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They were also supposed to be for state’s rights.

My entire life it’s been about nothing more than domination of the “immoral” and the end justifies any means when the alternative is someone else winning the vote.

They are the people the phrase “there is no hate like Christian love” is referring to.

I absolutely believe it could be 90%. And it happens a lot more often than people think. The estimated average across the general population is roughly 1 in 4 for girls and 1 in 6 for boys. The vast majority are by family (3 in 4).

But I'd hesitate to say that is conclusive without seeing how it is across other professions as well.

I suspect it's more strong correlation than strong causation without more data to the contrary.

That's because the applications in macOS are in the sealed volume as part of the operating system.

On iOS, apps are managed by the operating system. On macOS, they're files.

From the article, it was reported to the police. The lawsuit came later and Uber didn’t try to deny it happened.

From a civil law perspective, it doesn’t matter who did it.

The police report is substantial evidence that the event wasn’t made up for the purposes of the lawsuit. Her story was credible to the jury. And Uber’s own algorithms showed significant increased risk for that ride. In other words, Uber knew this could’ve happened and deliberately did not do anything to mitigate the risk.

Even if a rape didn’t really occur in this specific case, Uber knows it has happened many times before. This isn’t a criminal case and they don’t get the assumption of innocence when they have a pattern of guilt.

Let’s put it this way, it’s wrong to assume that an innocent man is always going to be abusive. It is reasonable to assume that someone with a long history of abuse will continue to be abusive.

Emergency services (with the proper software) have been able to get your precise location from your phone for a while now.

This isn’t a new capability and shouldn’t be surprising.

Concrete is smooth and flat. Emergency services have easy access. If you land at a shallow enough angle, you’re just scraping. Given how many planes there are in the air, gear up landings on a runway are well understood.

Plowing the plane into a soft, uneven surface is far less predictable. You never know if you’re going to hit a stump or large rock hidden by grass.

It doesn’t make sense trying to save the air frame if you’re going to risk destroying it and killing the pilot in the process.

> Maybe that’s how my wife feels

The good thing is it isn’t necessary to know how someone else feels to have compassion.:)

It’s enough to accept you don’t understand the other person‘s thought process and stop trying to tell them what they are thinking. You don’t need to fix things, you just need to listen and not make them justify or explain themselves to you.

Doing nothing is better than doing the wrong thing.

This comes from my own personal experience. I can’t relate to people on an emotional level. Every relationship is processed with deliberate, logical action. If I love a friend, I need to figure out what would change their internal state so they can experience that love.

From the outside, this looks like I can relate on an emotional level.

A large number of people don’t want the existing system.

They want Jesus on the throne, enforcing morality and making sure the poor people to work instead of being lazy grifters that take good people’s hard-earned money.

This isn’t a hot take. I’m a Christian who grew up that community. :(

It’s everywhere. And I hate what they are doing to my LGBTQ friends.

Fortunately, XFA is deprecated. I haven’t seen one of those for a very long time.

I haven’t heard that many complaints about Preview. (Except for PDF forms. Absolute disaster. See 1.) But it’s not perfect and I can definitely appreciate that somebody would a very different opinion of it from my own.

So, I’m sharing my personal experience. This is what I see in it.

It handles both images and PDFs rather well (1) in the same application. And you use the same basic set of annotation tools on both.

I haven’t found anything that can match its combination of accuracy, performance, and features with PDFs. Especially when files get large. (I have a lot of large PDFs.)

And it doesn’t try to do all that much. But it does two very useful things I wouldn’t expect it to do.

- Easily add, remove, and re-order pages in PDFs.

- If you select multiple images in Finder, you can open them all in single Preview window and it acts like a PDF, with each image being a page in the thumbnail sidebar. You can rapidly go through a set of images this way.

I have a lot of high-resolution artwork and a professional grade printer. Preview does an excellent job of staying out of the way. It’s really easy and fast to chop up, resize, and convert images. The color adjustment is constantly useful when it comes to printing things that are too dark.

Exporting to different formats is pretty easy. It uses the system print dialog, which allows you to use all of those features.

1: It’s horrific with PDF forms. I’ve definitely had occasions when it looked filled out but emailed as a blank form. Completely unacceptable. I’ve often resorted generating a new PDF using the print dialog.

I don’t think it would. Humans really like to blame other people for things they inflict on themselves. This is less painful than learning self-awareness.

