Help has such a broad range of meanings here. It can mean anything from achieving what you want to and living a happy life (unlikely) to avoiding killing yourself (likely).
Most prognoses for depression look more like "can you cope with feeling like this for the rest of your life?" vs. "we will cure you". The latter is, of course, possible, though generally there is a problem. Many people have chronic depression, and it generally takes a long time and a lot of therapist effort to "cure depression" unless you are lucky, so there aren't really the resources to fix the problem for most people in the world. Usually at best we can learn to cope with it, especially if it has origins in early trauma.
Such a loss, he was a talented person. I always checked in on his site from time to time to see if there were any updates on his tooling or what he was using it for.
I was excited to see what he did later in life. I don't like equating a person with their professional output, but this post shows a level of creativity and vigor that is extremely rare. I'm sure it was apparent in other aspects of his life. I imagine his friends and family cherished him.
Not to be confrontational or point fingers to anyone specific, but in general, it would be more helpful that acquaintances, instead of concern/react to the tragedy of the death, would instead concern/react to the tragedy of the preceding depression.
(Absurdity check: we're both talking of suicide prevention, right?)
I really don't know how to best answer you - so I recruited some help:
"Catching the early signs of someone struggling—like pulling back from activities or expressing a sense of hopelessness—can be key. It’s about noticing changes and gently encouraging a conversation or professional help."
"Sometimes people just don’t know where to start with getting help. If we can proactively share resources, like info on good therapists or support groups with someone in need, it can be a nudge in the right direction."
Assuming you believe psychology/psychotherapy has scientific merit, that is.
I wish NNW would support notifications on Mac with the app closed, maybe with a helper that's always running. I use it to get alerts on hardware availability but I don't want it always taking up space on my dock.
I'd imagine this could be controversial when RSS is seen as a cure for attention grabbing and doom scrolling by some here who'd appreciate NNW to stay an app that only shows stuff when opened, doesn't lure, and doesn't update all that often.
Results of enabling it and using my phone as I normally would:
- Some websites don't display images. I've no idea what they encode to, but they won't display. Fine, don't care.
- Animated GIFs don't play in Messages when coming in via SMS (perhaps iMessage too, haven't tried). Annoying when people communicate in animated GIFs, but... people just expect my tech to be weirdly broken, so this doesn't actually impact things significantly.
And that's it. I couldn't tell you the performance delta in casual internet use, though I don't use my phone very heavily either.
Which means they don't have anything that can take Humans to the Moon. That certification requires the technology to be much more proven. Also Falcon Heavy only carries 26t into LEO so I actually doubt it would be enough (don't know for sure). At the very least you need a transfer stage of course.
Next problem would be Crew Dragon itself. It's probably not able to return from the moon, the speed and thus the temperature is higher so you need a capsule designed for this. Which Orion is and Dragon isn't.
> Which means they don't have anything that can take Humans to the Moon.
Neither does the SLS/Orion stack. What are you even comparing here?
A lander is required anyway.
> Also Falcon Heavy only carries 26t into LEO
I assume you don't mean LEO.
> Next problem would be Crew Dragon itself. It's probably not able to return from the moon, the speed and thus the temperature is higher so you need a capsule designed for this. Which Orion is and Dragon isn't.
Actually, the Crew Dragon Heat Shield is designed for moon reentry. There might be a few updates for avionics but nothing to big.
SLS/Orion/Orion SM and Falcon Heavy/Dragon stack are both underpowered. There are solution to this is you were willing to invest the smallest amount of money.
Dragon could be extend by adding a extra fuel tank into the trunk. That would be a reasonably cheap solution. Alternatively a separately launched Service Module. That would likely cost a few 100M, but that is jump change compared to SLS/Orion.
Or even better, don't launch the capsule to moon orbit at all, switch to the moon lander in LEO. Then you can simply use commercial crew to get the astronauts up and down and the lander to go to the moon and back.
"To the Moon" doesn't mean surface, but in any case, lunar orbit is the first step in any practical mission.
No, you don't scale up the 26t by the factor of 4 in a heartbeat.
Yes, you need to take the capsule to lunar orbit because the lander wouldn't survive reentry and you don't want to take the transfer stage down to the lunar surface and back again.
SLS is ready to fly. There are no alternatives which can do the same thing which are ready to fly. This is a fact.
Instead of making smart as comments, why not actually make an argument.
Nobody denies its hard and would take singificant work.
But the fact is, all the individual subsystems are certified. The Falcon 9, a closely derived rocket is fully certified. The Dragon is fully crew certified for LEO. And both Falcon Heavy and Dragon are engineered from the ground up to be able to be certified if required.
If this was an argument about if it cost 5 million of 50 million then we could have a discussion.
BUT ITS LITERALLY ABOUT 10+ billion $. So unless you can make an argument that it somehow cost more to human certify Falcon Heavy and Crew Dragon for moon then the complete Falcon 9 and Dragon program cost in the first place then you don't have an argument. Only smart-ass comments.
So please tell me, what do I not understand. Why would it cost 10 billion to do the things I suggest. In reality, we know that it wouldn't even cost 1 billion $.
