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This looks like a subset of Project Gutenberg?

The Girl from Alsace in Gitenberg: https://www.gitenberg.org/book/35926

The Girl from Alsace in Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35926

The numbers are even the same which seems suspicious. Hmmm.

Murphy's law is a more humorous way of saying the same thing.

"If something can go wrong it will go wrong."

There are earlier references - but Murphy's Law is associated with high g-force testing just after WWII. The team used Murphy's law to anticipate every possible failure and prevent it before the experiment ended in death. There is nothing like death to sharpen your focus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_law

The pockets don't get in the way when I sit because the pocket is just below the waist.

I started with the Silhouette 3 piece yoga pattern (which has a side panel) and made the pocket horizontal. It seems to me you can take an off-the-rack pair of pants and make the same modification.

For women the problem is worse since we are too curvy to use the exact location of pockets even when clothes are baggy.

I find the solution interesting even for women. I solved the same problem by putting the pockets horizontally at the waist. I will try moving the pocket down to the upper leg.

Monoculture is bad for bees even if you rotate every other year.

About a year ago I surveyed the available OCR packages for receipts. This was for pristine scans (not the crumpled scan you have in your image). In my survey all OCRs failed except google cloud OCR! If there is another OCR that works I would love to know.

I have a rental property in Santa Cruz county that came up for rent in June. I talked to the property manager about the rental market and he said he was getting calls from people who work in San Francisco but want to live in Santa Cruz! So yes - Santa Cruz is benefiting from the new work at home policy.

The expectation of feeling welcomed is part of the problem. Is stack overflow an information sharing community or a social community? Is it wikipedia for programmers or reddit?

The fact that most people don't comment at all indicates that most people want it to be a wikipedia for programmers. Some people want it to be a social community.

In the Syprine case, the company was convicted of price fixing by the US supreme court. The company changed its name and then just continued with the same business practices. No hands were really slapped.

Companies are made up of people - so if the company you control breaks the law, you have personally broken the law.

I downvoted your original post because it was the top post. It did not answer the OP's original question. It should be one of the answers but not the top answer.

You should to some extent enjoy what you are doing particularly when what you enjoy is in line with what you want to get out of life.

The OP asked for tools for focus. Most of us need tools to gain perspective because we are so busy day to day that we don't see how it will fit in with a full life. We all need tools to periodically take a step back and see how everything fits together. I think you do that naturally but it was not in your post.

BTW - I can tell you do not have young children. They will completely change your perspective.

I am surprised nobody is talking about the math part of the story.

For me - I had the exact same experience with topology as the author. I was taking a normal math class and in the middle of the normal class the professor started talking about topology. He got the whole class excited about topology to the point that we all enrolled in topology the next quarter.

Imagine our disappointment when we discovered our new topology professor did not love topology. He taught the class by rote. Topology is not a subject I could learn on my own. I dropped the class and sadly still wonder what I missed.

The lesson for me is that it is not enough to admit ignorance. You also need an enlightened guide and mentor.

It is interesting that my comment got both upvoted and downvoted. I didn't know that people on hacker news knew that much about sewing!

I will just say what I thought was too technical to say. I have actually sewn sleeves and have done pattern matching between the body and the sleeve.

Two things impact the pattern matching.

Most of the ease is in the top of the sleeve cap and not in the body of the sleeve cap. The first thing I do is make sure the pattern is as far away from the sleeve cap as possible. Then I check if I can fool the eye. If you look closely at the plaid closest to the top it is shifted slightly which was disguised by matching the vertical stripe instead. The maker of the coat did both of these things. So - nothing was proved since this is normal sewing practice.

The second thing that impacts pattern matching is the stretchiness of the fabric. Pattern matching in knits is very easy even with ease. I don't think this was used in the particular coat.

I am very surprised that the author thought that a photo from an unknown manufacturer proves that easing was not needed. They could have easily proved it by sewing something. This leads me to believe they don't know as much about sewing as they implied.

Some of my background: I am a retired software engineer. The first half of my career was in 2d and 3d graphics rendering. My mother taught sewing professionally with a home economics degree from UC Berkeley (back when they had such a degree). She taught me as a child how to pattern match plaid. I have been fascinated by the math of sewing - but only as a hobby.

It also looks like the top two horizontal stripes on the back are matching the vertical stripes on the sleeve rather than the horizontal stripes on the sleeve.

I would be more convinced if the example was a striped coat rather than a plaid coat.

There is very little work just a lot of waiting. I also bake the Ken Forkish recipe. It is a no-kneed bread recipe.

The trick I figured out is to invest in a danish dough whisk - then I whisk it in the bowl instead of pinching. I also let the dough rise over night in the same bowl. Also - don't ignore the instructions to heat the dutch oven before baking. This is what prevents the bread from sticking.

This reminds me of when the .com bubble burst in 2000 PBS's Nova series ran a set of shows on every way humanity could suddenly end from Yellowstone exploding to an asteroid hitting as the solar system passes through the galactic disk to the ice caps melting and changing the salinity of the oceans. It was strangely comforting.

From personal experience Cromix was written in 6502 assembly language. The comments were all in C but personal computers were not fast enough to run a C OS in 1979. I doubt it was licensed since they reverse engineered the API (which is legal). I actually learned C by reading the comments.

Small piece of history - Cromix was written single handedly by Roy Harrington who left Cromemco to found Informix.

Having said that - Mesa/XDE was awesome. I am sure Mesa/Cedar was even better.

The most that would have happened is Bell Labs would have shut down the clones. There were already Unix clones in 1979. I worked on Cromix at Cromemco before I worked on Mesa/XDE at Xerox.

