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I never stop being impressed by these "<something-crazy> running Doom" posts. AFAIC, whenever we get to Mars, we won't truly have arrived until someone is playing Doom on Mars, and without wasting valuable resources by doing so. Running Doom, the canonical measurement of truly mastering a thing's capabilities.

I was in the same boat of thinking recently. I've decided that I'm going to blog for my own benefit first -- being a better thinker and writer. When I have something I feel worthy of sharing more widespread, I'll share it with my circle.

I don't own a Tesla, but when it automatically enables the wipers, does the UI on the touchscreen "adapt" to current conditions and bring the wiper speed controls to the top level so it's one touch away? Or does the driver still have to touch through N menus to get to it at all times? If so, that's a terrible driver experience. :-(

Per the PR comments, a workaround I've been using is to have VSCodeVim use VSCode's own undo/redo stack (appended to settings.json)

    "vim.normalModeKeyBindingsNonRecursive": [
        {
            "before": ["u"],
            "after": [],
            "commands": [
                {
                    "command": "undo",
                    "args": []
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "before": ["<C-r>"],
            "after": [],
            "commands": [
                {
                    "command": "redo",
                    "args": []
                }
           ]
       }
  ],

After years of using Vim, I recently learned that I could use `Ctrl+C` instead of `ESC` to get back to command mode. Mind blown.

My newborn daughter's pediatrician recently told my wife and I how important it is to sit in front of the window with our daughter, specifically for vitamin D generation via sunlight exposure (as opposed to taking her outside right now because it's very cold/winter). I guess I (and perhaps all parents of winter babies?) should ask about a vitamin D supplement.

This is great! Now lets please do the same for nurses and social workers who pay exorbitant tuition rates, too, yet get paid peanuts to be on the frontline of health care.

This phenomenon is not limited to BS web. Back when virtualization was the new wave, everyone raved at the money/space/energy savings from running multiple virtual machines on a single server. It was great. Then what happened? Many folks went nuts, spinning up VMs for any and everything, and suddenly needed to spend more money on more physical servers to run more VMs, and an infinite loop.

Bloat from convenience.

I'm 32 now. I dropped out of High School out of disinterest and obtained a GED. My interest was in computers; I spent my teenage years coding and (re)assembling computers.

My first job was an intern at a Help Desk for a media company, making minimum wage ($5.25 at the time, iirc). Toward the end of my internship I accepted an offer to continue working full-time, making 18k/yr. "You don't have a college degree," was the justification for that amount. I excelled technically, eventually taking on a more sysadmin role. After 1 1/2 years I began to question why I still made significantly less than my college-educated colleagues, even though I became a lead with way more responsibilities. Angered, I took the ACT exam, applied to state universities, was accepted, and left for college.

I switched majors from CS to Broadcasting during my freshman year because I was bored with the intro courses. In retrospect, this decision helped me become a more social person, as the Broadcasting/Communications curriculum forced me to work with others and do a lot of public speaking. I somehow managed to graduate in 4 yrs (I was lazy, hated doing papers and taking exams).

That was 8 years and three jobs ago. I now work at a well-known tech company making over six figures. All of my jobs up until now were because I knew someone and had the technical ability. I applied to work at my current job because I wanted to work for a tech company with a tech culture (previously all media + very corporate).

TL;DR - I despise school. All of my technical skills are self-taught. All of my jobs up until the present one were obtained because I knew someone and had the technical ability.

Yes, it's a blatant ripoff of Spotify's website design, not some pre-built Wordpress theme.

Source: I work at Spotify.

The site does a poor job explaining what it actually is. How exactly does it replace the keys to my apartment?

I had to look around for a minute to find the "powered by stripe" message in the bottom left corner of the overlay. Simply seeing that message shouldn't be synonymous with security. I'm trained to look for the secure lock in the address bar of the browser.

A less popular takeaway from this article, albeit anecdotal, is that Twitter ads work really well when targeted appropriately.