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Learning to build discipline will keep you moving forward until you find interesting opportunities in most any problem.

The world isn't responsible to entertain, fulfill or inspire us. We have to learn to see that for ourselves, until we do, we have to put in the work until we uncover things about ourselves we like doing. Try new things regularly to cultivate a truly open mind. Passion can't exist where logic alone is.

Passion doesn't matter as much as you think. If you can through saying yes to solving problems uncover a universal passion (learning, helping others, making tech work for people) you will find it can be applied anywhere.

This helps to separate the industry from the improvement and making a difference. Sometimes we have the same lessons to learn no matter the path we pick. Choice can be an illusion when we are still learning to become well rounded and would probably learn the same skills from a few equally positioned opportunities.

If that doesn't make sense, for me the idea/area doesn't have to be as sexy as much as building the entire system around it, and effecting change with it.

I have worked in some dry industries, but I had plenty to learn independent of industry which was thanks to good people. I picked up a lot of transferable skills that I applied when those opportunities that I felt passion for came up.

PG is right, solve problems, build stuff that people want. Make tech work for people, not just the digitally inclined.
I don't think she specifically requested morphine, just that she no longer be treated. I'm honestly not sure how the decision-making process worked. It was kinda odd to me because no one said that she was going to be completely knocked out for the rest of her few days. If I had known exactly how it was going to work, I would have asked to talk to her more before they initiated the process. But I got there the day after she requested the cessation of care and she was out, never to be conscious again. She was then moved to hospice with a locked-up morphine machine and we all sat there for several days, watching her die.

To call it vengeance would be inaccurate.
Bullying is not okay obviously. But people do need to be informed. If breast milk is an option you should take that option.

I have actually gone as far as seeing people buy breast milk (legit sources - some sort of breast milk bank) to ensure their kid has the best. Why would someone do this if formula was just as good?
I see a lot of truth in this, but is that what the US diplomats were worried about with this resolution? From reading the article, it isn't clear to me what their real problem with the language is. The article strongly claims that it is about protecting formula companies rather than about supporting women who can't breastfeed. 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.
> Choosing to "euthanize" yourself is something that is so predominately chosen in fits of mental illness

No one is proposing to legalize impulsive suicide, and it's ridiculous to equate euthanasia with it.
Yes, DotDot is a mapping of the ZCL onto CoAP, and is carried over IPv6. It is essentially the separation of ZigBee’s networking later from their application layer.

ZCL is not exactly RESTful, so running it with URIs over CoAP is still a little weird. It’s main advantage is being able to run all the same application code on your devices, regardless of networking (WiFi, Thread, BT, or ZigBee).

I don’t know how that will turn out in practice, but ZCL has wide adoption, and Thread required you to develop your own application layer. So, it has great potential, I guess.
My main beef with python is its packaging management.

It's a clusterfuck of half-baked, non-standard, spaghetti code approaches.

The Zen of Python says "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." Python package management makes that in to a joke.
> There aren't libraries for that.

Sure there is—textarea and http. The rest is just plumbing.

I’m only half-joking. I just don’t see a huge difference in difficulty between business logic and plumbing—they’re two sides of laying out the program, and neither one is more difficult than the other. Both lead to complexity and confusion if you lay out poorly.

I think that if you are good enough at googling, the vast majority of problems businesses are solving have already been solved (or the problems are well-mapped) and you just need to adapt the successful patterns to your domain.
I think this line of questioning applies to public health issues like cigarettes, sugar, obesity, communicable diseases & vaccinations, etc.
Yes, pretty much the responsibility of the states. WHO's obviously trespassing here (and this is not the first time).
> There is no short answer as to what is fully going on here, but simply put, Python modules are packaged either as a Wheel or an Egg

This is a false dichotomy -- there are actually many different ways to package a Python module, including source distributions (sdists). These are just the two most well-known types of built distributions.

> The numpy module is a wheel, i.e. it is a source distribution that depends on a handful of system libraries — gfortran, blas, lapack, atlas — to compile properly.

This is not correct, a wheel is specifically not a source distribution, it is a built distribution. The dependency on platform-level libraries has nothing to do with what type of distribution it is.

NumPy publishes a lot of wheels for a given release (https://pypi.org/project/numpy/#files) each of which is platform-specific, since they are pre-built (pre-compiled) for a given platform.

In the event that a built distribution isn't available for your platform, that's when pip falls back on the source distribution, which requires the build step (hence the dependency on gcc or clang).
I’ve been mentally engrossed with this theory since reading about it a few months ago:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss–Howe_generational_th...

