This made me think that I can’t be the only one who so desperately wants a sandbox game akin to Sim Earth where you manipulate plate tectonics among other Earthly things.
I hopped back on Facebook in 2012, and it quickly became the nexus of my online life. I started to get wrapped into how I maintained my presence, the kinds of witty things that would make it as posts, the banners and profile pics, and I was always hoping to see a double digit number in the red notification bubble. It all peaked in early 2017 where I was wrapped up in some political ideological battle and I just said "fuck it" and left. Deleted it and didn't think about it.
There were a couple hours at first where I thought I was losing a connection to the world and my friends, but that cold feeling vanished a day later. I felt like I had gotten time back, I felt free.
For all of that, I still putt around on Twitter but that scratches a different itch and I never seem to be consumed by it.
I might be alone in this sentiment, but is anyone else out there with a history working with Boeing or in the industry feel slightly irritated with the armchair hot takes seen in the comments sections?
IME it's just the opposite: my uncle is a retired mechanic who used to work at Boeing, and over Christmas dinner he opined that the press and armchair hot takes are if anything not going far enough, and that internally Boeing is even more of a disaster than we know.
People have been complaining about Boeing management for years, and if it seems like "years" to me, it's probably 20+. When people have been ignoring a problem for a very long time, and it finally gets to a tipping point that has dramatic public consequences, you can expect it to get worse for at least as long as people are coasting on the inertia from their previous assumptions everything was fine.
I live in a building with a quite a few nurses that work at that hospital. It kind of scares me that one of them open mouth coughed in the elevator with me the other night. Probably nothing more than a tired nurse and a dry throat, but still kind of weird to read about a thing that is a block away from where you live.
Hah after reading this there’s no way I’m getting near the light rail for the next month or two.
It’s a direct line from SeaTac where people we be flying into from SE Asia after lunar new year is over, and is currently undergoing construction so railway cars are packed at rush hour.
I just left a company that used an in-house cloud object storage product for their cloud DVR service. It was an amazing piece of tech that was hamstrung by some of the most irritating "features" of Cassandra. We spent more time cleaning up than anything else. I am looking forward to seeing how people use this at scale.
This was one of those things that always ruined time travel movies for me. If I went back in time a few hours, would I be floating in the upper atmosphere? Go back few years, am I just floating in space? Does this mean that I can only really travel back to the previous galactic rotation and hope to Sagan that the galaxy both doesn't drift and the both the Sun and our arm of the galaxy are both in the same place?
I used to be in the anti sticker camp, but then someone nearly walked off with my identical MacBook Pro at Newark. After that, I've gone through three laptops and each one ends up caked in stickers from various customers and conferences. I don't have to risk someone picking up my MacBook unless they have the same arrangement IP video tech and Seattle sports stickers.
So much so that I had my office desk partially covered in a whiteboard sheet[1] and used that with fine tip dry erase pens in lieu of of and paper. The collaboration that took place was off the charts.
I did this too:
https://youtu.be/OtbXS2W_cbM
But I used a board covered with laminated white stuff (It came that way as part of a merchant display). It is the greatest top ever!
