At some point you have to force them for the sake of homework, just saying.

But yeah, you're better off in math if you can make it make sense on a philosophical level. That I agree with.

I think it's sort of sad that this simple act of trust in your community (having coffee and exposing yourself to others) has to be over-analysed and dissected into a blog. Broadening and Deepening events, just dividing the whole act as events it feels like i'm reading a post-mortem on adobe workfront. When the true meaning of that awesome initiative remains the human need for social interaction and the need to be part of something bigger (like a community!). I feel this is poseur-ish and project-managerial to a degree even detailed oriented people will find unauthentic.

I was reading this and thought to myself that I would have stopped at hanging out on the stoop and getting to know my neighbors that walk by. I don't want to yuck their yum, but as an observation, it does seem highly performative and overly organized. Almost like they are trying to proof this out to sell to other communities and eventually make money off of: "buy our community building platform for $20 a month".

Guy lost me when he mentioned Musk is caring. Of course he cares...about his fortune and his power hunger.

I had the incredible luck to stumble upon this book early in my career and it helped me tremendously in so many ways. If I could name only one it would be that it helped me get over the sentiment of being helpless in front of a difficult situation. This book brought me to peace with imperfection and me being an artisan of imperfection.

New car sounds like brand new car, not used car. Which have history.

I found the title a bit misleading in that regard.

I think it's okay to ask if the project is dead, but when they start pressuring you like they're your PM it may be time to remind the users that the project is open source and that they have the option to fork it to work on it on their own and make their own version with what they think is missing.

Furthermore I think that this sample is exactly what can discourage an open source project maintainer to stop development and work on something else, maybe something closed and private, which is bad for open source generally.

So people need to be more patient and read the code of conduct of any project they want to interact with.

If the project is dead, just say that. All they really did was ask about the future of the project, I don't really see the pressuring.

I'm happy for you !

You can expect this kind of dishonesty and self-serving politics for as long as we tolerate climate change induced disasters and its consequences on the human kind.

The struggle make your knowledge crystallize even better, on top of overcoming the failure. I almost wish anyone to fail one important class in university.

I deeply regret the courses I barely passed. And the courses for which I had prior knowledge to pass comfortably but not engage on the nuances.

>However, for the past ~6 billion years, distant galaxies have been speeding up in their recession, and the expansion rate, though still dropping, is not headed toward zero.

Am I not getting something here or is this sentence not make sense?

It makes sense if the expansion rate isn't dropping linearly and the rate of the drop is itself dropping towards zero.

This article explains it in more detail: https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/universe-expansion-n...

The rate of acceleration is slowing down, but still is accelerating.

So the first derivative was already understood to remain nonzero forever[1], now we know that the second derivative probably will also remain nonzero, and the third is slowing down but still positive for the moment?

[1] IIRC in the 80s the big bang/big crunch model was preferred

The slowing down is speeding up. What could be simpler?