Pre-COVID I used a pair of Plantronics noise cancelling headphones that covered all of your requirements pretty well. Unfortunately the microphone was shit, so I decided to get Airpod Pros for all the remote meetings. Even with the short battery life they have quickly become my default headphones.
I'm not typically a fanboy of anything, but Apple does make some quality electronics.
Yep. Exercise is the answer here. Moderate exercise will help your body to produce HDL cholesterol, which aids in removing unhealthy LDL and Triglycerides from your blood stream. According to my doctor, having a higher ratio of HDL to LDL cholesterol is far more important number than the total cholesterol level.
My personal Macbook Pro is from 2014 and I actually like it better than my 2015 for work. Apple switched from NVIDIA to AMD graphics cards in 2015 and it seems to have had a huge thermal impact. The fans on my work machine run at full speed constantly whenever I plug in an external monitor, but I almost never hear them on my personal machine.
This is really interesting, my self-onboarding process is completely different, but seems to serve the same purpose.
1) Look at the bug backlog and pick one that's obvious and reproducible
2) Set up the environment(s) and start to debug (It's surprising how painful this step can be in some organizations, but for any team it will showcase a number of pain points for the developers and testers.)
3) Skim the related code history and make a list of people to talk to from the commits.
4) Informal meetings with those people to ask questions about the product, codebase, and what they see as major problems or bottlenecks.
Step three from the article ("ask who else you should talk to") is something I hadn't thought of before:
The third question will give you a valuable map of influence in the organization. The more often names show up and the context in which they show up tends to provide a very different map of the organization than the one in the org chart.
In large organizations there are often a number of lynchpin-type people (often in non-senior roles) scattered across teams that everyone respects and goes to for information and advice. Finding these people early saves a lot of time and frustration.
Another part of the problem is that there's really no such thing as a useless degree. A person may never use what they learned from that degree, but the fact that they were able to earn a degree is still used by employers as a bar to judge potential employees.
Bob Scott, a weed scientist at the University of Arkansas, recently showed me some experiments that he and his colleagues conducted. They sprayed trays of soil with dicamba, then placed those trays in a field of soybeans far from any dicamba spraying. The soybean plants next to the dicamba-treated soil showed clear signs of exposure to the chemical.
"We had a lot of volatility in these trials, a lot of movement" in unpredictable directions, Scott says. It wasn't what they were hoping to see, Scott says, but the results "do help explain why we had 966 complaints in our state."
> Evidence now shows that Dicamba will evaporate from the soil _after_ being applied to crops safely, meaning that it cannot be prevented from drifting into other fields and killing innocent farmer's crops.
This is a _huge_ issue for Monsanto. There was an estimated 3 million acres of damage to non-dicamba resistant crops last year. Right now Monsanto is claiming that 88% of the crop damage was caused by improper application (wrong nozzles, spraying to close to other crops, etc.), but the evaporation tests could throw a wrench in that claim. The current Dicamba formula is not supposed to evaporate, so if it does then Monsanto could be on the hook for a lot more damage than previously thought.
Pre-COVID I used a pair of Plantronics noise cancelling headphones that covered all of your requirements pretty well. Unfortunately the microphone was shit, so I decided to get Airpod Pros for all the remote meetings. Even with the short battery life they have quickly become my default headphones.
I'm not typically a fanboy of anything, but Apple does make some quality electronics.