Good riddance! I’m optimistic that these guys will transform the typing landscape, which, let’s be honest, has room for improvement. I find mypy abysmal to use, bug-ridden with weird defaults, and extremely painful to add to an existing codebase
This. GitHub is a joy to use compared to its competitors. Using bitbucket at work is frustrating, and reminds me of a lot of Microsoft web interfaces, ironic, given that it’s GitHub and not Bitbucket that is owned by them now
Similar for me, I thought I would start feeling better after my CPAP. Still had terrible sleep. Still experimenting with solutions (issues started after Covid vax, so I’m experimenting with long Covid protocols and have noticed much better sleep in the last month although I’m not getting my hopes up just yet)
Well, if you’ve played games, there’s definitely a thrill you get from farming or playing the economy for its own sake, much past the extent needed for personal use of the currency gained
Eh honestly I found it super cumbersome to use after coming from Sequel Pro (mysql), never really found a better alternative for Postgres though. Perhaps I would use Navicat
I took antibiotics more than 2 years ago and after about 4 days I was a wreck. I was anxiety riddled for a bit over a year. Thankfully, I feel normal again! But yea, scary stuff.
Not in my experience. I was using a Dell work laptop recently and decided to use Linux instead of windows. Once I got things working mostly to my liking, I updated the GPU drivers and got a kernel panic. I’m lucky to be tech savvy so I can recuperate from that, but after that I asked for a MacBook and now have a solid daily driver that I can rely on, without having to spend hours looking for workarounds, crashes and kernel panics
Yet it’s true, from my experience being unemployed but still being financially stable. Work provides a lot of purpose and fulfillment that isn’t so easily replaced, although definitely not impossible. A suitable replacement often looks like work, just perhaps not paid
I was working on a library to do this which I never got around to fully finishing but the idea is there: https://github.com/lime-green/django-orm-plus I think all I had left was polishing the auto add logic and testing with a real project
Canola oil as far as I know is the most refined oil on the market. One of the processing steps adds trans fats, and another adds synthetic antioxidants because of the naturally low saturated fat content. You may be fine betting your health on a as of yet “not proven unhealthy” oil but why risk it when you can use something like olive oil which contain beneficial polyphenols and antioxidants and doesn’t need to be processed in 10 different ways to be deemed safe for consumption
It appears I’m one of the very few happy about this change. I miss my colleagues at work and having fun discussions about programming, investing, podcasts. I miss the adhoc discussions about a problem someone was encountering and helping them fix it. I miss talking to new people in the kitchen about what they did that weekend. I miss playing board games with a group of 10 people from different departments and teams. I miss the happy hours, the excitement, the kickoff of a new project. I loved my job, then WFH happened, I switched teams, found that still boring, went to another company, left within 3 months because that was still boring. I’ve lost a lot of joy from remote work. I’m excited that within the next 2 years I’ll be able to find a place to work that doesn’t work remotely, because, frankly I hate it.
Hey I read your notes on Dr. Yapko's lecture on depression which led me to watch the lecture and I found it immensely helpful. Do you have any other resources you would recommend?
It’s funny, I’ve always heard great things about Meditations but I found it to be one of the least approachable books on stoicism. Perhaps I didn’t like the terse note format. On the other hand Seneca’s letters are extraordinary
A construct being human-created doesn't mean it isn't important, or that we can simply ignore it. Just means it can be changed, unlike a law of nature, for instance.
I feel very similarly about Python vs. Ruby inconsistencies! I remember starting a job and used python for the first time coming from Ruby, and being extremely disappointed in the inconsistencies in the standard library and the sheer… lack of features in the Stdlib compared to Ruby. I’ve yet to use a language with such a magnificent stdlib and documentation. I main python nowadays, and I find the ecosystem and typing to be better than Ruby, but Ruby is the best language I’ve ever used for many reasons