Also in Japan, when you need something? You just raise your hand and say "sumimasen". Instead of waiting forever or needing the wait service to constantly check in on you.
Myself I am schizotypal which means I have unusual experiences. For instance things like Ouija boards and dowsing rods work really well for me even though I don't believe in them at all (and actually have all the reason to be an arch-reductionist)
For a while though I practiced a kind of visualization I called "shapeshifting" which has recently turned into a project to be possessed by a fox spirit because I found out that everywhere there are foxes people have been getting possessed by fox spirits so why can't I do it? (No need to explain it in terms of science, reconcile it with western approaches to religion, none of that...)
I had it come in and take over my standing reflex (the first thing it does) we said a few words and then I was left with the message that I was not in good enough shape and I could get hurt doing this (not like a serious injury but sprains and strains, yes, to express itself it will ask more of my body than I do.
I'm going to have to talk about my goals with a trainer next week, I don't think I'm going to come completely clean that a fox sent me.
I had a rent controlled apartment in Midtown for ~$1300/mo. It's the apartment I grew up in and I finally got fed up and left two years ago.
The landlord put giant holes in my floor to get access to some pipes and wouldn't fix them for over a year.
After leaving the landlord tried to bill tens of thousands of dollars to bring the apartment up to their current standards -- even though we'd been in there since 1970 and the landlord never spent a cent on modernizing the apartment along the way. 100% of the renovations and upgrades we did ourselves. The apartment was left in great condition.
I completely agree with you that it's a trap. The place made me completely miserable and even though at the end I finally earned decent money to leave, I chose to leave the city entirely.
I think I'd use the argument that "its pretty boring", meaning, it's very solid. However, the C# language is very expressive and get's better every year, so it's a joy to use. It's a great choice for cloud-native server systems. (I feel like this year Blazor is a strong contender against Next.js, so web UI can work well with the backend).
Says it all really... it's a puff piece to promote a book launch.
“If supply remains constrained, this could go on for some time,” said Bair, who last week released a new children’s book about bubbles called “Daisy Bubble: A Price Crash on Galapagos.”
I realize the rust evangelism strike force is a thing, but I can't help but think
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is easier to make accessibility tools for than
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/usr/include/c++/4.6/bits/stl_algo.h: In function ‘_RandomAccessIterator std::__find(_RandomAccessIterator, _RandomAccessIterator, const _Tp&,...
Their siloing strategy, which I'll roughly refer as resolving a request from a single AZ, is a good way to keep operations and monitoring simple.
A past team of mine managed services in a similar fashion. We had a couple (usually 2-4) single AZ clusters with a thin (Envoy) layer to balance traffic between clusters.
We could detect incidents in a single cluster by comparing metrics across clusters. Mitigation was easy, we could drain a cluster in under a minute, redirecting traffic to the other ones. Most traffic was intra AZ, so it was fast and there was no cross-AZ networking fees.
The downside is that most services were running in several clusters, so there was redundancy in compute, caches, etc.
When we talked to people outside the company, e.g. solution architects from our cloud provider, they would be surprised at our architecture and immediately suggest multi-region clusters. I would joke that our single AZ clusters were a feature, not a bug.
Nice to see other folks having success with a similar architecture!
I have been using chat GPT to control my light colours for about a month now. It's too tedious to properly set the colours and temperatures of our lights manually and too complex to consider all factors like activity, weather, music, time of day and season.
Chat GPT is now our personal lighting DJ, giving us dynamic and interesting light combinations that respect our circadian rhythm.
Here's my prompt - the output of which feeds Home Assistant:
Set the hue for my home's lights using the HSL/HSB scale from 0-360 by providing a primary and complementary colour which considers the current situation. The HSL color spectrum ranges from 0 (red), 120 (green), to 240 (blue) and back to 360 (red). Lower values (0-60) represent warmer colors, while higher values (180-240) represent cooler colors. Middle values (60-180) are neutral.
