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I was referring to adding redis prematurely

I think you just convinced me to drop redis for my new project.

Definitely a premature optimization on my part.

I’m so bad at drawing it only had a 46% confidence level that it was a fish

Yes, it’s a roll of the dice which is unfortunate because it was actually pretty fun and a quite profound experience.

I’m not saying people shouldn’t do it but just to proceed with caution and ideally under professional supervision.

Anecdotally, I didn’t get severe anxiety and panic attacks until immediately after trying mushrooms. I didn’t even have a bad trip, but the next day something was off and I never truly recovered from that.

I agree with all you’ve said but with regards to writing a dissertation for larger changes : have you tried letting it first right a plan for you as markdown (just keep this file uncommitted) and then let it build a checklist of things to do?

I find just referencing this file over and over works wonders and it respects items that were already checked off really well.

I can get a lot done really fast this way in small enough chunks so i know every bit of code and how it works (tweaking manually of course where needed).

But I can blow through some tickets way faster than before this way.

Seems like it but I’m not sure consciousness necessarily comes along for the ride with AGI.

Depends on the game for me, there are definitely games that I get $80 worth of value.

I had no idea what I was getting into with that book

Sure, I’m not baffled that he think that, I’m baffled that society allows it.

Can you elaborate on the difference, I’m not sure I get it.

For whatever reason norms/laws just don’t apply to Trump. He’s above the law; it’s baffling.

I find if i eat an early breakfast, it is indeed hard to not eat after the 8 hours. I find the opposite to be quite easy though. Just skip breakfast and don’t eat until around 1. I get to look forward to food later while actually being hungry.

I sense that change too. Comments are starting to feel too much like Reddit unfortunately.

Do you have an example?

Interviewing is a skill of its own. Some people are really good at it.

It is not like water flowing in a direction guided by the terrain.

I understand it doesn’t seem intuitive at first, but evolution is actually quite similar to that.

Trees produce thorns to keep away animals.

It's not that trees consciously produce thorns to keep animals away. Rather, trees with thorns (due to random mutations) are more likely to survive because they are less likely to be disturbed by animals. Over time, those trees are more likely to reproduce and pass on those traits.

Just like water flows down the path of least resistance, evolution naturally selects for traits that improve survival. The "selecting" we are referring to is used in the same sense that water "selects" which route it takes. It doesn't actually select anything, it's just following the laws of physics.

He’s insisting on something that the U.S. already agreed to…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum

Almost certainly. I should have rephrased it as "I'm not sure how to grow it from here".

Maintaining current Shopify app and building another.

Why not just grow the first one? It has plateaued and I can’t seem to figure out why.

The guy leading the charge is calling people “retards” on twitter. How does that effect your “who’s the idiot” calculus?

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1889062581848944961?mx=2

No, but fossils can.

So glad I watched Midnight Mass on a whim. Incredible show.

um, yes?

As no manned missions to Mars have ever proven this conjecture, it is still entirely speculation on your part.

But we do have manned missions to other celestial bodies, and we have sent and landed probes on Mars. I'm confused as to how a manned mission to Mars is "entirely speculation".

no precedent to assume it ever becomes possible

This isn't a qualifier for what is possible. We knew it was possible to go to the moon before there was precedent. If anything, you calling it impossible is pure speculation. OP is right, difficult is not the same as impossible.

Why AI?

I appreciate it, but it's been a couple of years now, so I can't remember specifically.

In my experience, deploying BEAM has been just as easy as anything else I can containerize.

WRT getting them to communicate? I ended up giving up on that altogether…

I’m usually good at figuring that stuff out but this one ended up not being worth it (in my case).

I think that’s what he’s saying: That they jumped from php to another hot mess. At least that’s how I read it.

I suspect that, like rails, it is simple at first but then becomes quite complex as the project grows or you want to do something that goes against the grain of the framework.

Getting excited and then jumping all in on new frameworks has bitten me more than once.