"The term [meat] is sometimes used in a more restrictive sense to mean the flesh of mammalian species (pigs, cattle, sheep, goats, etc.) raised and prepared for human consumption, to the exclusion of fish, other seafood, insects, poultry, or other animals."
It's kind of like at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic when some in the US were saying that the US government should just forgive mortgage payments so the landlords could forgive everyone's rent. Instead the US government gave businesses loans so they could pay their employees (even though they weren't able to work) so those employees could then pay their rent and buy food, etc. It was (perceived to be) better to inject the money into the system to keep the current system running, rather than turn off / forgive the major parts of the system.
Taking a break from studying for my interview in two days at a FANG company, I checked Hacker News and this article was at the top. I've been studying for this interview harder than any of the others in the past. I feel well-prepared, but there's always the luck factor. I hope this is a sign that this interview will be the one to work out!
Everyone's sensitivity to caffeine is different. For example, if I miss my one 8 oz. cup each morning, I have a massive headache by 1:15pm.
When work picks up, like a big project, I might increase my intake to a larger 12oz or 16 oz coffee per day, but then I'll end up sustaining that too long after the project ends.
After a while, I'll do a cold turkey reset to zero caffeine. It takes 4 days and about 800mg of Ibuprofen each day to make it through the headaches. Luckily no other withdrawal symptoms.
I have friends that only drink coffee on weekdays... I don't get how that can be done! For me, coffee is preventative medicine.
As you said, everyone is different. I drink coffee (~2 shots of espresso) almost at the exact same time every morning. Then again after lunch.
There's basically zero impact if I miss the morning one.
I've done multiple stretches of not drinking coffee (weeks/months), with also basically no noticeable changes: not more or less tired, no change in sleep, etc.
>What could have been if instead of spending so much energy and resources on developing “AI features” we focused on making our existing technology better?
"Little Signals considers new patterns for technology in our daily lives. The six objects in the series keep us in the loop, but softly, moving from the background to foreground as needed.
Each object has its own communication method, like puffs of air or ambient sounds. Additionally, their simple movements and controls bring them to life and respond to changing surroundings and needs."
I've been wanting to build these since the project came out, but never found the time. Has anyone else here built them with success? I'd love to hear your story about how you used them!
>There's a close to 0% chance that I'm never going to bother look at their contents.
More likely scenario, your children, grandchildren or other family members go through your shit after you pass away and discover stuff about you that perhaps you never wanted to share.
This is something I think about a lot because I don't have a "digital legacy plan."
> More likely scenario, your children, grandchildren or other family members go through your shit after you pass away
I think that's not really likely. I'm pretty sure if you poll you'll find that few children care about their parent's "stuff". You can find plenty of people who've lost parents who found that they didn't have any interest in going through their parents stuff and then from that realized their children would be the same to them.
Most children aren't going to dig through anything more than a physical photo album, and when they do, the only pictures that are relevant to them are those with people they know. The rest only have meaning to the dead parent. They aren't going to dig through hard drives or CDs unless they are searching for financial documents so they can finish up their parent's financial affairs.
> discover stuff about you that perhaps you never wanted to share
I do worry about that. I just tell myself I'll be dead so it doesn't really matter.
Nobody in my family was waiting for one of my parents to die and it actually happened rather suddenly although he was retirement age. There was a very rapid effort to ensure we discovered as many passwords as possible, bought a family NAS, and backed up his entire computer starting with the Lightroom video and pictures. We later went through all of the family photos and folders he hadn't put in there.
To this day it's constantly running with an off site back up to my NAS. There are some photos of cousins we didn't really know, but he owned the best digital cameras of every era since their invention so it's a huge documentation of life. It would have been a family tragedy to lose that.
That’s family records. People care about that. I will hazard you probably didn’t peruse their whole collection of books and magasines however and I think it’s normal.
People care about the things which remind them of their loved ones: prized possessions, objects with strong memory attached too or things they used to love as kids, this kind of things.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat#Etymology