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Interesting interview; makes me wonder how much of our current political unfortunateness is related to this...  (Certainly not all, but it also makes me think that a lot of it is related to traumas related to child rearing styles that have similar effects.)

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Here are some mysteries about depression:  In most illnesses, the list of symptoms is hit or miss. Not every patient gets every symptom, or even every common symptom. If a common symptom of an illness is breaking out in hives, many people will break out in hives, but some people won’t.  Depression is much stranger. Like other diseases, you sometimes get symptoms and sometimes do not. But on top of that, you also sometimes get symptoms, and other times get their opposites.

The Mind in the Wheel – Part V: Depression and other Diagnoses – SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD

Huh.  Interesting series of posts.

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Simone Weil sounds like she was extremely intense.

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I do like Laurie Anderson.

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The ubiquitous ESP32 microchip made by Chinese manufacturer Espressif and used by over 1 billion units as of 2023 contains undocumented commands that could be leveraged for attacks. The undocumented commands allow spoofing of trusted devices, unauthorized data access, pivoting to other devices on the network, and potentially establishing long-term persistence.

Undocumented commands found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices

Sigh.  Seems like it probably requires physical access to exploit, at least.

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Interesting experience report.

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My next-to-last job was in Rwanda, where I managed a project to improve Rwanda’s trade with its neighbors.   It was a small project — me and half a dozen Rwandans, mostly IT people.  We were working to (1) help Rwanda integrate into the East African Community, and (2) improve the functioning of Rwanda’s “Electronic Single Window”, where traders go to move their goods through Customs.

USAID: My next-to-last project — Crooked Timber

Interesting post, I didn’t know about any of this stuff.

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Pleasant conversation about opera and musicals.

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Hearing more frequent meaningful stories of progress feels healthy, I think?

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Good interview with one of my favorite authors.

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Neat story of font geekery.

[davidcarlton]

How to be a Principal Engineer/Senior Principal Engineer/Senior Architect/fancy-sounding-title Engineer, a thread:

James Cowling on X

Good advice here.  Here’s an unrolled version, if you prefer that: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1879984381785514083.html

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Interesting description of koan training, I’d never heard it talked about this way.

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...Okay, a quick introduction. The left pane is regular old Parchment, the Z-code interpreter, playing Zork 1. You type commands; the game responds. Just regular old Parchment? Not quite! This is Parchment exposed. The upper right pane shows the stack trace for the current turn. That's all the ZIL functions called, and all the text printed, when executing the most recent command. And the bottom right pane shows the ZIL source code -- the original text, written by Infocom folks in the 1980s. Click on any function or printed string; it'll show you that code in context.

Zarf Updates: The Visible Zorker

Neat!

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Long but good.

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Interesting (and plausible-sounding to me) take on employee performance.

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Nice example of what a physical card board could look like in an XP team.