euvitudo

During my undergrad, I frequently used to use his Your Sky app. Was super helpful getting my bearings of the night sky just before my observations. Or to help me see what planets were visible, etc. Happy to see it’s still around.

My birds are much happier when music is playing. And they seem to have preferences over time. Like there are no predators around when the environment around them is noisy.

The difference, imo, is basically in how you define your primary goal. Is it software development or is it specifically informatics?

In my experience (in academia) most informaticians are focused on the data whereas my focus is software development in support of the informaticians’ goals.

Take a look at some Universities that have Biomedical Informatics departments; I started with a University that has such a department. They’ll typically have faculty that have grant-funded projects that require a software component, whether it’s NLP, AI, ML or application development for various purposes (including clinical-use software).

Also look for organizations or companies working with HL7 standards (most recent tech is FHIR (http://hl7.org/fhir/)).

Do you want to become an informatician or do you want to write software in informatics?

I’ve worked in Biomedical Informatics for the past 12 years, but as a software engineer. My original experience was not even close to this field.

You can certainly pursue a degree—yes, likely PhD. Or you can use your SWE background to enter the field. There is a learning curve to understand the domain, but that’s what we do as software types.

I’ve been using Diarium for daily (rather, not so much daily) journaling.

https://diariumapp.com

Everything, by Ben Lukas Boysen and Sebastian Plano.

Like in Brazil. “Tudo bem?” “Tudo bem!”

I have a Peruvian friend who had a similar experience. He would relate that when you would ask someone in his country how they’re doing, it was expected that that would be the beginning of a (possibly brief, but probably not so brief) discussion.

I run my pi-hole instances on Arch Linux thanks to the folks who maintain the packages in AUR. One of my instances is indeed a Raspberry Pi (2B+) but the other is an older Intel NUC (with a number of other services running). RPi is probably one of the cheapest options, though.

New Sears; owned by Edward Lampert's ESL Investments hedge fund.

Might want to try SideNotes or FiveNotes (same developer). My current key mapping is control-option-command-space. I don't think either provides sync capabilities, but for quick notes, they're decent.

> 5. Push comes to shove with surveillance capitalism. Do we want our cars recording everything and beaming it back to home base or not? I'm not saying it will get outlawed, but it will get decided.

It's likely insurance companies will push laws making it a requirement in order to provide insurance services. (At the moment, they just ask you to install their devices in exchange for a "lower premium.")

> -A massive electronic medical records breach due to a security misconfiguration in the cloud gets posted as a torrent and reignites conversations around privacy and flaws in HIPAA regulations.

I can see this. The two big vendors are pushing their own cloud. One slip-up on their end will do it.

This becomes even more plausible now that third-party access is required to be supported. It's becoming easier for these third-parties to slurp up as much patient data as they can. Data from health systems will become much more vulnerable to exploit and the possibility of having all patient data exposed is increased. Likely worse than Equifax and/or Cambridge Analytica.

Great book. I couldn't put it down. However, it was anti-climactic--just like real life I guess.

You have a long road ahead of you--but it's a good road. Mine was diagnosed around 5 and is now in high school. That diagnosis meant services and accommodations that he was able to receive, which if he had not received, would have meant a much more difficult road through school. Thankfully our district does an amazing job working with him (and other special needs children).

It's an experience being a parent of an autistic child, but I wouldn't trade it. Certainly something to be grateful for.

Amazon's showroom? Yeah, I was looking on Amazon for a specific bluetooth keyboard and saw the same one for the same price at BB. I purchased it at BB, as I could get it immediately, and I knew that it was new/unused. If b&m stores can be relatively competitive price-wise (even if a bit more), I'd much rather buy locally. Surely Home Depot and Lowe's (and others) benefit from each Sears store closed.

Once they're old enough, find hobbies or projects that can include your children.

Bear in mind these hobbies/projects may not be in your area of interest--in fact, your children will probably guide what you focus on (just don't force them to be interested in what you're interested in). Regardless of the subject, you can make it interesting to yourself.

Once they're grown, you'll have plenty of time to pursue your own interests, and if you're lucky one of your children just might follow in your footsteps.

Mostly your children will grow to love the time you spent with them and you'll be grateful for it when you look back. They'll be happy memories.

Just wanted to say thanks for creating the app! When I used it (the first one; I haven't used it for a while) it gave me a new perspective on my life that I hadn't seen previously--mostly focused on gratitude. That change in perspective helped me become a happier person.

Mostly, I think we worry too much.

From this (and I agree with what is quoted below, as I'm in that group of folks who studied one thing and am now performing a different job):

https://www.delltechnologies.com/content/dam/delltechnologie...

Not only will workers have many jobs, the tasks and duties of the jobs they’ll perform will be markedly different from what they studied. The experts that attended the IFTF workshop in March 2017 estimated that around 85% of the jobs that today’s learners will be doing in 2030 haven’t been invented yet. This makes the famous prediction that 65% of grade school kids from 1999 will end up in jobs that haven’t yet been created seem conservative in comparison.

Also from WEForum:

http://reports.weforum.org/future-of-jobs-2016/chapter-1-the...

When the local Sears was about to close up shop, the kids they hired to help with the closing were playing Marco Polo over the store intercom. Eventually the person in charge came over the intercom and told them to cut it out. Was the only thing I enjoyed while in that store at the time.

One thing I learned being a band parent is that the parent's direct involvement during events (being there in person) is much more valuable and appreciated than any money given.

This is Utah's:

https://publicutilities.utah.gov

I've reported to them in the past for things Qwest did. Seemed to be effective.

Personal or business?

With regards to personal, for starters look at: - fee schedule - balance requirements, including penalties for balances that do not meet those requirements - online access/services/security

Then maybe you might be interested in the services they provide (debit, credit card and how much interest they charge, auto loan, mortgage, etc.)

Seems that such algorithms would be better used finding biases in hiring. The implications are interesting from various perspectives.

When I first saw the Chrome update, I thought: "Hey, it looks just like Firefox!"

I just use uBlock Origin anyway (basically ignore the message). I don't see a difference in performance with the plugin when I updated to v12 on my mid-2010 MBP (it's slow anyway, so /shrug).

From what I see, where there is a lack of dedicated lanes the roads are typically quite narrow--very little room for expansion for even a single dedicated lane (aside from the two lanes of regular traffic).

One section of the route is wide enough, but iirc, the residents along this particular segment in Provo fought against the dedicated lane (and won, afaik).

Case in point: cable tv.

From my own experience:

One approach is to try software in academia. Look for departments that need web developers, and once there see about branching out into other areas (they often like folks who are willing to learn new things that can be applied in their domain).

In addition to the ability to branch out, you'll likely have the opportunity as FT staff to pursue a degree at reduced tuition (depending on the university/college).

It's often the case that you take an income hit in academia (which is often a reason they're willing to hire anyone with relevant experience), but the learning experience can be beneficial.

Of course, I could be generalizing my experience.

Just a thought.

This book was recommended to me by my step-father, who is mainland Chinese. He grew up during the cultural revolution and has plenty to say about it. He thought it was a good overview of the Party, and I enjoyed the read.

https://www.amazon.com/Party-Secret-Chinas-Communist-Rulers/...

I use maven-enforcer-plugin to force resolution of dependency conflicts. It's a pain at first to go through and add all the exclusions. But then I don't have dig through the dependencies in, e.g., a war, to find duplicate versions of a package.

Edit: Then I cross my fingers hoping there isn't a breakage or unexpected behavior somewhere.