I find the creativity of the Casio watches impressive (had a few), but I really don't get the UI / design. Since I got my first Garmin, I'm never going back. Garmin's watches are way more convenient and complete IMO (and certainly so if you do sports).
The root cause is likely to the surge of dopamine in the brain related to activities like scrolling social media, fast-paced tik-tok videos, porn, etc. This means that the brain is so much addicted to this dopamine that normal level are no longer enough to be functional.
There can be many causes. Aside from social media, games, porn and AI, it can also be caused by the decline of the living standards or increase of stress in the West due to shift from social-democratic to neoliberal economic policies.
It's not about outlawing them, it's about not giving them a platform allowing them to rise, like the current major media platforms are doing right now. Social media should be held responsible of the content they publish.
The last time (and current time) a president was in power that I didn't agree with (and didn't vote for), I left. As a citizen, I can't fully escape taxes, but I will be my darnedest to reduce my taxable burden when I don't approve of the government.
Some of the nations that are sanctioned by the US etc. literally do not let most their citizens leave. Citizens of all of them will have difficulty getting visas due to the poor relations that resulted in sanctions in the first place. On top of that, even if there are no political barriers not everyone will have the means to do so.
I’m also curious at what point you assign culpability for remaining in a country. Obviously, a baby born in the country can’t be culpable or the concept becomes meaningless. At what age or level of maturity can we start to condemn someone for not noticing that their government is evil and then leaving their family to escape?
So being an elite who escapes the consequences of what elites have done is a virtue that should be rewarded? Why would people look up to a runner? Most people don't have anywhere else to go, and love where they're from.
The USA is full of people that left their home country with nothing because they disagreed with how their home country is managed. For example, the Vietnamese boat people. I hardly consider that cohort of immigrants 'elite'.
Taiwan is another example. Taiwan wouldn't exist if it wasn't for mainlanders voting with their feet.
> Taiwan wouldn't exist if it wasn't for mainlanders voting with their feet.
Woah, woah, the ROC invaded Taiwan with a huge group of armed settler-colonialists, and then initiated a violent martial law on everyone here. The KMT settlers didn't vote with their feet, they imperialised Taiwan and the people here. Taiwan would absolutely exist either way, there would probably have been democracy here a lot sooner if not for the KMT's martial law, since the common thread throughout all 6 decades of their rule, it was non-KMT people (earlier immigrants, indigenous people, and even a few Japanese descendants) that led opposition efforts. Not to mention much of the reason the PRC makes imperialist claims against Taiwan is because of their humiliation that they failed to defeat the KMT utterly, and this country retained the name ROC when it transitioned to democracy in the 90's - the best the opposition could achieve in the face of KMT power.
Really Taiwan makes the opposite case because after the cultural revolution, which is before the beginning of Taiwanese democracy, Taiwanese people could have gone to the PRC and had life there, fleeing martial law, but instead people stayed and worked to overthrow the KMT.
I personally believe packing your shit and heading out is a totally valid action in the face of oppression and fascism, that's why I left the USA after all. I don't think I agree that everyone has a responsibility to risk their lives to overthrow oppressive leaders, the reason I wouldn't stick around though is I won't accept the moral risk of accidentally supporting the regime, which is why for example I don't pay USA taxes anymore.
Except that "Program Files" contains also folders, so it should be "Program Files And Folders", with all the nasty caps and spaces. What's the point of pushing the details to such level if you destroy usability?
In the meantime unix and alike use /bin, /lib, ... and everybody is happy.
Not the parent, but I also tried to switch around two or three years ago and was very frustrated. The draw was the 'built-in LSP' with all these new features, along with treesitter.
'Built-in LSP' turned out to mean installing and configuring three pretty involved lua plugins at the time iirc. The experience really highlighted for me how un-seamless lua was in the project compared to vimscript. I found it to be a nightmare to configure and get used to. I came away wondering how it could possibly be such a pain, and baffled as to why it was claimed to be 'built-in' when getting ALE to work on vanilla vim took way less time, and felt way more in line with the rest of the program. Ironically it actually gave me an appreciation for vimscript that wasn't there before.
