lazylester

The process is more important than the ingredients.

almost all 2-stroke engines have had plastic flapper valves and a plastic fuel pump for as long as I can remember.

Sounds like you are trying to tame your thoughts? It will not work, they just don't succumb to effort. Noticing them is all that is required and it's the only thing possible.

Instead of a how-to course, I suggest you look for Dharma talks on the practice of meditation. They can be very, very profound, there is a lot of material available. On just one site, the first one I looked at, spiritrock.org, there are over 100 talks for beginners.

A how-to app is doomed, which fact can be hard to grok. It's not like learning to drive or learning a programming language. A teacher or a retreat can be very helpful to get you past the initial missteps and misapprehensions.

phone calls and texts. It's not just metadata. You can switch to WhatsApp and Signal, but your whole Rolodex (remember them?) needs to switch too.

"...hard to imagine scenarios where [file-level compatibility] is useful" what am I missing? Surely dropping a more performant dbm into an existing project would be the application? No?

imho the vaunted readability of custom elements has long been available with haml, with added readability by virtue of the indentation rules replacing closing tags. Not sure why it didn't really gain much traction, maybe the pre-processing is problematic when there's no server-side framework like Rails?

beneath the fancy graphics there's zero explanation of how these are manufactured, how they're constructed, or the magnetic field patterns. No actual deployments or demonstrated applications, just graphics. It's a 3-person company that "expects to begin testing of this exciting new technology early in the 2nd quarter of 2023".

your rage suggests that you think ChatGPT is making value judgements about elegance or simplicity. You surely know where it picked up those concepts don't you?

"...but will constantly run in to situations where another gems code is using the method that just changed". I've worked with Rails for 20 years and haven't seen this. Have I just been really lucky? I'm sure your test suite showed the warnings about the Redis `exists()` change for many versions prior to its actually being changed, right?

Try idealist.org But mostly there's not enough $ in non-profits to pay a s/w dev. Another approach is to work hard, retire early, and then do the work pro-bono. I have been doing s/w for non-profits since I retired at 51 20 years ago.

The daily structure of work life allows one to avoid facing some questions that otherwise arise. Financial independence forces one to explore how one wishes to spend one's time when the work constraints are eliminated. This can be a very exciting, fruitful and rewarding endeavour. I highly recommend it.

I got a lot out of Jennifer Widom's "Introduction to Databases" MOOC from Stanford. Particularly the normalization concepts. (Don't take them too far, though, as they say "Normalize until it hurts, denormalize until it works"!)

Yes this is exactly what you need to do. And yes it takes some careful design to eliminate power supply noise.

NeuG has some low quality sources of entropy, and also provides analog input for the user to supply with whatever they wish. It does not address the design of a good white noise generator, unfortunately.

Is condensation a problem in a freezer? There is no moisture in the air b/c the temp is less than freezing, no?

Condensation happens when moist air hits a cool surface, how much power is your circuit consuming? You may not have a problem.

I have designed a number of telephony products (e.g. T1 repeaters) for use in outdoor environments, we never coated the circuit boards.

I too had poor experience with support and also weak documentation, but I pushed through it and I'm very happy with the product now that it's integrated with my app. They seem to practically 'own' the space and I have some confidence in the longevity of the product.