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- Jay and Peter both disclosed a chip in the floor from the seller. No problem, I’ll fill it with wood putty, sand it down, and color it closely.
- Air pollution has dropped 30% since the coronavirus quarantines, which is the level it was at 4 years ago.
- AMZN is killing it, up to 2300.
- Went into the office for the first time in a month. Standing desk was a treat, and was more productive. Grabbed the webcam for home use.
- Laundry, groceries, chores.
- Set up my webcam on the home desktop, with zoom and webex.
- Housing contract is ready for my signature. Today was an extremely long day at work, but I should have time to review tomorrow.
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- Awesome collection of tools to build your own software projects: https://github.com/danistefanovic/build-your-own-x.
- Starred maybe 5 other fantastic repos. Public APIs, system design, usual suspects.
- 1-24 rule when someone is triggering you: Write 1 letter, then wait 24 hours. Don’t push it down and boil later, get it out and compose the hate mail, but don’t send it. Wait 24 hours. You’ll never send it then.
- $14 SCE bill from hermosa, should be the last.
- Downloaded Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.
- Caught up with the relocation coach from impact.
- Felt bad watching the tiger king aftershow – they seemed more human than the show sensationalized them to be.
- Zoomed with parents and brother’s fam for dad’s birthday.
- You file an S-1 with the SEC to go public.
- California is offering a credit for utility bills, understanding that everyone is quarantined home and usage will inevitably increase.
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- Still weird splitting between this public blog and the private confluence blog, now that I’m spending most of my time on Citadel work. That blog has ~10x the content.
- Finally finished parks and rec (for the first time).
- Asked realtor about (1) seller’s desired moveout date and (2) when should I specify the parking spot need. Little too early to know both.
- Reached out to Karen (Altair) about extending with ABA, since they prefer 21-day notice.
- Tiger King aftershow too!
- West world. I have no idea what’s going on but the classical renditions on the score are A+. Henry Mancini’s Theme from Love Story (the same sample in Immortal Technique’s Dance with the Devil), David Bowie.
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- https://www.hackathon.io for general events.
- GroupMe was actually started at a hackathon.
- I’ve read site reliability engineering before but google just released a new SRE book, Secure and Reliable Systems: https://landing.google.com/sre/books.
- https://netgames.io/games/ for these remote times.
- The actor who played the bipolar brother in ozark did a phenomenal job.
- Few items on db schema design:
- Always separate the address, don’t store in a single column. State, city, zip, street, number.
- First and last name separate. Of course.
- Dates and times stored together in ISO format.
- Store money as cents. Usually lean toward the finest resolution.
- Database normalization, reminder:
- 1NF: Each value is atomic. Can’t have a col with a list of phone numbers for an employee. Create a separate table with phone numbers and FK to/from it.
- 2NF: No PK combinations. Can’t have a table with a primary key of employeeID + buildingID, and then a col for name or a col for location. Each only depends on half the PK. You’re mashing tables together when they should be distinct.
- 3NF. Every col in a table directly depends on the primary key. No attributes just get thrown in the table as metadata. If it’s transitively related, make another table for the transitive part.
- Each form requires the previous. 2NF requires 1NF + the additions. It gets more restrictive as you go up. 3NF is the best.
- Denormalization is faster, but riskier. It’s redundant. Data updates must know all the locations to update. You can break all these rules if you want to optimize for specific common queries.
- Thuringer summer sausage obviously comes fully cooked. Remove casing, slice, eat.
- Adenosine is the chemical that accumulates throughout the day that makes you feel sleepy. During sleep, your body removes it properly. Caffeine binds to your adenosine receptors instead, so you don’t feel sleepy. But once it wears off, that adenosine didn’t go anyway – that’s why you crash. Caffeine just temporarily bypasses a sleepy feeling.
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- Can’t iterate enough how important this quarantine is for remote work. It feels uncomfortable because it’s novel and forced, but this is how the future will be in steady-state. Office work is doable remotely for many industries, especially software. Communication limitations exist, but they’ll be solved orthogonally. So much can be saved with remote work culture; overhead, environmental impact, talent pool geographic limitation, time of commute, so so so much improves.
- Michelin restaurant ratings come in 1, 2, and 3 stars. There are a little over 100 restaurants worldwide, 20 in the US, ~5 in NYC and SF each.
- Seder (say-der) = dinner/get-together on the first and second nights of passover.
- Added a bunch of birthdays to google calendar. Just realized we have tomorrow off for good friday, it’s easter weekend.
- Good thing that put option for spy 150 in a week never executed.
- The quarantine has doubled the number of subscribers for Disney+.
- Finished Ozark s3.
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- Almost 1/3 of all american renters didn’t pay rent for this month!
- Joey Chestnut is only 4 years older than I am. Thought he was older. Matt Stonie is 5 years younger than I am.
- Foxes are crazy: https://www.reddit.com/r/ContagiousLaughter/comments/fx30nc/oh_stop_it_you/.
- Sent another email to the offer team at spacex instead of shareholder services, since a day has passed and they didn’t reply to my ultipro email.
- Regained access, changed pw, got all the documentation I needed and saved for my own records.
- Worked with my lawyer on a few redlines for the contract, purchaser’s rider.
- Rider is like an addendum, but usually part of the document rather than added afterward. Common in the contract world.
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- Inactivity screen timeout on android has a max setting of 10min. The user should have the ability to make this longer.
- The government took 43.79% of my sign-on bonus.
- House. Sent many more documents to Roger for underwriting.
- Got a digital copy of the old lease agreement from Sherisse.
- Exported actual paystubs from ADP.
- Collected the offer letter for financials, as well as confirmation of temp housing coverage (them wanting this depth is ridiculous given my other assets).
- Piecemeal 1099 from 2017.
- W2s from 2017-2019.
- Explanations for cap gains, purchase offers, w2 income.
- Emailed SpaceX for Ultipro access to download my old W2s.
- Noticed many many people using the word “verticals” lately to describe groups/teams/products within an org/department. Synergy, crosspollination, KPIs, altitude, the jargon of the professional world is so silly. Be direct.
