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As somebody in the US who had to do 2 months of PT before I could even get an MRI of an injury, this is both surprising, and yet also not, to hear.

I broadly agree though; about a decade ago I had the standard office worker low back pain problems which cleared right up after doing squats multiple times a week. Of course a decade later I managed to blow out a disc at the gym, which I still work through as I write this today, but well worth the risk in the long run. Even with that long experience of strength training, the PT was worth it even if it didn’t fix my problem entirely. It added some variety and pointed out some details I had overlooked to improve my shoulder health.

I’ve been out of the Java scene for a really long time, but will be coming back to it soon. I’m curious - these performance issues described here, are they inherit to how Java itself? Is it baggage from Spring/Boot? Are there ways to get more bang for the buck with some careful choices in a system like this?

The closest I’ve done to Java recently is C#, which I think may have similar challenges, but overall didn’t seem quite as bad if you avoided lots of framework extras. It also wasn’t something I was digging into deeply though, so perhaps I’m mistaken.

This is actually a really cool feature. I've never had any interest in an Apple Watch, but this is something I'd be genuinely interested in. Too bad it requires an iPhone largely.

I think there are other less time intensive methods outside of a sleep study, but it is nice to simplify it down to just wearing this and finding out!

This context helps me understand more what you're getting at quite a bit. I dunno if I could manage the same approach but I at least appreciate how you're thinking about it. Thanks!

Another issue is that in your mid 30's almost everyone has settled down and started having kids and only really prefer socializing with other people who have settled down and have kids, leaving you in an awkward place.

To add a bit of a different perspective to this, as a parent myself, most of our friend groups are actually child-less and have no plans to have children. I've found it works quite well. They are cool with or genuinely excited to hang out with the kids, and this affords them a way without the full obligation of parenthood. The friend relationship evolves when you have kids, but with the right kinds of people and interest, it evolves in a great way I feel.

Of course I'm just part of one family, which is a small sample size. So perhaps you're onto the real trend. But I do feel it important to say that there's room in this world for folks with or without kids. It doesn't have to be mutually exclusive!

True, good point. Makes sense! Thanks for the improvement!

Not too interested into diving into the debate itself, but one minor point I wanted to add to the article where they count the commits to squash and then do `git rebase -i HEAD~n` is that you can replace this strategy with using the branch you're targeting. So if you're working on a feature branch to merge into `main` you can update the local main branch first, then punch in `git rebase -i main` and it'll handle finding all the commits for you.

I'm sure there's even more clever ways to do this, as it always seems like there's more when it comes to git. This is just the most intuitive way I've seen so far, and so it sticks in my mind.

There is offering from the creators of Peertube I believe: https://sepiasearch.org/. I think instances have to be added manually into the index, and tbh I don't use it much and so I'm not sure of the quality. But it sort of covers what you're asking for, at least kinda.

Sorry I'm unaware of what you're saying? Are you saying that pilots are being selected without meeting training requirements and licensing? That doesn't sound right and I must be missing your point.

This is a bit tangential, but, have middle managers ever actually had those powers? I mean this in a genuine way. My post college career began in 2011, and all I've known is hopeful managers who aren't empowered to do much of anything like just decide to hire a person, give somebody a raise, or make major changes to company strategy or anything. Is that one of those things that really did exists like offices with closing doors and other things?

Yeah the behavior was completely counter intuitive to what I was expecting. It does make sense though since it would be kinda weird if an HTML attribute could change the structure of mark up directly, at least I realized that after thinking about it.

Yeah that makes sense. Definitely vital to have your language of choice when possible!

Cool! Looking through this made me curious - how do people tend to translate between languages? For example, do people tend to know English and then translate it to that language? Or do people find a good translation they know to reference for another language? Or maybe translate into an intermediate language that's closer to a target language, then translate to the target language? I've never really heard about what people's processes tend to be, and I only know English. So I don't have a clue!

I find that for calendars and to do lists to work well, I need reminders to tell me to check the lists lol. Not great.

"I’d personally go on to say that it’s risky to put too much emotional investment into something you don’t own/control." Bingo! This is exactly what happened to me.

What I learned is that, even in a great environment where there was a ton of latitude to have ownership of technical details and even product details, it's still contained within the broader context of a business. That business has interest in the thing you're working on while it's a factor in creating value, and when it becomes time to change focus onto other things, it will generally do that without much hesitation.

I've been burned by this multiple times. Eventually it clicked for me in the way you phrased it. So I show up and do what I can, bring my expertise as much as I can, gauge where the limits of what I can provide are, and keep a healthy distance mentally otherwise.

One other note - you can still be passionate about software and not one specific day job. You can still work on other projects and explore ideas as much as you want. It's just that that's a separate thing from work. Dedicate time and space separately for that IMO.

