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Agreed, but I give Google a better chance with Google, Android & Gemini to actualy make an “addicting” chatbot.

At least they’re honest (internally) about their intentions. Obviously this is also the goal of the other big AI foundries; it either already is or it will be in the future.

Luckily Microsoft is famously bad at this, but Google and perhaps OpenAI will be more successful. We’re still in the subsidized honeymoon phase, but this window is closing with the increasing pressure to return profit.

As a skeptic, I’m not worried about myself, but I’m scared for the people who will get addicted and then ruined by full prices or devastated when their mind drug is taken away again.

Not commonly used in daily interactions, so would draw a lot more scrutiny. Security features are usually checked more carefully for 200 CHF and 1000 CHF bills. Swiss francs are also harder to forge than other bills.

From Wikipedia:

According to the 2008 edition of Guinness World Records, the eighth series of Swiss franc notes is the most secure in the world with up to 18 security features including a tilting digit, which can only be seen from an unusual angle, a UV digit that can only be seen under ultraviolet light and micro text. According to their respective central banks, the rate of counterfeited banknotes as of 2011 was about 1 in 100,000 for the Swiss franc, 1 in 20,000 for the euro, 1 in 10,000 for the United States dollar and 1 in 3,333 for the pound sterling.

This was about the eighth series, we’re currently using the ninth, which likely has even better security features.

Also US-Dollars obviously can be used in many, many more places around the world. CHF is only really used in Switzerland and Liechtenstein.

Looks like the weather there…

ha! Don’t be mistaken, we do that too in Switzerland. Gastronomy is one of the lowest paying fields in Switzerland as well I think.

Don’t even mention restaurant prices, it’s ridiculous that buying from the supermarket is cheaper.

Funny, I’m from Switzerland and for me it’s surprising that in some places in the world it’s cheaper to eat in a restaurant than to buy groceries and cook them yourself. How does this even work? And shouldn’t you save money if you put in more effort yourself?

Anyway, I digress. It’s a pretty country, especially the mountains and nature. It is very expensive, especially restaurants as you mentioned. It’s hard for me to judge from your perspective, but I went to Denver last summer and I was surprised how expensive everything was in the US. For instance Starbucks didn’t feel exactly cheap to me. So perhaps Switzerland is not that much more expensive.

In the end it really depends on your budget and what you want to do. Fine dining in St. Moritz requires a bigger wallet than just grabbing a backpack and going for a hike.

Here some random reference points (from a citizen, not a tourist):

• Just had lunch in a restaurant for 30 CHF (causal, not fancy)
• Bern-Zürich (1h) by train costs 53 CHF without any recuded fare.
• The coffee I grab at the train station in the morning is 4.10 CHF.
• 1 day ski pass (just the pass) in Zermatt is around 100 CHF, 7 days are around 500 CHF.
• The ~8000 CHF from your PPP example would last me 3-4 months, living in a shared apartment and not consuming a lot^ (obviously vacation will be more expensive).

^ for instance NOT buying 100 CHF liquor bottels.

Hello from Switzerland 👋

Agree with all the other comments, that’s just manipulative. I guess he’s also hurt, but that doesn’t excuse his behavior. I’ve also been hurt in the past and I understand the impulse to lash out, but it doesn’t lead anywhere if you do, so… better keep your distance.

Yeah… devs love greenfield projects, but always end up maintaining some legacy code 😅🥲

I didn’t use the Temporal API yet, but I’m excited to try it for the first time.

Sure :) And I also agree. However we need to face the software we have, not the software we wish we had written.

The gist you linked is exactly why globally changing the calendar that’s used in software is really hard. Even if we followed best practices along the way, which we didn’t. Because too many programmers believe falsehoods about time, are pressured by their boss to deliver faster, don’t care about quality and these days don’t even look at the code they generated.

Not sure about the Bouba/Kiki effect. It could be a thing, although it’d surprise me. 2-3 year olds already learned a lot from their parents. 3 month olds are most likely to be less primed by their parents, and a bias towards their own race is not very surprising and doesn’t imply racism imo.

I didn’t find a study, and also I’m assuming you’re talking about the US Gov NCBI, which I’m skeptical towards these days, since Trump declared DEI illegal.

agreed

This isn’t meant as an insult, but have you actually worked in software? Because yes of course, the OS keeps track of time with Unix timestamps, but there’s a ton of applications using strings, separate fields for year, month, day; etc, etc. Even if all software used Unix timestamps internally, there’s still so much display code that would need to be updated. Of course for a real migration both calendars would need to be supported, probably for more than a decade (think: banks, governments).

