Not really touched on here, but one thing I found very useful in switching to nix is having your entire system defined in a single repo opens it up for very nice agentic setups. Claude code can now configure my whole system, debug my gpu issues, install software etc, and I can simply git diff to inspect the changes and apply if I agree. On arch sometimes Bluetooth not working or my fingerprint scanner not working becomes some hours of debugging, now I can solve these issues trivially, and if it doesn't work I can restore to an earlier point instead of trails of attempts left through my imperative system

In my experience, children who excersise a lot become adults who have a far better baseline and exercise comes easier. Children who never do anything become adults for whom excersise is much more difficult. This seems in line with what the article says about learning?

It slows aging, not reverses it. If the first time you learn 4 languages or get into exercise is when you are 70, you don't immediately have the mine and body of a 57 year old

> This seems in line with what the article says about learning?

No?

Children who learn multiple languages don't necessarily become adults who continue to learn more languages beyond what they learned in childhood, so the analogy with exercise seems to break down.

Children learn the languages that are spoken around them. If it's one language, they learn one, if two or three, they learn two or three. This happens naturally, for all children, regardless of personal habits.

Learning cursive won't automatically give you the dexterity of a dental surgeon, that's just a silly conclusion you have drawn from one example.

What is the downside of learning cursive?

I learned cursive in elementary school. For me the downside is that it's a waste of time and attention that could be spent on something else.

Developing fine motor control for cursive is actually improving cerebellar function. It turns out that the cerebellum is a general "organ" for fine control and synchronization of neural function across the brain. It is implicated in:

* Reading and responding to other people's emotions. * Emotional regulation. * Generalized sequencing. * Musical ability. * Counting. * Following patterns.

While you may see it as a waste, you may very well have benefited in significant ways from learning it at a young age.

It's hard for me to imagine how fine motor control applies to cursive in a way that doesn't apply to block writing.

Smooth curving lines connecting into each other are very different from intersecting straight lines with clear stopping and starting points.

One kid in my school didn't write cursive, but wrote block letters so beautifully, it looked near printed. And he was probably faster than most. He also played the piano since young age and is a professional pianist now, so yeah :)

So I would totally put it on the same level, theoretically. That is, you can write block letters with just as much skill and care as you can cursive, I think. Just like you can write cursive by just doing squiggly lines (as doctors write prescriptions).

Sounds like you remember that person because they were exceptional. That doesn't make them a good argument for the general case.

I'm definitely not a pro, but I've been actively playing piano for forty years now for whatever that might be worth.

On the settings page it appears that the index is disabled by default and not included in the ordering either. It's a bit confusing here!

It’s currently a tiny “indieweb” index, which is why it’s opt-in right now, and not big enough to be in the ordering, yet.

P. I. N. E. from here on out then

That's awesome

The optimal amount of ....... is non zero

Uniswap V3 liquidity pools are managed as NFTs. Not your main point I know, but people often think of NFTs as simply buy and sell art on opensea. A liquidity pool has clear value.

What do you mean by "managed as NFTs"? A liquidity pool is a contract where people put their coins in and the contract gives them a percentage ownership of all assets in the contract and they get a small fee off the trades done in it. Are you saying that the proof of ownership is a non fungible token? That seems like a small technical detail, it's not the token that has value, it's the assets in the pool, you could easily do it with fungible tokens or with simply a record of ownership in the contract.

Arweave then

All due respect, this isn't burn out. This is boredom or being uninspired. It can be a drudge, uninteresting, and procrastinated, but actual burnout is a very different beast.

I have mortgage, wife, kids also and continue to plug along, but know the difference.