Are you clicking with the pointing finger? Every time I see someone do that (which is common), it looks incredibly awkward — especially a click and drag.
Fingers for pointing and gestures, thumb for clicking. Use arm or fingers rather than wrist. I usually point with my middle finger, occasionally index, scroll with my middle and ring fingers.
There’s a non-death outcome that seems pretty bad and pretty common that’s hit the young and healthy, which is “seriously fucked up for an indeterminate amount of time”. As someone who is decently young and healthy, our lack of understanding of that outcome is what still has me scared of this thing, and why “just let it get everyone get it” feels like a nonstarter.
Part of the problem is that there ends up being an effect where, when customers go first to the big delivery apps rather than to restaurants themselves to look for delivery, the delivery apps become the only way to get delivery business. The option to run their own delivery system is no longer available.
> why should someone have to liquidate personal possessions to pay someone else anyway
The issue is there's serious moral hazard where owners of a private business can, rather than maintaining a balance in the business, pay themselves the cash, then grovel to the public to bail them out. If you're socializing the risk, you shouldn't get to privatize the reward.
I’ve found boring in this context to be a function of 3 things (in no particular order):
- Your experience using the tool in question to solve this problem or very similar ones
- Your teammates’ experience using the tool in question to solve this problem or very similar ones
- The world’s experience using the tool in question to solve this problem or very similar ones
The specific drivers of this tend to be a mix of problem-solving pattern matching ie “Hey, we know what the usual suspects are know when things are slow/crash”, and ecosystem robustness — what is the probability of you being the first to trip a bug in a dependency / has a library been used to solve 10000 problems or just 3 — It’s more likely that APIs have been sorted out, bugs have been closed, etc. or that your team knows the quirks.
As an example, OCaml might be a relatively boring choice for writing a theorem prover, but for something like a RDBMS-backed web application, things are a lot more “interesting” as you go off the map much sooner.
The interesting thing about this puzzle is that it is in some ways easier than many regular sudokus, in that at any given time, you're working with a very narrow space of immediate next actions (and it's rather obvious what they are).
I spent years following Lowe for the Things he Won't Work With, but somewhere a few weeks ago I was made aware of his coverage of COVID drug development, which has been phenomenal (and is what he actually does work with).
> While most landlords are actually middle class people trying to make a side income
Maybe elsewhere in the country, but in New York, the entire real estate industry is a bunch of blood-sucking insects. Landlords are corporate scum (or Russian scum). Brokers are almost as bad. All have bought the city gov't to ensure that nothing happens that actually helps regular people.
I think the two places I'm seeing this right now are in the Processing/P5 community (https://editor.p5js.org), and interesting things built on top of Glitch.
Hydra is fascinating -- I sat down with it for a couple hours and was having lots of fun layering transformations on top of webcam input. https://github.com/ojack/hydra
Within the US, of the cities I've lived in (NYC, DC, Philly, Pittsburgh, Chicago, SF), it's thoroughly mainstream in DC, and that's it. In NYC, Ethiopian Food is something I can get if I want it. In DC, everyone I knew ate Ethiopian food semi-regularly and many have their favorite hole in the wall that nobody else had been to.
At least per https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/beyond-regional-circ... -- the location of Ethiopian-Americans is: "If the descendants of Ethiopian-born migrants (the second generation and up) are included, the estimates range upwards of 460,000 in the United States (of which approximately 350,000 are in Washington, DC; 96,000 in Los Angeles; and 10,000 in New York)."
If you shorten the JFK-LHR flight to around 3 hours, something along the lines of 6pm departure into 2am arrival becomes viable, after which you get a half-night of sleep in an actual bed before work the next day.
Their logistics are absolutely phenomenal. The general practitioners I attended before One Medical always was overcrowded, any appointment required sitting in a waiting room for an hour past the appointment time until I finally got in.
For One Medical, it’s super easy to stop by for a 10 minute “something isn’t quite right” appointment, last minute travel immunizations, etc, and, at least in NY, it’s likely there’s an office within 10 mins of where I’m going to be in the city that day.
I think a specific practitioner makes a lot more sense if you’re often sorting out several long-term issues and having a long-term affiliation with one specific practitioner is important, but if you’re a yuppie in generally good health where you’re mostly looking for annual physical, and fantastic availability for quick “I’m sick and may need a prescription” visits and std tests and such, One Medical is perfect.
There's a big difference between people specializing and teams specializing. In every organization I've seen, when you take all of the individual specialists with the same skillset, put them on a team consisting of them (and only them), it ends up being an organizational disaster.
The organizational question is whether the ops folks are (physically/organizationally) colocated with developers on dev teams, or colocated with themselves on an overarching ops team.
> Engineers are infamous for not wanting to deal with pesky things like customers and usually don’t care whether their designs can lead to products that can be produced at scale.
This is part of the job. And if this is something that is characteristic of your engineers, you’re doing a lousy job hiring/training/building a culture.