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Pattern matching makes up for the lack of static typing for me. Combined with guard clauses it feels even stronger than static typing.

Pattern matching makes up for the lack of static typing to me. It provides nearly all the same benefits especially when used with guard clauses.

I just started learning Elixir recently and I'm honestly loving it. Pattern matching is awesome and how it approaches concurrency and async work was so easy to wrap my head around. Pragmatic Studios has a great tutorial.

I've had great success using AI to translate my thoughts into actual words on a page (not just for software development, but also amateur writing). Bridging the vocabulary gap.

Your situation is different from the one in the article. In your brother's case, it was end stage and so forgoing treatment to improve QoL makes total sense. In the article the sister actually had a high chance of survival (so opposite of end stage) but still chose not to undergo treatment.

I recall doing a tutorial for Exilir, the Phoenix framework in particular, a few years back and I actually enjoyed using it. Anyone know any good up-to-date tutorials someone could use?

Two local businesses I frequent (one for baked goods and another for coffee beans) use mailing lists for membership and ordering. Only "drawback", if it even is one, is they rely on word-of-mouth because I had no idea they existed until I saw them mentioned in a thread on a local subreddit.

I always found handwriting notes to be more effective at getting my brain to actually remember them compared to typing. When it comes to writing though I'll always pick the keyboard.

Its interesting to think about it this way. Like, this community's "financial opsec" was their isolation from the rest of the world. No one on the outside can attack them if no one can even point out the town on the map. The internet makes that approach impossible.

The earliest memory I have, that I actually consider a memory and not just a weird dream, is a sensation of feeling very warm and comfortable and then suddenly feeling very cold and upset and wanting to go back to the warm place. I'd like to say this was a memory from when I was born, but I honestly have no clue when this happened as I couldn't see anything. I think the reason this memory stuck with me was just the stark contrast between "this is nice" to "this sucks, put me back".

They'll very likely get sued if they do.

One thing I've always stumbled on is finding the people to even ask the questions to. How do you contact people in the domain you're interested in and how do you convince them to give you the time of day?

This. In hindsight, buying Twitter at a loss was well worth the long (though, more like medium) term results. As much as it disgusts me, I'm impressed.

The Streisand is "the more you try to hide something, the bigger its area of impact becomes".

Good on them. This decision proves they legitimately care about their business and want to see it succeed. I hope others follow their example and realize that selling to Big Tech shouldn't be the default answer.

Juries can be manipulated. Allowing this to go to public trial risks the danger of Boeing getting off lighter or not facing punishment at all.

Personal conspiracy theory: HIPAA data was, or possibly is, being loaded into ChatGPT without the legally required safeguards. The recent "security concerns" that caused Microsoft to cut its employees access was this information leaking out (and the leaking is possibly getting worse). Someone, possibly Ilya, found out and informed the board.

Are they all just AWS resellers?

Theres Jim Davis, the creator of Garfield, and Jim Davis, the creator of the New Balance sneaker brand. The New Balance one is the billionaire.

Theres "creators create because they like to create things" and "creators create things because they want to make a living off of what they create". If artists/authors/musicians/etc aren't going to be paid for what they create, they can't make a living doing it. If they can't make a living doing it, that severely limits their opportunity and time available for creating things since they could only do it as a hobby (unless we bring back royal patronage or something). Many of the best artistic works we have came from people who were able to commit 100% to the creative process. That's gonna be real hard to do if you can't pay for food and housing.

I, personally, have actually been having pretty good results with berberine (yes, yes, I know its a TikTok trend right now). Its really helped control my hunger and I haven't noticed any side effects.

What does "skilled enough" mean? Do you have any examples that demonstrate this?

Democrats and Republicans. Though only Democrats will be mentioned for idealogical reasons.

It's unfortunate, but to the person being bullied, their immediate concern is not the next weakest person. Their immediate concern is avoiding or fending off the bully.

Not to downplay the severity of the problem in America, but bullying is pretty damn severe in East Asia. The "nail that sticks up gets hammered down" quote often used to describe the situation there. Search "japan bullying" in Youtube and you'll find a long list of videos talking about the issue in Japan in particular.

When I was coming up, especially in middle school, we were always told that you should just ignore bullies and they would go away. This, of course, never actually worked. And anyone who did fight back against their bullies were punished just as severely, if not moreso if they swung first, as the bully. This entire approach was complete BS and only served to enable bullies because they now know that their victims either won't fight back or, if they do, the victim will receive most of the consequence.

With the benefit of hindsight, I think its vitally important that all children learn some form of self-defense (boxing, karate, BJJ, it doesn't matter). I only realized this way later in life when I started training in Muay Thai and found I had way more confidence standing up to other men, both because I knew how to handle myself and because I wasn't as afraid of getting punched in the face. Bullies only go away if you make them go away. Fighting back is the only real solution victims have in the absence of adult supervision (which is often the situation). You may be punished, but the sense of catharsis more than makes up for that.

Ignoring whether buying BTC right now is a good idea or not, I have a fundamental problem with state governments using taxpayer dollars to gamble on crypto. If El Salvador wants to encourage BTC investment, they should provide some sort of tax incentive to citizens who choose to do so. Going into the "invest other people's money" business is not something governments should be doing.

Wealth reveals. Just like alcohol.

We tried this several times, specifically banning meetings on Friday, and it never sticks. Some manager or executive always winds up ignoring the rule and setting a meeting anyway, which throws the whole thing out.

We used to do this at my current job, but we've recently started transitioning to Kubernetes. There are certainly things I like a lot about it (specifically, the k9s CLI), but I definitely miss the simplicity of ECS/Fargate.