- While drugs laced with fentanyl are also a problem, lots of people _do_ knowingly consume fentanyl. In fact, it has replaced Heroin in the US 'market', for example. It is also a contaminant in other drugs (cocaine, meth), due to how easy it is for fentanyl to stay in crevices, etc. It is also 'snuck in' to counterfeit pills, which is the only aspect you mention.

- The traffickers physically moving fentanyl into the country are overwhelmingly Americans. Pre 2019 traffickers used to get this straight from China, but stricter controls in China have shifted things to be staged in Mexico instead.

- The demand and traffickers are still largely American, and it is a "symbiotic" problem. US drug demand is empowering Mexican cartels and making everyday Mexicans less safe (the cartels also get most of their guns from the US). At the same time, powerful Mexican cartels mean it is much easier to "stage" fentanyl in Mexico then import it into the US than the older model of importing it directly from China.

"Best guess" can be bad if it is not well-defined, but you can still make error detection obvious rather than hidden.

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Zooming out, it's interesting how many (especially dev-focused) tools & frameworks have landing sites that are so incomprehensible to me. They look like marketing sites but don't even explain what the thing they're offering does. llms.txt almost sounds like a forcing function for someone to write something that is not just more suitable for LLMs, but humans.

This ties in to what others are saying: a good enough LLM should understand a resource that a human can understand, ideally. But also, maybe we should make the main resources more understandable to humans?

- the MIT Operating Systems Engineering OCW course [^1]

- specifically, Lecture #2 [^2] which describes the bootloader for 'xv6', a reimplementation of Unix v6, which does a great job showing what a solid OS with all the basics look like

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[^2]: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-828-operating-system-engineeri...

I haven't actively tried to monetize it (though I'd like to shift to income based on my own work rather than be tied to a company). I tried putting ads once in a while and it was ~decent but negligible, and kind of ruined the vibe. I have done a few one-off consulting things out of it and got some nice side-cash, but nothing meaningful.

What I do get is feeling engaged with the wider tech community. Seeing common questions and comments. A feeling that what I'm saying might resonate with some people. Interesting discussions on Twitter and HN. A few podcast invites, etc.

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1. say the moment he left the White House? "No wonder they hate us."

2. man say to the Arab woman at the bus stop? 'Your dad's the bomb!'

3. guy say when he saw a woman driving a car? "Finally, a woman who knows how to use a clutch."

hmmm

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Some folks in the replies mention just starting to code and while I totally agree, it was also helpful for me to understand... at least the concepts.

TBH when I started, the main way I did this was my finding a course on Udemy and watching it at 2x speed, still being bored out of my mind for huge chunks of it.

[0]: https://blog.eyas.sh/2020/10/unity-for-engineers-pt1-basic-c...

What would you change to make this a better desktop experience for you? Less of the full-width photos? Text that spans wider, or just lest line spacing?

- Say, I know what I want to build exactly where do I start? a.k.a -- What's the equivalent to starting at the DAO / API layer and building the integration later, in the gamedev world?

- I know I'd like to make games, where do I start coding?

I focused a lot in the article about that first question (and only briefly alluded to prototyping, etc.) -- mostly because I was interested in the theoretical question of engineering practices.