> if anything, by most traditional forms of evaluating software quality, the projects I work on are better than what they were 5, 10 years ago, using the same metrics as back then.

In this side sentence you're introducing so much vagueness. Can you share insights to get some validation on your claim? What metrics are you using and how is your code from 10, 5, 0 years performing?

I feel throwing in a vague claim like that unnecessarily dilutes your message and distracts from the point. But, if you do have more to share I'd be curious to learn more.

haha, I'm sitting in a very crusty corporate environment right now and your comment made me chuckle. I get where you're coming from though, of course!

But the discussion in the article is not about performing to a high level in order to accomplish a certain outcome (win the match), it's more about exploring one self and honing a certain talent to reach deeper levels of self-expression and self-actualization: OP has a unique way of playing the piano, and they honed it by pouring love and time into it. They would probably not perform super well in some kind of piano contest where you need to play by ear, for example. And that's not the point I got.

Everyone can principally pour love and time into any domain or activity. A 1.50m tall person can explore and hone their basketball talent in order to form a deeper understanding of that part of themselves and share it with the world.

Reminds me of the meme where a kid is dropping tears on the math assignment sheet, "when you do homework with your dad". Forcing kids to spend time on something is an effective way to spoil it for them.

Exploring [math] from a place of curiosity, openness, joy - so, love - is to act out of alignment.

This also means that you need to start from within to develop your talent. What are you curious about, what excites you? Doesn't matter if that's math, obscure bird species or screws.

There's a compounding effect here, once you're deep enough in a couple domains you're starting to see their commonalities and less explored nuances at the domain boundaries.

At some point I switched to the more common setting (I assume) of having the map rotate.

Made me think of how much more accurate the end to end process of putting up that map has to be vs. maps oriented by "north is up".

Just imagine the map needs to be moved by 10m and rotated around for some last minute restructuring of the park before finalizing the project.

Anyway, it was fun to read these maps and think about how many assumptions we carry around that are shaped by objects around us we use daily.

Apparently this quote has been attributed to an Uncle Zeke :) [0]

[0]: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/02/23/judgment/

FTFY

The lore created around TPP was insanely good and captivating, like ascribing god-like status to certain Pokémons and finding funny interpretations of in-game events and random Pokémon names

Bird Jesus, ATV, Lord Helix :D

https://helixpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Gen_1_(Pokemon_Red)

It's not a great example (and the best I have on hand)... but the Rick and Morty episode where Morty meets the Knights of the Sun and similar groups from other celestial bodies shows elements of this as well.

I have the impression people on average were way more gullible the further you look back in time. I wonder then if LLMs suffer from a lack of data about such cases that may have been common in the past but became obsolete before the internet became mainstream.

Urdu/Hindi and probably lots of other languages in that cultural region have plenty of loanwords from Persian

I am well aware that English borrowed plenty of words originating from non-Latin scripts, however based on your phrasing I thought you are saying something more than that is going on.

When a word is borrowed from a non-Latin script into English what else could happen other than adapting/borrowing the foreign pronunciation+spelling into English as well?

can you share a couple examples of words borrowed with foreign, non-Latin script? I'm having trouble imagining how this could look like

They will only accept credit cards, not debit cards. Unless you also agree to pay for their shady and useless insurance (useless because typically the broker already offers better and cheaper insurance, so in this case you double pay).