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A well-meaning but frustrated parent might try that move in the moment but not consider what it could mean from their child's perspective. "My parent could leave me" should never be a potential consequence for misbehaving.

They're probably more aware of it because of worse things they've endured like it. A severe example is kicking your kid out of the car and driving off without them. Or packing them a bag and forcing them out of the apartment.


This. I was in the car with my mom and I wouldn't shut up. She told me to and if I didn't, she'd make me walk home. Open my mouth I did!

I walked maybe 2 miles home. Stopped in every store/business where I knew someone. I stopped in the stationary store, the little 5 and dime, a doctor's office. Said hello and chatted a bit. I had to have been 7 or 8. Some folks asked where my mom was and I told them what happened. I have no recollection of what they said. All I know is that I walked on home. Thank goodness there were sidewalks and that I knew where I was going.

What had a much greater negative effect was the walkathon. I was a fat kid and somehow decided I was going to walk 20 miles to raise money for some charity. No one, most of all my father, thought I would walk more than a couple of miles. So neighbors, friends, colleagues of 'rents pledged $20/mile.

Day of, my friend and I were told to go to friend's mom's office when we finished and she'd drive us home. Off we went! Thank goodness we had some idea where we were. It took us all. day. long. We went to a wedding, watched some cute guys play basketball, admired gardens, and talked and talked. We were at the tail end and had no idea if anyone was in front of us or what time it was. Got to the center of town and the organizers had packed up. We had to walk probably 1/2 mile to friend's mom's office. . . and I finally showed up at home and it was like I'd never gone! Sometimes the walkaton pops into my head and I wonder how the hell my parents were not worried about me. More now that my mother has moved in with us and we talk more. I actually asked her about it the other day and she remembers nothing about the walk other than I walked all 20 miles.

End of the world? Absolutely not. But it sure taught me about what my parents thought I could do.


It can also involve deviations in strategy based on the count, particularly with borderline hands.


Right associative! It's just one of the many rites of passage for people working with PHP to get bitten by its left associative ternaries. Naked nested ternaries are deprecated now, but maybe one day, PHP can have right associative ternaries.


Except when it's not, like in perl.


Not sure what you mean, but ternaries are right-associative in Perl just like most other languages. PHP is the odd one out.


Except when they're not.


And when is that? The docs just say it's right associative[1]. And while it's been a long time since I've written any nontrivial Perl, I don't remember ever having ?: be left associative.

[1] https://perldoc.perl.org/perlop


Fasting as a healthy person is very different from someone nearing the end of their life. Many people suffering from sickness lose most of their appetite already and have little energy to bring themselves to eat.


Hahah, love it. A couple examples for anyone curious about this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qweSlfP6BtI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgPQkMX75pY


What other professions do you have in mind with better ROI?


Sales.


From their licensing: "You need to pay for Obsidian if and only if you use it to contribute, directly or indirectly, to revenue-generating, work-related activities in a company that has two or more people."

I imagine that applies to many of us. How many people are looking to use Obsidian purely for personal use?


> How many people are looking to use Obsidian purely for personal use?

The overwhelming majority, if the Obsidian message boards are anything to go by.

I wouldn't want to use a product that only now reached v1.0, for a business. It's not Figma, or a Google Docs type app where corporate use cases are very apparent. At best, Obsidian would be good for a knowledgebase, but there are better wiki tools out there for that.

Obsidian does personal knowledge management best, because of its customizability.


That's cool to know. It's definitely not what I expected! I made the assumption a markdown-based tool would primarily be used amongst tech workers for tech-related knowledge. All that being said, the cost for a license is nothing compared to other tools I use daily like JetBrains products.


$50/user/yr is about $4/mo.

I struggle to understand the mentality that deems that unreasonable. It'd be a bargain at 5x the price.


This is the reason I don't even try it. I would never be able to get my company to pay for a software that's not in our catalog, regardless of the price.


Hiring economists into tech has also been going on for many years at this point. I roomed with a PhD candidate years ago who described fairly established hiring pipelines from Economics PhD programs into industry.


I want to say that's a relatively recent change.


Yes, sometime within the last 5 years they broke their long partnership with AMEX. It seems to be Citibank now.


Have to wonder whether it’ll change in another 5 years.

Making 4% back on gas is mega killer though.


My understanding is that they changed because Citi offered them a better deal.[0]

That said, I do kinda miss the Amex and its automatic extended warranty.

[0]https://money.cnn.com/2016/03/31/pf/costco-visa-american-exp...


> That said, I do kinda miss the Amex and its automatic extended warranty

The Costco Visa also include an automatic warranty extension of 2 years beyond manufacturer.


You and the article are both right. Chemical engineering does rely on that knowledge, but plenty of it is done via experimentation. Process controls are largely developed through a lot of experimentation and data collection to understand how a process responds to various inputs.

There was a great comment elsewhere about how engineering is about dealing with the unknowns and noise of the real world, which is why engineering requires empirical evidence to further refine or create those models. Engineers may use models to calculate estimates but it all needs to be backed up by data.


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