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Several years ago my first child was born. It's a stressful time and a significant life change. You're given all sorts of guidance and information about how to raise your kid.

There was so much pressure to breastfeed. It wasn't necessarily institutional pressure (I'm in Canada). Maybe a couple of your friends were hard liners and would say stupid things like "it'll work, it's evolution, just keep trying" or you'd encounter a hard line nurse who wouldn't suggest trying formula.

Breast feeding was going well for us, until about the 3 month mark when my daughter suddenly became grumpy and irritable all the time. She stopped sleeping well. We were so spun up by the 'breast is best' crowd that it was a major discussion point if trying formula was the right thing to do vs letting our daughter starve. I still remember the night I felt like a terrible father for breaking out the free formula sample at the back of our pantry to feed to our starving kid.

So, long story short, even at a private level external opinions can highly influence your private decisions. In fact, there was a women in BC that committed suicide because of postpartum depression. The general consensus was the pressure to breastfeed exacerbated her PPD. (https://www.self.com/story/postpartum-depression-florence-le...)
There's a reason why parts of the Linux community has an event named: The Linux Plumbers Conference :-)

https://linuxplumbersconf.org

A reputed community conference, co-organized by contributors and maintainers of the Linux kernel and related low-level "plumbing" utilities and libraries.
I went through the same, except there was no morphine until the very end when it made her pass away.
I guess my point was that you should have just said "closure" instead of "lambda closure", since that phrasing doesn't make any sense in a formal context. Lambdas and closures are different things entirely. I really wasn't trying to be patronizing or anything; I was just trying to offer information in case you found it interesting, but I guess I missed the mark there. My apologies.
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Euthanasia in practice but not in name is also easier to reconcile with various codes of ethics (especially religious ones) for the patient or his family. Suicide is taboo, large palliative doses of morphine are not.
Same here, in Belgium where euthanasia is legal. I have no idea why they made it last the 5 days that it took.
Not liking the Onion is probably just a matter of personal taste rather than evidence of the limits of the written word as a method for conveying political satire.
And plumbers get paid pretty well, just like programmers. I talked to the plumber who did my house and he loved his job. He was reluctantly retiring and handing over the day-to-day operations to his son, but if he had been physically able he'd keep doing it.

He also said he refused to do work on existing plumbing. He loved to build new systems but hated maintaining old ones. Where have I heard that before...?
Beyond the ludicrous nature of the authors sttatement, a look at his Linkedin shows that he is a non-technical CTO. IE: A CTO who has has never really worked as an engineer for an extended period of time and din't come from that background. Thus, consider the source and move on...
Here's some papers and such I found that might be interesting.

"Towards Playlist Generation Algorithms Using RNNs Trained on Within-Track Transitions"
https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.02096

"Understanding Music Playlists"
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.07004.pdf

"Automatic Playlist Generation"
http://cs229.stanford.edu/proj2015/004_report.pdf

"An Accurate Algorithm for Generating a Music Playlist
based on Facial Expressions"
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/312b/2566e315dd6e65bd42cfcb...

Nelson - A tool for modifying variables in Spotifys Recommendations API
https://nelson.glitch.me/
Source: https://glitch.com/edit/#!/nelson

MuruMusic "Song Categorization A.I"
https://www.murumusic.com

"How does Spotify Know You So Well?"
https://medium.com/s/story/spotifys-discover-weekly-how-mach...
Nicotine gum actually uses a different metabolic pathway to uptake the nicotine which is less addictive than inhaling nicotine.
Yeah, that's actually another thing that I think is messing us up, this idea that "letting nature take its course" is somehow better in and of itself than intervention. If you know that the outcome of "letting nature take its course" is going to be a bucketful of pain, and you have the option to eliminate that pain with a low-cost intervention, and you choose not to intervene, then IMHO that pain is on you every bit as much as if you'd actively tortured the person. (All this is assuming that the subject consents, of course. Some people might choose to experience the pain. I can respect that.)

On the other hand, I really don't see the salient difference between euthanizing someone and sedating them until they die of starvation and dehydration. Once you start to intervene with the intent of producing a painless death, why not just get it over with?
Here's an animated version with some transparency https://codepen.io/anon/pen/PaMVYX?editors=0100

The root issue is that the browsers are being asked to draw a line that's 100px in from the edge of a 100px box -- it's an impossible task, so there's no perfect solution.

This CSS test suite http://test.csswg.org/suites/css-ui-3_dev/nightly-unstable/x... suggests that browsers should treat it as though it were the largest offset that made sense at the current outline width, giving you https://codepen.io/pjwdev/pen/vrovPR?editors=0100

Safari achieves this if the border is the same colour the whole way around, but doesn't get the individual sides in a sensible arrangement.

