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> Really? The purpose seems pretty clear to me, and I only skimmed it. To reinforce the value the book has in understanding how research around death and dying was framed in the 1970's.

The article is not _just_ a historical perspective of what happened "More than 40 years ago", it clearly says: "This book will remain relevant for all these specific cautionary reasons, and many more. I hope that in another four decades “The Craft of Dying” is republished for that historical moment’s own happy death movements; . . . ."

People have died "forever" so I was actually curious about what new great perspectives this article/book would offer; it's called: "The Enduring Genius of ‘The Craft of Dying’" after all. _Personally_ I didn't find it illuminating. That's all.

> Your comment comes across as intentionally obtuse as an excuse to proselytize. I just provided my personal view of the topic of death; spiritually and how I felt it in my own family. I often try to share my thoughts and faith; that is who I am and I try to be true to that.

Reading through this article I had a hard time finding the purpose of the book or really the article itself. From the article I might remember that there are 'happy death movement(s)', whatever that is since it isn't really explained.

Does it want to say that death is something normal and should be talked about?

For me as a Christian death has been something that I have thought about pretty much all my life. In different facets. Christ died and rose from death, and in this way He conquered death itself. As a Christian I am dead, buried and resurrected with Christ as shown in my baptism. And when my body dies one day, I enter into the kingdom of God and eternal life.

Still: Death sucks. Like my brother – who died a few months ago – said: "It would be all good and fine if it wasn't for those friggin feelings". With Christ though, there is hope in the suffering. Because one glorious day: "He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more" [Revelation 21:4].

Interesting :-)

Seems like the word 'shard' when used to define splitting up DB's etc. on different servers, actually originates from this game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnnsDi7Sxq0&t=1490s

> Another might be the creation of a Fedora Server variant which isn't really in the interest of Red Hat.

By that, you mean another server variant than the one day, right? https://getfedora.org/en/server/download/

I remember I heard about Adobe moving into the CMS business in 1998 or 1999. I'm glad they finally got around doing it . . . ;-)

I always thought that SQLite was kind of operating in stealth mode. Everyone was talking nicely about it, but it lacked a few things so it was a "super DB" but not in the "big boys league". And now it is taking off and the other DB's are saying "you here?", and SQLite goes "Yup, bye bye" ;-)

This is really useful and fun, thanks! Godspeed on this new part of the journey!

You need to back up Sun and Wind with either some type of Battery or Nuclear/Carbon based solution. If not you have no energy reliability when sun/wind conditions are bad. More sun and wind renewables won't help in this case as they have this built-in problem.

Apart from that, it is not like big windmills and sun farms have zero impact on the environment. In this case a nuclear factory might be big and ugly, but globally its immediate impact on nature might be a lot less than the aforementioned renewables.

1 kg of natural uranium gives 45,000 kWh of electricity; so the extraction of raw materials for nuclear has less impact on nature as well compared to many other solutions (e.g. for the same amount of electricity you would need nearly 10,000 kg of mineral oil or 14,000 kg of coal). [1]

Of course with nuclear you have problems with storage of waste and possible accidents, but its positive impact on climate change, great capacity for producing electricity and lower impact on nature than many other solutions, might make it the best solution we have at the time being?

[1] https://www.euronuclear.org/glossary/fuel-comparison/

> 8. Be suspicious of awards. The pursuit of creative awards seduces creative people from the pursuit of sales.

I don't know if such awards are common all over the world, but I have always found them puzzling. You should already be happy and feel awarded if you help your client with great sales.

The same thing with movie and music awards. You make something and you reward should be the joy of knowing that the people are enjoying your performance; easily measured in many ways both in former days and now. Instead these artists get multiple awards: The recognition in "the market", the payment, the awards . . .

I would rather see awards given to people unselfishly caring for other people; people working unpleasant shifts in the scorching sun or blistering cold to make the society a little better . . . They should have awards!

Another (paid) solution is Imageranger.com (don't have anything to do with them, but installed it for my father). I really like the import function that gets rid of duplicates (dedupes) and that put files into directories (video, photos, etc) and year/months based on how you have set up the import function.

The image viewing interface itself is okay although it might not be as smooth as e.g. Apple Photo (which I feel has its own challenges with how convoluted its image directories are e.g). ImageRanger has also tags and Face Detection and Recognition.

I have only installed the Home edition, and it seems to re-index the images to create thumbnails (relatively fast) if you have stored images on an external disk that is detached/attached between openings of the program. From what I understand, the Professional version does not have this issue as the images are cached (not tested out this myself). I don't think the face Detection and Recognition is on par with e.g. Apple Photo, but haven't tested it extensively enough to say that with 100% certainty.

