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Asimov said this was his favorite thing he ever wrote, and it addresses this same idea.

The Last Question - Isaac Asimov - Read by Leonard Nimoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XOtx4sa9k4&t=544s&ab_channe...


The Last Question - Isaac Asimov - Read by Leonard Nimoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XOtx4sa9k4&t=544s&ab_channe...

Even if the longevity obsessed manage Earthly immortality, non-existence will forever loom.

Will they be happy with 100 years? 500? 1 million? Non-existence remains a theological not scientific hurdle.


agreed. not everything that's true is wise.



Being a 10x engineer can come from either:

- 10x productivity yourself - Adding 2x to five 1x engineers

Non-technical management will never appreciate the engineering multipliers like Tim


ChatGPT got the snail one wrong over and over, not parsing that on the 16th day there will be no night for the snail to fall back down 4 meters:

Let's analyze the snail's progress:

During the day, the snail climbs 5 meters upwards. During the night, it slides 4 meters downwards.

So, in a day, the snail effectively moves 5 - 4 = 1 meter upwards.

To calculate the number of days required for the snail to reach the top of the well, we need to determine how many 1-meter increments are necessary to cover the remaining distance of 20 meters.

20 meters / 1 meter = 20 days

Therefore, it will take the snail 20 days to reach the top of the well.



imho software engineers are the most susceptible to the hyperactivity that often leads to these types of maladies - which ultimately flips from “working 100 miles an hour” to “only able to work 2 hours a day”, aka burnout

Byungchul Han is what’s been saving me - almost like philosophical therapy. has helped me to realize the societal origins of a lot of the expectations i inflict on myself

hope his frameworks might help others!

https://youtu.be/BX-FK_Rmzjc


I agree on this!



Where is .cloneDeep? That alone is mainly what I use lodash for.

Even though JS is pass by value, if you pass an object, the other nested objects will still be references to its predecessor.


We used `cloneDeep` heavily at a previous role, it isn't particulary fast - so be careful if you cloning very big objects (1mb+). There are faster options out there such as https://github.com/davidmarkclements/rfdc or even https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/structuredC...


I like `fast-copy`. Never had an issue with that.


Technically it's called call-by-sharing.


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