Edge doesn't match the test, but it does another reasonable thing -- it takes the offset as a given, and uses the biggest outline width that makes sense.

Chrome and firefox...
after 5-6 languages and coming back to Python I would say the worst things are

- large and inconsistent stdlib api,

- extremely wordy but somehow still vague documentation

- overwrought build/packaging system (although tooling has improved)

- endless runtime gotchya debugging in production

- almost all the baggage of OO boilerplate but none of the benefits of type-checking.

- half-baked functional paradigms
"Discipline is freedom" is so true. Gotta play the game by the rules till we can set our own.

It's strange though, we are raised to think discipline is bad, but everyone with financial, physical, dietary, academic, professional discipline often ends up being successful in many cases.
People usually think passion is a magic spark that ignites and suddenly you become obsessed. And maybe that is the case when you're still young.

As an adult I've found that passions do not suddenly explode but are built out of habit.

Sure, you need an interest in something to begin with (finding a thing that is compatible with character), but one has to put some effort until that interest gains momentum, so to speak.
I converted a youtube playlist into MP3's some year ago and just listen to that one.
I wonder if that’s because they’re just running an older version of WebKit/blink.
Aren't we be seeing something like that with commercial pilots due to flight automation? (I could be wrong.)
Fiddling with it:

Firefox's mistake is definitely that it isn't handling having outline-offset less than "-min(width, height)/2" in a sane way. (In the demo, width and height are both 100px; it starts do do funny things when outline-offset goes below -50px). That said, I'm not entirely sure that there is a sane way.

IE is totally ignoring the outline-offset property; it isn't implemented in IE.
The most dangerous drugs aren't really comparable, though. They tend to be processed concentrates of the plant, and in those cases the plant itself is much less harmful than the concentrate.

Consuming plant matter directly with minimal processing is quite a different thing from isolating the active ingredients as much as possible, creating dosages much higher than found in nature and simultaneously removing buffering material such as fiber and other nutrients.
Hard to stay relevant when half of their joke headlines could be real these days. (eg. "President Threatens Stock Market")
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We've been conditioned to believe that trades such as plumbing, carpentry, construction, etc. are beneath high IQ people so it's easy to see how this mentality carries through into software engineering.

Infrastructure, properly done, outlasts its own empires.
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Does Kratom have other undesirable side effects? How is it on the liver? If the population present opiate users switched to Kratom, what would we see?
Patients under sedation don’t feel pain from starving or dehydration. If they were conscious the pain from their own illness would be considerably worse.
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> I don't see a huge amount of actual evidence for that in the article, but absent a statement from the State department explaining their thinking, it seems like a reasonable conclusion to draw.

This attitude leads to groupthink and polarization. You read the source from your ideological group, which leaves out inconvenient facts, leading to your "reasonable conclusion." Another person reads different sources from a different ideological group, which mentions women who are incapable of breastfeeding but doesn't mention the health benefits for the general population and that person draws a totally different "reasonable conclusion."

We'd all be better off if both of you would admit your news sources are incomplete and find better sources instead of drawing "reasonable conclusions."
Where on that page do you see any claims that milk from a bank provides any health benefits over formula? You are presenting an idealogical belief here, not one based on science.
The topic of breastfeeding versus formula has been a huge one for decades particularly in developing nations. Look up "nestlé advertising formula Africa" for huge amounts of information.

One problem is that if mothers use formula instead of breastfeeding early on then their milk dries up. At that point they are stuck with formula, but if for economic reasons they are unable to get adequate supplies of formula then they may resort to over-watering, which then leads to malnutrition. Cleanliness of water supplies used for mixing of formula may also be a problem in many areas.

Edit: after seeing some of the other discussion of what's apparently become a bullying culture around breastfeeding I can see that as a valid concern. However most of that discussion appears to be centered around the US, Canada, Europe, etc where formula availability should be pretty good and relatively affordable. A lot of the places where this is relevant are in much poorer nations where "slightly expensive" formula by US standards is prohibitively expensive by local standards.

