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We did a local "parenting course" (changing diapers, putting on clothes on a new-born, etc.). Its main purpose in fact was to get us to calm down and listen to the baby instead of all the advice.

And that's what I want to say to you: Forget about all the things people tell you. Most certainly, it won't apply to your kid. Just stay calm, you're in charge, the kid will need you calm, everything is new to him/her as well. It's OK to be overwhelmed. Be authentic, slow down, and you'll get through it together, just stay calm.

These small helpless creatures are significantly more empathic and sensible than we imagine. Try to listen. Some parents know the difference in cries for "hunger", "poop", "sleep" after days, some not even after weeks.

Also, if the baby is unhappy: Try "hunger", "poop", "sleep" in that order. That will be the only things they care about for the first few weeks. Warmth/cool is your business anyway, they can't feel it the way we do. Otherwise it just needs you to be there and keep him/her safe.

And don't overstimulate. They were in a bathtub for the first 9 months. Give them time, shut off most noises and other stimuli. Put your smartphones away and on vibrate, pause netflix, there is no point in watching TV anyway, dim the lights, don't expose them to noisy baby-toys etc.

You'll be fine.

Quite a lot of indoor localization/positioning attempts rested their hope on such use cases.

Almost nobody wants to use it that way (tested, worked and failed). It remains an idea that sounds great behind desks.

Aesthetics are such a poor/difficult topic to discuss, unless you want to go the academic/philosophical route.

In fact, as soon someone feels the need to defend aesthetics in the first place, I'm starting to feel twitchy - for the same reason you don't want to discuss the quality of light with a blind person (not that I deny any blind person the right to know how I experience it).

I think a lot of commenters are right on point, when they argue that none of "retro", low budget, or indie imply shabby graphics. Just as many commenters completely miss the point about "shabby" graphics. Reduced or no graphics at all are not "shabby". Obviously you will have a hard time criticizing the aesthetics of text-based adventures (font-choice, spacing and layout maybe?). Also, just moving from retro to contemporary you won't automatically get "great looks", right? Thus can we finally remove the whole retro aspect from the line of argument?

If you produce art (we do consider game graphics to be some kind of art, right?), and you are criticized for the aesthetics, make of it what you wish. Defending it won't increase your sales. Let the success of the game speak for itself.

And if you cannot understand what people mean when they criticize you, ask them (or others) what could be wrong and how to improve.

I count 7 in the last 7 days?

People hated the seedy variants. It was more seeds than fruit and messy to eat. Note: you could not eat the seeds it seems (large and hard)

You didn't listen it seems:

There is no commercially exploitable banana for export that we know of yet. Going from Gros Michel to Cavendish required rethinking how we farm, harvest, ship, ripen, sell bananas. Cavendish could simply not be shipped like Gros Michel before.

You said yourself that Cavendish is a "boring" banana. This might be true. But all the great, tasty, small bananas you are talking about cannot be shipped anywhere by the means we know of today. That is, every market outside of the banana growing regions cannot have these, they will be mush, rotten or inedible once they reach the shelves.

Apart from that, I agree, we will (hopefully) eventually find a replacement and adjust our methods and taste. I'm all open for new banana tastes. But the problem is real, the economy as a system (farmers, logistics, consumer) does not know of an alternative so far. Even if you think different.

But I guess you could be very rich if you have an alternative ready and are willing to transport it and selling it in EU/US/Canada.

Hm, IMHO most of the ridiculed under "paranoia" would not be ridiculed anymore post-Snowden. Government listening on all your Internet activity? Remotely destroying hardware? I mean, not only are these things possible, as we now know, they actually happen.

Joke's on us?

Also, what happens to the stuff we toss into space? People still seem to make the same mistake our ancestors did regarding tossing stuff into the ocean.

To be more precise: achieving a velocity high enough to e.g. detonate on the surface of the sun (in particular carrying tons of nuclear waste) won't be cheap for a long time. [1]

Stuff we "toss out there" would probably just keep floating in an uncontrolled (in the long run) earth bound orbit and might come back at some point.

[1] https://youtu.be/uNS6VKNXY6s

What's the benefit of being part of this network?

Isn't LoRa basically just intended to be used one-way/upstream, i.e "node --> gateway --> end-device"? What am I missing?

Because any of the mentioned problems matter in the case of an emergency where people's lives are in danger.

