I use this [0] GVR mask when working around concrete dust, and I've found it to be very comfortable and effective.
That doesn't directly answer your question about urban particulates and PM 2.5, but if you read its specs and it sounds appropriate, I can recommend the product.
> People routinely write completely wrong CMakeLists and then complain about CMake being "sooo bad".
I think this conflates a few issues.
I believe you that some people have problems with both CMake and Meson.
But in my opinion CMake's scripting language really is pretty poorly suited for it's role, e.g. because of its blurry distinction between strings and lists.
> CMake's scripting language really is pretty poorly suited for it's role
The vast majority of projects only need a handful of features from CMake. Sure, it's a weird language and there is enough to criticise. The fact remains that 99% of the complaints I see are from people who write very bad CMakeLists. First learn how to not make a big mess with it, and then you can start complaining, IMHO.
I have had that with other technologies that "everybody hates but is forced to use". The technology is never perfect, so there are always reasons for criticism. But I see a lot more invalid criticisms from people who don't use the technology correctly than valid ones.
Because Javascript is not perfect does not mean that the developers can't possibly be responsible for a bad Javascript codebase.
Combination of two autoimmune conditions, one Ehlers Danlos.
Actually EDS is interesting because it became a fad I guess on TikTok to claim you had it like Tourette’s, further exacerbating the above issue.
It’s got a wide spectrum. My dad had it so lightly he was just considered “double jointed”. I gained a further thing from mom’s side, which seemed to interplay poorly. Spent 19-26 basically having extreme nausea and vomiting episodes every month or two, often having to go to the hospital to stop it. Had other weird symptoms and pains before that and during too.
Did every scan, met tons of specialists. Kept getting referred down the GI side, had gallbladder removed for no reason.
At one point I was convinced it was psychological. This was after a second doctor suggested it. It sent me down a dark path for a few years of trying to figure out what was wrong with me - didn’t help my mental state was terrible from all the uncertainty, and I had developed anxiety about eating since basically any meal could end up in hours of extreme pain. I was a total wreck. Then it just cleared up finally at 26.
It wasn’t until years later I got the EDS diagnosis, and then a genetic test showed the other immune condition. When looking at the two lists of symptoms it was such an intense moment in my life, finally having closure.
> At one point I was convinced it was psychological.
I ended up thinking the same thing after a prolonged period of symptoms that didnt make sense. I 100% began to think I was losing my mind and imaginging it. Turns out I had a spinal cord injury. The problem is, not knowing that for as long as I did ultimately did impact my mental health in other ways.
It was nice to find out ultimately that no, I was not just going insane.
It started as just pain. Mild at first, mostly in my arms and shoulders, like someone had yanked them out of their sockets. Over time, it got worse. Not constant, just... random, brutal spikes. One minute I’m fine, the next I move slightly wrong and I’m yelping like a dog, unable to lift my arms, turn my head, or function at all.
I’d go to doctors, and try to explain. "Look, I know I seem okay now, but yesterday I literally couldn’t move etc etc." Time after time they would just respond with some variant of "Patient is stressed, stress is inducing pain, patient should stress less." or "patient is overworked, should do less work, etc".
This went on for over a year. I kept having these episodes, days at a time where I was barely functional. The pain, the immobility, completely real to me, but apparently all in my mind according to my doctors. "Take painkillers/antidepressants/rest etc etc." As a result eventually, I began to wonder if maybe I had just gone insane. Maybe this was all in my head and I was just imagining being in pain.
Then things got worse. I suddenly had to pee all the time. My hands started losing dexterity. I began bumping into things, losing my balance, subtly at first, but unmistakably. It was no longer just pain, my whole body was going off the rails.
After I woke up one day, completely unable to move, I was rushed to the hospital. Same story: they told me it was stress, maybe anxiety. I snapped. I told them if they discharged me without finding out what was going on, and I was later to find out that something had in fact been wrong, I’d sue everyone I had interacted with that day. I don’t even remember exactly what I said, but I must’ve hit the right nerve, because they finally agreed to do an MRI, not to help me, but to shut me up.
