I've been daydreaming about this for years.

How did you get into building polebarns? And then framing houses? Who did you convince to take you on? Did you have prior experience?

i found a job listing on craigslist and called the guy, he hired me on the spot.

for the framing job i walked up to a framing crew and asked if they needed a guy. they did and so i got hired. i just convinced the boss. the place where i moved to has lots of small crews and lots of home building going on right now.

previous relevant experience includes woodworking and machining. i also watched a fair amount of youtube before and during. ability to do fractional math and read a tape. ability to read and produce mechanical drawings helped.

really it was just being interested in the field and convincing someone i was serious enough about it. and i followed through everyday.

Cheers, that's awesome!

I've been thinking similarly. I'm not a particularly smart nor informed person, but here are some things I'm thinking of investing in:

- Land near a water source

- Learning how to cultivate land and food

- Learning how to be a good neighbor

> - Learning how to be a good neighbor

Could be, uh, interesting given the personalities of some individuals who are 'holing up' in locales conducive to that sort of lifestyle.

They tend to be some of the most helpful loyal people you’ll ever meet. Sounds like you should spend more time outside of the city.

I live in a not so big town in Oregon and spend plenty of time outside the city. Ordinary people who live a more rural existence are mainly fine people. "End of the world" people are... a mixed bag. Some of them are unwell.

"This is my land! I have this bit of paper from the State. Leave or I will call the police!"

It would be cool of creators such as Jim could start hosting their vids on Peertube or something similar. They could still post on Youtube--just also link to the other option for an ad-free experience.

Hopefully Goog won't bring down the hammer on cross-posting videos!!

It seems like quibi raised the equivalent of the entire GDP of Belize without first verifying if literally anyone was interested in their offering.

Classic silicon valley-style hubris.

Classic hollywood hubris, figuring enough spent on marketing and celebs will sell anything.

> raised the equivalent of the entire GDP of Belize

Which still turned out to be a water pistol to Apple, Amazon, Disney and Netflix’s carrier strike groups.

> Classic silicon valley-style hubris.

Actually, rich human hubris. It's not unique to any single location.

This has nothing to do with Silicon Valley.

Dang I really hope they do the same with the new xps 15 and 17... But there's probably no market for this aside from me specifically T_T

I've got a 17" in process -- looks like a 5 week delay for it. Picked up a M2 drive that I'll be adding to turn it into my Linux laptop. Pretty excited to have a good 16:10 screen on something this size, will all sorts of expansion options when 32G won't cut it anymore.

I’ve been hoping for this too. So there’s at least two of us.

This abstract says that depression risk decreased by ~8%, but I still think this is an amazing finding.

I also wish I was scientifically literate enough to understand how good the study is :P

I don't think you're wrong. There will certainly be some sort of correction of the bullish remote-work spirit.

But the 2020 lockdowns will fundamentally increase the amount of remote work permanently to at least some degree.

Like how before Bernie Sanders ran for president, no one in mainstream US politics was even talking about socialized healthcare. Or how before Andrew Yang, no one outside of silicon valley had ever heard of UBI.

This is hyperbole, but you see what I mean.

What you're describing is a common way of using feature flags—except the percentage part comes from how you manage the servers running the binary with config. I.e. on day one, 5% of servers in cluster get True for the flag value. The double the percentage every day until 100% or otherwise rollback if it's a bad cut.

Then rolling forwards and backwards is a whole deployment away, or mucking about with infrastructure, vs tweaking a percentage flag somewhere.

If you want to get fancy with changes (and I've seen it done) you have something else capable of controlling that percentage setting that is tied in to your monitoring. Start out low, say 1% of requests hitting the new path. Automatically ramp up over time to full 100%. If you see failures, automatically drop back to 0% until it can be ascertained that the failure didn't come from the new code.

Partitioning by instance works if you have enough instances to avoid big increases, but at that point you can just deploy known-good and new-feature builds. Runtime checking helps if it's a lot faster than rolling back to the known-good build, or if you're doing concurrent experiments (you may not have enough instances to try every possible combination).

Having done it both ways this would not be my recommendation unless it's necessary - I think it adds a fair amount of complexity.

Some considerations: you'll need some sort of storage mechanism for these flags - is that a centralized configuration service for all your services? Maybe just a table in your database? But database / network calls are expensive to be adding to every single time your code executes the path in question - maybe it makes sense for your service to cache these values locally...but then doesn't that lose part of the purpose of 'fast rollbacks'? Maybe instead of a local cache you spin up a redis instance - but what if this goes down? Will all your instances default to the same value? Etc, etc, etc.

I'm not saying this approach is bad, only that it has complexity, and I find I generally can get away without it.

Sincere question: is this true in the SF Bay and/or California? $21/hr might not make sense in Cincinnati (edit: Cincinnati is just an example)--local context is important.

I really enjoyed the markup/css styling on this piece. While the content is certainly up for debate, it was presented in a very visually clear and informative manner.

Thank you! I have actually spent a good amount of time getting the image layout just right