I really don't see the advantages of getting a newer computer for the same price with worse specs, unless it's a gift and social customs only allow a new one.

[1]: https://www.rebuy.de/i,11380014/apple/apple-macbook-air-13-3...

Unlike knitting, I love its usefulness. There are so only many use cases for knitwear, but furniture, man, everyone needs furniture. And being in a home that I built by my two hands is infinite joy.

The three aspects where it falls short to knitting: - It can't be done mindlessly. It would be unsafe and you'd make costly mistakes that you can't undo by pulling on the yarn. - It's more expensive. The materials are a bit more pricy (compared to hours spent on working them), but the machines certainly are. - You are confined to space and time. Whether it's your garage or wood shop where you have machines and can make noise and dust, or it's your living room where you exclusively use hand tools – you surely can't do it in your car while waiting for the kids, or at the university, or on the public transport. Whittling small objects is the one exception.

But yes, woodworking is awesome.

> “I don’t think this could have happened in any country other than the U.S.,” Dr. Urnov said. > “We all said to each other, ‘This is the most significant thing we have ever done.’”

And then in the Discover More section is this article:

> Lab Animals Face Being Euthanized as Trump Cuts Research

Finally, the perfect example of AI-washing.

I've tried therapy with five different therapists in the last seven years. Every time I came away feeling the same, wondering if I'm doing it wrong or if I missed an instruction in primary school.

Can I get by without it? Apparently yes. Am I doing things more optimally with one? Marginally, at best.

I'm not informed enough to comment on the performance but I really like this attitude of not overselling your product but still claiming that you reached a milestone. That's a fine balance to strike and some people will misunderstand because we just do not assume that much nuance – and especially not truth – from marketing statements.

Probably people like Kokotajlo cared about the value of their equity but even more about their other principles, like speaking the truth publicly even if it meant their losing millions.

TeX stood the test of time and it was released as close to perfection as it gets in non-life-critical software. (One could argue it wasn’t perfectionism at work, but sound top-down design.)

Output contains double-double quotes if the input has double quotes:

  "1",
  ""2"",
  "3"

Note that using Obsidian for work in a for-profit company with >1 employees requires a Professional license for $50/yr.

But if you ever do a randomized test with a suitable linear model to estimate the efficacy of these two methods, do let us know, that would be 10/10 :)

[1]: https://lindeloev.github.io/tests-as-linear/#41_one_sample_t...