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For whatever it's worth I have a personal counter-story to airtag usefulness. Not to get into the debate of indoor vs outdoor cats, we had a cat a few years ago that liked to roam around outside and one time it got spooked and disappeared for two weeks. It came back all skinny and hurt and after that we bought an air tag collar for peace of mind. The airtag worked just fine for a few months until the cat disappeared again. That very day the airtag stopped working so when we actually need it, the signal was permanently lost. We never found out why. I could imagine perhaps a car hit it or a coyote ate it, but there's certainly edge cases where an airtag would fail immediately. Battery life is highly unlikely to be the culprit in my opinion as it was fairly new, working recently before that day and the timing was too perfect.

My thoughts exactly! At least half of these are chart types that I've never seen before or at least would never think of using so having this reference is awesome.

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To me nutrition feels so complicated these days in that pretty much everything that you could think to eat has a bunch of detractors claiming there's reasons why it's unhealthy. I found a video recently listing something like 6 reasons why oatmeal is unhealthy.

With that said, for the last few years I've found a few things that work for me that I've incorporated into my routine. In the morning I'll eat a naval orange and drink green/black tea with a bit of honey and cream. Later I'll have some store bought guac and Costco Mary's crackers. Sometimes I'll have add some Kimchi, feta cheese, fresh vegetables, hummus. Costco frozen fruits are nice too for smoothies or just plain snacks.

I always use self-checkout and prefer it. Recently though it's gotten really annoying in the Walmart near my house in that there are like 30 checkouts out of which only 4 are working and there's again a line up. Probably again some stupid shoplifting prevention strategy, but it's highly nonsensical.

On a similar note, I'm blown away by the checkout system in Decathlon stores. You literally just throw the item into a checkout bin and it somehow detects what the item is (maybe NFC tags?) And just adds the price on the screen. No weighing or scanning barcodes. Really futuristic!

NewPipe is one of the best apps available on Android. The only thing missing for me currently is Android Auto support.

Not sure how relevant the energy consumption piece is if you just hook it up to the hot water instead of cold? That's what you're supposed to do anyway to get it to actually clean something, right?

That's exactly what I was wondering as well. I didn't really understand how tapping into the power source could possibly cause an additional loss that wouldn't otherwise happen.

For reasons that I can't quite explain fully, I like angular much better. For me it's a shame that react won the battle and is used at every company now.

I've been there once almost 10 years ago. It was really nice. For me the highlight was the enormous palm trees and the massive lily pads.

I don't totally agree with this. Prices between airlines and routes can vary dramatically to the same destination so it's not like saving 20$ will usually be the difference between the cheapest option and a more preferred option. Also if you look at situations like Volkswagen, it seems to me that neither governments nor consumers hit them very hard after their massive scandal a few years ago. I see new VWs all over the place.

I've had a great experience with a Xps 13 and currently 15. I'm not even sure what the alternatives are if you want a high end Ubuntu machine?

I bought a fairly beefed up Dell xps 15 a year ago and put Ubuntu on it as I usually do. It's an amazing laptop with the only drawback being shockingly crappy battery life. Not sure if this is the laptop's fault though or Linux power management. I mostly use it docked so it's not a big deal for me. Overall I'm super satisfied.

I agree with the first point which is definitely a blessing even if we can't see it directly.

To the second point I would argue (and I unfortunately do argue) that "responsibility" can be a vague and subjective term. Like is it a hard-coded responsibility to make your bed every morning? Some would argue yes and use funny arguments like "ask anyone normal" or "all highly intelligent/successful people do it". I would say it's generally a waste of time unless you're bed is so off that you can't comfortably get back into it.

Yes, I think you're quite right with the OCD type personality. The communication about these various minor things does also tend to increase when she's more stressed/anxious.

I feel like it's generally under control and we mostly have a good balance/compromise established, but I could be totally wrong, just like the article author!

