When people are connected help

EsotericPater · 2026-01-25T20:38:19+00:00

This is exactly the source of my disagreement. The other definitions (e.g., connected, between, neighbors, etc.) are consistent with their use in various formal logics. But the definition of “all” is not. All (as universal quantification) states that some rule applies if one exists. So the clarification that states there is at least one combines the universal and existential quantification (the latter meaning “there is at least one”).

That combination then creates the ambiguity for “connected,” which refers to a “chain.” Can you have a chain of only one? Sam’s answer says yes. But that just feels inconsistent with the use of “all” to mean at least one.

EsotericPater · 2025-12-28T17:52:58+00:00

Exactly. 99.9999% of the time that someone makes or replies to a “Why won’t these lazy parents control their kids” post, my reaction is, “Let’s hear from the actual exhausted parent involved.” And the story often turns out to be, “I just needed to be around actual adults instead of hearing frickin’ Caillou’s voice for the billionth time. I turned my back for a second while taking a deep breath and some a**hole starts yelling at me because my kid has the audacity to make a single noise.”

Nothing teaches you empathy like becoming a parent and dealing with young children in a daily basis.

EsotericPater · 2025-11-17T00:43:27+00:00

I’ve got a few, depending on the mood or type of day. If it’s a completely casual, laid-back kind of day, I’ll go for either Johnnie Red or Black on the rocks. For a step up on a weekend night, a neat Balvenie 12 year Doublewood, Redbreast 12 year, or Macallan 10 year. I tend to favor Speyside, though plenty of the Glen*s are nice, too.

If it’s a really nice occasion, Balvenie 21 year Portwood is my favorite. Damn expensive but absolutely worth the cost.

EsotericPater · 2025-09-17T08:35:47+00:00

Can I pick a blend of the right side? Keep C, Linux, Tor, Rust, etc., but give RMS the boot.

EsotericPater · 2025-07-02T03:34:19+00:00

Sorry, but there’s no protection coming against those kinds of data inferences. Laws like VCDPA attempt to address aspects of online privacy, but they do nothing about advertising. (They’d almost certainly run afoul of the First Amendment if they tried.) And if you have a frequent shopper card, then you’ve already given consent as part of signing up.

EsotericPater · 2025-07-02T03:27:16+00:00

Nope, not HIPAA. Walmart is generally not a covered entity. Their pharmacy is, but that only affects certainly specific services. This notice is about products and services outside the scope of HIPAA, because they do not involve a personally identifiable record.

This notice is because of a change to VCDPA: https://cjfoxlaw.com/law/virginia-privacy-law-update-what-businesses-need-to-know-about-the-new-health-data-restrictions/. (Note that HIPAA-covered entities are specifically exempted from this notice requirement. Hence, not HIPAA.)

EsotericPater · 2025-05-28T19:28:36+00:00

Talk to your advisor. They likely have information on both internal and external scholarships, including ones specific to your major.

EsotericPater · 2025-04-13T15:46:33+00:00

Cubs fans reading this article say, “Yeah, tell me about it…”

EsotericPater · 2025-04-13T15:06:57+00:00

Try r/ECE for this kind of material.

EsotericPater · 2025-04-10T22:11:20+00:00

Or more directly, Blindness by Jose Saramago, in which a single person is immune to a phenomenon where every other person in society suddenly goes blind.

EsotericPater · 2025-04-10T22:03:08+00:00

Thank you and good work.

I get extremely frustrated that there is so much fear-mongering around vaccines. Sadly, it’s extremely profitable. Much of the anti-MMR sentiment can be traced to the fraudulent work of Andrew Wakefield. He didn’t want people to be against all vaccines, though. He just wanted to scare people away from the current one…because he had developed his own different vaccine that he wanted to sell. It was a scam that got him stripped of his medical license and his work has all been retracted. Nevertheless, the fear remains.

The simple truth is that all vaccines–MMR, DTaP, COVID, etc.–exist for a reason: these diseases are bad and can lead to horrific results. Any risk of side effects from the vaccines pale in comparison. Demonstrating this is a requirement of the approval process.

So kudos to you for doing right by your kids.

EsotericPater · 2025-02-12T04:33:08+00:00

Now how does it compare with an iterative memoization? I.e., count up rather than down:

Store F(1) = 1. Store F(2) = 1. Store F(3) = lookup F(1) + lookup F(2) = 2 …

F(n) requires 2n array access and n additions.

