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Excellent advice. Time invested in cultivating your relationships and network is invaluable for generating opportunities. If people have a good experience working with you and understand what you are capable of, they will bring opportunities to your door throughout your career.

But is it delicious? Until we get dessert batteries, meh.

Thank you for taking the time to write this article. I was disturbed about the shutdown of Darksky because I really loved the features of that app and reading your article took me on a nice walk down memory lane. Raising the discussion here has been not only been cathartic in that I now know I have a lot of company for my thoughts, but has also provided some alternatives to try to recapture the experience. I'm not a big fan of Apple Weather and at least now I have some options to explore.

This. I thought I had allergies that stuffed up my nose and sinuses my entire life. Then I started tracking my water intake, drinking the proper amount, and boom, my entire head cleared up. I'm so mad at myself for not realizing this decades ago.

The aliens must have picked up CSPAN from the Oumuamua probe, translated the proceedings of US congress, and confirmed the absence of intelligence in the system.

“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.”

― Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Whenever I'm in a rut I just recall this quote and force myself to take a first step in a different direction. A lot of change is momentum based. You just have to start moving.

I have to back out of my driveway in a 2021 Ford Explorer on a fairly busy street. I am typically very cautious because there are parked cars along the street obstructing visibility and you have to be real careful backing out. Even with this heightened caution level, one time I missed a small, gray car that happened to be perfectly obstructed by the rear left pillar as I elected to back out. The "collision avoidance autobraking" kicked on and definitely saved an accident. I may get false positives now and then, but that one instance of a saved accident makes up for all the random quirks as the manufacturers work to improve these systems. I'm a believer.

In my car, there are physical buttons on the steering wheel. A left and right button with a scroll wheel in between on each side. Those buttons change context depending on what you're doing. Left side is usually audio controls and the right side does a few different things but I mostly use it for adjusting the adaptive cruise control. I find no other need for buttons all over the place. Climate is set to auto, most everything else used for driving is on the stalks. I don't understand this great need for lots of buttons. Just have a few useful physical buttons and controls.

I can tell you that I own an R1T, and it's awesome. It fits a nice niche in the vehicle landscape right now. Parameters:

- I do not want to buy another ICE vehicle - I want a vehicle with robust offroad capability - I want a vehicle with excellent performance in terms of acceleration and ride - I want a vehicle with premium interior fit and finish - I do not want a full size truck - I'm not particularly price sensitive

When you look at the competition at the 100k price point, it hits a nice sweet spot for those constraints. I think there is a significant market there to address. Telsa's cybertruck might be interesting but the Rivian is far closer to traditional styling and imho, looks and drives great. There is a lot to like there if they can scale their company and the product is certainly worth 100k. I would buy it again.

You hit on my first thought. There are numerous legitimate user experience cases where keystroke by keystroke or field by field processing is beneficial. Autocomplete for address data is one I see commonly used. Saving a partially filled out form field by field in the event a user becomes disconnected and would like to complete it later is another. From a security perspective, I know of numerous tools that examine the speed and cadence of the act of typing to discern between bot entry in a field versus human entry. There is also software like FullStory that records everything client side, including mouse movement, so companies can determine exactly how people are interacting with their sites in an effort to improve the UX. And from a tinfoil hat perspective, if a user is interacting with a webpage, they should assume everything they are doing on that page is subject to observation by the page author. If the researchers were surprised by this, I fear it's from inexperience.

I think there are shades of gray to be recognized between obstreperously "Retro" and obstreperously Luddite. There are still a significant cohort of people alive that grew up in the era where the rotary phone interface was the only phone interface. Using this device in public could be merely a nod and a wink to others in the same cohort and a nice conversation starter rather than a position against the advancement of technology. You will pry my smartphone out of my cold, dead hands but I think it would be fun to have this device around to occasionally sport out in public for the laughs. And in a nod to yourself and the other comment, thank you for teaching me a new word (obstreperously).

Since you are looking for different tips other than the usual "eat less" and "lift weights", both of which are important but the former far more than the latter, let me submit using the pen instead of the sword. Try this: Before you put anything in your mouth, write exactly what you are going to eat, including the portion (get a cheap scale), down in a food log. Then go ahead and eat it. Do this for a couple weeks without trying to make any changes and then take an afternoon and review your data. You'll see some patterns emerge and then the next week, don't make radical changes, but continue to capture your data and try to change one thing. For example, if you drink things with sugar in them, like Sodas, substitute flavored water. It takes a long time to change habits and also lots of people suffer from eating "mindlessly", e.g., opening up that bag of chips and then nomming the whole thing without thinking about it until they look down and the whole bag is empty. Build a foundation of awareness and then continue to make tweaks week after week until you find an equilibrium and then start moving in the right direction. Be patient, don't rush things. It takes a long time to gain a bunch of weight and also a long time to lose it if you want to lose it in a way that you also develop the awareness and habits to keep it off. Good luck! You can do it!

