You are just too tired this morning (hit with tires)

I know i am pedantic, sorry.

The engine was more like a hybrid 2d/3d. Units were 3d, everything else brilliantly faked.

I mean, i played it on really weak machine (high end 486 or a cheap pentium), and it worked like charm, no gpu involved.

Ha! People still remember Zope!

That was my first web kind of framework. The naivette of Zope still amuses me endlessly to this very day.

It tried to be cool, made ALL the wrong choices, and died silently with people just moving on.

I think it still exists, even! It has been a long time since I used it though, but it was interesting.

Interesting is one way of saying this...

I will never recover from debugging ZODB backed by Oracle. Well, somewhat backed.

Who, like, who thought it was cool to have a pickle-based, mostly in-memory, single process, aaalmost transactional database?!

Hahaha. Well, I didn't run into that issue, so it mostly "just worked" in the sense of where we had used it. I did mess around a bit with the Plone CMS that runs on top of Zope, and found it horribly slow and resource-hungry for the time. Someone must like it, it's still getting releases in 2026.

I was more traumatized by the Java-based product from Open Market (acquired from Future Tense back in the day), and all the horribleness that that entailed. Starting from XML as a template language, then seemed to get only worse. Nothing like having multiple content areas all rendered as 500 Server Error pages within one page, when it all goes sideways.

There are dozens of us. :)

By the promise of it, llms should be able to both adhere to grammars, or go free form where necessary. I mean, doing math is supposed to be strict but in practice it's a somewhat educated random walk in the space of correct lean theorems.

Harnesses do correct things, sure.

You are right. I am imprecise.

Languages allow a certain flexibility in their grammars - you can read a sentence without that adhering it exactly to the grammar.

Games and programming languages (including lean) does not allow this flexibility.

A very intelligent person would likely also reason in terms of probably outcomes before correcting a statement to adhering entirely to the grammar.

Certainly it must be like that, otherwise reviews in math was rendered moot.

Do we blame research mathematicians for not adhering to the grammar?

Public transit is not "100 years back". London, uk is not exactly backwards looking in that sense, and the vast majority of people use trains/metto to go to work.

I walk 10k steps a day on a normal day, only drive when necessary to go out of my normal routes. This has an added benefit of keeping me, an aging programmer, in shape (as well as other relevant activities).

Nothing dramatic about it at all.

Reality should never stand in thr way of a good export-oriented myth :-)

Most of the west outside of the US takes shoes off or swaps 'em for indoor shoes.

Between "Most of the west" and "Asian countries" it seems like it's the vast majority of industrialized countries that take off or swap their shoes inside. There's just an odd blip of over-represented online people who don't.

I'd like to see a citation for "most of the west".

Just not for emergency services!

Is this how most of the world operates? :-)

In the Nordics (SE, FI, NO, DK) it is pretty much the same. A large part of the year your shoes are a mess and you don’t want that indoors.

However, protective equipment is taken seriously and then shoes stay on. Here in Sweden, of course ordinarily all shoes are taken off (for 8-9 months of every year they're wet and dirty) but if workers come in to do some work, they keep their shoes on because they're protective equipment. If you're having them come during a particularly dirty time of the year, you may want to cover your floor with newspapers or give them shoe covers.

When I worked in Helsinki, it was quite common to see people do this in the office as well. Some people that were otherwise appropriately dressed (business casual) would be walking around on slippers. Always thought that was slightly funny. Very practical though. I had some rugged hiking boots that I wore in the winter there that definitely would come off when I got to work.

I've been in small offices where having slippers wasn't mandatory, but everyone brought them just because they were more comfortable. Also in one where taking your shoes off or using those medical plastic covers was mandatory (in spite of the work being IT).

Romania. Typing this at the office, wearing slippers :)

Yeah! Same for finland, the baltic states, or poland, or russia, or any country really where there is any kind of serious winter happening.

Eastern Europe is the same. I've only been in one house one time in the US where it was shoes off. It just felt wrong even though it wasn't carpeted and there were no rugs

People in the west tend to overthink spirituality.

Having been to houses/flats across all of eurasia, uk to hong kong, vietnam to lithuania, the majority prefers taking shoes when entering a house, but can be as practical as necessary when the need arises.

It will make you stronger period.

There are side effects, problems, long-term consequences...

But testosteron blood levels absolutely do regulate muscle growth.