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Good thoughts here and also good post, always enjoy reading through a nice notebook. Also have seen the race charts popping up recently and it's cool to get a bit of a deep dive on it. Honestly though my opinion is that they are flashy and because of the animation and novelty factor people are drawn to the chart.

As a newish dad this is relatable but not as much as for my wife. There is so much pressure and she is constantly telling me she feels like a bad mom. I say listen , who cares about the media or twitter. There is always some person posting on instagram about how they make a gourmet vegan meal for their baby. As a male, an alternative dude, and a bit of a stoner with open mind I can pretty easy filter out all the crap and focus in on what matters. Not as easy for the females, i have mad respect for all the moms out there grinding.

As for the whole 'my kid is so amazing', yeah i have that feeling as well with my kid. seems like it's just a paternal thing. but damn man kid is fucking cute and EVERYONE says hi to her. This doesnt happen with all little ones right? Our kid is smiley as shit, waving, laughing and basically a smile generator. IF you dont smile as this kid you have no soul

Very true. and although i'm in the midwest you can still find forest preserves, hiking trails, lakes, rivers etc. Get out, find some big wide open space, no other people around. You get to zone in, decompress a little bit. personally i like fishing so i can stand around in silence for hours casting a little bait around trying to bag a fish.

shameless plug for king gizz.

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I feel like based on my own life accomplishments i should be on the 30 for under 30. Married, child, successfully living as an adult for a few years now. THAT is a real accomplishment.

All the cool kids these days are _wearing_ nodeJS , not just writing it!

agreed. the responder there is such classic apple. You should get the watch because it counts as not looking at your phone?? Even though you are still looking at a screen. Kind of bizarre logic to me but to each their own bud.

Also good for you man, ditchin some of the distractions for focus. I think some people get weirded out by me when i watch sports because i'm basically 100% in the zone and yelling constantly. Trying to soak up every detail of every play. not casually browsing and watching 2 / 3 screens at once. I can go hours without my phone without really noticing much honestly.

Interesting. My team currently uses (abuses?) postgres for timeseries data. You mind ansswering some general questions about your experience with timescale? You said 100 million sensor samples. What was the upload/download frequency? Our application is pushing hundreds of millions of rows across many different data sources every day. On top of that, we are also querying the shit out of this data to run models and we need VERY quick queries. like 10-100ms speed.

How do you think timescaleDB would handle that size and also velocity of data?

Interesting i was just thinking about this yesterday. I should ditch chrome. yet here i am typing more shit for google to harvest from me and sell to the highest bidder.

I'm sure mongo has some good use cases but so far at my company we have evaluated and tried mongo for a few things. Never really made it very far. This article seems kind of petty to me honestly. This is the same mongoDB that by default left databases open and god knows how many instances out there are hacked.

The only thing i've ever gotten with mongo is a bunch of marketing BS honestly. We have worked with some of their sales people and technical people to try and figure solutions out. It was 100% marketing BS. no thanks for me, best of luck for you guys.

Recently went on the chair search, of course people said get the Aeron. One co-worker said he got one for 50 bucks off craiglist. I wasnt getting that lucky. Ended up just going to local staples/office depot and sitting in a bunch of chairs. Found one for two hundo that adjusts and is quite comfortable. It's a beautyrest chair (mattress company).

Others are right it's about the measurements and angles. I measured up my desk , keyboard level etc and made sure my chair fit those measurements. Also have an old varidesk from 2014 that still works. So i spent about an hour standing during morning & afternoon sessions. This really helps me , avoiding the sitting for 8+ hours which really sucks.

Depending on your situation, when i was in office i would take a 5-10 min walk in morning and afternoon to stretch, close browser tabs, and collect thoughts. Take breaks & walks if you can!

So true. I've recorded plenty of jams thru a small usb pre-amp. It sounds fucking awesome too.

we had this issues on our EC2 servers getting out of sync with other systems. Had to schedule some crontabs to ntp update yo. Maybe them EU dudes forgot to sync their clocks?

Yeah i agree with you. Excel is very powerful to some degree but like all things it can be abused.

somewhere in a cube farm i can hear the shouts...

"Hey Karen did you get the latest budget sheet?"

"Is it budget_final_v2_2019.xlsx?"

"Damnit Karen that is from last week dear god dont tell me you sent that to corporate!! We are on budget_final_FINAL_v4.xlsx"

Not sure if taking some shrooms can help cure depression but it can really change your perspective on life. Maybe that is what folks are talking about in this article. You are going thru all this pain and suffering, it affects your family , loved ones. It really sucks, we have all experienced something like that. If the patient takes a dose of shrooms (insert mind altering drug of choice) it could help give them a new perspective on the world, their live, and their place in nature.

Not everyone can do this but when i get truly bored and have the time and space... Spark up a little doobson and start playing music. Dont think, just play for 30 minutes and hour 2 hours. However these times are much scarcer with a little kid in the house.

Modern music is a mirror image of the internet culture as well. Blasted with as many synth hooks and processed vocal melodies as possible. I was recently turned onto this band called Wand. If you want to feel some delicious space in a song, check out Scarecrow by Wand. The video is amazingly simple too.

The constant bombardment of shit is so real though. I want to spend time with my wife and kid. Sometimes it's hard to focus though. Everywhere you look in public there is something flashing to get your attention. Thankfully we _are_ able to turn things off for a while and just be with each other.

what up SJ. I have to comment on you again my friend. Why are you so passionate about this eyeball re-drawing technology? Do you video call your family and friends all the time because you live far away?

Reading these conversations i'm going a bit crazy as you try to rationalize why this eyeball redrawing business is a good and necessary tech. I think it's complete trash. Is this the tech that makes apple worth billions of dollars?

