This was a wild ride. I'm torn on whether this feels like the Reader is bloated/polluted or whether this is the coolest numerical parser I've ever used. You can really do a lot to coerce the these numbers just by inserting an {o,s,e,i,b,#} into the number, with different semantics depending on the position of the character.

Somewhat overwhelming, I can only hope there's some elegance underlying it all...

Often times an interesting novel will prompt me to study the cultural context independently.

There was still tremendous value in exposing myself to Dostoyevsky as a teenager. I have observed myself make the same mistakes as his characters, blinded in the moment by emotion. He had so much insight into human nature - but even if forewarning doesn't prevent us from folly, it can highlight a path to acceptance, repentance or redemption that otherwise may take a lifetime of self-reflection.

I don't mean that in a religious context, if that matters.

Also just learned about compose key apparently, and I noticed that I can program this split keyboard I'm using to turn that into a chord, anywhere!

Then an LLM told me that I can 3D print my own custom keyboard with 32 programmable layers. Everything is an infinite rabbit hole these days, how wild.

However I've only ever used regular dashes. How do you type an em-dash? Is it OS specific? I've taken to using Emacs insert-char with a list of frequently used ones in my scratch buffer. My memory for Unicode is unreliable.

One simply change to improve the experience is to keep the Next/Back at fixed locations. The animations and transitions are beautiful, and looking away to chase the moving buttons causes me to drop the visual context.

As a workaround I set the height of .tour-body to 900px and the the whole thing became so much more immersive, like the old planetariums.

Even if these are contrived examples this is one of those things that could become completely ubiquitous as a cheap solution to problems that only seem obvious in hindsight.

Either that or we'll never see this tech again, it feels like there's no middle ground. I wonder how the cost scales up for mass production

30 minutes ago it was on the front-page, now I can't find it listed in the top 200.

The counter example they gave was the elephant - but this video [1] of elephants walking looks to me like "bunny hands", at least to a degree.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf1K63tc1bY

The article is interesting but it's difficult for me to really picture the implications of the article. Actually after reading it I get the feeling that what I was visualizing is entirely contrary to what they are trying to convey to me.

I suspect it's a generational gap.

I went down a few rabbit holes on the site - is this program also written in Basic?