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. :-(
On the Model 3 (the car in this article), the wiper controls are on a 'card' that you can swipe across to bring up. When the wipers are activated, either automatically or manually by the stalk on the steering wheel, that also brings that 'card' to the front.
Model 3 owner -- when you press the quick wipe button on the left stock it brings up the wiper interface menu to adjust the wipe speed and the auto wipe button. It's very quick and only requires a short glance and one screen press.
One way to improve it would be after the left stocks quick wipe button is pressed, let us adjust the speed with the steering wheel control wheel with a volume based auditory click to indicate it's gone up or down. Although those are used for volume and speed if cruise or autopilot is enables so it would need to only stay in wiper speed adjust for a few seconds
You may like to also try `CTRL+[`. It's the telnet escape character and seems to be a general substitute for ESC on OSX, Windows, and I think Linux too. I find it pretty quick since my hands can work together.
Another handy tip I ran across was to remap CAPS LOCK to CTRL. Quite nice for both Vim and Emacs users once you get used to it.
Alt+Movement is what I usually use, since it's easy to hit on my keyboard, and lets you combine dropping out of insert mode and a movement command to move you towards where you want to be for whatever you want to do next.
If you don't want to move, you can just hit Alt+l as the "default" escape.
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.
or just go outside with your baby. humans are pretty resilient, especially the rubbery little ones and they are really good at telling you when they are uncomfortable.
Great to know! I just started supplementing vitamin D this year in New England, and it seems like it's really helpful.
I think a big part of my point was about the resiliency of children. It's worrying that new parents are scared to experience the world with their children.
New parents are still getting up to speed on what is a real danger and what isn't. There are plenty of legitimate dangers that require consideration, as well as scary things that are in fact perfectly fine.
as a new-ish parent, i'd love to get my kids outside to soak up sunlight but it's nearly impossible to stay outside for any meaningful amount of time in the northeast winter.
I've seen parents schlep <1 year old babies up some of the White Mountains in mild winter conditions (snow on the ground, below 32F, etc). I think you are doing something wrong.
ignoring the glass - in the winter much of the US is at too high a lattitude to get any UVB, as it bounces off the atmosphere because the angle of attack is too shallow. The sun needs to be at least 50degrees above the horizon for UVB to penetrate the atmosphere. In an iowa winter, even at its apogee the sun is only ever 26deg above the horizon
You should definitely check out a Vitamin D supplement for your daughter. Where I am from we have reduced sunlight during winter months and it is something all the pediatricians have recommended and asked if we are doing because of the lack of sunlight.
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.
> 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.
I would not say nurses get paid "peanuts". Not many jobs would let you earn close to $100k in New York City with only a bachelor degree (or in some cases only a two-year associate degree)
Especially social workers. I have literally no idea why anyone would go to grad school for an MSW and take on the kind of debt required to do so, then enter a profession with the combination of low salaries and horrible work environment that social work has. The same goes to a slightly lesser extent for secondary and elementary school teachers.
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.
I tweeted a couple of weeks ago about Uber Eats charging me way more than my wife for delivery. I use the app way more than her. Related? My tweet with photo comparison https://twitter.com/kaimallea/status/974819433322557440
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.
