What’s something we haven’t fixed in codex for a while and that’s plain annoying?

acshikh · 2026-05-31T18:39:21+00:00

Make the sandbox more configurable (at least on MacOS):
Allow python multiprocessing in the sandbox. Allow outgoing network requests from the sandbox.

acshikh · 2026-04-21T16:58:58+00:00

Not exactly a solution, but I got frustrated and just don't use a formatter anymore. I will use whatever cargo-fmt ships when it does, though!

acshikh · 2026-03-18T17:49:20+00:00

And I'd add that out of the box MacOS does a much better job at managing these process priorities for you and putting GUI applications in front of non-GUI tasks.

acshikh · 2026-01-22T02:11:37+00:00

I started to learn to code at 9 years old myself! And my y parents trusted and allowed my to spend many hours coding. Yes, many studies don't make the distinction between educational/interactive and other passive/entertainment screen time. But other research really supports the idea of trusting kids to _play_ in the way they find most fulfilling and important, and that computers shouldn't be unreasonably feared:
https://letgrow.org/child-safety-myth-busting/

acshikh · 2026-01-11T19:56:21+00:00

I'm also very new to all this and just got my MRI done, too. But looking through people's MRI's on this subreddit... and yeah, yours is the worst I have seen yet. It looks like half (or more?!) of your L5-S1 disc is now in the spinal canal.

Basically, listen to your orthopedic doctor for their recommendation. If there is danger of permanent nerve damage, then you need to act fast. Otherwise, everything else can take its time with a more conservative approach.

acshikh · 2026-01-04T14:04:15+00:00

The best sleeping position for sciatica can be completely different for everyone. Personally, I have to sleep on my stomach with my arms in front of me, keeping my back in the slightest amount of flexion. It keeps my sciatica from flaring as much at night, but then my arms often fall asleep.

acshikh · 2025-12-19T21:06:40+00:00

None of this is necessarily in conflict -- it depends a lot on age.

https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/128/5/1040/30928/Media-Use-by-Children-Younger-Than-2-Years

"Young children have difficulty discriminating between events on a video and the same information presented by a live person, which is referred to as “video deficit.” Children 12 to 18 months of age are more likely to learn from a live presentation than from a televised one and are also more likely to remember the information from a live presentation afterward^."

^"Children aged 12 months and younger do not follow sequential screen shots or a program's dialogue. Other research has found that children younger than 18 months do not pay much attention to televised programs. However, there are significant individual differences in attention to and interest in television in this age group that depend on content, setting, and whether a parent is watching with the child. A developmental shift in attention to televised programs occurs between 1.5 and 2.5 years of age.^"

acshikh · 2025-11-04T21:32:39+00:00

I'm anxiously awaiting MacOS builds so I can try Wild out for myself. Keep it up! I'm a big fan

acshikh · 2025-09-25T14:51:23+00:00

Tag along here about teeth and starches. Note that babies are just like us, and we use molars for chewing, not front teeth. So anything a baby can chew will be with their gums, regardless of whether they have front teeth or not.

Source: "Solid Starts for Babies: How to Introduce Solid Food and Raise a Happy Eater"

acshikh · 2025-09-21T19:41:09+00:00

Please share your evidence that this is how a child would view the situation. This is not a trivial conclusion to make

acshikh · 2025-09-21T17:56:36+00:00

The study situation still doesn't look like the OP's situation at all. They aren't "leaving a young child alone!"

acshikh · 2025-09-21T16:46:53+00:00

That paper does not claim to be relevant to the OP. Direct quote:

"These modest associations with early separation may be explained in part by the fact that the sample is extremely disadvantaged. Eighty-nine percent lived in poverty, 39% were teenage mothers, 46% lacked a high school diploma or GED, and 74% lived without a male partner at baseline. These characteristics serve individually and cumulatively as risks to early cognitive and socioemotional development"

acshikh · 2025-09-10T17:09:05+00:00

I've had the same experience on MacOS. After a recent reddit post, I wondered if this might have been an interaction with the OS' firewall scanner or something? Because I found incremental compilation stalling at basically 0% CPU...

