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The experience is difficult to capture in words; parenting truly is a bizarre short circuit of the brain, like a wormhole into otherwise inaccessible portions of the mind. In this way, parents who have an abundance of life force and time and mental space are “blessed” in the literal meaning of the word — that is, they are promoted, like gods to their children, and have the power to establish the healthy parameters of life and possibility. There were weeks where it’d just be me and this kid, and the conversations we had — lord, talk about expanding. I felt the edges of my own universe fly out as I witnessed the kid’s own sense of spaciousness swell in their eyes.
Archetypes Revisited — Roden Newsletter Issue 075
craigmod.com
PostScript is a page description language that was created at Adobe Systems (which went to market in 1984), and is the forerunner of the PDF file format.
Why Is the PDF Format So Well Supported on Apple Platforms? | Inside PSPDFKit
pspdfkit.com
Of course, there is a reason for the separation of the closing and locking functions, but not the opening and unlocking functions: it avoids a Denial of Service attack where someone can just press “close” and then jump out before the door closes. If the interior “close” button automatically locked the door, this would result in the toilet becoming permanently inaccessible. The problem with this design is that most people don't understand state machines, and this design confused a lot of people who were unable to lock the door correctly, or believed they'd locked the door when they hadn't.
I Hacked a Train Toilet
devever.net
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