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Yeah. The article reads like a long-winded personal opinion. Advice for the author.

This is what I do. I don't write docs for other people, I write them for myself. I find them most useful for processes that are intricate but that I won't have need to do for months at a time. (Looking at you, server certs)

And the lack of ability to just skip past them.

The 'Kill Sticky' plugin for Firefox works pretty well for me for most stuff. Most popups darken the screen, though, and it doesn't handle that. It's very useful to me nonetheless. If you don't use Firefox, you can go their site and copy/paste it to your bookmarks.

This is one of my go-to indicators that I'm in an IT shop where I need to leave. I'm really good at sussing out and learning systems that people are guarding for the sole reason that they want to retain the clout of being the only one who understands it. If I run into too many of those or if I need access to one to do MY job, I start tapping into my network to move on.

This is another benefit of truly analog manual controls: Memory. Used to be your stereo volume knob was just at a certain level; when you turned it on it was at that level. Now they're all software controlled. At least some stereo equipment maintains this paradigm but I'm with you on the phone volume as it's dictated by your phone and the volume for one device could be drastically different than another.

I purposely NEVER connect smart TVs to the internet for this reason. I'd like to get a "dumb" TV but the ones in the sizes I'd like are prohibitively expensive.

+1 for Integza. You should probably include a disclaimer that it is backyard engineering at its finest. He doesn't really do a lot of hard science in his videos. He has great ideas and the persistence to get them at least semi-functional.

"The path to being healthier starts with observation. Keep a food and activity journal and crunch the numbers." Downloading MyFitnessPal and actually using it alone was such an eye-opener. That mirror to the face is sometimes all a person needs to commit properly.

There is an Okinawan principle to eating that says to eat until 80% full. There is a lag between actually being full and your brain realizing you're full. I can't find actual papers about it but if you look up Hara Hachi Bu you can find a ton of pulpy news articles about it.

Edit: I have the same problem. I ate a whole frozen pizza a few days ago and felt like crap for a day afterward. Not just a little personal one either. A full Screamin' Sicilian pepperoni...

I've also noticed a tendency of "rockstar" types to entrench themselves. They'll bury some esoteric process/scripting/infrastructure or combination of the three somewhere knowing that it's a bit fragile but easy to fix. All so they can just say, "I fixed it" after the rest of the engineers have been trying to keep production running for 4 days.

Far in the future, we will also see the effects of having full or near-full adoption of self-driving. If all the cars on the road are driven by the "same" or at least similar driver, the edge-cases will drop off significantly.

True. I guess I was thinking that if you build totally new infrastructure for these new overhauled cars, you'd keep it completely separate from other modes of transportation. My sci-fi inclinations had me imagining tubes like Logan's Run.