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Magnesium, L-Theanine, and vitamin d. Make a regular bed time for yourself, and stop looking at screens 30 minutes before that time. Regular is more importantly than early, I.e. 11…

> The job of a house framer didn't change, it just got faster and slightly easier. And also quicker/easier to screw up in subtle and insidious ways!

And as a senior engineer, I'm not interested in cleaning up vibe code. When I review a PR for a junior dev they learn from my suggestions (or I tell their boss they're not learning…

The notes are in a similar layout, but violin and cello strings are tuned to fifths, where guitar and bass guitar strings are tuned to fourths. The fingering patterns for scales an…

Rockstar interactions with young female fans are not as limited as you say. Regardless, celebrity worship is far from a new societal problem. Confiding with the toaster as though i…

There's meet-ups and conferences and events, being a fan of a streamer or influencer is really just the new version of being a fan of a rockstar (for better and for worse). There's…

The sad part is that it pretends to care about the user which creates a one-way emotional bond. We're in for some dark times

The exercise you like doing and will do beats no exercise at all for blood sugar control

This post is about using AI to teach 5 year olds...

It used the words "freeze your hands"

You trailed off into a "might make right" argument at the end there

I was making a dessert recipe last week where everything including utensils needed to stay cold, and Gemini suggested I freeze my hands in an ice bath before getting started.

I've found LLMs to be bad at balancing parenthesis. I've also found them to be less likely to hallucinate library types in dynamic languages, they tend to hallucinate arguments to …

Only if it's a closed loop

You might not be able to afford to put up power lines or build a road, but that doesn't mean you physically cannot. By your logic there are no natural monopolies

Hell yes. More than a third of Americans would run their two and a half ton pickup trucks on burning copies of An Inconvenient Truth if it were at all possible

The number of AI companies there can be is absolutely hard-limited by infrastructure. The ones which exist currently are racing like hell to horizontally integrate everything from …

That is an inherent and unavoidable risk regardless, as things stand if you want access to frontier models you are at the mercy of their providers.

This stuff all looks great, I can't wait to upgrade to 31 and then forget about all of it and just keep using Emacs the same way I have been for the past 20 years, /again/

Without all the oxytocin you get from hanging out with a newborn that would be awful

That's an interesting question, but the answer probably isn't worth the trauma you'd inflict on a child by intentionally raising them to be completely unaware of the existence of h…

Why is it "people are willing to pay" and not "corporations are brazen enough to charge"? These utilities are necessities and relatively few people have access to cheaper alternati…

I usually invert those to reduce nesting

There's a difference between buying groceries for your family and losing that same amount of money on a hand of poker.

I suppose I can't afford to become a "member" in order to read your article about it then.