What I like most about ImageRanger is its import functions and the way it stores the images in common folders and subfolders based on preferences and not in a convoluted DB.

Yes, really. I use it all the time.

On feature that I use a lot in Preview is to combine pdf's. If you e.g. have a pdf invoice and want to combine that with the corresponding pdf receipt from the bank, I just open the two pdf files side by side in thumbnail view and just drag the pages (thumbnails) I want from one document to the other where I want to place them; rearranging the pages (thumbnails) later if I need to in the same thumbnail view. I am a huge fan of Preview! :-)

Thanks for feedback, will contact if I have more info. Again it looks great and seems to be super fast.

Looks like a great tool! Questions: I think you might be based in the Netherlands(?), how does UXWizz conform to European laws of privacy? I see that it tracks IP addresses, is that legal? How does it handle cases where people don't respond or opt out of eu cookie consent?

Thanks!

> /s and :) should be obvious here, but I am including them anyway, just to be safe. I don't want to be accused of old fashioned trolling, and starting a flame war.

If so you should be denoting it with the appropriate ~= sign:

"~= a candle, to annotate flaming messages"

:-)

> My personal belief is that isn't the case for the modal HN reader, and that they'll be best served by being lazy and avoiding premature optimization - and if they really want to optimize, maybe they can start tapping into the data that's already collected (bookmarks, timestamped visit) . . .

I also want to do as little work up front as possible, but I have spent so much time trying to find something I remember that I read that I try to optimise the process.

I do that (on the Mac) by automatically indexing all the websites that I visit via the app HistoryHound. That way I am pretty sure that I can find a website again by searching by words (that I think) I remember from the content.

I have also tried a lot of external bookmark managers and have now settled for an app called BookMacster. Reading a webpage I then just press a key combination and get up a small window where I type in tags (with autocompletions from earlier tags) and if I want, copy and paste an interesting part into the note section of the window. This way I get tagging that is non existent in Safari and can automatically push bookmarks back to all the browser that I am using. (Not affiliated in any way with these apps by the way).

Finally, sometimes I wonder when I read a page for the first time. I can't see that directly in Safari as the browser only shows the last visit in its history function. So then I access the Safari History via sqlite using something like this:

[$] sqlite3 /Users/myuser/Library/Safari/History.db

sqlite> select datetime(history_visits.visit_time + 978307200, 'unixepoch', 'localtime') as dantime, history_visits.title, history_items.url, history_items.domain_expansion, history_items.visit_count FROM history_visits INNER JOIN history_items ON history_visits.history_item=history_items.id WHERE history_visits.title LIKE "%My Hacker News knowledge assimilation stack%" ORDER by dantime;

I didn't remember where I picked up the idea for this script, but using HistoryHound searching for 'dantime' it looks like I got it at 2020/05/11 19:03 from: http://2016.padjo.org/tutorials/sqlite-your-browser-history/...

So there: Ate my own dog food :)

IDs are essential. It works in other countries. Fix it.

Not American, but from what I understand you would need an ID for e.g. foods stamps and unemployment benefits (searched via Google). I think the same is true when you are hired for a new job as well(?). These are just examples. Can you really live a normal life in the US without a passport, driver's license or State ID?

I have read many times that requiring an ID card to vote in the US is seen by many as undemocratic as certain demographics are hindered from voting. To me this is absurd. To create trust that elections are held without fraud, IDs are an essential building block.

I am not living in Texas/US, but believe that babies of any age in mother's womb should have 100% protection – as far as humanly possible. If Apple listens to the author's advice: "move your business out of Texas" – a democratically chosen government that chooses to protect life – I will also move my business out of Apple.

I find it disturbing that so many people only think about mothers right to abortion, and have no qualms whatsoever about taking the life of perfectly formed humans and destroying the life they would/could have been living . . .

Thanks for your input. And what about the territorial control and governmental system?

So what would have been a good solution?

> So how long are people going to believe a kid who said a god knocked her up to avoid getting stoned?

What you say does not make much sense. When Jesus came to Nazareth as a grown man, this is what His neighbours said about Him:

“Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother’s name Mary, and aren’t his brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas?" (NIV Matthew 13:54).

And a few verses later: "And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own town and in his own home.”" (NIV Matthew 13:57)

So clearly, Mary – Jesus's mother – was not kept from being stoned because her neighbours believed Jesus was the Son of God, see Luke 1:26-38 for what Mary was foretold by the angel about her birth of Jesus as the Son of God.

Before Jesus was born, Joseph married Mary: "When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife" (NIV Luke 1:24).

Jesus became known as our Saviour because of His words, acts, death and resurrection, not because the neighbours thought He was so spectacular when He was born.