The good news is, this too shall pass. But yeah the bad news is we clearly seem to be entering an era of destruction.
The breastfeeding research seems like peak "bad science", because there's so much obvious confounding between the causes of breastfeeding as a behavior and the properties of the child.

I probably would suspect minimal effect unless there were (1) a clear mechanism of action, (2) really strong associations even after adding controls, (3) a causal study, perhaps on non-humans.
I liked Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation. You can find its first edition online (free of charge): https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/

Apart from explanations, it also contains exercises and their solutions.
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Nobody seems to agree on a definition of strongly typed: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/430182/is-c-strongly-typ...
In some countries (like NL) assisted suicide is only allowed when certain criteria is met, such a terminal illness with no chance of improvement, etc.

Having seen some of my grandparents slowly fade with dementia, I'm sad they didn't have the choice to end it on their terms. Whether they would have chosen to do so I don't know.

But the individual freedom to end your own pointless suffering seems very reasonable to me.
This is great feedback! Adding an option to toggle between themes was certainly in my to do list, but I'll fast forward it now.

Also, as for the animations, I'm planning to either remove them completely or make an option to enable them (disabled will be default). It really does hinder the minimalistic feel of the editor.

I'll edit the shortcut mapping for macOS. This might be too much to ask but you can create a PR too, and we can get this done faster!

Thanks a lot!
There are several key restrictions on IAM token auth, not to mention that it may not be feasible to integrate in a given framework. It definitely solves the problem for manual access, but automated access may be a different story.

That said, there are a handful of examples available to handle RDS secret rotation through parameter store with Lambdas and custom cloudformation resources.
The two statements are not contradictory. Psychedelics helped a friend unbury himself from the cycle of opiates (and depression from a stage iv melanoma diagnosis) and kratom helped ease the withdrawals.
"I was about to buy some Sonos stuff but asked if I needed to go online to activate them (I claimed I did not have internet), and sure enough, an internet connection is a requirement."

My own experience, having owned a sonos system since 2006, is that the system will work just fine with disabled Internet but it flails badly if your network connection has a lot of packet loss. >50% packet loss, it seems, is not a failure mode they have tested.

I have not added a new speaker in a few years, though - is it really true they will require a login/profile ? I wonder what value my Fakey McFakefake profile will add to their IPO ...
I think people need to stop seeing software as punching coloured characters on a screen and start considering it as an occupation that varies widely in skills, wages, and status and distinguish between the blue collar "plumbing" and white collar "architecting" parts, with a smooth array of options between both.

This, of course, is hard if you don't program and it's not really meaningful to evangelise about, so I'll leave off this rant here.
Is this stopping mothers in Ecuador from breast feeding?
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I'm not going to buy Sonos, Amazon Echo, smart TV or any other "smart" device. They all have some things in common: vendor lock-in, manufacturer having more control over the device than the owner does, and little control over your own data.

For many websites it took quite a lot of effort to comply with the GDPR requirements. Updating the devices firmware is harder. Without OTA capabilities it may even be impossible. Soon we may hear some news about manufacturers with unscrupulous practices being fined and kicked out of the European market.
How is the correlation between "epitome of a meritocracy" and "higly skeptical of a degree"? Is that for it being an evolving field?
> This leaves us at our current state, which is "nobody gets to make the decision."

Someone always decides what's right, either yourself or your family or the state (usually via law).

You opt in favour of state and conveniently ignore the will of the people who would choose family or "they themselves" because law is not a person and therefore it can decide.

That's not at all convincing.
What is the attack vector?
I see this a lot. Large companies buying large expensive solutions that do very little of what they need. Many would be better off building themselves.

Smaller companies leveraging existing products makes more sense in terms of budget and team size.
You just made me feel inspired in a new way about the job I've been doing for many years. Thank you!
You mentioned writing a tutorial and being able to execute the result, so thought I'd mention a project I'm working on to do exactly this.

It started when I got annoyed with how difficult it was to write a 'code' tutorial.

Essentially it allows you commit a markdown file (or any other format) alongside your source code and you can embed source code snippets / shell commands into this file - which then gets rendered into the main 'output' (the tutorial / article).

https://github.com/chrissound/GitChapter
Hmm. I think the government can step in and properly inform people, subsidize lactation consultants so that everyone can afford them, subsidize breast pumps (how are you gonna feed your baby when you’re at work?) and subsidize breast milk banks.

