I was reminded of the US Constitution's 10th amendment and reading some of the history around it.
> The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Very relevant to what's going on today with National Guard and ICE deployments.
TIL: Spanish has a sort of written contractions. I speak conversational Spanish so I’ve heard people talk this way, like Puerto Rico or Dominican Republic speakers shortening things, just hadn’t seen it written before.
tó = todo
ná = nada
https://www.spanishdict.com/guide/shortening-of-words
> There are a few apocopes of very common words that are pronounced and written in informal Spanish as monosyllabic words. These popular apocopes include
na, pa, and to, that stand for nada (nothing),
para (for), and todo (all). You may find these words written with an apostrophe at the end, but spelling experts advise against it.
I have this exact problem and (mostly) fixed it by swapping the sensor and transmitter. I just cut the wires and spliced with electrical tape. Now the problem still happens but only sometimes in the fall and spring when the sun's angle is just right. This is with a west facing garage about 41°N latitude USA.
But yeah, why this isn't laser based, or using a light frequency that is less affected by sunlight? Probably cost, or ignorance.
You can't "catch up" on sleep. The only way to get enough sleep is to have a schedule that you stick to.
It's ok to think about work off hours. Write down your thoughts, do some meditation practice to learn to let the work thoughts flow by and notice them, but let them go.
One place I worked, the rule was "always have two pairs of eyes on code". Each team got to decide whether that rule was met with some mix of mob or pair programming, or just code reviews/pull requests. We could change depending on the needs of the project and team members. If management forces any of these options on teams it is a huge mistake. The point of pair programming is to share knowledge, reduce bugs, etc. and making it into a metric to measure teams by doesn't work.
It's a lot like setting a minimum code coverage rule like 80 or 90%, people end up cursing the rule as it makes them do stupid things to satisfy the rule. Code coverage is one great tool to explore where your code needs more tests, but it's not the only one, and it's not the point. The point is writing code that's easily maintained, safely changed, and can be delivered to meet customer needs.
You hired really smart people (hopefully) and you should let them decide how to work.
Why don't excel and all the things that can read excel kill the old xls (2^16 limit) format? I mean still let excel read the file, but don't allow changing the file. Only allow saving the old file to the new format.
Adding on to the thoughts about everyone writing terrible code sometimes, there is also “terrible code makes lots of money”.
Source: over 20 years doing software dev at various companies with terrible code that makes millions. Happily my current job has really great code (imho).
I think VR could be really cool solution to some of the problems with video calls, but the headsets are just too heavy at this point. I have an oculus quest 1 and can't stand wearing it more than maybe 30 or 40 minutes, it just hurts my face. I've tried adding weight to the back, etc., but haven't found a good solution. I have a 20th percentile head size (a really big noggin) so maybe I'm in the minority that wouldn't like this... yet. Maybe some VC could help push to lighter tech.
I haven't tried the Quest 2, but I hear it's lighter. Also have yet to try a Valve Index.
At this point in my experience with video calls, I'm just happy when everybody's wearing headphones so they don't get their audio dropped when somebody talks over them.
I agree with your general thought about this, but in this specific article one of the scientists was quoted saying he was "baffled", but only "kind of". Maybe the title should be "Herd of Fuzzy Green 'Glacier Mice' Kind of Baffles Scientists". I would be more likely to read that!
I backed the Light Phone 2 with the thought that it's kind of like being an early Tesla buyer. People buy the Tesla to look cool, sure, but some also buy it because they want to see a world where cars become something they weren't before, and solve problems with existing cars (pollution, etc).
I'd love to see a world where people talk to each other again rather than sit at lunch, dinner, watching TV, whatever, with their phones out and ignoring each other. There aren't a lot of phones in this space so backing something like this may help create the market I want to see. I don't want to "live disconnected", but I do want to limit my behaviors like "hey let me interrupt this conversation so you can watch while I google that random thing we'll forget about in a minute".
Previously I had an LG slider phone with a physical qwerty keyboard for 5-6 years before buying the Light Phone 2.
I also hate the size of current smart phones, they're just so big. I'm weird I know, but I actually liked the size of my iphone 3G.
As a software engineer I'm hoping they get the custom "tools" available soon so I can tinker with that. I'd like to experiment with making a 2FA tool like Authy or some kind of push notification.
All in all, the Light Phone 2 is kind of slow to use, but it works, and it's not red like my LG was, so it starts less conversations when I use it.
> The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Very relevant to what's going on today with National Guard and ICE deployments.
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/14/10th-amendment-ice-trump-il... (or please google whatever source you find reliable about the topic)