smt88

FYI, your sleep hygiene sounds good, but doctors have started to agree that primary, idiopathic insomnia doesn’t exist. It’s either anxiety or evidence of some severe disease or physiological condition.

So as long as you’re trying things, CBT is the most evidence-based long-term solution for the (very likely) cause of your insomnia.

That’s a problem with AI music in general. I don’t see how piracy is better for that.

Spotify popularity doesn’t bring in cash directly, but it leads to increased ticket sales for live shows. And Spotify will recommend you to new listeners in a way that piracy won’t.

I have a personal example: Spotify recommended a band to me that I’ve now seen live three times, and they’re so obscure that I never would have heard of them without it. None of my friends knew them either.

The aviation pricing will be passed to consumers either way, as increased fares or in-flight fees.

Would Bezos have made Amazon if he hadn’t married Scott? The answer seems to be no. She was an instrumental early contributor, and she supported him while he lost enormous amounts of money for many years before Amazon became profitable.

She wasn’t a passive housewife who inherited money in a divorce. She was an early Amazon investor and helped build the first stage of the company. She’d be a billionaire even without the divorce.

Along these lines, I’d almost rather she’d bought major media outlets and newspapers and set them up under nonprofits with strict governance against taking corrupting donations.

I agree. There’s no chance Grok is better than Claude Code for this. And Claude is never so badly misaligned that it gives up and switches stacks.

I don’t know what person reads The Economist to learn about trans topics (whatever you mean by that)

Can’t think of a worse time to go into beef production anyway

Why is this an exciting time for aviation? Or more specifically, why should I (a person who never spends more than $2,000 on air travel) be excited?

I had no agency in being born and raised here. Are you saying that by staying in this country, I’m now responsible for stealing land 200 years ago? And my responsibility for stealing this land means I can’t be upset about supersonic jets?

My parents immigrated to the US in the 80s. They didn't steal anyone's land. Can I complain about rich people wasting fuel, polluting the air, and creating peace-shattering sounds?

And about the stolen land, what should we do about it? Never complain about anything? Have no laws?

Give all of your stolen land back, make all the reparations you owe people, and then go back to lecturing people online.

no one should have anything other than labor as their main income until they retire

No one should start a business and pay salaries to their employees instead of themselves?

What if I see that a biotech startup is working on mRNA cancer vaccines, and I want to invest in that? And then it pays off and I make money off of it?

you need to talk to more people outside of your bubble

My bubble of... not-ultra-wealthy people? Are you saying I need to talk to more ultra-wealthy people? This makes no sense.

This report is only about wages, so even if the ultra-wealthy reported their real sources of income, they wouldn’t shut up as “labor” the way this defines it.

It’s not. There are plenty of non-wealthy people who make money from things other than their labor.

Small-time landlords are an example, as would be anyone who owns a small business and draws cash from profits rather than taking a salary.

Economies of scale are a fact of nature and aren’t going to be subverted in the future by even the most advanced local models

This isn’t true in my experience. AI will recommend new things, but it will caution you that it doesn’t have a big ecosystem.

If you prompt thoroughly (listing your priorities, values, and your own taste), then you’ll get better recommendations that don’t just regress to the mean.

If you think LLMs can be audited, you don’t know literally the first thing about them.

Gerontocrats can’t be audited, but they can be fined and jailed. Neural networks have no fear consequences.

So you want a black box controlled by billionaires to replace democracy?

I wonder if power actually corrupts, or if it’s really that attaining power requires pretending to be a good person, and the mask can fall off after the power is attained.

FDR is a very interesting case study. He had the country in the palm of his hand and could have cemented his (or his party’s) power permanently, but instead he left the republic intact.

This is a myth perpetuated by flat-earthers. Flagging because it’s absolutely untrue.

Assuming this is a sincere question from someone who doesn’t know US history:

States in the US were modeled after sovereign nations, perhaps even more loosely connected than the EU is today. They didn’t even share a currency.

Eventually the federal government became more important and powerful, and there are many federal laws now, but states are fundamentally still their own thing with the rights to do certain things that are more like a sovereign nation than a province.

For a long time, you couldn’t buy “strike anywhere” matches because they could be used in producing meth.

Maybe this is true if you’re only considering white people. Brown people can spend a lot of time outdoors and still be deficient, especially if their ancestry is from much a much sunnier region or lifestyle than the one they’re currently living in.

Print-based debugging is worse in every way and also the wrong tool for the job.

You should absolutely be adding logging, including optional verbose logs, to code. It’s a form of self-documentation and a major convenience during maintenance.

But it doesn’t compete with or replace using a real debugger, which allows you to step through your stack at any point and see potentially many megabytes of state that you literally can’t consume from a text console.

How else do you use it? Unless you’re talking about a browser debugger, which is the same UX that I’m talking about.

I’m referring to server-side work when I say to use a debugger in the IDE, not something targeting the browser.

My point was not at all to accuse you of using the wrong tools, but rather to point out that your rebuilt IDE is missing something very valuable (combining the debugging and editing experience).

I don't and have never understood why someone spins up a full-weight IDE and then not used that same GUI to manage their debugger, since you get a lot of added benefits from that (being able to copy/paste from the editor to code evaluation/REPL for example).

I wasn't trying to criticize this early work at all. It looks like a fun and promising project!