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Automate them?

Give yourself a reward for doing them?

Gamify them? (Compete with yourself for how quickly you can complete them, for instance.)

Consider contracting?

This but before investing put 3 months living expenses (or 6mo if you’re feeling conservative) into a savings account as an emergency fund.

Fwiw: the textwrangler-equivalent unregistered version of BBEdit (basically without the features that used to distinguish the two apps) is free.

Practice and feedback. Find someone whose writing style you admire and ask them to suggest edits to your drafts. Try to understand why they suggested those edits. Ask about any edits you don’t understand. Write more. Get more edits. Wash rinse repeat until the suggestions for major changes become rare.

The consistent underestimation of the capabilities and development of historic indigenous peoples outside Europe and the Middle East is both absurd and tragic. You’d think that by now archaeologists might have adjusted their assumptions.

Something highly portable that can drive a large external monitor when you need to do spreadsheets.

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

I also mostly mouse non-dominant because of RSI. Took less than a day to get to 75% capability, and about a week to 98%.

Now I’m just as good with a mouse lefty as righty except for a few things like drawing. Which may just be a matter of practice.

Ah. “And hitchhiked”.

125 miles a day? That’s 5mph all day (as in 24 hours) without stopping to rest. 4mph is a very brisk walk unless you’re quite tall. That doesn’t sound physically possible to do for 10 days straight.

That’s for incoming mail. Looks like OP is asking about outgoing.

For management roles

If you have, don’t take that as a reflection on remote work in general.

Currently, childcare is eating into a lot of people’s time. Roommates and children who wouldn’t normally being around are causing distractions. People have lost their social and emotional outlets and are stressed as hell, thus not sleeping or concentrating as well as usual.

I already do something I like, so not much.

That said, a FAANG or bank would pay twice as much, at least. And I’ve deliberately avoided that out of preference for startups. So perhaps in that sense I’ve already taken a 50% cut.

And only regret it when looking at time-to-retirement projections.

The modern military does have some technologists. But they seem to rely heavily on contractors for software development.

“Right” and “wrong” also mean “correct” and “incorrect”, which are not moral judgments.

Not ordering from Amazon.

There are a couple dozen sites I trust across a number of categories of goods. I order from those, even if it means paying a bit of a premium.

Heck, maybe because it does. I’d rather pay $30 for a well made widget that’ll last a few years than $10 for a knock-off that’ll fail in a few days.

I’d guess the Euro in the short term and the Yuan in the longer term.

The US’ status as global hegemonic power has been eroding lately.

Their cultures don’t value engineering as highly and thus their engineering cultures tend to be more pathological.

Yeah. “Override” seems accurate. “Weaken” is a much stronger claim.

That said, the overriding does make it harder to self-regulate. But only wrt each addiction rather than in general.

It doesn’t even have to mutate if the antibody reaction fades over time, as there is evidence for with other coronaviruses.

And if immunity isn’t long lasting?

And how many people have to die to reach it?

Don’t forget an enormous economic depression in between...

Only if immunity is long lasting, which it may not be.

The common cold is a coronavirus. There’s reason to believe immunity to this might last only a handful of months.

And that strong cross draft can be blowing it directly into someone else’s airspace anyway.

If you do a year or two in games, it may make it easier to get a more general programming job, fwiw.

Btw, you may want to edit your post to prefix the title with “Ask HN:”

My cousins use a black roof with water pipes just underneath to absorb heat on sunny days, and circulate it down to a giant insulated basement water tank that functions as a heat sink. They then use that to supplement their heating system.