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I do the same thing. But there's always another level I see a lot of people (well the ones sharing their screen in meetings) forget about: Windows.
For each topic, I have a window for it. And I have at least 5 windows always open (e.g. Email, Youtube [currently 25 paused videos], HN [Sometimes I'll keep articles open I want to get to, but then I will blindly close hem all to start over], Google Drive, Google Music, etc). That way I can close the window when that task is complete.
I always tell myself that I can just Bookmark those 5 things and go to that site again, but I never do.
I'm American, and had thought the same thing at first glance. My brain had expected the word "water" to be there, but wasn't.
Winning arguments and solving problems are two different skillsets. And the US Congress is mostly people with the former. Not to say that winning arguments doesn't help when choosing a solution, but it is very different.
The same thing happens to me - I call it a low-res tan because it's all pixelated.
I realized early on that sometimes management thinks that if you don't look stressed than your not taking it seriously enough. Phrases like "I don't feel that you have a sense of urgency" really messed with my head back then.
I have a old keyboard (Ensoniq SQ1-Plus) where the battery doesn't work right (even when changed) and I was going to put ML Studio on a Raspberry Pi or Mini PC with a USB MIDI device to record. But this thing is exactly what I'm looking for.
When I want to record for real, I'm going to use my DAW. But I want a way to quickly record tracks and this looks pretty great.
With me (I have ADHD), I would never be able to listen to an audiobook alone, I would zone out and day dream one paragraph in. But If I'm playing a game on my phone, I can listen and pay attention for hours.
Not sure where I first heard this, but I say it to my team all the time: "Programming is thinking, not typing"
The only thing I liked when I did use Facebook was the "wall". To be able to post on a friend's wall semi- publically where their friends can see it. Most other Facebook clones have had the idea of tagging, but it wasn't the same. (E.g. Google+)
This may be pure conjecture, but my first thought is always that it might be a marketing ploy by the AI companies to make their products seem more advanced than they really are.
I would imagine, in this example, that the fact that you put in the numbers yourself gives you a mental map of where the numbers are and how they relate to each other, that having AI do it for you doesn't give you.
You could stare at a large sheet of numbers for a long time, and perhaps never get the kind of context you gained by entering them.
Additionally, if there was a mistake, it may not be as noticeable.
It felt the same way when AOL bought Time Warner.
I used to use XSLT all the time, but I had forgotten all about and haven't used it in years. It was perfect to do a quick SQL query with "for xml auto" and then add an XSLT stylesheet to it. Instant report.
I also do the text file thing. I use EditPad Pro. The only additional thing I've done is create syntax coloring in any file named 'tasks-*.txt'.
I added simple things like:
- Color anything ending in a ? green, so when looking at a list of notes, so I know where the questions were.
- Any line beginning with an all caps word is highlighted (e.g. TODO: )
- Any line ending in a : is highlighted light blue (e.g. title)
- Any Line Containing "Error" is red
I do suppose I could be using Markdown, but I've had this going for 20 years now.
I've always had this idea that perhaps the whole universe had already collapsed into many black holes and perhaps each galaxy was actually formed via hawking radiation. Then our galaxy came out of Sagittarius A*.
> I watched an Amazon Prime knockoff of Silicon Valley called Betas
Not sure you can call it a knockoff if it came out a year earlier!
But - hear me out - if all of your servers did have wifi - and it was usually disabled - but you could enable it, move the server, then disable it - that might be something?
I know having a redundant server is better - but there's something to it.
Also, this reminds me of a post I read a while ago about them moving a server from one building to another without unplugging it or something.
[Found it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24059243]
This is the same thing the media did with "hacker".
My phone NEVER connects properly and if I want to use it for streaming, I have to spend 2-3 minutes connecting it every time. This has always been the case. Past 3 cards, past 6 phones.
Now-a-days I load up a small flash drive for the car with a small sampling of what I want to listen to. I have another one at home and "Swap" them from time to time with new things. That way it's not overloaded, doesn't take 2 minutes to load up. So it's very much like a mix CD or the mp3 CDs I would burn a couple of decades ago.
I don't think the author was referring to thinking or consciousness itself, but things like the processes within cells and the replication of DNA.
A related thing that happens a lot is when the demo is way slower than it was when you were testing it. But at least this one can be explained by screen sharing applications adding latency to your refresh rate. It really is slower when you share your screen!
It should be noted that this wasn't free - as you said, you had to sit through a 30 minute ad before participating.
Something happens when you tune your business only to the things you can measure.
I still (or at least try to still) have this naive opinion that if you make a good product, the money will come.
We sometimes spend too much time counting the beans and not enough time growing them. Not saying you don't need to count the beans, you do, but when your whole team is counting, they may forget to water them.
Also - to be on topic - don't forget to protect the beans!
It's not only about the end that's receiving, it's also the end that's transmitting 10kbps * thousands of users.
After reading many threads here, I think the final ruling may be:
- If your record represents a physical being or object: Use a surrogate key.
People change.
Unrelated - if you have a list of emails or SSNs or license plates or VINs - we can think of these as foreign keys to a database we don't control.
Or one entire actual brain - if it can be done once by natural selection, it can be done more efficiently again by a designer.
Time exists because the universe doesn't do calculations - the only way to see the outcome is to do the thing. See: The Three Body Problem
I was a teenager in the 90s and there was a famous case at the time (don't remember the names) where a woman shot someone at his front door and the news was saying she was a drug dealer because she had a beeper.
But I had a beeper, and all my friends had beepers, and it seemed very strange to me.
Or that infinite scroll game of life that was on here a few weeks ago! more density, same information!