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> A fighter jet and a helicopter based off the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz both crashed into the South China Sea within 30 minutes of each other, the Navy’s Pacific Fleet said.

>The three crew members of the MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter were rescued on Sunday afternoon, and the two aviators in the F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet ejected and were recovered safely, and all five “are safe and in stable condition,” the fleet said in a statement.

>The causes of the two crashes were under investigation, the statement said.

An expensive loss to be sure but no loss of life.

Chlorinating the water would have adverse effects on material strength and longevity. Even irradiated and heated to 50c, I’ll bet there’s some extremophile bacteria in there somewhere.

Had a buddy on a nuclear sub drink water from the primary coolant loop when he joined the team.

While I do see this as a form of hazing which I am morally opposed to-

8oz (.237 liters) of primary coolant in a properly maintained pressurized water reactor might contain up to 13mrem of orally ingestible radiation, or approximately the radiation of a chest x-ray. (For comparison you get between 3-8 milirem on a 7 hour transatlantic flight)

Don’t make it your primary source of hydration and you’ll be ok. If the fuel is degraded or there is a leak (unlikely in properly maintained PWRs) the radiation dose is significantly higher.

At my last gig it was Notion, and I hated it.

I prefer markdown in a repo for developer docs.

Confluence was ok

A well set up google doc structure worked the best but was tedious to set up and I don’t love living on google.

That was some serious musicianship right there!

We read to them from the time they were born. Simple stories and picture books at first. I think exposure is key, but I’ve also found that kids learn way more with what they observe than what they are told to do. So they see mom and dad reading is going to have a much larger effect than just telling them to read. We take them to the local library and let them pick whatever books they want to try. One of ours took a long time to ever find anything, then discovered he loved dragons, so for a year he devoured any dragon book. Even graphic novels, which I had thought “Isn’t my 12 year old to old for these?” Primed the pump and she’ll go through 2-3 chapter books per week.

We also made age appropriate audiobooks available to them and all 4 adore listening. Congrats on your baby! I’ve never been more exhausted in my life but I’m loving it.

We don’t let our kids on to TikTok, but all their friends are on and it surprises me how much they take whatever advice is shown them as gospel. Lucky for me my kids will tell me “Hey, Johnny said the best way to get ripped is X” so I get the chance to teach proper research techniques (for the level they are at). Two of my four kids are avid readers, mostly fiction but some not, the other two I am really struggling to get them engaged.

After being forced to read books in high school over the summer (school mandated summer reading) I got turned off on reading for years until I picked up Harry Potter. That changed my perspective and I read gobs of books now. I actually prefer to read information mostly than to watch a video about it.

I’ve loved working in nim. I’ve only written some toy projects so far but it’s fast. Anyone find a good ide/language plugin for it?

I find that the yogurt is thicker when I initially heat it higher. My understanding is it changes some of the proteins, resulting in a higher curd yield.

Visually impaired guy here, always excited to see things that make my life easier. Also great that it shows blindness is a spectrum, not a binary condition.

This and the linked comment were very helpful to me. Thank you!

The phone company has long cooperated with government. And while I’ve never heard of anything, the post office _is_ owned by the government in the US.

So many times the solution is to be kinder to yourself. I love this.

Kudos to you! Even just being more aware of your mental state is a step in the right direction. Reminds me I need to be more proactive in this area.

Dunno if it helps, but just know most of us are at least a bit of a mess. Life is messy. I once took two years off of regular work (we were fortunate to have enough savings to do it) and made two music albums, the first album based exclusively on hard things that either I or people very close to me went through. The process of fleshing out the songs and lyrics was incredibly therapeutic for me.

Here’s a link to it in case you’re interested. I had a fraud issue with Spotify, but the album is up everywhere else. https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/boudwin/ccCe/

Personally, I think it’s easier to be extreme than balanced. Like a see-saw (or teeter totter depending on where you are) it’s way easier to sit on one end or the other. To try to stand on the middle and balance is hard.

A friend of mine met Patrick Moore, former President of Greenpeace, and asked Moore why he started supporting nuclear power, he told him essentially “It’s easier to be against everything than to be for something.”

Edited OP to clarify, but mainly this. Work/Life balance, workplace politics, ethical practices, managers who care vs will do anything to get ahead, executives who are in-touch with the day to day of the company, do you get treated like a real person or a cog in the machine?

I have found that platforms are almost always compared to AWS as it is the most mature. Azure still doesn't have complete feature parity with AWS, and GCP doesn't yet have feature parity with Azure or AWS. So in terms of importance to know, its AWS>Azure>GCP. Not all apps need all that AWS can do, but AWS by far has the worst UX of any of them IMHO. For APIs, DigitalOcean would be the contender to beat. They have beautiful APIs.

Have you used retool? What was your experience?

For anyone interested, there is a great book based on the infocom game called The Zork Chronicles by George Alec Effinger. I’m presently working with the rights owner to produce an audio version of the book.

Honestly that’s the reason I stayed in backend work. Frontend seemed to be too much like the English language- more exceptions than rules, only changing nearly constantly.

I’m grateful to those who have the patience and skill for it.

Does anyone know how these averages are calculated? Is it a straight average of the temperature of each square mile of the entire globe, or are there weights for regions or terrain types?

I disagree, but I have the advantage of knowing the whole story of how they are raised, while you are extrapolating the entire experience from a couple paragraphs about reading text messages with my child.

>do you care to understand/show interest in what your kids are doing.

This I think precisely embodies what works and what doesn't. If this is your goal, you'll figure out something that works.

That's a fair point, and I don't mean to insist that my way is the best way. It works for us, it surely won't work for all. But I am certain that with some effort on the part of the parents to be intentional, a good system can be reached. Our system continues to evolve, and with time and additional responsibility/freedom, will evolve eventually to us as parents handing complete control over.

I've worked in tech for 20+ years and I have 4 young kids. We allow our teenager use of a locked down smartphone, with a clearly explained zero expectation of privacy. We don't allow any social media on the phone itself. YouTube and other sites can be used under supervision for agreed on lengths of time.

Once or twice a week my wife or I will go through their text messages with them and ask questions about anything that seems off.

It is a LOT of work. But so far, it has paid off. The more responsible the usage, the more freedom we give. When bad patterns start surfacing, we rein it in.

IMO parents are reluctant to intervene because they either don't know where to start, or struggle with how much work it is.

Personally I would say don’t set arbitrary limits. I knew of a blind guy who played a computer game very well because it had such a rich and responsive soundscape.

Blind guy here (<5 degree visual field) the app is fantastic. I get a little emotional when I consider how many people volunteer. In a sighted world it makes a huge difference.

I love python. I really do. But when I see speedups like this from Rust, Nim, or other compiled languages, it makes me question my life choices.

The Zork Chronicles is a fantastic novel based on the game. It’s hysterical! I hear the publisher is going to release an audio book soon.

Google has proved many times over how willing they are to sacrifice ethics to profits. It surprises me that anyone thought this was a good idea.