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This has been my experience also, especially considering no tipping.

San Francisco is perfect conditions without traffic? Sure, no snow but plenty of other human hazards.

It may be more fair to compare them to Uber drivers and taxis and at least on that comparison haven't ridden in thousands of Uber and taxis and a couple dozen waymos, it is better than 100%.

Anecdotal of course but within my circle people are becoming Waymo first over other options almost entirely because of the better experience and perceived better driving. And parents in my circle also trust that a waymo won't mow them down in a crosswalk. Which is more than you can say for many drivers in SF.

Except all of the elements in the address above were at least partially discovered at that address or by teams with connections to that lab. Although usually it is a joint discovery with at least one other lab.

Na is a bit older than those labs.

Berkeley Lawrence elements: https://www2.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/new-elements-h...

Lawrence Livermore elements: https://www.llnl.gov/article/41866/lawrence-livermore-credit...

Congress itself without any aides is big enough to merit SSO. Sounds like you don't want a democracy or don't understand how government works. Or you want a total anarchist society.

Budgets are approved by Congress... How are bureaucrats weaponising money they don't fully control?

What specific examples do you have of being terrorized by bureaucrats?

Thanks for the recommendation! Sounds interesting

100% agree. I've been using markdown for a few years after moving away from proprietary note taking apps. Although this has led to me developing my own short hand for many things in my notes. And have been looking at a way to integrate a to-do list with my notes with some Python scripts.

So while my notes may rely on some personal scripts to get there most value out of them, I strongly value that they are still plain text and I can always move them into a new workflow if I need to.

I strongly agree on your point about families. If a company can attract and retain parents, that is massive green flag.

If no one in management has kids, run the other way.

Mediamonkey allows me to just go to tracks and hit shuffle and then it randomly adds all my tracks to a queue with no repeats. You can do it at any level of hierarchy, allmusic, playlist, album, artist, genre etc.

Edit: I checked I can also shuffle a folder without adding it to the library.

I'd love AC, but I'd only need it for a couple weeks a year in the bay area.

And I have PG&E so the economics of a heat pump don't pencil out. Gas heating is still cheaper than a heat pump because electricity rates are out of control. (Gas isn't cheap either but still cheaper)

California is doing everything it can to eliminate natural gas heating except for make the alternatives more affordable. PG&E and Socal Edison are basically given a bank check to keep raising rates by the oversight board. (Doesn't help that they are also burning down cities)

Wake up at 7:30am

Take a quick shower and hope the kids stay asleep a few more minutes or at least entertain themselves.

7:45am Get the kids up (if they are not already awake). Make them breakfast and get them dressed and out the door by 8:30am.

Head to work after. Some days take the train others head back home and work from home. Maybe grab coffee if I have time.

Yeah, over my career I've seen multiple c-suite bounce from company to company getting gently pushed out each time but still collecting massive packages (with the vacation houses and yachts to prove it).

Once you reach a certain level, you get treated with kid gloves. Even with the sword hanging over you, they don't out right fire you, they work out a deal where you "wanted to spend more time with family".

In my 15 years in small and mid-sized tech, I've found the most useless managers are senior managers.

Good team leads and second line managers can make or break an organization. But they are the least respected roles at a company and gets thrown under the bus first. Most companies don't invest anything in training new managers or setting clear roles and responsibilities for managers.

Senior management never faces any accountability but can make big massive changes to an org without consideration for implementation.

They don't. You leave the cover on until you are sure you got them all and then you throw away the mattress and get a new one.

Also wash everything you own in hot and dry on hot. Or put it in an airtight box for at least a year. They can and will live anywhere within a few feet of where you spend a lot of your time. Couches, beds, chairs, carpets, etc.

This person is downplaying how hard it can be to get rid of them.

Interesting that is 3rd grade at 9-10. 10 year olds in the US are typically in 5th grade. What ages do earlier grades align to?

Generally in the US it is:

* K ~5 yo

* 1st ~6 yo

* 2nd ~7 yo

* 3rd ~8 yo

* 4th ~9 yo

* 5th ~10 yos

Give or take of course since birthdays don't align perfectly.