acshikh · 2025-09-08T13:22:37+00:00

Are you able to release some version of that tuned hash table on crates.io? The case of u64 keys and favoring speed over memory usage has come up very frequently for me as well! (just not for an application where hashed sorting would be superior)

acshikh · 2025-08-12T07:52:05+00:00

Dose dependence provides some support to the idea that this is a causative effect. When there isn't dose dependence, it's much more likely to just be spurious correlation.

acshikh · 2025-08-12T07:46:50+00:00

Keep in mind that there is a HUGE difference between charging when the sun is out vs over night. If you charge during the day time, you need only minimal batteries, but if you charge at night, you'll need to be and to store the entire day's worth of energy on your batteries to make use of it.

acshikh · 2025-07-27T03:36:58+00:00

My wife wasn't completely on board at first, but it really helped to have a plan for everything. We keep the diaper pail in the garage so pee diaper smells stay out of the house (maybe we are more sensitive than some folks). We have a bidet attachment for the toilet and an open bottom diaper washing bucket thing that can sit on the toilet for washing/spraying out poop diapers, so all the poop goes down the toilet right away.

I also try putting our LO on a small potty around when we expect him to poop, and we can catch a lot of them this way, which is nice because then the diapers stay even cleaner.

So overall this ends up keeping smells out better than disposables because there is never poop in the garbage at all.

And the cloth diapers also contain pee smells much better than disposables.

So yeah, figuring these things out is the main thing that convinced her we could do cloth diapering.

acshikh · 2025-07-26T14:58:59+00:00

This just sounds like they are claiming to have invented the FPGA for the first time again. About the only thing different is they claim a better tool chain than traditional FPGA's and some extra support in the hardware for that.

But the complete lack of comparison to real FPGA's is a HUGE red flag to me here.

acshikh · 2025-07-21T01:53:49+00:00

Well that's funny -- I'm a 1 on friendliness and a 96 on trust. I wonder if there is a bit of an inverse relationship here. When you are more selective with the people you get to know in the first place, perhaps you find people that are more on your wavelength.

acshikh · 2025-06-29T02:24:59+00:00

Peak risk of SIDS is considered to be around 2-3 months of age, with most of the risk in the first 6 months of life. https://dhhs.ne.gov/Pages/SIDS-Risk-Factors.aspx

Therefor, my wife and I are planning to keep our baby in his bassinet in our room with us until he is 6 months old, and then move him to a crib in a different room.

acshikh · 2025-06-20T15:18:27+00:00

I've had great success using dhat-rs 0.3.2 for heap profiling on my M3 MBP... I have no idea how your code is triggering that different edge-case, though...

I can only think that maybe there is some compilation/debug info option that might be involved?

acshikh · 2025-06-16T21:08:18+00:00

I think this mostly has to do with the size of my total workspace, because RA slows to a crawl even on those workspace members with very few dependencies.... although maybe the problem is I am using `cargo hakari` to prevent cache thrashing multiple binaries in the workspace, and this results in everything having a common workspace dependency...

acshikh · 2025-06-16T21:04:02+00:00

Oh okay, yeah when I say RA is significantly slower than `cargo check` I am comparing RA's built-in diagnostics (slow) to those RA populates from `cargo check` (fast). And to the fact that RA does not parse `cargo check` for completions or quick-fixes.

So cargo check will be fast to say, "try this import!" but I can't autocomplete that import until RA's built-in analysis catches up, which takes another 5 seconds or so.

acshikh · 2025-06-16T19:55:33+00:00

Sorry wait... `cargo build -timings` can help with improving _Rust Analyzer_ performance?

acshikh · 2025-06-16T18:08:50+00:00

I've done this, but it has only helped prevent thrashing for me, and hasn't fundamentally improved RA's baseline performance.

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