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I agree. The analogy is using our intuition of how objects move because of gravity to explain gravity. It has always seemed circular to me. I bet there is a better analogy.

Some random thoughts on this situation which I have been in as well.

- bring lantus pens

- bring a backup pump. If you've been on a pump for more than 5 years you've probably gotten a new pump because the old one went out of warranty coverage. I have 2 old pumps which still work in an emergency (although without closed-loop - they will still do basal and bolus).

- regarding being forced to prime 10 units of insulin out of the tandem x2 just to use the existing cartridge when the tube is already full of insulin. This has always annoyed me as well. If you are in a pinch or really don't want to waste insulin what I've done is take the needle part off a two-part syringe (assuming you have that kind) and stick the end of the pump tube (the coupling part of the pump site) into the hole of the syringe and prime directly into it. Then you can put the needle back on the syringe and inject the primed insulin back into your insulin bottle.

I had the space games and the adventure games book as a kid and I was obsessed with them. I’d type in the whole program to play a game and then because I didn’t have a floppy drive on my C64 I’d have to type them in all over again the next time I wanted to play. This was how I learned BASIC and started programming. 40 years later I’m still at it.

Interesting! I can picture how the clients could calculate a hash prior to encryption and that would let the server know those files have the same contents once decrypted but how would that let them save on disk space? They still can’t see the contents of the file itself even if they know it’s the same so how could they deduplicate the storage? If they drop either one they are just left with a single encrypted version using only one clients key which they can’t serve up to anyone else.

They encrypt files on the client before transmission.

“shoulder surfing” is not the problem. It’s people making videos or live streaming who will risk accidentally exposing password length.

This makes me want to use visidata for my databases.

Poshmark also is not dead.

This doesn’t ring true to me. Having processes which rely on communication between humans using natural language can of course be either structured or unstructured. Plenty of highly functioning companies existed well before structured data was even a thing.

How about because spent nuclear fuel will be hazardous to humans for the next ~20 thousand years? How do you amortize that cost? You can't just assume someone else will deal with it and call that cost savings. People talk about burying it but in reality it sits in containment vessels above ground and the more there is the higher the cost to deal with it so the less likely it ever will be dealt with.

Not from the same guy but here's a quine embedded in the github contribution chart:

https://github.com/mame?tab=overview&from=1970-12-01&to=1970...

This article was 160 pages long when printed in the New Yorker. Modern nuclear warheads are around 30x more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima. For comparison sake the equivalent resulting story would be 4800 pages long.

This reminds me of the “drop fix” for the sparc station where people would pick up the box and drop it to reseat the PROMs.

One confusing thing to me was the word "server". An "MCP server" is a server to the LLM "client". But the MCP server itself is a client to the thing it's connecting the LLM to. So it's more like an adapter or proxy. Also I was confused because often this server runs on your local system (although it doesn't have to). In my mind I thought if they're calling it a server it must be run in the cloud somewhere but that's often not the case.

According to Italo Calvino [1] the universe was created from the impulse to make a bowl of pasta.

[1] All at One Point https://www.google.com/books/edition/Cosmicomics/cWMec8TktW4...

  // Beware the SI's broken definition
  // of Hz.  You should treat the radian as being correct, as a fundamental
  // dimensionless property of the universe that falls out of pure math like
  // the Taylor series for sin[x], and you should treat the Hz as being a 
  // fundamental property of incompetence by committee.

“Were you picking your feet in Poughkeepsie!?”

I’m dating myself but it reminds me of when e-mail hit the mainstream and Microsoft jammed it into every product with no thought for how it would really be used. Like in Excel … every email address in your spreadsheet would open the email client when you clicked the cell. Gee what if I want to edit the value in this cell instead of email the person? We’ll make that possible if you hold shift (or something). It was terrible and this feels exactly the same. The purpose is not to give the user a helpful AI assistant it’s just to be able to say “we have AI”. That’s it.

My parents have saved letters from their parents which are written in cursive but in two perpendicular layers. Meaning the writing goes horizontally in rows and then when they got to the end of the page it was turned 90 degrees and continued right on top of what was already there for the whole page. This was apparently to save paper and postage. It looks like an unintelligible jumble but my mother can actually decipher it. Maybe that’s what the LLMs are having trouble with?

Edit: apparently it’s called cross writing [1]

1: https://highshrink.com/2018/01/02/criss-cross-letters/

This reminded me of that classic Eric and Tim Show episode "Prices" [1]. "Fine European prices! Buy $35.50... for forty dollars."

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ9yBgTp9UQ

Fascinating that the Army Battlezone project is what lead them to develop the controller based on a Bradley tank that was later used on Star Wars.

On the cassette tape version of The Wall I had if you flipped the cassette over during this phone call sequence it would end up being right in the middle of another song (can't remember which one) which has this recording playing as part of the background. I feel like it couldn't have been intentional but who knows.

The ultimate (and often overlooked) failure mode for using your own domain name is death. You will die and at that point unless you have set up and funded a process to renew the domain name perpetually after your death then after some period of time it will expire. Anyone can then register "your" domain name and start using it which includes receiving all the email addressed to it. If your bank happens to send 2FA emails to this account then the new owner will then have access to your bank account. Personally I want my heirs to own my bank account after I'm dead, not whatever random person happens to register a domain name that I was using.

This sounds extreme but it's only the most dramatic example. This scenario can happen any time during your life if your domain is not renewed for any number of other reasons.

So for me I've had to accept the risk which comes from keeping my most important emails on a large free email provider. At least if they ban me they aren't going to let someone else access my email either. For everything else - the less important accounts - I do use a domain name that I "own".

More like “Dad I’m calling you from prison and I don’t trust that I’m actually talking to you and not a deepfake so can you tell me that password we talked about?” Then dad gives not you the password. There are infinite ways to socially engineer people.

I don't know the answer to your question but tangentially, many human concepts related to time definitely do not exist in a purely physical sense. Like being "late" or "early", things "taking too long" or "being slow". Being "out of time" or "just in time". These are all human concepts. Physically speaking (classically anyway), things all happen right when they are supposed to.

My goal in most cases now is to optimize code for the limits of the human mind (my own in low-effort mode)

I think you would appreciate the philosophy of the Grug Brained Developer: https://grugbrain.dev

The crazy thing to me is that the Earth has been around for one third of the time the universe has existed.

It is used by hundreds of people daily, who by all reports absolutely hate it.

This made me chuckle because as a software development intern in 1988 (being paid like $8 an hour) I wrote a giant monstrosity of a time tracking program for a local CAD company in an Empress database using its forms builder interface. It was in use for far longer than anyone ever intended and whenever I ran into someone from that company years later they would tell me how bad it was. Sorry guys!

I have thought for a long time someone needs to make a system where 200 kids can show up at their local theater and play multiplayer games on the big screen using their phones as input devices. The games would have to be custom made for this system and you’d need a local server and network. But you could license it to theaters and they would make a killing getting kids into the theaters on Saturday morning.

Yeah I remember using NCSA mosaic to browse the early web and thinking “what’s the point of this we already have FTP and archie”.