Lich

I'm afraid this will happen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYD0qLY1orU

before things get better.

A few days in on my first trip to New York City, I had decided to visit Central Park. On the subway there, I (Korean-American) noticed out of the corner of my eye an elderly Asian woman who was sitting right next to me, keep staring at me then looking away multiple times. After a few minutes of this, I stared right back at her and she asked me, "Ni zhong guo ren?" (are you Chinese)? Luckily, I was almost done graduating from college and in my last few semesters took Chinese as an elective. I said to her in my crappy Chinese "Bu. Wo shi han guo ren. Ke shi, wo zhi dao zhong wen yi dian dian." (No, I'm Korean, but I know a little Chinese.) She said something I couldn't understand, and was pointing to some paper with an address on it. I asked her in Chinese where she was going and she kept pointing to the paper and I realized it was the bus terminal. She looked deathly scared and afraid as if she was going to get lost, so I quickly looked up the stop for the bus terminal and I told her to follow me. She's got two heavy pieces of luggage, and I'm carrying it for her all the way to the terminal, to ticketing. I do my best to translate for her, get her the tickets to her destination of Flushing, New York. I guide her to the right gate and as I'm about to leave, she stops me, thanks me, and hands me some ginseng drink and a Christian tract. I take the drink, and I hand her back the tract. She's like, "no, take it." I say to her, "No, it's ok. Ssang-di (God), I believe. I believe in Jesus." There's a bit of a glad shock on her face and says, "Ohhhhh." We part ways. The fear on her face disappeared and I could see she felt comfortable and relaxed as she waited at the gate.

It was just an awkward, but fun and memorable experience I'll never forget. I was a little annoyed early on cause there was only a few hours of daylight left and I wanted to spend as much time at Central Park, but it was just nice to help someone who seemed in desperate need of help. The funny thing is, this delay to Central Park actually timed it so that I got into a nice conversation with an older woman who sat on a bench next to me in the park.

It's interesting how different people view it differently. I don't agree with the joke in meaning, but when I read it, I assumed he was making a joke or being sarcastic and wasn't trying to offend anybody, whereas the first reply took it seriously.

I’m guessing you haven’t been keeping up with the news. 2FA not working for some, countries missing from account recovery process, axes Twitter Spaces after being criticized by a journalist, and last bit not least…he seems to have decided he will not pay severance.

I see alot of people in my personal circle criticize gaming, but do the same watching TV/movies, reading books, etc.

One might think, well books are educational. You learn something from them. There's so many bestselling books out there written by so called "experts" that turn out to be totally wrong or mislead by giving a layman's explanation of research post book release, and 10-20 years later the same nonsense is being passed on from one generation to the next.

I know two acquaintances that are SDEs that worked at Amazon and hated it. One of them was "forced" to work until 3-4 AM. His manager said to him, "How can you even think of sleeping right now?". Fortunately he found a new position at Microsoft. The other SDE feels like a cog in a machine and hates it so much he's going back to his home country.

> but it’s weird to think that he is just trying to make as much profit as possible

Why is it weird to think that?

Not slowly insane, but one that turns the AI into a cruel god, and is more about the humans it torments, check out “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream”.

Wettest May in 40+ years in Western Washington.

For me it's fishing and camping.

His channel was boring tech advice in the beginning. After his wife left him and took his kid back to Japan without notice, that's when the content started getting really misogynistic. Lots of MGTOW, red-pill stuff.

I thought that the idea of Mentats (human computers from the Dune novel) were kind of ridiculous, but yeah, when you look at savants like Peek, makes you kind of wonder if such a thing would be possible.

Just a tip, if you find a place that looks nice to book on airbnb, try checking for booking directly. I found a place on airbnb and was in a hurry, but later when I checked the cabin rental's website, I found that the money I spent in fees to airbnb could get me an upgrade to a much nicer cabin if I had booked directly with the cabin rental company.

A breakdown was provided by the UN. He never responded.

