I think that depends. There is some wiggle room. Some hobbies require dedication to reach a new level of enjoyment. Making music or playing an instrument, for example. Enjoyment is directly correlated with capability, because you can more readily express what you're attempting to express. But sometimes, practice isn't fun. Being dedicated and spending the time are a bit of a grind. It's delayed gratification.
Wholeheartedly agree with your point about needing to enjoy the journey though, so it's best to find a way to enjoy the grind. Mixing it up. Applying your learning. Jamming with other people. etc..
I'd never heard it described this way, but man, this is me and my life in a nutshell! It always felt like a disadvantage. I always yearned to be more of an expert at any one particular thing, but like you, I've been trying to lean into it (with mixed success).
To the second point, this is always how Jupyter behaves for me because I just "Run to cell"... If the other cells ran, it should be apparent with some sort of feedback. Don't need the output but at least visual feedback that they ran. Otherwise I'm distrustful that anything is actually running behind the scenes because the runtime shouldn't have those inserted tables.
Although Earth is part of the story, it isn't at all the focus and there are other settings, and it is 100% absolutely worth a read: The Expanse series. 10 books. Brilliant prose, brilliant sci-fi. Incredible audiobook narration if that's your thing.
Man for what it is worth, I also have had a terrible time with the Aeron. Pretty sure it is giving me sciatica. I don't blame the chair necessarily, seems to work for a lot of people, but the intersection of the chair and my sitting style is maybe a no go? I don't know.
Recently visited Chicago for the first time, and have been back once or twice since. I really liked the vibe there. It felt like it had a lot of energy (similar to New York) but felt much less claustrophobic, a bit more open, and a bit friendlier? I don't know if that is Chicago's reputation, but I really liked it there. Great freakin food too. Monteverde, so good.
I work in the DC tech scene. People kind of overlook it, but it pays well and the job security is very high, thanks to the DOD and DHS budgets. I'm gratefully working on something that I'm not ethically concerned with (as I might be at DOD). I also got lucky and landed with a company that felt more like a startup for a long time, though recently is feeling a bit more corporate. There's no equity, so I'm not making $300+ TC, but I'm at the high end of most salary bands, and have good benefits and work-life balance. The worst part is that the work can be mind numbingly boring, and not challenging in any way, and you may not have much opportunity to learn from really smart people or work on really cutting edge tech. There is a lot of demand and need for talent though, so I don't find it difficult to exceed expectations either. Also personally love living in this area, but I realize that's highly subjective.
I haven't used it in years but when I did, it was an absolute nightmare to work with, especially with respect to version control. There was no good way to version control their "templates", and collaborating was always painful. Not to mention the interface felt like it was from the 90's and dreadfully slow and painful to maneuver. The underlying functionality it permitted was quite good though. A facelift and a better version control scheme would help a lot.
I don't work for and am not affiliated with Spotify in any way, but I can honestly say Spotify has added more value to my life than almost any other app I have downloaded. I have discovered so much music that I genuinely adore. It's honestly mind-boggling. I'm so excited to open up my Discover Weekly. I'm very grateful for the work that has gone into their curation of certain playlists and of the similarity scoring they are doing because my musical perspective has broadened tremendously since I regularly started listening to my Discover Weekly.
Again, sounds like I'm some secret corporate shill or something but I truly am just genuinely appreciative of the service.
Same here. Mine is basically directly correlated with bite pressure. When I'm chewing sometimes I can literally hear the ringing going "wah, wah, wah" in time with my chewing. And if I grit my teeth I can make it get much louder than its baseline. Same if I open my jaw quite wide (sometimes this helps?). I've ground my teeth my whole life. And I can definitely point at one or two concerts that probably did some significant damage.
Yesterday I asked it to generate i18n translations in a dozen languages for a few words in my app, in a specific syntax for React Native localization support. I have a pretty simple app I'm building with a few UIs, so only needed to translate a few words, but I basically just made my app shippable to a dozen other languages with a simple ask to ChatGPT. I'm not really an evangelist. It suits specific use cases well, and does require some learning and some engineering. I think people are expecting to say "Solve this very complex problem for me by yourself" and giving it a terrible prompt and then blaming it. It requires the same level of creativity that programming does. You have to think about what to ask it, and it what way. Once you get the hang of that, it's pretty powerful.
