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IKR? My favorite part was:

Little baby windows “are owu sure you want to dewete candy crush?”

Linux: hands you a gun “Do it. You are god” Eldridge horror sounds

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less than 5% of Americans support using economic strong-arming, and less than 1% support military force for Greenland or Canada (source below). Annexing is overwhelming unpopular for both conservatives and liberals. The people, including people in the military, will revolt if Trump uses force to annex any country. And the people of Canada and Greenland have made it very very clear: force will be necessary.

No comment from me about the rest. Expectations can be bad but keep them in check.

https://angusreid.org/canada-51st-state-trump/

Fair enough 😁 but think of the portability

My guess, 10,000x the cost on CL1. Even with the tech perfected, bio neurons fire much much slower than logic gates and electricity in a circuit board. If you have an ASIC (custom built board that isn’t really using a CPU), the ASIC would be much much faster for deterministic calculations at high speed with an active cooling system.

Bio neurons are great at self-organizing. If you already know how they need to be organized (e.g. a hashing algorithm), and you need max-speed output there’s no real advantage.

It’s not wrong to say bio neurons are power efficient, its just that power efficiency depends on what the activity is.

Don’t worry all neurons are cage free, grass fed, open range

For real though, where the neurons come from is as interesting/impressive as the computation itself. The guys at Cortical, at least in prototyping, give blood samples, revert blood cells into a stem cell state, and then (over the course of 6 months) they convert their stem cells into neurons before putting them into a dish. (To be clear, Cortical did not invent the stem cell tech at all. Apparently its standard practice and nobody in the bio engineering world cared to tell the rest of the world.)

Meaning… You could theoretically build a computer out of your own neurons and then program them.

The neurons in the machine (or at least the prototypes idk about every CL1) are neurons from the lab lead (Hans). And he has given consent 😁

I’ll ask them, I happen to see them in a zoom meeting occasionally.

I very very very much doubt its a new machine, however you might need to send your machine back to get it refilled as I imagine there is a precise integration between bio neurons and electrical hardware.

You actually legit feed it snacks haha. There’s a nutrient mixture/sludge to keep them alive.

Sounds good. Given its creeky all over the place, I’ll probably try mapping out the joists first. I’ll (hopefully) post an update after my attempt.

Thanks for the advice!

Blue heeler!

Yeah I’d say that’d be pretty tough with carpet

Nope, unfortunately

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For a post that sparks good answers that I’m happy to see, I’m sad to see the post itself have so many down votes.

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I get this, but

Why not say “I get this, and …” ?

I don’t think the idea of a learn-as-you-go editor goes against the idea of watching skilled devs with their favorite tool

Input speed is not “just” input speed.

Note: I’m not about to argue for or against modal editors, I just want to answer: why is input speed really really really important, when (we agree) its not a big percent of total time.

5min at 80mph over a bumpy dirt path is very very different than 5min of flat smooth straight driving. And not just because of effort.

A senior and junior dev could spend the same amount of time to rename a var across 15 files, move a function to a new file, comment out two blocks, comment one back in, etc. But. When I try to have a conversation while they do that, or when I change my mind and tell the junior to undo all that, its a massive emotional drain on the junior.

But effort isn’t the whole picture either: speed is a big deal because pausing a conversation/mental thought for 5 seconds while you wait to finish some typing, is incredibly disruptive/jarring to the thought-process itself. That’s how edge cases get forgotten, and business logic gets missed.

Slower input is not merely input time loss, it also creates time loss in the debugging/conceptualizing stages, and increases overall energy consumption.

If the input is already fast enough that there’s no “pauses in the conversation” then I’d agree, there’s not much benefit in increasing input speed further. BUT there’s almost always some task, like converting all local vars (but not imported methods) in a project to camel case, that are big enough to choke the conversation, even for a senior dev. So there’s not necessarily a “good enough” point because it’s more like decreasing how often the conversation gets interrupted.

Don’t Speculate

Go to Twitch/YouTube. Watch a senior Vim/Jetbrains/Emacs/VS Code/Helix dev churn out code for a hackathon/advent-of-code, and see what you are (or are not!) missing out on.

If you have “how the hell did they just do that” moments, figure out what that feature is, and STEAL IT. If its too hard to steal, then maybe you are being limited by your editor. Base your “fear of missing out” on what you see rather than random people tossing their opinions around. Only you can answer “how much is that feature worth to me and my workflows?”

• If you’re going to try modal editors, sooner is exponentially better. Probably start with Vim bindings for VS Code.
• If you’re not going to go modal, then make absolutely sure you don’t bottom out. To be frank, Ctrl+D is the tip of the iceberg. Half the benefit of modal editors is, mastery is mandatory; they chase you around with a 10k volt taser until you’ve got 100 instinctual shortcuts. Hardly anyone mentions this but Go beyond/outside your editor: At the OS level, use spacebar as a modifier key, where holding spacebar converts your WASD into arrow keys. Then disable your normal arrow keys. Something like that will get you vim-like benefits, but in every app, and with a learning bump instead of a learning mountain. For VS Code, get cursor jumper extensions like Mario (block jumper), get cursor-alignment extensions, write boatloads of custom code snippets, get a macro record+replay extension, make a jump-to-next quote, jump to next bracket, install sequential number generator extension, a case change (camel case, snake case, etc) extension, sort lines, case-preserving rename. If you can avoid bottoming out, and keep learning, you’ll likely never feel that you are missing out on whatever modal editor people are swearing by.