As a dev, o boy, the silence while people read your docs was maddening. Great people watching though as they digested and marked up what you wrote. Whole process is mildly cathartic to be honest.
Tobacco free snus like pouches have exploded in the US the past two years. I quit smoking about a year and a half ago by switching to them. I'm not sure if they're cooler or less cool than gum but it's pretty great not smoking. I'd recommend anyone trying to quit to look into them as a possibility.
Sort of a guilty secret but I used to save POC work for right after a company talk or party and a few beers. I could spew out a few hundred lines of code that was a bit messy but was got the job done. I’d go over it and clean it all up the next morning. Almost always an incredibly productive exercise for me but ymmv.
I have/wrote a one line auto hot key script for typing in strings in fields that don’t allow paste. Originally intended for a tax program that doesn’t allow pasting banking passwords. The pain of making a mistake and have to enter a 30+ character password over and over still haunts me.
Also, if you have a problem contact their customer support. I had a tweet get a few hundred likes about a non pastable field for a transportation website and they actually changed it later that week!
Sneaker counterfeiters generally don't care all that much about pass authentication checks. For shoes, and most clothing, they care more about time to market (getting their fake out before or near release date) and price point. If someone is wearing fake shoes, unless they're outlandishly fake (there were some hot pink fake yeezys I've seen more than one), you mostly likely won't be able to spot these imperfections from a distance. Also, unless you're in the niche you probably won't care if they're real or fake. I'd liken this to hanging prints of famous paintings; people like the look but might not want to shell out for a Picasso.
I work with shoes on a daily basis and have done/do auth checks.
Depends why you’re buying the property. If you need to clean it, for example get it out of a country or if you got it from questionable means, property is a great place to park it. Look at all the empty store fronts in NYC before the pandemic. Keep your rent artificially high so it maintains the value and your only cost is property taxes.
I pretty much all of these. One thing I wanted to add is decorators. There is code you might have easy access to edit to add print statements. I don’t love the spring boot docs and reading the code isn’t as useful as stepping through your specific autowired code tree. There’s definitely use cases but 95% of the time prints will get you there. Imo you should learn it because it will save you a bunch of time and headache when you need it.
My understanding that was for the special fabrics and/or the dyes used. For example raw indigo bleeds a whole lot more with higher heat. I know there are some fabrics and blends that are fragile compared to something like a cotton tshirt and recommend colder water.
I think an interesting addition would be the sexualization of pop music through the 00s and 10s. The other child post referenced the Janet Jackson super bowl fiasco. There was plenty of outrage for Britney Spears and I’d say even more for somes like WAP and Cardi B. While I think there is an argument to be made this started much earlier than the 00s there has been a lot of “outrage” more recently than I remember.
I also think it’s interesting that pretty much all of these themes have existed in music for the last 50 years or so but for a song to get real outrage it really needs to penetrate the ether. For example, the company selling these shoes sold ones with holy water in the heels, that a very small, in comparison, number of people knew about. I’d consider something like that sacrilegious, but I didn’t hear of any public outrage.
Outrage has always sold. You can look at cultural/artistic things similar to this, like Rock and Roll in the 70s/80s and Rap music in the 90s, to political, War on Drugs and the Patriot Act. I'm sure you could look and find similar examples every decade for hundreds of years.
Hmm probably about a third of my graduate level QED class and considerably less in my undergraduate QM but you'd be surprised at the cross over between potheads and high level physics.
I spent a few weeks living in Bali and these were so much better than the Red Bull back in the states. I don't even think I've had a Red Bull since I've been back (almost 5 years) because I know I'd rather have a Krating Daeng.
Paul's notes are great! Carried my butt through Calc 3 and PDEs, especially when the math for these classes get a little more formulaic (that is there is a pretty small set of reasonable questions you could possibly ask). His stuff is significantly more well done than any text book I had assigned for college math.
Flu vaccines are less effective than what we're seeing with the covid vaccines as well as they're more of a guess as to what will become the biggest flu variant vs after the fact of the covid vaccines. Not really comparable.
Eh I think both the example you've provided aren't the best. A season pass breaks even at most places in 4-6 days if you're going at peak rates. A car rental is much more variable (parking, distance limits etc) but does have a higher mental load than a ski pass. Both would be pretty easy things to hit break even if you're going to be doing/using it. A metro pass is often a much higher break even point. Iirc, when I did the calculations for the NYC metro card, you broke even using your pass to and from 1 place if you left your place every day. Obviously that calculation is much different for each city, but they require a high number uses vs your examples.
