The point the author is making seems to be against the consensus of other hand specialists (this is at least my perception, as someone who has an index finger issue and has asked specialists "can't I just cut it off?").
The author is basically (and provocatively) saying "Are you kidding me? You really think it's useful for people to continue to be burdened with non-functional appendages?" to his colleagues, and I think the humor is likely to get them to engage with his thesis rather than dismiss it off hand.
I have sent this to several doctor friends, and the writing style prompted them to send it to several more, so, I think it's quite likely that tone served the author's point.
It tingles all the time. There's a ton of "referred pain". It frequently feels like there is a dental drill going of in my face, when it's not painful, it's a a persistent nagging tickle, on my cheek/temple/around my eye.
It gets reynauds phenomena, my house is 68F 20C right now, but my finger is freezing/painful because of how cold it is, this happens pretty much any time I wash my hand, so even in the summer when there's a slight breeze I'm hiding my hand in my pocket for warmth.
When I bang it on things it really hurts, and like this paper says it's extended basically all the time when I'm trying to use my hand for other things.
When I use it to grab things, it feels really weird, so I've kind of trained myself to keep it out of the way. This paper says cut it off, which the few other orthopedists I've talked to have not advised, but at this point, it's been a decade, and seeing a doctor be like "dude, the thing that's only there to make your hand more precise, is actually making your hand way less precise and detracting from your quality of life, cut it off", is a perspective I'm happy to hear. I manage mostly alright, but it's been a decade of major annoyance at best.
I partially amputated (at the joint closest to the nail) my index finger a decade ago, and it’s been a huge impediment. This has motivated me to seek out some other opinions.
Sent it to some doctor friends and they are floored by the writing style as well.
It's not just tree-sitter that makes zed feel snappy.
If you're using a reasonably fast language-server, which rust-analyzer apparently is (I didn't know this using vscode), the autocomplete & intentions feel instantaneous.
I think the team has learned a lot from previous editor implementations (they were the core team of atom that was notoriously slow), and so they've had an opportunity to do a lot of stuff right.
FWIW they also are the team that originally wrote tree-sitter.
The quickness feels more like it's in the core of the editor. I was shocked how much it impacted the editing experience when I tried it in early beta.
> The gap in life expectancy between the richest 1% and poorest 1% of individuals was 14.6 years (95% CI, 14.4 to 14.8 years) for men and 10.1 years (95% CI, 9.9 to 10.3 years) for women. Second, inequality in life expectancy increased over time.
The faircloth amendment prohibits an increase in public housing stock. Granted amendments can be repealed, but “refusal” is a bit of an oversimplification in the public housing case, it’s literally banned.
Many people (especially from big tech backgrounds), treat interviews as "the time for the candidate to prove that they are good enough to work at my company". I, like you, prefer to use the time for collaborative problem solving to try and get as much signal as possible about whether it would be fruitful for us to work together, while also trying to figure out if we would want to work together.
The "is this person good enough for me" interview allows geniuses who are assholes through. I prefer to filter for good teammates.
The Lexus brand was created to sell Americans expensive Toyotas, because when they entered the market there was an inherent perception of Japanese cars as cheap.
Internationally a bunch of cars that have a Lexus badge in America have a Toyota badge on them.
My understanding is that any position for too long becomes un-ergonomic, and really our bodies crave variability. I do my most productive coding on my couch in a weird slouching position, but I try not to do it for too long. I'll frequently switch back to my desk, and then try and take as many calls as possibly walking around the neighborhood. I can't focus on code at a standing desk or sitting on a yoga ball or whatever other people prescribe, but if you can throw that into your mix go for it, but sitting on a yoga ball all day is probably as deleterious as doing anything else all day.
There are definitely different ways to use your body with different effects, but I think the problem is over use of any specific form.
I really appreciate your transparency around, "I am the one who am writing this open source library, and I think it will be more fun to do it this way."
Have fun! I truly hope it pays the returns you hope it will as well.
Naysayers: you're welcome to fork the old python version. If the rust version is a nightmare for the ecosystem, I'm sure someone will do that.
I'm bummed it doesn't work on websites, I guess I'm a nerd so not the target audience, but I use the mobile web versions of twitter and reddit because I don't want to give the app developers more permission than they have,but I apparently can't block the safari app (I don't need more fine grained blocking than this). I guess apple is probably making this impossible, but it's still a bummer.
Also, would it be a ton of work to get a firefox extension?
Cool concept, I hope it eventually meets my needs. I have the game I compulsively play blocked at least.
I've migrated from a ./scripts directory to a justfile and greatly appreciate the concision and modularity. I understand and have tried source'ing common bash files, but have never managed to make it feel quite right. ```just``` has bought my current project a lot of time until we replace it with some behemoth like bazel.
The author is basically (and provocatively) saying "Are you kidding me? You really think it's useful for people to continue to be burdened with non-functional appendages?" to his colleagues, and I think the humor is likely to get them to engage with his thesis rather than dismiss it off hand.
I have sent this to several doctor friends, and the writing style prompted them to send it to several more, so, I think it's quite likely that tone served the author's point.