The current Republican Party blatantly preys on this weakness and gives people an enemy to hate so they can keep fleecing them.

This is different than the Democrats, who can’t get their shit together and have a common goal.

There isn’t any app on windows or linux that can match what Preview does.

One thing you may not know about is you can map anything in the menu bar to a keyboard shortcut. The application doesn’t even know you did that. That’s an operating system feature that neither Windows nor Linux can implement reliably.

Accessibility is another one.

It’s like this all over the operating system. There’s a deep integration with the apps and the UI you wouldn’t notice unless you’re a power user.

I truly believe you're sincere but I can't get my point across. :/ Please read carefully.

Stop thinking about how to fix the problem. You might find this interesting if you look at it scientifically.

When it comes to things like ADHD and bipolar, executive function is compromised at the biological level. Put it simply, the baseline is broken.

You're talking about are inputs to this baseline. To use an analogy, explaining how to make macOS apps to someone who's making a Windows application. There are a lot of principles in common, but the implementations are very different.

The default state for this brain is restless, looking for things to focus on. The recovery methods you're talking about are sensory depth deprivation, the worst possible solution. For myself, the best thing I can do is feed the bastard carefully until it calms down. Think of using calm words to get a screaming toddler who just woke up to stop running around and go back to bed. That's not happening.

Sometimes I can't wrestle this thing into control and focus on what I want to. And you want me to relax? That's a bit optimistic. :)

With ADHD, there are a lot of individuals who are able to find a way to work with this and some use it to their advantage, masking the real cause. For those who have it worse, the underlying problem becomes visible, and they get asked why they can't be like other ADHD people who manage. It's like asking why a two year old can't act like a six year old.

Let me try again. I shouldn't have mentioned willpower. Let me restate the problem.

I try to do something and I have the physical sensation of hitting a wall that shouldn't be there. Thoughts never stop at that part of the brain.

I'm talking about a fundamentally different mechanism than thinking something is too hard. It's a hardware interruption that I have no control over.

I've spent my entire life working around this and it's difficult. Especially when everyone thinks I'm just being lazy or I just need to do this one thing. I'm still trying to figure out how to explain it better.

A major factor is Narcan being far more available and usable by people who are not trained.

You’re cocky. :)

Some people are special. The preferred term is neurodivergent. ;)

There are times you just can’t fix a broken brain by trying harder or finding an alternative.

It can be really difficult to understand if you’ve never experienced it yourself. For you there’s, always been a way to get something done.

What do you do when you try to throw something with your arm and your entire body doesn’t move? No matter what you try to do. You can’t get your body to move. I got some advice on how you should move your arm. :)

I did reread and I wish I had been more polite. Sorry about that. :(

I really do understand. These are all really great things, I'm bipolar and already use all of them. I have to. But they don't apply here.

I'm discussing a problem that willpower cannot fix.

Here's an analogy:

- Think of willpower as fuel you put into a train.

- You control how far the train goes by changing the throttle or amount of fuel.

- You have a bunch of freight cars behind you and you're ready to get out of the yard.

- Your engine doesn't have any wheels. Someone removed them last night. (This is an analogy, you can't get a different engine.)

- How much fuel do you need to get to your destination?

Bonus Round:

- Your boss starts asking why you haven't moved yet and won't believe you if you say the wheels were removed. Stop being lazy and get to work.

You are not allowed to disagree with this analogy. :) This is exactly what my life is like.

I should make an exception for suggestions on how to change my environment to better suit me.

Those don’t bother me because they don’t fundamentally misunderstand the problem.

I call it the “loadbearing just”. :) “if you’ve just did this”

Most neurodivergent people I’ve met accept my limitations and don’t expect what works for them to work for me. It might take a little explanation but they didn’t seem to get upset about it.

The few that have expected me to be like them, expected other people to be like them as well. So it wasn’t specific to me.

I really don’t like being snarky here but this is an absolutely perfect example of what I was talking about in my last paragraph.

I didn’t mention energy because energy has no relevance.

I’ve literally broken down crying because I really wanted to work but my brain refused to move. I was having such a great day and was really motivated. I spend hours and absolutely exhausted every bit of energy I had trying every advice that I’ve spent my entire life hearing. I could not get a single word out of my brain.

