japanuspus

No. The Hilbert space is the territory. Our perceived classical world is the map.

This is exactly what I want: To communicate with me, have your LLM expand your message to include relevant parts of _your_ context, then I will have my LLM summarize it as briefly as possible with respect to _my_ context.

The IPA chart is missing `w`.

As a non-native English-speaker, I would say that the `v`/`w` pronunciation distinction would be a major challenge: Asking someone to pronounce "Darth Vader" is a pretty good check, at least in the Nordics.

As the family bike maintainer in Scandinavia, hub gears and coaster brakes are a godsend: Simple, cheap, and the only wear item to replace after a winter driving in salty sludge is a cheap chain -- and this takes half the time if there are no brake cables to detach.

This might be a Nordic thing, but being able to handle rear wheel lockups is a necessary skill when driving on winter roads. Once you overlook a section of black ice, not even the nicest hydraulic disc brakes will be gentle enough.

Yes - for the high profile journals (Science, Nature): Once it's public, you can forget everything about getting it accepted there.

This is what I miss from (the early) Stack Overflow: often the process of writing up a well-framed question ended up solving the problem.

I sometimes put out the question anyway and added an answer. Never quite figured out if this was considered bad style.

Just don't try this on Ryan Air. A good friend got stuck at the airport on a Sunday night after being denied boarding because he waited out the standing line sitting on a bench right by the gate. As soon as the last person standing walked through the checkpoint the gate crew closed the gate -- and completely ignored my friend when he showed up 10 seconds later.

It should be trivial to combine ephemeral options with file name options, which seems like it would be the best of both world.

With some agreement on mapping (maybe just `%HH` for anything outside `A-Z a-z 0-9 . _ -`), this could be completely standardized and made part of standard library argument parsers.

I could see a bunch of my utility scripts replaced with a python script and a `uv` shebang if this was in argparse.

"Gnonom" by Nick Harkaway describes a society that takes this all the way to invasive mind-reading. A very special read.

I completely agree in the game of chicken. Usually I spend the time up to T-3s wondering how the crazy beepers on microwave ovens is still a thing, generations after the novelty has worn of.

I can sort of understand why beepers where a cool sales gimmick back when the microwave was the only appliance with a micro controller, but really -- it doesn't make sense: Firstly, immediate attention is not critical when the time is up: unlike a stove or an oven, energy transfer stop the moment the magnetron is de-energized. Secondly, the microwave (at least my microwave) is not exactly silent: if you are not deaf, chances are you can easily tell when it is done.

Maybe I should apply the Joe-treatment from my old lab: whenever there was a new shipment of frequency meters for the lab (we always needed more), Joe would meticulously unbox them and stick a pointed screw-driver through all the piezo buzzers to make sure the would never make a sound.

[Edit] microtron (sic) -> magnetron