Would folks in the US feel that formula was a good alternative if it cost as much as your rent/mortgage? How about if you got a free supply to start out, just long enough for the mother to mostly stop lactating?
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I am an MIS graduate and haven't been able to find a job before my visa expired. I am on a dependent visa and cannot work. I have been working on some courses from coursera/udemy and trying to start into open source with the help of openhatch.org
I have worked with pyspark and recently picked up UI/frontend programming. Looking for pointers to tech volunteering opportunities.
I'd imagine it has to do with symbolically giving up the role of predator to nurture children.
I care if people smoke in their own homes if I am going to have to help subsidize their health care cost.
-Brilliant 60’s satiricist Tom Lehrer famously declared political satire dead when Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
They often don't. Fighters have missile detections systems of various types. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_approach_warning_syste...
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Perhaps not a direct consequence of choice, though. Certainly whatever poltical and economic system we choose has implications for inequality, but it's not simply a matter of "we choose to have less inequality –> less inequality." Redistributive choices have complex interactions and results.
when given a choice between American health and supporting American animal agriculture, the government almost always chooses the agriculture.
I went through the same a few years ago with hospice. She had emphysema and real trouble breathing. She was mentally checked out after a few days in the hospital and opted for hospice. They started morphine and for a couple of hours she was able to breathe and felt great. She even said maybe she could get out of there - she fully expected to die.

Well after that she passed out, didn't wake up again, and died. Bothers me greatly to this day and I wish I had been there for the whole thing to challenge some of the decisions made that my parents didn't contest.
But what is "life support" in a hospital? Do providing food and water count? Would it be ok to also remove those forms of life support to allow one to finally die if it's their wish? Stop providing heat to their room?

If so, why so? Why is that form of induced death better or worse than administering a drug? If not, why not? It's clearly a form of hospital administered life support just like a breathing machine.

I don't have the answer, but it's not a cut and dry question. Like most things around life and conscienceness it's complicated.
Another selling point for me is the relative ease of writing custom exporters from org to other formats [1,2].

My latest use cases are:
- Extracting a list of issue descriptions (for Jira) from a Getting Started guide, that included "todo" comments.
- Extracting a list of contacts from notes taken at during a conference.
- Drafting Jekyll blog posts in org-mode.

For todo and contact information, org properties [3] are used to specify semantic fields, that can in turn used by the exporter.

To be fair, the work on these exporters in not completed. I am still getting my lisp up to speed. But from what I can see this way easier than writing pandoc backends or jupyter notebook exporters.

[1] Exporter Documentation: https://orgmode.org/worg/dev/org-export-reference.html
[2] Example Exporter (.md): http://repo.or.cz/org-mode.git/blob/HEAD:/lisp/ox-md.el
[3] https://orgmode.org/manual/Property-syntax.html#Property-syn...
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Patients under general anesthesia don’t, sedation is less certain. For obvious reasons, there’s no corpus or research into the issue, so it’s left to supposition. Remember that “sedation” and “unconscious” are not necessarily the same.
Along the same lines, I've used Pandoc to convert a org-mode file into a revealjs presentation.
Yesterday it was described as "left align your text and every change you make has to be to improve that starting point".

Almost none of these sites follow that principle. Personally I think they look just awful, regardless of what principles they follow.
Sure, I'll grant that possibility. But whether one agrees with the position or not, based on the article, this wasn't conducted as a merits-of-the-positions discussion among equals. Which I personally think is the way countries should interact the majority of the time.
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Having helped people with both software and plumbing problems I am not convinced that "a random person from the street" would be able to trivially tackle any plumbing problem. In my experience random people consider both software and plumbing to be black boxes they don't need to understand. Most people would have no idea what tools to buy to even approach the problem. I have no doubt that with the right documentation and a little handholding the average Joe could figure out a fix for both small plumbing leaks or trivial bugs in software, but it would take much more experience to design the plumbing system in a large building or to architect a new complicated software application.
Coordinating global health strategy is well within the mandate of the WHO. Globalism skeptics certainly question the usefulness of such a mandate, but this particular resolution is not unusual within it.
Totally agree with this person's assessment on types.

I took over a smallish half-completed web application written in python a couple of years ago. Nothing major - simple business-y analytics/data viewing app with some fancy charts and tables etc - perhaps a couple of thousand lines of code interfacing to backend database unique to our business. It had some tests, but nowhere near 100% coverage. I needed to finish it off and then get it into production.

Long-story short, trying to understand someone's half-completed python and make changes to this was a HUGE nightmare for precisely the reason the article outlines: python expects you to remember all the minutiae of all the code you are calling. If you cant remember, then you need to suck it up and pick your way through the code and mentally keep track of what is going on at every stack frame.

So instead of thinking about the actual problem you're trying to solve, python forces you keep track of all the little bullshit that you shouldn't need to care about. And even then, you cant be 100% sure you got it right until you exercise that code (either through 100% test coverage, or - shudder - at run-time at 3am on a Sunday when a user in Japan logs on).

