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Definitely!

Gen Z & A value uniqueness and authenticity. I think the customization options will resonate a lot with them.

It’s not the same service. Google’s vision OCR is pure text extraction, not layout. Pretty sure Google’s doc AI services that can identify headers vs body text is $10 per 1k pages.

It’s already built in! C-h n view-emacs-news

Don’t think stuff like borg is necessary now that Emacs has built in support for installing packages from git repos (use-package :vc)

Hitting limits is more related to how many tokens it’s generating, not necessarily how complex the changes are.

Hit the weekly limit on my 20x plan last week trying to do a full front end rewrite of a giant enterprise web app, 600+ html templates, plus validating every single one with playwright.

I agree. Someone can totally have this mindset while being an inexperienced developer.

In my mind, a senior engineer knows what needs extra attention and where it’s ok to cut corners.

ASDF (Another System Definition Facility) is my all time favorite name for a piece of software. Descriptive, funny, and easy to type!

Emacs takes a lifetime to learn. The sooner you start the longer it takes!

Are you using gptel exclusively, or also things like aider/claude code?

I’d love to hear more about your workflow if you have time to share!

What kind of stuff have you been building?

I buy disposable vapes because I convince myself it’s my last one. Once it runs out I’ll quit.

Buying a rig is accepting defeat.

Except this vape ran out faster than I expected. I have a big week at work coming up and I can’t afford the dip in energy level and productivity that comes with withdrawal. I’ll buy one more just this once and then I’ll quit for sure.

Amazing the hoops my mind jumps through for an addictive molecule.

I’ll invite an acquaintance to get a coffee or beer with me a few times but never have this acquaintance seemingly think of me if I’m not directly asking them to hang.

This is a great start! You’re already doing what most people find the hardest: making the first move.

Grabbing coffee, and even going out to dinner, aren’t good activities for making deep connections. They’re too short and too routine. They can work, it’ll just take longer, and you will have to work harder to make sure conversation is meaningful.

I think the best way to make real friendships is to go on a weekend trip somewhere together. First of all, you’re spending days together instead of hours, but more importantly, you’ll have a shared experience to remember. You get to see what someone is like not only during activities and meals, but also during downtime.

Weekend trips could be awkward if it’s just one on one though, so if you don’t have a group, the next best thing is doing an activity together. Figure out a shared interest, then invite your new friend to do something you’d both enjoy. Maybe it’s a concert, talk, hike, whatever. Do that a few times and your new friend will associate you with that activity. Next time they’re going to a concert/talk/hike or whatever, they’ll invite you to tag along.

Btrfs snapshots are the closest thing I can think of. It doesn’t have the concept of branches specifically, but you can take snapshots of the entire file system and view specific files from those snapshots without having to roll back the whole system.

Manual saving files with different version names is the easiest solution that would probably work for most use cases. That’s what I do for music production. Every time I start a session I save my project with a new minor version, e.g. Epic Banger v0.4, in case I need to revisit older versions. I wish there was a way to include change log messages though.

Can’t you do that with a normal escrow service? People do it every day when they buy houses and other expensive items.

Why bother with blockchain?

Managing rounding and ensuring each set of entries balance can be tricky, especially if you have to share data with a system that can only handle currencies with two decimal places. There are scenarios where it’s actually not possible to have every set of entries balance, and have the total sum of all entries equal the correct balance.

For example, if you had three monthly payments of $5, $10, and $10, you might book something like:

Cash (5) Expense 8.33 Deferred (3.33)

Cash (10) Expense 8.33 Deferred 1.67

Cash (10) Expense 8.33 Deferred 1.67

All three of those blocks of entries balance, but the sum of expenses is 24.99 instead of 25.

I’m not sure there’s a way around this issue if you’re forced to use two decimal places. Luckily the discrepancy is immaterial. I’d love to know if anyone else has encountered this problem.

That’s why I always say “12 noon” when writing out scheduling instructions for something at 12PM.

That’s why I disable all of Spotify’s smart playlist and auto play features. When my playlist/album ends I want to select something new, not be spoon fed whatever everyone else is listening to!

