They probably do keep records, but something doesn't have to be perfect in order to be better.

I read something that put it into perspective for me. Musk's current net worth is ~ $1 trillion. He could mess up and destroy 99% of his wealth and he would still be worth $10 billion.

If he did something stupid again and lost 99% of the remaining 1%, he would still be worth $100 million.

It would take him screwing up a third time and losing 99% once again to be down to a middle-class net worth of $1 million.

If you knew up front it was a $12 fix, do you think you would have decided to just live with the scroll bar? Would have tried to fix it yourself? Do you think you would have been able to easily find and fix the problem?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/koyNVSD2vyU

There were many performative hot takes at the time. The best part though, for me, was coach Nick Sirianni defending him when asked about it after the game. Sirianni said:

> Some guys pray in between, some guys mediate in between. A.J. reads in between. Whatever these guys need to do to put their mind in a place where they can play with great detail and great effort, I fully encourage them to do that

Is this something Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, or any of the other big AI investors are close to solving?

It's been a while so I went through my plugins settings. About half of the core plugins are enabled and I've never enabled community plugins.

The responses to your post on x are pretty disheartening. So many zero-effort replies along with gems like "make it simple like Notion".

I think they jumped the shark with the canvas feature. They had to add a non-markdown file to the directory system and signaled that they were okay moving on from the original idea. Obsidian has only gotten fatter since then.

Canvas and the other big changes are all interesting ideas, but they should be a separate product or products. IMHO, Obsidian should be recognized as complete and go into a maintenance mode where stability, security, and performance are the development goals.

I think they worry that if they slow down, their paying customers (of which I am one) will jump ship. For some of us, it's the opposite.

I used it mostly as an archive for long term storage where I could find things easily and it was pleasant to use. When it was $36 / year it made sense for me. I probably only used it a dozen or two times every year so it cost me roughly $1 / session.

Then they quadrupled the price for me and paying $4 to dig out my TSA known traveler number was too much. I loaded it all into another application (Obsidian which is going downhill as well).

Everybody knows.

Musk is a snake oil salesman (that’s been clear since the self-driving car promises) but he also has made a lot of people a lot of money and that’s all anybody really cares about.

None of his companies have a traditionally reasonable valuation. Is there any reason to think that’s going to change soon?

For the language of the web I'd probably nominate HTML.

For the language of the internet it's a lot less clear to me.

For example, both of these return the 3rd element of a std::vector:

    auto val1 = vec[3];     // no bounds checking
    auto val2 = vec.at(3);  // bounds checking

Set a reasonable bar for grades or SAT scores and then use other criteria beyond that gate.