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theboulevardier

6 anni fadiscuss

I agree, I have about 4 - 5 "good hours" a day. But I'm expected to deliver 6 - 6.5 billable hours a day in my job (exluding admin work). It's frustrating as I know that a billable hour before 10am and after 4pm is worth far less than a billable hour between 10am and 3pm. It's especially frustrating when I'm expected to work on something that involves a high cognitive load all day long due to tight deadlines. Account managers, project managers and sales people seem to think that all work is the same and you can work at max capacity all the time, regardless of the complexity of the task.

theboulevardier

6 anni fadiscuss

If you look at the cached Google page, you will see that Google is only indexing the knowledge panel, not the results themselves. E.g https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:t8Z5T9...

theboulevardier

7 anni fadiscuss

In the UK, we generally tip for a great service. If I buy a meal and the food and service is just fine, then no tip. Though if the food and service are great, I will generally tip 10 - 20% depending on how generous I'm feeling at the time. Tips generally aren't expected, and you won't be shamed if you don't tip.

I would clean up after myself somewhere like McDonalds or Burger King, though in a cafe or restaurant I wouldn't. In a restaurant I usually put the plates together to make it easier for the waiter or waitress to clear the table and try not to be too messy.

theboulevardier

7 anni fadiscuss

I'm in a similar situation, the parking garage for my block of apartments is rigght under my bedroom. It's not too bad, except for one neighbour's motorcycle, where he is obviously using a modified exhaust to be louder. In the winter he likes to leave the engine to warm up for about 5 minutes every morning at 7am...

theboulevardier

7 anni fadiscuss

They are the best earplugs! I have tried loads of other brands and none compare.

theboulevardier

7 anni fadiscuss

I use DuckDuckGo as my default search engine and it has never reverted back to Google. Perhaps it only happens on certain major updates??

theboulevardier

7 anni fadiscuss

Well, if it is illegal that is another thing entirely. But where I live, it is legal and basically every motorcyclist does it.

theboulevardier

7 anni fadiscuss

Lane splitting is generally quite safe if: a) Other motorists are expecting it and paying attention and b) The motorcyclist isn't going much faster than other traffic (if I remember correctly, where I live the law is that you shouldn't go more than 15mph above the speed of the traffic).

I used to lane split when I had a motorcycle as the highway traffic was terrible for my morning commute and it was generally fine, though you would occasionally get an idiot doing that thing some drivers do where they indicated a lane change as they were doing it and without checking mirrors so you have to be very careful.

theboulevardier

7 anni fadiscuss

The UK police have been able to do this for a while. I haven't been involved in activism for years now, but if I remember correctly they used to be able to make people remove face masks within a particular area during demonstrations.

theboulevardier

7 anni fadiscuss

Thanks, that looks awesome!

theboulevardier

7 anni fadiscuss

Looks cool! Any chance of mapping the scales to a guitar fretboard? My favourite way to learn scales is just jamming along to a backing track with the scale on a fretboard in front of me. Like this: http://www.all-guitar-chords.com/guitar_scales.php?scch=E&sc...

theboulevardier

7 anni fadiscuss

Google has also started classifying non-news sites as being news sites and no removing snippets from them. I have already had to manually change the designation in the Google Search Console on a couple of sites that I look after this week after Google flagged them. I'd recommend that site owners check in the search console to see if they are affected.

theboulevardier

7 anni fadiscuss

Does anyone else find those avatars really creepy? They look like the characters in those weird CGI kids cartoons.

theboulevardier

7 anni fadiscuss

If you go with Google's suggestions when you setup an Adwords campaign, they will absolutely rinse your budget with minimal return. Google has a churn and burn mentality when it comes their Adwords customers as most new businesses fail within 12 months.

theboulevardier

7 anni fadiscuss

We have done something similar at home. We live in an apartment with a small shared central courtyard, which is lit up (though not extremely bright) when someone walks through it. Our bedroom has those crappy Ikea Venetian blinds, which are terrible at blocking light and it's a rental so we can't change them. Instead we cover the blinds with a dark bedsheet and that does a great job of keeping the light out.

theboulevardier

7 anni fadiscuss

Google pays Apple $12 billion a year to be the default search in Safari unfortunately, so Apple are making a lot of money from keeping Google happy.

theboulevardier

7 anni fadiscuss

It runs fine on my Mac, the only time it seems to spin up the fans is for Youtube videos. It wouldn't suprise me if Google has done something to make Firefox not work as well on Youtube as they have done before.

theboulevardier

7 anni fadiscuss

I have recently returned to Firefox for my personal browsing after using Chrome since about 2014 and it works great. However...

In work I'm stuck using Chrome due to the amount of time I spend in Google Apps (Docs, Sheets, Google Analytics, Search Console & Data Studio) as they break certain functionality on Firefox, which makes me less productive.

Google has too much power. I work in Search Engine Marketing and it wasn't so long ago that we optimised sites for different search engines, now no-one cares about any search engine other than Google.

theboulevardier

7 anni fadiscuss

Many people find that meditation reduces their need to sleep. A few months ago when I was meditating for around 1.5 hours per day (a mixture of walking and formal sitting meditation) I felt well rested on 5.5 to 6.5 hours of sleep, when my normal needs are 7.5 - 8 hours

theboulevardier

7 anni fadiscuss

I had so much fun with that back in school. Our machines were running Win NT 4.0 and and the computers were labelled with a the network name. So I would check the names of the machines my friends were on, or the whole class if I was feeling bold and then create a batch file to send them hundreds of messages.