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Comment · 1 year ago
Life has many stresses, but things can actually be OK with each of us, despite commotion and problems. In my church of 17.5 million members in most countries, we have made promises with God to help each other and we try to help others in need, in many nations ($1.5 billion last year and growing). That is far from the total level of need, but God has also promised to help us and guide us as individuals and families if we really strive to keep our promises and do our part; He has promised peace in this life and eternal life in the world to come. And there are programs for developing and serving in employment, education, resilience, service to community, etc. And very local congregation has a bishop (unpaid) with access to resources to help meet needs and achieve self-reliance.
More at my site (in profile; no sales and low stylistic ambition), if you click on "Things I want to say" (about 1/2-way down), then "On peace amid commotion" (also about 1/2-way down), then skim that page and click at least the last link. Then read the entire page and click the links that seem most interesting.). We really can be OK despite things. (Thoughtful comments appreciated with any downvotes.)
Comment · 1 year ago
Ditto. I posted (here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42881123 ) about them and other options:
To send the same command to multiple servers, use pdsh: https://linux.die.net/man/1/pdsh
To collect all the results and show which ones are the same or different, use dshbak (i.e., "pdsh <parameters including servers>|dshbak"): https://linux.die.net/man/1/dshbak
Similar things, sometimes more convenient but less efficient for a large number of servers, are to use the konsole terminal program and link multiple window tabs together so the same typed command goes to all, and quickly view the results across the tabs; or to use tmux and send the same commands to multiple windows (possible useful "man tmux" page terms: link-window, pipe-pane, related things to those, activity, focus, hooks, control mode).
And others that I haven't used but which also look possibly interesting for platforms where pdsh and dshbak might not be available (like OpenBSD at least):
- https://github.com/duncs/clusterssh/wiki (available on OpenBSD as a package)
- https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/ (also available as a package on OpenBSD 7.6: named "parallel-20221122"; might relate to "pdksh")
- Also clusterit.
Comment · 1 year ago
I use the knowledge organizer I wrote at https://onemodel.org [AGPL], and write things wherever they fit in the deeply nested, searchable outline. Maybe it's like my own, efficient, highly-interlinked zettlekasten.
Comment · 1 year ago
I have determined for myself that the book is what it says it is. Details at my web site (in profile), and in the last chapter of the book itself. Anyone can put it to the test and receive an answer to prayer as to its validity.
ps: The Church that Joseph Smith led now has 17.5 million members around the world and is a great thing in my life. My ancestors knew Joseph Smith and were convinced he was not a charlatan. They helped build schools and cities. Now there are programs like https://justserve.org to freely coordinate efforts between charitable organizations with volunteers in many locations; BYU Pathway Worldwide (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYU_Pathway_Worldwide), which provides English instruction and accredited higher education far less expensively than traditional universities for those who could never afford it otherwise; extensive worldwide humanitarian efforts; https://familysearch.org for free genealogy tools, etc, etc. One can be happy about all the good that is being done.
Comment · 1 year ago
There is another called familysearch.org which is free and allows adding but not publicly viewing info on living persons. The site is backed by an institution with staying power, has many helpful resources for research, and also has a wiki-like approach to building a single family tree for humanity. (I used to work there.)
Comment · 1 year ago
And the Book of Mormon. They are amazing.
(Thoughtful comments appreciated with any downvotes. Thanks.)
Comment · 1 year ago
Also clusterit.
Comment · 1 year ago
The above links but clickable now are:
- pdsh: https://linux.die.net/man/1/pdsh
- dshbak: https://linux.die.net/man/1/dshbak
- clusterssh: https://github.com/duncs/clusterssh/wiki
- parallel: https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/
Comment · 1 year ago
The article mentions low-dose rapamycin (aka sirolimus). That has recently been helping me, with my Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS; overlaps or may be the same as long covid) that I have had since 2006 after a cold from which I never felt like I recovered (fatigue). I have gone from averaging maybe 1-2 hours of slow desk work if I am careful, and few to no social activities, to being able to go to church again (once so far) and do 4-5 hours/day of slow desk work, for about a month now 5-6 days a week. I'm really hoping to be employable again in the future.
The Dr. prescribed it off-label (they are also doing a study and a doctor had a very positive personal recovery experience with it). My dose is 1mg ONCE per week, then two, then three, building up to 6mg ONCE per week.
I mention this in case it is helpful to anyone else.
Comment · 1 year ago
Times can be difficult but we can have peace, practical guidance, and help. Noah warned people, and prophets warn and guide today (the same God, had prophets then, has them now).
More at my web site (in profile, no sales and low stylistic ambition), if you click on "Things I want to say" (about 1/2-way down), then "On peace amid commotion" (also about 1/2-way down), then skim that page and click at least the last link. Then read the entire page and click the links that seem most interesting.
Comment · 1 year ago
Another recent discussion (fewer comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42201302
Also FWIW, I use OpenBSD as my daily driver, and I like it especially due to the security (I separate user-level activities, including net browsing, by account), and have not had the crashing or filesystem issues, fortunately. Her points are probably valid though, as my demands of the system are less than hers.
Comment · 2 years ago
At least sometimes, it really helps for a test to say WHY it is done that way. I had a case where I needed to change some existing code, and all the unit tests passed but one. The author was unavailable. It was very unclear whether I should change the test. I asked around. I was about to commit the changes to the code and test when someone came back from vacation and helpfully explained. I hope I added a useful comment.
Comment · 2 years ago
And if disagreeing, one can always say "I guess we see it differently. Maybe different assumptions or priorities. Good food for thought..." and smile and be curious about their rationale without ever being angry.
Comment · 2 years ago
Maybe somewhat tangential, but for maintaining relationships (close or distant) in general, the best things for me (who am still learning) have been a study of the Bible and Book of Mormon, and some things they said in our church's General Conference, which I will try to roughly quote from memory:
"Never let a task to be accomplished be more important than a person to be loved."
"The primary feeling in any interaction should be love."
"Observe and serve."
This does not mean failure to speak only truth in kindness as appropriate, or to set boundaries when necessary. I think Jesus Christ's example of understanding, truth, and kindness are ideal for us all.
Also as some have hinted here, being a good listener, asking questions, caring about others' background and well-being in general, being humble, willing to share when appropriate, and looking for the good and things to appreciate in others, and ways to serve, can go a long way. Interesting volunteering opportunities (where you would meet people as a side-effect) might be found at https://justserve.org if available in your area.
https://www.lukecall.net -- a tech-simple site with many thoughts on many subjects important to me, very skimmable but no ambition in visual style; nothing for sale until I get healthy and then if you want to pay for software development/systems consulting. Suggestions/questions welcome.
https://www.onemodel.org aka OM: available, effective, and in daily use, but progress on some planned new features is slow until health improves. A highly efficient (desktop) knowledge manager, text UI, Free (AGPL), using Scala and PostgreSQL (working to move to Rust and maybe later sqlite). Something like an efficient combination of mindmap, zettelkasten and GTD in one, with much greater ambitions including for linking instances for collaboration; see site links to screen shots for some idea of how I organize/categorize things. Low-volume announcements email list available (under "community").