I wish them luck. Hopefully they start building from Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City from the beginning so they have minimum operating segments that can open before the whole line is complete.

I thought Their Eyes Were Watching God was really rough to read through because Hurston was trying to phonetically write out how her characters spoke and it was painful to read through.

And I like how it is somewhat discussed in American Fiction through the different writers and their approaches to black literature.

If you are accessing your work email through your phone, you’re going to be pinging the server with your phone’s IP address. Duo isn’t adding any tracking beyond that.

Duo is Cisco’s version of authentication. The only permissions it has on my phone is notifications.

In its current form, it doesn’t appear to let your company’s IT department control your phone.

I’m expecting that Steam on Linux is going to be what drives it.

The Steam Deck can be used as a Linux computer and almost a turnkey way for a manufacturer to build a Steam computer without Windows.

I thought 10 was an improvement on 8, in part because they walked back some changes to 8.

I have yet to hear of a reason to go to 11.

Because they are looking for conversations.

My guess is if some companies are willing to have some full time remote positions, they are going to hire from LCOL areas with poor workers rights.

Any sort of high pressure sales sucks.

Honestly, I still use the restroom.

I liked Hank Green’s stand-up about his experience with cancer.

Mine was relatively minor, but I felt like the times I started to vent my feelings, it was met with either stunned silence or quick assurances that everything would feel alright. It was like I really shouldn’t vent my feelings and be heard, just accept that everything will be alright.

France has a weird hybrid Presidential/Parliamentary system that no other country has and is really confusing.

Most other countries either have a diminished President whose only real duty is making sure there is a Prime Minister that has a mandate to lead or an empowered President that has a democratic mandate and has more leeway to run the government’s administration.

Is anything cracking or sore more than it should be? Time to go get that treated.

Unless the protest in a location directly impeding the destructive act, I don’t see it as being effective.

It ends up being a feel good measure instead of becoming a vehicle for change.

Work next to a lot of spinning machinery?

It is even worse in public bathrooms.

Europeans give Americans shit on public bathroom design, but the smell is a lot worse in European bathrooms generally.

No, but a lot of communities in hotter climates have integrated habits like siestas, where breaks including are taken in the hottest part of the day. I can see that being adopted more, especially in cases when wet bulb temperatures exceed the human body’s capacity to cool itself.

I also know that a lot of construction activities in Phoenix and Las Vegas in the summer months are scheduled towards early morning due to the heat. They might work an hour or two in twilight and then finish work by early afternoon.

I expect schedules to change, but I don’t see going full nocturnal.

I feel like you are going to hit a wall regarding streaming rights costs. Also, based on overhead costs and scaling, it will probably encourage fewer music streamers instead of more.

With Uber, they started with ride sharing and slowly nudged its way towards being a car-for-hire business. The reason it worked was because no one really liked taxis and didn’t want to defend that monopoly.

Today, cities are trying to regulate places like Airbnb to reduce their presence in major cities, but the only real hate towards Uber and Lyft has more to deal with employee pay.