I'm simultaneously getting serious "boiling frog" and "like and subscribe" vibes 🤣

For me, the worst part is that work has a seemingly magical ability to slow down during dips so I'm often tightening my belt when I want to be stacking the hardest 🤷‍♂️

I don't know if I should be proud or ashamed but I'm about done with a flutter calorie tracking app with about 43k lines of dart. Please don't ask for anything other than very high level details about how it works 🤣 I'm looking forward to working on something much, much simpler 🙂

The epistemic grounding on which the average person bases their world view seems to be profoundly inconstant and misguided, so it's hard to talk about even the most basic thing without countless linguistic hoops.

TBH, this reminded recently released pictures of Bill Clinton in a pool, or ICE agents pepper spraying people where, while it was clearly supposed to be damning, it just didn't come across that way to me due to the lack of context. The insider seemed to be saying all the honestly damning stuff (which I assume was him trying to get other people to say provocative stuff), one guy acknowledged that a technology exists and seemingly has military applications (and personally, I want our military to have access to a wide variety of dangerous technologies), and then it was seemingly suggested that measuring snow depth is sinister, despite it being a very common practice in many places for many benign reasons.

You're first mantra, "you can just do things", it just hits hard and reminded me how fucking much I love this country.

Maybe the head dude who oversaw construction on the Great Pyramid of Giza. Can I also have a translator? Or maybe my wife, I do really like having lunch with her.

Given your first paragraph, would you argue that time as measured by Bitcoin is a different thing from what... say, a philosopher thinks of when they hear the word, or that it's a different perspective on the same thing?

After having just done a touch of research, I can fortunately and honestly say no, no I'm not 🤣 On a different note, if I'm writing a script for a murder mystery party for friends and myself that revolves around a spoof Olympics, and I have an Ethiopian coffee farmer who'll be competing in "The Blacker the Better" (clearly a coffee growing competition), is that too much or just right? 😁

Sometimes in envious of people who's artistic outlets don't get them labeled as a bad person or mean 😆

Light energy is quantized, it comes in units of photons, so given the fundamental nature of the photon, the idea of half of a photon doesn't make sense. So, if you have a single photon emitter that randomly emits a photon with some mean period and std dev, saying that you have half of a photon's worth of energy when you're statistically half way between photons is fundamentally wrong, it fundamentally misses the point of how quantization works and how the energy is delivered. Additionally, given the nature of light generation, each photon will have about the same amount of energy as the last. There'll be some variation, but the amount will tend to be very low. This all undoubtedly leads some people to conclude that energy must be quantized, but it's not, only this particular deliverer is quantized, because you can have a photon of any frequency delivering any amount of energy. A photon is a chunk of energy, but it is not synonymous with energy, it's only one way to package or measure it, As a result, the quantized nature of light has no bearing on, for instance, how much mass you can have. Mass and light are both instantiations of energy, so they're not effected by the others properties outside of ones derived from the nature of energy. Similarly, Bitcoin blocks could be called quantized chunks of time, but being chunks of time doesn't make them time itself, it makes them a container of time. That's why the protocol could be adjusted to have any mean block time. A practical amount of time per block was simply chosen, like how we use lights with a practical amount of energy per photon. They were both engineering choices. So like with light vs mass, quantum computers aren't bound by the behaviour of Bitcoin blocks, instead, they're both bound by the behaviour of time, which seems to be continuous given the theoretically infinite adjustability of the average block time within the protocol.

Just curious, do you think a nation should be able to protect its culture, and if so, how would you recommend? I'm reminded of the paradox of tolerance and wonder where lines in the sand are.

I'm a mechanical engineer. I'd at times rather my hobby projects revolve and cars or random gizmos, but having them revolve around programming gets fewer looks from my wife since they're cheaper and result in less clutter 😂 But now, having a collaborator that's already knowledgeable about seemingly every language, build system, and already solved problem, has been amazing. To be able to just kind of jump into stuff after a stintegic conversion rather than having to start with days or weeks of research on languages, protocols, etc. has been amazing.

When seemingly no one says that their pet project isn't riddled with fraud, but instead just points out the fraud that's elsewhere within the system, to me, it sounds like the takeaway is that it's all just fraud.

Wait, she doesn't know if it should move forward but she's excited that it is?