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No place is rather be than with my spouse in a time like that!


I think that's easy to say in the abstract, but the reality can be quite different. Of course every case is different, but for example:

* Spouse has dementia, does not recognize you, abuses you for being an intruder in the house, constantly shouts for help all times of day and night.

* Feeding, cleaning (double incontinence).

* Can't go out except for a few minutes when nurses are present.

The above goes on for months and even years with no end in sight. No chance to go out for exercise, hikes in nature, meeting friends. Isolation. At home carers have significantly reduced life expectancy for good reason.

Having hospice care where they can be well looked after is not a bad option, and is not a sign of weakness or failure for a partner.


Dementia is particularly evil.

As far as I'm concerned I am my mind. If my mind is gone my body doesn't matter, please don't waste effort in caring for it.


Thing is, it doesn't happen like flicking a switch, it's progressive and tricky to process as a caretaker.

I'm seeing this right now with a close friend and her 83yo mother.

It's seriously damaging to my friend, and no amount of my reasoning with her seems to help her process her mother's cognitive decay...

...and it leaves me defeated also, I don't have the tools to really be of true help.


Remix


Modern Java is great! Java "patterns" are overwhelming.


Most of RR’s breaking changes were years apart, which is way less often than almost all JS libraries.

But, Remix’s breaking changes start as future flags on the current major release and slowly become breaking changes over time.

That means you can incrementally adopt the breaking change so the upgrade isn’t all at once.


Sounds like Cycle.js


5th wave emo is the bet yet!


100% this


This thing sounds so good and has configureable accuracy. A lot of guitarists are saying it's more accurate than most of the paid stuff including Kemper, Quad Cortex, and ToneX!


I know it's a free instance, but there's no way to get ahold of the admin (or even find out who it is) since the instance is gone.

No way to export my data to move to a new instance.

No way to pay the admin to help keep the instance up.

Just makes me sad :/



Grouping bubbles is such low hanging fruit and makes scanning so much more simple, love it!

Tagging is great. I feel like being able to great your own graph of data from any app on your phone would be a cool api.


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