Eventually issues continued to kind of build up for me until I decided to just cut it. Everywhere I encountered lua felt crufty and difficult to work with, and those integrations made the concise, tight vim I'd gotten used to feel really nebulous and unweildy. I never quite got the treesitter syntax highlight to work correctly, and even when it did work having the highlighting dynamically change while typing frustrated me. I ended up slowly switching back to my old vim-compatible plugins one by one, until eventually I just went back to vim, since a lot of the neovim features that diverged from the original design philosophy bugged me and since I'd developed a strong aversion to anything involving lua in the program I wasn't getting anything out of using neovim.
It took me a dozen hours over few days, but I think I've finally made it. Aliased vim to nvim to force myself to use it.
However, this took way too long, and I've already deleted everything related to LSP and IDE-like features from kickstart, since I have IntelliJ for this, and I want to start fast. This might be totally missing the point of Neovim, so maybe I'm stubborn.
To be honest - mixed feelings. Everything works great after some effort, Telescope is cool, plugin ecosystem is amazing and active. But it is the small papercuts in the process that ruined the fun for me. It doesn't support 16-color terminals, so needs custom themes always. There is a Selenized theme available, but it fails to load as the main theme, I need to load another theme first and then reload that one, no idea why. Some of the colors don't load anyway (probably due to plugin load order), so I had to add an ugly `vim.defer_fn` to re-call highlights 1000ms after startup. What more, Telescope uses fzf for files but not for live grep, contrary how it works for Vim.
Also, there is a huge culture of not providing any keybinds by default, and instead configuring them manually, probably due to sheer amount of keyboard real estate already required by Vim, not to mention any of the LSP features or possible plugin conflicts. So many great plugins are useless with stock config (like blame.nvim) and really require forward thinking, how to put them under your keyboard.
I'll spend a few weeks there and see. Hopefully it gets better and better.
Interestingly enough, many games on PC standardized the WASD keys for moving, which might be seen as "left-handed". However when touch-typing, there isn't really a difference between left and right hands.
> Interestingly enough, many games on PC standardized the WASD keys for moving, which might be seen as "left-handed".
To me, WASD for avatar movement makes sense even in the context of "right-handed bias" in that if a gamer is using a mouse, odds are they are right-handed and the mouse is positioned to the right of their keyboard.
And if a gamer is left handed, it's a minor inconvenience to shift the chair position such that their right hand manipulates WASD and their dominant left hand uses a mouse on the left side of their keyboard.
Of course, many modern games allow custom key bindings, so a left-handed gamer could use IJKL instead of WASD if they so chose.
So, besides training a LLM to generate build instructions for lego model, they have robots to assemble these models, and they applied 3D texture on 3D generated model (what for?).
Sometimes the amount of money and energy that are spent in "recreation" projects just amazes me.
You do realize that a system like LEGO is just an extremely efficient and cheap proof of concept with a proxy material (LEGO) for later real life applications of building X from standardized components Y right?
This is interesting and seemingly quite applicable base research and we move forward by being curious.
> Novice programmer will claim that LLM give them power to take on hard tasks and programm in languages they were not familiar before. But they are not gaining any skill nor knowledege from that experience.
Not true.
Using LLM to learn quickly a new programming language + being productive is best method ever. If you pay attention, you acquire rapidly new skill and knowledge, and those that are relevant to your job.
Using LLM is MUCH more efficient than reading a book going through all the minute details of the language prior telling how to use it. It's the same as learning a language from your parents compared to learning a language from a class. You might not know all the grammar rules, but you'll be way more proficient. And nothing prevents you from learning the grammar later on.
> Using LLM to learn quickly a new programming language + being productive is best method ever. If you pay attention, you acquire rapidly new skill and knowledge, and those that are relevant to your job.
I tend to disgree. maybe for you, but my mind does not work that way.
As a teacher at a university I come to see that students "learn" by asking an LLM, but they forget to understand the content the LLM produces because the LLM actually solves the assignment (mostly) for them. One may say that's the teachers task to produce better questions, but the thing I most "struggle" with that getting educated as a student seems to just be a play of "gaming the system". Yes, it was similar during my time (learning how to reach your goal with as less effort as possible is a good part of the "education" at a university IMHO), but we actually had to think and understand while today just seems like prompt-and-copy.
