If you delete social media, and leave your phone away from your person all day with notifications turned off, you can have these moments all the time it turns out.
Considering how much more productive these moments are for me than the bullshit I used to do on my phone and social media, it was an easy decision to make.
Oh, lol, now I get your question. Yea, it turns out the silence and lack of distractions are what produce "shower thoughts", more so than the act of showering itself.
Doing any relatively rote act like washing dishes, walking places, etc can also give rise to them. Not having a device in your hand to constantly steal your attention really helps though.
Showers are generally considered to be relaxing separately from the “shower thoughts” phenomenon.
Couldn’t the relaxation be a factor in generating shower thoughts?
I suspect that essentially none of our non-ancestors were predated in a hot spring, unlike walking etc, so there may be an environmental cue driven induced relaxation that doesn’t exist for many other activities.
Yea, you relax, and then your brain produces random thoughts about things.
I suspect it's just about getting the space to relax, which is why I frequently have thoughts when staring at the wall, or taking a walk, or washing dishes, or doing any other myriad activities which are relatively easy on brain processing.
I find pacing to be helpful. As long as there’s not a lot of poles to walk into accidentally. So while outside walks can be more focused you do get the odd head bang.
With all due respect, I think your analysis is wrong. He points out how much luck plays into everything and so even if someone younger with 95 year experience came out I think he'd point out that in the end there's an element of luck to everything. The world isn't deterministic.
I doubt they’d need to go public. Regardless of your views on Elon, he’s consistently raised billions privately whenever needed. Even without Starship, SpaceX seems cash-flow positive and profitable thanks to Starlink and Falcon 9. It’s simpler to ask private investors to back his R&D efforts when they’re investing in an already profitable company excluding the R&D. Going public might echo Tesla’s early days, when profitability of the company as a whole wasn’t guaranteed.
I was under the impression they can't due to ITARS / it being technically rocket technology. I know EU launches from French Guiana but that's still technically France or at minimum has a deep relation
I don't see why SpaceX couldn't launch from there even if it required some kind of special ITAR permission first. It's not like those haven't been made before if needed. SpaceX has launched EU spy satellites anyway and the US used to launch some satellites with Ariane 5 etc. Or am I missing something here? It just seems like it shouldn't be a big deal if SpaceX constructed a launch site in French Guiana or some other country that participates in American space programs.
I think the problem is more logistical. SpaceX does not launch rockets like other companies do. They build them at the launch site and then roll them out and launch them right next to the factory. If they launch from French Guiana they would have to ship the rockets, there, plus build a facility to make repairs and adjustments. It would just be an incredible headache for them.
Elon Musk has stated that launch pad/landing tower complex is just as important and difficult to build as the rocket. And that building the manufacturing factories and the processes to build one rocket a week is even much harder. Having the factory and launch site at the same location is a huge plus especially given SpaceX's philosophy of quick iteration.
The rockets are built at the site they're launched from, they'd need to rebuild all that infrastructure. They're already doing this at KSC and have been for the past year or more now.
This is why I've been so curious as to exactly what Reddit is really trying to do with this api change. If the point of Reddit is to consume content then the content itself (and the amount of it consumed) is really their business model so all actions should support that vs. getting people to arbitrarily be on their site. If your business is content, it shouldn't matter if it's a third-party app or if it's on your main site. I just cannot figure out the long-term logic behind this move (ofc short-term it's about $$ and their IPO but this'll hurt their model in the long-run)
My company came up with a structure where we have an overall quarterly revshare in replace of bonuses for the entire company. It works where engineers get X% and sales reps get ~4 x X% of the revshare pool for each team. Of each team's bonus pool, 2/3 is given out guaranteed based off a few tangible factors and then the remaining 1/3 is given out to individuals who have performed above & beyond.
The idea behind this are a few-fold but essentially:
As an engineer (now CEO/CTO), I've hated having to wait the full year for my bonus. It's just a way to lock me in for the year when my incentive to stay should be to love the work & team. I don't want to create a place to work where you're forced to stay because of some guaranteed bonus - if you want to leave, leave & then let's hire someone who finds the work engaging + we all know performance slips as you wait for the bonus.
For the sales team, it means they're incentivized to work with the engineering & product teams to make sure they get the engineers the proper feedback in order to build a better product that they can sell more easily.
We've found this has generally built a better more team-oriented & results-oriented culture. Happy to expand but overall I think a quarterly revshare for everyone is a much better end-result (other than the fact I'm now forced to care more about making sure engineers are happy but that should be a huge focus regardless...).
Edit - also worth noting that we give everyone equity so there's still a long-term focus of building a company, not just cashing out quickly.
I wrote a Go library for postgres & redis that handles all caching automatically.
where all you do is input the queries your application needs and then it will automatically determine which columns are affected & do all caching / cache invalidation for you.
I have it to the point where due to Redis being able to push onto a list that only writes hit the database & it even will update the cache keys automatically so that after an insert or update the cache is still hot.
I’m actually really excited for this because I use chatGPT all the time for work and being able to share the output of code to another engineer will make things a lot easier. I agree with others about it not being useful for mundane things but there are times chatGPT will generate a lot of code in different blocks & it’s a pain to share.
1. In our codebase, we leave links to the stackoverflows as documentation if it's something that someone else may question. Exact same concept just with ChatGPT.
2. I'm working with the Salesforce API which has been absolutely tedious to use but chatGPT, while not great at everything, has been giving awesome results back that otherwise would take me hours to hunt down. Sometimes responses get a lot of information back with multiple code blocks that I'm then unable to copy paste over & I'd rather send the conversation than spend 15 minutes typing back & forth explaining myself to a co-worker.
I completely understand you may not have a use for this but I think there could be awesome use-cases for it nonetheless for other engineers.
So literally a job which exists to only be replaced by the thing it's feeding. I guess the memes back in the early 00's of Google being a data octopus will evolve into the OpenAI Octopus eating those very humans.
I agree. It's felt like a lot of online forums are starting to become Quora where it's all self-promotion thinly veiled as adding to the conversation. It reminds me of PG's The Submarine blog post (http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html)
I want to see him in jail just as much as you but I’d counter point that:
1. No bodily harm occurred in this act
2. Murder trials are usually easier to get evidence from