Hm. Technically, can we even say the evacuation was "completed" when a considerable amount of passengers never left the plane alive?

Have you ever unboarded a plane? If so, you clearly remember that every single hand luggage item, every single person on the isle causes congestion, even those in business class, right? I think it is impossible to state that "just the hand items that did not cause congestion were taken".

Further, was there a magic curtain between the areas of the plane that were unaffected from smoke and fire, and the affected parts? Fire and smoke spread, right? If not, at least some passengers were catched in fire and smoke after the plane had landed. Some of these passengers might have been able to escape, given an open isle. Only considering the opposite (unlikely case) is ignorant.

The ones taking luggage with them most certainly slowed down the process and caused a jam.

Once you stop in the isle, drag a luggage item down the isle and down an emergency ramp, you slow down the process. Unless somebody behind you is also causing a jam, you are directly to blame.

In my experience, you acquire (i.a.) your behaviors, your values, and in particular your coping mechanism to most degree from your parents (or whoever raised you).

Your peers never have enough lever on you. The way kids look up to and depend on the love of their main care-giver(s) is irreplaceable.

I'm not talking about superficial things, like swearing, walking, etc.

It is sometimes frightening to realize how much of you is "just acquired". The way you treat people, the way you react to situations, the way you talk to your loved ones when you're angry. Once you realize there would be other ways: shocking.

But you still want to sell it. And more so, you want to please the majority. Oherwise you might be killing the product by picking a niche.

You would be surprised. As long as "demand" is analyzed in the hypothetical, your results will be skewed drastically.

There was a grocery or meal shipment start-up based in London that had all analyzed demand by studying their potential user-base, yet their product never took off. Their result: a lot of people said they would buy, but never did.

The market itself gives you the results you're asking for: Manufacturers are definitely studying and trying everything feasible, since this is such a saturated market.

What sells is where people's priorities are.

Look, everyone is different and so is his/her path.

While we have some ideals, e.g. as portrayed by pop-culture, it does not mean that you would even enjoy living this ideal. Your life will be what you desire it to be, if you are able to make your own decisions.

As someone that flip-flopped between solitary and social phases in his life (and not only marginally), my only advice would be: whatever you feel like, just try to enjoy it the best you can.

Life is incredibly short and it is all yours and you will be the ultimate judge.

Regarding friendships: Especially at your age, friendships can be very intense and meaningful, and yet so frail and meaningless in retrospect. Again, all that matters is how you perceive and enjoy it, and that's the point: deep down, everyone just wants to enjoy themselves. Try to enjoy yourself, and while doing that, don't hesitate to bond with people that support this feeling and ideally have similar interests. And take an open look at what they offer on alternative views and interests.

And don't sweat it, if most bonds are very shallow and superficial, these will always be the majority (through all your life), and that's OK. And things might change incredibly fast anyway, especially in high school.

Hm, UK is pretty much the only dominantly English speaking country in Europe, which makes we wonder why you suspect that.

Even directly translated most German speaking folks would call it "insurance" or "being insured" first and "cover" (decken/gedeckt sein) having several equally specific meanings aside from insurance, and being mostly used by insurance selling/handling people.

That aside, Non-English-speaking people would typically not associate English words with something in their daily life, besides programming maybe, i.e. if we have frequently used terms in our own language. So in this field I would say it is quite irrelevant for the rest of EU what term is associated with insurance in the UK (France and their disgust for any non-French word for example?).

SD-card corruption is a real problem on RPi (see OpenHAB forums). Supposedly the SD-card driver is not the greatest which together with the system's design makes writes fail silently. This cost is half a day once, since we did not understand what was going on with a config not being persisted over reboots.

Mounting root read only and only writing explicitly through the "ro/re" scripts helps a lot and should be the default IMO.

The biggest issue some people have with RPis though, is their hackish software, e.g. the kernel. This has become better apparently, but it always was a shame that you couldn't just run a generic kernel/distro.

I had good experiences with the BeagleBoneBlack, they come with eMMC and quite a few smart additions (e.g. a power button). Twice as expensive though.

Your post is mixing arguments with idealism and very specific angles, e.g. on what the cloud is and how it works.

I'm pretty sure RH means something completely different when they talk cloud.

Most of all, I think your post comes down to "RH is bad, systemd is bad, [...] it should die anyway".

Not entirely true in my experience. This would be particularly national interests and don't explain EU subsidies.

