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Thank you for sharing this. I do not know the specifics of the Canadian law on this matter, so I will not comment on those. I understand the concerns raised about it -- the topic requires the sort of nuance that is so often absent from bureaucratic processes.

I also struggled with depression and suicidality in my twenties. My life also got better, and I am glad I did not succeed at killing myself. I do not advocate for assisted suicide as a solution for most problems -- just for those health situations where no real solutions exist.

My mother, however, is approaching her sixties. She's been depressed, like, really, majorly, manically, clinically depressed, for as long as I can remember. She's tried to kill herself many times, twice in the last year alone. She's tried every medication under the sun, some which have temporarily made things better, many which have permanently made things worse.

All she's heard from her loved ones, over the last thirty years, is that she has to keep trying. Always, forever, keep trying, through an endless trough of misery with no end in sight. Do yoga, sign up for courses, move away, move back, try CBT, try CBD, try SSRIs, try benzodiazepines, try anti-psychotics.

Try and then try again, forevermore getting nowhere, until you finally get to die in a way that your loved ones find socially acceptable. Because otherwise us, your loved ones, we'll keep rescuing you -- hell, legally speaking, we're forced to rescue you, again and again, unless you eventually get desperate enough to die that you don't even call to say goodbye.

I also hope that assisted suicide can be a revulsive for our profoundly sick society. Maybe if instead of letting people freeze, starve, be lonely and sick and sad, "fade out" in a way that looks like a "natural death" or an "accident", maybe if we counted them, if we kept a tally of the people who have gone to their doctors begging for death because their existence was untenable or unworthy of living, maybe that would force us to acknowledge them, to listen to their stories, to transform our society so that there's a place in it for them.

Or maybe it would just be another number to become desensitized to.
If you’re into Science Fiction:

(Note: I listed to these all via the Audible audiobooks, they were all very well narrated and I’d highly recommend listening this way.)

#1: The Children of Time series by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

This is amazingly fascinating from beginning to end, if you like speculative evolution zenofiction space operas, you’re in for a real treat. I feel like these books were written for me. I went the audiobook route and chugged through each (roughly 600 page) book, neglecting focus to almost anything else in my life. I would be playing Tetris on my phone (via the Tappy app) while listening at 1.1x speed, which is the perfect amount of mental stimulation to have massive amounts of time go by without noticing.

#2: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.

I don’t want to spoil too much, but this is a must-read for engineer-brain nerds like me that yearn to understand complex systems recreationally. Enough said. Mandatory. I read Artemis by Andy Weir afterwards and enjoyed it too, but Hail Mary is my fave.

#3: The Final Architecture series by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

After obsessively finishing the Children of Time series there was a huge hole in my heart, so I started this series. I didn’t really latch on until 15% through the first book, but once I did I was once again obsessively hooked.

#4 (Bonus) I’m now reading Dragon’s Egg by Robert L. Forward and am very excited to report back when I eventually finish. It involves alien life that evolved in the atomic strata of neutron stars (nerd drool).

I’ve now mostly taken a break from reading as it became all-consuming. But it was very worth it overall, best reading year in my life so far.
Thank you for fixing it so quickly!
Realistically though, even if you had succeeded in getting your friends to use Signal, wouldn’t you have the same social media problem as before? They’ll still be posting stories and you’d still be addicted to checking it.
IDEs of course, and if stuck on UNIX without an IDE, either Emacs (muscle memory goes back to XEmacs glory days) or VSCode.

Pure text editor, Notepad++.
> While the backtrack algorithm lacks such glamorous qualities as learning and progress, it has the more prosaic virtue of being exhaustive. For the user who wants the computer to yield the best possible answer (i.e., the absolute maximum), and who is not particularly interested in whether the computer used humanoid psychology to arrive at a (possibly suboptimal) result, the backtrack algorithm is to be recommended.
Age of Wonders is a great Delphi-produced game too, if I remember correctly.
This is terrible research and JSTOR should be ashamed of themselves for publishing it.

> They randomly assigned criminal cases to judges within the court (in other court systems, case assignment isn’t random). If the future crime rate ended up lower for people sentenced by lenient judges than by judges who sent more people to jail, it would be clear evidence that time in jail — not any quality within the criminals themselves — was making the difference.

No it does not evidence that conclusion. Judges have written sentancing guidelines. A repeat offender, vicious offender or someone who has burned up their three strikes is likely going to both get a serious prison sentance and reoffend.

You can't disentangle that reasoning on a post hoc statistical analysis. That is pseudoscience.

> the data suggest that people held in jail before trial have a higher likelihood of committing crime after their release than people who remain in the community before trial.

The article goes on to argue that this is because people no longer trust the system.