The scan finished. I never saw the general staff again. Instead, the next person who walked in was one of my country’s top neurosurgeons. He asked, very calmly, if I’d please come to his office for an urgent (and free) consult, because the imaging contained some pretty serious findings that we needed to act upon immediately.
Finding out I had not in fact being going insane...I burst into tears as the news was delivered. For so long i'd just been left to think I was going mad and here I was finding out that there were in fact very real reasons for everything I was experiencing.
Not OP but similar story with someone I know. Five years of many specialists that always ended in "all the tests are negative so it must either be fibromyalgia or psychological." Doctors never helped but eventually they empirically found that abilify and rexulti in very low doses (ie: half the minimum) made it just go away. Empirically based on the reaction to various medications it was probably some type of dopamine imbalance or issue. There's other case studies of similar reactions to abilify and chronic pain but not many.
Extra fun fact, a deep research AI nowadays will actually suggest this as one of the treatments given a few paragraphs of information on the symptoms/medications tried/etc.
My first reaction when reading this story was a desire for what I'd (generously) call "justice" for the Ford staff that made that choice.
But on further reflection, I'm wondering what is an acceptable way to navigate those decisions?
If viewed entirely as a tradeoff between safety of that car's passengers vs. the total corporate profits, then the "right" answer is they should operate as a nonprofit that barely makes ends meet.
You cannot have a car that is perfectly safe, but what is described here is not a reasonable compromise between safety and producing a car, but a deliberate choice by executives to sell cars with a known dangerous design to spare the company 60 millions dollars.
> but what is described here is not a reasonable compromise between safety and producing a car
That's my intuition as well. But the questions (for me) remain:
What are the acceptable tradeoffs in this scenario? And acceptable to whom?
What ethical framework do we have for deciding that one particular solution is more acceptable than another, and why should we all agree on that framework?
And is viewing this as simply a 1D tradeoff of passenger safety vs. corporate profits the most useful way to frame the issue?
> If the likelihood of occupants burning alive doubles, then I think it's safe to say that saving the money is unethical.
Okay, but what if that means the car has to be $300k USD more expensive?
And suppose that price increase means 20,000 persons who otherwise could afford some car, no longer can afford any car. And then, as a result, those 20,000 persons collectively lose 10,000 person-years of lifespan because of poorer access to good jobs, inability to quickly get to a hospital during emergencies, etc.
At that point was the $300k USD pricetag better than, say, allowing 30 individuals to die in a car fire?
I'm not saying I know the answer. But if we can't answer that, I'm not sure your "safely" agree with the point you were making.
Pinto's gas tank liner wasn't going to cost that. It's absence cost lives and Ford's reputation to please some idiot cost cutter.
If there were some absurd scenario where the benefit is prohibitively expensive then we could debate that.
As it is, I'm afraid too many people in charge at Boeing and similar manufacturers have a terrible sense of priorities and tradeoffs. We should never have outsourced regulation to the manufacturers themselves.
Was in the middle of writing something like this comment already. Heh, definitely something a bit ironic seeing multiple comments claiming an editor written in Lisp and descended from an AI lab as being ai-free. It's probably one of the most user-customizable environments around for building user-centric AI tool integrations.
Maybe people mean GenAI. Back then, AI meant stuff like computer algebra systems like Macsyma which produce deterministic, provably correct results. I'm totally OK with that kind of AI. What I don't like are probabilistic text generators getting shoved into absolutely everything.
I've traveled to Hawaii (specifically the Big Island) several times and drove H19 countless times between Kailua-Kona and Waikoloa. For about 30 minutes you are driving through old lava fields with a view of the ocean, some goats and the other cars on the road. I've never realized the lack of billboards and I thank those responsible for that. I can imagine that drive inundated with billboards if it was allowed. Trying to sell sunset cruises, sunscreen and your next time share.
I hate being lied to, especially if it's so the liar can reap some economic advantage from having the lie believed.
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