I'm currently withdrawing from a psychiatric medication. In my cohort people take their lives frequently, the pain is so bad. Many of us are finding relief in CBD oil and medical marijuana. To say that the nomination of Sessions to AG (and his subsequent withdrawing of the Cole memo) has made our lives worse, is an understatement. We just want to live normal lives. As much as possible. CBD has allowed me to stay productive, to work, to rescue my career. Take it away and I don't know if I'm here. I wish Rick the best and hope he can make change and, honestly, save some lives.
In 2017 I returned to America from living overseas. My mom passed away early in the year and I wanted nothing to do with shopping for a car, much less driving a car. So I just took Lyft to my new job until I had my feet under me and felt up to driving again.
In the end I never felt up to driving full time. I now share my wife's car (we did get her a car eventually), but we only purchased the 1 car. We either ride in together, take mass transit, or one of us takes a Lyft. Sometimes we use Lyft to bridge to mass transit.
Either way, "ride sharing" has definitely taken one more full time car off the road. I know it's not that simple and I know it's an economically dubious arrangement in the first place, but I think there's something to this idea if we could figure out the economics of it (how much drivers should be paid, etc.).
It's true that the same miles are still being accrued, just by a Lyft car rather than a personal car.
However, when multiple people use a lyft car throughout the day, it is more efficient than having each person own their own car. Maintenance, insurance, and the construction of the car itself are all shared.
I think you're right. If they would have kept MagSafe they could have kept the HDMI port on the other side. But then the MBP wouldn't have been symmetrical. That seems to be the current obsession with Ive. The iPhone 7 is symmetrical as well, even if the new speaker is fake.
Truly in its infancy. The phrase I always use when in a grocery store is whether I'm purchasing things that are "recognizably food". Vegetables, fruits, meat all remind you of their original source or are identical to the original thing. Where food rates on this "eye test" degrades considerably as you move into more and more processed food. It's one of those things that feels common sense and the further along we get the more it appears that it's true. That eating an egg is worse for you than fat-free protein bars seems preposterous now, but there was a time when that was the orthodoxy.
You're absolutely correct. I participated in the above conversation because it's interesting, but you're right that it's missing the point. The original blog post is really thoughtful. I enjoyed it.
There are people out there who are either going back to flip phones or getting rid of their phones entirely. I chose to go to a Nexus 5X instead, but I feel people wanting to simplify their lives and focus on things that matter to them more with fewer distractions.
I went through something similar recently. I moved to another country and in the process I had to buy something to replace my Note 4. I initially bought a Note 3 to replace my iPhone because I wanted to stop carrying a tablet. The Note was a "solution" to be able to read on the go at all times, play games, etc. all in one handy device. Upon moving I was really frustrated at first at the lack of options with large amounts of storage (my Note has a 128GB SD card) and a giant screen that were available from my new company's carrier.
The more I thought about it, though, the more I realized I was solving for a problem that no longer existed. I've felt recently like I spend too much time on my phone. I don't want to play games and watch movies on my commute any longer. I don't want to read books on my phone. I want to read an actual book or, at worst, on a Kindle where all I can do is read. I want to work my brain more, basically and the phone has become antithetical to that.
So I purchased a Nexus 5X. Low storage, barely enough space for my music, etc. I saw it as going as far down the phone food chain as I was willing to go without going to a flip phone. I've been really happy with it. I talk to human beings. I look at the world. And my phone really only has enough space for a few smartphone things like maps and music. It's perfect for what I want now. Fairly simple and limited. In this case limited is good.
And then we've also accelerated the idea that the one thing worth spending your time on is performing for the sake of society at large. We increased testing of children in America. Many schools spend a lot of time teaching to the test. The lesson there is that your time is most valuable when it's helping the state prove your productivity. Why learn a musical instrument when society will most value you when you're sitting at a desk?
I would argue, regarding the value of learning a musical instrument, that it's worth children sampling many things to even figure out what they will like spending their time on. How will they know they will care about music without exposure to it?
When I started using Android I subscribed to Google Play Music. It allowed me to upload my music collection, including songs that we're on Google Play. It's not matching, like Apple. It's literally just taking my music and allowing me to store it in the cloud and download it onto mobile devices. It's really handy so far and makes much more sense compared to iTunes. Plus there's no "sync" concept once you're there. You just download music out of your collection or you don't.
I don't know how the iTunes matching works, but Play Music does swap out your version of a song with theirs if they see they're the same thing. I think this has only been within the last year or so that they started doing this though. I don't have any personal files anymore, so I can't comment on how accurate it is.
Play Music does match and does get it wrong, as I've found out with a few continuous albums where tracks have got swapped out for unmixed versions. You can manually tell it not to but only on a per-track basis (e.g. see https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1zruza/getting_kin...)
I feel like there's definitely a gap in the market for a cloud music service that is simple and effective, I would love to just upload all my music and know it was going to play back anywhere (desktop and mobile) with the original tracks and proper gapless playback, and I would be able to download my music back out of there, with a nice clean UI.
Apple Music fails because it swaps out tracks and is generally flaky (little control over the upload process, tracks don't play, etc.), Google Play fails because it swaps out tracks and has, IMO, a pretty horrible UI on both desktop and mobile.
I've played a little with Subsonic but found the clients lacking. Any other suggestions? Maybe I should just build my own!
Does this mean I can get a proper programming-centric Stack Overflow app for my phone now? I installed the Stack Exchange app thinking it would be a fun way to see random programming questions now and then. Instead, 99% of the time it's questions like, "Was the Emperor always a Sith".
