I believe at the time they were allowing 38 year olds to join for the first time which seemed crazy to me. Now that I’m in my early 40s I can’t imagine going back in

He’s mentioned before how he’s always had bad teeth. He chalks it up to growing up around bad water, I assumed it was because he eats bagels and other carbohydrates almost exclusively, but maybe this is why!

After several years away from Spanish I picked it back up in college and began traveling and living off and on in Latin America

I remember the first times I started dreaming in Spanish, or the first time I had a screaming match with someone trying to steal money from me. I would unconsciously think of a phrase in English and constantly be trying to convert it to Spanish all day long. It was the most fluent I’ve ever felt

A few months ago I went on a trip to Central America and was worried my Spanish would have been lost after over a decade away. Turns out that quite a bit is still there

Folks regularly compliment me on my pronunciation(which is hugely important and shows that you’re trying, folks give you so much grace if you don’t know the words but are trying)

I also find that I can speak far better than I can listen. I regularly have to ask people to repeat themselves or slow down, which is frustrating to me but what can you expect after not staying sharp?

Last thing: I’ll echo another commenter who said to listen to music. My high school Spanish teacher had us listening and singing shakira. She’d print off the lyrics and we’d sing along. This was hugely valuable for pronunciation and flow. Also, old Shakira stuff is great

Nothing beats the pressure of using a language all day in a place where they don’t speak your language.

I remember meeting a backpacker from another country who spoke English but would only speak Spanish to when we traveled and would pull out her dictionary regularly and make notes in her notebook. I learned that Germans are crazy disciplined and that that discipline pays off. Her Spanish was amazing after only a few months in the country

My ex and I have an agreement in our separation agreement that our children can’t have social media until they’re 16. This is the version of it I’d want for them, if they choose(or feel pressured) to use it

That said, I’m finding some latency issues when I respond. I’ll say something in Spanish, hit the red button, and none of the text I sent appears.

Then I’ll hit the red button again to start talking but before I do the assistant responds to my response and the words I spoke show up

Some of the back and forth is showing up out of order.

Also, error messages are in Spanish, and my Spanish isn’t good enough to read them so I’m not sure what to do

Again, love this concept and would love to have an ai assistant I can have daily conversations with to start sharp

Would possibly be nice to prime the ai before the convo saying “I’d like to talk about x” in English

Keep going! I’ll keep playing with it

He told me that he had worked to develop a tool that would replace effectively all of the middle management function that he was responsible for: gathering information from folks below him, distilling it down and reporting that to people above him.

His hope was that he would be retained to maintain the system that he built, knowing that every other manager at his level was going to be terminated.

It felt like watching someone who is about to be executed be responsible for building the gallows. He should’ve been so aware that his job was going to be the first one cut, and he was responsible for building a tool to cut his own job. But he was optimistic that the cuts wouldn’t come for him

Makes me wonder how he’s doing today

You also said that the world is burning, and it is to some defree. But it’s also filled with so many kind and amazing people making an impact where they are. Sure, maybe the gal serving coffee isn’t fixing climate change but she’s making the person she’s talking to that day feel special. That’s important too. Same goes down the soccer coach who’s helping kids find passion in something.

The world is full of contradictions and imperfections. It’s also full of kindness and generosity everywhere you go, if you’re looking for it. If you’re looking for ways to validate that the world is burning, your gonna find those too

Social media blows, I hate it too. I’m not entirely sure society is moving in the right direction, but I’m just an atom in the ocean. I can affect those around me and hopefully those people affect more. My hope is that my joy spreads through other people, and if it doesn’t, that’s ok too.

I’m bummed you’re hurting, and with a job and a million responsibilities it can be hard to lift your gaze to see the forest for the trees

So while it seems we have more arists/creators than ever, the work seems more hollow and less inspired than ever because the artistic expression is tailored for a digital audience(often) and that digital consumption art feels shallower

For example, I was watching a stand up act on Netflix last night with my family. We were rolling in laughter but today we won’t talk about the show at all. Had we gone and seen the act live it would have been a “family moment” that we carried with us

This easy come/easy go commodification of our art and entertainment means that so little lasts with us. Same goes for music(I’ll discover a new song to fall in love with tomorrow)

I’m obviously not the first to notice this, but I think there’s a bit of an inevitability around this. Barring some large societal change, the tide is pulling more and more this trend

Once I joined the military and had a steady paycheck I started putting some money away each month. Fast forward twenty-something years and I’m so so so grateful to have had that influence which gives me optionally in my life.

No doubt investing with vanguard had a huge influence on their lives and I can’t imagine how many millions have been impacted.

Dollar cost averaging ftw!

Every time I open a new .wav file it defaults to Apple Music.

If I go to a given file and right click and select "open with application" I'm able to choose VLC. Great right?

Except, that ONLY applies to that specific file. The prompt at the top of the Finder says "Choose an application to open the document “my_wav_file.wav”."

Shouldn't I be able to EASILY set VLC as my default for every .wav file that I open?

This feels like a dark pattern. Apple is making it counterintuitive for me to set a default application that is not Apple's and I'm guessing that files I upload to Apple Music somehow end up on their servers and are processed by them(maybe that's a bit of a tin-foil stretch, but you get my point).

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It was my first dip into any King books and I’m equal parsers impressed and exhausted with his writing style.

I always assumed he was a horror writer, but after chugging through the series this year I’m excited to dig into his other works(after a short break for sure)

It’s difficult to describe but I found so many parallels between this story and my life that it was eerie to read at times. On top of that, the descriptors he uses in his writing are fascinating. At times the story, especially early on, was confusing and even now, have more questions than answers.

I’d like to take a few years and then come back to the saga and give it another shot.

Until then, if anyone has recommendations on the next books (non-horror please) to dig into, please send them my way!

Were they caught? If not, why not?

Having discovered this I’ve been able to control them completely, but realize that not everyone’s triggers are the same.

I carry sumatriptan just in case but have never felt as though it’s made a difference. I’m always hopeful for more solutions to migraines for those who suffer

Using your examples of call centers, back office and fraud detection as examples: - what happens when five humans can do the work of seven, because there is less shuffling paper and more automation in the call center?

Companies will staff for those five people, two folks will be out on their can.

The economy may or may not make more jobs to replace them, though we hope they do, there is no guarantee that that back office person will find similar employment. Over time, more and more of what is done will be automated away. Death by a thousand cuts.

On the other hand, this idea is in the collective zeitgeist. Its the duty of respectable newspapers to share stories that are on people’s minds. People on the margins always have concerns about losing their job, or affording rent next month. This feels like a worthwhile article to me

To me, the author was writing in a way that made sense to them, with no regard to how it would be perceived. People will either get it, or they won't.

That's what makes it art(in my opinion)

I see it in my parents/siblings when I visit. An ad that would have me immediately grasping a remote, doesn't even make them budget. They watch it, consider it, and move on.

All these companies have figured out that they can boil the frog and not enough people make enough of a stink for them to care. So they'll keep cramming ads down everyone's throats, because they've got a monopoly on the content.