Well, direnv isn't a python specific tool.

Yup - hard agree on all the Python parts, but I'll happily recommend direnv wherever possible. It doesn't do much, but it brings a ton of sanity and simplicity to shell env without including any installers - it's just an activator, and a very simple one, so it'll survive next year's python and npm and etc tool flavors with no issues.

> detecting these rings is doable

You've just done it.

Flag an account negative, chase the loop (spiral?).

To my other point about API to these systems, it's rad because you can build your own accept/reject groups.

Don't even need AI to detect your "out group" - FastText is good enough to filter.

Not a service but I'm just happy to have a "noise machine" (aka Social Network) that has great API access.

All of these things are so Loud, so API is like the only way to get what I want out of the Game.

For reference elder care facility in CA Metro Area is like $20k/MO and in MA suburb is like $11k/mo.

At $15k/mo you can get like 65 months of service.

Not counting income from savings or SSI

$20K/MO sounds exaggerated. A quick Google gives me

Palo Alto was deemed the seventh most expensive location for assisted living in California, according to a new study by Mirador, a platform that helps people research nationwide assisted living locations.

The average yearly cost of assisted living in Palo Alto is $91,177, compared to the state average of $63,927, according to the study.

Source: From https://www.paloaltoonline.com/seniors/2024/10/04/study-reve....

I think the issue with elder care is about the balance of workers vs retirees, which is an problem (or will be a problem) in most developed countries.

That’s pretty damning if life expectancy after retirement is another 15-20 years.

Sure! You don't have to ask to ask here, you can just post.

Nobel in chemistry winner Kary Mullis died in Nov 2019 and spoke before then about how the pcr test he invented was not a proper viral diagnostic tool.

https://ufile.io/dn2yzfm5

(2 short youtube videos and his book)

> inherent inefficiency of the virtual DOM

I was around when vDOM was being called optimized.

I was also around when they called it DHTML.

Get off my lawn!

Same (I started writing JavaScript when it was called LiveScript in the Netscape betas), and I remember how the vDOM hype was conspicuously short on rigorous benchmarks – people would compare it to heavyweight frameworks which did things like touch elements repeatedly or do innerHtml cycles and say it was fast.

I remember when all web pages were set in Times New Roman on a gray background. Unless you were browsing the web using a console application.

More specifically, they would use the default font, which IE in particular had set to Times New Roman, so that is what most people saw. To add insult to injury, there was no way to configure it for a very long time.

To this day I wonder if this particularly strange choice of a serif font that is very clearly intended primarily for printed documents rather than on-screen legibility is why this entire notion of using user-selected fonts for web pages has largely withered. What if they went with, say, Verdana instead?

Same, except my web backgrounds were in sepia. I had one of those old sepia monochrome monitors, so no grey for me. Or colors for that matter.

I even made my first website on that monitor (complete with animated gifs and <blink>, of course) - and seeing it finally on a color monitor was... interesting.

When was vDOM ever called DHTML?

I was around for DHTML days, and as I recall, it was just a generic term for the ability to manipulate the actual (not virtual) DOM programmatically from JS.

I love them, discovered when I lived in Seattle. Now I've got a crazy little one WJOP-LP but some of the DJs play local little bands and more obscure artists. Must be a teaching/training type thing.

On HTTP one can use the Accept header to indicate desired response type.

Sadly, content negotiation has fallen out of favor

We had this problem at work too. And didn't want yet another service provider. Built our own, in Go, for incoming and outgoing. Has some routing features too. Client Webhooks configs stored in that service and our main app API to that thing to configure.

Not optimized for scale, likely only a few thousand per second capable.

Closed Beta, of course it's simple and missing features users might expect.