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Excellent advice. Time invested in cultivating your relationships and network is invaluable for generating opportunities. If people have a good experience working with you and understand what you are capable of, they will bring opportunities to your door throughout your career.

But is it delicious? Until we get dessert batteries, meh.

Thank you for taking the time to write this article. I was disturbed about the shutdown of Darksky because I really loved the features of that app and reading your article took me on a nice walk down memory lane. Raising the discussion here has been not only been cathartic in that I now know I have a lot of company for my thoughts, but has also provided some alternatives to try to recapture the experience. I'm not a big fan of Apple Weather and at least now I have some options to explore.

This. I thought I had allergies that stuffed up my nose and sinuses my entire life. Then I started tracking my water intake, drinking the proper amount, and boom, my entire head cleared up. I'm so mad at myself for not realizing this decades ago.

The aliens must have picked up CSPAN from the Oumuamua probe, translated the proceedings of US congress, and confirmed the absence of intelligence in the system.

“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.”

― Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Whenever I'm in a rut I just recall this quote and force myself to take a first step in a different direction. A lot of change is momentum based. You just have to start moving.

I have to back out of my driveway in a 2021 Ford Explorer on a fairly busy street. I am typically very cautious because there are parked cars along the street obstructing visibility and you have to be real careful backing out. Even with this heightened caution level, one time I missed a small, gray car that happened to be perfectly obstructed by the rear left pillar as I elected to back out. The "collision avoidance autobraking" kicked on and definitely saved an accident. I may get false positives now and then, but that one instance of a saved accident makes up for all the random quirks as the manufacturers work to improve these systems. I'm a believer.

In my car, there are physical buttons on the steering wheel. A left and right button with a scroll wheel in between on each side. Those buttons change context depending on what you're doing. Left side is usually audio controls and the right side does a few different things but I mostly use it for adjusting the adaptive cruise control. I find no other need for buttons all over the place. Climate is set to auto, most everything else used for driving is on the stalks. I don't understand this great need for lots of buttons. Just have a few useful physical buttons and controls.

I can tell you that I own an R1T, and it's awesome. It fits a nice niche in the vehicle landscape right now. Parameters:

- I do not want to buy another ICE vehicle - I want a vehicle with robust offroad capability - I want a vehicle with excellent performance in terms of acceleration and ride - I want a vehicle with premium interior fit and finish - I do not want a full size truck - I'm not particularly price sensitive

When you look at the competition at the 100k price point, it hits a nice sweet spot for those constraints. I think there is a significant market there to address. Telsa's cybertruck might be interesting but the Rivian is far closer to traditional styling and imho, looks and drives great. There is a lot to like there if they can scale their company and the product is certainly worth 100k. I would buy it again.

You hit on my first thought. There are numerous legitimate user experience cases where keystroke by keystroke or field by field processing is beneficial. Autocomplete for address data is one I see commonly used. Saving a partially filled out form field by field in the event a user becomes disconnected and would like to complete it later is another. From a security perspective, I know of numerous tools that examine the speed and cadence of the act of typing to discern between bot entry in a field versus human entry. There is also software like FullStory that records everything client side, including mouse movement, so companies can determine exactly how people are interacting with their sites in an effort to improve the UX. And from a tinfoil hat perspective, if a user is interacting with a webpage, they should assume everything they are doing on that page is subject to observation by the page author. If the researchers were surprised by this, I fear it's from inexperience.

I think there are shades of gray to be recognized between obstreperously "Retro" and obstreperously Luddite. There are still a significant cohort of people alive that grew up in the era where the rotary phone interface was the only phone interface. Using this device in public could be merely a nod and a wink to others in the same cohort and a nice conversation starter rather than a position against the advancement of technology. You will pry my smartphone out of my cold, dead hands but I think it would be fun to have this device around to occasionally sport out in public for the laughs. And in a nod to yourself and the other comment, thank you for teaching me a new word (obstreperously).

Since you are looking for different tips other than the usual "eat less" and "lift weights", both of which are important but the former far more than the latter, let me submit using the pen instead of the sword. Try this: Before you put anything in your mouth, write exactly what you are going to eat, including the portion (get a cheap scale), down in a food log. Then go ahead and eat it. Do this for a couple weeks without trying to make any changes and then take an afternoon and review your data. You'll see some patterns emerge and then the next week, don't make radical changes, but continue to capture your data and try to change one thing. For example, if you drink things with sugar in them, like Sodas, substitute flavored water. It takes a long time to change habits and also lots of people suffer from eating "mindlessly", e.g., opening up that bag of chips and then nomming the whole thing without thinking about it until they look down and the whole bag is empty. Build a foundation of awareness and then continue to make tweaks week after week until you find an equilibrium and then start moving in the right direction. Be patient, don't rush things. It takes a long time to gain a bunch of weight and also a long time to lose it if you want to lose it in a way that you also develop the awareness and habits to keep it off. Good luck! You can do it!

Agree with the other comments here and would like to add that the OP may have the same name as a person on one of those government lists like OFAC and are getting identity confused with a "known terrorist". US Gov requires certain companies to check the list before doing business with people.

I would have 1000% agreed with you except I had a very different experience last year. I was out seeking loans for a car and shopping around for low interest. One of the lower ones was from a company branded LightStream but on the back end is really SunTrust/Truist. They had a great rate, no origination fees, and weirdly, asked specifically not to set the loan up so that the car was collateral. Maybe it was a credit rating thing (mine is quite good) and they would incur more costs setting it up that way.