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It's beyond that.

There's information required to evaluate the current state that is currently unavailable - meaning that the current state of things will not be defined until the future.


Elaborate...


Because the problem is perfectly avoidable with very little technical understanding, and this is Hacker News.


That only works in scenarios where competency is superfluous.


I'd like to see brain scans of burnt out people contrasted with those of people with PTSD.

With a more than fair share of both, I'm not sure that they're genuinely distinct phenomena.

I'd also be interested in how either/both tie in to depression.


Valhalla is what you want, at least for some of it.

https://openjdk.org/jeps/402

    interface Box<T> {
        T get();
        void set(T val);
    }

    interface IntBox extends Box<int> {
        int get();
        void set(int val);
    }
https://openjdk.org/projects/valhalla/


I had a boss who actually acknowledged that he was deliberately holding up my development process - this was a man who refused to allow me a four day working week.


My favourite story about bioluminescence is "angel's glow" in the civil war.

A bioluminescent microbe colonised the wounds of civil war soldiers, beating out pathogens and preventing sepsis.

https://www.utmb.edu/mdnews/podcast/episode/glowing-wounds


Unfortunately, that story is likely a hoax/urban legend.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/10/26/angels-glow-civil-war...


What a great link. Thankyou. There is still so much to learn from the microbiome. Working with contaminated sites, I have seen bacterial adaptations to the most l nastiest sites, almost always improving the toxicity of the soil. (There are rare exceptions.)


Thanks, but it really wasn't - it was just the least shit of the top five results for "civil war bioluminescence".

I'd much prefer a more scientific article, especially one that delves into the (let's say) caste system of the bacteria - where one of it's developmental forms is symbiotic with a nematode (?) worm, and the other colonises plant roots.

I'm guessing it was more than likely the plant root form (resident in forest soil) rather than the worm gut symbiote - I doubt they'd've ended up calling it "angel's glow" if the soldiers wounds had been wriggling.

The other thing that puts me off is that it's one of a general class of fawning article about high schoolers, when (for one reason or another) what the child did wasn't really that impressive.

In this case because her mother clearly did her homework for her.

Edit:

Plant roots: https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/aem.00891-20

Nematodes: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Devang-Upadhyay/publica...


I had it go boom on Tumbleweed (when the drive filled up) less than a year ago.

I tried accessing and fixing the fubar partition from a parallel install, but to no avail.


> Defining 1/0=0 isn't really helpful imho

But it's quite a nice way to mask program bugs.


As someone who has pulled himself back from suicidality, I absolutely abhor the expression "died by suicide".

If I had gone through with it, I would have killed myself - and any euphemisms being thrown around would serve no-one at all (especially not those still living in that hole).

I would much rather have it framed as me having done something unforgivably stupid and completely preventable - but as a society we'd much rather reject that reality and instead refuse to acknowledge that more often than not the signs were all there; that not only was the death an irreversible act of idiocy, but it was also something that we could've and should've stopped yet did nothing to prevent.


I've had similar experiences, and I have exactly the opposite beliefs.

Depression isn't a failing on the person's part, and it isn't stupidity. Nor is suicide resulting from depression. It's a disease, and you "die from suicide" the same way you "die from cancer" - from the effects of your disease disrupting vital functions of your existence until you can no longer survive.

For me, at least, understanding and healing from severe mental illness required understanding that the illness wasn't "me". It was this crappy thing I had to live with because some part of my brain Just Does That Sometimes. See [1] among other posts, but the only way I've ever found to beat my own tendencies towards mental illness - and they are extremely strong - is to treat them like a chronic disease. The same way that a person with liver disease has to avoid drinking, I have to avoid the things that trigger my own chronic depression.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41113032


I found the linked, and subsequently linked, posts very insightful, and entirely relatable, thank you.


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