I use these custom-molded ones for sleep. They're awesome. So comfortable. https://www.sensaphonics.com/products/solidsleep

if you’re not too locked into it (you’re not if you have CC), i’d recommend you check out urfave/cli.

I’m stealing this idea!

zazen is often practiced eyes open facing a wall

Nothing but respect for Tim Cook. I feel fortunate that a company as principled as Apple on privacy and human values holds a dominant position in computing and makes quality products. I once encountered him dining alone in Palo Alto, years ago. He struck me as a humble man, someone who happens to be gifted and has put that gift to good use. A beacon of light from Alabama. I’m grateful for his efforts, and hopeful that Ternus can carry the Apple legacy forward as the baton passes to the next generation.

Dissolution of a myth.

That’s one way to look at it. It’s fairly common to view nature this way. I wonder where it comes from.

I remember the time, in some film I watched, researchers intervened to save penguins trapped in a crater. A holy moment that was.

BBC Dynasties https://youtu.be/2Co_hmLenD8

Loved this series. It was tragic. The cycle of violence, trauma, isolation, male performance.

I haven't seen Chimp Empire, but it reminds me of the story of the Baboons where the alpha males died, and the entire society changed: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/teacher...

(It also features a very amusing photo at the top that makes it look like the subject is the biologist Robert Sapolsky.)

I'm interested in the second-order effects:

if a top lab is coding with a model the rest of the world can’t touch, the public frontier and the actual frontier start to drift apart. That gap is a thing worth watching.

Are you monitoring the size of your context windows? As they grow, so does the cost of every operation performed in that state.