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Exactly. It's the configuration of the atoms, not their number, that matters.

Sure, but I thought that a successfully implemented CG'd language running on WASM would have been something worth noting.

Maybe we read different articles? I thought the context was how it was hard to do GC in WASM currently, which is why we don't have many language choices. With that context, C# running on top of WASM seems pretty relevant?

Admittedly I only scanned the article, but I didn't see any mention of C# or Blazor. I've only fiddled with it, but it seems that (when targeting WASM) Blazor loads a (partial) .NET runtime in WASM and then happily lets your execute C# code - which seems in stark contrast to the article's claims about GC.

Because photographs are most powerful as a store of/trigger for memories, and my photographs are better at that than someone else's, for the most part.

That's not my experience, and I've been writing C# since .NET 1.1. Obviously though it depends on the scale of the app. If you have 1m+ LoC, you really need to have some sort of structure, regardless of the language.

> Just for comparison, $180k would be out of range for anyone outside the US

I don't think it's too far off the mark for Australia. Mind you, that's gross. US$180 is about AU$280k. Of that, you'd pay around AU$100k in income tax (and then there's a 10% sales tax).

This is a good point. In practice, you need to acknowledge effort, ability and outcome. If you're thinking about areas of study or work, you really want to pick something you enjoy where you can produce quality outcomes and that almost always means ability + effort.

One of my kids basically sailed through his first 12 years of schooling on pure ability and zero effort. He's now learning the hard way that innate talent only gets you so far. His brother doesn't have the same innate academic ability, but is a natural grinder. He's finding the later years of schooling are easy to adapt to because he can pick things he's good at and knows how to put in the effort.

In terms of praise, we over-index on effort because it's a cross-cutting concern. This is especially true at younger ages where kids can't choose what they're studying. So if they get a C in French but maxed out all the effort criteria, I'm more than happy with that - and it's something for them to keep in mind when they're picking subjects later down the line.

My house is wood frame, brick veneer. It was relatively cheaply built government housing back in the 40s/50s. It seems to have held up just fine with the weight of concrete tiles.

Yeah our (concrete tile) roof is about 80 years old. The only maintenance has been replacing broken tiles after a particularly bad hail storm.

I had a neurologist tell me that the scans he'd performed proved that there was nothing wrong with my wife, and he didn't know why she was choosing to act as though she had a neurological issue.

In neurology at least, I think a lot of the problem is that everyone is hyper-specialized. Luckily for us, my wife's insurance company convinced a generalist neurologist to come out of retirement and examine her, which put us on the path to effective treatment. But yes, that whole experience completely soured me on blind trust in the medical profession

I've added some custom instructions that have helped make chatgpt far more tolerable:

- When generating code, do not provide an explanation unless I ask you to.

- When generating code, prioritize brevity and performance.

- Do not apologize.

I find the responses much less sycophantic, even when not relating to code. I asked chatgpt about this:

> In general, your instructions guide me to provide responses that are succinct and focused on performance. They also signal your preference for direct communication without additional context or explanations unless specifically requested.

Plus you can self-host Joplin server and be completely I'm control of your data.

I think the implication is that it's race warfare is a tool used by the "ruling" class to wage class warfare on the poor.