Agreed, not seeing many good use cases. It could be prescribed to alcoholics who can’t/won’t stop drinking to help them taper off alcohol, but people would just end up drinking more to counter it.

The best use I can think of is for undercover agents to drink heavily and avoid intoxication!

The problem is Apple is corrupting SMS, which should be a public and interoperable standard. Google/Gmail is doing the same thing to email. There’s no technical reason you couldn’t have end-to-end encrypted text messages between iOS and Android.

I bet way more people would try Android if they could fully participate in group texts.

+1 for the Midori notebooks. I bought a nice leather cover and replaced the notebooks inside as they fill up.

Or at least I did before I switched to writing on my Kindle scribe. I do miss the analog experience sometimes though.

fish has by far the best auto-completion out of the box. That’s what sold me.

And the website is amazing. “Finally, a command line shell for the 90s”

For plugins maybe, but coming up with a thoughtful set of key bindings takes work. If everything is reconfigurable, like with Emacs, I don’t see the harm in giving users something to start with.

C-h a (apropos-command) makes finding things with unexpected names a lot easier. I relied on C-h f (describe-function) for years, but that only matches function names. Apropos searches doc strings as well.

Can you elaborate?

Adderall reduces your task activation threshold, the amount of effort required to start something.

It’s definitely possible to reduce this threshold too far! If you do you’ll end up jumping into the first project you come across and tackling it with gusto, whether or not it’s high value. Having too much caffeine with Adderall makes this effect much worse for me.

A little bit of laziness is good! You need to be able to power through the tedious stuff you have to do in life, but you never want to stop thinking, “this is tedious and boring, do I really have to do this? Is there a better way?”

It’s easy to lose the forest for the trees.

Is piracetam still the goto for the nootropics community? I thought people were moving away from that for some reason, but I can’t remember why or where I heard that.

Sorry, I should have explained more.

I think it’s ridiculous to make a blanket statement about how kids are raised in America vs France with zero evidence to back it up. There are plenty of strict parents in the US, and I’m sure there are plenty of lax parents in France. Plus, as the article states:

The American psychiatrists believe that ADHD is a disorder based on biological issues.

So the way a kid is raised has nothing to do with whether or not they have ADHD.

According to the article, the real reason “Why French Kids Don’t Have ADHD” is because the doctors avoid that diagnosis:

Basically the French community has decided to focus more on fixing the underlying causes of the problem behavior instead of giving it a wide range diagnosis.

Looking for underlying causes and fixing problem behavior sounds great, I just feel like the article is confuses having ADHD and being diagnosed with ADHD.

Despite my problems with the article, I actually do think that ADHD in children is over diagnosed in the US. And even if the disorder itself isn’t over diagnosed, I think ADHD medication are over prescribed to children. Those medications have can have negative side effects, like reducing appetite and therefore growth, but that’s not even my main problem with it. As other posters have described really well, ADHD medication can reduce creativity and problem solving skills. If a kid is medicated too young they might obey the rules a little too much and develop into a less creative, interesting, and dynamic person as a result.

Super accurate description!

I never considered motivation and willpower to be separate, but I think your breakdown makes a lot of sense.

They are probably still working, but you’ll never get the same rush of excitement/euphoria that you felt in the first few months.

The euphoria is a negative side effect in my opinion. That’s what leads to abuse and addiction. Don’t chase it!

I’m sure you’ve heard all this before, but make sure you’re getting enough sleep and exercise. Also, avoid acidic drinks in the morning like coffee and OJ when taking your medication. The acid can break down some of the medication before your body has a chance to absorb it.

The article you linked is ridiculous…

There’s also the differences in how children are brought up in America and in France. For example, French parents have set strict limits from the time they are born. The children are raised with limits such as not being allowed to snack whenever they want. They have four strict meal times and they know those are the times they are allowed to eat, not before. While they love their children just as much as others do, they do believe in forced strict limitations to help the children grow up in guidelines and feel safe and secure.

Really?