A lot of VCs had money locked up in SpaceX, like, portfolios going back a decade or more had some sort of investment in SpaceX. The IPO gave them an exit.
I've found it to lead to an overall better experience, yes. I don't see any reason to not do so - I don't think the token spend is enough to really make an impact, and who cares about typing more? If I get tired of typing I can switch to dictation.
Out of principle I'm never paying them a cent for "fast mode". I've already started using Codex anyway, will probably just cancel my sub since I've found I actually haven't needed CC at all since making the switch.
Really, you don't need to know how to program to do Strudel. Like, yeah, it's a programming language - but it's not like you need to know the fundamentals of software engineering to write something with Strudel. You just start typing and keep what sounds good. There is no difference between figuring out the melody and harmony and all the other parts of the song - you just type and edit until it sounds good. You get immediate feedback since it's constantly looping and trivial to work in your changes.
Compare that to piano: sure, you can walk up to a piano and plunk out a melody easy enough - but once you start venturing towards harmony and song the skill required ramps up exponentially. Suddenly you need to have both hands doing independent things, know where to place your fingers so that you can comfortably play the notes for the current beat and future beats (there's a ton of technique here and it's not the most intuitive thing ever - entire books are written to drill it), the list goes on.
One thing for profiling HTTP services specifically, you can attach handlers for pprof data easily [0]. I usually only mount the routes if I've set a flag for it, usually something to indicate I want to run in debug mode. This does everything "for free", i.e. it starts profiling memory and CPU and then exposes the data on routes for you to visualize in the browser.
> No one enjoying the music owes the musician, though some of them could record / stream it (perhaps supplemented with commentary) for a profit. Would it be ethical for them to contribute nothing or only pennies?
According to the sibling reply, if I gave the musician a penny, that would still be 167x more than he would get if I streamed his music.
> I read once a stellar idea to help get over the fear of starting to draw in a notebook (or an art project, or a new software project) is to just start scribbling and drawing. Intentionally starting with a mess makes it much easier to break the cycle of "This thing I'm doing isn't good enough yet for this".
Along these lines, something I have shamelessly stolen from Merlin Mann is to write "The first page is profound" on the first page of every notebook I get.
