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I’ve never had a more pleasurable experience than snowboarding. It really sharpens the senses and requires that you focus on the riding, ie don’t ride while imbibed or high, listening to music, etc.

Just you, on a plank, pointed downwards.

My unexpected benefit was wanting to live near the snow, which meant thinking really hard about if leaving the big city was worth it. Living in the rural countryside next to a mountain is amazing.

Poor and coloured?

Fun driving isn’t just limited to the spirited kind.

The real story hidden somewhere down below

> In the aftermath of her arrest, Marvin has found out more about the legal infrastructure that protects robots. In 2020, the Pennsylvania legislature passed a law that classifies autonomous delivery robots — what the law calls “personal delivery devices” — as pedestrians, not vehicles. Democrats, along with labor unions and accessibility advocates, largely opposed the law on the basis that legalizing delivery robots could kill jobs and endanger children and pedestrians; Republicans touted it as an exciting technological advancement.

> The law means that a vehicle must yield to a delivery robot on crosswalks, just as it would to a person

Tom Hardy’s portrayal of a younger Picard clone disproves the notion that anyone else could’ve been Picard.

There’s always Picard Management Tips

https://mas.to/@PicardTips

Even then, it was still clear that Sir Patrick was now a frail, old man and only more obvious in the Picard series.

I think it wasn’t just that he was an ordinary astrophysicist, but that he wasn’t very good at his job and you could see it in the way people treated him. He was unwanted and looked down upon.

We don’t need to look too far. There have been multiple other actors who have played the Picard character, albeit younger ones and they definitely did not deliver the same gravitas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Luc_Picard#Other_actors

Doesn’t matter that you’re right if you’re dead.

As Picard repeated, “my rights, my status, my life”

Use my tech skills for vertical integration in an old industry where regulations require a licensed operator.

Specifically, I’m training to be a CPA and the idea is to absorb a couple of small 1 man firms and write software to make them more efficient, then expand.

Unless the American conscious has had a mass amnesia in the past few years, I could swear that pattern is common in American English. It’s probably a bad example but I clearly remember hearing it a lot in the 90s, often on television shopping channels (bored kid is bored) but also in sitcoms and the like.

My American media consumption tapered off to mostly popular movies after the 00s so maybe there was a change after.

> I’ve developed an unusual little nighttime routine: after reading bedtime stories to the kids, I hop into bed and instead of reaching for a fiction book, I’m turning on my 14-year old Asus eeePC 701 (wikipedia.org) miniature laptop and writing x86 assembly language

I don’t understand how people do this without wrecking their sleep. I’m studying to be a CPA and that little One More Thing just before bed time totally wrecks my sleep. Studying (even something as boring as tax laws) gets my mind excited and I’ll be up till 6am no matter how physically/mentally tired I am.

Nurses and elderly homes are a large market for minis in Japan. You get up to date patient data without the bulkiness of a regular iPad or the minimal screen of an iPhone. It also surprisingly fits in the pockets of nurse uniforms.

It’s an Apple device so tech support is minimal.

I gave my mom an iPad 2, she used it to play candy crush for close to a decade.

I’ve been raw dogging my mini for the past couple of days because I removed the Smart Folio to wash off all the accumulated gunk. The sudden thinness and lightness was amazing.

Back in the Intel Mac era, it used to be that running even a single docker/vagrant container would bring any MacBook to its knees, so having a nice beefy machine for doing the Real Work was useful while the MBs were mainly used for lighter work loads while on the go.

Nowadays, the M series chips are so powerful that I’ve not had a real need to use my Studio and work mainly using my M2 Air.

I’ve felt the same way since way back then ever since reading about this guy’s setup[0], so I paired a 11” MBA with the quad core Mac Mini 2012.

I’ve kept that philosophy over the years, the MBA was replaced by the 2017 12” retina MacBook and then again with the 13” M2 MBA. The Mini gave way to the 2018 Mini, then a M1 Max Studio. I even attempted replacing the MacBook with an iPad though that didn’t really workout.

It’s the best of both worlds really, enough power to do everything when on the go and even more power back at the office.

0: https://elliotjaystocks.com/blog/a-note-about-my-new-mac-set...

The colours are a nice touch though I wish they’d bring back a little more whimsy into the designs. These things are obviously more display piece than workhorses now with all that flamboyant colouring, so go all out? Maybe give it a larger border radius, or made the rear end rounder. Oh heck, make the entire screen round even! Bring back the puck mouse and make a puck keyboard!

I witness you

I daily an iPad mini for work and personal use. The Duo is not comparable at all for the simple reason that it does not support universal control or sidecar. At its current state, it is nothing more than a very large iPhone.

I actually wanted the Duo so I wouldn’t have to carry both a smartphone and a tablet together all the time. Alas.

My wife can be working on her laptop, but will pull out her iPhone if she needs to google anything. I’ve given up trying to understand that behaviour.

Yup, I keep have to reminding colleagues that normies find it perfectly normal to write their graduation thesis on an iPhone.

Yup. I sort of understand why, they needed a way to show that the iPads weren’t just a larger phone. They probably went about it the wrong way though.

My iPad mini gets multiple times more use than my iPhone, there have even been times where I’ve left my iPhone by the bedside table for days.

It’s mainly a consumption device, I got it initially for reading ebooks while on the train. It’s also a surprisingly good workhorse by itself, or as a second screen for a MacBook. I even make phone calls with it (via the iPhone) simply because it’s always in or near my hands.

So the Duo certainly piqued my interest when it was announced, until I learnt it doesn’t do iPad-y stuff like universal control or sidecar. I’ll wait for the next gen.

- Soft Skills engineering

- The SaaS podcast

- ShopTalk

- boagworld

- Complex Systems

- Startups for the rest of us

- Cup o' Go

No more new episodes but still fun to listen once in a while

- Running in Production

- Full Stack Radio

- Big Break Software

Have you seen the list of SWE turned carpenters/woodworkers?

It's been a common theme even on this site for at least the past decade.

- Why software engineers like woodworking : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31687378

- Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40245601

- Woodworking through the mind of an engineer : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33708851