Isn't it much harder to find multiple consulting clients though? I can see the appeal, it's relatively trivial to get a job, but obviously highly unethical unless you absolutely deliver on all of them and don't violate any contracts.
It’s the inverse basically. Harder (but still possible) at first but over time a network of trust and reference is built. As opposed to the sneaky/illegal house of cards that could fall at any moment.
A lot of people moonlight as a consultant until they can go full time.
From what I understand her coworkers at the agency were all ideologically motivated to hate her and stonewall everything she did, so it was difficult to make progress. This was her philosophy:
> states and local districts should make education policy, not the U.S. government.
It would be a breath of fresh air for a philosophy like this to be implemented but you would have to fire everyone in the department of education and start over to actually get anything done.
To the folks saying that web3 is inherently bad, keep in mind that in the 90s the internet was looked at by many as a scary place full of scammers and trolls.
Scams happen because of humans. They are not unique to any particular technology.
The charging port location is horrible but, that’s about the only problem unique to it.
In horizontal workflows like video or audio editing it’s much faster swipe left/right, it becomes natural like a track pad. After working like that a scroll wheel doesn’t cut it anymore.
An even better arrangement is a Magic Trackpad on the left (or non-primary) hand for scrolling and gestures, combined with any comfortable vanilla (almost certainly non-Apple) mouse on your primary hand for pointing/clicking/dragging.
Surprisingly, as a right-handed person, I found I gained ambidextrous ability to use a trackpad with either hand very quickly.
> But that's because, if I write a blog post and 5% of HN readers get it and 95% miss the point, I view that as a good outcome since was useful for 5% of people and, if you want to convey nuanced information to everyone, I think that's impossible and I don't want to lose the nuance
I agree. I find it to be quite annoying having to worry about misplacing my Philips Sonicare charger, electric shaver charger. I've already had to replace some of them but I also find it to be particularly arduous packing them for extended trips and also having to worry about {100,110,240}V compatibility.
I have replaced a bunch of annoying DC barrel chargers with little usb-c to barrel adapters, if your charger uses a barrel, odds are you can find one that will work.
Hmm, just plugging one of the buttonless ones I have in to a recent-ish Asus Vivobook with a tester inline, it shows 19.6V / 1.68A. The original charger for this laptop was 45W, so this is not quite as performant, but close enough for my purposes.
They are designed for laptops so I would expect them to in theory be choosing the right voltage for whatever brand the plug was designed, but they should not be used on random electriconics unless they specify the output voltage!
That’s true (for now), and hopefully this is just a first step. As that, it does have other perks too. The Dewalt adapter is 2-way, allowing you to use existing batteries to power USB-C devices.
