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SQLite is significantly better at OLTP and being a blob strorage than DuckDB, and it doesn't want to sacrifice those advantages and compatibility if OLAP performance can be improved independently. In my experience for diverse workloads it is more practical to start with a row-based structure and incrementally transform it into a column-based one. Indeed in the paper there is a suggested approach that trades space for improved OLAP performance.

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The solution is a language that seamlessly interoperates with C, like Zig does (no FFI, high impedance match with C, cross-compiles C, exports to C ABI, transpiles C, compiles to C).

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Escape Velocity

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Starcom: Nexus temporarily scratched this particular itch for me. There is no economy in the game, but there is ship building, researching, collecting resources, interacting with ships and planets, discovering stuff, space battles and a mystery that takes 10-15 hours to unravel. It's a top-down 2D game with free movement. The gameplay is balanced and fun, and the game doesn't always give you quest markers to chase, so you are expected to be observant.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/863590/Starcom_Nexus/

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Human embryos are actually very aggressive, they breach the mother's body and steal everything. Before implanting the embryo has to convince the mother that it is viable by a trial of strength in a hostile environment, the endometrium, which has an auto-destruct button the mother's body can push to reject the embryo. If accepted the embryo and the mother starts a nine month tug-of-war. They bombard each other with hormones, they try to suppress each other. Behind all of it the conflict is between the paternal and maternal genome. If they both prove to be capable fighters they both get what they want, a healthy baby and mother. If one side gets the upper hand things go wrong.

This is why pregnancy is so perilous. It's a war, presumably because human development requires a lot of resources, and the father can always find a new woman to impregnate, so it's genes best served by trying to steal said resources, as long as most women most of the time are capable defending themselves until the baby is born, preferably longer things chug along.

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The problem might not be with mindfulness, but with our self-centered culture, which causes this secularized mindfulness to be a snake oil with a few personal benefits at best. It's more of a self-discipline or concentration tool when you strip it from it's culture, which used to involve ethics as I understand.

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I wonder if this comes with side effects, like how mindfulness increases selfishness in those who think that their existence is independent from the existence of others, which is how most people in Western countries think.

Playfulness is probably a healthier option for shifting your perception compared to this much self-distancing.

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