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I once used Codemod [0] to migrate an old JS codebase. Would this be a use case for Ohm as well?
I love music and good sound but didn't know how to enjoy Spotify with my setup. I have an older hifi amplifier with great speakers and I was searching for a way to stream Spotify in an easy way. For a year now I use an old Pi3 with a HifiBerry dac.
I installed HiFiBerryOS [1], which includes Spotify and works OOTB. The HifiBerry get's recognized by Spotify apps on your local network. It is not a bluetooth streamer. Your phone or laptop is only a remote, once the music plays you could disconnect, the music will play forever...
So if you never heard of it and don't know how to how to make good use of your old analog amp... have a look! :)
You might not want to call this 'consciousness', but I was stunned by the deep understanding of the problem and the way it was able to come up with a truly good solution, this is way beyond 'statistically guessing'.
Either have less kids or power the world nuclear and all eat vegan (no methane producing animals), or accept the new climate reality and deal with the heat or whatever. Just don't pretend we are doing a good job at the moment because we don't.
A world wide one-child policy like it used to exist in China [1] would be a real solution in keeping earth a pleasant place to live.
whenever agile project fail, agile shaman say "you didn't do agile right!"
LOL
Full interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO0PXYMVGSU
Quite some libraries available too https://github.com/avelino/awesome-racket
https://plato.stanford.edu/Archives/Fall2012/entries/liar-pa...
http://igoro.com/archive/volatile-keyword-in-c-memory-model-...
It's a bit old by now (2010), but I always remembered the mental model Igor created.
Staying calm in such a moment can do wonders and de-escalate, but it's hard, especially when I'm tired and need a moment of quiet :)
I see friends taking parenting courses, and raising their kids 'by the rules'. It seems so mechanical, and, from the behavior I see it isn't working very well either, just and endless battle against 'the rules'.
My kids are a bit older now, and looking back I see intuition is important in raising kids. You know your own boundaries, and can be strict about them, but you also love your kids, and can even enjoy and laugh seeing them push against rules and discovering their the world. A nice read on this is 'French children don't throw food' [1]
Trusting yourself and your kids makes you less likely to be angry or scream at them. I found raising your voice in many cases just means you don't trust yourself and you don't trust that your kids respect you.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jan/20/french-childre...
Just out of curiosity, what kind of development are you doing at the moment? Can imagine after so many years it gets harder to find a challenging project.
In some strange way it reminds me of Koyaanisqatsi, now 40 years old (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35764584)
I saw it in a movie theater a long time ago, the images where exiting, the music unlike anything I had every heard... It was stimulating and at the same time uncomfortable, I remember I was glad to finally see the credits after 1.5 hours of a bombardment of sound.
Still it made a big impression on me and made me discover a whole new genre of music and composers.
Since Windows 11 this is horribly slow, like seconds sometimes, especially the first load. I can assure you this is not my hardware setup.
Clearly their goal is not "provide the best, smooth and performant user experience we can possibly squeeze out of our OS".
There are native apps, and you can download Android apps from open app stores. I was surprised how many companies deploy to these open stores, like my own bank.
"Sailfish OS is a European alternative to dominating mobile operating systems"
Burnout rates are higher than ever, many people use painkillers daily, 10% of today's children are diagnosed with adhd and are often drugged [1]. Like drugs are a solution to everything. In the old days kids spend a lot of time outdoors, nowadays average screen time is around 7.5 hours [2]. That must have a tremendous impact on body and mind.
Drug drugs drugs, to quiet the kids, to solve your headaches, to feel better, to lose weight.
Like common sense has left us.
Self-help books sky rocket in number of sales, everyone has a coach and/or therapist. I would argue if everyone needs a therapist, people just forgot how to live. A lot can be done by start living more offline again and use your body. [3]
Let's have more common sense! (and no war please :)
[1] https://www.self.com/story/adhd-diagnosis-rates-children-inc...
[2] https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/exercise-is-an-...
[3] https://headphonesaddict.com/teen-kids-screen-time-statistic...
- Mobile is always disconnected. I have a few moments per day I check my WhatsApp and other apps, just like you would actively check mail in the old days. People get used to the fact that I'm not a quick responder.
- I use 2 machines, a work laptop and a home desktop. On work laptop never check socials or news. On real quiet days I might check HN on my work laptop but that's an exception.
- For work, I try to find real challenges. Even when fixing a little UI bug, try to understand completely, read a best practice, try to optimize it or design a cleaner solution. I discovered being distracted is also boredom and having no focus. Making even simple tasks more challenging makes it less likely to search distraction.
- Get out of your head some times, for me it's indoor bouldering twice a week but there are many other activities. You need a balance :)
this... with my first kid I didn't know how to handle, advice was 'to leave it cry to sleep', but it felt like torture to me, inhumane, letting it cry for so long.
A little baby just doesn't want to be alone. I discovered just sitting in the same room, reading something on my tablet was enough to fall a sleep after like 20 minutes, 90% of the time.
And yes, there are those nights nothing works. Just take him/her out, watch same television and have the baby on your belly to relax. A kid is not a robot, you can't expect it to go asleep when you say it's time for bed, there's no on/off button. I'm often amazed by parents who expect the kid to be tired at exactly 19.00 each evening.
That's not how it works, the first year is horrible. You as a new parent will be exhausted by the amount of not-sleeping you'll get, and the amount of attention the kid needs. Expect nothing less, things will get better when the kid grows older.
I think it is something of western culture to put a baby in a separate room and leave it alone, and thinking it feels comfortable and save and you can mind your own business.