If it can automate your time by more than that it's a good trade.

Some examples are easier than others, like the mentioned 12/25. 12/12 is Saturday -> 25-12 is 13 more days -> same day as 1 before 12/12 -> Friday.

If you wanted to do some research or learn about post training and agent harnesses, is that a good option with these local models? What hardware is recommended, or easiest to go with a Mac Studio with 64GB+ RAM?

That was interesting. I was hoping for him to dive deeper into specific cases but I suppose the essay was long enough. Any other recommendations (potentially from https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/essays-and-articles.html#Laws)?

A friend showed me usb adapters from usb-c to lightning and I found that very helpful for usb-c -> micro as well to charge the kindle.

unfortunately it's not much different carrying an adapter around than carrying the cable; but I'll have a look at options, thanks

I have a single USB-C to USB-C cable for travel that has a permanently attached USB-A adapter on one side, and lightning and micro adapters (also attached) on the other end. Not as slick as just USB-C, but it’s a single cable that does power and data, along with a single USB-C brick, and since it does data it works in any rental car as well. Check them out!

just to be clear its a small piece like this https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-Adaptor-Charger-Extender-Sams... which I feel like is much easier to bring around than another cable, but I can see how it's annoying to have another dongle

Any specific highlight from Bogdan? Nothing jumped out from a quick skim.

He posted a list elsewhere in the thread, showing off his web-shop and stuff for mobile phones.

What I've used most over the years is his writing about GUI development.

https://defn.io/2019/06/17/racket-gui-saves/ helped me figure out some patterns I had trouble with and got me stuck in using Racket for this purpose in personal projects.

Later he added observables and threading logic, making it even nicer to build GUI, https://defn.io/2021/08/01/ann-gui-easy/ .

The core web development tools in Racket aren't exactly trivial to get started with until one is rather fluent with continuations so I've gained a lot from http-easy and Koyo, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS_0-lqiSVs.

Ctrl-f "racket" on his "Projects" page here, there's tonnes of stuff https://defn.io/page/projects/

> Text is actually numbers

Text can be represented by numbers but they aren't the same datatype. They don't support the same operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, etc).

There was a free tier of photos and videos under a certain resolution which didn't count towards your storage which they're removing.

I was under the impression that was only for Pixel phone owners - I suppose I was mistaken!

Although low resolution image uploads doesn't seem very useful for most people. The point of cloud storage is peace of mind to keep your data safe... and to me that implies the original photos not reduced resolution photos.

> Although low resolution image uploads doesn't seem very useful

They are still very high resolution. They're just not the original 50 MB file. It worked perfectly well for the overwhelming majority of people.

Pixel offered unlimited storage even for uncompressed photos, but that option was also discontinued a few years ago.

It's compressed not reduced resolution for most practical cases.

Those "free" photos and videos were still recompressed.

I was just reading about programmer's block / writer's block. This Quora answer https://www.quora.com/Do-programmers-suffer-from-Writers-Blo... gives a few helpful tips such as just write some functions to get you going and get the program to show output as quickly as possible (hello world, failing unit tests, whatever). Stopping when you've done the hard work of figuring out what to do next seems like a good technique as well. I don't think you should interrupt yourself mid-task though vs. pausing when you're ready for the next logical piece.

Wow that was a very interesting analogy and theory. Thanks for sharing! I've also never heard of SSC before. I saw the top 10 posts SSC lists in the about page, but do you have any other recommendations for articles relevant to the HN crowd?