it could probably work as well to close your eyes instead of staring at a wall.

i've always found meditation types revolving around focusing on one thing (candle, wall etc), or nothing (empty mind) to be really hard. my mind just wanders and i end up super anxious, frustrated, and exhausted - resulting in me giving up pretty quickly

What I've found is that focusing on "everything" - ie sitting still and trying to observe your surroundings, your body, all sounds simultaneously seems to work much better. It's easier to get to a calm state this way.

Also, doing this while walking can also work - but perhaps easier to accidentally start thinking about something else

Kind of off-topic - but why is there always so much focus amongst AI-bros on how good or whether or not LLMs are good at building UI? My shallow assumptions were that the reason is because that's what LLMs are particularly bad at.

But lately I've kind of gotten the sense that a lot of people seem to mostly be building UI stuff with LLMs. Weird.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260421113202/https://lawsofsof...

If you are saying you _can_ fix 90-99% of performance bottlenecks eventually with caching, that may be true, but doesn't sound as nice

EU is often portrayed as overly bureaucratic, slow moving. The way this app was developed seems more in the line of "move fast, break things".

I don't know if that says something about the EU, or about the EU-naysayers, but I thought it was worth pointing out.

Yeah, I can imagine it being annoying that sqashing in that case wipes the author attribution, when not everybody is doing PRs against the main branch.

However, calling all squash-merge workflows "stupid" without any nuance.. well that's "stupid" :)

The ecological win definitely looks nice on paper, but whenever people talk about compost the carbon footprint / gas emissions is always at the front of people's minds, and I don't really see that discussed in the article.

The article does say

> Especially since, in addition to the double-win of dealing with waste and revitalising barren landscapes, richer woodlands also sequester greater amounts of carbon from the atmosphere – meaning little plots of regenerated land like this could ultimately help save the planet.

How long will it take for it to cross the CO2-neutral mark? Maybe a silly question, definitely not my area of expertese.

I don't necessarily interpret the comment you replied to as saying that "taste is not important", which seems like what you are replying to, just that it's not the only remaining thing.

I agree that taste gets you far. And I agree with all the examples of good taste that you brought up.

But even with impeccable taste, you still need to learn, try things, have ideas, change your mind etc.. putting all of that in the bucket of "taste" is stretching it..

However, having good taste when putting in the effort, gets your further than with effort alone. In fact, effort alone gets you nowhere, and taste alone gets you nowhere. Once you marry the two you get somewhere.

you seem pretty convinced that intelligence plays an important role in natural selection. I'd argue that decisiveness, confidence, looks, social skills all play a more important role. (I'm not saying that's a good thing)

I'm interested in understanding your point of view, can you elaborate on what you mean by "There is no joke in that"?

edit: nm, rtfm, it was on the landing page: Horizon Europe programme

the upside this is a great opportunity to do an early bed time

But it's weird to me to call this a "ratchet", and not just a custom lint rule. Since it sounds exactly like a lint rule.

The hard-coded count also sounds a bit like something that I would find annoying to maintain in the long run and it might be hard to get a feeling for whether or not the needle is moving in the right direction. - esp. when the count goes down and up in a few different places so the number stays the same.. you end up in a situtation where you're not entirely sure if the count goes up or down.

A different approach to that is to have your ratchet/lint-script that detects these "bad functions" write the file location and/or count to a "ratchets" file and keep that file in version control.

In CI if the rachet has changes, you can't merge because the tree is dirty, and you'd have to run it yourself and commit it locally, and the codeowner of the rachet file would have to approve.

at least that would be a slightly nicer approach that maintaining some hard-coded opaque count.

Though, I generally run these scripts using bun (and the corresponding `$` in bun) - basically the same thing, but I just prefer bun over deno

The biggest differentiator of design thinking is really addressing the XY problem. In 95% of cases clients will come to you to design their solution. Ie they already think they have a solution to their problem and now they want it to look good.

Design thinking is basically more like root cause analysis, or the 5 why's.. and an emphasis on taking to end users (the people with the problem) without having a solution.

Once you understand the problem more fundamentally is only when you start cooking up with a solution.

And the result of that process might not even be a traditional design, but perhaps just a tweak to something, like moving your onboarding to later in the ca process..

In practice however.. 95% of designers who say they practice design thinking disregard this, and just want to design wherever the client asks for