> “People in North America don't realize how freeing it is not to have to own a car…”
I last owned a car in 2009. I lived on Long Island’s North Shore at the time. The public buses are not great (NiceBus), and the train not very convenient (OB branch). Still, there is as a train and bus service leaving town. There is also a nice in-town municipal bus that costs a dollar and goes to downtown and the grocery store. As it is, the store was only 1.5 miles from my house.
All of this is fine if you’re single. But if you have a family with all the shopping and taxing, it’s not very appealing.
I now live in Queens, NY. While the public transit is better. Unfortunately stores are more spread out and now I’m 2 miles from shopping and there is no shuttle.
All this to say—I’m living the dream without a car, and NYC, even out in the sticks, is not bad if you’re single.
Sorry you're having allergy problems. I only experience mild symptoms, so can't provide any more information than you've prolly found for yourself.
> "...suppose to try the dozen different gobbledegook ingredients on the shelf before figuring which one isn't bullshit..."
When you say "on the shelf" i presume you're specifically referring to OTC medication and not prescription medication, right? A common sense question deserves a common sense answer. Yes. Companies will happily take your money and sell you snake oil (nominally, so long as the consequences are near zero). Caveat emptor. Phenylephrine as the non-regulated version of pseudoephedrine is the perfect example.
IMHO the only way to buy OTC medication (or food for that matter) is to read the labels and understand the ingredients. (I hate palm oil and sugar. yuck)
For example, I work in hospitality bookkeeping/accounting. Back in 2018 on a call with Chowly I learned Third-Party Online Ordering (TOOS) to refer to the then growing list of companies such as Caviar, Grubhub, DoorDash, etc.
Meanwhile I continued to hear from colleagues a variety of descriptive nouns such as, delivery platform, third-party delivery, delivery apps.
Which was OK, until the market diversified and actual delivery companies appeared, Relay chief among them.
So when someone spoke of delivery-something the question was are you talking about food ordering or food delivery platform?
Funny, but a controlled vocabulary goes with bookkeeping like peas with carrots.
As an aside, i have to spend some time on the phone with vendors and got tired of the dogs breakfast of words used to spell out a serial number or email, Irving-Boy-Momma, Ice-Ball-Monday, and other endless variations. Now I’m Nato compliant, haha. India-Bravo-Mike.
> “Family does not yet support cases where you have Gizmos as your only Verizon lines of service…”
Curious if the c-suite knew of this corner before they approved the change. Cherry on top that customers might have to buy more services to continue their lifestyles.
Years ago my brother gifted me the then current model of Ender Pro. A great 3D hobby printer. I tackled it like I did most of my electronics projects—with full ignorance. So it’s with this memory in mind i say this is a nicely organized and illustrated article. I appreciate the content.
> “dry your filament”
Like with paper towels?? WTF person is sending “wet” filament into their printer? (pizza printer! Haha.) This sounds stupid or is this something very unintuitive regarding humidity? This needs more discussion.
I don’t know what support calls their digital support systems (let’s call it “the script”), but that quote sounds very familiar—-support person following a script don’t have the access, or authority to effect change.
What’s more, if the old way is deprecated, the people with authority don’t want you to change back. There is no path to reverse the change in the hands of support.
Even if it was literally the case this is a chat response, I see no difference with most human-support CSRs.
That’s not how business is run these days—-at least that’s my experience with SaaS for small businesses.
On the topic—I’m shocked. Seems like this judge missed the last 40 years of the internet. People organize on all manner of subjects on the net with silly names, and around all subjects. Failure to see this, makes terrorists of us all.
At the risk of seeming pedantic, 80/20 is not a “metaphor”. The OP calls it that “old joke” (which is a metaphor). I would call it a “rule of thumb” or an “model” (“abstract model” might be the term).
> “High-intensity training reduced fat and maintained lean mass […] though changes were small and not clinically meaningful compared with exercise of lower intensity…”
High intensity does border on leading to injury — just making the wrong move — and you’re back to zero intensity?
What about bot traffic? I was imagining how this might appear on my own blog. Prolly quite empty of stick figures. But what about the “hordes” of bots which apparently make up some 50% of Net traffic?
Puts me to mind a dear musician friend I lost to heroin (or those drugs related to its use, since the details of the death remain a mystery to all but the immediate family). Muse of musicians. Wicked substance.
The Olive Free Library in the Catskills, NY will lend a fishing pole. (The Catskills is considered the birthplace of “American” Fly Fishing traditions).
> “We're having too much of these look back to hunter-gatherer state of affairs to explain modern phenomenons.”
Sparks my imagination. Like sibling relations when you’re old. You must go back further and further to a time of innocence and ignorance to find agreement and common ground.
Does this solution use a private/local LLM or something else? Sorry if the answer is obvious. I’ve just started considering this for an internal wiki to my company.
> “Microsoft listed 15 productivity features [including] richer Copilot integration…”
Dumb-@$$ Copilot in Outlook. The other day I needed to list all of the file attachments for a particular email. Copilot couldn’t do it. But it could suss my impatience.
Hmmm. Now it's 2022 and my Karma is still 417. At this rate maybe I'll make 500 for my 10 year anniversary!
Update 2023: looks like the Karma hit 500 a few years early of my prediction—LOL