> I don't think it's important at all because nobody really uses Mastodon anyway;

Me and all the (real human) people I follow on Mastodon disagree. Many well known people are on Mastodon. A lot of folks I used to follow on RSS are on Mastodon. For me, Mastodon is what killed RSS.[1]

[1] RSS was well and alive long after Google Reader shut down.

I have a love/hate relationship with deathbed advice.

I still go around quoting: No one at their deathbed says "Man, I wish I had spent more time at the office!"

On the flip side, I've noticed the older one is, the longer their list is of "things that don't matter." (e.g. Don't focus so much on wealth, career, etc). It was years before I realized that I've encountered very old people who say "None of it matters", and that perhaps they are not giving sage advice, but are merely changing preferences as they age.

I’m not deeply into Jung, but he has a concept around phases of life that rings true to me. It’s a good and proper (and somewhat inevitable) to move though these phases as you age; there’s not a lot of point as a 20yo trying to implement the advice/preferences of what you imagine your 80yo self would want; in a very real sense you’re completely different people.

I assume you use it as a throw and not as a blanket for sleeping, right?

For sleeping, I have the opposite problem. I always overheat.

Me too. For that I highly recommend the Tree Napper from Bearaby.

https://bearaby.com/collections/weighted-blankets

Tree Napper aka TENCEL™ per link above if anyone else was left wondering like me.

> our Tree Napper is the perfect choice for those that sleep hotter than most. It’s made from Tencel

https://bearaby.com/products/tree-napper

I love bed heating/chilling systems (eight sleep, chilipad, etc) Otherwise I'd go to bed and be cold so I'd put a blanket or two on then wake up being too hot kick it off and repeat.

> For sleeping, I have the opposite problem. I always overheat.

I find that sticking one leg (and sometimes one arm) out from under the blanket helps to solve that issue.

We really need an HN rule saying "Don't speculate if the submission was written by an LLM."

> It's incredible what lengths people go to to avoid memorizing basic ffmpeg usage. It's really not that hard

It's not hard - just not a good use of our time. For 99% of HN users, ffmpeg is not a vital tool.

I have to use it less than twice a year. Now I just go and get an LLM to tell me the command I need.

And BTW, I spend a lot of time memorizing things (using spaced repetition). So I'm not averse to memorizing. ffmpeg simply doesn't warrant a place in my head.

I learned of it only by learning by Emacs! There are movement keys to move the to the next/previous sentence, and I wasn't understanding why they never worked for me.

Says the LLM itself.

(Yes, of course the proclamation was written by Gemini. I gave it some guidance - that's it).

The whole point is not to change one's writing style simply because it has been associated with LLMs. Don't feed the paranoia!

i think the genie is out of the box; but i stand with your sentiment!

"In protest, I wrote [1] a plugin to convert all hyphens in this blog to em—dashes. Even ones that really should just be hyphens."

I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Related and perhaps interesting: https://mathstodon.xyz/@mjd/114730157688607856

I'm the opposite. I use hyphens/dashes all the time, and almost never a semicolon. My English professor complained about my overuse.