A tangential question then - what do you think or suggest is a good way to reduce that fear on the part of the parent? It kind of sounds like a long term project, as in through most of their lives prior to these teenage years. It seems like a great point you've got and I'm wondering if there's much directly that can be done to improve the situation.

Yeah, this exactly. I've moved away from describing things as "too busy" and say something like "out of capacity." I don't love the term capacity, but it's the best I have. It's some combo of time, energy, and if I feel like adding more to my plate. That feels closer to accurate for what I'm trying to explain.

There are plenty of times where I have actual free minutes, like writing this post, but that doesn't really mean I've got capacity to learn something new or do some new adventure.

Maybe some can fill every minute of their day with the next thing, but it's not for me. Seems like a losing strategy long term!

Note that my comment doesn't really seem to relate to the article itself. I'm not really sure what the article is talking about lol. Corporate/executive speak stuff I guess?

My main worry is not so much this change, but rather when they decide that this also applies to Premium. I've been paying for a bit, and run an ad blocker. I'm concerned that it will be too tempting start putting ads back into Premium and require ad blockers be disabled. Of course I'm speculating, but this is the scenario where I'm out.

I could also see them splitting Premium into "Basic Premium", "Grand Premium", and "Ultimate Premium" where one shows some ads and the other shows "minimal" ads.

I get your point, and they do address this later on in the piece kind of. It sounds like it's perfectly valid to say no, especially after reviewing the document and their architectural meeting where they discuss it more in depth. But they're also not trying to actively encourage saying no in the document, instead encouraging responses that points to how to get to a solid idea.

So saying "no" isn't forbidden, but it isn't the default either. At least that's my interpretation.

If you're looking for some interesting Zevon listens, there's a few YouTube videos from the early 80's that are quite good. He also has shows on archive.org which can be listened to.

Zevon's last album is titled "The Wind" and yeah it really does stand out! His last performance on Late Night w/ Letterman is also something to check out. Really lots of his material is interesting to check out, even the stuff that doesn't do it for me is still good to enjoy!

I also love "Brainwashed" by George Harrison. Now I want to listen to the last Bowie album, assuming it was made in a similar context. It also makes me wonder if there's a list of all albums made in a similar vein. It would be an... emotional experience to listen to them all back-to-back!

Maybe I should just not subject myself to that.

This is cool. I was planning on setting up a PiHole soon, but maybe I'll try this instead. Are there any downsides you've noticed?

Also, I'm cool with a paid product, but it looks like this one is open source? I know they have paid products, but I can't figure out if it relates to this at all?

Yeah this really threw me off too. I kept saying no it didn’t solve the halting problem thinking of the more generalized version, not that particular case. Eventually I got it, but not right away!

Yeah, exactly why I mentioned it. I don't have that setup, so it's different for me. Don't want to be dismissive of that point!

How does it work though? Do you sell stock to use as income? Do you hold onto it and get by on salary? I'm not really familiar with how people use these kinds of setups in total comp.

My perspective is a bit different since I don't have stock options, just plain retirement and such. So, take this with that in mind.

I would recommend giving yourself a break from following it. My reasons for not looking are these: Values of assets change a ton day-to-day, and a year or two from now who knows what it will look like! I also don't have any control over prices. I could shuffle assets around, but again I don't know what will happen a few years from now. So, I don't gain much by looking at the numbers often.

Sorry it's a stressful sad time for you though. It does suck!

I don't see how, but perhaps I'm missing your point.

If you interpret what they said as "I want freedom but explicitly chose not to find it until 10 years later" then sure, that might be a contradiction.

If you interpret it as "I really freedom because it took me 10 years to fully realize what happened to me and want others to avoid the same thing" then it's more clear it's not a contradiction. It wasn't a choice, but rather a path they were sent down unknowingly. That's different than thinking it doesn't matter until then. This was my interpretation of it at least.

No need to be sorry! I appreciate it!

It was actually in the link the parent posted. I just missed it at first.

Just confirming, but you're taking about Leak Sanitizer? https://clang.llvm.org/docs/LeakSanitizer.html. Not really familiar with these tools, definitely not the acronyms.

I agree with the posters that said have a single pool of money and it becomes your money. Perhaps it won't work for everyone, but that's where I'm at.

That being said, I do appreciate your point about the chores. In other families often only one person is employed. The other person is also doing nearly 100% of the chores, or child care, parental care, or other things. It does deviate from the original question a bit, but I think it's important that there's lots of other labor in a family. It's critical to notice IMO because those will almost never directly add to your money number, yet you wouldn't ever skimp on it.

Well I'm not sure about the resolution part. Mine was nothing notable, maybe 1920x1080, but it seemed okay? Maybe there are other problems though.

I'm running an AMD CPU and that worked fine. Perhaps it's the built in GPU that causes a problem? The system I connected to has a standalone GPU.