If I remember correctly nobody outside Xerox used Mesa or Cedar or any of the other amazing things at Xerox because Xerox never sold them. You must have worked at Xerox.

I went to Apple after Xerox and programmed in C++ using a pretty bad development environment. I certainly missed Mesa's exception handling and development environment. Mesa was missing garbage collection as did C++ at the time.

I was surprised that Samsung was not on the list. It must be that Samsung is not popular in Canada.

We bought the Samsung washer because it was highly rated by Consumer Reports. Boo on Consumer Reports.

Our washer was defective from the factory. It had a deformed part that leaked water on the floor. Luckily we purchased the extra warranty. Unluckily Samsung was giving us the run around about fixing the washer. We even said that we would make the repair if they sent us the part. Boo on Samsung.

Finally the store that sold us the washer replaced it and sent the defective washer back to Samsung. I wish I could praise the store (Western Appliance) - but they are sadly going out of business.

You used to be able to buy high quality CPAP machines on Amazon. I don't see them any more.

There are also streamlined processes to get the prescription. You take the machine home over night and they monitor your breathing remotely.

Years ago I successfully argued with a CPAP company about their jacked up rates and was able to find the exact same CPAP machine for about 1/3 the cost.

Good to know that I can also use it for a pandemic. ;-)

I would like a computer system that can do algebraic reductions. This is the only thing that forced me to go back to pen and paper.

This looks like it does substitutions but I didn't see reductions.

While you are correct about Adobe Type 1 fonts, you are incorrect on display fonts. Apple System 7 had vector display fonts. There were issues on windows which is why Microsoft (and likely Adobe) improved TrueType. Adobe later responded with Adobe Font Manager which is likely what you are referencing.

The original truetype font was vector based but had to be legible at small font sizes. Apple created hinting in the late 1980s that worked well on macs. I believe Microsoft added better rasterization about a decade later.

The bigger issue is going from Salaried to Hourly employees. I assume (but don't know) that you need to be hourly in order to unionize.

I have been at a bunch of companies that reclassified employees from salaried to hourly. This always came after a single employee filed a lawsuit. It almost never impacted developers, sometimes impacted QA and often impacted other development support employees. I have never seen an impacted employee like it because they could not participate in stock options. I was only at companies with lucrative stock options.

If a company had poor stock options then I could see that somebody might like the change.

Thank you for your kind offer to fix my driveway. I just sent you an email.

Sadly these maps still have our driveway as a "road."

Years ago I heard that Apple was going to use OSM data for their map app. I contacted OSM to remove our driveway. They did demote our driveway to a "private road" (the best I could do). Luckily, our driveway is not in the Apple maps app. I am still somewhat irritated particularly when I see our driveway in apps like this.

> The author presents no evidence of these accounts being bots other than them being closely connected and cliquey.

I had the same reaction. I follow all of the candidates on twitter. Most of the campaigns are periodic quite frankly boring posts by the candidates. Yang lets his gang do most of the tweeting and he retweets their posts. In person he does the same thing. There is a lot of audience participation during his speeches. This makes his campaign more lively.

The reason why I doubt they are bots is that the tweets are intelligent. About a week ago I tweeted something about Yang that was factually incorrect. Someone tweeted back within minutes and very politely corrected what I said. We had a few tweet exchanges then someone else jumped in and said that my confusion was something that they would take back to the campaign. A few days later Yang mentioned my confusion in one of his interviews. I am not exactly sure if this was a coincidence...

I had the same reaction. According to Teacher Toms tag line, he is teaching preschoolers. I am not even clear if he understands preschoolers.

My observations of preschoolers is that they are learning the rules of the universe. That means very hands on discovery of the practical side of how things work coupled with a vivid imagination and creativity. That sounds like STEAM to me.

When schools teach social and political subjects to young children they tend to simplify the subject to the point of not being true. Kids are not ready for nuance.

Just a small additional comment - if a company creates an environment that encourages community then they will keep women. I was lucky to work at two companies like this - Xerox and early Apple. I don't think they set out to create a family friendly environment. They were trying to have an environment that encouraged creativity. They were part of the zeitgeist of the Bay Area. It just happened to also be family friendly. Those days are gone (sadly).

Labor force does count the actual workforce. They only count "wage slaves". One grandmother was a farmer. She took over from my grandfather when he got sick and he became the house husband. So she would not have been counted. I am not clear if it would have counted my other grandmother since she was a business owner. She owned a beauty salon. She also opened the first health food store in Berkeley with her sister to put my mother and her cousins through college. I doubt either would have been counted as labor force participation. My mother was counted.

Non-working mothers is a modern anomaly. It used to be a sign of wealth for a man to have a non-working wife. That is why the newly affluent men of the mid-20th century wanted it so much. They came out of the great depression, fought a great war, and wanted a wife at home. You should not judge all of history by this one era.

The work of child care used to fall on the entire extended family. The nuclear family reduced the flexibility in raising children. It was further reduced by a lack of work-life balance for both fathers and mothers. When women started working (again) the lack of flexibility fell on the mothers to fix.

In my own life - I worked, my mother worked, my grandmothers worked, and my great grandmothers worked. I had flexibility through daycare, my awesome husband, my awesome mother, and my awesome employers. I know they are all awesome because when my daughter (a software engineer) faced the same issues, her employer was not at all flexible. She quit work to stay at home with her three boys. I have a bunch of engineering friends who faced the same issues as my daughter. I originally thought they left the workforce out of choice and now I know they did not.