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I bought an x4 a month or so ago, zero regrets. It sounds hyperbolic but it’s finally been the thing to actually decouple me from my phone. Whenever I’m out and about, bored, I just slide it out and pick up where I left off reading last. It’s a nicer reading experience on my kobo but the portability and.. frankly charm just can’t be beat.

Since full remote I can spend 8 hours a day on work instead of 10 (an hour commute each way). Putting aside other benefits like easy and cheap lunches, way better desk ergonomics and equipment, and all the sundry other benefits, working remote allows me to have a life that I never could when I worked in an office because of those 2 hours a day.

It's nice to be face-to-face with people, but I don't need that every day (and frankly don't want it neither), but all the benefits in quality of life overwhelming favor remote work for me to the point I will put up with way more shenanigans just to keep this benefit.

There seem to be a lot of these sorts of tools popping up but it’s not clear to me the added value they bring in over using plain tmux (or any other “normal” session multiplexer).

Can someone who uses one of these agent-specific multiplexers share their experience and reasoning for reaching for / building these? What makes this better than a normal multiplexer? I am asking in earnest; I just don’t understand but I want to.

This feels like a fairly uncharitable take. The author conveniently left out all of the things needed to understand that JavaScript version, including async/await, promises, modules, string interpolation, lambda syntax, not to mention the runtime that is running this, etc.

You also don’t have to start with a program that invokes 20 concepts at once, every one of those rust concepts can have its own hello world, introducing one concept at a time. Frankly several of them are just fundamental CS concepts.

I released two apps built in dart on flutter. I loved it at the time, but I ran into this issue headlong with both of them. Release v1.0, move on to other things, come back in a year with a new computer to fix a minor bug and I can’t even compile the original release anymore, and had to spend forever rejiggering everything to get it back to the state it was when I left it. I really loved dart, and even flutter, building in it was a breeze. But the churn made the js ecosystem look slow.

Plasma can be used outside of prophylactics as well, I don't think this is accounted for in the article (human plasma is used in cosmetics for example).

A lot of plasma is also separated out of whole-blood donations and manufactured into all sorts of things. I don't know all of the end-user financial ramifications of this, but hospitals absolutely do pay (sometimes quite a pretty penny depending on rarity of antigens and antibodies) for RBCs and platelets (and plasma) from suppliers like the American Red Cross.

Purely anecdotally, I have heard stories of some donors being compensated extremely handsomely for their regular donations because of the rarity of their blood attributes - even being flown across the country and wined and dined to obtain their blood on top of thousands of dollars per donation.

The book includes privates charities and governments, but looks at TB through many more lenses than just those. There is a reason it’s a whole book and not just a comment on an Internet forum. I just finished the book and highly recommend the read, if only to learn about something that I suspect most of us (myself at least, certainly), is known only as _history_, not the raging health crisis that is continues to be.

This was my wifi password for a few weeks, but the wife-acceptance factor just wasn’t there :(

Holy crap. Thank you!

It took me a bit to warm up to them, but now I find myself relying on them to more quickly spot errors, so yes it ends up faster. Somewhat counterintuitively, I find the ligature characters easier to process at a glance and see if there's a problem or not (I suspect its something along the lines of my brain looks at "<=" as two separate characters, one after the other, and has to process each in serial then combine them into the concept of "less than or equal to", whereas the ≤ is a single character that goes straight to the "less than or equal to" concept in the same way its easier to remember the number "six hundred ninety-three" than "six, nine, three". I also find it way easier to spot the "≡" vs the "===" in JS land, which surprised me but here I am.

I wouldn't say its harder to go back, but it does make me do a double take. Overall I would say the effect is quite minor and I'm just fine without the ligatures, but given the option I would enable / prefer them.

I don’t get wrist pain, but that’s probably because I find it so uncomfortable I always take my watch off whenever my hands approach a keyboard. I haven’t really experienced carpal tunnel myself yet, but literally every single person I’m physically related to gets it by their 40s so maybe it’s related to that somehow?