See also VO2 max

Nicely done

I don’t know why people tie themselves in knots over this. If you have money and you want to give it to a homeless person then do it.

That's the crux of the problem, isn't it: should you want to?

No, that's the crux of the problem as framed by purported rationalists including EA.

The real existential question, once you jerk off into the cosmological mirror for long enough, will still be "do you want to?"

"Should you want to?" What does that even mean? Wanting is a thought. There is no thought you should have. Have the thoughts you have and act on them. Period.

I blame the move to lead free fuel.

My 5yo enjoyed Alba: A wildlife adventure. It’s not co-op but it’s not skill based and impossible to ‘die’. The camera angle can be hard for a little one to manage and I had to read all the dialogue. We still had fun with it though.

What does clean room mean in this context? Never decompiling the target?

"Clean room" reverse engineering basically has you with two completely separate groups of developers. One group will decompile and analyze the target software, and build a detailed specification of how it works. The second group, with legal, sworn documents that they have never seen even the machine code of the target software - uses those specifications to build the "clone".

Usually clean room mean those writing the code and people who decompiling are different people. So code is written against specification.

So no it's unlikely to actually be fully clean room project, but written from scratch.

This is not a FE thing. Plenty of BE devs who don't know HTTP from their arsehole.

Don't forget us over in hpc and embedded! What are these web things, and why do have stacks of them? But more seriously, I'm a very experienced systems programmer but I like stuff like eframe and trunk because it lets me serve up a gui I write in rust like it was a native app as a wasm page without having to know anything at all about web stuff or how many stacks to put the web thingies in. Perhaps someday the wasi will bypass all the js and html deep magic I don't understand, but not yet.

I rarely do any of that, usually my abstractions are container layers, a libc, and then a kernel between me and registers and dma. But that is a lot more layers than you'd think. I can't even understand the boot process on a modern machine with tpm. And i have no clue how many processors or controllers are in my computer. Every usb controller has an entire arm core in it, mice and keyboards have 8051 running c-ish code someone somewhere wrote, there is no bottom to the complexity.

I am technically q full stack dev and I don't grok how aspnet core actually generates the web requests. It's layers upon layers of magic to me.

Similar with mediatr, I know conceptually that it "just" checks for the right classes in the loaded assemblies. But still feels like some weird incantation to use, to me. And I have such huge knowledge holes across all layers.

Sometimes i feel my lack of knowledge to such a degree, that I question whether I should even be a programmer.

I love this. I'd love to hear more on how you build this

Because landing on the moon is hard

We need a descriptor for the ideas people come home from Bali with :). I'm teasing, but in good spirit. All the best with your new path!!

Thanks! I didn't get the idea in Bali, but decided to start working on it while I was there.