Fair enough, although I think the term "slob" is a bit extreme here. I would say that I'm just not very into what I would call "organization for the sake of organization". For example:

1. As the author already mentions, why put a cup into the dishwasher if you plan on using it again?

2. Why fold and put away my pants if I wear the same pants everyday for a week?

3. Why hang my jacket if I know I'm leaving again in an hour

4. Why make the bed at all ever? (making the bed is its own topic of insanity IMO)

Etc etc etc

I think I just value and emphasize what I consider efficiency (perhaps laziness?).

I'm in a marriage and I struggle with this same question. I sometimes feel like the things my wife cares about are essentially endless. Like if I bend to "her way" and put effort into consistently placing the dirty cup in the dishwasher, next week something new comes up. Then it's the clothes on the floor of my side of the bed or not hanging my jacket or not putting my shoes away perfectly in the closet. At times I get the sensation that it just becomes like waking on eggshells to constantly mitigate somebody's upsetness of irrelevant (to me) things.

I found the article really well written and I think a lot of people will be able to relate to it. Consideration for our partners and compromise is a tricky and interesting domain. I'm realizing more and more that there can be a lot of complexity behind benign everyday situations like a dirty cup beside the sink. Like how can a dirty dish even perturb somebody so much in the first place? Is it related to some trauma or childhood conditioning? Can it be addressed somehow?

That makes sense, but it also doesn't really support the article's overall argument about the perils of "standardization without understanding". If what you're saying is true then it could very well be that the approach to standardize the queuing would have worked perfectly well had the senior dev chosen a different technology to underlay his library (ie not Kafka), right?

Very interesting article! I was left wondering though in what ways the queue abstraction solution failed?

I hope I'm not the only one who has nostalgia for tables and frames. There was only one way to center content and it always worked. Now there's a hundred and none ever work without a bunch of Googling and troubleshooting.

I totally agree. I can't imagine paying the price of a premium laptop for a phone without newpipe.

Just out of curiosity, where is all of this content coming from?

I'm a bit disappointed that there's no mention of mini laser cannons strapped to these drones. That would be way cooler, especially at night, and much more environmentally friendly compared to pesticides.

Maybe people don't want to watch exclusively Netflix's originals. I personally wish there was a UI feature to just hide all of Netflix's own crap and show me what else they have. Of course that feature will never exist.

I think the dream was that Netflix would actually become the one-stop-shop for absolutely everything old and new. That you could watch the latest GoT as well as get your fix of all of the old Schwarzenegger movies for 10 bucks a month. Obviously that never worked out. For me it's clear that in the near future every production house will have its own streaming service and they will essentially become stream-channels once an aggregator comes in and gives you a package deal. You'll save 10% if you bundle up 10 different streaming services, etc. I'm sure the next step after that will be to re-introduce commercials? Why not profit even more by having people pay monthly and serve them ads at the same time? At that point the cycle will restart as a new wave of piracy will begin because obviously people don't want to pay a fortune to watch ads and have access to a bunch of crap they never watch.

I totally agree with this. This culture of being expected to be present at work simply to pretend like you're working more needs to end immediately in every work place. It's just plain toxic.

I'm blown away on a regular basis by how long it takes to write software that in my opinion is super easy.

Usually it just comes down to fuzzy/missing/changing requirements. A lot of times people know that they want something, but they don't know exactly what. Or they're absolutely sure they need feature x, but then later they realize they don't, but they missed out on developing other more fundamental features.

My understanding is that in the US there are even companies which can be hired by hospitals and other care centers to "optimize" the codes before the final submission to the insurance. I take this to mean that they can ensure that you're using the right codes and also probably try to maximize the payout.

I always find it kind of silly when AI is just thrown into a field with the notion that they'll just deal with the messy, subjective and unstructured data (like hand written medical notes for example) as is. For me it makes much more sense to try to clean up and structure the data from the start instead. Maybe come up with some data acquisition compromise that is both UX friendly and give rise to more structure and consistency.

With all of these AI generated arts, it's not clear to me whether this is using the training data as a kind of template and then somehow generating entirely novel content or if it's essentially just a somewhat sensible re-organization or re-quilting of the same components. In the case of poetry, maybe just a jumble of the original verses. Based on my knowledge of machine learning, it's more like the latter scenario, which somehow doesn't strike me as something radical...