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On the contrary, McKinsey can also service as an abstraction between the customer and AI. The customer gets two layers of removal from any real responsibility for the price of one.

> RedditIsFun

This app is now called "rif is fun" due to a trademark licensing dispute.

I've been on both ends of the child thinking that the haircut is completely fine and requires no advance notice, and a month later the same child being terrified and needing to be held down.

Honestly, with an adult you would be right, but kids are just a crapshoot.

In a previous life I worked in secured government spaces where personal devices weren't allowed at all, full stop, and the internet was also restricted to prevent access to most web streaming services.

If I wanted to listen to music while coding, I found a workaround by owning a Shuffle and getting approval for it. The Shuffle doesn't have a USB port and doesn't connect to WiFi or Bluetooth, so it met all the criteria for an exemption.

It's weird having lived in such a strict cross-section of users to need these specific criteria met. Even the OP lists several options that all would fail to meet these restrictions.

I find that the same issue is made worse when using a service like Instapaper to store content for reading on other devices later. The pull quotes read like an emphasized point, when in fact they're just text I'm about to re-read or have already read. This breaks the flow of reading by pulling me away from the author's intended order and pushes me to some other part of the article.

Removal of pull quotes entirely would be a Quality of Life improvement in such a case.

> I have no (interesting) problems to solve with [...]

In fact, what pushed me into VBA was when $manager thought I would be a good fit to learn it, and gave me the book! I was a lucky case, as the new skills ended up being immediately required.

Excel Power Programming with VBA, by John Walkenbach

It's what pushed me into programming and eventually data science in other languages, which led to a significant push in my career.

That's not to say that you should read this book, but instead a remark on how adding high-demand skills to my skillset made me more money than any of the side-hustles or hobbies I've ever tried.

I have a lot of heartburn reading something like this. I spent a decade in government consulting trying to implement anything resembling "data science" or "DevOps" and got repeatedly shut down by higher ups or by random bureaucrats that saw any modern practices, including any technology, as a threat.

Excel macros working one day, then prohibited the next by new IT policies.

Directors demanding that service line bosses meet with me to discuss "data-driven decision-making", followed by a solid week of said chiefs telling me that my job is a joke.

Actual honest-to-God employees trying to make a difference in financial openness having their coworkers walk by their desks and loudly shout they "ain't doing that shit" and walking away.

Two years hunting for a database to store 2 GB of data, and only finding one when a new contractor onboarded and knew a guy in the next office over who would let them have a partition of SQL Server.

I wish I was making any of this up. The federal government has massive, massive employee culture issues. This list is... a nice dream.

I can narrow it down to a top 4, if that's permissible.

* The Man Who Was Thursday, by GK Chesterton

* The Oresteia, by Aeschylus

* Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand

* The Eye of the World, by Robert Jordan

A gamified method to learn the base functions of a language. Great idea. I'd buy a Pandas pack.

I'm finding that the Daily Mixes, found near the Discover Weekly playlist in the "Made for <user>" part of the app, do a good job of this, and will also include similar music not in your library for discovery

In fact, my personal experience is that Daily Mixes do a better job showing me new music than Discover Weekly does

They found me on LinkedIn last year and scheduled a sales call, which I agreed to. I'm in consulting, so I need to know about their product in case a client asks for it, or in case I need to recommend their product as a solution to a client's case. They specifically marketed to me its database performance and its use in the cloud, which I won't get into here, since I'm not their spokesperson.

To date, I haven't had a specific need for Snowflake, but that's down to my client's situations, not any issue with the company or its product. If that situation changed, it would indeed result in contracts.