anand-bala

I personally use Setuptools (.py and .cfg) with pyproject.toml for the build settings.

Last I used poetry was a couple of years ago, and IIRC it didn't gel well with Conda environments.

Well, the author did post the entire email thread (redacting information that may be proprietary) on Imgur.

Personally, I think the Replit CEO could have explained what the specific issues were before threatening to sue. Since there was no explanation on the CEO's part, I think it's perfectly warranted for the author to make this public.

> Part of the function of time is to filter out the timeless from the merely timely

This is such a beautiful observation.

As a kid, I wasn't into "old" fantasy and scifi, but recently have started reading them. And I must say, there are a lot of authors with some beautiful foresight, especially Le Guinn: the entire Earthsea Cycle talks about some deep psychological introspection, about how power dynamics can affect different sects of society differently, about the notion of "inherent evil". This stuff is as timeless as human society.

If you loved Tales Of Earthsea, you _must_ read the last book in the Earthsea Cycle: The Other Winds. It takes a very introspective approach to the notion of mortality and immortality, which ties in with the importance to the _names_ of humans, dragons, animals, and other objects. It's phenomenal, to say the least.

I suffer from severe depression in general and social anxiety around more than a handful of people, and have talked to therapists regarding this. One huge benefit of therapy is that I was quite quickly able to answer the question of __why__ I feel the way I do, especially around new people I meet. But it is a whole another thing to actually being able to "fix" it. The way I think about it is that I know what the problem is _in theory_, but have no idea how to come up with a _practical_ fix for it.

When I was less depressed, I was able to join a local D&D group, go for bar trivia nights, etc. but as I became more depressed/anxious/stressed (coz of personal and professional situations), it became harder to push myself to become sociable and not get anxious around crowds.

So I think the main point that the parent comment is trying to say is that people need to recognize that problems that may seem to have simple and straightforward "solutions" (like "have you considered therapy") are significantly harder for some individuals purely due to other mental health issues.

I am not trying to fault you, but it is a thing I see in a lot of my friends/peers/relatives is that it gets harder to understand how different mental health issues affect different people in incredibly different ways.

I loved the DMT story, and I would love to know more about this Owl drawing tutorial you recommend. :F

I am not sure what you mean by "false abstractions" in this article. Could you cite some concrete examples in the article that support your claim?

The author isn't claiming to go into a deep dive into C or C++. They are trying to talk about Rust. Your argument seems to be against the author's use of "C/C++" vs. "C and/or C++", which seems to me like some nitpicking, as the author uses "C/C++/Rust" later on. It isn't like they are pooling the languages as being the "same". Rather, they are talking about having similar, lower-level of control over "strings" as a data structure, as opposed to the primitives they seem to be in other high-level languages like C#, Python, Java, Go, Kotlin, Swift, or JavaScript.

As an ex-Sublime and ex-VSCode user, I realized that macros and Visual Block mode covers all my use cases for multicursor functionality.

Disclaimer: not a parent, but anecdotally curious as a child.

Give them video games. Problem solving, and creative button mashing as a must if you want to be good at a game. Then slowly extend to things like old laptops (get them to help you switch out the hard drive), etc.

This is a great point. Personally, the only reason I would want to switch to Emacs is Org mode but the muscle memory for custom Vim and Tmux keymaps is hard to give up.