I get that there are some people who have anomalous abilities to self control, and i understand that they might have a hard time empathizing with those of us that dont have that level of control. However to chalk up the solution as be a better person, when in reality corporations are spending billions on research and design of addictive products is just short sighted.

We saw the same thing with smoking. Plenty of people said "meh, why cant the smoker just quit, I did". Which missed the point. The tabacco companies knew if they could get kids smoking at a young age it was less likely they'd ever quit.

Its naive to assume that the social media companies are not doing the exact same thing.

Yes there is room for individual accountability, but also we need to be realistic about the amount of energy that is being spent subverting people's attention and self control.

That is a is a pretty bold claim for a repo that existed for a few days, has 0 issues, PRs, etc...

> If you ignore what we tell you its possible we'll fire you. However, if you do everything we tell you to do its almost certain that we'll fire you.

What if? GitHub has is extremely buggy! I'm getting increasingly frustrated with the paper cuts that have become endemic across the entire platform. For example its not uncommon for one of our workflows to fail when cloning a branches of the repo they are running in.

Without a truly zero-trust compute platform its going to be difficult to get anyone to trust their workloads to a random compute resource that isn't carefully guarded.

It’s so odd for a tech focused crowed to be so opposed to newer technology.

Users are getting used to natural language search, not having it will be perceived as friction.

Users are increasingly turning to agentic coding tools, those tools do best when documentation is available via an MCP server. Not having one will make it harder for people to use your product.

Choline a key component in Acetylcholine is the primary neurotransmitter used in your hippocampus. Its an excitatory neurotransmitter meaning it turns neurons on. The hippocampus is a massive parallel feedback circuit that when over stimulated can and will begin to seize. In fact many people who suffer from seizures have over active hippocampal circuitry. Simply "flooding" the brain with more choline could have very very bad effects.

Likewise, taking choline might not work as the brain actively controls and regulates the contents of the cerebral spinal fluid. Unlike the rest of your body, the capillaries in the brain are not leaky, but instead are enshrouded in the blood-brain barrier and there are active transport proteins for anything that isn't lipid soluble.

Choline is actively transported into the brain and the brain has additional internal mechanisms to regulate the levels of choline.

Lastly, neurotransmitters aren't just floating around in the soup of your brain. They are released by specific neurons which are integrated into specific circuits. Parkinson's disease is a perfect example here. There is tiny region of the brain involved in regulating voluntary movements that is rich in dopamine neurons. For Parkinson's these neurons die off while the rest of the brain remains relatively strong. Simply putting dopamine into the brain doesn't fix the issue you need to up the dopamine released by these specific neurons.

The treatment here is l-dopa which is a precursor to dopamine which does this, but once those neurons are gone they're gone and there is little we can do to stop the disease.

So if this works for l-dopa why won't it work for choline? My guess is because of the tight regulation the brain has around choline levels as its needed to prevent the hippocampus from seizing up.

The devil in the details is how you pull something like this off. At the end of the day is boils down to how do you enforce that your team does the right thing. You can have a single person that enforces standards with an iron fist, but this doesn't scale. You can teach everyone how this should work, but you're going to experience drift over time as people come and go. Or you can enforce it using technology and automation.

In the cases of the first choice, its going to restrict how big your team can get and will end up eating all of the time of your one person.

In the case of the second choice, a combination of the tragedy of the commons and regression to mean will degrade the system to spaghetti code.

For the third scenario language choice matters here a lot. In Java with multi maven modules you can setup maven to forbid imports of specific module types allowing you to make modules as private/public. In Python you can't do any of this.

That said, denying people access to guns does result in fewer gun related fatalities.

In my docker files I use `uv sync` to install deps vs `pip install -f requirements.txt`

And then set my command to `uv run my_command.py` vs calling Python directly.

Then I gave it a try and it just worked! It’s so much better that I immediately moved all my Python projects to it.

Python dependency management and environments have been a pain for 15 years. Poetry was nice but slow and sometimes difficult.

Uv is lightning fast and damn easy to use. It’s so functional and simple.