If you don't have access to a bidet, just use the "dab of lotion on the TP" technique.
Wipe like normal. Then put a bit of lotion on new folded TP and wipe. Repeat a few times until the TP is completely clean. It's not at the level of bidet, but it gets you pretty squeaky clean (try it).
Best is to use thicker lotion with enough "slipperyness", like true cocoa butter, etc. Cheaper lotions generally don't work as well. Keep a small tube of the lotion in your backpack if you need it when you're out and about.
(Fun fact: I submitted this technique as part of my YC application years ago and PG mentioned it to me when I ran into him at Stanford)
Mine too! Saw it about 100 times via the magic of HBO in the 1980’s. I loved to sing I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today to my kids when they were young. They are teens now. Still break it out once in a while to their great embarrassment!
I have a client who was using JetBrains' TeamCity CI product. Was a clown show of vulnerabilities that allowed attackers access to internals.
Do not use their products. If you must for some reason, be sure you subscribe to critical CVEs of the products you are using and update them immediately and rotate your credentials. Ideally re-install on a fresh server. Never have the service available via the public web, it will be hacked - only use their products behind a VPN.
Their plugins are a (very) mixed bag, but saying to not use their products is a bit too alarmist if you ask me - the baseline IDE is doing fairly well, and teamcity and doing your GitHub-specific PR-stuff from within intelliJ is kind of niche overall I would assume (I've never used either, only the stock git client they have)
That's fair. I have limited experience with the rest of their offerings. They only came onto my radar because of regular critical CVEs that needed urgent fixing. The communication from the company had no hint of apology - just "hey, better fix this before your server is p0wned" - which did not seem like they were to be taken seriously.
I kind of have to agree but their software products are huge, it's difficult to say if they are particularly bad. Don't expose their products on the open web is good advice but it applies to many products not just theirs (like gitlab/gitea).
Android Studio is built on IntelliJ platform, this is not a choice a developer always can make
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P.S. yes it is possible to develop Android apps without studio, but it is painful to setup and manage , developers should not be fighting the system to do their jobs
I love Kevin Kelly, but I really wished he would have done more with his recent book "Excellent Advice For Living" which is essentially a similar list of extremely brief "advices". They are all excellent, but it's an overwhelming list of nuggets of wisdom without any context or stories or anything else for the mind to process. So I end up going from point to point and quickly burn out on what quickly becomes a shopping list of unrelated wisdom points.
If this had just been a calendar of a point of wisdom per day that you can ponder, that would have been much better. Or better yet, a book with short chapters that elaborate on each point with a story so that your mind has the time and context to absorb it.
Hopefully he does that at some point, because there are a lot of gems here which are underserved in the no-context list format.
Ask yourself, how much brighter is it outside than inside (assuming a sunny day vs a brightly lit office)?
Before looking into this, I would have guessed 2X or 3X, but would you believe it's actually over 100X!
I bet most people's guess would also be off by 1 or 2 orders of magnitude.
Even outdoors in the shade, it is over 50X brighter than indoors.
Apparently, our eyes adjust so quickly to the difference that we have a very poor sense of the magnitude of light change between indoors and outdoors.
I bring this up because one of the largest factors in myopia development appears to be outdoor light exposure in childhood.
Genetics are likely a factor too, but light exposure seems to have a huge effect: "The prevalence of myopia in 6- and 7-year-old children of Chinese ethnicity was significantly lower in Sydney (3.3%) than in Singapore (29.1%), while patterns of daily outdoor light exposure showed that children living in Singapore were exposed to significantly less daily outdoor light than Australian children." (from the same study linked above)
The obvious takeaway for parents, schools, and governments: ensure your children have plenty of outdoor playtime. It will greatly reduce instances of myopia (not to mention the benefits from higher Vitamin D levels, exercise, etc).
So if you're living in a multi-storey apartment block in a place where there are periods of rain, cold and darkness, naturally your routine will not be conductive of spending lots of time outdoors. What's the plan B?
Sure, if you live in Australia with a tiny population living in own houses (while they can still afford those), they risk UV-burns more than myopia. But that doesn't scale that great.
I think most people are capable of spending time outside every day, even if they live in an apartment.
I’m typing this from a cafe in Manhattan, I try to walk at least a few km every morning. I did the same thing when I lived in Seattle. My understanding is you don’t need direct Australia-level sun to get the benefits we’re talking about.
Thanks - I was curious to check "ninja" and "rockstar". They seem to have peaked 8-10 years ago (from a quick glance). Was surprised they are still used at all after taking that pounding from job ads for so many years.
Backblaze's B2 is cheap - but if your'e using them in production you must include these costs:
* their weekly 2 hour maintenance window 11:30-13:30 PST (which usually has no downtime, but sometimes is a full outage in the middle of the US day)
* having to file support tickets when your error rates increase above a usable threshold (for us about once a year for the last few years)
* support which does not look into the issue, just asks tons of questions as if they do not have error logs or any visibility on their end
* false success on uploads where B2 says it successfully saved your file but it is 0 bytes on their system (ALWAYS verify the upload despite B2's success code)
* extended outages if there's a high severity CVE (ex: they shut down for 10 hours for the Log4j2 CVE)
They have the best price - but when comparing options, it is simply not a directly comparable product to more mature cloud storage services.
And yet, engineers would rather deliver a pizza by organizing an expedition team, climbing Mount Everest, taking a picture of the pizza at the summit, then fly the pizza back home, rent a Lamborghini and drive the Mongolian rally race, then 18 months later deliver said pizza.
While they do that, just get on a cheap scooter and drive it down the street. Win.
I have. There are multiple types of engineer which insist on migrating "legacy" (stable) systems to "state of the art" (cooler, modern, en vogue) tech.
You'd be surprised how many companies that maintained <20 vms migrated to k8s. The motivations include ordering a chaotic status quo, premature optimisation, young blood wanting to prove themselves, boredom, "its new so it must be better", "i want to try this" [...], you get the idea.
I hear loud-mouthed people at work talking about introducing "durable execution" when there's so many other fish to fry and the company can't achieve those well already.
On this question, David Heinemeier Hansson's talk at YC's Startup School 2008 still holds up great today. Was the first time I heard of the concept of the Fortune 5,000,000
I used to use their HEY email service until HEY decided to ban all societal and political discussions for employees. Which sparked a huge exit of talented people from their service.
Wipe like normal. Then put a bit of lotion on new folded TP and wipe. Repeat a few times until the TP is completely clean. It's not at the level of bidet, but it gets you pretty squeaky clean (try it).
Best is to use thicker lotion with enough "slipperyness", like true cocoa butter, etc. Cheaper lotions generally don't work as well. Keep a small tube of the lotion in your backpack if you need it when you're out and about.
(Fun fact: I submitted this technique as part of my YC application years ago and PG mentioned it to me when I ran into him at Stanford)