I always had a bad cursive handwriting from early age to young adult. Partly because I just couldn't form the letters nicely, and partly because I had (have) a bump on my middle finger just were I held the pen due to an accident where the finger got stuck when I tried to snag out some peas out of our kitchen drawer for my 'pea, toilet roll, balloon gun'. :-)

Not writing as much as before, but still writing the occasional card and such, I one day decided I would try to improve my cursive writing. Not doing any extra training as such, I just started to write a little more slowly and at the same time I made the letters a little bigger and made the loops larger for letters like: f,g,h,l etc.

Looks like it has been working out for me, as one day my nephew said: "You have a nice handwriting". I smiled to myself, and thought: "You should only have known". I savored the moment and kept the trick to myself like an old magician. Will let him know though :-)

When I write fast and long (seldom), I need to concentrate to keep the letters looking good; but at least I know now that 'I am not just a bad handwriter and that is just the way it is'. So take hope! :-)

I found it interesting, even though I don't (yet?) understand it, that Sir Roger Penrose in this talk/debate with William Lane Craig talks about that "you can have a temporal order without having a time associated with that": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wLtCqm72-Y&t=58m5s

Doesn't necessarily mean anything, but I checked out the book on Amazon and see that: Publisher : John Wiley & Sons; 1st edition (November 8, 2011)

I am sure there are a lot of good stuff there, but quite a lot has happened with html/css and browser support since late 2011.

A person that buys a 5 year old version of an iPhone, is probably either a frugal person and/or a person that does not have too much money. To me it seems like a person that is used to think about how to stretch her/his wage. I find it interesting that you can say to this person: "You're not putting yourself in the shoes, nor the mindset of a poor person". Have you walked in this HN member's shoes in different stages of her/his life?

I don't understand how these thoughts: "I wasn’t sure at the time, but having had enough free time of late to ponder such questions, I think I’ve come to the conclusion that having a father who can pay for a top-notch education outweighs the disadvantage of being raised by a hypocrite. Sticking with the job for the sake of a paycheck passes the children test."

. . . resonate with the final part of the opinion article: "As hard as it was to decide whether or not to stay at my job, it was easy to pass up the hush money. Mistake or not, my future hypothetical children deserved to hear their father’s story, and $16,000 did not seem like a lot of money in the grand scheme of things. After rejecting the offer, I enjoyed a full night’s rest."

So doing the right thing when it only cost him $16,000 was okay, but it was not worth it if he had to sacrifice a top-notch education for potential future kids?

Lacking knowledge in this area, it's hard to say; might have to do with the painting techniques he was using?

As contemporaries, although El Greco was only in his early twenties when Michelangelo died, I guess one would have less reverence for a fellow artist as one might have now many hundred years later.

Very interesting article.

Reading this part . . . :

"And he did go back to Rome, and then Della Rovere made him paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling knowing Michelangelo hated painting, basically as punishment for trying to run away. I’m not exaggerating."

. . . made me think of a quote by El Greco I once read:

"When he was later asked what he thought about Michelangelo, El Greco replied that "he was a good man, but he did not know how to paint", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Greco#cite_ref-Scholz20_43-...

I thought that sounded almost like jealousy from El Greco's part and "how can you even say that about THE Michelangelo", but maybe he had a point after all (but what would I know :-)?

The parent said that: "You don't need religion to learn about morality. Watching Mr. Rodgers or reading Winnie the Poo would do".

My point is that Mr. Rodgers doesn't take all these teachings out of thin air, as is mentioned in the PBS article.

It seems that major themes are taken from Jesus Christ's teachings, and His Sermon on the mount. See: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+5-7&ver...

I never grew up with watching Mr. Rodgers and only really know about him through the recent film about him, but it definitely seems that his Christian faith shaped his children programs, see: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/how-mister-rogers-faith-sh...

Until parent poster chimes in . . . :-) The reason God is not "just saying, you know what, I forgive you", has to do with His system of justice and righteousness. As the final Judge and Creator of the law, sin must be judged. You are either committing a sin or you are not. Jesus dying on the cross for our sins does not change the fact we will be judged. But Jesus that had no sin, took our sin upon Him and paid the price of death that we really were to pay. By believing in Jesus Christ we take part in His death and resurrection, and as a result: An everlasting life with God.

About 800 years before the birth of Christ the prophet Isaiah wrote the following prophecy (Isaiah 53:5-6):

"But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed. 6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all."

I encourage you to read the the whole chapter of Isaiah 53 here:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=isaiah+53&versi...

As Christians this is our salvation and what we believe when Jesus died and rose from the cross.

Happy Easter! :-)