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Love the camera jump scare. Genius

I genuinely can't tell if you are being serious or not. Are you not familiar with Britain's and Ireland's "relationship"?

Looks like the author has it under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License and so the work is to be used it its entirety only. So I guess if you do make a modification you can't distribute it.

I could see this being used in a fun little puzzle game or something. Different tapes or finding the right starting point on the tape to end in the correct place, etc

From a comment by the author:

> Also, I can't justify why, but my gut feeling is that the database should be an order of magnitude faster than Python, provided the implementation were to be improved.

Would be curious how that could end up being the case. Perhaps if NumPy wasn't used at all? That would mean no vectorization or optimized storage.

Would be interesting to see how it scaled with length and dimensionality

I'm super excited for this, but also scared. These little puzzles are such a dopamine hit that I can't really be productive until I have that day solved. As the month progresses and the problems get harder, more and more of my time is consumed. Wondering if I should try to wake up early to start before work or just block the website on my work computers.

Reminds me of Cory Doctorow's last story in Radicalized: "Masque of the Red Death". summary from Wikipedia: A wealthy financier builds and manages a doomsday vault, designed to withstand societal collapse.

Interesting story, as are the others in that collection.

Econ PhDs are funded

Even if this does work, I'd imagine there is a pretty high selection bias. Therapy is work. Journalling is work. Changing is work and really takes commitment. Taking a pill isn't so much work.

The article cites 800k patients in England but I'd imagine the number of successful treatments would be much much lower

Unauthorized cheese, anyone?

I mean isn't C ubiquitous enough that it is essentially language agnostic? Or is your suggestion that is should be purely pseudocode?

For myself, the one positive outcome has been more empathy for others. I do count that as a super power (that comes at a crippling cost)

Oh you didn't read the article?

Doing it only in Chrome? Having easy buttons for certain snippets? The author didn't make this to be a vim replacement. I don't think this would be a daily or main editor, but seems easy to use in a pinch