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Employees of construction companies, electricity companies and the data center, among others, all get paid, no?

In mice.

People have a very difficult time keeping their story together, especially when they're asked a couple of questions that interview prep didn't cover.

Beyond that though, there's the probation period. If they can't do the job, they're supposed to be let go before they become permanent.

Trouble I see from most interviewers is a tendency of asking questions with a "right" answer. Those tend to be a lot easier to game. They then fallback on sorting applicants by pedigree - the old, "no one ever got fired for choosing IBM" method.

Then, they come back and rant about how PM's are trash, and Agile is trash, etc. etc.

Pretty easy. Get them to talk about a project they've managed and start poking holes. Who was on the team? How did they organize meetings? What were the bottlenecks? How well did everyone get along? What did they do to help grease the gears? Did they have to change the process? How did they like the software? Which software did they use? Did they have to administer it themselves? How did they deal with management changes / team changes / tons of support requests / issues in production? Where did they draw the line between PM work and engineering work?

No pho spots are revealed.

I don't plan on using Full Self Driving features until I have to in an emergency, or until they take the steering wheel away.

BUT!

Last week, I had visitors and they let their Model Y Tesla (2023, I think) do the driving for their entire trip - from driving for many hours to visit me, to driving around all the different sights where I live, and, I'm assuming, driving back home. It was all full self-driving.

I got to sit in the passenger seat a few times. The thing drove beautifully. Parked without an issue, changed lanes, overtook other cars, etc... drove even better than the person at the wheel would have had the feature not been available!

Another possible use-case: allowing your peripherals to talk to cloud gaming computers - like, a nice HOTAS setup for flight simulator on GeforceNow.

Every marketplace founder says "focus on one side

Unless you already have demand lined up, I would solve the supply side of the problem first. People who either travel routinely or are planning to, or just a lot of people from a specific, large community in order to target your recruiting campaign.

I would also spend a lot of time figuring out the user journey for both the supply and demand side. See if you can reduce the work someone on the supply side has to do to sign up. You might have to run this like a modeling agency in the beginning until there is sufficient demand to force suppliers to do more work.

Constraining to one route (SFO -> Honolulu) is how DHL got started.

Thank you for writing and sharing this. I went into a deep dive a few days ago researching waste recycling, and your write up taught me a lot!

Yup - our baseline monkey brain setting.

I do think that a lot can affect one's baseline though: health, drug dependency, stress from life, emotional baggage, etc.

And, I think that happiness can be achieved through practice (gratitude, letting go, etc..).

But yeah, that baseline - life gives some people a below neutral baseline.

I think that most people are at a neutral level of happiness / sadness. Something good happens... it makes the happiness level go up, then come back down to neutral. Something bad happens, it makes the level go negative, then come back up to neutral.

A few people are naturally positive. They're just happy most of the time. Their bounce back state is happy, rather than neutral.

And, a few people are always depressed. A bad experience makes their state of being much, much darker. A good experience may bring them to the neutral line or perhaps slightly above, but they go back to depression as their normal state of being soon enough.

If I were to guess, I would say that early childhood trauma is the greatest contributor. Children deserve better everywhere.

Airplane shaped blimp, here we go! =)

Baggage, whether it is from our life or lives before us will always be just that - baggage. If we don't choose how much to carry with us then someone else will happily choose for us.

To me, facing defeat with an open face means to not remain defeated forever.

Some of our best entrepreneurs and scientists lost many times before they won.

Related: Vietnam urges people to work from home to save fuel as Iran war disrupts supplies

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/vietnam-urges-people...

I'm making a AWS ec2 based Gaming PC setup that will let me play Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 (and other games) in full VR on a Meta Quest 3.

This is a crazy question, but I would like to know how close I can get to the following:

I would like to:

- upload a bunch of surf footage

- let it sort through the surfers

- pick the three longest waves surfed by each surfer

- create a montage grouped by surfer, ordered by shortest to longest wave for that surfer.

Thank you!

Today I recorded myself skateboarding and found out that I don't move nearly as much as I think I do! No wonder I'm going so slow!

Mine can be found at: vishal.rs

We have auto-pilot, and we have auto-land. Once we have auto-taxi and auto-takeoff, whats left?

I'm working on a YouTube channel to showcase life and surfing in North San Diego County.

You can check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/@soncsd

Thank you for that feedback! Yes - I do plan on upgrading to a real external microphone soon. For the time being it is the camera's internal mic, which is admittedly, not great.

I started posting surfing videos on YouTube. I don't know where it's going to go, but it's fun so far! ( https://www.youtube.com/@soncsd )

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!! =)

A couple of things that have been effective for me:

1) Block said online service using the hostfile until addiction becomes manageable / goes away. Repeat as needed.

2) For work, keep a notebook. Review and set goals at the start of each day or week. Review and update notes / goals at the end of each day and week. Your own agenda, your game to keep yourself motivated.

Now, since your addiction is blocked and you have something to do, you'll at least get it done before turning to your addiction to kill time / unwind.

After De_Dust2, the Jungle Warfare map in the first Ghost Recon game that has a special place in my heart.

Location: San Diego County Area, CA

Remote: Open

Willing to relocate: Yes.

Desired role: Technical Project Manager, Program Manager.

Technologies: Jira and Confluence (incl administration), Full-stack web frameworks, High level languages (Elixir, Python, Ruby), Data (GraphQL, Postgres, Sqlite). Linux, NGinX, etc.

Other Skills: Low level product management, Client Support, Communications.

Current Project in Production: https://oknext.io

Email: vishal@vishal.rs

Isn't this true for regular old fiberglass as well?

We often see people working with those materials wear protective equipment (full coveralls, breathing / eye protection).

Sure thing. Oh - maybe let people follow non-friends that they want to see public updates from, and make everyone follow you, so their walls won't be so empty on Day 1 ;).

Show 3 walls side by side: updates by friends, interactions by direct connections on shares by friends of friends, and public stories by those nearby (geographically). The latter could also turn into a way for local businesses to promote themselves. Keep the 3 in separate lanes in order to let the user decide how much they want to doom scroll.

Location: Carlsbad, San Diego, CA, USA

Remote: Experienced in working with distributed, remote, hybrid and on site organizations.

Willing to relocate: Orange County, West / South-West LA.

Skills: Full-Stack Software development, Technical Project Management

Technologies (recent to older):

  - Elixir / Phoenix, 

  - JavaScript (ES6), 

  - Python / FastAPI, 

  - Ruby / Ruby on Rails

  - Linux / NGinX / Github / Jira / Pivotal Tracker / Trello etc.

Email: vishal@vishal.rs

Current Project: https://oknext.io, which I created using Elixir and Phoenix framework.