So far from being productive and "easy to use", python for us was a nightmare of low-productivity and frustration in only a very small application being worked on by just 2 or 3 remote developers. I cant imagine the levels of pain and suffering for larger projects & teams!

The "solution" is apparently extensive & specially crafted comments that specifically explain the types used (that of course needs to be kept up to date) - I find this fairly odious (why not just use a typed language if you need to put the types in the comments?!)

I know now that Python is looking at type hints as part of the language (PEP 484 - https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0484/) that should help a lot.

Still, its not all bad. As a result of the pain of this application (which incidentally was damn slow in production due to the processing we had to do on the data in the python backend before we sent it to the browser), we decided to learn golang and use that for future work instead and have not looked back.

Golang has the same feeling of fast-paced "throw things at the screen" productivity, but is obviously typed (so you know about errors before your users do) and orders of magnitude faster.
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"promoting breast feeding has actually turned into some really nasty state-sponsored bullying of often vulnerable women"

I think I see the problem here and it's not in promoting breast feeding.
I still don’t like the Perforce model of workspaces or whatever they call it (clients?). That mapping between the server folders and your local ones. Extra complexity for no obvious benefit I could see.
Check the resale value. In Denmark, cargo bikes hold their value very well in the second hand market.
May it contain hand-coded WASM?
Instant end to opiate overdose deaths, for one.
Not looking at, has type hints as part of the language.
Implying it’s ok to make your children suffer as long as you didn’t mean to do it?

I don’t think we should just let ignorant parents hurt or kill their children because of some idea that it’s a private matter. Obviously you can take it too far, but if you refuse to feed your baby what it needs, or seek treatment for serious medical problems, or put the baby in a dangerous environment, that should be stopped even if the parent thinks it’s just dandy.
I had a plumber over for some fixes about a month ago, and he saw me doing some coding on my laptop. He made a comment like "I have absolutely no clue how any of that works... it is wizardry to me". I said "I'm watching you fix plumbing issues around my house, and that is wizardry to me". I think we could probably learn each others' jobs if we really tried, but the point is that all things can seem like magic until you learn them.
Have you reviewed the literature? Are you certain none of your points have been attempted? (Citations would be welcome.)
lazy article. dude wishes python was java. also, it fails the snake-test: python is named for Monty Python's Flying Circus, not the snake. anyone who uses the snake is not clueful.
Not shilling for AWS, but I file at least 1 ticket a month. I haven't tried the phone option, but the web option works for resolving my complaints within 24 hours.

My use case might be different since the entire architecture is HA / ephemeral and I can spin up new instances etc while waiting on them.
A bike trailer has the dangerous property of not being in your peripheral vision. I personally would never transport kids in a bike trailer; I have seen my sister (her daughters) get into hurtful situations and potentially dangerous situations. Whenever you can spend more for a front-load cargobike, I would highly advise to do so.
I definitely agree with you on information providing, but I think these actions all need careful cost/benefit analysis.

> subsidize breast pumps

Especially given that they can be rented, this is probably a clear positive to do.

> subsidize breast milk banks

Donor Milk is extremely expensive ($3-$5 an once). While infant consumers do see reduced rates of gastrointestinal tract infection and eczema, other benefits are less clear. Some more research would be needed to see if this is the best use of health dollars; perhaps a minimal amount of donor milk (several onces), combined with formula may be optimal.

> subsidize lactation consultants so that everyone can afford them

I'm down with this, as long as lactation consultants are more regulated. The ones we used were far overzealous in over-pushing breast feeding (e.g. overstating benefits)
> I'm not a developer

Yep, I guess that was the root of my question, thanks. :)
WTF is wrong with the US delegation?

I can think of at least 6 possible explanations, with some overlap between them and with none of them complimentary.

They pretty much all can be categorized into one or more of Incomprehension, Misinformation, Corruption or Malicious Intent.
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That's too bad, the onion is still very good with political satire, though it doesn't give you a good one daily unless Washington is particularly poor that week.

A recent good one: https://local.theonion.com/man-offended-by-rude-female-cowor...
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Oh yes, python packaging sucks. That may not be well understood. But the languages that handle distribution very well are just a few, that i know of (jvm based, .net based, go, possibly js with all the tools that exist) and there'll be some that i don't know. But for most languages, distribution of a software with dependencies is a great pain.
You can even open a bank account without government-issued photo ID.
It's just harder.
A positive step, to be sure. It sounds like further study is warranted, especially once the active ingredients in kratom are isolated and concentrated. The coca leaf was used for millennia, but became socially harmful in its concentrated form.