I Sometimes Help People Out By Mentoring Them On Topics Of Programming And The Surrounding Fields. This

I sometimes help people out by mentoring them on topics of programming and the surrounding fields. This both makes me and them better at programming and I very much enjoy doing it :) Some feel better about asking for that kind of help if they can pay, so I set up an account at buy-me-a-coffee. Feel free to donate, if this helps you help me help you.

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I like coding and teaching about coding!

First of all. That is EXCELLENT!

Second! Even cooler! One of the best colors to wear to hide in the dark is... Red.

Bright colorful red!

Why? Because red is the lowest energy color humans can see! It is the wavelength with slowest frequency!

It is... the color that disappears first when the light fades and dark takes over.

I'm a little more than halfway through reading Terry Pratchett's Night Watch (yes I know, it's taken me a while, hush) and my dad, who introduced me to them when I was in high school, told me this was the first Discworld book he'd ever read. That made me feel all sentimental anyway, but this evening I realized this book has been part of my life far longer than I'd realized.

Young Havelock Vetinari, student at the Assassin's Guild school, has been researching different forms of camouflage found in the animal world, and thus is breaking Assassin tradition of wearing all black. It's stylish, but it's pointed out several times in this book that black silhouettes still stand out in the shadows. So he's taken to wearing grey and dark green, muddy colours. And reading that, I was overtaken by the memory of my dad, years ago, when I was just little, explaining to me that if you want to blend into the night, don't wear black, because the night isn't black, it's dark blues and greens and greys, and black will still stand out. I don't remember why he was giving me this Assassin instruction, but it stuck with me forever. And now, here I am, finding the man who taught my dad all those years ago. I love these books so much, they're such an intrinsic part of my heart, sometimes in ways I don't even realize yet!

They really hate being called 'weird,' huh?

Ooooh!

But Denmark have decided to switch tk the American model!

So we have cut funding of public healthcare by 20%. Then we doubled that and gave it to private healthcare!

Now we get to have a slightly worse healthcare system with longer waiting time AND pay more taxes AND not everyone can access healthcare.

AND as a main bonus, Danes now experience private healthcare having as short waiting times as as public USED to have, while the public have long wait times.

So now the Danes are in favor of MORE private healthcare so we can get to the american model!

And it is done by saying "This is unacceptable!"

It is done by demanding higher standards.

It is stopped and delayed by "Other places have it worse you know" and "That is just how it is"

The post I just reblogged made me think about "For sale: baby shoes, never worn" and how, now, in our time of dramatically reduced infant and child mortality and increased abundance, the more statistically likely interpretation of that six-word story is this:

"Extended family and friends have gifted us too much stuff for our kid. They didn't even get a chance to wear these shoes before they outgrew them." And if that's not an indication of amazing progress, I don't know what is.

Every single windows computer have Cortana

And it is build into windows, you cannot remove it easily and if you do it is back next update.

Those computers are inside millions of rooms where corperate secrets and personal secrets are being said.

And it is controlled by microsoft who had essentially "All info on your windows machine is ours" in their user agreement.

It got removed because of pushback... for now.

But that is the direction windows wants. And so it is the direction they are going.

And they are in your home.