“Gil Durán’s new book, The Nerd Reich, catalogs how tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel took over America.”

They’ll appoint a task force with Altman and Zuckerberg in charge.

Talk about a supply chain attack.

Sorry, I still use DSL.

Oh come on.

Shorter version: instead of wiki software, use a static site generated from a git repo. It’s a valid approach. I think emacswiki may have once worked that way. Note that Gitit uses git for version management, so among other things you can copy your whole wiki with git clone. But it also has a built in web editor instead of just relying on git push.

Making up jokes about whatever the upsetting situation is.

You might try Fossil then. It uses something like 2MB of server ram instead of gigabytes. It makes me wonder where we all went wrong.

Is it public facing in the sense that randos will edit it? If not, the simplest thing is probably fossil-scm.org which is very light weight, but it’s actually a version control system with a built in wiki, so its editing interface is a bit weird compared with Wikipedia. It is pretty fast though I’ve only played with it, not run anything public facing from it.

Setting up Mediawiki is more complicated but it does have a familiar interface. I don’t know how much tuning and configuration you have to do to allow it to handle a lot of traffic, but obviously with enough caching and stuff, it scales all the way up to Wikipedia level.

I’ve also used Gitit and I think MoinMoin but not with any significant amount of traffic. Gitit looks like Mediawiki while MoinMoin is retro, like 1990s style.

This doesn’t seem like a Not The Onion story. This lady had a temporary job at the World Trade Center at the time of the plane crashes. The morning of the attacks, she stopped at a CD shop on her way to work which would have delayed her arrival by a few minutes. During those minutes the planes hit, so she was saved by stopping to pick up a Mariah Carey CD. I’m glad she got lucky but it’s not the type of thing that the Onion would usually write about.

Purely Functional Data Structures by Chris Okasaki. It took the blinders off and I became a convert to functional programming.

This isn’t really a good place for that. It’s better to focus on spoken English. You can try watching some youtube videos in English, with captions either in English (makes it easier to understand the audio) or with translations to your own language. Better yet, hang out with English speakers in person, if you know any.

And the AI models are systematic distillations of… Uh never mind.

Nylon wallet. They wear out after a while but they don’t get as funky as leather ones. There is no BIFL wallet as far as I know, but maybe Kevlar or something would work if you don’t mind it scratching up your pants.

This might be of interest, though it talks about some fairly severe psychological issues that hopefully don’t apply to you:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting_(psychology)

Well it worked for Trump, messing with crypto and running for president. Hunter maybe has something similar going:

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/6073586-hunter-biden-says-i-may-have-to-run-in-2028/

Hunter running for president sounds lolworthy but Trump seemed the same way, so.

I don’t see many pros. I had a housemate (male) who was a self proclaimed nudist. He’d walk around the house naked and it wasn’t offensive or anything like that. It was just kind of annoying, passive-aggressive behaviour it seemed to me. He was a good guy in general, just a little too invested in non-conformity.

What has worked for me is setting a time rather than a deadline. It’s just like having an appointment at that time. You have to show up at the stated time, and that’s a separate matter from doing anything in particular once you’re there. But once the time is approaching, I find myself anticipating the task and even being eager to do it.

Deadline imho is the wrong idea, it means again putting the thing off to the last possible moment, and then being in a miserable crunch.

1. The “terrible twos” are called that for a reason.

2. You wrote “patenting” in the title instead of “parenting”. You might want to fix that!

One thing I do is intentionally procrastinate (postpone a task to a time that doesn’t feel like the present) but also make an “appointment” to get it done. E.g., decide that I’ll wash the dishes at 2pm which is a few hours from now, and set a phone alarm or similar to go off at that time. I actually find myself anticipating the alarm once 2pm is getting near, so when it finally sounds, I’ve been waiting for it and I’m ready to immediately silence the alarm and start the task. I kind of got the idea from here, and it helps:

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/on-time-management