> If an animal is drowsy or bored, it will be less alert than when fully awake and less prepared to spring into action. "Contagious" yawning could be an instinctual signal between group members to stay alert.

> Anecdotal evidence suggests that yawning helps increase a person's alertness.

> Paratroopers have been noted to yawn during the moments before they exit their aircraft.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yawn

it really irks me that this is the default way to install micromamba

https://mamba.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation/micromam...

one even returned to scene of the crime wearing the exact same clothes she wore the day before, not understanding the implications

I'm mostly astounded that they got it to work on PS2 hardware in 2006.

Hitman:Blood Money's Mardi Gras level still stands up today

Same for me. I was doing my PhD in another country and was just overwhelmed and disoriented at the sheer scale of information I suddenly had to remember and digest. Anki was on again/off again for me at first, but once I learned to edit and update the cards and add my own, I really began to understand how to boil concepts down into something I could remember, i.e. I could structure it to my own personal chaotic mode of thinking, and I've flourished with it since then

I've been barely keeping my head above water (ok, much better than that honestly) for 35 years intellectually due to lack of more methodical learning. Your post might convince me of trying Anki...

The real trick is not realising that its working until you stop using it :-)

the only true way to experience Emacs on android

Modern Emacs isn't really meant to be used in a TUI, it has a very capable GUI. And there's a fully native Android port of that GUI.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/android-ports-for-gnu-emacs...

https://mstempl.netlify.app/post/emacs-on-android/ https://kristofferbalintona.me/posts/202505291438/

Try this:

  (menu-bar-mode -1)
  (setq inhibit-splash-screen t)
  (setq inhibit-startup-echo-area-message t)
  (global-set-key "å" 'hippie-expand)
  (global-set-key "∆" 'toggle-truncate-lines)
  (global-set-key (kbd "<f12>") 'toggle-truncate-lines)
  (xterm-mouse-mode 1)
  (global-set-key (kbd "<mouse-5>") 'scroll-up-command)
  (global-set-key (kbd "<mouse-4>") 'scroll-down-command) ;
  (global-set-key (kbd "<wheel-up>") 'scroll-up-command)
  (global-set-key (kbd "<wheel-down>") 'scroll-down-command) ;
  (setq case-fold-search t)
  (setq-default truncate-lines t)
  (setq sort-fold-case t)
  (autoload 'scad-mode "scad-mode" "A major mode for editing OpenSCAD code." t)
  (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.scad$" . scad-mode))
  (require 'scad-preview)
  (global-set-key (kbd "Å") 'dabbrev-expand)

  (add-hook 'python-mode-hook 'whitespace-mode)
  (setq whitespace-line-column 128)
  (custom-set-faces
   '(default ((t (:background "#000000" :foreground "#ffffff"))))
   '(whitespace-space ((t (:background "black" :foreground "blue"))))
   '(whitespace-tab ((t (:background "black" :foreground "blue"))))
   '(whitespace-newline ((t (:background "black" :foreground "blue"))))
   '(whitespace-empty ((t (:background "black" :foreground "grey50")))))

Not really? The Android version of Emacs is perfectly fine.

A dwarf fortress style mmorpg played over SSH would be incredible

N900 had one too, along with an FM transmitter, just in case you wanted to override whatever generic radio station was playing at full volume in the coffee shop

Thats incredible, I had no idea Jak&Daxter was written with Emacs as the primary IDE!

Lol yep. Emacs as the IDE, Allegro Common Lisp as the interpreter + HAL implementation, and GOAL itself being a Scheme-like.

Naughty Dog in general was actually a primarily Lisp studio for a long time. It was only in the PS3 era with Uncharted and The Last of Us that they switched to C++ because trying to maximise the performance out of a Lisp interpreter environment with the complexity the Cell Processors added on a time and cash budget simply wasn't feasible for them.

The Crash Bandicoot games were written in GOOL (Game Oriented Object Lisp) which they wrote prior to GOAL and the Jak and Daxter games. GOOL/Lisp of course was extremely important for the Crash Bandicoot legacy because by writing their own higher level interpreter they were given an excuse to through away the entire standard library that Sony gave them and start from scratch. That process allowed them to write a massively more performant stdlib and execution environment leading to Crash Bandicoot being able to support game environments an order of magnitude more complex than other games at the time could. And of course this allowed them to build in a system for lazy loading the environment as the player progressed through the levels which firmly cemented Naughty Dog in the video games history books.

Andy Gavin actually has an incredible blog site (including a 13 part series on Crash Bandicoot and a 5 part series on Jak and Daxter) that has over the decades documented the history of their studio's game development process and all the crazy things they did to make their games work on hardware where it really shouldn't have been able to with the tools they were provided.

https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/video-games-archive/

Oh I should issue a minor correction. After talking with some people more familiar with it than me, Crash had a lot written in GOOL but it's not 100% GOOL like how Jak is 100% GOAL.

Instead it's mostly enemy AI and the like which are built in GOOL and the game itself is instead a more traditional systems language (I believe C++). So instead of 100% it's more like 40/60 which tbh is still quite good.

Those blog posts are amazing. I never realised CB was Sony's unofficial flagship mascot to pit against Nintendo's Mario

Yeah I absolutely loved reading through them when I discovered them the first time. An absolute treat and a portal in time.

I do wonder still if the country is better off. Billionaires investing in an area tends to skyrocket rent, housing tax from greedy councils, and skews food and utilities upwards too.

The loss of the richest man in the village might mean the baker now has to kowtow his prices to his less well-to-do neighbours again

Seriously as someone who grew up in the Bay Area. I am here for the weather, family and friends. I don't care if billionaires leave and real estate prices normalize at the cost of a bunch of tech jobs.

That said I wish we would take a look at spending before we just keep raising taxes and then a year later saying "how are we gonna get even more money?". California has an insane amount of wealth per person and one of the highest state tax rates. Can they really not figure out how to operate with their current budget?