I mean, not really; John's Hopkins puts Finland's all time test positivity per capita at ~26%, to the United States' ~30%. A bit better, but not enough to explain differences like this. Its not vaccination either: Finland only leads the US by ~0.23%.
One area where Finland had low impact is in deaths: 0.16% per capita to the US's 0.33%. But, if the theory is that COVID infections themselves caused a globally observable effect like this, that stat should cause the problem to hit Finland more, not less, given they had more COVID survivors than the US.
I think the better explanation might be COVID adjacent: COVID seems to have some direct neurological impact, but the lingering secondary cultural, economic, and psychological effects of the pandemic & lockdown feel a lot more likely to explain this. Additionally, I'd put money on social media also being higher on the sources list than direct COVID neurological impact.
You must of missed the multiple points where I said "three out of four" and "echoes" of a wiki; but reading comprehension is hard, don't worry you'll get 'em next time.
I don't get the "note data is stored in a proprietary format" hate. There's a dozen different open source tools you can find which will one-shot export your Apple Notes to markdown, when you want to leave the ecosystem. Its not like Notion where the exports are messy, non-bulk, and destructive; they're proprietary, but parseable and sitting in a file on your MacOS filesystem.
I've never had iCloud Sync display any weird behavior in Apple Notes, and I've got thousands in there. I have, absolutely, seen Obsidian Sync delete notes I did not delete, and fail to upload notes; both of these were generally remediable via their recycle bin, but still very concerning.
All of these complaints are of the nature of "I don't actually have anything valuable to write down so I'd rather worry about the nature of the tool than what I'm writing". And, to be clear, I think this is why Notion is so popular, just for different reasons than your's; it looks great, and makes you feel productive because you've got amazing cross-referenced tables and hyperbacklinks and h1h2h3s and then wait where's the content?
The 4th, a Wiki, is of course more-so just Confluence, but I have seen echoes of a wiki make their way into Jira; e.g. in one place I worked, every release was a ticket that was duplicated from a previous ticket, and that ticket had step-by-step instructions on how to run different parts of the release.
You're just wrong on this, bro. Notion tries to be everything to everyone. Jira is everything to everyone, it doesn't matter what it tries to be.
I tend to feel, just error handling in general. Its not even something I'd care so much about, if it didn't seem like everyone else felt like the way Go does errors is great.
You can't/shouldn't do custom error types, even though its an enticing sexy interface, because of things related to the massive nil/nil mistake you've covered. We had errors-as-values in popular, large languages (Javascript callbacks?), and by the mid-10s everyone recognized that they're kinda whatever, mostly just a different way of doing the same thing less conveniently, and that community got rid of them (as a side-effect of the more general push to get rid of callback hell, but certainly no effort was made to keep errors-as-values around). We say "being forced to handle errors is great in Go", but (1) you don't have to handle them, you just have to acknowledge them with `_`, and (2) Java has had checked exceptions for years, and everyone also recognizes that those are ish. And, as you say, Go has two fundamentally different kinds of errors functions can throw (what color is your function?), except the facilities for handling panics are essentially a goto (which, I love pointing out lest we all forget, go also has literal goto). Sure, working code shouldn't panic; but all that asserts is that Go wasn't designed to be fault tolerant.
To be clear, I don't feel as much passion for hating on Ruby, because I don't use Ruby. I use Go. I don't wish to hate on the language for the purpose of hate; I wish that more people would agree that the situation is quite poor, rather than good, and that we could make meaningful positive change to the language.
Baulders Gate 3 has quite great Apple Silicon & MacOS support. I know of a few normally-non-gamers who loaded that up on their Mac over the past couple months.
I don't want to turn a discussion surrounding layoffs into a lens about the business itself; it sucks to be laid off, and I wish everyone who was impacted great expediency in finding a new role.
But I'm going to anyway: I genuinely don't understand how CircleCI is still a business. Every major code repository provider has CI built in. All of the ones I've interacted with (Github Actions & Gitlab) are just as good as CircleCI and in some ways far better (e.g. there's a stellar community of Actions builders on GHA, that can be included with one line; CCI Orbs don't have nearly the same uptake). Pricing is all pretty similar. Some companies want to self-host stuff: JetBrains & Atlassian still own this.
Ultimately we left CCI because their stability was unacceptable. While its been quite a few months, their status page history even today showcases this well [1]; they legitimately have partial or full outages once every two or so weeks (and those are just the ones they tell people about; we regularly, weekly, saw build failures that could only be explained by "freakin circleci, just re-run it").
There are better places to go, hypothetically. Realistically: People are going to Texas. Obviously they are; ranked by GDP per state, California is #1, Texas is #2. The only people who give a shit about the Christian zealots are people hundreds of miles away outside the state; people like Elon Musk don't care, and still move there, and move their companies with them.
Its funny how people don't see the $100,000+ portfolio losses (and much less often, gains) all over that subreddit and don't immediately realize that a ton of the people who visit it are Wall Street finance people. That's seriously the meme among the people only secondarily connected with WSB; its not "autists" or "the vox populi", its wall street bros (WSB?) who have to spend all day being super serious at their job, and WSB is their way of letting off steam.
And if you think that these firms weren't already feeding every single post and comment on reddit into their HFT algorithms, you better at least believe that after this whole thing, they're gonna be doing that, and adding some extra weight to `if subreddit === "wallstreetbets"`.
From that point of view, WSB is rather icky; its people who know what they're doing (most of the time) subtly and anonymously impersonating an idiot to influence the actual idiots.
One area where Finland had low impact is in deaths: 0.16% per capita to the US's 0.33%. But, if the theory is that COVID infections themselves caused a globally observable effect like this, that stat should cause the problem to hit Finland more, not less, given they had more COVID survivors than the US.
I think the better explanation might be COVID adjacent: COVID seems to have some direct neurological impact, but the lingering secondary cultural, economic, and psychological effects of the pandemic & lockdown feel a lot more likely to explain this. Additionally, I'd put money on social media also being higher on the sources list than direct COVID neurological impact.