sambishop

arguments are not soldiers. i am specifically responding to the claim that cars leads to suburbs leads to mental health issues. i am not a partisan in the greater car wars.

for sure! but that's irrelevant to a causal chain that includes "suburbanization", since you're not in the suburbs (in manhattan at least, the walkability does drop off pretty quickly)

another interesting tack: how long did we have cars before we started talking about a widespread mental health crisis? is there a more parimonious explanation, like a different event that is located closer to it in time? perhaps smartphones or the internet?

automobiles -> suburbanization -> isolation -> mental health crisis seems like a fairly easy hypothesis to test since there are still millions of people in america living densely and carless in places like nyc and you could demonstrate that they have a statistically significant gap in mental illnesses. so easy to test that i bet several people already have and you could just check.

This stops a little too short to be entirely useful imo. It's missing three very important concepts to make someone fully productive with swift concurrency:

1. sending. Using this keyword liberally will save you from the more heavyweight options like actors and Sendable.

2. isolated parameters. Inheriting the isolation of the caller is critical for functional style programming.

3. Dynamic isolation in general. Sometimes `assumeIsolated` is all you need.

The fact that it recommends you pass this document to an agent without including these concepts almost guarantees the LLM is going to program itself into a corner.

I've always been fascinated by people who seem to have this problem. I've heard multiple individuals describe responding to emails as an infinite attention suck sort of like doomscrolling. For me, email is 99% updates/promotions, 0.99% real humans that I can hit with a one liner, and 0.01% humans that really require a thoughtful response. Something must happen to these email people where they grow prominent enough and advertise their address enough that they get inundated with genuine email that is all from thoughtful humans? Feels like a problem I would enjoy having, at least for a while.

that's oldschool swift. the new hotness would be

  let x = if cond { 1 } else { 2 }