Thoughts

When I open zsf.zulipchat.com, the backend serializes the ids of all 49,000 message that have been sent in that channel as part of the initial web request. If I click on the notifications channel, the client starts sending off on fetch request for each of those 49,000 messages, causing me to get rate-limited (429 Too Many Requests) after less than 200, completely breaking the application.

users), surely they, being the Zulip developers, would have fixed it. But no, 2.57s.

It's because they serialize a megabyte of JSON data into the page. My internet is crazy fast, but it just takes Python that long to generate the page.

good video editor.

(from Tiger Style) The difference is that to web developers, time itself is treated as a resource. This is not wrong necessarily (since a web request that hangs for 1s is bad no matter what), but sometimes "time as a resource" modeling is used as a substitute for actually modelling the other resources.

temptation to make it not an *issue*, instead of trying to make it performant code. Caching, background jobs, batching, etc.

"If you have a failed attempt and you did not get the async line...[you should] see whether the invisible chunk is still invisible." Yeah of course. It would be a big problem if the invisible chunk wasn't invisible. That would be bad. What's an async line?

and titled "Beginner-friendly Tutorial: Command Block Items in Survival" uh huh He's like: "at the end here [a observer] blinks" > observer is not blinking "but you can only see that it blinks if you right click it" > right clicks it > observer disappears "okay usually these observers would blink, but right now just turned into air because async observer lines sometimes do weird stuff" => https://youtu.be/Glg-K2N4g5Q?t=294 Okay also, I'm not a poser I watched some stuff on command blocks in survival when SciCraft did it, but that does not mean I understood everything.

application" like brugh. Who cares it's the coolest thing I've ever seen.

There's a scene in Mull's Five Kingdoms where Jace, a former child slave, after being freed, is very rude to a slave serving them in a cafe. And Cole (from our world, was in slavery for like a month or two) rebukes him, and Mira (also been a slave for a while, also the princess, also 11 years old), is like, "he's processing the fact that he was treated rudely as a slave, you have to cut him some slack because of that." And think some of Ron's attitude towards the house-elves is interesting when viewed through that lens. He's always been from the poor family that doesn't have a house elf, and now he's being served by house elves, and he's unwilling speak against that. The obvious difference is that Ron wasn't a house elf, but he's also not outwardly mean to house elves. He sees no one changing the system to help him, and so he asks why he should change the system to help someone else. I think the other thing that makes the comparison interesting is that Jace and Ron are both good guys, they both are helpful and do make the right decisions. But you get the impression that they maybe wouldn't do it alone. Their loyalty is to their friends. Jace wants to protect Mira (and Mira wants to overthrow the king) and Ron wants to protect Harry (and Harry wants to overthrow Voldemort).

https://youtu.be/plNiMYeHI4Q?t=198 "I—" *pause* *look at camera out of corner of eye* *one hand off mic* "well yeah" So fricking good

-Work, Jars of Clay “I have no fear of drowning, it’s the breathing that’s taking all the work” Today after making the post about persistent tightness in my chest I wondered if I could stop breathing, just kill myself by holding my breath.

On those days, I attempt to cajole myself into going by reminding myself that the structure of putting on formal clothes and sitting still and listening to someone talk and singing with other people is good. And while, even at my most atheistic, I believe that those things are good, those things may not be good reasons to go to church. That is, going to church in order to participate in a live music concert is not a good reason to go to church and you will likely be disappointed. Which is interesting because it’s counter intuitive. Surely if live music is good and belief in God is neutral, then going to church for the music is good. But then you end up as BSN I guess.

a physical aspect too. Like it just sucks.

This post is about the Batman villain the Joker (even the different forms that character has taken in my lifetime), but it's mostly about the Minecraft YouTuber ClownPierce. (art by birdonaplatter.tumblr.com)

surrealist arguments. What's the difference between being a surrealist and being anti-rational?

(Implying that compiled languages aren't worth using because they don't provide faster-than-linear speedups.) Which is super super interesting because it's so obviously wrong in the sense that the linear difference between Ruby and Zig is very frequently 1,000x and it turns out that linear differences of even 10x are significant in real world applications. But there's also an argument that it's insightful because there are applications that don't care about linear performance where Ruby is used. I used to be in the "linear performance doesn't matter" camp, but I didn't understand just how significant the performance differences can be.

> The main goal of the esbuild bundler project is to bring about a new era of build tool performance - esbuild.github.io/ Talk about success. Also: > Go can be lightning fast, but only if you leave idiomatic Go behind. https://avittig.medium.com/golangs-big-miss-on-memory-arenas-f1375524cc90 What excites me about Zig is how close performant code and idiomatic code are.

Matthias's programming language of the day is Scarpet, a language developed by Gnembon as a scripting language for Minecraft.

interesting which hasn't existed before. Someone at formerly at Bun left, in part because of forced-AI culture, preceding Bun's acquisition by an AI company for a lot of money.

life that I cannot change and there is very little about my life that I have thought to change which I have not changed. My life and my ideal imagined version of my life are very similar in a large number of material facets. But I'm still unhappy. And I don't have any other ideas for what to change. So I think that's where my feeling of hopelessness comes from. I can imagine a lot that that's different from this, but it's hard to imagine much better.