Agree with the other comments here and would like to add that the OP may have the same name as a person on one of those government lists like OFAC and are getting identity confused with a "known terrorist". US Gov requires certain companies to check the list before doing business with people.

I would have 1000% agreed with you except I had a very different experience last year. I was out seeking loans for a car and shopping around for low interest. One of the lower ones was from a company branded LightStream but on the back end is really SunTrust/Truist. They had a great rate, no origination fees, and weirdly, asked specifically not to set the loan up so that the car was collateral. Maybe it was a credit rating thing (mine is quite good) and they would incur more costs setting it up that way.

The Valpack envelops make me so sad. I just take them out of the mailbox and toss them into the recycling bin. Think of all the trees used, energy wasted, and chemicals used in making the ink that are now in the environment for absolutely no reason.

That's great insight. Do they hold the notes or package and sell them off? Would be interesting to follow the money and short the ultimate debt holders if the market appears to be bubble prone within the timeframe you stated.

It's really a perfect assessment. I couldn't articulate why exactly Facebook felt like I was purely wasting time each time I engaged with the experience (few times a year). This description completely crystallizes my thinking.

Can anyone recommend an NO2 detector? What was used wasn’t mentioned in the article that I could see.

The feedback is totally fair. What we do is conduct live "learning sessions" with experts in aspects of our implementation that go through tutorials on specific technical aspects of the platforms. These learning sessions are recorded and referenced next to the text based documentation that complements inline comments in the code. They are not a replacement for the text based documentation. Think of them as equivalent to various YouTube videos you might reference when learning how to do something. You might read the particulars in a piece of documentation but then also watch a walk-through of a specific piece of technology if you find that helpful.

I second this emotion. We have spent years and countless hours investing in documentation and automation as we re-engineered a very large legacy application into cloud based technology (AWS). The application and supporting CI/CD pipeline is far better documented and supported than most and all of the underlying technology is within 5 years current. There are video based tutorials on nearly every aspect of the platform and machine images to accelerate development environment setup. Yet still, people new to the development pipeline will hand wring over "tribal knowledge" and "deployment complexity". News flash, anything constructed to support hundreds to thousands of business processes and millions of customers is more often than not going to be complex. Sometimes you just have to roll up your sleeves and try to improve the trail for those coming behind you.

I think you are exactly right. It smells like a company that has grown beyond the startup stage but key processes, such as employee onboarding, are being led by people that are inexperienced with how to handle all aspects professionally at scale. I would expect some significant dysfunction across most functions and I would really have to believe in the company's mission, and/or have a nice chunk of equity, to push through and hope they successfully can grow to maturity.

When I read your question, I thought you were writing about me. I have the same tendencies and I think it may be related to the "progress curve". Early when you are learning or trying something, it's very interesting because everything is new and the learning opportunities are everywhere. Progress is rapid and there are few difficult barriers in the early going. When the thing you are doing no longer scratches that "learning immediacy" itch and continued progress takes longer duration of focus, the new shiny loses its luster and you move on to the next thing. Some people seem to just have the discipline and focus to keep plugging away. I'm not sure if that is learned, genetic, or can be arrived at through the use of some sort of system, but I don't have it, and I think it is the thing you seek. Let me know if you find it!

Seconded. We use Amazon Workspaces with access to our VPC for an offshore contracting firm we are working with.

We provide hardware to contractors all the time. They don't own the hardware so the loaner does not trigger a taxable event for them. When the contract is over, they return the hardware. The hard part about this in the current day and age is getting the units through customs.

I've been a Toyota Tacoma guy for the last 22 years (and counting). Three Tacomas and I have a son that we're deciding on a vehicle for in the coming year. This is how you take someone with massive brand affinity, someone who would even likely pass that brand affinity to the next generation, and push them to look at other options. Charging monthly for a service that isn't cloud enabled? If this is true, Toyota, you are literally dead to me.

Depends on many factors but brackish groudwater does exist near coastlines either naturally or via intrusion from human over pumping. Example of the latter from LA: https://www.wrd.org/content/regional-brackish-water-reclamat...

I think they are providing those discounts to promote their own silicon, the Graviton3 chip. You definitely get an execution discount in Lambda for selecting arm versus x86 on that basis.

I have this exact same usage pattern. I try to use Firefox and DDG exclusively but when a site borks or the search results are unusable in DDG, it's back into the Google ecosystem with me.

One contributing factor could be social stigma. The soccer moms of the world were brought up to "say No to drugs" where cannabis was one of those drugs. You can pry their glass of wine out of their cold, dead hands but I've personally seen them very nervous about a low dose edible. Perhaps some time and federal legalization will change that.

I think a helpful contributing factor is that cigarettes are immediately annoying and unhealthy to the people around the user so you had the non users motivated to stop the users.