Those dependencies pretty quickly reveal themselves to be complicated and heavy. I wouldn’t blame Rust for that.
I rarely need more than what workspaces and VCS based deps give me, but when I have, putting up and using a non-official registryis pretty easy.
How strange to come across someone whose medical stuff so mirrors my own. I was just a decade older and don’t have epilepsy symptoms with meds. I can get behind all the advice here. Running out of “juice” and needing a break is very much thing. Before too but more so now. And taking a lot of semi stream of consciousness notes to help my more limited memory is too.
I had one neighbor with the announcement thing but they eventually turned it off. No illusions that it’s not still recording. But how horribly hostile to have that on, right? No accounting for taste, I guess.
I’ll continue staying off nextdoor and the rest and keeping my camera feeds to myself…
Though it doesn’t mention it by name exactly, I think a related idea for systems that are optimized close to a point of phase change is “the edge of chaos”
There are thermostats, among other things, that use standard protocols and still work in a “dumb” way if not connected. You just need to do some homework.
The thing in the article is a thermostat-zone controller system, where the tablet is part of the multi-zone controller, and there aren't really separate thermostats.
In the US, it's common that the input to each zone controller is just a open/close contact, so in the worst case you can call for heat by shorting the right wires together.
I have a smart thermostat that I use the provided app to control, but one of the reasons I went with it is that there's also an http server in the device firmware that can be used to control it (so if they totally ruin the app or turn off the server or whatever, there's a way out).
As someone with damage to my visual cortex with a very specific effect I’m very curious what this would come up with for me. Not something useful on its own, but more understanding means more possibilities for treatments.
In discussions about neurological diversity and the potential for treatments or adaptations, recognizing and respecting individual experiences while avoiding overgeneralization is key. Conversations around aphantasia, brain injuries, and visual processing offer opportunities for learning and exploration but should be navigated with care to ensure they are inclusive and sensitive to all involved.
Aphantasia is the term attributed to the inability to willfully create internal visual objects in the mind that can be perceived consciously. So, that leaves an open unconscious "will" still being able to create them. Studies, and personal experience, shows people considered to have this "condition" called Aphantasia, are able to see hypnogogic images during transition to sleep. And most of us have dreams too.
Drawing a conclusion of that term applied to someone who clearly states they have damage to a certain part of their brain and then correlating that an estimated 1-2% of the population is a bit of an insensitive thing, maybe.
Then again, I saw a lot of this while exploring the topic a few years back, so it's understandable that people who visualize think it's some sort of "problem" instead of a super power (which it is).
I have older bikes without ABS. You would think a Morgan, having the extra wheel on the ground would have better stopping power than a motorcycle — but then there's the added weight....
I'm always cognizant of my lack of stopping power when on my motorcycle and so leave a wide berth between myself and any vehicle ahead of me. I suppose someone not used to that mindset finding themselves in a 3-wheeler might be forgiven for thinking they were in a car.
Some motorcycles (and cars) have switches to disable ABS and ESP to make them feel more like old ones.
Nowadays, driving a vehicle without these technologies seems crazy. But those machines are not for everyday use: they are a special kind of entertainment for passionate people, those who most likely know what they are doing.
It still happens to be surprised by a situation, like the one top post seems to describe, and even with great experience it can become tricky to stop, with or without technology.
We recently adopted it at work, and I find the thing to just produce garbage. I've never tuned out noise so quickly.
you have to appreciate the irony of a thing that's supposed to help protect you from vulnerabilities being one.
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