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Do you use your username in IRL? :)

Eric Schmidt making headlines for saying

"If you're writing code traditionally, stop. It's over"

But the worst part to me, isn't the part that's making headlines - it's that he thinks we don't have any friends, and that AI will be our friends.

"Because they're social, and they sit there, but they don't have that many friends. So they sit in their office, and they collect 10 Claude friends or 10 Gemini friends."

Naive. Countries are collections of different values. I don't, for example, want to enslave non-believers, nor do I want to own my wife, or have a government take everything I own. I don't want to live in a "theocracy" because those people are crazy. I select where I live based on those values. Thinking, because we all "bleed red" that we're all the same is a recipe for loss.

monad transformer stacks

vim has an encryption feature (:help encryption). With some AutoCommands, keeping your own encrypted password list becomes painless. On other platforms (phone), enter your 12 or so passwords once and let them store them.

Ernie Zelinski's "Joy of Not Working" book was useful and eye-opening for me at about that age.

These two challenged my beliefs about the state of the environment:

  S4: E18 – Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know | Marian Tupy
  https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/podcast/s4-e-18-ten-global-trends-marian-tupy/

  S4: E:51 – Apocalypse Never? | Michael Shellenberger
  https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/podcast/s4e51/

This one was riveting, terrifying, and made me realize how important it is to preserve our democracies, if we're lucky enough to live in one:

  S4: E26 – Tyranny, Slavery and Columbia U | Yeonmi Park
  https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/podcast/s4e26/

“You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose– with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be."

-James Stockdale, Vietnam POW

Have you ever seen them work, or seen data on them? I've never had them work, and they don't seem like they would either - bunch of seeds landing in a ball together would lead to too much competition, right? That is, if they didn't sprout while the ball initially dried.

How cool and uninituitive. I worry about prime butterfly habitat right next to a road with high-speed radiator grills.