Nothing worked. I spent my entire childhood trying harder and got nowhere. I probably shouldn’t say this, but I get quite pissed off when people tell me to try hard harder.

I seriously dispute this. I spent weeks not being able to eat enough. I hardly lost weight despite being close to the optimal calorie range to do so.

This method requires a significant amount of executive function.

My body doesn't feel the passage of time consistently. So my mind is never prepared to switch activities when it needs to.

And there are times my brain stops working on a particular task and nothing can get it started again. It's like a leg going out, you just can't stand on it.

This isn't occasionally where habit could be picked back up. This has been a problem every day of my life.

In my experience, this has been the death of every bit advice I've gotten from a neurotypical person. A lot of them keep circling back to discipline or trying harder as a solution to a problem they can't make sense of. Lack of understanding isn't their fault, this is so far outside their frame of reference they can't make sense of it in a single conversation. Fortunately understanding isn't required, only the acceptance that other people have limits they don't have themselves.

No. It’s actually philosophy. Let me put this in another terms.

The whole purpose of the world they are describing is to imagine a place where they are not limited.

The fact that this place doesn’t make sense or can’t exist is irrelevant.

It was made to be aspirational, not realistic.

I’d like to add a quick sidenote .

I wouldn’t read too much into the logic of mythological worlds and realms.

Their purpose is narrative, not scientific. They don’t even need to be internally consistent.

No one expects Greek mythology to make scientific sense. Other mythologies should be seen from a similar perspective and understood that they are narrative, not logical.

Applying a scientific viewpoint to such mythologies results in a new narrative. The scientific view is always wrong unless scientific correctness is part of that world’s narrative.

I add this because a lot of people don’t know narrative purpose.

To put it briefly:

Other peoples worlds aren’t wrong when they don’t match “what makes sense in the real world”.

For myself I don't think I was smarter before, I just paid less attention to what I was doing. I didn't know about all the edge cases. I hadn't built it before so I massively underestimated how much work it would be to get done. This makes it much easier to start.

What I did before with ignorance, I now do with experience. For projects which support it, I write tests first. Find the edge cases and figure out what I'm going to skip. I will know the scope of my project before I start it.

With solid tests in place, my productivity and confidence soars. And the implementation doesn't result in as many bugfixes than they didn't in the past.

This kind of improvement is hard to notice. You're looking at the end result of your previous work and your memory of working on it will be incomplete. Instead you're looking at what it would take for you to implement it now.

On top of all of this, do you have more responsibilities or think through your actions more than you did before? This sucks time and mental bandwidth. You have less opportunity to use your intelligence.

I had the same feeling before about a story I wrote. The stars aligned for me to write something truly excellent. For years I thought that it would be my best work. I've never been so relieved to hate something. I will always be proud of it but I no longer think it's the best I can do.

I think the second point is legitimate.

I’ve been playing around with using ChatGPT to basically be the main character in Star Trek episodes. Similar to how I’d build and play a D&D game. I give it situations and see the responses.

It’s not mirroring. It comes up with what seems like original ideas. You can make it tell you what you want to, but it’ll also do things you didn’t expect.

I’m basically doing what all these other people are doing and it’s behaving exactly as they say it does. It’ll easily drop you into a feedback loop down a path you didn’t give it.

Personally, I find this a dangerously addictive game but what I’m doing is entirely fictional inside a very well defined setting. I know immediately when it’s generating incorrect output. You do what I’m doing with anything real, and it’s gonna be dangerous as hell.

They probably fired that department.

I did a bunch of work creating pdfs using a low-level API, object goes here stuff.

As far as I understand it, at its core, pdf is just a stream of instructions that is continually modifying the document. You can insert a thousand objects before you start the next word in a paragraph. And this is just the most basic stuff. Anything on a page can be anywhere in the stream. I don't know if you can go back and edit previous pages, you might have a shot at least trying to understand one page at a time.

Did you know you can have embedded XML in PDFs? You can have a paper form with all the data filled in and include an XML version of that for any computer systems that would like an easier way to read it.

Not really. I have an iPad without an Apple account and you can’t do much with it.

That said, I choose to use it this way and it does everything I need it to.

What I do is have my primary machine keep all of that stuff downloaded. I only use iCloud to sync. Anything happens, I can take the computer offline and even restore from a local backup if there’s a problem.

And this isn’t hypothetical, I’ve use backups regularly for reloading secondary machines for over a decade.