If you are choosing to still attend college, my advice would be to get an A.B.E.T-accredited degree, to fall back upon (I have a non-BE science degree from a prestigious US institution == essentially worthless).

Being an engineer vs. being an engineer tech is a substantially life-quality difference.

But only if you choose to attend (I would not re-attend).

Is this related to the exam that some college graduates could take to become professional engineers?

Necessary but not sufficient: My aerospace engineering degree is from an ABET-certified school. However, I skipped the class (and test) that puts you onto the track of being able to call yourself a professional engineer.

I would also suggest looking at the ABET certification interval for different campuses. It was a point of pride on our campus that we had a longer interval compared to the more established campus. We got the longer interval because ABET trusted our program to not need constant supervision.

Developer also recommended (tongue-in-cheek) to use Microsoft's built-in encryption services (easily defeated) in his outgoing blogpost — perhaps because he was barred from explaining the real reason for project's cancelation.

>inbox is overwhelmed

This is (mainly) why I stopped using email.

If you need to send me something, you'll need to send me a postcard (PO Box).

Were I to ever go back to digital communication, it would be by whitelists, only.

And of course Faulkner (The Sound and the Fury) and McCarthy (Suttree).

I'm not a big fan of William (he definitely has place in history), but Cormac is best fiction author alive in my lifetime (Steinbeck is best of 20th Century).

The above are all my opinions.

Add these to your PiHole (DNS blacklist):

*.icloud.com

*.apple.com

*.apple-cloudkit.com

*.apple.akamaiedge.com

You can then manage OS updates via <http://www.MrMacintosh.com/>'s instructions (requires USB media).

If you don't want to do this, you should still add:

smoot.apple.com (to blacklist)

...unless you like each Spotlight keystroke being timestampsent to Apple servers.

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This will disable a lot of "features"

—OldMan (primarily Mac owner since 1992)

This will reduce the healthcare expenditure, per capita.

A great counterexample would be the USA — which despite the highest global expenditure, per citizien, has among the lowest life expectancies / healthcare outcomes.

The US does not have "among the lowest" life expectancy. We're just out of the top quartile. And that has less to do with the quality of American health care and more to do with obesity and sedentary lifestyles. I expect with the more widespread introduction of GLP-1 receptor agonists you're going to see a jump in American longevity.

The US has a lower life expectancy than Cuba (!).

Despite decades of illegal blockade, despite economic warfare.

The Cubans are quite a bit thinner than Americans.

American healthcare is fantastic — best in the world – IF you can afford it.

Certainly there are multiple factors at play (for longevity) [0].

I know nothing — dropped out of medical school almost twenty years ago. Won't participate in private health insurances (Dr. ER).

[0] USA #55 (2023) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe...>

Everyone in the US has access to healthcare. We have programs that cost little or nothing, depending on your income. Beyond that, we have EMTALA, which means the ER can't turn you away even if you never bothered to sign up.

Copyediting:

Your instructions say that spacebar is "thrust," but the first pop-up says "press enter/thrust" to begin actually should say "spacebar" ..?

Title should say "meditations" — app is not for actual dispute resolution (well, not directly).

You should add this feature.

Hal was likely part of the Satoshi team — even receiving the first ever bitcoin transaction (on the main blockchain).

Hopefully his children got to open extremely rewarding bankboxes, after his death (whether or not containing bitcoin — but likely so). If it were myself, I'd also keep quiet about such a miracle.

For my own meager holdings, I'll keep waiting (over a decade strong HODL, now).