We use pretrial detention for criminals who are either more likely to flee or committed more serious offenses.

That conclusion from JSTOR has no evidence and flies in the face of any sane reasoning. They didn't even questionnaire the re-offenders!
I read "This changes everything: capitalism vs the climate" by Naomi Klein. I bought it several years back. By complete accident, I read it immediately after "Lame Deer Seeker of Visions". It was a nice one two punch. Those were my favorite reads of the year
I don’t think it’s black & white, either coherent or decoherent, for subsystems. It’s rather a scale. In that sense there may not be discrete “worlds”, but rather a continuum of them, matching the degree to which particles are entangled or not entangled, and in superposition or not in superposition.
Linux FU: Miller the Killer Makes CSV No Pest
> I had mentioned how frustrating it was to simply get "no" as negative hiring feedback and asked them to elaborate if at all possible

Don’t do this! You’re inviting feedback from someone who is basically a complete stranger, who has an undisclosed set of “standards” they’re judging you against, and who might not actually be very good at assessing talent. The odds of getting a “false signal” are high.
I disagree with some of this greatly. Some of it is 100% spot on.

1. Getting laid of is usually pretty liberating. Everyone knows the company isn't generally doing well, the air is hot with friction, and you probably know you're working yourself into a corner. Getting laid off has happened to me two and a half times now. The first time was in the 2007 crash, and the company was hemorrhaging money and everyone knew it but didn't want to admit it. The second time I happened to quit the same week the CEO was planning layoffs. He teared up thanking me for saving him from having to fire anyone. The third time was one of the worst work experiences I have ever been in, but I didn't realize it until it was over. I called my wife and was excited, not downtrodden. Every day for the next two weeks was full of lunches and drinks and I had to insist on being allowed to pay every time.

2. This is just good advice. The only things you should spend money on when interviewing are dry cleaning and resume paper. I think my longest stretch was about 9 months, and my wife was forced to go back to work during that time despite just having a baby.

3. Yes and no. Some people don't interview well. Based on the author's other writing, he seems like the kind of person who might not interview well. In my career I think I have a close to 30% offer rate on interviews (but I'm very picky about applying for jobs). Yours may be higher, or much lower.

4. This is just always good advice. Set a bar for yourself, be willing to negotiate, and realize that work environment is about 500x as important as what technology you are using. I once got a job at a perl (yay!) shop where I worked for literally 1 day because the environment was so toxic.

5. Most offers for help come from people who don't know how to help. The author's approach here of direct asks is fantastic. Most will flake on you, but those that follow through are true friends.

6. Yeah this was a bad move. Don't talk about your exes on a first date, and definitely don't bring up the ones that swiped whichever direction the bad one is before your first date.

7. If the economy keeps going the way it is headed, ditch this advice in its entirety. Take that job, grasp it tightly to your breast, and don't let go no matter what happens. The job market in a down economy could be romantically described as falling somewhere between a chop shop and a meat market, and the hiring incentives for managers can be pretty twisted.

8. This has taught me to have a healthy relationship with my career. That post-layoff feeling should be bottled and sold next to the stickers that neophyte programmers put on their macbooks. There's nothing more seductive than confidence, and the clarity that a layoff brings is the best test of confidence there is (up there with a cold sales call, a VC interrogation, etc). If you can internalize a realistic understanding of your own skill level and marketability, you'll be an attractive hire, teammate, leader, etc.
I like the attempt to scare the reader by pointing out the barcode is unencrypted and anybody with an simple scanner could get it. But if they're holding your ID I'm pretty sure they can already read all of that same info printed on the front of the card.
If a company asks you about stuff that isn't any of their business you have my permission (not that you need it) to lie your ass off if you think it will help you. The power asymmetry is such that unless the counterparty is extremely careful about abusing that power that you will end up being cornered and taken advantage of. If you present yourself as more desirable than you are based on your current situation and it lands you a job at a higher salary than you otherwise would have: more power to you. But don't overdo it and realize that there is some risk involved.
It's also free to read online: https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm

This is definitely a book that stuck with me over the years. The concepts were very foreign and unusual at the time I read it, and I still find them novel to think about. Definitely in my top five recommendations for sci-fi reading.
Expecting a single scientific study is not infinite burden of proof, in response to someone making a claim. It's the least to expect.

Though it's convenient for you that you consider anything higher than your own standards "infinite".
I am lost.

Are heat pumps the same thing as split air conditioners that can heat air?
>> It’s rugged, reliable

In my experience it works well for 2-3 years then wears out and charging becomes very difficult after that. The connector also breaks easily as it is essentially a totally exposed fragment of a circuit board.

