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This! The most cogent and concise explanation I've heard for something this!!

I had to read it twice to get your point, well said!

So true, voting with your wallet (for myriad of practical reasons) isn't always possible. And sometimes you/spouse/friend/whoever will often say "how bad can it be"! And often we ourselves wonder "Ah! I can get used to it".

...deeply incentivized to openly praise... Sadly, you're not far off from describing the reality in many cases!

This is true, but is effective only if the dogfooders' feedback is accepted and worked upon. Which is not the case, I can tell you this from first-hand experience (currently work at Msft). Also unleashing and forcing tech savvy people to use immature tools is only asking for trouble when you don't have allocated enough manpower to deal with the fallout (that is, incessant downpour of improvement feedback). One cannot just force engineers to dogfood tools and then ignore them. This is precisely like Win-8 era mania, only this time it's infecting the whole company not just single org!

It most certainly would be a very interesting experiment... Alas, the real powers-be would never let such an experiment off the ground... EVER!

Really? Are you suggesting you getting solid 9h on full charge, while developing on Windows+wsl?? That's very hard to believe, but if that's true color me impressed. I get no where near that (albeit older hardware).

Pretty sure I'm not touching any app that starts with AA0* (esp. if that name isn't relevant to app's functionality in some way)! But I get the point you are making, on how current system can be gamed with just app-naming and frequent (meaningless) updates to the app :-(

I have recently discovered a combo of white-noise + music, but I must tell you crackling fire noise makes me too relaxed, making me feel I need a quick nap! Rainfall sound works better for me :-)

Haven't come across myNosie before, will check it out, thank you for sharing!

You didn't tell yours yet! :-)

Lately it has definitely felt as though Microsoft is resurrecting Ballmer's old meme as "AI! AI! AI!"

You nailed it! Having spent significant time (as low-level minion) under both Ballmer and Satya, it certainly feels like the old Ballmer-time meme is coming back with the AI!

Also with it, the forced-curve ranking that Satya disbanded is being re-instituted under a different name.

The current commercial alternatives for Lightroom unfortunately are still lacking, last time I looked at them (Capture One, DxO Photo Lab)

Genuine question, how do you find DxO PhotoLab lacking when compared to LR?

I'm an old-time LR user and due to Adobe's licensing shenanigans exploring alternatives. I am having a pretty good time with trial version of DxO PhotoLab7. So far I haven't come across something that I could do in LR (as a hobbyist) that I can't achieve in PhotoLab7. And, I'm loving the built-in DeNoising algorithm in PL7.

I used to use MAFF (Mozilla Archive Format)[1] a lot back in the day. I was very upset when they ended the support[2].

I never dug deeper whether I can unzip and decode the packing, but saving as simple ZIP does somewhat guarantee future-proofing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Archive_Format

[2] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1180271

In a recent org-wide all-hands a member from senior leadership (C-suite) did explicitly say that they always have a much higher budget for new hires than the budget for rewarding/retaining existing talent; and that this is by-design. This was an eye-opener to me :-|

In no particular order...

0. Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony, by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura

1. The Practice of Programming (TPOP) , by Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike

2. Wings of Fire, by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Arun Tiwari

I believe they are talking about ASML fab for semiconductors[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASML_Holding

Interested in doing this, can you please share the details of the product you purchased?

How do they even come up with such puny fines! 650k is not even a drop in the bucket for them to change their practices :-(

Thank you for sharing, it was an excellent read!

Yes, 2 years and intend to keep doing, my usual target is to hit 18hrs fasting (or more) 6 days a week.

But there are days when you just can't keep it up, esp. when socializing. And it's OK to not do it 1-2 days/week, it is not going to completely undo the gains you might have made (gains might be: better gut health, weight loss, weight maintenance, whatever).

To be technically correct, I practice something that's closer to Time Restricted Feeding (TRF) than it is to Intermittent Fasting (IF). Subtle, but important difference being, IF usually also entails reducing caloric intake, whereas in TRF you eat the same amount of food you would if you were eating throughout the day do it within a much smaller time window (4-8 hrs).

I had to work a lot at it, lest of which was developing enough will power to resist yummy food in front of me!

