My background is natural sciences, so I took a paycut to go back into an academic lab and rekindle my bench chops. Been really fun so far and my hope is to continue working in the field as a lab manager or researcher in the private sector. Won't pay as high as a software PM, but a lot more satisfying and healthy
I have a LG plasma TV from 2008 that still works great. It's not a smart TV so I don't have to worry about keeping it up to date or having it slow down. I've gotten more than my money's worth.
I have a Samsung 1080p non-"smart" tv that just won't die. Sure, it's not the best picture available, but it's good enough for what I need and doesn't send my viewing habits to any motherships.
Plasma draws the pixels, so it does native resolution with no interpolation for all its supported resolutions. Is that correct? If so other than higher power draw suggests that is ideal.
My understanding is that plasma panels have a native resolution, similar to a LCD panel. If that native resolution isn't the same as the input resolution, there's typically a scaler in the plasma display that will massage the content to fit, very similar to a LCD panel.
Plamsa panels were commonly available as 1920x1080 or 1366x768. As long as you're watching natural images (movies etc), both are really fine; native 1080 line plasmas are a better fit for computer generated imagery because they're much easier to feed at their native resolution and avoid the scaler; a lack of 4k plasma displays isn't really a big problem, 1080p is still beautiful. Plasma screens don't have support for HDR, but they do have amazing black levels.
This is something I think about a lot as a product manager (PdM). There is only 1 PdM per a handful of engineers. In some cases, a product manager has more than one product (and team). From a numbers standpoint, I often wonder if I'd be better off going back to engineering. I wasn't the best at writing code—I was slow—but I enjoyed the challenges. The grass is always greener, I suppose.
I enjoy using HEY from 37signals. It's different than other services (more opinionated), but it keeps my inbox under control. They also take privacy seriously.
I was a paid subscriber for the first year, stopped for a year, and then went back because I realized how much it helped. It lacks a calendar, though, if that's important to you.
Happy HEY user here, too. It's quirky and opinionated, so definitely not for everybody. But give it a try and see if you like it. Other than that, you can't do anything wrong with Fastmail or Proton.
Hey has been well worth the $100/year, especially since they improved search. Curious how it worked when you returned after a year. Did you get your old address back?
Yup! My HEY address was forwarding to Gmail after I stopped my subscription. When I came back, I had to start over. All of the data is removed when you leave. HEY provides a backup when your subscription ends, so I can always take a look at that if there's something I need from that first year.
Not that it should be necessary, notion should not be violating you're privacy by default, but at least uBlock/uMatrix block the entire fullstory domain by default.
In the EU they are by law. In reality not all websites disclose all services they share data with though. And all users click accept in the cookie pop-up anyway.
Have you seen those pop ups with a button to consent to cookies and a link to a privacy page where usage of 3rd party services like Fullstory has to be disclosed? That's your opt-in.
If it’s like Matomo’s opt-out system, that cookie is required – it’s the very thing that turns on the opt-out.
When you opt-out of Matomo, the message warns that “if you clear your cookies, delete the opt-out cookie, or if you change computers or Web browsers, you will need to perform the opt-out procedure again”.
Matomo also honours the browser’s DNT setting, which is a) nice and b) rare.
Charging by the day or week is something that's come up a couple of times. How do you come up with the daily rate? Is it the total of what you'd charge per hour for eight hours?
A couple of years ago I was looking for a Tempur-Pedic style mattress, but didn't want to spend thousands for one. After doing a lot of research I found Isoform mattresses. They are only available through the mail and have a 90-day return window if you're not happy. It would be very expensive to ship numerous mattresses, but the trial of one with no commitment to buy is pretty good.
You can try using Xubuntu. I just switched from OS X to (Ubuntu) Linux and didn't like Unity either. A co-worker suggested Xubuntu and I haven't looked back.
I heard about Warby Parker about two weeks ago and decided to give them a try. Whenever I would get frames at a local shop it always felt rushed and I was never happy with the results in the long run. I really like the idea of the home try-on and did find a pair I'm very happy with.
We organise a smaller (a lot smaller!) conference¹ in Helsinki, Finland and I can tell you that a surprising number of things increase in cost linearly as you add more days.
Of course adding one more day to a two day conference doesn't double your costs, but I'd image that Google is taking into account inflation as well as just trying to increase their profit margin (though taking into account the amount of hardware they give out they give out to attendees does indicate that they're also trying to limit the audience to actual developers).
