marssaxman

This is about 5-MeO-DMT, not N,N-DMT (which is what people usually mean by "DMT"). Very different experience.

I used pico or nano as my everyday unix coding editor for something like fifteen years, starting in the late '90s. It was just fine. I couldn't stand vi and didn't see the point of emacs; I type faster than I think, so I never found that text-editing was enough of a bottleneck to make sophisticated automation worth the effort.

I only stopped using pico/nano after writing my own editor, which blatantly stole pico's interface design.

Well, yeah, that would certainly have a noticeable effect.

Never heard it called "mebufotenin" before.

That is my favorite approach for parsing any language which has operator precedence. It is easy to write, easy to maintain, performs well, and doesn't require you to include extra tools in your build process.

I know some people love their parser generator tools, but I just don't find them to be worth the hassle; parsing is not a hard problem.

The spam continued long after that particular election was over. I don't remember how long it took to clean it up, exactly, just that each campaign who got my number did in fact respect the END/STOP request, and I was eventually able to get ahead of the viral spread.

After I once made the mistake of donating money to a political campaign, I actually was able to free myself from the torrent of spam by replying END and STOP over and over. It took months, but the messages did stop.

Someone managed to connect my phone number to my voter registration during my recent move, so the spam is back. This time, I am replying END or STOP and then blocking the number & reporting spam, just in case that creates more friction for them.

I really think I will be working for as many more years as I am able, yes, because a life without work would be intolerably boring. There will always be work that needs doing.

This is only true because compiler authors are interpreting "undefined behavior" as a license for "user-hostile behavior". There are other choices one can make.

> does it mean that more tech hubs pop up elsewhere because in the long haul, people probably prefer to work and invest close to home?

That's why Seattle ended up with a software industry presence, isn't it?

Yes, my job is more like management now than it used to be, but the fact that I'm still not managing people makes all the difference. I do not ever want to be any human being's boss. Coordinating robots is still a basically technical process.

Interesting! I have completely ignored tap-to-pay and all sorts of phone wallets precisely because I am unwilling to let the big tech companies control my life. I had never considered that there might be an acceptable way to use this technology.

I have not given time estimates for years, but that has nothing to do with AI.

I've been waiting for the Clicks Communicator a good while now. If it ever ships, I'll probably buy one. I hadn't heard about the Minimal phone: an interesting concept.

I have never been able to really love a phone without a keyboard; typing on glass frustrates me so much that I tend to just avoid using the device.

I wonder why people downvoted you. My story is much the same: I could give a long list of reasons why I chose not to have children, but the simpler truth is that I never saw anything on the "pro" side of the ledger.