I have used an Indian online site [1] to order a really good pair of glasses. It cost me $150, but I found the quality to be much better than what I could get in the US.
You must be me. I have a very strong technical team, and our work is foundational for the product. But it is harder to convey that impact in interviews, compared to saying you have a larger team and manage a large budget. I feel companies don’t value efficiency.
I switched to duckduckgo few years back, and most of my searches work. I still have to use g! once in a while. Web search is such an important function, I wish there was a community funded, Wikipedia like entity for search.
Wordstar, Dbase III Plus and Lotus 1-2-3, along with MS-DOS were my gateway to the computer world. I suspect this must be the case for a lot of kids growing up around that time.
I gave a prompt about a kid reading the Harry Potter book in the bed. It generated a kid wearing Harry Potter glasses reading a book. Pretty close, but also quite different from what I meant.
Agree. After seeing the trauma some of my friends went through, I do my bit to recommend against going to Stanford. The standard of care is poor, and the cost is exhorbitant.
I have been a Netflix customer since the DVD-only days. My wife & me watch a show in the living room, while my son gets his weekend allowance to watch a cartoon in the bedroom. This used to work fine, until Netflix decided we can’t play two streams like this. There were other reasons to cancel, but this made the decision easier.
While we take chicken and eggs for granted, it is amazing to think that the pyramids pre-date that by a thousand years, and those ancient populations never tasted chicken !
In a way some of the FANGs are doing just that. Hire best talent, and get them all under one roof, and hope they would come out with breakthrough products.
A really good article. It was interesting to read this part:
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> A later study expanded on the same hypnotism vs. faking it question, this time using an MRI scanner, which gives more detail when looking at soft tissues. This time, the researchers saw the motor cortex – part of the brain which controls body movements – showed activity in the patients under hypnosis. This suggests the hypnotised people were really preparing to try to move their limb, despite achieving no more movement than the group who were faking limb paralysis.
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So one part of the brain was trying to move the limb, but another part accepted the suggestion that the limbs are paralyzed. Fascinating !
$4.2 trillion was the total stimulus spent. I find it hard to imagine the scale of this spending, with nothing to show for it. No new infrastructure was built, and we still seem to be staring at the beginning of a recession.
I wonder how much data collection happens in the name of COVID. My kids’ school wants mandatory weekly testing - the provider (who is not the hospital) wants all personal info. with generous terms that they own all the data. They also threw in a HIPAA release form.
I had signed up for Disney+ when they launched. I decided to cancel after few months. They had no option to cancel online. I had to spend an hour on hold before I could talk to someone and cancel. I decided I will never subscribe to Disney+ again. I don’t know if the cancellation still requires calling them.
I wonder how much the moving of jobs outside has contributed to this. The few documentaries I saw had interviews with homeless, and the general theme was that they couldn’t land a job.
Lucky you. Mine is over $250 a month, and half the board seem to hate the residents. They have made life difficult for families with kids, to the point where several are looking at legal options.
I went through a very similar experience. I burnt out trying to balance work and family, and trying to give my 110% for both. I also started taking it easy (at the expense of career growth), started sleeping better and exercising. I am mentally and physically better now. But I am unable to bring myself to work hard as I used to do in the past. I am scared I will burn myself out again and won’t survive that.
Yeah, I was hoping that the HN crowd would be pondering over the root cause for how we got here. There is a reason a lot of people are angry on both the sides, and the reasons mostly overlap.
I feel the real underlying issue is economic disparity. When breads and circuses stop, you will see riots. It gets worse when media has a hard time getting eye balls unless they can show outrage.
> * avoid taking antibiotics unless you're really sick enough to need
+1 on this. I had to take antibiotics for a strep throat infection. Before this, I could eat anything and never have a loose bowel movement. I had various gut issues for almost an year after I took the antibiotics. I used to feel like I had a very healthy gut before.
Learning used to be one of my passions. But with two small kids and a full time job, I have to redirect my energetic waking hours on few focused tasks. Constant interruptions rest of the day means I lose the motivation to do any tasks that need long attention spans.
I concur. My friends and relatives, who never cared about what I (a techie) said about online tracking, are all now trying to educate me about the harm done by google and Facebook.
I highly recommend the Netflix documentary ’My Octopus Teacher‘. This is the story of a photographer diving everyday for a year, and developing a two way bond with an octopus.
This is a good month to watch Jupiter from the northern hemisphere. I was able to get a good view of the four moons using a binocular, fern with a lot of light pollution.
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