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afarviral
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
What if the new release which contains the fixes has new dependencies and those also have new dependencies? I assume they have to Frankenstein packages sometimes to maintain the borders of the target app while still having major vulns patched right in stable.
afarviral
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
I'm some ways I'd argue the UI of darktable is ahead of its time and fairly snazzy. It's just a much more sophisticated tool. What is one thing about the UI that specifically feels dated? Burried maybe, but dated?
afarviral
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
"has me on antidepressants, anti-anxiety meds, and mood stabilizers"

Have you considered getting a second opinion on your meds? That sounds like a lot if that's 3 separate medications, and not without side effects which may be contributing to a lack of interest in interests.
afarviral
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
No, nothing exists in a vacuum.
afarviral
·il y a 6 mois·discuss
Why is that? I also used to hold this opinion, but we use it for 99% of our production deployments (or k8s where we need it) and it has been maximally reliable, and super convenient for fault-finding. Maybe I didn't understand your take.
afarviral
·il y a 7 mois·discuss
Looks really cool. I like the style :P

I hope it takes off!

I noticed it's a bit slow after clicking the title of a thread, unlike HN which is a bit more instantaneous. It wouldn't be a problem but it's the main interaction so worth double checking/optimizing.
afarviral
·il y a 7 mois·discuss
Very cool. I was thinking about something similar. In response to those saying it is not in the true spirit of Zettelkasten, that's probably fair, but this could easily incorporate your own notes/thoughts too, but you get to keep a convenient summary of the content you collected from outsite yourself. I think the other commentors may have missed the fact that while the LLM substitutes you, it does try to create new insights during the "Thread" part of the core loop.
afarviral
·il y a 8 mois·discuss
How can you maintain that much stashed code between commits? I assume you refer to it and manually code using the "mess" as inspo? I don't know stash works much deeper than stashing things I might need later so I can pull from remote.
afarviral
·il y a 8 mois·discuss
Huh I must have just got in on time as I set up a local account about 12 hours ago following a tutorial.
afarviral
·il y a 9 mois·discuss
Would it not be more direct to do gas exchange with blood?
afarviral
·il y a 9 mois·discuss
This is interesting, and I'll try to remember to give this a go next time I'm tempted to patch something from the standard library, but...

The README mentions 3 scenarios that this might be preferred over, but not the fourth which I regularly do: Create my own functions/classes that are composed from the unchanged modules. E.g. a request_with_retries function which adds retry logic to requests without the need to monkey patch. I regularly use decorators as well to add things like retries.

For more complex scenarios Modshim might win out, as mentioned in the understated section of the README "Benefits of this Approach":

> Internal Reference Rewriting: This example demonstrates modshim's most powerful feature. By replacing requests.sessions.Session, we automatically upgraded top-level functions like requests.get() because their internal references to Session are redirected to our new class.

> Preservation of the Original Module: The original requests package is not altered. Code in other parts of an application that imports requests directly will continue to use the original Session object without any retry logic, preventing unintended side-effects.

What I think this means is Modshim lets you really get in to the guts of a module (monkey-patch style, giving you god-like powers), while limiting the damage.
afarviral
·il y a 11 mois·discuss
I'm interested in computers. What's the point of meadows without computers.
afarviral
·il y a 11 mois·discuss
How would you go about making it more secure but still getting to have your cake too? Off the top my head, could you: a) only ingest text that can be OCRd or somehow determine if it is human readable b) make it so text from the web session is isolated from the model with respect to triggering an action. Then it's simply a tradeoff at that point.
afarviral
·il y a 2 ans·discuss
The "by any means necessary" method...? I think a society based around the normalization of this level of punishment is distopian. Achieving the lowest opiate addiction rate possible may not be worth it given the probability of wrongful incarceration/death, its optimising the wrong thing. I think humanity should just accept the multi-facetedness of the universe and work on systems which work without compromising our humanity. We are hooked on mental shortcuts and quick fixes.
afarviral
·il y a 2 ans·discuss
Studies typically show reductions in cortisol levels after several weeks or months of regular ashwagandha supplementation
afarviral
·il y a 2 ans·discuss
Could the gradual impacts of economic downturn, unemployment and unhappiness post-pandemic be a contributing factor? From available data on drug overdoses and homelessness things appear relatively stable but some data from last year is missing. An uptick may be on the cards based on your observations. I'm curious what specifically is to blame in your view and why other factors seem unlikely? What do you suggest should change? Should the drugs be recriminalized? Or is the current strategy okay but needing some supplimentary steps?
afarviral
·il y a 4 ans·discuss
Quite a similar experience to me. After a change of meds I had a bought of intense disphoria and anxiety which I (perhaps falsely) attributed to the meds after 9 years of use and misuse (insufflation etc). I stopped cold turkey until my special authorization expired and haven't used them since. It is a relief in some ways that my overall as methylphenidate is quite hard on the heart and addictive, so it got me through the quitting phase. I've found other ways to get by with my ADHD; diet, sleep, caffeine, environment etc. Its possible the meds had already helped to establish the patterns of concentration too.