> It's not so much about making a difference

Really? Most individual people don't lobby because they don't have the money to do it. That's why it's almost always a corporate lobbyist. Why do you think it's a good system to have concerns heard only for those who have financial wealth? That skews government policy towards elites and the wealthy, and favors corporate benefit and health. Do you really believe the government is in service to corporations or to the American people? Even when it is an individual, it's almost always a billionaire like Bezos or Bloomberg who is trying to STEAL American taxpayer money so that they can go on their stupid space trips.

Spot on about reading a random blog or article. I think many engineers at work are under pressure to deliver, and are looking for quick solutions. They do a search and see a Medium post related to their problem written by someone who says they are an “<platform> developer at <company>”, and for some reason most readers see these authors as an authority in their domain (because why else would they be writing about it? /s), and just accept the blog post’s practices or conclusions. Once read an article a long time ago about Android’s async task , and some blog post claimed it should only be used for operations less than one second. I looked at the official documentation and while it did mention that it should be used for short operations, no where did it mention it should be less than one second specifically (unless I missed it). I saw the same advice mentioned by many other devs who referenced that same article.

I really hated the Michael Bay Transformer films. Have you seen Transformers War for Cybertron on Netflix? It’s nothing amazing, but more entertaining than the Bay films.

Punching bag for a reason. Terrible sites especially on mobile, have to scroll through what feels like an infinite amount of pictures and “fluff” text about how this recipe reminds the author about a warm childhood memory, which you can’t even read cause ads are popping up all over the place. The recent “jump to recipe” buttons don’t help. You jump to the recipe, but some late loading ad just pushes the recipe out of view or some ad hovers right over it.

I just don’t bother with these kinds of sites anymore. Even when I was inexperienced with cooking, I felt none of the stories or pictures (often delicately staged much like commercial photoshoot) helped me with making the recipe.

I’m asking out of curiosity, as someone who is thinking about implementing a subscription model, do you not like it even though you know the product you’re using has recurring costs for usage (e.g. charges for API/DB calls), or are you only against subscription models when the cost of usage is minimal to none (e.g. MS Office, Adobe CS)?

When someone gets me a gift, I am thankful no matter what it is, useful or not. I don’t get weighing the value of relationships over material goods.

Resonate with this alot. I often found that when I was doing labor work at home or helping someone else, I easily find myself focused and in the zone of whatever I'm doing. I often find myself thinking as I drive by construction sites or watching tradesmen/contractors work, that I should have gone into that line of work.

Did your sense of smell and taste come back? How long did it take to recover?

There are still millions of eligible people who cannot use the get my payment tool to get their status on the stimulus payment. Companies like Ruths Chris Steakhouse who spent millions in stock buybacks and have millions in reserve are receiving millions when they don’t need it. Shake Shack got 10 mill. and even though they returned it due to public backlash, now it can’t be loaned out again until the next PPP-like loan funding is approved. PPP is depleted giving out to large, publicly traded companies...not small businesses.

I think lich fits well :)

I've never used WPF, but I've done alot of UWP, and from the code samples I've run into for WPF while searching for UWP solutions, UWP feels like it is pretty much the same thing as WPF, with a few namespaces or classes missing. I can look at WPF code, and easily copy+paste or translate it to UWP with minimal effort.

Can you explain more? I'd like to learn more about this.

Catering?

Another negative aspect of compensation I’ve thought about is that it could cause content creators, particularly political and religious/non-religious ones, from seriously exploring opposing views. Why make videos exploring opposing views when you are making thousands of dollars by giving your audience what it wants? It may increase bias, and limit the self development of not only the creator, but audience as well.

Backblaze, here's a story. My dad used to run a mailing service, kind of like a UPS store, but non-franchise. We also had private mailbox rentals (PMB) for customers. My dad ran the business for about 12 years. About year 7-8, my dad was like, I have to raise the prices of the PMBs. You know what his longtime customers said?

They weren't mad, but they were surprised. They said, "Damn, it's about time. I've been wondering for a long time when it was going to up. Good for you."