When staying particularly in Austria, the subsidies are there because national politicians and EU politicians from Austria want some part of the EU subsidies pot for their farmers, contributing to the general constant rope-pulling and trading "a piece of the cake" (i.e. EU budgets) - usually in the form of: "You get subsidies for x, we then get support for our poor farmers in poorer regions, since they are starving".

Generally the EU subsidies for agriculture are misguided and just money down the drain. Until they begin to dry up causing uproar and "EU took our money!"-complaints.

Same thing in Austria, at least until a few years ago.

Farmers still complain over falling milk prices, and that they cannot survive. Yet the market is still saturated, milk was literally drained down the gutter regularly, every milk product is incredibly cheap IMO, considering how it is produced (although there was a butter shortage and a price "spike" last year).

Subsidies (and even worse EU wide subsidies) seem to do more damage than good in the long run.

I was hoping to see MacOS style three-finger drag being available through this. Unfortunately, it will technically most certainly not be possible to augment it this way, and the maintainer of libinput considers three-finger drag as a luxury that will introduce unnecessary overhead and complexity.

Three-finger drag is IMO one of the most helpful usability features of MacOS, and I miss it dearly every day since I bought my XPS 13.

Edit: ... which is not the fault of the developer of this tool. Good job, I like the spirit and think this is incredibly useful and powerful.

The tool could further make configuration of the most common use cases simpler IMO. Not every user is keen or able to enter the specific commands.

Facebook didn't use hg until 2012 or later. I was talking and only know about the state of hg in 2010/2011 and at that point, git was widespread, stable and widely more useful than hg for anything besides simpler/smaller projects, again IMO.

We used hg in a uni project once, since large parts of our team had never used a VCS, and on of our advisors urged us to consider hg. (This was around 2010, so I guess hg improved considerably since then.)

Even considering the additional overhead, we switched to git after a few weeks since the repository was constantly broken, and the two of us that knew git and SVN were desperately searching for the consistency and tools we had in git. At least we could support the team from there on and make it work for them. Not the ideal solution, but the best available to us.

So I totally understand why git is more popular than hg. Until hg could be considered mature enough for larger teams, git already had a huge following, IMO.

I met several seemingly charismatic "leaders" in my professional life that turned out to be manipulative egoists that didn't care about the effects of their doings, unless it affected them or their plans. We, that were affected went on to call them sociopaths. I am not a health professional, so we might have misused that term.

I was actually looking for the term sociopath.

There is a fourth category that fits your description of charismatic people quite well IMO: psychopaths.

The distinction can be quite hard and might take some time.

Interestingly enough, MikroTik routers are mostly well supported by OpenWrt it seems. At least that's what my search for something that is beefier than regular OTS Routers has yielded. Flashing OpenWrt is a little cumbersome though.

TP-Link, the former manufacturer of my choice, unfortunately has become a version roulette it seems.

If power consumption does not bother you, maybe banana pi? Or something atom based?

I urge you to look at IP (v6) stacks that are small enough to be feasible on small microcontrollers, or even better, their spec, e.g. 6LoWPAN, and all the trade-offs and shortcuts they have to make.

Then, re-evaluate if the increased complexity and energy consumption is worth it, e.g. just for a mouse or keyboard.

Then go ahead and specify how you want this spec to have comparable compatibility modes to USB-C, e.g. if you are going to run displays and external hard drives, as well as HIDs and power...

Considering the alternatives, USB-C is not too shabby for the intended uses.

There are various shades between scientific breakthrough and "yet another app/Server Tool", of which hundreds were implemented in the past, which can be solved by following random blog-posts, and (in the worst case) make no sense, even besides academic rigor.

Scientific work should fulfill at least some standards, and IMHO this includes undergrad theses.

I have in the past been subadvisor to various bacc. theses.

I value conciseness dearly, and prefer quality over quantity in scientific writing, i.e. I would accept incredibly short theses, if the content is sufficiently presented (reproducible and comprehensive), and most of all, contains a valuable contribution.

The reason I typically have to request "more verbiage" and an own section on the state of the art, is because I need to force my students to confront their sitcom ideas with the history of "what has been done before, and what the actual current problems are".

Unfortunately, the approaches of most students are neither new nor particularly interesting in this regard.

Any RTOS has the very same hardware restrictions, and often only works on a very small number of (certified/supported) platforms.

There is no reason per se to attribute any downsides onto these "filters".