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Using Cursor with Jetbrains via ACP isn't that different than using within the Cursor IDE. You still get Agent/Plan/Ask modes with model selectors.

I'd recommend installing the Cursor IDE, then using it to install Cursor CLI (it's easier to keep things up to date this way), then setting up your Jetbrains IDE to point to the Cursor CLI via ACP integration.

If Twitter & Bluesky are for thoughts, and Instagram is for thots, Threads is where the "thots go to share their thoughts."

All jokes aside, it's an endless stream of takes from people who don't have an internal monologue. Plus some influencers trying their hand with unoriginal bait threads. Like the other poster said, it's worth checking out every now and again just to read some comments from folks who aren't thought leaders.

"Vehicle will not break when accelerator pedal is applied" is displayed on the screen in AutoPilot mode. The system warns you this every time you have foot on the pedal in AutoPilot mode. I wonder if it did that back in 2019 as well or if accidents like this spurred that as a UI change.

Also, how the heck is Mr. McGee supposed to come up with the other 67% of this judgment?

Ah yes: buy, borrow, and die. It definitely works.

I don't think stepped-up basis should go away though, otherwise it's just the government getting a second cut of the inflation it causes.

The bigger issue for society is that our equity markets just don't have any real risk of losing your lunch anymore, so these strategies emerge.

"The scam of income tax is that it's progressive on paper but not in practice."

Perfectly put. It's always bothered me that the tax brackets don't continue on in a logarithmic fashion, e.g. new brackets at 1.5 million, 15 million, 150 million, etc.

"Hurry up and idle" for CPU design ended up being great for power efficiency. Nature came to the same conclusion for biological organisms a long time ago.

"Because all of the included participants were from infertile couples, this appears to be a limitation of the study..."

Pretty big limitation, and their discussion really is just there to justify publishing anyway. Both groups, bald and shaggy, may as well have been shooting blanks.

I'm not convinced that Scott's suggestions will move the needle. Most are good ideas (e.g. term limits, more vocational training opportunities), but some I find distasteful (e.g. forced identity verification for internet services, not being entitled to social security if you've accumulated too much, etc.). We've made too many terrible decisions for too long as a nation, to the point now I feel like the spiritual malaise for the young can only be cured by hard asset prices collapsing by 30% or more.

His end slide recap is below.

Economics:

  // Increase minimum wage to $25/hr
  // AMT for high income and corporations
  // Re-fund the IRS
  // Negative income tax (i.e. UBI)
  // Eliminate capital gains exemption

Technology:

  // Remove 230 protection for algorithmically-elevated content
  // Identity verification
  // Break up Big Tech
  // Age-gating

Social Policy:

  // Universal pre-K
  // Reinstate expanded child tax credit
  // Term limits
  // Income-based affirmative action
  // Expand college enrollment & vocational programs

Mental Health:

  // Ban phones in schools
  // Invest in 3rd places
  // Big Brothers/Sisters programs
  // National service requirement

Can you actually outperform the KEFs and Perlistens of the world? They seem to have so much engineering put into their designs I don't believe a hobbyist can realistically match them.

I will admit that stuff like "speakers with quasi-active noise cancellation behind them" sounds intriguing. That's probably a good reason to get into this rabbit hole!

Or suing your HoA.

Bing is pretty great now. You get Bing points (redeemable for ~$100 in swag per year) and free Chat GPT that usually answers your question before you decide which link to click on.

"One can block AI features for the project by creating a file with the name '.noai' in the root of the repository."

Is this a standard among vendors yet, or are we veering into more dotfile project directory pollution?

You're not alone, I also got stuck in that opening sequence as a child - thankfully the game was just a rental. Honestly at that stage in my life I didn't understand what was going on in the battle sequences since they were so text heavy. RPGs were too foreign of a concept at the time. Couple years later went on to enjoy the crap out of FF6, Chrono Trigger, and SMRPG, so I really should revisit Earthbound.

I've been on various projects that utilized Express, Koa, and NestJS (which wraps Express or Fastify).

Of the three, I'd choose Koa again over the others. Their design works better with modern javascript (async/await). While there may be fewer middleware packages for Koa than Express, it's usually not that hard to write your own if you can't find what you need.

For NestJS I didn't care for the decorator-driven "Spring-like" design. In JS codebases it's more natural to take a functional approach.

Games just don't respect your time any more. Usually 80+ hours to experience an open world game with a handful of side quests.

While I don't share the same love of "emotional experience" games, at this point I'm thinking about only sticking to mission-based and "wide linear" games so that I leave plenty of time for other pursuits in life.