I drive a smaller hatchback as well and notice the same thing.
I’ve been on the other side of it once. I got roped into driving an acquaintance’s H3 Hummer years ago. I went to change lanes, checked my mirrors, looked over my shoulder out the window, and all seems clear. It wasn’t. There was a car that was completely invisible to me. Had other people not been in the car and looking, I would have run them right off the road. I have no idea how anyone drives those things on a daily basis. I was a nervous wreck.
I think the best visibility I had in a car was my old GTI. I could see all 4 corners and knew exactly where I was at.
The really stupid thing about the light rail system, at least in the east valley, is that they could have run a line right up the middle of the 101 from South Chandler to North Scottsdale. Add a bus-fed stop every couple of miles, and that train would likely be packed every day with commuters. Instead, we added a carpool lane that does basically nothing for traffic, and the light rail continues to be basically useless for most people.
I work on an open-source program full-time, being paid to work on it by a company that makes a commercial product overlaid on top of it. I don't feel like the company making a product based on it diminishes the work I do on it at all. We have a fairly vibrant community of users of the OSS software. I feel like any work that I contribute as a paid employee also enriches those users and their individual use cases for it.
I got an email from an AWS recruiter recently with the subject "Join the AWS family yes or no?". My first reaction was to think "good god this feels like someone just passed me a note in middle school that said 'do you like me [ ] yes [ ] no?'". There's something to be said for a bit of professionalism in recruiting, especially when talking to someone who's been in the industry for 25 years.
Steelcase Leap v2 with a headrest. I bought it new, since finding a refurb one with a headrest is really difficult. My company gave us a WFH-office-setup stipend at the start of COVID lockdowns though, so that paid for about half of it.
I went from a crappy Staples faux-leather chair with terrible padding to this, and the comfort level is night and day.
I have a Leap v2 too (refurb, $300). Definitely helped with ergonomics. I was debating between the iconic Herman Miller Aeron and the Leap, but I got the Leap because I tend to sit with folded feet and the hard plastic edges of the Aeron aren't amenable to that style of sitting.
My wife and I maintain that fixed bed times are still one of the best parenting decisions we ever made. They're getting a little later as our kids get older, but we can definitely tell when the kids haven't gotten enough sleep. They get squirrely and overly giddy, and their ability to focus on anything goes way down.
Not true, I never, ever felt tired at "bedtime" as a kid, ever. I would protest my bedtime pretty much everyday because "I'm not tired." Fixed bedtime still "worked" for me because when you're 1) on a firm schedule and 2) laying in bed without anything else to do then sleep comes.
I would (perhaps naively) think that children are the same as adults in the regard that we both need ample amount of time to start slowing down and relaxing before bed time.
> I've seen people talk about girls on OF making hundreds of thousands of dollars a month and while I'm sure some are, I wish people would understand how few are actually making that amount.
I think this is the same result of people who look at Twitch and think they can be the next Ninja or Shroud. Yes, there are people on Twitch that make many thousands of dollars a month. The odds of becoming one of those people is vanishingly low for someone starting out fresh, and it takes many years to build up to that point. These are people who spend 8+ hours in front of a camera interacting with a live audience, 6-7 days a week, not to mention all of the things that happen in the background. Joe Shmoe in his house, streaming a couple hours a night when he gets off work, is likely not going to make it.
Fully agree. Also, quite a lot of those streamers that later become successful are starting out with expensive specialized equipment and/or a house that looks like a movie set.
I'd say by now, Instagram and YouTube are more like hobbies for bored kids of rich parents.
I had nearly the same reaction to the GoFundMe page, one that I'm sure this person has uttered in his lifetime repeatedly: "maybe they should just pull themselves up by their bootstraps". If that makes me a terrible person, then so be it.
Another comment I saw elsewhere said that the Elite league he plays in regularly is full of very good amateur/ex-pro players as well. It's not like they picked up a guy off the street and threw the pads on him. He had a ton of experience playing against players just below the caliber of current NHL players.
That's not to diminish what he did though. It's amazing that the NHL has something like this place, and the guy seems to have taken it very very well with a lot of humility.
Not necessarily. If you are college-educated, can make high-five-figures / six-figures as an accountant, and have given up on the NHL dream, why schlep it for less of half that salary in the minors? Not to mention if you have a family and don't want to take long bus trips to away games all winter.
For marginal players, being semi-pro is as much of a lifestyle choice & opportunity cost calculation as a statement of ability.
Minor league hockey players earn on average ~$43,000 / 6 month season. Factor in health risks, job insecurity, and being on the road most of the time it becomes much less appealing.
