What I've seen is that the salary is dramatically lower, and as you noted, the opportunities to advance into management are more more difficult to obtain. (My wife spent time as a technical writer. I work in software engineering.)
> cross-generational achievements and accomplishments
I think you're trying to say, "having an advantage due to your birth or family." You're really suggesting that someone's name, address, and gender should be part of the resume evaluation process? Your whole position seems like a thinly veiled endorsement of racism, sexism, and conferring advantages based on your family's accomplishments.
This is not a great solution, but in "Accessibility Options" you can enable the gesture to swipe down on the bottom to bring the top of the screen down to the middle so you can reach it one handed. It's clunky but helpful.
It's the functionality that used to be on a double tap of the home button or something, and I thought it was removed, but it was just turned off by default.
That's double press - double tap on my 6s still brings the screen down. Not sure if they kept that distinction when they moved to the not-really-a-button home button whenever that was though.
Yeah, I got really used to it! On the new devices without a home button it’s a little tricky to find that functionality since it’s disabled by default.
Absolutely agreed. Brains are bizarre. My mother-in-law once had what we (and her primary physician) believed was a serious flu. The moment we realized that it was much worse than that was when she started calmly speaking total nonsense. She appeared to think it was normal English, but each word was unintelligible, though it used plausible parts of speech. At that moment I picked her up and drove her to the E.R., after which she spent several days fighting meningitis. She came out of it okay, thankfully, but I still vividly remember how scary it was to watch her "talk."
Which reminds me, I should mention that for anybody with an elderly relative who experiences a sudden decline in the direction of delirium or dementia: make sure they don't have a urinary tract infection.
And yes, it is entirely freaky when somebody you have known for years starts talking utter gibberish and clearly expects to be understood. It feels deeply unreal.
Or indeed other infections. As it was explained to me, elderly people sometimes can't get a fever so the first sign something is wrong can be confusion and other odd behaviour.
In the case of my late mother, it manifested as a fixation on and paranoia about money.
Reminds me of the heavy bertations news caster. She knew what she was trying to say but it was coming out as jibberish and the scary thing is that her brain still recognized the fact that she wasn’t making sense. One of those things that scares me.
Doesn't even have to be that serious. My young son went off on a sleep walk once, came in speaking complete gibberish (like a random sort on a dictionary) but in a totally normal rhythm and cadence. After I regained composure and figured out what was going on, and redirected him he want back to bed, artfully working his way around the usual Lego detritus everywhere his path. So weird you can be basically unconscious but still so functional!
I’m sure that’s true somewhere like NYC, and maybe it’s even true in Seattle, but it appears to be distinctly less true in smaller towns. In small town America it’s literally just the same cops playing army dress up.
It depends on how large the town is. Even in medium-sized cities (pop. <1M), it's rare to have a dedicated full-time tactical team. Usually it's a group of 6-20 patrol officers who get a few days each month to train together for various scenarios.
The question is what training they get. I bet at least in some areas it's a lot about cool weapons and how to run into a building, not about deescalation.
I remember years ago there was an incident in Northern Virginia where they went after a few guys who were betting on football http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01.... So the cops went in with a swat team and ended up shooting one guy. No weapons were on site and nobody there had a criminal history. The cops just went in with full force and when somebody made a wrong move they shot him. Same for for the mayor of Berwyn Heights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwyn_Heights,_Maryland_mayor.... Excessive force from start without even trying to solve it peacefully.
Stuff like this simply shouldn't happen. It seems a lot of swat teams only focus on using force.
Pretty much all of the experts on this topic disagree with you. My understanding is that in order to have a good voting system you must be able to verify the result even if the software was compromised. It’s a VERY tricky requirement, and basically comes down to involving paper.
This. Seriously. Being just a little high can be really fun!
It’s so easy to just keep smoking until you’re a fucking mess, especially if you’re someone who used to smoke more. I feel like smoking all the time is very unhelpful for me, so I smoke rarely these days, and when I do I just smoke a tiiiny bit.
I think this may be a much, much more mild version of the phenomenon where opiate users who get used to a particular dose, quit for a while, relapse, use their prior dose, and die. You get a “serving size” in your head, and for those of us who have smoked quite a bit of weed in the past it’s easy to be like yeah sure I’ll go ahead and smoke this half gram joint and then I’m fucking ruined and not happy about anything.
But overall I’m with the grandparent; habitual smoking feels like a terrible habit to me and does NOT correlate with me reaching my goals. It most certainly does not help with my depression — quite the opposite.
I have no idea what the actual story was, but I would imagine it can be both true and not true in the way you’re imagining.
Say you really need new simple scalable storage because X part of your stack has bottlenecks. You spin up a team to work on it, and that team immediately has ambitions of making it big and sharing their service with the entire world. Now... which narrative is true? Yes, it was spun up to help Amazon. Yes, it was built from scratch as a product. Those don’t sound exclusive to me.
