Because there are lots of stupid people around them that make life miserable for everybody, not only themselves ! Note: I wrote this comment after reading just the title...
I disagree, I think it's more about a person's emotion intelligence. You can choose to be happy even if everyone else around you is not. It might not be easy, but I think it's possible.
Totally agree. One might require to be "in their head" a lot of the time to not get swung down, and enjoy himself such as laughing at his own jokes. To make it possible, one has to be free enough to express oneself (also internally). But freedom of thought and action is on the decline as I've come to observe lately, but that's another topic.
You should definitely read the article, it's pretty good. That said, I'd say it's not the stupid that make life miserable for everyone else, it's the smart people that were born earlier. A smart person with power sets rules to benefit themselves. They may or may not care about what happens after they die. Those that care will almost certainly want to advantage their descendants and friends. Enough iterations on this same pattern and you get the kafkaesque and at times idiotic modern society.
Fair comeback. I think of CSV as modern, but Wikipedia tells me it's almost as old as AWK (depending on how you count). It seems to me it's used more heavily now as an exchange format, compared to say 15-20 years ago, but I could be wrong.
JSON is an exchange format... sqlite is an exchange format... even protocol buffers are an exchange format...
CSV is only an exchange format if there is no user generated strings in the data... If there are, then you'll almost certainly screw up the encoding when someones name has a newline or comma or speech mark in it, or some obscure unicode etc. Even moreso if awk is part of your toolkit.
That may have been more true years ago, but now quoting is pretty well defined with RFC 4180, and most tools seem to produce and consume RFC 4180-compatible CSV (which properly handles commas, quotes, and even newlines in fields). That said, there still are too many non-standard or quirky CSV files out there.
> and most tools seem to produce and consume RFC 4180-compatible CSV
Laughs in SSIS…
There are some significant tools (or common add-ins for them) that don't entirely respect RFC4180. Though I see few files that breach it these days, thre are tools that break with conforming files (looking at you, Excel, trying to be clever about anything isn't conclusively provable not to be a date).
Our clients use it all the time, to the point where we'd lose sales if we didn't support it, but CSV is far from a safe way to transport data IMO. Each time a new requirement to deal with CSV comes in I treat it as a custom format that may or may not be something like RFC4180.
I am in Mid 40s with high BMI. I got Covid while waiting for my vaccination appointment. I did not have fever, cough, ache or anything but my brain was effected in strange ways. It was like flashbacks all the time, as if I perceived the now as a series of flashbacks. 6 days after testing positive, I was taken to a hospital by an ambulance, intubation and all. Have you seen the movie Source Code (2011). I felt like that guy in the ICU. Maybe also because of all the drugs they gave me, I had lots of hallucinations, I thought I was being experimented on. I was somewhat paranoid schizophrenic (this is my idea not a diagnosis) for a brief time. Then after 2 weeks I got better but could not walk. 1 month later I was discharged, my wife & mom helped me with my physical therapy at home. On the 15th day, I was able to stand up. Then, I got better and better. Now 8 months later, I fell OK...
If in the USA - what is the situation with hospital bills? Knowing that a day in the hospital can cost thousands, I wonder how people manage to pay for a month of intensive care.
Not in the USA. I am Turkish. I did not have to pay anything. And the report they gave us after discharge included 3 full pages of (one may say truckload) the drugs they used on me.
