I followed very loosely and still got it. Very cool, the kind of math that gets close to feeling like "real life". I was really hoping that your mentions of "solving it by hand" and "you can prove it to yourself by hand" at the end were going to come to some clever maneuver I could do with my own hand (like the physics magnetism hand rule). Still, awesome.

Original comment assumes the size of my hands is not 50m^2. Very presumptuous.

Any other devs thinking about how much pain DST caused them and how we now have to go through the equal pain of unfixing DST? For the record, I support this legislation, but here’s to another week of messing with time.

I need a trackball in my life. I am a glove80 user and love the keyboard but god damn do I tire of moving to my ball mouse when I need to. All of the pointer/trackball mods for the glove80 are janky at best. Help! I want to be proven wrong.

I’ve never felt this way and generally avoid partisan media. Can you give an example?

A couple of well researched examples

https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/how-wikipedia-whitewashe...

https://archive.ph/ZqHRu

To be clear, I'm sure anyone who wants to can dig up examples of other types of bias, and of course, truly excellent articles on non-political topics. If you restrict your reading to avoid anything related to contentious political narratives, you'll probably do ok. It just seems like the organization as a whole tilts in one particular direction, and this seems bad for something that is supposed to be a neutral source of knowledge.

This is news to me and interesting re: nitrogen crisis. That said, isn’t construction a very minor contributor relative to the agricultural nitrogen impact? Like, taken to an extreme, preventing construction based on this is like preventing people from having children because children will produce nitrogen compounds

The nitrogen problems has been ignored for so long and nitrogen compound deposition has been so intense for a long time that you can't really do anything anywhere without depositing nitrogen compounds in an area already suffering from the environmental effects.

The Netherlands is a very densely populated country compared to the most of Europe. Furthermore, there are industrial hubs bringing in polluted air through the wind from the west, south, and east, making up a significant source of the nitrogen compound deposition. All efforts to solve the problem have so far upset very powerful lobbyists whose income relies on being allowed to pollute more to stay ahead of the competition (not to mention caused violent protests).

There are many factors to the housing problem, it's not just nitrogen compounds. In my opinion, the entire construction sector coming to a standstill after the 2008 crisis was probably what kicked off a storm of seemingly unrelated issues, from population pyramids to the water table levels to investors using property to accumulate wealth to hyperintensive farming practices.

New measures to supposedly solve the nitrogen compound crisis have been announced. By the looks of it, I expect the agriculture lobby to riot again, and new elections by the start of next year when the government inevitably collapses itself again in an attempt to use populism to gather more votes.

I got severely downvoted in the past for badmouthing GLP1s here. Then I did my research, got on them and I take it all back. These things are on par with statins in terms of potential societal impacts.

GLP1s are one of today's real, true, modern miracles. It deserves a Nobel, but not to one person, but the teams upon teams upon teams that made it possible to get here.

A central flaw in the Nobel is that it rewards one or two people for what is often the work of teams.

That's quite admirable to correct yourself in public. Good on ya.

its possible.

GLP-1s are far more effective than statins.

It’s so funny, because they did well for you you’re now incredibly on board for all of society.

I tried them and my health got massively worse and I couldn’t eat at all, on a sub minimum dose.

That says more about the harmful effects of obesity than anything.

That's kind of the point.

> These things are on par with statins in terms of potential societal impacts.

I put them just under antibiotics. In terms of quality of life years given back at a population scale.

Very weird (or funny?) to use statins as an example of a ‘good and effective’ drug.

Why do you say that? My first exposure to statins was in https://myticker.com and they seem somewhat important

the vast majority of the anti-statin crowd are just regurgitating talking points they heard from people in their diet tribe - usually keto/carnivore

A beautiful analogy for non-technical founders creating software products with AI. There are version control systems, but who needs them when you can name your pdf `n-final-updated-6-16-final-donottouch.pdf (1)(2)`

And a good file store and organiser is arranging all kinds of icons in different corners on your desktop.

Tell that to certain CEOs that realized they can generate slop code and make their SWE teams deal with the tech debt lol

Cursory googling led to a bunch of commercial sites calling it reef safe and they mostly reference this article: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-97-3195-4

I’m not paying for access to this and can’t be bothered to pirate it, I’m going to just believe the front page of Google