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I am a bit surprised that I had to look hard for someone to mention Ghostty in the comments.

Every time, over the years, that there has been some kind of headline saying renewables have overtaken fossil fuels, when you look at it a bit more closely there is always a big 'but'. For example, it was compared to coal (not taking into account electricity from gas), or it was for one day, or it was a percentage of new installations, or it excludes winter, includes nuclear etc.

This time, however, it looks like it's actually true and that's just for wind and solar. This is incredible, and done through slowly compounding gains that didn't cause massive economic hardships along the way.

The only medication I know about that some people on the spectrum take are antipsychotics and that's for specific situations, but maybe if you're in that situation life seems even more like a dystopian text based adventure game.

I love it, I have been meaning to put together a similar simulation to demonstrate the effects of interruptions and context switches on developers.

Something like the following:

- a game or puzzle which requires working memory, like matching pairs or some puzzles that need a lot of working memory and/or flipping between screens

- this gets interrupted by fullscreen interruptions of someone's face, and text asking questions, or announcing something, and you have to pick an answer or a reaction (multiple choice)

- it could start with questions like 'hi, are you busy?' or 'can I ask you a question?'

- answers which tries to end the conversation quickly could lead to even more demanding reactions or questions

- interruptions stating there is an emergency can lead to a lot of questions and answers which then leads you to discover than it is in fact not an emergency

- once one of these engagements finish you can return to the game and try to complete it

- you'll get multiple interruptions like this

- other interruptions can also flash up, like a notification that a meeting is due in x minutes

- it could then have a short simulated meeting, perhaps just a line by line scroll of dialogue between others, where you need to say nothing

- however, at some point someone will ask you directly about one of the items discussed, and you will be given a set of fairly ambiguous multiple choice answers which you will have to try out until you get to the 'correct' one

- at the end of the meeting you return to the working memory task/game

- this gets interrupted by someone then asking you about the action points in the meeting

- return to the game

- get notifications about the end of your work day coming up

- more interruptions, etc.

Fortunately it mentions early on in the article that this is related to an Olympus camera so I'm guessing this has something to do with the OM system's flavor of Olympus's proprietary ORF format.

The fun part is that in some cases just listing the iptables rules with an iptables -L will cause it to load the conntrack module and the default max for this is very low for anything that is a DNS server or perform a lot of DNS lookups. That's why it's a good idea to always set the sysctl nf_conntrack_max value quite high even if you aren't using conntrack. The actual sysctl key for nf_conntrack is different depending on the version of the kernel, it's net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_max nowadays.

I think there's probably a case for some regulation to force at least a minimum set of open standards, because that would make it possible to e.g. switch between systems based on intermittent renewable generation etc.

The thumbnail of the video looked very much like a several decades old apartment building in Spain that I stayed in not that long ago. The whole development really just looks like some European neighbourhoods, which is a bit strange but also not a bad thing. I think infrastructure for cars is one of the good things about the USA, but I also think combining it with this style of dense development especially in urban areas in warmer states will complement it really well.

The version I got never portrayed it as something that's sequential and never 'ends' at acceptance and also not specifically applicable to grieving and it's also not scientific. The way I understood it is that's it's more a repetition of 5 different emotions in random order and over time some of the emotions re-occur less than the others. I think it's useful to help you observe the ways your mind tries to come to terms with things that are emotionally difficult to process, whether it's a car accident, natural disaster, an illness or even losing a loved one.

That said, I certainly do imagine some psychotherapists out there taking the order literally and explaining it like that to their patients.

I would love to see some social networks silently implementing something that rewrites comments in a more diplomatic manner when displayed to everyone else.

I wouldn't be surprised about this when it comes to panic disorder. Just knowing you have some emergency fast acting anti anxiety medication nearby, just in case you need it, can reduce the number of panic attacks. There's probably all kinds of psychological feedback loops when people have anxiety about anxiety and then it escalates because they're anxious about it escalating. I am guessing that medication can help mitigate some components of that feedback loop for some people.

I did the same thing with an alice bot on IRC. It also joined channels and only responded to private messages. It was remarkable how long some people persisted in talking to it when they thought it was a potential mating partner.

When I used to maintain a GitLab server I used to do exactly this by upgrading almost a month behind their schedule.

Serverless was always around and always had a place. It used to be a shell and sftp account on a shared Linux server where you could upload your html and cgi scripts or php files into your own Apache virtual host and get billed per hit on your web site or bandwidth usage. It now just has a lot of tooling around it with a big learning curve and vendor lock in, but at least you get your hits and bandwidth for cheaper than you used to.