In fact, I’m working on an application right now that uses/used text fields to store the year of an event. Proper timestamp-based dates exist now, but the migration away from the old field is not completed, because it’s still used for ordering. (🙄)

And, more re: snek_boi’s comment, yes, having 13 evenly sized months would make writing software dealing with dates somewhat easier, but you still have leap years, non-leap leap years, leap seconds, time zones and many more issues that make it hard to deal with dates. So most likely still a headache.

Yeah, I guess having stable weekdays per date would be efficient, however I don’t think we should actually go down that road. In general I appreciate that this changes, and be it only so my birthday is not on a Monday every fucking year.

I don’t get how using 13 months would fix the naming disparity though. We could also just keep our current system and name the months according to their number, like they do in many Asian languages already. September was the 7th month, but IIRC Julius created a month named after him (correction: Julius Ceasar renamed a month after him. The Roman year started in March, matching the Sept-, Oct, Nov- & Dez- with the number of the month of the year).

Regarding the software, see my reply to DomeGuy in the sibling comment.

The sun will explode. Eventually. Interesting and fascinating, yes. Useful? Nope.

I like the ideas of the Holocene calendar and the fixed one (13 Months). However I think too many software has been written and the costs to globally change the calendar would exceed billions with no real benefit (apart from being satisfying af).

A lot better would be to adopt the Gregorian calendar everywhere in the world, so it’s easier to share and coordinate. The business world uses mostly Gregorian dates anyway. And if we’re talking about that, I hope the ISO format (2026-03-19) will replace the illogical formats like 19.03.26 or even worse 19/03/26 and 03/19/26.

The post doesn’t scream “I’m guessing”, it says it.

Can you point me to a study showing babies are racist then?

They will certainly have a harder time judging people by their skin color.

However many racist people aren’t actually confronted with “foreigners” a lot. So I guess blind people can perfectly be racist about someone’s accent or form racist opinions just by the discourse around them and the news they consume.

Babies aren’t born racist, it’s something you learn. So my guess is blind people are pretty close to the average, maybe a little less.

re: applying for jobs

Not criticizing your use to write your CV specifically.

But in general, I wonder where this arms race is going? Companies using AI to pre-filter applications, because they get too many. Applicants then using AI to write their CVs, because they have to apply so many times, because they automatically get rejected.

Basically in the end the entire process will be automated, and there won’t be any human interaction anymore… just LLMs generating and choosing CVs. Maybe I’m too pessimistic, but that’s the direction we’re headed in imo.

You even overwrite previously existing front-matters. From just looking at a note. This is a fucking no-go! Luckily I was able to revert all the unwanted changes HelixNotes applied to my vault.

This is a warning for everyone who wants to try HelixNotes with an existing vault.

If you want to try HelixNotes, be aware it overwrites the front-matter of notes you open (view only, no edit needed).

Hi ArkHost,

Obsidian user here. I tried HelixNotes for a couple of minutes and here’s my feedback:

• I like that you support compatibility/converting Obsidian vaults. I wish you would at least support Obsidian’s wiki links directly. I won’t convert all my notes just to try if I like your editor.
• View mode doesn’t seem to really do anything. Ah wait, seems like I can only click links in view mode (no visual distinction between normal editor and view-mode apart from the tiny view mode badge). But that opens the linked note in my default .md viewer, not the HelixEditor itself. IMO view-mode should be visually distinct and also work together with source-mode (so I can edit in source mode and then click view-mode to see the rendered note).
• I like the simple look, although the UI is not as polished compared to Obsidian.
• I need Math support ($ ... $).
• I hate that you update notes front-matter even if I just view and not edit them. Only change notes I am editing myself. I just had a look and now you changed the format of my notes. Re front-matter it would also be good if that behavior is documented somewhere.
• I closed my vault (clicked on the folder icon in the top right) and wanted to reopen it, but got an error: Failed to acquire LockFile: LockBusy.
• The graph view opened but stayed empty.

Feel free to use my feedback however you want, or don’t. Personally, there’s more than one deal-breaker for me to switch from Obsidian to HelixNotes, without even considering the nice-to-have features added by all the plug-ins. I recommend you to listen to people who are more likely to use your editor than me, or are already using it. I hope my comment doesn’t come over too negatively. I tried to give honest feedback why personally I won’t use HelixNotes anytime soon. I wish you all the best.