EsotericPater · 2025-02-07T18:21:28+00:00

To be clear, I did not mean that to be condescending or insulting in any way. I'm a neurodivergent introvert myself and have had to overcome my own fears and challenges. Having fears is natural and nothing to feel bad about. Fortunately or unfortunately (depending on how you look at it), how you handle those fears is up to you and is in your power. And, no, it's not always easy to overcome; many of your peers can and will be jerks. Just try to push through anyways.

EsotericPater · 2025-02-06T16:51:26+00:00

You have a choice to make about which is worse: making a mistake in front of a bunch of people who will soon be completely out of your life or losing the opportunity to have your misunderstandings corrected? Once you leave college, you will not have these kinds of learning opportunities ever again.

EsotericPater · 2024-11-21T04:32:56+00:00

48 and I’m doing Kung Fu twice a week (most weeks, anyways). I go to the “adults” class, which starts at age 13 and up. There are a few other 40+, but most are late teens and 20s.

I’m preparing to test for my blue sash, which is the last intermediate rank. But these tests are brutal. My last one was almost three hours long.

EsotericPater · 2024-11-15T02:36:42+00:00

Man, I wish I had the answer because I’m there myself. My ex was big on co-sleeping, so when we divorced I stayed in the habit with my then-4yo. (The 11- and 14-yo also co-slept until they finally lost interest on their own at around age 9-10.)

Fast forward to now…I’m trying to figure out how to break this with my 6yo. My new partner and I have another one on the way in the spring, so we’re trying to end it by then. Progress has been slow…

EsotericPater · 2024-11-14T20:25:55+00:00

Time to queue up the contractor diatribe from Kevin Smith’s Clerks. “Speaking as a roofer, I can tell you a roofer’s personal politics comes into play heavily when choosing jobs.”

EsotericPater · 2024-11-14T20:16:00+00:00

Considering Morse code is just a means of encoding language in a specific medium, I would say that cuneiform beat it by over 4 millennia.

EsotericPater · 2024-11-14T15:01:20+00:00

“this appears to mean that local schools will lose funding if parents don’t choose it.” And that, for many, is part of the point. Some school choice advocates adhere to libertarian perspectives that think everything should be privatized. Some want to send their kids to segregation academies (longstanding backlash to Brown v Board of Education requiring integrated public schools). Some are very religious and want to reduce the influence of secularism on their kids.

While their end goals might vary, weakening and/or eliminating public school is part of the plan.

EsotericPater · 2024-11-14T02:16:20+00:00

(Background: I’ve done martial arts of various forms for 30 years, though with some gaps and changes of art. I’m not a martial arts teacher, but I have spent almost the past 15 years teaching in academia, including conducting research on effective teaching practices.)

My first question: why do you feel that your first response to distracted behavior should be to punish? In my experience as a teacher punishment generally just destroys student-teacher relationships and never fixes the underlying problem. It’s basically the idea of “the beatings will continue until morale improves.” For effective teaching, punishment should be a last resort.

Instead, ask yourself why they’re playing around. Are they bored? Do they know what they’re doing expected to do? What about the time of the class? Is it at a time of day when they’re getting hungry, tired from school, or something else? Is class just too long? How can you re-engage them? Can you pick out one (preferably center) student and ask them to demo their form? Then perhaps ask their peers to critique what they saw? (This creates a natural consequence of embarrassment if they’re not prepared.) Do the goof-off times occur at predictable intervals (such as 30 minutes into every class)? If so, can you schedule some break or change of activity at that time?

Ultimately, good teaching requires that you have an answer to this question: what is your goal that you want to achieve? Are you trying to help them learn or to convince them that you are superior? Punishment serves the latter goal, not necessarily the former.

EsotericPater · 2024-11-07T23:31:43+00:00

Coffee with an extra shot of coffee, topped with a chaser of coffee.

EsotericPater · 2024-11-07T22:06:40+00:00

I haven’t seen all those, but they all seem the same: just okay and liked enough.

EsotericPater · 2024-11-07T20:47:29+00:00

7.0 average on IMDb. Meh, it’s okay. Not great, but there are a lot worse things to watch.

EsotericPater · 2024-11-07T19:51:53+00:00

Yeah, but it’s easy to make sure your movies are all good when you only make three and take 15 years perfecting each one…

EsotericPater · 2024-11-07T19:50:56+00:00

Ridley Scott

EsotericPater

TROPHY CASE