I bought a fishing rod and lures/hooks/bait and a fishing license. Going fishing once a week has been a pretty nice break from working at home and the activity itself enforces 6ft distancing pretty well so I can have a friend meet me at a fishing spot. The other fishers at each spot are really friendly too and happy to share what is working for them.
I used to fish when I was really young, but I dropped it at high school to focus on grades. Now that I'm a working adult with a fun income and my own car, I'm having a blast exploring my own city and the outskirts looking for fishing spots, and finding new fish.
So far I've caught a few largemouth bass and a crappie!
The Aeron is the tried and true classic. The Cosm is an 'updated' version with different back heights, and The Mira is an easier to clean plastic back version. I swear by my Aeron that I picked up at a used office supply store for $400 along with a new desk.
I'm actually dumbfounded that nobody has brought up the themes of the movie RuboCop is (almost) named after. RoboCop (at least the original movie) seems pretty in line with many progressive ideology criticizing privatization of police and other government functions, criticizing militarization of police, and lampooning gratuitous violence.
Spoiler Alerts:
The story of RoboCop is the story of a police officer overcoming systemic corruption within the police force after he is literally dehumanized and turned into an excessively violent killing machine. The main crux of the finale is that RoboCop needs to get around his programming that prevents him from arresting other members of the police corporation which pretty poignantly mirrors the many issues involving police policing other police. While the main character is a "good cop" in this movie, I don't think anybody will walk out of that movie thinking that police systems are not deeply flawed and corruptible destructive.
RuboCop as a linter is very much in line with the ideals of what a cop should be, and what a cop will be after reform (hopefully). RuboCop finds structural problems, gives out warnings, and helps the community of whoever works on a codebase work together in harmony.
There is a huge industry devoted to knowing the patterns and logic behind google search to sell expertise around changing the results behind google search. A business would want this to ensure that they could be the first result when a potential customer searches for something that would indicate that they are ready to make a specific purchase that the business can handle. Politicians and other public figures would want to know how to make sure that given pages or topics do not show up like how some people theorize Boris Johnson does: https://kottke.org/19/10/boris-johnson-shady-seo-master
The issue with the industry around Search Engine optimization is that if commercial and marketing interests are too good at determining what get shown to a user, then Google loses it's value to a user. API's by design are machine readable, so if Google built its site in a way where other people can query this api directly, then marketing and PR firms would be able to query this api to build datasets on the relationships between different site, their content, and their pagerank to create rough models on how to 'game the system'. Instead by only offering a server-side rendered page for search, to collect the same information for data-mining purposes, you would need to 'scrape' the page and hope that format of the page's html is consistent for a long enough period to build a scraper, and then collect the data that they need. This combined with html and css obfuscation which is common with ssr apps and webpack in general, as well as rate-limiting and some other techniques, it can quickly become infeasible for somebody to data-mine google search for these kind of uses, and Google gets to keep their value.
In my opinion the difference is that "behaving in a socially expected way" is following norms so that no bad attention is drawn to you or to prevent others from having negative experiences from your behavior, and "performing" is the constant feedback cycle of emulating behaviors and traits that you think will draw positive attention and create good experiences with others.
A good example is that most things people do to be polite are considered "behaving in a socially expected way" while interactions like a young adolescent male lowering their voice when talking to somebody they are attracted to is "performing".
Performance is common for many other interactions like dressing up and formalizing language for job interviews, "telephone voice", as well as matching posture and speaking style during interactions. Performance captures the potentially unfounded change in behavior to better a specific interaction. Many sitcoms often create comedic moments when performance for a specific interaction is not compatible with performance for another interaction, so when "worlds collide" (as in Seinfeld) the character has to either struggle with maintaining both performances, or choose one form of performance to stick with and ruin an interaction with some other situation.
I have been largely unsuccessful because of the vetting system that filters me out. I was hoping for direct connections to teams that may need extra hands and who read HN, or someone in a staffing/temp agency.
Dynamic typing for ease of development, with typespec for working with teams. Library support is pretty good now, and NIFS with Rust/Rustler are nice when I need speed, or just want a library from a crate rather than hex. REPL and testing is pretty high quality too.
Phoenix is a great web dev environment with SSR by default, and elixirscript or Phoenix Live Views for nice dynamic content. Phoenix even gives you a node project folder to add in whatever js libraries/css/webpack or other modules you want.
Scripting elixir with escript is okay, but as with most scripting languages, it seems like overkill compared to shell scripting unless you are doing something complicated that warrants a higher level language or library management.
I've been playing with guile scheme and chicken scheme as well for scripting as well. I've found that Rust is great for performance intensive programs, but I miss having a REPL and dynamic typing make for a fast, comfy development experience.
I write notes in bullet form in a work-specific private github repo of Markdown files.
Each daily file is named by date as mm-dd-yy.Rmd with the following info
# Date: xx/xx/xx
## Time in/Time out
## Log
* Task 1
* Task 2
* Subtask
## Notes
* Note 1
I've changed a bunch of stuff around like folders for each year/month, but keeping it in raw text files within a folder directory keeps things organized, and grep-able for searching. My log folder is also within my workspace folder for where folders for other projects live so I can easily open up today's work file with vim in a new tab when I'm working.
The Github repo is mainly to keep me synced between different computers I have to work from between working from home and on different office computers, and also so I own my own log of workplace interactions in case I need to report a list of interactions to HR (which I have had to do multiple times, and has saved my ass).
As for why I'm using R-flavored markdown instead of standard markdown, is that I've found that there are a bunch of standards for markdown that use the *.md extension, and that R markdown gives me good, consistent highlighting, code snippets, functionality with pandoc, and has its own separate extension.
Keeping notes as raw text files synced to git is really the easiest way to keep notes forever. I've tried multiple note apps like evernote and etc. Somehow I never really port notes to the next platform
Arm architecture is rock-solid. The trick is making an ARM processor fast enough for desktop or laptop use. ARM has unfortunately been relegated to low-end devices even though the architecture could do well for high-end machines. We don't have a good interop for running x_86 or x_64 code on ARM so the compatibility isn't there for most users (like Windows 8 ARM). Linux is mostly fine on ARM if you can compile from source and you have a compiler for that given language that works for ARM.