Consider these factors in setting the primary hue (in order of importance):
1. Preferences throughout the day:
- When about to wake: Reds, oranges or hot pinks
- Approaching bedtime: Hot pinks or reds
- During worktime: Blues, greens or yellows
- Other times: Greens, yellows or oranges
2. Current activity: Bedtime
3. Sleep schedule: Bedtime 23:00, Wake-up time 07:00
4. Date & time: Sunday May 21, 05:40
5. Current primary hue: 10
6. Current complementary hue: 190
7. Weather: 13°C, wind speed 9 km/h, autumn
Respond in this format and provide a reason in <250 characters:
{primary_hue: 10
complementary_hue: 190
reason: "Approaching bedtime and early hours of morning, so a warm and calming hue is needed. Complementary hue adjusted slightly to 195 to maintain balance."}
I love working onsite and observing my coworkers spend 30 minutes making breakfasts and taking 2-hour lunches and finishing a 1-hour meeting in 20-30 minutes and then spending the rest of the blocked time just talking about anything but work as they have a proof on the calendars that they've actually worked. Some of my best memories from work are of people starting to fall asleep during meetings scheduled shortly after lunch when everybody's hypoglycemic due to the insulin putting off the carb-heavy lunch! Very productive, no doubt! I've never seen a software engineer put more than 3-4 hours of productive work onsite! Meanwhile, after 10 years being exclusively remote, I've put tons more productive hours working from home a day. In fact, knowing I'm privileged, I put in more than 40 hours/week most weeks - not because my manager tells me to, but because I want to!
You can build a mediocre product with micromanagers - no doubt, I've seen it, but I've never seen great products being built under such poor, primitive management strategy! If you really want a great, performing, and creative team, then do a better job at hiring and motivating people! Policing works only for certain types of jobs, not for jobs where managers are less smart than the workers! And I yet must see proof that exchanging viruses onsite is more productive than online meetings, which could also get recorded, etc.
I use ResilioSync (formerly Bittorrent Sync) for my personal Dropbox-like stuff. The iOS client is sparse but functional, and it has clients for pretty much every OS I need, including arm Debian... so I have my 'not-quite-Dropbox' home on a Raspberry Pi.
We also use it to cross-backup photo libraries with an avid photographer friend who lives across town.
On the subject of hearing loss, can I plug my idea again that all devices should have a "constantly gradually decrease volume" option? It's way to easy to turn up a device for a temporary reason and then an hour later you realize the sound has been way too loud for a long time.
I would rather push a button to turn up the volume twice an hour than realize I've been damaging my hearing for the last hour for something I'm barely paying attention too. Especially for music, if I notice the volume decreasing, I can turn it up, and if I don't notice, then just let a fade to nothing since I'm not paying attention apparently.
"The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity."
It's funny to read this after just arriving home with my XPS 15 9500 suspended in my backpack. I got it last week and installed Manjaro right away, and everything worked very well out of the box.
The fans keep going on full throttle even with a relatively idle desktop. The cores were constantly reaching 100°C while initializing a heavy dev environment.
The laptop's physical design is attractive, but abysmal. The main ventilation hole is located under the hinges, facing behind the laptop. Opening the lid will completely block this airway with a vertical wall 4 mm away. The venting grill at the bottom is lifted only a millimeter away from the table. Lifting the laptop off the table makes the fans sound way louder while lowering down in pitch - I think this is a clear sign of restricted airflow.
You really shouldn't pack this much beefy hardware in a package almost as flat as a damn biscuit.
I have to agree with the sensation of chagrin towards “back to work”; partially because is it feels like a loaded statement. Work never stopped for my org, we kept working, some of us worked MORE, a lot more, and saw no appreciable benefit from it other than being rewarded with more work still.
So is it “back to work” or “back to the panopticon of the modern office and radar scope of the management class”?
I cynically think it’s the latter, and it’s become a specific topic that I ask about in interviews.
Remote-refusant companies: pass, remote-only companies: a bit better, remote optional or hybrid companies: let’s talk. I’d rather work for a place that treats me, the professional like a professional and gives me the choice and say in the matter.
> The article mentions Gandhi. Many in India have been vegetarian for millennia, including many Brahmin. It seems to have worked for them over the past 3000 years.
There's a lot of B12 deficiency in India, for example:
> Conclusion: Prevalence of vitamin B12 deficiency is 47% in north Indian population. People with diabetes have higher vitamin B12 levels than general population though still have high prevalence of deficiency. This data shows that Vitamin B12 deficiency is widespread in Indian population.
