Hey German. I think you should re-submit this as a "Show HN: DocNode, A TypeScript OT library for local-first apps" in a few days to a week. I think it will get more of a chance titled that way.
Often the answer to the question was simply wrong, as it answered a different question that nobody made. A lot of times you had to follow a maze of links to related questions, that may have an answer or may lead to a different one. The languages that it was most useful (due to bad ecosystem documentation) evolved in a rate way faster than SO could update their answers, so most of the answers on those were outdated...
There were more problems. And that's from the point of view of somebody coming from Google to find questions that already existed. Interacting there was another entire can of worms.
the gatekeeping, gaming the system, capricious moderation (e.g. flagged as duplicate), and general attitude led it to be quite an insufferable part of the internet. There was a meme about how the best way to get a response is to answer your own question in an obviously incorrect fashion, because people want to tell you why you're wrong rather than actively help.
Memories of years ago on Stack Overflow, when it seemed like every single beginner python question was answered by one specific guy. And all his answers were streams of invective directed at the question's author. Whatever labor this guy was doing, he was clearly getting a lot of value in return by getting to yell at hapless beginners.
I don't think it matters. Whether it was a fault of incentives or some intrinsic nature of people given the environment, it was rarely a pleasant experience. And this is one of the reasons it's fallen to LLM usage.
Nope. The main problem with expertsexchange was their SEO + paywall - they'd sneak into top Google hits by showing crawler full data, then present a paywall when actual human visits. (Have no idea why Google tolerated them btw...)
SO was never that bad, even with all their moderation policies, they had no paywalls.
The thing I find interesting about CDRT and OT is it’s built to solve people typing in the same paragraph at the exact same time, which is something that very rarely happens in my experience. (Talking about text based collaboration aspect)
Ive found that systems which _don't_ support this often end up accidentally putting people's cursors in the same sentence/block (resulting in one or more editors losing content or wasting time trying to get detached from the other cursors)
You need OT or CRDT because otherwise you'd have LWW over the entire document. However, I agree that resolving conflicts at the character/letter level isn't the best idea. Doing it at the node level is a more reasonable balance.
> in less than 6 years your 12 year old is a complete adult
They really aren't. Brains are not close to being fully developed until the age of 25.
The gift of "adult discipline" is quite a flawed idea. Depending on how far you take it, that's exactly the kind of thing that can create trauma, depression, low self esteem and perhaps worst can affect creativity self expression and just wanting to play.
Play, undiscipline, rebelliousness, is exactly where the Apple Macintosh came from and so many other amazing technologies and ideas came from in the world.
I'd say exactly the opposite, we need to find ways of removing discipline and conformity and extending play and self-expression into adult life for as long as possible as it is the foundation of so much goodness.
That said, if your idea of "Adult discipline" is chock-o-block full of play and self-expression then I'm all ears.
> Brains are not close to being fully developed until the age of 25.
Brains continue developing throughout our lifetimes.
The study that appeared to show them stopping development at 25 did not have any participants older than 25.
It would be convenient to have a specific age we can point to where we can say "now you're fully adult!" based on biological factors, but I'm afraid we'll just have to use our flawed human judgement and draw imperfect lines.
That said, it is fairly well-understood when various of the structures and functions in the brain responsible for certain basic capacities (like discipline) first develop, on average.
> The study that appeared to show them stopping development at 25 did not have any participants older than 25.
Its not one study, its a multitude of studies of a different functions, and the popular conception about “brain development” not being full until the mid 20s is specifically about where multiple studies show the average peak in executive function occurs (with a slow decline after the peak, which obviously wouldn't be seen if it was only based on studies of younger people.)
Other functions peak anywhere from a little earlier, to much later, to, in a few cases, continuing to develop without a discernible age-related peak.
> I receive a lot of screenshots like this from well-meaning colleagues:
That says all you need to know. The reason they send those screenshots is they believe the full context is more helpful. Code formatting, indentation etc.
Personally I agree with that sentiment. There is a lot of context in the full visual of the original text in situ.
I’m have a growing collection of photos of handwritten notes that are texted to me to address. As irritating as that is, it’s better than the thing that happens in universities, where people email you PowerPoint files with the content being the text that should have been in the email.
Maybe I should put the photos of notes into a PowerPoint?
I have found notch therapy to be quite helpful. It's basically where you tune a note to your exact tinitus pitch and then create white noise that has every khz EXCEPT your pitch. Then you listen to the notched sound at about the same level or slightly higher than your tinnitus. So, basically your "tinnitus" is notched out of the sound. The theory is it can retrain your brain to not produce the fake sound. I also just find it helps to alleviate the symptom.
My own tinnitus is 15khz which is annoyingly high. And I suspect the reason why tools like Tinnitus Neuromodulator don't help much in my case.
There are expensive apps and devices to create notched music or white noise. Fortunately, there are also free YouTube videos with noise notched for different frequencies. Identify your tinnitus frequency using one of the web-based tone generator tests, then find and bookmark the video notched for your frequency.
I like “tinnitusreliever610”. TBH, I haven’t found the notched noise to be any more relief than full spectrum white or pink noise.
The flagged thing has come up quite a few times in past similar threads. Unfortunately, I guess if the powers that be were going to fix it they would have.
She's good in everything I've ever seen her in. Her style (on rom-coms) may not appeal to everyone, but she was an absolute stellar actress and will be remembered on many all-time lists.
I've found LLMs to be pretty good at explaining how legacy codebases work. Couldn't you just use that to create documentation and a cheat sheet to help you understand how it all works?