There are a few tricks that have helped me, and it all boils down to how strict you want to be and if and when you have to break it, don't feel guilty about it afterwards.

Here's what works best for me, in that order... #0. Never go to sleep without brushing my teeth, so, the first thing I do when I have wrapped up my last meal of the day is get up and brush my teeth. So if I have a temptation to break the fast before my intended time, then there's additional friction because then I have this one more boring chore to do, brush my teeth before calling it the day. Surprising this 2-min chore is a good enough deterrent to work! (Note: doesn't work if you really enjoying brushing your teeth :-D, so YMMV). Key is to add some tangible and immediate friction to breaking the fast/routine.

#1. Most of my friends and family now know about intermittent-fasting, so instead of forcing food, most of them are supportive and even accommodate in their planning. But still, so much of our socializing is built around food'ing that you will stick out like a sore thumb if you are too rigid/strict; that is where #2 comes in handy.

#2. If the next big "party/meal/socializing" is planned then I will simply skip a meal the previous day to compensate for it. It is harder than it sounds, and it takes some mental and physical conditioning, but that's the best approach of trying to find a middle-ground. If it is unplanned,try to compensate it afterwards (best if done immediately the following day, instead of accumulating it for later!).

#3. Don't get anal about absolute calories (it is futile anyways), instead, I tend to focus on the quality of food I ingest: vegetables, protein, fibers, fats and limit added/refined sugar as much as humanly possible.

#4. And (I know this is a repeat) if you still have to prematurely break the intermittent-fasting/time-restricted-feeding routine, don't feel guilty about it and just enjoy the "extra" meal :-)

IM me if you want to know more.

I thought I was the weird one... Many a times have I debugged an issue and was convinced of where is the bug and what the fix is. Only to discover that I was off in both the regards when I sat down to write a detailed email to the team!

I felt I was wasting too much time. But I've realized that for me the time spent writing something in details has always helped me fill in the gaps and also discover the unknowns.

And mine won't even hold a steady connection from a few feet away! Not without having to "turn it off - and turn it on again", at least once every few days.

My filter for when I should learn a new feature is when it solves a task I find repetitive and annoying

There! You said it so well... that's the #0 reason why I go RTFM'ing, because most likely my problem fits a pattern someone already encountered and figured a solution for. Or nobody did and I put together a less annoying workflow to deal with it.

Sometimes the effort is worth it, but often it is just fun trying out new things/techniques.

The YouTube rules are completely insane.

Whoever makes them has totally lost their mind.

I don't think then problem is entirely YouTube per-se for some of the rules, it is the "people" who demand they do certain things a certain way. And by the "people", I mean (to lesser extent) us, the viewers; but mostly the advertisers, the mega-corps with deep pockets who want to be as far away as possible from everything that's not seen as sanitized humanity.

YouTube, then, like most capitalist entities, is merely incentivized to gravitate towards something, anything really, that will maximize their bottom line.

You're not in the United States, I presume, or have never been on work visa! In the States most important benefits (like healthcare) are tied to your employer, no job means no health insurance. If you're out of job on work visa, then you either find a new job within (about) 2 weeks to sponsor new work visa or leave the country, abandoning everything you might have built. Unfortunately being unemployed, no matter your pay, is not an option for lot of people.

Besides rent, it is difficult to make this work in the United States, because important things like healthcare is tied to your employer, no employment means either no or very expensive private healthcare insurance :(

Why am learning this only now! Brilliant, thanks for sharing.

Darknet Diaries: XBox Underground. It was very fascinating, nothing short of a thriller movie, the way it plays out from simple desire to hack into the realm of criminal seems almost unreal.

Of many sh!ty things WU/upgrading does, this is the most infuriating one. Why on earth do MS want to be so hostile towards their users is beyond me. I haven't recommended Windoze laptop to any of my friends-n-family since the downward spiral of Win8 or so.

To be fair, rote memorization is one of the most improtant and transferable cognitive skills you can develop.

To say so is missing the whole point parent comment is trying to make. Memorization is an important skill, that is one thing but saying memorizing random stuff to build that skill is entirely a different claim. I bet there are better ways so learn and hone memory skills than memorize history place/time/dates and kill a student's interesting in learning.