I find Accuweather MinutecastTM quite good for the Northeast. I'm using Breezy Weather with them as the data source. Sometimes, I found their API data was not as updated as their website/app but most of the time, the API is good enough. Can't stand their app design and data collection.
I know I know they are not nice, just repackaging NWS data blah blah but after testing all other rain prediction services, Accuweather was the most accurate for where I am.
Dark Sky was the best though. RIP
Apple Weather on iOS looks pretty good but I haven't found a good app consuming AW API on Android.
I find Accuweather radar UI pretty good for manual forecasting because I can grab the slider and rapidly move it back and forth to see a timelapse of the precipitation. It's amazing how often huge cells pass to either side of our little town (also in Northeast) without a single drop to our name.
> I often find, aside from exceptional cases, most of them actually have some part of the job they prefer & are good at, so modifying the task allocation can go a long way.
While this works in the short/naive scenario, I feel like in most cases these low performers prefer the "gravy" work if you will. The type of work that almost everyone prefers and is good at. So you risk setting a bad precedent for perverse incentives by rewarding poor performance with easier work.
In a sufficient sized team you may have boring/rote tasks that your high performers hate & neglect, but sometimes a comparatively lower performer will take on.
In many cases it's the (sometimes perceived but not in practice) higher performers that want the harder exciting high profile tasks, but maybe don't want to do the less fun parts of those tasks. Basic data munging, documentation, testing, monitoring, configuration management, etc... no fun!
A lot of perceived high performing devs I've worked with want to be like surgeons who walk into the OR, put their hands into the gloves, pick up the tools prepared for them on a tray, do the surgery, and leave.
Problem is I don't think we can really pick and choose tidbits like that. You want the person who wrote the code to be the same person that documents it.
Some parts of the job just suck and there's no easy out. I just tell myself this is why they're paying me.
Is there ANY substance behind such a hypothetical question? If not, I don't want to hear about it. It's a sensitive topic and you're doing no one a favor.
I believe you 100%. I have a history of substance abuse with bad consequences. I quit alcohol and now my drug is food. People tell me I'm a "supertaster." I can taste many of the ingredients in my food that others can't.
I also have BPD and am in therapy for it, but man. Food is the drug that always works. When I get into a certain mode, it's like I don't care that I'm overweight and have high blood pressure. I just crave the deliciousness and the "full feeling." And it never fails to work! I always feel more calm and happy after I eat.
Reminds me of a client I had once. He said that the only thing that made him reset was to "pig out" with a carb-overdose, then just sit in front of the TV with a sugar high.
Incidentally, I had been nagging him about trying ANYTHING (in addition to the therapy we were doing to find a life goal he believes in) that might help him get SOME help. Be it Adderall or Ozempic. But people are complex, and at best, a person is a Venn diagram with massive overlapping "biological susceptibility," "life situation," "negative thinking style," and inertia. The best one can do is to pull at as many threads as possible to hope the suffering unravels. So one of the threads one can pull at are medication.
Not to give advice, but just for shits and giggles, look into "vulnerable narcissism." Many describe stuff like you do and fit those traits. And don't give a shit about the negative associations and stereotypes regarding this personality. I love narcissists! It's one of the coolest personalities there is! But when you are not allowed to be proud of yourself, and all the desire for status and power gets refocused onto self-hate and learned helplessness, then it's a monster of a situation. Had so many people become awesome versions of themselves when they stop being so afraid of being arrogant :) .
Just to remember when you read about it, that the descriptions are only in the context of things having gone wrong. Every trait can manifest as something good or negative. Even psychopaths can have good and prosocial lives. For instance, some of the best ambulance workers often have high loading on psychopathy, and that makes them better at their job. Because they don't get scared. I’d rather be picked up by an ambulance worker that is curious and thinks the situation is interesting than one that is panicking and losing due to anxiety and empathy overload.
This is just a long-shot association/pattern I noticed, though. It's not worth a dime more than the sentences you put into the machine. :P
Do you have any thoughts on GLP-1s for ADHD? I have tried the stimulants (legally) without success, and am reluctant to try the non-stimulants since their success rate seems pretty poor and side effects seem worse.
I answered it a couple of places in this thread already, but the short answer is yes, and GLP1 is not usually a good way to core ADHD treatment.
However, if you tried stimulants without success, this would be my descending list of things that need to be sorted out:
- Have you tried multiple types of medication? A lot of people give up after 1 or 2 different types. But I have seen MANY people who get completely new lives, but only after the 5th type they tried that matched their biology.
- Do a diagnostic re-evaluation to make sure that one is not misdiagnosing ADHD (the most common confusion is anxiety and personality).
- Map out the life situation. Circumstances might be a stronger explanation of the situation than internal psychological vulnerabilities.
- Make sure that you get a blood-mirror (Norwegian concept) so you know you have proper absorption/amount in blood.
Heterogeneous refers to a mix of dissimilar compounds, while inhomogeneous is more about a varying of properties throughout a single compound.
So in the abstract, the friction surface is called inhomogeneous because it's referring to the floor as one component with a varying friction coefficient.
subtle difference: "heterogeneous" generally implies a mixture of distinct, separate elements or components, while "inhomogeneous" can refer to a lack of uniformity in properties within a single substance
This is interesting because about 20 or so years ago when I was super into bodybuilding, you couldn't talk about a "cycle" on a bodybuilding forum without talking about a "post cycle protocol."
I know that's different than permanent TRT but I feel like you couldn't get very far researching that stuff without understanding that you natural test production (and sperm production) would get "shut down" as soon as you started adding exogenous androgens.
Yeah, it's well known that steroids shut you down. The problem with the broscience is that the PCT is talked about like it reverses everything like an antidote, but long-term bodybuilders often end up on TRT because eventually they can't get back to baseline.
That isn't true. Dedicated bodybuilders, starting more commonly ~5 years ago, decided that PCT wasn't worth it. Instead of typical 16-20 week cycles followed by 4-6 weeks of PCT, they adjust the dose between supraphysiological and (generally) top-of-normal, i.e.: blast and cruise.
It's not because they couldn't recover, it's because they don't want to or see the point.
The person kvetching at you about not understanding threading is making a joke because there's also a process called "eyebrow threading."
HN is supposed to be high quality discourse and you have to be on your toes if you want to participate!
Missing context, and missing references, and doubling down when you're called out is NOT the optimal strategy.