Not trying to stir shit up with you. just generally curious as I have an extremely opposite viewpoint. I am 28, prime millenial love to use apps and phone age. I am a huge nerd and geek (clearly as we are commenting on HN lol). I have literally never face-timed anyone except when other people are doing it and I am nearby.

hmm. i cant agree with this as a person who does phone calls and then sees people in real life. i guess there is a market for facetimers like yourself that i must respect. if you care that much about appearing properly on a video call with grandma, sure let apple redraw your eyeballs haha. The only people accustomed to talking to people who are looking at each other's necks are the people who live on the cell phone.

Like the girl who was doing a video facetime call on her cell phone all the way from waiting at the gate , boarding, sitting on plane. Call me an old grumper if you want, downvote if you want. but damn , da fugg is the deal get off my lawn with your video chats kids.

easier said than done my friend.

I work at a big company with 10,000+ employees (only 100s of software people, mainly sales people). We get phished probably once a year no lie. You've got older folks working HR departments and someone gets an email like.

from: jim.bob.sales@bigcompony.com

"hey cindy it's bob your bosses boss boss. I forgot my password and have a MAJOR presentation coming up. Can you give me yours for login so i can see our powerpoint?"

people on my team fall for it every time our corporate IT security people send the tests. I'm like jesus guys did you look at ANY part of the email?

Yeah i think this is the 'software engineers are not REAL engineers'. There is a fair argument on both sides and the article raises an interesting point. Perhaps the root cause is how new & rapid all this tech has come across our world. Folks have been building things thousands of years right?

We've only been building scalable docker microservice agile jira lambda functions for a few years now. Curious to see where time takes us. Change takes a while to come along, companies and people have been getting hacked for many years but i havent heard any whispers of change.

Interesting to look thru, not sure I totally trust it. I live in central Illinois in farm country and every farmer i know is quite wealthy. They have a healthy lineage, grandpa, dad, son (and also grandma, mom, daughter). The work is passed on thru the family and young folks are walking into millions.

My take: what is new? People want to own an $800 phone that can browse the web, do group chat, run apps etc. I get a kick out of modern ads, although they are probably effective (just not on me).

"Buy this $800 iphone 10x-r so you can send animated images to your grandma & grandpa. Or run an app that puts an smiley imoge over your face"

I understand for some people this is a great feature. Or how about being able to 'unlock your phone' with your face. Great that is totally cool (not), but sure go ahead and drop a grand on the new iphone if you want to.

I dont really agree with the article. Technically these group chats might be sending info over the wire. But normally i wouldnt really associate a group chat with "the internet".

yeah, someone above mentioned that with Go as the example. It's pretty nifty in some cases but think there are two sides to the story. I know folks who write lovely python code everytime. I know others at my gig who even after 3 years are not putting spaces after equals sign (and other PEP/flake8 blunders) and every PR is littered with syntactic errors. The code formatter is brilliant for this case.

Not sure anyone will see this but this article is partly trash. When your post is titled "things you are not using in python3 but probably should" and the first section is on f-strings... I was tempted to close the tab then , but i followed thru and did find some interesting things.

But seriously f-strings? people have been talking about these for years now, it's not new is it?

Yeah this is a great point. I spent hours watching my buddies play and vice versa. My dad asked me this weekend , as i half jokingly put on the Overwatch tournament on tv, how can you watch someone play video games it's boring. I said well dad how can you watch golf on TV it's boring. We both agree, yes we watch it but really we want to play. but sometimes you cant play.

The lets plays are fun for me , same with twitch. Sometimes i cant fully get into a game so i hop onto twitch, or i'll start up a lets play series. Watch 30 minutes everyday on lunch break and after a few weeks/months you are done.

I mainly do lets play to relive my first experience in dark souls & bloodborne haha.

i'm 100% addicted , in some capacity, to gaming. I enjoy it too much as a hobby to stop. I dont even get into online games though. Honestly i've been playing soulsborne shit and offline action games for the past few years. My satisfaction in gaming comes from overcoming challenges.

In dark souls that means precise melee combat against boss for a good few minutes. One tiny slip up with a dodge/block/attack, and you typically get shreked. You can spend hours learning and practicing against a boss and then you finally kill that mutha fucka and DAMN it feels good. That is the dopamine rush I am chasing

I'm with you guys. I'm one of the types who likes to flow against the meta while still kicking ass (sometimes). I am not a fortnite player but nothing is more satisfying then getting into some good PvP action and schooling one of these noobies who thinks they are good because they bought stuff.

I'm sure there is all kinds of cyber bullying, fortnite bullying and stuff. I must have been lucky but as a youth I had a couple real friends. We played halo all the day, i wasnt the best. I usually sucked compared to some buddies. But we still teamed up and had fun playing together.

It might not be easy for a current 8/10 year old boy to do this, but there are a zillion fortnite players. Maybe he can just find some other people to play with. Or if you are 8 years old, maybe you shouldnt be playing online shooting games.

I wasnt able to do the online shootie stuff (halo era) until I could afford my own shit and bought an xbox with my own money. Yeah all of my friends parents bought shit for them and they had xbox live, all of it. Paid runescape account. We were 10/11/12. Sure i was a little bit out of it, no body wanted to come to my house cause I didnt have the online games yet.

I just had a daughter recently and want to get her playing games. Like other parents in this thread, i am not feeding them money to buy in game shit. I'm not going to give her an iphone/ipad at age 4 and be surprised when she spends $1,000+ on in game shit. I've heard this exact story from multiple co-workers. I usually just laugh it off but part of me is like, the fuck is yoru problem giving your kid an ipad and giving them free reign? This co-worker is a c suite guy making a shit ton of money. Likely doesnt have enough time to actually _be_ with his kids so you just get an ipad.