lukewrites

This sort of stuff makes me a militant user of archive.is

https://archive.ph/20220512234058/https://www.bloomberg.com/...

I'd love to learn more about the longevity conferences you've attended, if you don't mind.

If this helps stops high earners from buying second or third homes, as seems common in the sections of the software engineer community in my area, I am all for it.

I wrote a web scraper to determine how local Nissan dealerships changed prices on CPO Leafs over time. The script hit the Nissan CPO page, grabbed all the VINs, then updated the price & date if there had been a change.

I collected data for a while, then decided I wanted a different car. Still had fun writing that script though.

Deepest sympathy for the Nadella family as they grieve the loss of their son.

Yeah between the “take whatever you want” and the sensory experience of seeing and touching and opening books of different sizes, textures, thickness, etc it’s mind blowing to try to replicate.

Just something as simple as having books shelved higher than you head and getting to use a stool to get up to them - that makes finding books so fun!

The more I think about it, the physical is just so important to the experience. I guess it’s for this same reason I hate ebook versions of picture books. The interaction just cannot match what you get to do with a real book.

Not to say this isn’t a worthy goal or interesting problem-every kid should have an awesome library nearby. Just wow, going in person is amazing.

I don't think anything compares to going in person.

I'm father of a 4 year old, and we live a couple of blocks from the library. Seeing how his interactions with the shelves has changed over the past couple of years has been really interesting. At first it was enough to look at the covers and spines, then he could pull himself up to the bins of board books, and eventually started grabbing from the shelves himself.

And like you, he loads up with a little bit of everything (it doesn't matter what he chooses, we check it out) and we take it home to read and see what sticks.

It's probably no surprise that one of the most exciting trips he can make is driving to PDX to go to Powell's.

There's probably a UI genius out there with great ideas for it, but I don't see how anything can beat going to a library in person.

I feel like I get great value for my Apple One Premier subscription. I already was paying for the largest available iCloud storage. Paying a bit more and being able to host email addresses for private domains, plus having iCloud Private Relay, plus a music service (and my library in the cloud), plus Apple TV+, plus Fitness (use it occasionally but would never pay for it on its own) is a no-brainer for me.

Eluded so completely from the comment that it didn’t appear at all.

For my job I spend a lot of time working on a python package that uses threads. I’ve found that pycharm’s debugging tools are much better than vscode’s when it comes to threads. Also, auto imports are possible while I don’t think I’m able to do that in VScode.

If someone can tell me how to set up VSCode to do this better, I would love to know. However I also need to be able to support other engineers who typically don’t work on the package but might need to drop into the code. It is much easier to tell them to download the community edition of pycharm and start working than it is to walk them through setting up another editor/ide.

I don’t particularly like pycharm, and don’t use it when I don’t have to, but in this case it’s the right tool for the job. (So far.)

Cohen’s music isn’t always for me, but I love this rendition of “Hallelujah” in Yiddish - I prefer it to the English version:

https://youtu.be/XH1fERC_504

Startup, WA

Gold Bar, WA

Skykomish, WA

At least from Apple Maps, they’ve all got a USPS but no bank.

Honest question that I'm sure sounds snarky: Why was Bezos in a flight suit if he wasn't flying?

I have seen jobs at Mozilla that I'm interested in, but I'm just too afraid that they'll do more eng layoffs that I don't want to go through the hassle of applying.

There's a joke a rabbi I admire likes to tell to illustrate how random "success" is.

He was watching the news and they interviewed the richest man in Canada. The interviewer asked, "How did you make your fortune?"

"Well, when I came to Canada, I had nothing but five cents. I used those five cents to buy an apple. I sold the apple for ten cents, and then bought two apples to sell. I sold those apples for twenty cents, and then I got a telegram that my uncle had died and left me three billion dollars."

> When I saw the Harris video, I could only facepalm when I hear the "if any 3rd party (no matter the credentials) touch the machine, it can be dangerous for the consumer"... it's an ice cream machine for god sake, not a nuclear plant reactor core.

Well, an uninitiated third party might do something like open the gate to the cage of rats that's factory installed in each McFlurry machine, or flip the "Inject Asbestos Pellets In Ice Cream Mix" toggle to yes.

I only use Reddit via third party apps because the website is so awful. First it was Narwhal now it’s Apollo, both for iOS. Apollo is fantastic and has a desktop client in the works…well worth the money.

五毛 or 5毛 - 5 _mao_ is half a yuan, so the equivalent of 50¢. “Fifty cent” is an Americanized translation.

Edit: the wiki page you linked has it in simplified and traditional characters.

The Onyx Boox e-ink devices run Android and have wifi. I sync my Pocket account (using the app) and read via RSS.

They’re great devices, and you can even download the Kindle app and read your DRM’d books on them :)

Inspired: mafernment

I work in a non-union office and we also have the same policy. I don’t think this reflects it all upon unions.

> If anyone wants help or advice regarding healthcare systems and/or citizenship matters, I am here to help. Check my email on my profile.

I'll be emailing you. My wife and I are starting to work on a shortlist of countries to consider as immigration targets. I'm not interested in my children growing up in a "free market" healthcare system.

> Why bother using FF at this point?

I use it almost entirely for containers. Do any other browsers have the same functionality either built-in or via plugin?

Thanks to this article I discovered and now use this feature. Crud.

Thanks

https://archive.is/BHGUt if you don't want to log in to Medium.

Any chance you saved/upvoted that post? I can’t find it but would love to read it.

What’s the angriest part of a computer?

The cursor.

It definitely has had that effect for some, and I think that the promise of vaccines is probably exacerbating things since there's now the feeling of "I _could_ be out of this if only…".

What's helped me to stay in a positive space and productive during lockdown:

1. Daily exercise. I never worked out with weights before covid, but I bought a kettlebell and the book Simple & Sinister and started doing that routine along with cardio. Makes a huge difference.

2. Any kind of mindfulness. I've read a bunch of books on happiness during lockdown. Most all of them say the same things and suggest the same sorts of mindful practices, so I chose to do some practices based on stoicism and cognitive behavioral therapy. (Recommended reading: Why Buddhism is True, Everything is F*cked [starts good, gets bad], How to be a Stoic, A Handbook for New Stoics, Full Catastrophe Living. Choose any/all and see what you like.)

3. Not reading the news or doom scrolling. I get a covid newsletter each day (https://paulbart.substack.com) and don't read any other covid news. I also got off social media and don't read much about politics/the general shitshow. Basically, things that are beyond my control I pay limited attention to. When I violated this, obsessively seeking out streams & tweets from the storming of the capitol, I wound up having to take the next day off because I was so out of sorts.

4. Connecting directly with friends. I deleted my social media accts this year and started reaching out to old friends directly. First with a bulk email then zooms/phone calls with folks who wrote back. It's been great to reconnect and everyone is happy to chat!

5. Putting strict limits on work. I don't touch it outside of what I've determined to be "work hours". Period.

Good luck. Things can get better.