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I really like pony's approach to this tradeoff. Reference capabilities provide such a nice semantic lever for thinking this stuff through. Wish the language was more popular!

Gotta plug the delightful, 80s-core hour length ad for dBASE https://youtu.be/bYU3CQomE5M?is=BysfXD3ybPme-DoL Before my time, but fun to see how much could be done with it!

> Quality thinking is more important in this profession than fast thinking. Feels true, particularly in an era where LLMs make fast thinking cheap.

I wonder if this is in response to Bookshop.org's DRM free e-book shop. I buy a lot of e-books and have completely switched over because of that feature.

related for Elixir: https://goto-code.com/blog/elixir-otp-for-llms/

The victorian urge to travel the world collecting rare botanical samples.

For some reason, on mobile, the demo and pricing links in the navbar get me a 404. Works fine on desktop.

Looks really cool, minor typo on the landing page: Strunggle with i18n -> Struggle with i18n ^

Before Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGMs), diabetics would need to draw blood from a finger prick and use that with a glucometer to measure blood glucose levels or pee on a test st…

I think this strikes me as a revealed preference story. Would you rather carry around an additional device, remember to charge it, etc. else be locked out of lifesaving care? I see…

> The law could also use indirect leverage to gradually separate students' medical monitoring from the smartphone. For example, they could begin a multi-year transition period afte…

Same. The ADA act is our friend.

Medical devices, e.g. (some) insulin pumps like the Tandem Mobi, are managed via smartphone apps only. It's an unfortunate fact of life that life supporting technology can increasi…