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Thats a really well written article, nicely balanced. I also agree, it can be great opportunity to learn.

My dad suffered a head injury and afterwards, he could just sit, still, spaced out, in one place all day. At night he used to struggle. Our two cats decided to look after him, they used to snuggle him through the day, or harass him to go get food, or to open this door and that door, he used to be kept pretty active by them! At night they used to sleep close to/on him and if he woke they would stick their faces in his and just purr at him. They gave him so much comfort.

After he passed, they now do this with my mum. In the mornings they will wake her up by licking her forehead, ever so gently.

I guess you can read in to their behaviour what you will, but to us it feels like empathy. Not sure what we would do without them.

Is that to run or to build currently? And is this not due to the fact that fission is an exisitng technology and fusion new? The new technology would be much more expensive until it becomes know and then it the price comes down as they understand how to build it more effiently.

Cooool, this is used on github https://github.blog/2022-02-14-include-diagrams-markdown-fil...

Also on Azure DevOps too https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/project/wiki/w...

What a time to be alive! :-)

hahaha that would be scary...

I used to do the same and that turned in to turning tabs in to bookmarks, then i ended up with soooo many bookmarks.. then I discovered pocket. But within a year I had so many unread items, they even informed I was in the top 3% of users... Fuck.

Ah FFS.

Cool! I will have a look.

BTW this was raised in a cracking corecursive episode recently https://corecursive.com/quines-polyglot-code/

Akademgorodok sounds so inspiring! If you don't mind me asking, what happened next? What did you end up doing?

Great stuff!!

If I remember correctly, this used to happen on historical maps too, the UK and Europe were often made larger than they actually are.

It feels silly but there are manipulative reasons to do this.

and then was given a ventilator contract, with fanfare, at the start of the pandemic when there was a shortage, (whilst the government wasn't answering the phone from actual ventilator manufacturers) then they couldn't deliver.

I will never by a dyson product.

There is a sequence at the end of episode 7 which is so well done, it is stunning. The series is a good watch.

Yes, very true. Having the camera off also means that we miss out on lots of non-verbal cues. I can't tell you the amount of difficult meetings I have had where people are edgy when the camera is off. With it on there is often a more relaxed vibe as people don't get the wrong end of the stick as much.

Maybe not the same but Co Recursive is excellent https://corecursive.com/ The host is very thoughtful and the conversations that come from that are lovely.

thanks for this.

There is a video playlist by Michael Clarkson which has been released recently too.

He is a pretty good communicator!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLre5AT9JnKShBOPeuiD9b...

I am not the biggest karate fan, I did it growing up. But it is just one way to think, to move, act and react.

All martial arts give you a different flavour, they teach you different things. There is not one style that rules them all.

Tai Chi as you mentioned, in Lee style and others is way to move and flow. To think and be. Unsurprisingly it is a foundation for Kung Fu (grappling, striking etc.) and the foundation for weapon styles.

So a kata/form is a way to train yourself to move a particualar way. I appreciate that a 'stylised dance' may not be to everyones taste. But it is training your body and your mind to move a particular way. To react a particular way. To encode a way of holding yourself, of moving through space.

Similar to Tai Chi being a foundation to a sytsem of fighting. So too is karate. You can augment it with Aikido, Judo, JuJitsu. You can add weapons too.

The point is they all have value, (Samba and Systema look class) when you are younger you chase that outer excitement of testing yourself against others, I guess as you get older you start to think more about how to move and flow and think and be.

Sometimes there is a need to be violent, but I am not sure if that is what a child should be taught. Self defence is not just what a martial art is for, it is so much more than learning to hurt someone else.

IMHO.

Thanks for the link!

Most folk think that Computing is all technical but it is still a people business. It also helps me to think of it as people engineering.

This is what resonates with me, I went to a declining secondary school inthe UK and the amount of clever, clever kids who were written off because they were poor, or their parents were from the wrong side was scary. They just didn't bother with them. So much wasted talent and potential. Think of how much they could have contributed to society.

Quite interesting that. Thanks for the post.

On an aside, I have struggled with reading focus these past few years I have found that when I read I get a jittery panicky feeling like I need to stop and do something else. What seems to help is, when that feeling occurs is to use diaphragmatic breathing and continue to read, my focus is better and the feeling subsides. I am hoping I can retrain myself to focusing like I used to as I loved to read.

Growing up, adults used to say... "Remeber your breathing!" Perhaps they were right :-)

Touché :-)

The pushed the new cars to next year, this year they wanted to cut downforce levels as the load was too much for the tyres last year.

Sounds like you had a great trip!!

I sued to hang out on motorbike forums and I remember that it seemd that the two places people raved about travelling through were Iran and Syria. It is a funny world.

BTW the BBC last year did a series by the awesome Samira Ahmed called the Art of Persia. It is stunning.

Same here, I have been looking at Element too... Alternatively, anyone use Threema?

thanks for that! I wasn't sure.

There have been a few cyclists who use whoop and it picked up on HRV and they could see that something was not right.

Hopefully HRV gets added to the AWatch soon, if it isn't already. (C'mon Apple, deliver my device!)

It is pretty cool that we can take these measurements and hopfully make data driven decisions. Hopefully in time we can use these measures to be prescritive and be guided to make better decisions.

There are so many stories of Senna and Prost, maybe what seprated them was the level of commitment to win regardless of the cost.

People talk Prost down but, he was staggeringly good. He once said that he didn't like using kerbs, when other drivers would be smashing off them and gain time he would avoid them on purpose to see if he could be as quick without. He also said that he thought sliding around was boring, it is far more intersting to see how quick you can go by being smooth. He once said that he didn't care if people over took him as he always knew he could overtake them back. Testing for the 93 season Prost on his comeback was driving around 2.5 seconds off the pace. His team were really worried... Come the first race he puts the car on pole.

There are so many of these stories. Can you imagine Senna giving up any advantage to win?

They also invest in education, and especially in STEM. There are more Engineers being produced every year than their competitors.

Good luck to you. I wish you every success. The education in this country has been shit for such a long time. It is and has been pretty devastating for so long.

Apologies for the negative waves.