My background: developer that spends his personal coding time on personal IP. I have never thoroughly explored contributing to open source projects, but am becoming more interested. Out of my last 1,614 commits counted by GitHub (a lot more really since most PRs merged as squash-commits) only 26 commits are public.
As a developer, I quite like it. The idea of getting some tailored recommendations for free sounds worth it to me. I am wondering how you are going to tailor the recommendations? If you would do so by looking through my public commit history, it would probably be way off. If you had an optional survey, I would be inclined to fill it out if it got me some interesting recommendations.
As a member of a small (~30 person) US-based software development agency that is in growth mode, I really like this mainly for recruitment purposes. We have a few open source projects that support our client and private development efforts, and these open source projects are written in languages and stacks that we use in-shop. We recently open-sourced them, so nearly all commits come from in-house. If we could pay $10 to get our open source projects in front of people, maybe (1) the projects get contributors, (2) we get inquiries regarding our open positions, and/or (3) we reach out to contributors to apply.
I have not faced that exact situation, where the type of thinking you described happens for any and all situations at hand; but, I have faced that situation across my life and can think of a few scenarios at the moment. For example, if my girlfriend is out in town with her friends and alcohol is involved, I worry in general and then there are moments when I do contend with worst case scenarios.
I don't think that computing worst case scenarios is devoid of light, but it can be rough.
What I like to do in these situations is to pray to God. I like to seek refuge at God, from Satan the rejected. I believe God is the Eternal Refuge. I seek refuge as many times as I feel the need to. I believe imploring God is a form of worship, and worshiping God is good, therefore I continuously implore for things, including refuge.
I think (1) pushing equality of opportunity in education, (2) pushing strong STEM education, and (3) nurturing innovation and entrepreneurship at universities and colleges.
I think the following talk by YC Partner Dalton Caldwell talks a little bit about that. If you Ctrl+F for "late" on the following page, the transcript section shows mention of it. I recommend the whole talk though, as it was very informative. BTW I did apply late, just last night :)
https://www.ycombinator.com/library/6t-how-to-apply-and-succ...
Would love to see more mention of naturally acquired antibodies / immunity, else (as in this article) the term "unvaccinated" is overloaded in my opinion. For example, are stats around naturally immunized folks different? I imagine so..
Would love to see more mention of naturally acquired antibodies / immunity, else (as in this article) the term "unvaccinated" is overloaded in my opinion. For example, are stats around naturally immunized folks different? I imagine so..
I do like the snooze functionality, for the usual push-back of getting out of bed, but also I sometimes plan the alarm-task (e.g. call someone back ) to be within Y-snoozes away from the reminder, so using the snooze is part of the plan and not a change of plans
What a blind fool (Dawkins). Conjecture is not a substitute for truth.
The Guardian reports [1] that, as part of his response to the blow back, he expressed:
"If your morality is based, as mine is, on a desire to increase the sum of happiness and reduce suffering, the decision to deliberately give birth to a Down's baby, when you have the choice to abort it early in the pregnancy, might actually be immoral from the point of view of the child's own welfare."
He claims to know what the world needs, and what the child needs. He claims to be an atheist, but looks to me like he worships his ego as his god.
I agree that it is helpful but I also think it is more nuanced than that. What if there is a Goldilocks phenomenon? Someone with knowldege on the "life on Earth goldilocks with the Sun" could share their thoughts on such a comparison :)
I have heard complaints when it comes to local development of apps running Python. Seems from [1] any version older than Python 3.9.1 may have problems:
"Python v3.9.1 becomes the first version of the language to support macOS 11 Big Sur. The developers note that the release is made possible thanks to Xcode 11..."
My take is that the nourishment of the soul takes a back seat to earthly nourishment most of the time: money, food, drink, sex, etc. And while we cant measure the profitability of a soul-nourishing transaction today, I do think they affect us here on earth. Same goes for neglecting our souls, I believe.
We should recalibrate at some point in order to, in earnest, make nourishing our souls a priority. And also my take is that through our years God not only matures our brains but also teaches us quite a bit, to the point that when we hit 40 we are properly equipped to make this important recalibration.
I want to also add that I'm not saying the path is hermitism, in fact I really dont think that.
For example, charity to the family, the relatives, the orphans, the needy, the migrant, I believe nourishes our souls.
Happy to keep this conversation going anytime btw. Hope you have a Blessed evening.