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The REAPER render dialog supports negative start times!

, that treating loneliness simply by telling lonely people to go out and socialize more (the way you can treat a phobia of snakes with exposure) will often not work because it fails to address the root cause of the loneliness. In fact, a recent meta-analysis confirmed that simply providing lonely people with easier access to potential friends has no effect on subjective loneliness.

four out of five animals on land are roundworms

ummmm

Things get more complicated as they get more complex

How to talk to aliens (other people, who are very different)
Ask Butler

Rigorous Systems Design - Joseph Sifakus
The Design of Design - Fred Brooks

The “premature sheen” that happens when using computers, if stuff sounds ok enough too early, then you are reluctant to make big necessary changes later.

lot of useful UI tips packed into a few minutes. Different menus to find the switcher in, and different ways to toggle it.

Went with adding button + custom icon to toolbar to toggle for active track

one of the greatest playlists of all time

what does any of this mean

Wild on-device makeup/face-shape filters on TikTok

At dinner with two friends yesterday, it came up that all three of us feel
that we can’t meaningfully show ourselves at our (STEM) jobs; at work lunches,
oftentimes silence reigns,
& there’s never a heartfelt conversation. We despaired at the prospect of living this for 40 years.

really really good explanation

False shrines reduce littering

another image input tool

I am still undecided on this - was off it due to all the version changes and prompts breaking with fixes (mainly fixing exploits…), but ultimately some kind of language crafting will be inevitably useful.

Generative Pre-trained Transformer for Biomedical Text Generation and Mining

Doesn’t cover getting past review, but another reminder to be paranoid careful about adding browser extensions.

Adapting to solitude, and downsides of getting stuck there

strange times ahead

listen to philosophers and calm down, apparently

learn to deal with normal-sized data first

Recommended by Fred Again on Tape Notes (TN:105)

SIFI: Specialisation is for insects.
OSTA / ULTA: We overestimate our short-term ability, but underestimate our long-term ability.
DIBTP: Done is better than perfect.

A good response to falling out of love with coding. There are times it feels like passion, times it feels like drudgery and work.
There’s a balance somewhere there.

If capital is not invested in providing a good service via a profitable business, it will never sustain things that are societally useful.

hopefully this doesn’t imply that things need to be profitable to be societally useful

I had initially hoped this elimated choices by being a single set of things for local-first dev.