+1 for Purelymail. Most things that appear to be too good to be true are not true. Purelymail is the real deal.
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Ah yes, the classic "your politics," but of course the person having this opinion's politics are perfectly fine, because they're the "normal" person with the "normal" politics, not like that crazy person who thinks some randos shouldn't be the subject of genocide. How dare they!
This has always existed. The ability to rapidly prototype has not changed it in any way.
An extremely experienced UX researcher once told me that, having been doing field research and user research for 3 decades now, every time it's a Fortune 500 company, after presenting mountains of research, it comes down to what color the CEO liked in the moment.
I don't understand the proclivity to latch onto whatever the new thing is and blame it for shitty decision-making that has existed as long as humans have existed.
Give yourself credit for this move, because it might seem obvious to you, but I suspect a lot of people wouldn't have bothered!
In any case, thank you for writing this up and congrats on everything :D
Oh, I love this so much. It communicates so many important things in one go.
My kids must be absolutely sick of me saying in a dozen different ways "you just have to do it a lot."
This also reminds me of how I've often responded when people ask me about learning to code. I ask them if they're ok with sitting in front of a computer for many hours.
It sounds obvious, but most people (in my experience) simply aren't ok with that, and hadn't considered it.
It depends massively on what kind of DX you want. If you want to work with a 'regular' operating system, you're looking more in the RPi direction.
If you want to write straight-up C firmware, then yeah, the esp and stms are both great.
Congratulations, this might be the single most trivially-disprovable statement I've ever seen on this site
J. was a traveling Ibogaine ... healer? He went from city to city, summoned by the loved ones of advanced heroin addicts, to attempt one last Hail Mary shot at recovery.
These were situations of absolute desperation, and I can’t overstate the seriousness with which he took his adopted occupation. He described to us in detail his process.
First, he interviewed the person requesting help, seeing what else they had tried and trying to suss out if Ibogaine would be worth the risk. He turned away most callers.
Those who he accepted would be dropped off at his van, inside which was a mobile, DIY ICU of sorts: a bed, food, water and emergency medical supplies. He would administer the ibogaine (I don’t know what form this took), and then, in his words, the patient would undergo a 2 to 3-day continuous hallucination.
During this time, in J.’s observations, the patient was almost always ‘visited’ by dead relatives, who typically admonished the patient for what had become of them, laying into them with real talk about the state of their life.
J. said half of the patients came out of this experience fundamentally changed, and effectively cured of their addiction to heroin. I don’t know if he had any data (anecdotal or otherwise) on recidivism, but the implication was that this was likely to be permanent.
But, he said, the other half went insane, which is why he spent a great deal of effort screening families and informing them of the risks.
I don’t know how much, if any, of this is true. I don’t know what ‘insane’ means, or meant. But I remember vividly how seriously this guy took it, without ever coming off as some kind of self-satisfied guru or medicine man, believing himself to be a god, or anything like that. He never accepted money. He lived somewhat roughly. I wonder whatever happened to that guy.
I strongly doubt this. I suspect it's the exact opposite situation. But I'd like to hear from someone who knows.
If only we had the ancient greco-roman newspapers archived so we could check and see if any of the hexes worked
what, the university using default passwords on freaking cameras? agreed!
I mean... yes?
Maintaining software means looking at issues opened on github, keeping your own list of feature requests and bug fixes, deciding if and what to fix, deciding when to fix, and if you're lucky/cursed, reviewing PRs from randos. ANY of this means diverting attention from your day job/client work/kids/???.
Can some of this be theoretically automated by an LLM? Uh, maybe? But I'm not sure how much that would help.
I'm very curious what kind of hardware advancements you're imagining. Because we're already kind of near a physical wall regarding heat dissipation on phones.
I mean hey, maybe foundational physics will surprise the world with a radical breakthrough that disappears heat into a black hole or something, but I sure wouldn't hold my breath
But for one-on-one, it is a really outstanding experience. Especially since they tamped down the way over-the-top humanisms.
This is only true if you assume C-like syntax is the "default."
But regardless of that, I'd argue that there's much less syntax to learn in LISPy languages. The core of it is really just one single syntactic concept.
Bad old days indeed!