Cool project! Looking at starting a group of people to lobby my small city to invest in muni fiber. Would love to see what you have if it ends up on GitHub.
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This is possibly the best description of my development process I’ve ever seen.
I’d add “staring into the distance” alongside the mumbles (yes, when pacing, that often means I run into corners of walls, couches, etc).
I think of it as iterative development in my head, and it’s often focused on finding the fastest path to proving that an architecture or implementation is wrong; when I find it hard to prove why something won’t work, then I begin to explore in depth the idea and have a pretty big running start on the code, which flows a lot more quickly when I’ve done this than when I just sit down and start typing.
Mostly recording and replaying the network request logs through Chrome and comparing diffs as I clicked around, looking at headers and URL params generated from clicking to get a high level picture for how it all fit together.
They didn’t do anything fancy in terms of auth, etc, so the only thing that was challenging was guessing some additional parameters and formats for things like number of nights, etc., once I had the basic structure.
Once I had a basic search working, the rest of it was pretty straightforward. It works for other hotels that use this booking software as well, but I didn’t bother to go down that rabbit hole much further as I didn’t want to encourage adversarial techniques and I only need to use it a few times a year.
One of my favorite spa/hotels for a weekend retreat for my wife and I has absurd waitlists — takes a few months typically to reserve 2 nights. However, they have a 7 day cancellation policy that leads to a U shaped availability curve for rooms.
The hotel website itself is inordinately difficult to search more than 1-2 nights (each day takes 6-8 clicks to search), but it’s all queryable through an undocumented API, so I wrote a small CLI tool in Crystal that can scan the next 60-90 days (configurable, of course) to see if there have been any sudden openings.
It does it all in parallel, so I can find out within about 10 seconds if there are any rooms available within a 30 (or longer) day range.
It’s already helped booked one wedding anniversary trip and one special getaway for 2 friends. I don’t use it often, but it’s wonderful to have around.
I’ve been developing in Crystal a lot lately, and it’s a very interesting middleground.
You can still monkey patch, but having type safety and compilation gives you guarantees that you don’t get when you do the same thing in ruby. What you get out of the box is flexible, but still doesn’t require “discipline” in the same way Rails is.
The downsides right now are the small community and compilation times are an impediment to new dev UX for sure, but it’s definitely caused me to rethink what I really value from ruby.
Ironic that the current trials will take 5 years, given how many times T1s have been promised that a cure is “5 years away” (seriously, it’s a running joke) — but this does look promising.
Looking toward to talking to my endo about his views on this and for the first time in a long while, feeling slightly hopeful that this may not be a lifelong, incurable disease. Unfortunately if the only viable path for now requires immunosuppression, it’s going to be a non starter for many like myself, but it’s still a legitimate breakthrough that can hopefully lead to other avenues.
There are some interesting hypotheses around microtubules and their potential role in consciousness; this directly ties in with your comments around anesthesia - I've certainly had a similar subjective experience under anesthesia, when compared to other forms of consciousness disruption (sleep, psychedelics, and seizures).
I don't believe it was in bad faith; that said, it was very much an interpretation, and your use and perception of language differs from mine, so we may just have a different reading of the sentence "Why bring it up unless you do?"
I'd note that I wasn't the only person to note the aggression in your tone; I'm not intending to shame you for your choice of language, but instead to point out that there are at least two people here who cared enough to respond to you and let you know that it seemed overly aggressive, and that perhaps there are better rhetorical techniques to achieve the same end.
I'm sure others found your tone perfectly reasonable, but I can only voice my own view of how it came across, and how it seemed harmful, not conducive to, open discussion.
It’s not - it’s your responsibility (IMO) to be civil and constructive, which I’d argue your second sentence wasn’t.
Your first sentence — while the subject isn’t hard to research for yourself — was fine as it added to the potential of the conversation by encouraging people to cite sources; your second was unnecessarily combative and I’d argue intended to induce some shame response in the OC, and didn’t bring any benefit to the community at large.
There are numerous, due to the receptors it activates. Look into research on fenfen or if you’re just looking to take a quick but detailed survey of the info, there’s a lot here: https://www.reddit.com/r/DrugNerds/comments/2mqqww/psilocin_... - this is mostly about psilocybin but they work on (mostly) the same receptors, but at different affinities.
I say this as a huge proponent of psychedelic research and use, but with the qualification that very few things are universally safe for all, so we really should be as open as possible to studying not only the benefits, but also concerns, that come with psychedelic usage.
LSD isn’t still fully understood there, but from what I gather Psilocybin is probably a greater concern (more agonism on HT2B than LSD).
Neither show long term correlation with lower long term health outcomes (typically the reverse) but with microdosing being more prevalent and science being able to study more of this above ground, I’m hopeful we will have a better answer to this eventually.
The gist that I’ve gathered so far is that for most people, going with a Fadiman-esque approach (2x/week dosing), combined with anecdotal data gathered from researchers conducting surveys, seems to suggest that it’s not egregiously unsafe, at the least. But still certainly worth paying attention to - a big part of the reason I cycle in and out of microdosing - it’s too helpful for depression, anxiety and disconnection to abandon completely, but there’s no such thing as a free lunch.
I think the "outside of mental illness" is a pretty important qualifier here. I've never hit the point personally where I'd prefer death to diabetes, but I've certainly been close, and were it not for a pretty fortunate life - good insurance, ability to afford a good doctor who is knowledgable in this field, ability to afford a CGM and never have to worry about paying for testing strips (another ridiculous expense - frankly far worse than insulin given how much larger of a population it impacts) - I could certainly see myself in their shoes.
You also need a basal insulin for Type-1 diabetes (unless you're on an insulin pump, which is an entirely different class of expense), so something like Tresiba ($505) (https://www.goodrx.com/tresiba) or Lantus ($357).
Still not $1300/mo, but your price is also using temporary rebates and coupons, which certainly aren't always available.
Quick typo fix on the main page: neigbors is missing an “h” (neighbors).