The design was light years ahead of everything else for a long time but these days, everything should be USB-C.
It means you transfer more heat than work put into the system.
Other than the chicken, that description is a perfect match for New York City.
Or a form of identification, like most other countries have.
I read Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death recently after seeing Alan Kay mention it glowingly in interviews. There are many great insights in the book, one that stuck with me in particular is to observe the relationship between the nature of a medium and the goal it is ostensibly trying to accomplish. For example learning by watching a video where the activity is passive observation when the goal is to become adept at something that doesn't have anything to do with passive observation.
"If you’re like me, work is the primary shaper of your life"

It's sad to see people again and again sell their life.
Research on Highly Pathogenic H5N1 Influenza Virus: The Way Forward: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3484390/

While searching for the above paper, I also came across this one: Research on enhanced transmissibility in H5N1 influenza: Should the moratorium end?

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121009093027.h...

> Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases contributes his voice as a representative of an organization that is a key funder of influenza research. Although Fauci acknowledges that the benefits of gain-of-function research outweigh the risks, he argues that scientists have yet to fully meet their responsibility for engaging the public in weighing these matters and making the case for proceeding. He outlines how the U.S. government plans to augment policy guidelines related to "dual use research of concern" like the experiments on enhanced influenza transmission.

Also, The Weekend Australian article: https://archive.ph/Ow7v2
Nuclear plants big and small are getting support from the feds. Still, problems persist — TerraPower can’t source fuel, Oklo and NuScale are tangled in red tape, and more.
Most people can eat a chicken sandwich without anyone they know ever knowing it. I've eaten many meals completely unobserved by people I know. Also, it's easy enough to dispose of a half-eaten sandwich if you spot someone you know and truly care about such things.[0]

Most people I know are aware of what kind of cars I drive[1].

Even if there's equal stigma attached to both, it's easier to quickly move past spending $5 on chicken than $50k+ on a car that's going to be with you for years.

0. I don't. It's a sandwich.

1. Both EVs, neither made by Tesla.
Steps Lead to More Steps
If you read page 49 of the document you link:

> Recovery Groups
One of the most powerful capabilities that a team administrator has is
the power to assign members to the team’s Recovery Group. In most
configurations the assignment is automatic and Owners, Organizers, and Administrators will automatically be made members of the Recovery Group. In 1Password Families there is no ability to separate the roles of Owner, Administrator, and Recovery Group member; they are all wrapped up as “Organizer.” With 1Password Teams Administrators are given more control, but not all of the underlying flexibility may be exposed to the user.17 17We discovered during our beta testing that it was difficult to make the distinction between Owners, Administrators, vault Managers, and Recovery Group members clear enough for those distinctions to be sufficiently useful. This document describes recovery in terms of the Recovery Group even when the group is not exposed to the Team administrator in those terms.

> Implicit sharing
When a vault is created, a copy of the vault key is encrypted with the
public key of the Recovery Group. The members of the Recovery Group
are able to decrypt the private key of the Recovery Group. Thus from an
exclusively cryptographic point of view the members of the Recovery
Group have access to all of the vaults. Recovery Group members never have the ability to learn anyone’s account password, Secret Key, Account Unlock Key (AUK), or SRP-𝑥. Recovery is recovery of the vault keys; it is not recovery of account passwords nor Secret Keys.
This will never succeed: Germany is irreformably Porkocentric!
If stuck with classical UNIX editors, I rather spend my time on Emacs.

I know VI well enough to save me when nothing else is available, specially helpful when dealing with servers without root account access, and noexec $HOME, and that is good enough for me.
You don't need a control planet. And you don't need to dismiss climate change. And we shouldn't stop aggressively trying to combat climate change. All I'm saying is there's bound to be environmental issues not due to climate change that we can fix rather rapidly, but since they've been chalked up to climate change we have stopped looking into the actual underlying reason. For example California has seen a steady increase in the number of wild fires each year. Someone says it's due to climate change. We accept the reasoning - makes sense. But maybe it's due to aging electrical grid infrastructure? After all most fires are started by downed power lines. And if it is due to old telephone polls, that's something we could fix now. But if we've already accepted that the increase in wildfires is due to climate change, why look into alternative explanations?
If you spend several work weeks on a project and I take it out back and burn it down, we would all describe that as me doing harm to you.
iTerm on macos has this if you install the iterm shel integration.

“imgcat filename.jpg” for example will display the image in your shell/terminal.
100%. My last layoff was in 2011, but at that time they closed the entire office I was in at the time (50 of us laid off). We helped eachother find places to interview and met up once a week to have lunch. I ended up working remotely with 3 of my old co-workers.
What was your takeaway?
This is one of the very few comments I enter without reading the submission at all. These bra calculators are useless! Or, expressed more articulately, they may be used as a very rough starting point but are of little help.