You make the final call, but it should not be a struggle to feed your baby breast milk.
America (USA) being America (USA) once again. Can't wait for them to navel gaze enough to remove themselves from global politics - the sooner the better.
IdenTrust was initially part of a bank consortium, but by the time we (Let's Encrypt) started talking to them they were just an independent company. Now IdenTrust is a division of HID Global via acquisition.
False. Kratom (mitragyna speciosa) is unique in that it does not seem to trigger respiratory depression. So it’s not just the legal status.

However it is true that drugs like heroin (when pure) are quite safe overall - aside from the respiratory depresssion overdose scenario.
Quite. By the same token, if I took my healthy dog into my vet to have it euthanized, I am sure my vet would refuse to do so, and probably inform the relevant authority.
I don't understand what you are saying, we are talking about terminally ill patients, what has mental illness got to do with it?
Kratom has a long history of widespread use, so it's not really like anything you're trying to equate it to.
Great question as to where to draw the line. Maybe "don't endanger the health of others" is a useful rule of thumb. I don't mind/care if people smoke in their own homes, but don't want them smoking near my children in a park.

To show another extreme, the recent California bill making it not a felony to give HIV to others, or to donate blood if you're HIV-positive is where it seems like the government is being too hands-off.
> she essentially starved and dehydrated to death

That's horrible.
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I do know how semantic change works, yes. And your pudding example shows that borrowing (and phonological adaptation) is likely beside the point. Words can change their meaning (and generally do) even when speakers are staying in the same geographic location (e.g. Sanskrit lokaḥ "world" became the Hindi plural marker log).

But all of this seems somewhat irrelevant to me for the topic at hand. Buddhism has a long history in India before reaching China, including meditative/concentration. Obviously there were significant developments in China (and Japan) which make Zen Buddhism distinct, but it seems odd to ignore the Indian Buddhist base it's built upon.
It is easier, but it's physically more demanding (including being far more dangerous).
The community college where I teach has English 001C: Critical Thinking/Composition -- “This course presents the elements of critical reasoning and logic. Students will learn to identify the basic structures of arguments and the ways people use language to fortify or to falsify arguments. Students will analyze and demonstrate these techniques by writing and critiquing essays and using research strategies.”
For accessibility it’s recommended to not justify text since it’s difficult to read for people with dyslexia.
These sorts of resolutions at the government / society play a more indirect role. It may affect educational materials, pediatrician recommendations, research funding, etc. But it isn't a direct affect on what you decide in private; there's no new law or anything like that.
I think you can reasonably call self driving cars AI without it being BS. Many things like translation may qualify based on how you frame the question, but driving is an open ended real world task.
> Others in the company can't tell whether you're acting like a spoiled brat or doing your job. To them, it's literally indistinguishable. And that's why it's very important to not vest anyone with this amount of authority unless you're very sure that they're going to use it well.

I agree with the rest of your comment, but I don't think you're giving non-engineers enough credit here. Sure, in lots of companies, the managers/executives are non-technical, and might as well be managing a packaged goods company. They think software development is wizardry and have no idea what you do. In most tech companies, non-engineer roles are somewhere on a spectrum of technical knowledge that might surprise you. Maybe they've been through dozens more software release cycles than you. Maybe they are currently practicing software engineers trying out a new role. Maybe they co-wrote the standard that you're now implementing. I've seen all of the above in actual companies. Careful about jumping to incorrect conclusions based on someone's title or the actions their role demands.
> Why would they really care about which gfx api they use?

Same reason they refused to provide cross platform Vulkan to begin with. And it's not a good reason obviously.
> This leaves us at our current state, which is "nobody gets to make the decision."

Except that is not our current state. Our current state is that a bizarre legal process makes the decision, and that process is different in every state.

Any time you have uncertainty, you necessarily have both type I and type II errors. You can tweak your decision criteria so that you get more of one or more of the other, but you can never eliminate errors entirely. The fundamental problem we have is that we can't agree which is worse: having someone die before their time, or having someone live past it.

One thing that would help is to recognize that our choice of terminology is hurting us: we talk about "saving lives" but in fact there is no such thing as "saving" a life, only extending one. Once you look at it that way you realize almost immediately that if you're going to allocated resources to extending a life, it probably makes more sense to, say, allocate those resources to a 20-year-old rather than a 95-year-old.
I tend to disagree with that argument because I think the slippery slope issue can be mitigated sufficiently with proper procedures (waiting periods, psychiatrist interviews, etc.). However, it is a valid argument that must be addressed, is appropriately formulated and entirely on topic, so I'm confused as to why it was downvoted.
With lots of conflicting anecdotes out there, a WHO resolution provides a strong appeal to authority argument.

