Wonderful! Watching one's closest people age is so cool! I love looking at my wife (we've been married for 20 years) and seeing how she's changing through the years, her eyes, her skin, her figure, it's fascinating. Same for the wrinkles on my mother's hands, or even my own.

For me, there's nothing scary or sad about growing old and then dying. It's natural, it's beautiful, it's just great the way it is.

I agree, but that doesn't stop us from missing someone when they're gone, like a friend who's moved far away. The difference is that death is so final. There's absolutely no chance to call them or visit them. They're just gone.

That's sad, and being sad is natural too.

Earth worms provide a similar service in mixing clay and organic material to create clay-humus aggregate.

In oceans, whales also mix different layers of sea water with their vertical movements.

Earthworms are a mixed bag: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasive_earthworms_of_North_A...

I think the whale population is still at least 90% below pre whaling levels.

So the sea water layers are probably less mixed than natural. No idea what effects that might have.

FWIW io_uring does have support for waitid.

https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/io_uring_prep_wait...

Many thanks! I have added it to the article in due form now.

An interesting aspect of waitid is that it allows you to access the full exit code of the process (i.e., the entire int instead of just the bottom 8 bits).

Unfortunately, many operating systems implement waitid() on top of one of the older APIs, meaning the top bits get lost regardless…

Japan seems to be leaning more and more on immigrant labor for maintaining its economy. It's pretty obvious if you visit.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/02/07/japan/society/j...

Interesting! Glad to know I'm not the only one who has this habit.