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The iPad + keyboard combo is typically as heavy or even heavier than a laptop. It's certainly more expensive and restrictive. I have agree with the author's thesis here

As a Pythonista I tend to agree. I had high hopes for Mojo but it's taking its due time to become usable outside the narrow focus of GPU programming, whereas Nim fits multiple niches surprisingly well.



Really enjoying this so far!

I’ve replaced about 900 lines of raw SQL and got validation and dashboard for free.

The only gotcha I ran into is that Ty didn’t recognize some of the generated types, but that’s also a young project so I’m willing to turn a blind eye.

Really solid, thank you


Systemd comes to mind, although it wasn’t as dominant initially


I really don't understand all the systemd hate. It got popular because it was good. I have nothing against the other options, but systemd is just fine.

You always have the option of creating your own init scripts with the other systems, and there are plenty of spinoff distros that add those init systems if you so choose.


This wasn't a judgement on systemd but the fact stands that Linux has long abandoned POSIX compatibility, udev being another prominent example.

I'd say this is what ultimately drives monoculture, which is a shame because diversity from glibc (e.g. musl et al.) and other major components could make critical infrastructure more resilient overall


Python is obviously too slow for web-scale


When their questionnaire asked me for feedback I specifically mentioned that I hoped they would not reduce visibility to the point of Github Actions.

I guess that fell on deaf ears.


Can anybody break my black glasses and offer an anecdote of a high-employee count firm actually involving humans for reading feedback? I suspect its just there for "later", but never actually looked at by anyone...


You know when your game crashes on PS5 and you get a little popup that offers you the opportunity to write feedback/description of the crash?

Yeah, I used to sit and read all of these(at one of the largest video game publishers - does that count?). 95% of them were "your game sucks" but we fixed many bugs thanks to detailed descriptions that people have provided through that box.


I’ve heard this before that common doses are unnecessarily high but why is that? Patents?


Rather, lack of. Melatonin is over-the-counter, generic, badly understood by the people taking it and dosed according to personal preference which means marketing it is all abouy big numbers. Bigger number on package = more sales.


The help aiding sleep is only one function for melatonin. The reason for higher suggested doses is due to its anti-oxident function. From personal experience melatonin needs to be paired with vitamin e to really clear out over night. I take vitamin e as I get into bed right before I take a melatonin sublingual. Another benefit of melatonin is that it upregulates our insulin receptors.


They’re considered dietary supplements and not medicine, so they’re not meaningfully regulated in the way meds are.


> why is that

Why buy 1mg pill when you can buy 100mg pill?


Even funnier is that often 0.25mg or 0.5mg is closer to the correct dose, and those sizes tend to be hard to find.

There actually is a condition that calls for extremely high (100mg+ doses), but it is a very rare thing, no one should ever consider that much without instruction from a doctor. But you'll find it right next to the normal <=5mg doses without any explanation.


The Natrol liquid isn't usually too hard to track down. They advertise it as 1 mg or 2.5 mg, but it's the same stuff, the bottle just direct you to take 4 or 10 mL respectively.


So 1ml (20 drops) would yeild an average dose of .25mg in that form.


Really goes to say something about starving artists


  CW: Have you ever been in an eating contest?

  GG: Yeah, a long long time ago. I did a mashed potato eating contest at a renaissance fair back in Georgia.


Unfortunately AI "art" has about the same amount of nutritional value as artistic value.

I'd recommend him to go for oil paintings.


As much as I wanted to roll my eyes, this did give me a chuckle.


I like the bubblewrap approach, it just happens to be Linux-only unfortunately. And once privileges are dropped for a process it doesn't appear to be possible to reinstate them.


> Linux-only

What other dev OSs are there?

> once privileges are dropped [...] it doesn't appear to be possible to reinstate them

I don't understand. If unprivileged code could easily re-elevate itself, privilege dropping would be meaningless ... If you need to communicate with the outside, you can do so via sockets (such as the bind-mounted X11 socket in one of the readme Examples).


I happen to use a Mac, even when targeting Linux so I'd have to use a container or VM anyways. It's nice how lightweight bubblewrap would be however.

Consider one wanted to replicate the human-approval workflow that most agent harnesses offer. It's not obvious to me how that could be accomplished by dropping privileges without an escape hatch.


It being deprecated and all, didn't feel like wrapping it, but macOS supposedly has a similar `sandbox-exec` command ...


IIRC from a comment in another thread, it's marked as deprecated to stop people from using it directly and to use the offical macOS tools directly. But it's still used internally by macOS.

And I think that what CC's /sandbox uses on a Mac


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