At least here in Brazil, "The World Health Organization stated that..." gets thrown around a lot.
The state should absolutely prevent misleading labeling of formula. We know breast feeding is healthier, why should we allow advertising muddy the waters?

The state isn't forcing anyone to breast feed, that's between a mother, her child, and hopefully a pediatrician.
Such a "brilliant" idea!

This can result in some pretty funny lines, good "work"!
I spend a lot of my time writing markdown, much more than I do interacting with org-mode, so it felt more natural.

Org-mode I tend to only really use for dynamic things. (i.e. "Reports" or tutorials which contain ebedded code rendered output.) Markdown seems like it is easier to demonstrate to other people - and doesn't really require introducing orgmode (which is worth learning, and which does have excellent documentation of its own).
You are arguing against a straw man.
Right, exactly. And they use real data to make that justification.

We are saying the same thing.
> I have actually gone as far as seeing people buy breast milk (legit sources - some sort of breast milk bank) to ensure their kid has the best. Why would someone do this if formula was just as good?

Because they don’t know any better. There are women who feed their babies juice or even soda. That doesn’t mean it’s a good choice.

There is some evidence that breast fed children have some minor immune benefits. There is to my knowledge no evidence that children fed from breast milk banks have any benefit over formula fed children. The health benefits are not well understood but one reasonable theory is that the feedback loop from breastfeeding (bacteria/viruses migrate from the child’s mouth through the mother’s nipple) is what allows the milk to provide useful antibodies. If the milk is from a bank or the mother exclusively pumps, that feedback loop does not exist.

The bonding/nurturing that is sometimes hypothesized to help the child is also missing with bottled milk, no matter the source.
I'm going to forward this to my colleagues who are less friendly with the CLI.
Somewhat true, but that's only part of the picture. An extremely significant distinction is that, much like with cannabis, it is pretty much physically impossible to overdose to death on mitragyna speciosa by itself. It will make you feel terrible to the point of being non-functional, but it almost certainly will not kill you.
Dementia is a good example - how far gone can someone be before they are no longer able to request death? At present, you cannot be diagnosed until you have already suffered enough decline to have seen a doctor about it. Most people think the difference between suicide and euthanasia is that euthanasia is requested with a "sound mind," but the cases where euthanasia seems the most opportune are those where no sound mind is available.
But isn't it a problem that most devs are setting up the plumbing vs already being enabled to deliver rockstar/valuable solutions?

i.e I've worked at a large enterprise and we all (product devs & ops) became so focused on our grand platform (continuous delivery, heavy integration with AWS, container orch, all using OSS) that product development stalled. Though we were doing "rockstar" things with cool tech and our resumes have a bunch of cool words, but it's true that most of that work was plumbing. In the end that tooling became a bch to manage and continually developing upon. The product continues to stall.

Wouldn't it be better for all if we weren't so caught up in the plumbing of these advance/cool tools? -- that's the thought that actually leads into something like building your own platform, vs something provided. Ops then become more like an overseer sre type of role, and most engineering shifts back to direct value.
The resolution was built to curb misleading and inaccurate advertising and to state that breast milk is superior to formula. These are all scientific facts, no one was going to mandate families behave certain ways.

As for them wanting to stay out of families lives, woosh, if this was the issue they drew the line on, that would be quite something. More likely it was lobbying dollars from the 70 billion dollar industry.
>Having worked outside the software world, I absolutely do not believe that software people are any smarter, on average, than anyone else

The average CS major has an IQ of around 125[1], meaning the average software engineer is somewhere around the top 5% of the population in terms of intelligence. The average IQ at the top tech companies is probably a standard deviation higher than that. Despite this, the consensus is that the majority of software developers are pretty terrible at what they do.

If you've ever tried to help people learn to code you would realize a good chunk of the population doesn't have what it takes to do anything beyond basic programming. If it was easy more people would do it and salaries would drop.

1. http://www.randalolson.com/2014/06/25/average-iq-of-students...
If you haven't considered it already, a bike trailer is likely to be a cheaper alternative to a cargo bike. I've had a bike trailer for years. Mine is a Croozer 2. I transported my kids to nursery in it, and did supermarket runs etc. The tradeoff is it is an extra thing you have to worry about. It's much less convenient to park / lock-up than just the bike on its own. Regardless, I'm looking forward to getting it out when we more to a more bike-friendly place in a month.