This is super important and not super well-known. A single dose of Epi is rarely enough to permanently treat anaphylaxis; the whole point is to keep you alive until an ambulance arrives or you can get to the ER. They come in two-packs to give you more time — but the really important lesson is that if you need to use an EpiPen you should immediately call 911 or go to the ER (don’t drive! have someone drive you!) where you can get definitive care.
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PSA: despite having Epi-Pens my entire life, literally no doctor ever bothered to tell me the reason they come in 2-packs isn’t so you can keep t...
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The “default” working model for open source projects (and some small/medium businesses) is working in public: you don’t need permission to contribute, you can just show up. This works surprisingly well much of the time … but sometimes it doesn’t. When it doesn’t, people often retreat into working in private, with no mechanism for broader involvement. This is a mistake! There is a middle ground, in between public and private, with the benefits of both:
Working in Between Public and Private - Jacob Kaplan-Moss
If working in public isn’t working, consider adopting a middle-ground option instead of retreating into fully-private.
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Multiple warnings about conduct violations were conveyed, but they were not heeded. We didn’t act on the violations of the warnings to avoid inte...
“You cannot vote with your wallet. Or rather, you can, but you will lose that vote. Wallet-votes always go to the people with the thickest wallets, and statistically, that is not you. […] Make individual choices that make your life better. Take collective action to make society better.”
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“Use CompositePrimaryKey Instead of hacks” Hey! Those were *my* hacks! #djangocon
Too many people avoid threat modeling because they think it’ll take too much time. It doesn’t have to!
Two Scenario Threat Modeling - Jacob Kaplan-Moss
<p>A trap that many people fall into when trying to threat modeling or risk planning is a fear of being incomplete that leads them to not even try....