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Hi there. I'm so sorry you are having to go through this. I went through it myself not that long ago. It is awful and very painful. The best you can do is be there for your mother and make sure she knows that you're there no matter what. If you have to take time off work to help her, do it. Consider informing your supervisor of the situation and let them know that you may need time to be with her and help her and you'll do your best to communicate with them regarding your availability when that happens.

Things can be very difficult when you're waiting on and interpreting test results. It can be hard to wait as the anxiety will be massive. Meditation seemed to help me, but only to a degree. Try to find things that help you be OK with not knowing, because there may be a lot of that. Walking also helped me.

I'd recommend picking up A Guide to the Good Life by William Irvine as well. He discusses a concept that I was so thankful to know during that time: how to really, truly cherish the people you're with when you're with them. Give your attention to them totally, and understand what they're feeling, what they're wanting, and how you can make them feel loved and make yourself feel like you did the most with the time that you had.

Good luck, I hope things go well for you. Let me know if I can provide any more information.

Ambient Chaos 5 years ago

Wow. Thanks for making this. I love that it is open source, and the clips you chose are so relaxing. The passenger car is so chill.

They could’ve told it honestly without making it seem like sleep deprivation is noble. Great things can be achieved with proper sleep and not falling asleep at your keyboard just to wake up and keep coding “right where you left off” as they claim.

I found it pretty surprising how much they romanticized his years of working instead of sleeping. That’s a dangerous thing to promote.

[dead] 8 years ago

Very strange definition of "best." Justin Beiber? No. 3Blue1Brown? Yes.

Who is upvoting this obvious spam?

Hello! FSW dev from NASA Langley here. We do try to do reuse as much as possible, but small satellites (CubeSats) are starting to change that. There are so many new pieces of hardware and so much experimentation going on to see what’s feasible in space. There are new RTOS frameworks being developed both by commercial and government (CFS, F-prime). If you’re interested in this in particular there is a conference called SmallSat which hosts the talks from previous years. https://smallsat.org

No need to baselessly suggest autism. There are people who don’t care about these things. Find one of them. It’s not hard. I’ve known several.

Powerless? No. Just don’t buy it. It really is that simple. You don’t have to change everyone’s mind. Just stand up for yourself.

Code.nasa.gov 11 years ago

I just interned with the guy responsible for libSPRITE last summer at the Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville. Kind of awesome to see he open sourced it. He really was hoping to get approval to do so.

I used his library for my internship. Cool stuff. And he was a great teacher.

Just wanted to say thanks for this post. I read it this morning, and after lunch had the worst allergic reaction I have ever had. Luckily I already had epipens, just in case.

I had never used one, but when it came time for it, I just did it. It probably saved my life. My airway was closing up. I dialed 911 and injected while the phone was ringing. All is okay now.

Anyway, thanks for the PSA.

Tails 1.0 is out 12 years ago

Okay. I got you now. Thanks. I just didn't know how exactly the USB drive was going to get modified by an attacker.

Tails 1.0 is out 12 years ago

Interesting. Do you mean by physically accessing the USB drive and changing it, or software that waits to modify the USB drive once connected? Thank you!