My brother committed suicide after facing a prison sentence. It is a really difficult thing that when you meet people (even for years afterwards, it still happens to this day 13 years on) and they just want to talk about the circumstances behind his suicide and the things that get him to that point. Having people consistently drag it up for you really hurts at times.
I also have experienced the name-calling thing. My mother, at times, ends up calling me by my brother's name. I think that is the hardest thing at times, because clearly she's not over it (he shot himself with her in the next room).
I really do feel for Noah. It's not something you ever truly get over (here I am posting about it 13 years on), just something you just got to learn to deal with. I found that for me, I had to find a healthy coping mechanism/hobby to get through those first few years. Life still goes on man.
11yrs for me; I actually grew kind of used to the name-calling thing. I don't go home a whole lot but try to spend a few days with my parents 1-3x a year, and I feel like all is back to normal when they call me my brother's name. We're all "home" again.
Different experiences for different people :)
(P.S. My brother was not facing incarceration but had significant mental illness, just feel like I can identify with the loss. Do not believe anybody really close will, you like said, truly get over it. Time really does not heal all wounds.)
Good luck. It surprises me that the US supports such a vicious law enforcement system compared to the rest of the developed world - I'm a Brit and ours leans the other way towards being a bit easy going.
It should be noted that I live in Australia, so our law enforcement system is relatively lax too.
However, my father also died of a heart attack a little over a year beforehand, so I'm sure that was part of it, but I'm sure the jail term was about 90% of what was on his mind at the time.
I only wanted to share just in case Noah ever reads this. Things do eventually get better.
How can you compare the death of a man shot by police on the underground because of been confused with a terrorist, with a person driven to suicide because they are facing a jail sentence?
So the solution to fixing interacting with a smart watch when your hands are otherwise engaged is not to use another conductive piece of your body, but to instead turn a bezel with your hand?
> Your only issue then is graphics card / graphics card drivers.
Some developers are only developing for DirectX only. Even some developers who, have in the past (Blizzard) supported Macs, have forgone this in their latest product (Overwatch) because of the additional hassle in doing so.
While this is true, a surprising number of games (using DirectX) run nicely under wine. It's not like 5+ years ago when many titles didn't work and those that did often had problems. Wine now runs a lot of games very nicely.
(Overwatch, unfortunately, seems to be one of the few that doesn't work at all under wine)
You have the same problem on consoles I suppose, but also if companies don't invest in OpenGL or alternative frameworks, then that's another factor. I'm sure there's plenty of other warts to be fixed in Linux as far as gaming is concerned though.
It's still a chicken and egg problem. It's not going away any time soon.
Developers are more inclined to develop for PC, because more people use Windows. More people use Windows, because there is a greater number of games in comparison to other platforms.
I've got a 100mbit Fibre connection. I live in an inner city suburb.
It is continually dropping out (I get an average about 1 hour a week of downtime), my upload speed tops out at 35mbit (using iiNet's own tools) and for a lot of things like YouTube, videos can be sketchy, even on the more popular ones.
Australian's really aren't missing out on much if this was supposed to be the standard.
You're telling me. When we first moved into this apartment building, NBNco hadn't even hooked the building up correctly. It took 5 weeks of constant calling to eventually get an engineer to actually fix it (and in the process, get the entire building connected, it wasn't just us having issues).
As a kid, I was banned from an arcade in my home town for being a bit too good on a certain ticket giving arcade machine (probably around 1995)
The manager was having to reload the machine with tickets too often when I was on it, it actually got to the point where she was standing behind me, watching me win the jackpot probably 2 out of 3 games... after winning several hundred dollars worth of prizes/tickets, I was awarded my tickets and asked not to return.
I actually did my Christmas shopping that year at the prize counter with tickets.
Honestly? They've been posting a lot more Mac developer jobs lately and their Mac client's quality for WOW has been degrading consistently over the last few major versions.
I'd say their devs familiar in that space are getting poached/spread to other teams and its not feasible to support OS X on team 4 at the moment.
I also have experienced the name-calling thing. My mother, at times, ends up calling me by my brother's name. I think that is the hardest thing at times, because clearly she's not over it (he shot himself with her in the next room).
I really do feel for Noah. It's not something you ever truly get over (here I am posting about it 13 years on), just something you just got to learn to deal with. I found that for me, I had to find a healthy coping mechanism/hobby to get through those first few years. Life still goes on man.