DougMellon

I’ve been using Obsidian daily for a couple of months now and couldn’t be happier.

I am. However, there are times where I feel a slight guilt not responding right away and I still catch myself reaching for my phone thinking there has to be some notifications to check.

The Helsinki MOOC is great and was just upgraded to JS.

https://fullstackopen.com/en/

> Good enough is good enough.

I’ve only been in my first role for about two months and this one hit the hardest for me personally.

I imagine it has a direct correlation with impostor syndrome, but I spend a lot of time writing things over and over again because in the back of my mind I’m thinking “is this the correct approach? Will they think I’m failing if it’s not how they’d do it?”

I consider myself lucky that I’m in a position with a great team that’s very helpful but I struggle to balance the line of when to ask questions - which often stems from not trusting myself to be to their standard.

I have progressed to a point where I essentially have do not disturb on all day with my partner and mother allowed through as well as two apps for work and the rest receiving a DND response. I also have it set so repeated calls come though from my favorites in the case of an emergency.

I grew up in New England and currently live in Denver, but have traveled to over 20 countries and lived in both Italy and Croatia. Europe is a very broad statement so maybe you are talking about some outliers, but roads are not rare nor are they limited to main arteries in any of the locations I traveled.

Is public transportation better than most places I’ve been in the US? Without a doubt - it’s not even close. But roads are just as relevant.

Tidal has a long history of shady practices and failing to pay artists royalties. It reached a point where they were investigated by Norway for data fraud and faced class action lawsuits from labels and artists.

Read the Phoenix Project and loved it - did not know there was another one called the Unicorn Project so I'll start reading it! Looking at the Google SRE book now.

Thank you for your time!

I was just introduced to VisiData at work and have fallen in love with it.

I was onboard the USS Mount Whitney during a dry dock fire while in Croatia and even that was terrifying. I can’t imagine being at sea and having something like that happen.

I’m seeing the following:

> $10 a month after 7-day free trial

I was an OS in the Navy and The American Practical Navigator: Bowditch is a fantastic reference.

A Message to Garcia [0] was often passed around while I was in the Navy. That in addition to Iron and the Soul by Henry Rollins [1].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Message_to_Garcia

[1] https://www.nerdfitness.com/iron-and-soul/

Does anyone know how accurate Windy is?

https://www.windy.com/menu?dustsm,41.112,-47.637,3

> Firefox wasn’t the #2 browser - that’s Safari, mainly because of the captive audience of iPhone and iPad users. But it was the most popular browser that people chose to use.

Maybe I'm wrong here, but I struggle to see how one can arrive at that conclusion. I imagine a large percentage of users actively chose to not use Firefox over Safari because of it's integration and their familiarity.

StreetFighter, FIFA, RuneScape, SimCity, and a couple others.

Our use was less interesting — shaving. Sleep was limited while underway so you would try to milk every minute possible. You'd be rushing to change, shave, and get to watch or muster which meant no time to wait for a shaving cut to stop bleeding. We'd just dip the pen in water and rub it on the cut to stop it from bleeding before heading up.

We used them in the Navy!

> I don't know of any other major games using Java

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Java_platform_games

I believe you are looking at the one year average annual return [0] which is 27.51% [1].

The Nasdaq-100 is down 22.10% YTD [3].

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/aar.asp

[1] https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/total-returns

[3] https://www.slickcharts.com/nasdaq100/returns

For reference, I graduate from a middle of the road state school in May with a degree in software engineering. Here were the required major courses:

- Introduction to Software Engineering

- Web Design and Development for Small Business

- Graphical Interface Programming

- Intermediate Web Development

- Networking and Data Communications Systems

- Designing User Experiences

- Fundamentals of Project Management

- Object Oriented Systems Development

- Database Management Systems

- Systems Analysis and Design

- Introduction to Programming

- Structured Programming

- Object-Oriented Analysis, Design, and Programming

- Algorithms and Data Structures

- Software Engineering I

- Operating Systems

- Networking

- Calculus I

- Calculus II

- Discrete Mathematics

- Elementary Probability Theory

- Introduction to Statistical Analysis

- College Research Paper

- Physics I

- Biology: Atoms to Cells

- Senior Project

- + two major electives (mine were an independent study building a SCARA robot that is remote controlled and a second independent study on the use of drones in wildfire mitigation)

These are the servers I am currently in:

- https://theprogrammershangout.com/about

- Discord Gophers: https://discord.gg/ecwK4WcM

- The Coding Den: https://discord.gg/code

- Programming Discussions: https://discord.gg/progdisc

- Denver Devs: https://discord.gg/denver-devs

> Still, his life is a constant stream of grievances from the people who feel he’s misinformed them. If he says there’s a 20 percent chance of rain and it rains, everybody thinks he’s an idiot.

Maybe it's because Michael Lewis also wrote Moneyball, but all I can think about when reading this is umpires in baseball. The accuracy of called pitches from home plate umpires throughout the 2021 season ranged from 91.3 percent to 95.6 percent [0]. Yet there are Twitter accounts, Youtube channels, articles, etc expressing just how terrible home plate umpires are at calling pitches. Had they not looked at the underlying numbers, I wouldn't hold it against anyone if they believed umpires only made correct calls a quarter of the time.

[0] https://theathletic.com/2886178/2021/10/14/grading-mlb-umpir...

56.7F = 13.7C

Is this the same issue: https://www.nsnews.com/bc-news/vancouver-stock-promoter-davi...

If so, it appears at least $145 million.

It’s actually pretty wild. Those onboard remain onboard for the flip.

My partner does it and it irritates me but she gets me back for it when I’m mindlessly clicking the mouse as I read things - which I think is from my days of playing StarCraft and Warcraft 3.

Not specifically what you are asking but I’ll add this: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmfYeDhGH9bZzihBUDEQbCbTc5k5FZKURMUoUvf...

That book has done wonders for me.

Wow, those all look fantastic. Thank you for sharing!