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Very cool! Might be useful in CI scenarios.

Tangentially related, but my family (kids are 7-10) enjoys the "Prime Climb" [1] board game which deals with prime numbers.

[1] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/159375/prime-climb

Mine grow to fill a good chunk of my entire vision and never shrink. Instead the arc continues to grow until it is outside my field of vision and therefore no longer obstructive.

Your first link is exactly what it looks like to me (except pulsing/shimmering). I can usually sense it before it starts then it starts as a small aberration and gradually grows to encompass almost my entire vision. Extremely unsettling the first time it happened.

> In particular, Markdown has a todos (using the same `[ ]`) and just uses indentation for grouping.

Came here to mention the same thing. I use a plain text todo format that is quite similar (thought not nearly so thought out/complete) to the one OP is proposing, but I use indentation for grouping as it's a lot easier for me to visually identify related groups of tasks.

I've been using a Lenovo Carbon X1 4th Gen with Ubuntu installed for the last 5+ years and love it. My next laptop will almost certainly be another X1 Carbon.

Same. I've never intentionally flagged a story I don't think but had a dozen or so that I guess I fat fingered

I think he probably means middle childhood ages not "middle aged" in the normal sense of the phrase.

I really don't think Neil Young cares about lost Spotify revenue at all. He's already wealthy and at 76 years old and this is more about publicity for something he believes in.

Neil Young has sold over 75 million records and is likely wealthy beyond most peoples dream. He probably doesn't care a lick about lost Spotify revenue and "cashing in" in is likely raising awareness for a cause he believes in.

"Did Young really think that Spotify would drop Rogan over him?"

I don't want to speak for Neil Young, but I imagine he knew for certain Spotify would choose Rogan. But there's no such thing as bad press right? He knew he could force them to publicly take a position and now here we are all talking about it. Mission accomplished by Young I'd say.

"Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End" was the most impactful book I read this year. It explores dying and illness and how we can treat the terminally ill and dying better and more compassionately.

You've likely already read it at this point, but "Endurance: Shackletons Incredible Voyage" by Lansing is an amazing survival story.

Doesn't removing the risk from debtees still encourage reckless investing/lending?

edit: apparently littlestymaar and I are operating on the same wavelength this morning.

For anyone who deals with children "How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk"

This book has a profound impact on me and my relationship with my kids. Read once early in their lives and then reread as they go through different stages in their lives.

Py2exe/pyinstaller is what I've always done as well. It works really well for distributing Python apps on Windows in my experience. Have been using that combo for many years now and while it's not perfect it is still the best way to distribute Python applications on Windows.

> The joy this drink gives me sometimes feels like a drug trip.

Caffeine is a drug so saying "it feels like" is rather understating it.

"This matters because what's more interesting is the general case, not the exceptions."

That may be true, but in this case we were specifically discussing an exception where gender was not relevant.

He specifically said that it is likely impossible if both parents are working normal hours. So if there is one parent looking after the kids and the other parent is still being interrupted constantly then I don't think it's unreasonable to say that they could make some adjustments to improve the situation.

"b- someone in the couple is a stay at home parent (usually the mother) who watches the children. "

Also, these comments about "mother" are irksome to me since it feels like you're accusing me (or OP) of implying something I'm not. Not that it really matters but my wife and I (a father) work full time and during the pandemic I was the caregiver during normal business hours while my wife retained a normal working hours schedule.

I don't really understand this POV. If you have a trusted partner looking after your child, then the situation should be (at worst) no different than if your child was away at school or daycare right?

"What happens if both work during regular office hours (as in my marriage)?"

OP specifically mentioned this is not the scenario we are discussing.

"If you have very young kids, it's impossible to have a distraction free work environment at home unless you find someone to take care of the kids and enforce the no distractions rule."

Again, neither OP or I are arguing against this.

"Both parents are caregivers in a marriage, there's no single caregiver."

Again, this feels like an uncharitable reading of my statement. Of course there are two caregivers but often there is one person in charge of the kids, hence my caregiver (singular) statement. Which partner it is, is irrelevant.

"People often assume, somewhat unfairly, that this person should be the mother."

How is this relevant to this post?

> yet they're implying it's something that anyone could easily do

I don't think they're implying that. In fact they said "It can be impossible if both of you work" which you can extrapolate to "It can be impossible if you're the sole caregiver".

Of course if you are the only person home, you can't expect a 4 year old to let you work uninterrupted for long stretches of time. I don't see anyone trying to argue that point of view though (certainly I would never say that).

The boundary that the OP needs to enforce is actually with the caregiver more than the children (although even young children are capable of learning and respecting boundaries). The caregiver needs to buy into the fact that it's beneficial for the bread winner of the family to have uninterrupted work periods.

When I read your statement it feels like you're saying you think the OP is just throwing proclamations over the wall rather than sitting down and having a family discussion about how to ensure the day is arranged in everyone's best interest.

> In this respect, I think there is just no way to have both parents 100% working at home with a kid needing attention

We were able to achieve this during covid with two kids doing distance learning as well. However, we were extremely fortunate that we were able to do shifts where my wife worked 7-3ish and I worked 3-midnight.

I'm not sure why, but this feels like an accusatory response and uncharitable take on their statement.

Establishing boundaries like "don't interrupt the person who's working" needs to be a discussion that happens between the whole family. Of course, the caregiver will be responsible for the physical enforcement but the caregiver should understand that it is in the long-term best interest of the whole family that the worker is able to have uninterrupted work time.

Also, by the age of 4 most kids are capable of understanding and learning to respect boundaries.

TIL. Thanks. I love how I keep learning new things about vim after years of daily usage.

Guido is no longer the BDF and spoke fairly positively about this change in the mailing list thread[1].

"To be clear, Sam’s basic approach is a bit slower for single-threaded code, and he admits that. But to sweeten the pot he has also applied a bunch of unrelated speedups that make it faster in general, so that overall it’s always a win. But presumably we could upstream the latter easily, separately from the GIL-freeing part."

[1] https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/...

Seconded. I listened to the audio book. Eye opening to say the least.

Thanks for this super interesting comment. The complexity of life never ceases to boggle the mind.