bradstewart

Reading the classics, in some sense, connects you to everyone who ever read them across all of human history. That's not nothing.

Interesting, thanks. I've always been a fairly "heavy" (vs other people) user of the emdash after a high school english teacher made us use one in every paper to learn how they worked (along with a colon), and I've been a fan ever sense.

The "it's not ... it's" phrasing though definitely stands out as a bit odd when repeated.

What specifically is the LLM verbiage you're seeing here? That reads like a normal sentence to me.

Thank you for this. As someone who recently had to stumble back into turning a few knobs in (what I thought would be) AD for Office 365 licensing needs, after ~10 years outside of the MS sandbox, I had no earthly idea what Entra was. Until right now.

Thank you for this. Fantastic articulation of a thing I've experienced a few times.

Interestingly (or maybe not?), the things that rise to this level have a much higher activation threshold the older I get.

> parents need to strike a balance between good faith listening and validating, while still ultimately retaining the last word and being able to be an authority when it matters.

This is pretty much the key in my experience.

To add a finer point: good faith listening is validating. Validating doesn't mean telling them it's ok, or giving in, doing what they want, etc.

It's the difference between "yes I understand you're feeling A, B, C, but we're doing it anyway because X" and "I don't care, stop it, be quiet and do it".

Is this really the same thing though? My family uses that app pretty regularly, and for us at least, it stops us from going out to restaurant or something instead.

It's not replacing dumpster-diving, nor would I consider myself to be part of dumpster-diving subculture. I don't talk about it to my friends. It's just cheap food.

Shoe Dog by Phil Night might fit the bill. It is definitely about the person (who founded Nike), but also a fascinating look into how the sportswear industry took hold, sponsorship deals, Michael Jordan, etc.

For me at least, it's personal discipline. If I can fiddle and change stuff, I will.

Not to mention security compliance. If you can afford all of that, seems pretty likely you'll also have SOC2/etc needs. Being able to "ignore" the whole physical security aspect of that stuff is a huge benefit of the cloud.

Two books helped convince me this effect was "real" enough to try it: The Oxygen Advantage and Breathe.

A ~year later, anecdotal evidence: it works.

Came here to say this. Great service.

But it would mean I don't have to buy the same brand of every tool.

New things are coming out, Meta's "prophet" for one. I've been pretty impressed with it in a "just throw data and don't even think about parameters" sense.

But the fact is, ARIMA models work. So people keep using them. And you can see what they're doing, and understand why, and how to tune them.

Same exact path here, just a few years later. Tried gaming on my mom's Gateway, which led to building my first PC with a Pentium D, which led to a hobby of constantly buying/selling hardware on ebay and swapping stuff out, which led to an EE degree, and here we are.

No video games, no PC tinkering and overlocking, no EE degree.