In my example I said "I'm trying to translate my React Native app into multiple languages. I need an object that looks like this: <example JS code>. Can you generate this object for French, German, <insert more languages>, and for the following words: <words I needed>."
Luckily I know basics in a few languages and the words were simple enough that I could easily verify it wasn't a hallucination. I also know enough JavaScript to know that it was syntactically sound, but my IDE would've told me if it wasn't.
It's the very beginning of "Book Two" of Mere Christianity. Not only were his direct quotes about atheism just generally terrible, his logical argument about atheism was equally terrible. I'm genuinely surprised he's hailed as this great theologian or philosopher when he can't piece together a simple argument about theism vs. atheism. Like truly, these arguments in Book Two sound like some teenager in a youth group wrote them.
Mere Christianity is trash. Couldn't even get through the first chapter because he calls out atheism almost immediately and basically says it's not even worth discussing because it's stupid and not an actual philosophy, which just strikes me as pure intellectual laziness, especially in a book about religion. Avoid, especially if you're an atheist trying to approach religion.
The CPI isn't a made up number. It's an average of prices of goods. The government doesn't manipulate prices of goods, at least not directly. Sure, the economy might be gamed by the government and large corporations in general, but the Consumer Price Index isn't (and can't really be) directly manipulated, without changing its definition (what is included in the index).
How would one game the CPI? A price index is just an average of the prices of a bunch of different goods. We have pretty hard data on the prices of goods. People likely think inflation is higher because they purchase more of a particular good that has significantly increased. Used cars, for example, accounted for almost a third of the inflation measure in 2021.
Amazon's "value" comes from the insane profits they generate each year. Profits they earn by taking advantage of labor (not paying them enough, not giving them breaks, not hiring enough people to staff warehouses), and by taking advantage of not paying taxes on those profits with creative schemes. It's not about making Jeff Bezos pay individual taxes, it's about making corporations incentivized to not suck the soul out of every human being in their supply chain in order to maximize profits to result in some higher valuation. People that hold your view tend to look at Amazon's value in a vacuum and say "Wow! Amazon produces so much value, they deserve it!", but you ignore that they do it off the backs of labor and off public infrastructure (roads, etc.) and have been for years.
> In such a system, where you will be forced to sell your success, Bezos (or anyone else) would never have created Amazon.
This is simply conjecture and is not provable in any way. In fact, there are plenty of centi-millionaires and billionaires outside of America (in countries that require them to pay their fair share of taxes) that are doing just fine.
What are the minimum features you need to be satisfied?
For me, it's the password generator, easy tagging/search, and the autocomplete in form inputs. I also like the multiple content types (sw licenses, passwords, random other info, credit cards, etc.). I don't need really anything else.
I'm surprised no one from this community has decided to take on PW management as a problem. Is there some underlying complexity outside of cross-browser support for autofill functionality, and the security aspect? It seems a relatively straight-forward problem to solve if you're a dev in the security space, but maybe I'm missing something. It also seems like there's only a minimum set of features that people are really wanting, and 1Password has seemingly arbitrarily decided to remove those features. Why not just fill the gap in the market and make bank?
Other languages I've used kind of give you this false sense of security and progress, but then suddenly you're troubleshooting some issue for hours and hours. With Rust, you might be troubleshooting the borrow checker for hours and hours (until you get a good grasp on the language), but once you're "Done", it really feels like it's complete and will run without many issues. It shifts some of the mental work to the left, but you're more often left with a feeling of accomplishment and "finished"-ness (at least in my experience).
And the growth was really driven by the great exodus to service oriented and microservices architectures from monolithic webservers deployed to Tomcat and the like. The author in the OP really nails it when he talks about the ever-growing complexity of modern tech stacks. It necessitates this blurring of the lines.