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mehphp··on Ask HN: Are .shop domains down?
Same here, customer just reached out and my .shop is down
mehphp··on Ocean heat records broken as hottest July temperature recorded
It’s about retention not generation. The problem is greenhouse gases changing how much of the sun’s energy can escape.

I think you’ve simply misunderstood the basic mechanism/claim here.

mehphp··on Redis is fast – I'll cache in Postgres
I was referring to adding redis prematurely
mehphp··on Redis is fast – I'll cache in Postgres
I think you just convinced me to drop redis for my new project.

Definitely a premature optimization on my part.

mehphp··on Show HN: Draw A Fish and watch it swim with the others
I’m so bad at drawing it only had a 46% confidence level that it was a fish
mehphp··on Psilocybin decreases depression and anxiety in cancer patients (2016)
Yes, it’s a roll of the dice which is unfortunate because it was actually pretty fun and a quite profound experience.

I’m not saying people shouldn’t do it but just to proceed with caution and ideally under professional supervision.

mehphp··on Psilocybin decreases depression and anxiety in cancer patients (2016)
Anecdotally, I didn’t get severe anxiety and panic attacks until immediately after trying mushrooms. I didn’t even have a bad trip, but the next day something was off and I never truly recovered from that.
mehphp··on OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google
I agree with all you’ve said but with regards to writing a dissertation for larger changes : have you tried letting it first right a plan for you as markdown (just keep this file uncommitted) and then let it build a checklist of things to do?

I find just referencing this file over and over works wonders and it respects items that were already checked off really well.

I can get a lot done really fast this way in small enough chunks so i know every bit of code and how it works (tweaking manually of course where needed).

But I can blow through some tickets way faster than before this way.

mehphp··on AGI is Mathematically Impossible 2: When Entropy Returns
Seems like it but I’m not sure consciousness necessarily comes along for the ride with AGI.
mehphp··on Microsoft Announces Xbox Console Price Hike, Xbox Games to Cost $80
Depends on the game for me, there are definitely games that I get $80 worth of value.
mehphp··on The blissful Zen of a good side project
I had no idea what I was getting into with that book
mehphp··on U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat
Sure, I’m not baffled that he think that, I’m baffled that society allows it.
mehphp··on How I Choose What to Work On (2023)
Can you elaborate on the difference, I’m not sure I get it.
mehphp··on U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat
For whatever reason norms/laws just don’t apply to Trump. He’s above the law; it’s baffling.
mehphp··on (Any) 8-hour time-restricted-eating window effective for weight loss
I find if i eat an early breakfast, it is indeed hard to not eat after the 8 hours. I find the opposite to be quite easy though. Just skip breakfast and don’t eat until around 1. I get to look forward to food later while actually being hungry.
mehphp··on X.com Is Down
I sense that change too. Comments are starting to feel too much like Reddit unfortunately.
mehphp··on A bear case: My predictions regarding AI progress
Do you have an example?
mehphp··on Layoffs Don't Work
Interviewing is a skill of its own. Some people are really good at it.
mehphp··on Asteroid fragments upend theory of how life on Earth bloomed
> It is not like water flowing in a direction guided by the terrain.

I understand it doesn’t seem intuitive at first, but evolution is actually quite similar to that.

> Trees produce thorns to keep away animals.

It's not that trees consciously produce thorns to keep animals away. Rather, trees with thorns (due to random mutations) are more likely to survive because they are less likely to be disturbed by animals. Over time, those trees are more likely to reproduce and pass on those traits.

Just like water flows down the path of least resistance, evolution naturally selects for traits that improve survival. The "selecting" we are referring to is used in the same sense that water "selects" which route it takes. It doesn't actually select anything, it's just following the laws of physics.

mehphp··on U.S. pauses all military aid to Ukraine
He’s insisting on something that the U.S. already agreed to…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum

mehphp··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
Almost certainly. I should have rephrased it as "I'm not sure how to grow it from here".
mehphp··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
Maintaining current Shopify app and building another.

Why not just grow the first one? It has plateaued and I can’t seem to figure out why.

mehphp··on Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website
The guy leading the charge is calling people “retards” on twitter. How does that effect your “who’s the idiot” calculus?

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1889062581848944961?mx=2

mehphp··on Fossilised fish vomit found in Denmark from sixty-six million years ago
No, but fossils can.
mehphp··on Macrodata Refinement
So glad I watched Midnight Mass on a whim. Incredible show.
mehphp··on Aliens and the Enlightenment
um, yes?
mehphp··on Aliens and the Enlightenment
>As no manned missions to Mars have ever proven this conjecture, it is still entirely speculation on your part.

But we do have manned missions to other celestial bodies, and we have sent and landed probes on Mars. I'm confused as to how a manned mission to Mars is "entirely speculation".

>no precedent to assume it ever becomes possible

This isn't a qualifier for what is possible. We knew it was possible to go to the moon before there was precedent. If anything, you calling it impossible is pure speculation. OP is right, difficult is not the same as impossible.

mehphp··on NFTs Are – Finally – Worthless
Why AI?
mehphp··on Phoenix 1.7 for Elixir: Edit a Form in a Modal
I appreciate it, but it's been a couple of years now, so I can't remember specifically.
mehphp··on Phoenix 1.7 for Elixir: Edit a Form in a Modal
In my experience, deploying BEAM has been just as easy as anything else I can containerize.

WRT getting them to communicate? I ended up giving up on that altogether…

I’m usually good at figuring that stuff out but this one ended up not being worth it (in my case).

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