seem to happen (that I remember...) when the big screen isn't plugged in.

Why do you believe you would be blamed when the company finally goes bust?

Would this blame matter because of your friendship with your cofounders? Or does their blame affect you in some other way?

Out of curiosity why?

I have done this with musicians whose albums I have enjoyed, and I've gone into depth about what I specifically enjoyed and why. I have also received a 100% reply rate which I found completely unexpected.

Aaah I see, I had completely glossed over the type-safety aspect which makes the difference. Thanks, and thanks for the reference to monocle-ts.

When you say slicing the Gordian Knot (and fixing the lack of agency), what would be some examples?

Genuinely asking as I've had to tackle modification of large deeply nested immutable objects in JS. Because of the large and varied object, I used a generic approach of set/get functions that could take paths using https://github.com/mariocasciaro/object-path-immutable

Use of this lens pattern as given in the article seems to lead to a lot more boilerplate with lenses that have knowledge of object structure, which doesn't seem optimal. So I must be missing what this specific+compositional approach gives over using something like object-path-immutable. Perhaps they are two approaches for two different situations?

> if we simply run out of new things to discover that make a difference for us as a species, what then?

Nothing left to do but live a good life and to try to make sure everyone is fed, happy, and treats the earth and everything else in it as well as they can.

That is an interesting one, thanks!

> As a German working with French coworkers, it took me a while to figure this out.

What examples come up the most, or had the most impact on you figuring it out?

I've spent multiple years working with an iMac 21 inch, a Macbook Pro 15 inch retina, and a 27" LG Ultrafine 5k (I understand this is the same or similar panel as the iMac 5k 27").

I think if you are optimising for productivity you would want the 27", certainly from my experience.

My own opinion, for what it is worth: if you lack focus I think you are better off trying to build good habits or to work on things that interest you.

You can just as easily switch to reading HN or reddit on a smaller screen as you can a larger. You can just as easily go fullscreen on a larger display to block out distractions, but you also have more space so you can, if working on UI for example, have the UI in one half and an editor/IDE in the other, which can speed you up.

If it is difficult to make yourself do work, you can try to build good habits using apps like Focus to remind you if you tend to go off on reading sprees when working. Good luck!

Is your space constrained such that the 27 inch would not fit? Is your budget constrained such that the 27 inch is too expensive?

If neither your space nor your budget is constrained, then go for the 27 inch.

I must lack imagination! I cannot figure out what the ROI is if one codes stuff to randomly submit crap to forms.

I too would be interested in seeing how some example cards are structured - to see how much information is on each side of the card, what the card is comprised of, what sort of things are amenable to cards. As I remember cards have a stimulus and expected response. So there’s a bit of an art in distilling things down so the stimulus triggers the correct mental associations and the response can be related back in a way that matches the expected response.

Why do you think the culture is this way? It does not seem optimal.

I'd use mind maps to make notes, and spaced recognition to remember, and would try to understand context as much as possible.

With language learning though I'd try to get lessons on italki to speak with native speakers of that language. Grammar drills. Anki/Memrise for spaced repitition.

Radio Userland :)

I'm having flashbacks, I'm not sure I would be able to go the distance on that one.

Similar in approach (in that it can use Markdown) but Deckset.app for OSX also incorporates a GUI, I don't think you'd need to know any CSS.

You have to think deeply about the topic - certainty about what you are trying to express prevents equivocation.

The structure for the document comes from knowledge of the intended audience and their purpose combined with knowledge of the topic.

Economy of expression is gained from careful and continuous 'refactoring'; restructuring what you say, optimising for simplicity and leverage of the language.