If you’re looking at an online course I agree the basics will be watched more often (as well as due to people not completing the course). But if you’re looking at something like cooking videos I’d expect the videos of people cooking cool things would get more views. People love food porn and want to watch something exciting about cooking but probably won’t watch a video about knife basics because it’s not as engaging to most people. That’s what I loved so much about Alton Brown and especially Good Eats, he makes so many mundane kitchen things exciting. Compare that to Thomas Keller’s Master Class, which is incredibly informative and I’d recommend it to anyone, but also significantly lower energy and you really have to want to learn the stuff to watch him julienne carrots for 5 minutes.
I've come to the conclusion the past couple years is we need to get rid of non-profit status. There is too much room for grift and I'm afraid narrowing requirements would just make more loop holes and continue the process. I don't think that would be a popular opinion but I really don't see another solution to the problems caused by non profits.
I just had that experience tonight. Uber projected delivery at 8:15. They couldn’t get a driver until 9. I had already tipped. But since that money should/is going to the delivery driver, that wouldn’t have been his fault. He was assigned the delivery until 9. The whole process is screwed up based on the traditional model of one company providing most of the service and tips are, at least some what, shared.
Anyways they just need to get rid of tipping and bake it into the price already. I think the whole world is tired of it.
I'm talking about their branding/advertising and cultural norms, not actual innovation, as in they are considered hip and cool. And yes, that is exactly what marketing is trying to do and it has a clear effect on what people think about the brands and the products and therefore about the purchase of them.
I mean that was a pretty recent sale in the grand scheme of their company, so I’m not sure if that’s really fair. Regardless, if their designers are still making products that represent their principles I would think that’s okay. I personally don’t wear Branded clothing but I understand the appeal of their brand.
On the other hand Apple has always had a similar mystique and they’re one of the largest companies ever. I think you’re conflating underground/cool with hip/street wear. I don’t get the hate either way. Let people express themselves without judgement :)
Heroin is already relatively cheap and accessible to addicts. The bigger issue right now is the latter part, helping people get off the drug and contamination, ex. fentanyl. I agree with everything else though.
Soundcloud used to have pretty great discoverability but people started, in my opinion, the repost feature and you ended up with the same song recommended over and over again. Their genre recommendations were also pretty tight. All of my experience was from about 5+ years ago.
By far the best discovery I've seen was on What.CD, RIP. The similar artists web they had on ever artist page was extremely tight. I tried a few months ago to find the old What.cd data to look into it but wasn't able to find it in a couple minutes of googling.
Look into Last.fm. They do a pretty decent job of recommending similar artists but its more of a what you played tracker than true music discovery.
As someone who has recently started doing more back country snow sports the partner part of this story really rings true and thanks so much for your story. Finding someone who helps complement yourself via risk and not feeding off each other seems to be a lot more important than I've even considered. Really have a strong and open connection, not being worried about how you look, seems like its almost as important as training, because without it, your training will only go so far.
The last bit 100 times over. The pain of trying to play AIV and DIVX files 15 years ago was generally miserable. To me VLC saved me from codec hell on, iirc Windows ME, and I've never looked back. Downloading and installing codec packs back then felt like it was a dice roll to getting a virus. It was also the only player I've used that could easily play FLV videos back then. Honestly, VLC is the only software I shove on friends computers if we're trying to play video.
TOS on websites aren't the same the agreement to a margin account. Not reading that would be like not reading your mortgage agreement or your auto loan agreement. I agree they're long and confusing but financial agreements are super important to read and if you can't understand it hire a younger/cheaper lawyer for an hour. Every contract I've signed for employment I've hired someone to confirm the law in that state and it really makes a difference knowing what is in there.
Wasn't something I mentioned earlier but using the reCAPTCHA audio is also another solution for gcap. I haven't ever used it personally but always seemed like a cool idea.
2captcha is about 0.0005/solve, give or take do to their failure rate. There are other services as well and pre-paid bulk purchases lead to lower pricing. I wouldn't want to ballot stuff the crazy number that is the combination of all Visa credit cards but for much smaller problem spaces 2captcha and others are very reasonably priced.