That seems to roughly align to US standards for the same age but not the same grade.

Same exact thing with my 4 year old. We give him very little screen time but it is always the first thing he asks for. Once he (begrudgingly) accepts that he isn't going to get to watch TV and he has to play by himself (if we can't play with him for some reason like coming dinner or taking care of his infant brother) he goes into an amazing creative state where he will play by himself for hours, narrating and creating new games with rules. Or drawing on his easel.

Once he is in the creative zone, he takes charge of his time. He will ask us to help with something and then tell us to go away and then have us come see what he built while he tells us elaborate stories.

There is a kids book called the boring book that captures this process pretty well.

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-boring-book_shinsuke-yoshi...

Nope, just generic Bay Area suburbs. And in one of the "cheaper" areas to boot.

Counter example in coastal California (in basically the West Coast version of levitt Town),my tax and insurance assessment has my physical house only representing a third of the total value. So the lot is with double the structure.

But I'm guessing that is not a common situation across the country.

Salesforce purchasing is the same. As is marketing automation platforms and BI tools. And confluence/jira. People buy what they already know.

I think the answers you are getting to your question are reflective of someone we are seeing across many aspects of society. The division between three "haves" and the "have nots".

If course taking a kid out of school for once in a life time events should be okay, even applauded. And children who are excelling should be allowed to take that trip to Europe during school. They will learn more there than in a class room.

BUT, those excuses hinge in good academics and support at home.

I heard someone say once that at the end of the day, everyone is home schooled. If students are not raised in an environment that values education, it really doesn't matter if they are going to school everyday. In my opinion as a dad of two young kids, attendance is a symptom not a cause.

But penalizing attendance issues is a lot easier that fixing the core issues which I think are mostly economic and mental health related.

I and many of my peers grew up with one stay at home parent who volunteered at my school occasionally and engaged with my teachers. Now my wife and I both have to work to afford the lifestyle I had growing up. My kids are going to have to be in after school programs which are basically just babysitting even if I am in a position to afford good mentoring.

Cell phones and social media are also causing issues with older and younger students. Peer pressure is at an all time high and academic pressure is not far behind.

We are putting so much stress on these kids, when they are just kids. They need to explore their world, get their hands dirty and be curious. Not take yet another standardized test. American society is not kind to children.

Back to it being a haves and haves not issues. As someone with a sizable household income. I absolutely afford to supplement my children's education with museum memberships and trips to see events like the eclipse and frankly also mental health support. I am lucky to have a job that I can take time off anytime I want. But this is the bubble I am in of tech workers. The vast majority of Americans cannot do that. This divide is just going to continue to widen the gap.

I'm working on being a good father, husband and friend.

I have a 3.5yo and another on the way in a couple months. Also my amazing mother-in-law just unexpectedly passed over the holidays so we are all grieving.

Life puts everything in perspective. I have realized that I really don't have anyone but my spouse to really open up to and it is hard. Deep relationships are what I need to work on.

I love location data. In fact when I travel, I bring a GPS logger to track all my locations, it helps me sync up my ok photos and retrace my steps. I have pretty precise maps of ally big trips in the last 10 years.

There is also https://opengarage.io/

For anyone who wants an out of the box, and open source, solution.

DK is supposed to be TK.

Transitional kindergarten. Basically staying a year early around 4.

In-n-Out has always been paying higher wages and at this point their burgers are at or cheaper than other fast food for a better product.

Of course they are private though and have a very simple menu which must account for some savings.

400k people in a year is hemorrhaging?

I have about 5 hours of play time on minimum setting on my 3yo Dell XPS laptop.

It runs fine but it is ugly. Still enjoying it for now, hoping they fix it before my cities get too big.

Also add current page snapshot to the wayback machine:

javascript:void(window.open('https://web.archive.org/save/'+location.href));

A nice feature of snowflake is the min_by/max_by functions.

https://docs.snowflake.com/en/sql-reference/functions/min_by