> I just don't have any time for any of my hobbies any more
Exactly this. I have 2 under six, and outside the odd night were my wife bathes both kids, from 6am to 9pm I’m either working or hanging out with my kids. Maybe 2-3 times a month I’ll get 4 hours to myself to go watch a baseball/hockey game.
At the end of the day though, I look back and I’m grateful. I tell myself “where did my hobbies go” but deep down I know I probably would have spent that time watching a 3 hour super smash brothers documentary or re-reading LOTR or something stupid like that.
Kids have made me more focused. Their unconditional needs force me to weed out the time wasting, unimportant things in my life. I honestly sometimes wonder how it ever felt like I was busy before.
When we had kids I realized that I had to get new hobbies because I wouldn't be able to keep doing the old ones. I pretty much decided that cooking and looking after house plants were going to be be my new hobbies since I knew that I would actually have time for it because of necessity (well maybe not the plants). It worked out OK, I still enjoy cooking a lot.
I picked up an HP Touchpad during the fire sale and remember being surprised by how good the keyboard was at the time compared to an ipad or android tablet -- especially given how those had been on the market so much longer.
It’s kinda funny that, on a CSS focused site, the position of the “latest” article label on the homepage is set above that of the site logo and navigation bar.
It’s nice to know even CSS experts make mistakes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Even if you factor in investment returns you're not getting the full picture IMO unless you take into account price increases over time as well.
A common refrain is that Carnegie Hall only cost $1M ($29,581,868.13 when adjusted for inflation) to build, so why do we still credit its founder with their name? Shouldn't we rename it in honor of someone who's contributed more to the Hall?
What this doesn't take into account is what it would cost to _build_ a new Carnegie Hall today. Labor is far more expensive (highest $/hr ever in 2019 if I'm not mistaken [1]) today and so are building materials [2].
So it's true he'd see compounding returns from investing, but to do what they did back then would cost significantly more today. IE, their dollars took them further back then.
Also, worth noting Rockefeller donated 6% of his salary to charity every pay check every single year of his life, not just when he could "afford" it [3]. So if you take into account the _missed_ compound returns of those charitable contributions, you can start to get a sense for just otherworldly their charitable efforts were.
Not trying to say these guys were angels. And yet, as rich as they were, I think too often that overshadows the gargantuan contributions to charity they made.
> And yet, as rich as they were, I think too often that overshadows the gargantuan contributions to charity they made.
Is it really such a great thing to give away money you don't need. IMO tha should be the absolute minimum baseline expectation for someone who controls so much wealth.
I think it is a great thing. They could just as easily keep it all to themselves and pass it down to generations. It’s fully within their legal rights to do so.
Echoing others here, I honestly prefer this than dealing with outdated defaults built into the OS. More often than not they just get in the way.
The real bummer is for newcomers. It's going to make getting started much more of a headache since they first need to learn how to setup a local environment.
Anything you're gonna interact with more than half your waking hours is worth spending lots of money on, to me. Over 4 years of daily use a monitor like that is something like 20 cents an hour. Seems worth it to me.
If they can get that working I’d be ecstatic!