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evmar commented on Bill Atkinson's psychedelic user interface   patternproject.substack.c... · Posted by u/cainxinth
_fat_santa · 2 months ago
We need to push to make this stuff legal. I wouldn't go so far as to say lets sell it OTC vape pens at gas stations but a middle ground where you can go to a doctor to have this treatment performed.

I personally have never taken DMT though from everything I've read and heard on podcasts it's not something to be taken lightly. I think having a sort of "DMT Clinic" that you can go to would be the best middle ground of allowing the public access to these substances while also ensuring that there is a trained professional there to guide you through the process.

Saying "trained professional" in this context feels wired because this stuff has been underground for so long but I think it's starting to bubble up into the mainstream enough that we need to start bringing all that "into the light". Lets have training programs that teach people how to administer this stuff properly, how to deal with the negative side effects, etc.

One of the things that while I find understandable is ridiculous is the fact that Bill had to use a pseudonym in the community. I feel like if were at the point where you have C-suite types at Apple taking this stuff, it's time to think about making it available to the broader public.

evmar · 2 months ago
The state of Oregon is experimenting along these lines:

https://www.oregon.gov/oha/ph/preventionwellness/pages/psilo...

"A client may only access psilocybin at a licensed service center during an administration session in the presence of a trained, licensed facilitator."

evmar commented on Dear High Schoolers, Time Is Precious   byronsharman.com/blog/dea... · Posted by u/chilipepperhott
sandspar · 3 months ago
The author dispensing wisdom to high schoolers is himself 20 years old.
evmar · 3 months ago
For this advice, that is the best place to share it from. They're saying even by age 20 it's already the case that the effort was wasted.
evmar commented on (On | No) Syntactic Support for Error Handling   go.dev/blog/error-syntax... · Posted by u/henrikhorluck
evmar · 3 months ago
Most discussions of language features immediately fall into the politician's syllogism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politician%27s_syllogism

I appreciate the Go language's general sense of conservatism towards change. Even if you're not a fan of it, I think it's admirable that there is a project staking out a unique spot in the churn-vs-stability design space. There are plenty of other projects that churn as fast as they can, which also has its pros and cons, and it's great to be able to see the relative outcomes.

PS: it's kind of hilarious how the blog post is like "there are hundreds of proposals and miles of detailed analysis of these", vs the commenters here who are like "I thought about this for five minutes and I now have an idea that solve everything, let me tell you about it".

evmar commented on Show HN: I486SX_soft_FPU – Software FPU Emulator for NetBSD 10 on 486SX   github.com/mezantrop/i486... · Posted by u/mezantrop
evmar · 4 months ago
I noticed math_emulate.c comes from Linux (it even has a " * (C) 1991 Linus Torvalds" bit on it). I was wondering what the license on that code is. It looks like Linux adopted GPL in 1992 so maybe this copy predates that, but it was under some other non-BSD license before that.
evmar commented on Mistral OCR   mistral.ai/fr/news/mistra... · Posted by u/littlemerman
gl-prod · 6 months ago
He means the space between the wāw (و) and the word
evmar · 6 months ago
I added a pic to the original comment, sorry for not being clear!
evmar commented on Mistral OCR   mistral.ai/fr/news/mistra... · Posted by u/littlemerman
resiros · 6 months ago
Arabic speaker here. No, it's perfect.
evmar · 6 months ago
I am pretty sure it added a kasrah not present in the input on the 2nd to last line. (Not saying it's not super impressive, and also that almost certainly is the right word, but I think that still means not quite "perfect"?)
evmar commented on Mistral OCR   mistral.ai/fr/news/mistra... · Posted by u/littlemerman
evmar · 6 months ago
I noticed on the Arabic example they lost a space after the first letter on the third to last line, can any native speakers confirm? (I only know enough Arabic to ask dumb questions like this, curious to learn more.)

Edit: it looks like they also added a vowel mark not present in the input on the line immediately after.

Edit2: here's a picture of what I'm talking about, the before/after: https://ibb.co/v6xcPMHv

evmar commented on Solitaire   localthunk.com/blog/solit... · Posted by u/goles
evmar · 6 months ago
Sorry in advance if it's too off-topic, but if you want to play the Windows 2000 Solitaire I have it kind of working in my web-based emulator here:

https://evmar.github.io/retrowin32/run.html?exe=sol.exe&dir=...

evmar commented on How core Git developers configure Git   blog.gitbutler.com/how-gi... · Posted by u/chmaynard
evmar · 6 months ago
My favorite "took me a long time to discover" Git tweak is to use difft for diffs:

https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk/

evmar commented on Why I'm leaving Elm (2020)   lukeplant.me.uk/blog/post... · Posted by u/flykespice
satvikpendem · 6 months ago
I remember reading this article when it was published, it seems like everything said continues to be true about Elm, so much that I don't hear about anyone using Elm these days, as even those who have used it as legacy code have now largely had enough time to migrate away.
evmar · 6 months ago
I don't really follow Elm, but I was curious and tried to see whether the project is still alive. It appears the last commits on GitHub are from mid 2024 and the last installable release was 2019. It appears the main developer is working on a new thing?

There's definitely a "the bear is sticky with honey" confusion of discussion over whether it's dead or not. It would be nice for interested strangers like me if they could make some sort of clear statement on it.

u/evmar

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