I grew up in Silicon Valley in the late 80s/90s and learned to juggle, as many people did back then, from the book "Juggling for the Complete Klutz." As a kid I devoured almost every Klutz Press book.

A product of Stanford people, Klutz had a small brick and mortar store in Palo Alto. It sold all of their books, of course, but also juggling equipment, magic props, and random fun stuff like rubber chickens and fake corpse legs you could hang out the trunk of your car. Absolute paradise for ~12 year old me.

But the best part was that they ran a weekly juggling club out on the back deck area. Just show up and play. I learned a lot from all of the kind folks who turned out for that. My mom would drop me off every week, and I'd run out there excited to show the older guys what I learned that week. I wasn't a prodigy or anything but I was decent. Got to the point where I was juggling 4 clubs and I could hang with the club passers if they kept the pattern tame (and were skilled enough to catch my slop). Of course I also got proficient at other juggling-adjacent stuff like yo-yo, devil sticks, contact juggling... Just pure joy, really a cherished memory.

I was at the shop enough that my friend and I ended up being recruited to model for the 1998 edition of the Klutz Yo Yo book. There are 2 photos of me in there, I think. I was pissed that my friend was more photogenic and they ended up using way more of his photos than mine.

I think this is a typo? Should be "fructose:glucose"

But he isn't honestly accounting for the cost of the salmon, even by his own rules ("Food that I don't use needs to be factored into my costs.", "if it goes to waste, I have to charge myself for it.").

The salmon, at $1.99/lb, costs $4.48 for 2.25lbs (36oz) of whole fish. From that, he's only able to extract 3x 6.25oz portions (19oz total) of meat.

Despite consuming everything he could/would from $4.48 worth of fish, he only charges himself $0.77 * 3 = $2.31, ignoring the cost of the waste that he was required to purchase in order to obtain the meat.

IMO a fairer accounting for 3 equal servings would be $4.48/3 = $1.49 per serving. Nearly double.

https://youtu.be/X5i0JU_NsZU?t=464

Even if I had no meetings, I can't concentrate on solo work with a wiggly/screamy thing on me or in the same room. One of the biggest benefits of WFH for me is avoiding the distractions of the office. Babies are FAR more distracting than anything at the office.

If you can't swing it financially, you have various choices -- Don't have kids, find higher-paying jobs, reduce expenses, or move closer to extended family/volunteers.

Nobody is "disinterested in supporting stay-at-home parenthood." On the contrary, the tax code is structured to give significant advantages to single-income (or at least lopsided-income) households over dual equivalent-income households.

This passage comes to mind:

> we want so badly to be believed, to be seen as someone who knows stuff.

The main point (I think? Hard to extract a thesis from this one besides "algo interviews bad") doesn't even hold up: "People say algo interviews reduce costly algo issues in production, but these issues still happen in production, therefore algo interviews don't work/those people are wrong." This conclusion doesn't follow. Who's to say that there wouldn't be twice as many, or twice as severe, algo problems if companies didn't interview this way? I'm not asserting that's the case, but it's consistent with the data points provided.

Outside of official HR statements, perhaps, I don't think anybody pretends leetcode-style interviews are actually ideal for evaluating corporate software engineer candidates. Everyone knows they are deeply flawed and provided limited value. They persist because they seem to be the least worst option, all things considered.

I had a hunch that Ironman triathlon was advertising their races as having cooler weather than they actually do. Turns out I was right -- here's my [slowtwitch post](https://forum.slowtwitch.com/forum/Slowtwitch_Forums_C1/Tria...), and the [associated code](https://gist.github.com/latkin/470a2f06056ee0a8e3f4da837af10...).

For example, my house experienced some flooding last year after exceptionally heavy rainfall. But how exceptional was it, really? I pulled out Mathematica and in a few minutes I had an interactive chart showing historical rainfall stats for my city over different time periods. The charting, interactivity, and weather APIs were all just built in.

Open roles: https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/?q=%22wear%20os%22

Wear OS is Google's Android-based smartwatch platform, and we're hiring for multiple roles across the team globally.

I'll speak to my team (platform) with a little more detail: we manage Wear's flavor of Android, bringup of new chipsets/hardware, power optimization, connectivity, companion (phone) apps, and lots of other misc stuff to pull together the core Wear OS platform. We're looking for senior/staff level folks with significant Android and/or mobile connectivity experience, --or-- more junior generalist types who are ready to learn more about those areas.

If you're smart and you want to make watches smart, too, apply to a role linked above or email me at my same username @google.com and I can help answer questions.

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https://blog.agilebits.com/2017/09/06/announcing-the-1passwo...

https://app-updates.agilebits.com/product_history/CLI

However their official CLI sadly only supports interactions with the subscription service. If you are using local vaults then there are still open source CLIs for Linux:

https://github.com/latkin/1poshword (disclaimer: my project)

https://github.com/georgebrock/1pass