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I wish US english had a term as good as ‘twig’ for when someone doesn’t get something.

I'm the same - work persona is curious, engaged, loves to talk to new people. Off work sometimes this bleeds over, but generally I retreat to my more comfortable introverted self.

It's a valuable skill, so I do sometimes practice trying to adopt the work persona at home, but it really doesn't come naturally.

Neither did Homer if it makes you feel better.

https://youtu.be/LjfkynJ4hbI?si=rMrpX7VChQMX23_I

(Obviously not the only one if not getting Far Side comics made the Simpsons!)

My friend wrote Micropython so I’ve passed this along to him! Very cool.

I saw some people wondering if there will be more shows - my kids use the iView app and a VPN to watch Bluey (which has been handy to get access early to new episodes!) and they've been advertising they'll be doing a long-form 28 minute episode this year.

Not an unfair point, although it is alarming at work how many bugs end up being reported directly from customers.

At DoorDash, we take app startup speed extremely seriously. We are obsessed with optimizing our customers' experience and making continuous improvements.

I wonder if they actually believe this? They make it almost impossible to report bugs in the app, and when I have customer support's reaction has been "there's not really anything I can do about this."

My 4 year old Mac Mini had been showing some flakiness and finally I got an error about "hash mismatch detected on volume" - ran memtest and sure enough the RAM had gone bad. I rely on this machine for all my media, backups, etc, goodness knows what data I may have lost while the RAM was bad. It's a moderately common problem, found plenty of people with the same issue.

That’s not true. It depends on the RSU structure. We’ve had both types at my company.

Also FWIW the company can withhold some shares as they vest but max 22% for federal.

Off topic, but this is the first time I’ve seen your username. I would love to compare sometime how we both came to such similar kinda odd usernames, haha.

FWIW I've noticed on a lot of airlines removing the screens have phone holders in their place and always have a USB charger.

It's a moderate weight saving, there are some details in this article: https://www.fastcompany.com/3034196/airlines-are-tossing-sea...

It’s becoming somewhat of a popular trend in the airline industry to cut costs by having the passenger bring the hardware, and as an added bonus they get to force their way into your coveted list of installed apps.

TBH I see this as a positive - less weight on the plane, less fuel consumed, less waste when these screens are junked, etc. I personally always take a ton of videos with me and just watch my own stuff, I would never trust that the in-flight stuff is working (although I admit I overprepare and it's still important to provide this). And when you're flying - having the app installed is a net positive, it has maps of the airports (with great directions, which is super helpful when you're making a connection), can manage your ticket, etc - the videos are a bonus.

I was scared of turning the subscription off, but no, it's fine. My own library is still there. They used to have a terrible matching algorithm for Apple Music, different to iTunes Match, but switched it pretty early on. I've had no issues for a number of years now.

As just one example, a few years ago our company changed parental leave to 4 months from 6 weeks. Is that making them the same or more money?

I think companies do things like Unlimited PTO because although it may mean some people take more leave than before, other people take the same or less and there's no liability, so it may net out roughly the same but sounds better to new hires.

I don't think every company is extremely cynical as you're suggesting. As others here have mentioned, it depends where you work - we don't bat an eyelid if people are using 4-6 weeks plus holidays, in fact we check to make sure people are actually using their PTO.

This is amazing. I now work in consumer SAAS web development, but I worked for a long time in finance and for 7 years of that exclusively focused on FIX, writing a real-time, highly performant market interface. I would have _loved_ to have had something like this while I was working on it. Have you thought of commercializing it? Do you get to use it in your day-to-day work?

I have no idea what is going on at AT&T but I've definitely seen their customer service slide dramatically in the last few years, to the point that I finally left the network after 9 years. I don't blame the reps - there seems to be complete organizational chaos, and lots of cost-cutting going on making the issue even worse.

This solution of just force-mailing out new phones blows my mind. Phones are such a personal choice, and these replacements seem pretty sketchy on the whole, what a phenomenal waste of resources. Surely a better solution would be to give people a voucher to use with AT&T that would at least cover a cheap phone with comparable specs and could also be used against future phone bills if you want to upgrade yourself?

That’s not true. It forces reels on you now (maybe feature flagged?), all kinds of random people you don’t follow. Instagram has become a hot mess.

I was a little confused by this, but correct me if I'm wrong but the 2500 sq ft limit is just for R5 lots correct? Larger lots, like R10, can have much larger dwellings on them still.

I've seen it at multiple medical facilities here unfortunately. Maybe it's a Portland thing?

I was not impressed with the lack of handwashing at our local hospital. Last time I was there I noticed they'd put up signs encouraging patients to ask their care provider if they'd washed their hands. I had a nurse come out, bring me in, then start putting in an IV without washing his hands. I asked him if he'd washed his hands and he very quickly answered "yes" and put the line into my vein - while I was calculating the number of doors and surfaces he'd touched coming out to get me and then lead me into the interior rooms. It was excruciating asking him about that.

Most of my doctors visits seem to involve the doctor not washing their hands when they come in, and then not washing their hands after examinations.

I am baffled by this behavior - you would think that they would know the best how important hand-washing is.

It's wild in that article how hard he found it to give feedback to his colleague about his hand-washing. As a patient I find it incredibly uncomfortable mentioning it to medical staff, and yet it is so important.

I wish the article had actually done a deep dive into why this seems so widespread and what could be done to change it.

I'm so glad to hear this! While it's common to give feedback on bad experiences, I've always felt it's important to give feedback when things go really well. Especially if someone has fixed a really difficult situation or made it manageable - I will always send feedback to the company about that individual and thank them for their help. I've been surprised about the lack of feedback sometimes though, whereas a negative response will always get feedback from the company.

He told me up front and it let him ask me a bunch of questions about how/why I use Lyft.

I had one of the VC investors in Lyft pick me up for a ride a few years ago in Menlo Park. Had a super interesting conversation - I was impressed they were scoping out their investment directly. I wasn't sure what the protocol for tipping as at the end, hah.

Forest Heights has good schools, is affordable (by Bay Area standards at least) and is a short drive to downtown, 10-25 minutes depending on where and what time of day.

Aha! Got it, that’s good feedback.

I wasn't sure if you were saying SurveyMonkey is missing SPSS export - it supports exporting to SPSS AFAIK. Is it that the export is missing data or features for your needs?

Every time there is an article about SurveyMonkey someone makes this comment. SurveyMonkey has hugely expanded what they offer from their original core product and has also scaled dramatically. It also has many subsidiary offerings (Fluid Review, Wufoo, Audience, TechValidate).

The answer to both your questions is - yes.

It looks like Sheryl Sandberg and Serena Williams are close: http://time.com/4147487/serena-williams-sheryl-sandberg/

I remember finding this on the CD as a kid and being blown away - I couldn't understand why all this stuff had been included. Most of it was over my head, but I played around with Deluxe Paint for ages. Would love to know the backstory on this.

I tried on MEL->AKL. I think my brother was on AKL->SFO.