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I love the ideas presented, and it really highlights how current IDE's have removed power from users. I think (from only reading and watching some videos) that this Glamorous Toolkit is a hybrid between Smalltalk IDE and C.A.S.E. tools.

However, I downloaded the app but cannot figure out how to view my own source code. None of the example videos that I can find, show me how to use an existing local git checkout of source code.

I loved this quote: "This is why people join companies and quit managers."

You'd think that directors or VPs would carefully look into why someone is quitting, if it's because of their manager, but I have never seen that happen. I've only ever heard of managers getting in trouble if at least 3 people under them leave.

I've been enjoying the Machine Learning Street Talk podcast, they talk to real practioners on real topics.

My son just had one, and they said they found nothing. But looking around, apparently most sleep studies in USA just look for sleep apnea. By default they don't actually look for anything else.

Yeah, Selenium is pretty flakey. I've been pretty happy with https://playwright.dev . Kind of the successor of puppeteer. At least, some of the same devs went from Google to MS. Here's an example where MS has better cross-browswer support than Google.

I'm gonna guess they have a bit of oppositional defiance disorder. I'd probably try to change teams because that's not going to change.

I've been using https://github.com/vimoutliner/vimoutliner for about a decade, everywhere I work. Just text files with simple Ascii checkboxes.

Congrats to them. Let's hope it doesn't destabilize the product too much.

I've been using https://github.com/vimoutliner/vimoutliner for a decade now. It works well. It's so easy to backup, since it's just text files. And you can just use grep and other standard tools to look for content. I believe it's the vim-counterpart to emacs org-mode.

I've been forced to use MS OneNote for one contract, since the laptop is locked-down. Works ok, but search-ability and keyboard-only usage sucks in comparison.

I love all Aldi's! The main reasons are : 1. Time - I can be in and out in 10 minutes. 2. Prices - the prices are about 20 to 30% cheaper then the other major grocery chain near me.

Also, it's the only brand that I will praise to random people, that's how much I love it.

I've had good experience calling the business-side part of CRA, though I think they're small enough that they're a different beast from the department that has to handle all generic questions/complaints from consumers.

This is the Identity Theft sketch -- love it!

Yeah, that's a great point -- especially for older people, you have to tell doctors all supplements you take, because some can affect how fast your blood will clot. For instance, I believe garlic supplements reduce blood clotting, so an older person (especially) might have complications during a surgery.

I really hate zero-sum thinking. It's true, if we were stuck on this ball of dirt forever, and technology is stagnant, then yes we should conserve a lot. But we're not stuck here (help Musk!), and technology will keep progressing. So I gotta say I completely disagree with this article.

I can actually confirm this -- my father served in WWII (but in the Army), and he came back with this skill to fall asleep quickly. I, sadly, don't really have it. But this article has given me the idea to work on it more.

The relaxation ideas here, of course, come from Indian yoga techniques, but maybe they didn't mention the history of it when teaching it. Now that would be a selling point, ha!

I read most of it. I suppose if you're interested in IOTA you should read it, it puts IOTA in a terrible light. Check this out:

Ethan (MIT): > I am shocked that you would call a hash function deployed in production, with "a 800 million dollar bug bounty" as Dominik put it, a prototype.

Sergey (IOTA): I see Greek wasn’t your favorite subject in school :), don’t worry, word “prototype” is similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype_pattern, not to what you thought about. It is also important to keep in mind that all distributed ledgers are currently in a “prototype phase“.

At the least, we'll need some kind of overseer for what these "AI"s are doing. These people will need strong analytical abilities, and the ability to deal with various levels of abstraction. Something that computer science people surely have.

Yeah, not much good content here, but it is probably useful to know what people like him are thinking (the new American oligarchs?). If, in fact, he is saying what he actually thinks. The only thing we can be sure of, is that he and his people are scared of AI.

I believe this is a PR piece for FB -- in the end, ignoring the details, this piece leaves you feeling that 1) FB cares about people and 2) FB cares about America.

I'm not buying that. Check out how FB had no problem letting Philippines President Duterte get elected by using FB, including sending FB consultants to the Philippines -- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-12-07/how-rodri...

Buckyballs! I still have some, bought when they were legal in the U.S. They're pretty strong magnets and stick together and you can make shapes with them.

Only problem -- if a little kid or animal swallows at least 2 of them, then they can pinch some intestines together inside you and be stuck there and kill you.

I think one problem we have is that to those people, the future of computers was a blank slate -- sure they had computers back then, but the industry was tiny compared to what it is now. Now, we already have tons of paradigms -- databases, browsers with their own HTML / JavaScript / CSS ecosystem, mobile apps, cloud computing, neural networks, etc.

I think it's harder now for someone to say, let's do things completely differently. Everybody nowadays is all about incremental changes.

There used to be a blog titled "Oligopoly Watch" (looks like it's dead now) where they talked about two or more groups of companies dominating various market segments. So yeah, you can have way more than two companies indirectly colluding to fix prices and competition.

I don't know if this is the greatest link, but here's a list of some current oligopolies: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/121514/what-are-som...

The darn network effects keep people on the existing services and off of new ones. There have been protocols, like https://matrix.org/ (newer) and https://xmpp.org/ (older) .

If Facebook and Twitter were forced to interoperate with any of these other protocols then you could have a gradual migration. That's why you sure won't see that happen!

Thanks for the detailed response. I'm hoping that the downward trend in the Global Leadership Approval chart that started in 2016 will reverse itself after the US political situation changes this year (fingers crossed!). If not, well then yes I guess the US dollar would be going down.

Of course, all good things come to an end eventually, and the US dollar hegemony really started after WW2. Crazy to think that a Soviet spy/asset (Harry Dexter White) helped setup the Bretton Woods accord which positioned the US dollar as the strongest in the world [0].

[0] "How a Soviet spy outmaneuvered John Maynard Keynes to ensure U.S. financial dominance" https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/03/14/how-a...

Assuming Amazon is going to create an HQ somewhere in America, consider the two situations: 1) Current situation, they will eventually get a very large tax cut from wherever they select. 2) Hypothetical situation: local tax breaks are not allowed, Amazon selects a location and pays the local taxes that it avoided in situation #1.