The consensus is that a large percentage of women go through their lives wearing the wrong sized bra, generally one too small for them. The best way to find a right size, it is suggested, is to go to a large store with a professional fitter and get yourself sized

It is amazing that no good advanced solution has been deployed at scale for this problem, e.g. using 3D scanner booths to get an accurate scan and suggest a size. 3D scanning was used years ago for shoe sizing but that’s an area where the problem size is much smaller.
I think you are mostly right. Still, I would like for my kid to be raised in an environment, where screen stimulation is not constant. While I do have control over that in my house ( and currently she is too young to be properly addicted by feedback loops yet ), in its current state, I am at a loss for what to do when goes to school and this problem is not solved yet.

I want there to be a choice ( just like with cigarettes ) and I just hope it will somehow become less popular for one reason or another. Right now.. the only thing that changes is the app name. Anecdotally, my wife's cousin proudly proclaimed she does not use FB, but only Insta and TikTok. I was happily buzzed at that point and I did not want to start an argument so I just took another shot.

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I am scared of the infotainment system myself as it could distract you to death. That goes for cell phone and tablet and the stick-on GPS which gets confused in the most complex urban areas, falls into your lap when the suction cup fails, etc.
I always hated this word — it was made up in the 1960s, and it sounds to me like it is describing something disgusting that you’d scrape off the ground.

The pleasant smell of rain deserves a better word than ”petrichor”.
This book was too emotionally moving for me to finish
Can confirm that SWE salary + no kids + modest needs/desires can make for an easy mode life. Myself and some others I'm familiar with in a similar situation use the free the bandwidth to load up on complexity in other areas, like work. Others just enjoy an easy life. Either can be quite rewarding, just as I'm sure procreating sometimes is.
For what it's worth, I've been working from home for about 8 years now. The only way to make it work for me was deliberate social activities with my neighbors, people from church or local charity orgs (Rotary, etc).

I met them, I got their numbers and I started asking them to lunch at least once a week (sometimes more). That small, very determined activity just leads to more. You have to do it very consistently.

Hosting a poker night is very similar. It will start small and sometimes not happen, but you have to be relentlessly consistent to get it established.
It’s a game…
Yep. Author covers that under #4. "You may have to take a job at a “less prestigious” company." Probably the best advice in the blog post.
Well written thoughts! I've definitely shared many of your feelings more times than I would have thought at the start of my long career.

Corporate jobs disappeared due to the financial crisis one time and a hostile takeover another time (both of those I was personally happy about). And a couple startups were acquired sooner than expected. There can be upsides, yes, but it can still leave you with months of trying to figure out what to pursue next, and that can be a weight on your mind even when you're making the most of your time off. When you are committed to a full-time job, something you have to do every day, you may dread going to work sometimes or just wish you could hike up a mountain or something, but it helps frame your day and reduce the number of decisions you have to make, so when you don't have that there can be a significant cognitive load trying to decide how to spend your time in a way that others may not understand. "Oh, that's nice, you're consulting, how flexible, lucky you!"

Early in my career I learned about how to come out of the gate blazing fast since when I graduated from college a couple decades ago half of the tech jobs were gone, and I had to work hard for months after graduation just to find a specific kind of application development work I wanted at the time. I was fortunate to find that but many others were not and had to take whatever came their way. But it wasn't easy, and like you said, I found out early that lots of interviews on your calendar isn't necessarily promising, so over the years I've tried to find alternate routes to work by meeting with people inside the company first to find out what it's really like, and how much they want to fill a specific position, etc.

And more important than all the above, I recommend finding a listening ear to share your journey with, someone who will try to understand where you're at! I have some friends who have had the same job for a couple decades and even though they may not relate well, we can still try to share our different lives with each other and it's more helpful than you might think!
Because companies tend to let you learn those on the job. Nobody complains if I don't quite know Flask in interviews if I know Django. Certainly nobody cares if you know the details inside out or want to refer to docs.

Algos is a skill you do not use on the job and companies are extremely picky about you getting the correct answer.
Cool. But it hit -39c in my area a couple weeks ago. They still have some way to go.
A common test for these methods is that they undergo peer review and are reasonably accepted.

Many of them DID pass peer review. They had papers written on how well they work.

Obviously something in that peer review process has (yet again) led us to junk science.
Being spoiled for choice with offers is great if you can manage it, but not very useful if you're OP who couldn't find something for a year.

Also, having a job gives you a basic social identity to use to interact with people, and positive cash flow lets you be expansive and outgoing. It's very easy to take this for granted, or assume focusing on work is ultra-materialist, if you don't have a lot of experience going without. I agree that it's healthy to not worry so much about the day-to-day minutiae of a specific job, but this is a lot different from the inevitable decline that comes with not having any job at all.