Back when diclofenac + dmso was rx-only and crazy expensive I tried making my own formulation with ibuprofen and dmso for back pain hoping it wouldn’t tweak out my stomach. According to what I read, ibuprofen would be very well absorbed with dmso.
After applying the ointment I got an upset stomach in minutes so yeah…. It was well absorbed.
Look, I go to the only church that has a sacrament proven to induce more spiritual experiences than a placebo and I still think the drug references are cringe. And who's to say that
College graduation < Male Orgasm < Female Orgasm < LSD < 5-Meo-DMT
is in the right order. Seems like it was written by somebody who doesn't have a lot of experiences to compare with each other.
I greatly enjoyed the first Iron Man movie which got me to look at the really affordable black and white editions of the Kirby/Ditko/Lee age. I watched a lot of them, bookended by Guardians of the Galaxy which I also greatly enjoyed. Somehow I fell out of the Marvel habit and didn't see any more after that though there wasn't any moment where I felt that I fell out of love.
What a good transactional API is like is an interesting question.
public void modify(K key, Function<Optional<V>,Optional<V>> modifier)
or something along those lines covers the race of a single value being changed out from under you, but if you want to update one or more keys you might want
public void modifyMany(Set<K> key, Consumer<Map<K,V>> modifier)
where the modifier gets passed a modifiable view that has just the keys in the set.
There is also the Clojure-style immutable API for maps though I can say I never really enjoyed working with that the way I enjoyed immutable lists (which are Lispier than Lisp: I went through all the stages of grief reading On Lisp and couldn't help think "If he was using Clojure he wouldn't be struggling with nconc)
2025 wasn't really a good reading year for me. I was out foraging at the Arts & Architecture library the other day and brought back Great Planning Disasters by Peter Hall
which I should have finished by the end of the year.
I must admit that Arknights has ate into my reading time, but I have a big project I'm working on that I call "foxwork" which involves animal behavior and physiology, character acting, shamanism, coaching, martial arts, physical culture, Eastern religion, meditation, Ericksonian hypnosis, etc.
The reading queue for that project is long but I've mostly been doing rather than reading. Next in queue is Tracking and the Art of Seeing: How to Read Animal Tracks and Signs because we often have fresh snow on the ground this time of year and it's a good time to see things like the tracks of a rabbit being followed by a fox.
It’s a little shocking to me that this sentiment hasn’t floated higher in the discussion. Regardless of how he feels, this is the way he wants you to feel.
Big picture it’s about emotional intelligence and if you are losing your shit you’re going to flail around. I think you should pick up some near-frontier tools and use them to improve your usual process, always keeping your feet on the ground. “Vibe coding” was always about getting you and keeping you over your head. Resist it!
given that the 3 hares seem to currently lack a signification, I'd be up for squatting? Or would Paul prefer 3 fennecs? Should anyone wish to oppose us, as Bigwig said: "silflay hraka, u embleer rah"
a slightly more pragmatic story for shunya as better mousetrap: just as we now routinely have our calculations done for us in binary, but record results in decimal (in PDF invoices, say), ancient romans (among other cultures) would have someone do their calculations on a counting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting_board board, but recorded (only the non-zero) results in roman numerals.
(these days we can spot the algebraists via a sibboleth: they start their papers and books with section/chapter 0)
> « Les hommes sont comme les chiffres : ils n'acquièrent de valeur que par leur position. » —NB
To be fair I did have just a touch of thought disorder which led me to write "vive" instead of "vibe" and I did correct it when it was pointed out without explaining it which made that comment seem even weirder than it originally was.
I actually read their comment as "vibe vibe live" which combined with the unknown terms in the next line (a reference to Dune combined with something else, I guess?) made GGP's question fit quite well.
In everyday life I am a plodding and practical programmer who has learned the hard way that any working code base has numerous “fences” in the Chesterton sense.
I think, though, that for small systems and small parts of systems LLMs do move the repair-replace line in the replace direction, especially if the tests are good.
Politics -- the bias for the old vs the new. It's taken forever for them to get the lead out of general aviation fuel in the most dangerous, bioavailable and highly dispersed forms there is even though (perhaps because) general aviation is a dying business that could reasonably be taken behind the woodshed and shot (with a lead bullet!) to make way for new industries like drones.
On the other hand, new and dynamic industries can bear the burden of switching to more ecological materials.
I don't have a lot of patience for this sort of take because my north star is project management and in my normal moving forward model I work in milestones where I stack up my tools and get something specific done and screwing around with tools is heavily timeboxed. If A.I. tools help me make progress great, if they don't, I will fall back to manual methods, get that phase of work done or (rarely) give up on the subproject. After I get some distance from it I can consolidate my learnings, try a different approach.
It's death though to be excessively reading tweets and blogs about this stuff, this will have you exhausted before you even try a real project and comparing yourself to other people's claims which are sometimes lies, often delusional, ungrounded and almost always self-serving. In sofar someone is getting things done with any consistency they are practicing basic PM, treating feelings of exhaustion, ungroundedness and especially going in circles as a sign to regroup, slow down and focus on the end you have in mind.
If the point really is to research tools than what you do is break down that work into attainable chunks, the way you break down any other kind of work.
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