PostPlummer

> When you reach mastery you will usually end up breaking most rules.

This is so true, and expands wildly beyond the area of mastery. I was in the fortunate position to be able to spend days with numerous world class piano masters, both during rehearsals, dinner & regular daily activities and was always impressed with their "breaking of rules" both on and off stage. Some do this completely natural (Lazar Berman, who picked his performance piano within one minute "You have to understand, picking out a piano is like picking out a partner, you feel within seconds if you like her or not." ) with others it felt more like an act (not going to write her name, but she insisted to have a friend turn the sheet music, who was not able to read music and thus was either too slow or fast and she had to swiftly flip to the correct pages while performing...).

The more mechanical piano players where never really my thing. I love the players with their own style and interpretations & personal particularities (Lazar Berman again: Bring me to some cheap shops, I get tired of all the fancy places people take me all the time."). Critics are often not so much into that, however. So the number of "rule breakers" was always limited to a maximum of something like 20%.

Clear goals, period.

This could be: We like to work on this and there is no deadline.

Or: Forget the details of this exquisite item, but focus on getting it working on date X.

I would not mind the perceived lack of progress in your case but see the journey as the goal. Spending quality time with a friend is about as good as it gets (until there are bills to pay, then make sure you can pay the bills first).

Based on the same thing happening in my family, this morning I came to the conclusion that I would pay for my wedding video (1990) to be upscaled just to rejuvenate the interest of my kids in said video.

The thing with "modern" quality is that it distracts so much less that it becomes far easier to consummate. And that does not just apply to young kids but to me as well.

That is just fine for PCI-DSS. Not a problem at all.

Thank you (and the other responder for the Android information too).

I stand corrected.

No they don't.

Just like iOS they use these randoms when scanning, NOT when connected (static IP's would otherwise not work anymore).

Exactly this. You can not "force" these sessions, they happen to happen, or not. It takes (a lot of open mic) time to get these things rolling.

It is a number game: more contact, more bouncing.

For about 5 years I ran a worldwide (FPS) tournament with a couple of friends. We never met AFK. It had to work online, or it would not work at all.

This is one reason I always ask potential employees if they encage in online communities. I find it a tremendous plus if people are able to collaborate with "strangers" and without financial dependencies.

Get to know yourself & be humble.

That is it.

> For many governments this a legal requirement.

As in Healthcare.

I leave my phone at home, or off when I want to, but the single biggest improvement of privacy and peace comes from "downtime" (iOS > settings > Screentime > Downtime). From 20:00 till 06:00 I will not receive any messages from apps.

On top of that "do not disturb" (iOS > settings > Do not disturb) hits at 20:00 and ends at 07:00 where no one can call me (except for those who are in my favourites).

So basically my phone is dead > 20:00 till 07:00.

Best of both worlds to me.

Your answer baffles me.

From the blog I get the impression Geoff is not "raise a question as to what is happening here" about HE's 97%, but more about all the others with >0% & <97%.

Would you care to enlighten us with what you are implying?

This is way to smart for me to even pretend to understand. What I do take away from the article is this quote:

> The first thing that you should do is clearly document your requirements and what attacks your system must protect against. Any undefined attack vector in your model should be assumed to be a vulnerability in your design.

Which I will borrow and use to wake up the (e-voting) audience later this week :)

> I think most people would agree

The fans: yes, the obscure & filthy rich owners of the big teams would not.

I would give my left arm when we would equalise the playing field where it comes to signing football players.