[0]: https://blog.whilenot.dev/posts/cool-bugs-vs-shitty-bugs-par...

[0]: https://hackaday.com/2023/08/16/new-motherboard-improves-old...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37174147

A book, like any media, fulfilled its initial purpose after it has been "consumed" - anything else (looks nice, feels nice, smells nice) are physical, subjective qualities attached to it. You might even buy it solely for these physical qualities, but that's besides the point.

A machine has its purpose in its usage, and that usage requires known resources that should not be carelessly wasted. I personally buy them to enable a utility for myself and have fun discovering it. It fulfilled its initial purpose even if it was powered on just once.

Even those single-board computers that were put to "good use", as building blocks for new devices (eg. [0]), are still not in use the whole time.

[0]: https://www.creativeapplications.net/objects/paragraphica-co...

Would such a predictive model really be possible? As far as I'm aware there is contradicting research whether a specific phenotype distinctly originates from a SNP/genotype.

Backend and frontend can be separate runtimes... The backend could be an API-only-server and an OS process with all permissions that come with it (reading env vars during execution as it pleases). The frontend, eg. a React SPA, could just be a bunch of built HTML/CSS/JS-files (type-checked, bundled, minified, etc.), served through a static file server (separate backend, nginx?) and interpreted through a browser engine on the client.

Are you asking for nginx to parse the served HTML/CSS/JS-files and replace unknown placeholders with env var values? If so you are prob asking for a SSR framework[0], meaning a backend that treats a React project similar to template files, and is able to inject env vars?

[0]: Next.js - https://nextjs.org/docs/app/building-your-application/config...

*: every 1st or 15th of the month is common

[0]: https://www.usp.gv.at/en/mitarbeiter/beendigung-arbeitsverha...

[1]: https://www.usp.gv.at/en/mitarbeiter/beendigung-arbeitsverha...

[2]: https://www.wko.at/service/arbeitsrecht-sozialrecht/Anspruch...

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_grinding

[1]: https://www.bafasan.com/en/images/kke/kke2.png

[2]: https://www.zeiss.com/semiconductor-manufacturing-technology...

I should write more.

C++ addons for Node.js are not part of the JavaScript runtime.

[0]: https://maps.laerminfo.at/

seems like you already made up your mind, so why bother?

TypeScript is helpful (or at least meant to be) for teams as it aims to block the cleverness of its individual contributors. Especially people only familiar with dynamic type systems are rather fighting a static type checker at first and "it's not helping them". A "strong" type checker should enforce everyone to write stuff in a simpler form and that gets in the way of productivity for some people.

If you can maintain your mindset and write your code in a simple form that could easily satisfy a type checker (coming from rust), then why bother with additional tooling if it won't provide more value to you? Or to phrase it differently: if you can maintain a strong mindset with confidence, bringing in additional tooling for that project later on, when it will be become plausible, won't be that hard. But if you doubt your mindset, it might be a helpful choice to let a type checker look over your shoulder from the beginning.

I think Brendan Gregg's books[0][1] are quite inspiring for an understanding of a system with its inner workings, and provide information about various tools one can use to dissect a system and get some actual output in an automated way.

[0]: https://www.brendangregg.com/systems-performance-2nd-edition...

[1]: https://www.brendangregg.com/bpf-performance-tools-book.html

[0]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/helvum

[1]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/rncbc/qpwgraph

[2]: https://kx.studio/Applications:Catia

> language enables intelligence

was just a poor choice of words here. i understood GP as "the structure of a language influences its speakers' worldview or cognition, and thus people's perceptions are relative to their spoken language"[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity

Interesting take. I always look at it like "now you have a better solution for your modeling needs".

I would also question you're mentioned frequency to update packages tbh. Just pin a stable version with a lock file, track the required node engine and use an OCI image to provide just enough reproducibility. I never had to do anything more than cd-ing into a directory and run npm ci after coming back to a project for a few years now.

An organized home means to do things right away. If the laundry is done and dried, then I'll put them away (organize them) immediately. I don't wait for other things (eg. the dishwasher) that need to be tidied up. If I service my bicycle in one room and leave a mess, then I'll clean it up right away and don't necessarily include other rooms in that cleaning cycle. But on the other hand, if I spot some dust in one room, I'll just grab the hover and go through the whole flat.

Actions can be separate, and so can scope and effort.

I feel a house is best managed when effort and scope are low, so it is in my best interest to keep it that way. If my task becomes the action to tidy my home, then I know something went wrong.

People are different, aren't they? On one side I have a friend living in Austria for about a decade now and he still complains that quite some information isn't available in English. He doesn't even see the irony as an Italian, makes no attempt to learn the official language (German) and continuously makes fun of any explanation I'm trying to give on why a specific German term would be used in a certain context. On the other hand there are people like me, who moved to Norway for about a year and frequently felt like shit that I didn't make a proper attempt to learn its official language (started a course there next to my study, but didn't finish it). I was amazed that every Norwegian I encountered was able to speak English on a very high level. Me not learning the official language, but still trying to achieve some kind of future there, really made me feel foreign and my failed attempt to learn that nations official language remained a lasting feeling of lost time. I would never consider to complain that some documents aren't available in English.