Hopefully you have recovery codes for all these accounts.
With that said, I don't like to rely on these recovery codes bc of some horror stories.
Alternatively when setting up 2FA, you can for example:
- use Authy bc it syncs tokens in the cloud and so you can recover your 2FA tokens on a new phone based on your phone nbr. I used to do that but have stopped bc Twilio (owner of Authy) is slowly retiring the product.
- Keep a copy of each token when you set up 2FA. I keep an encrypted disk image with a list of my 2FA tokens. Yes, it weakens a little bit the security. But I sleep well bc I won't lock myself out in case of trouble. It's a trade-off I embrace.
With my kids, I used to do visits with increasing intervals. 1st time after 1 min, then 3 min, then 5 min, then 7 min,... I never reached 11 min before they were asleep.
There's a wide variety of different breathing techniques that can be used for specific purposes. It's been literally life-changing for me. Some techniques can help you getting out of a bad moment (anxiety, stress,...) but others have much deeper effects and can transform how you function as a human being.
You can for example check the following broad categories: a) Conscious breathing (Holotropic, rebirth, and the likes), b) Pranayama (Kapalabhati, anuma viloma,..), c) Buteyko + McKeown, d) Anapana Sati, e) Qi gong, f) Wim Hof.
It takes time to absorb the practical knowledge and use it in daily life but as the question asked, I was richly rewarded for the time I've invested in mastering these techniques.
49 here, 2 teenagers.
When you grow older, the things you truly like doing don't change that much. It's the things you don't like that you hate doing every day a little bit more. You should plan for that.
I see too many friends who have been micromanaging their lives since when we were in our 20's and now feel entrapped and miserable because of work and/or partner and/or relationships...
As many have mentioned here, the first thing is to focus on your health, mental and physical. Absolute necessity.
The second thing is to develop optionality for later instead of closing doors as many do. Plant seeds for your future life. You don't know what will work or not for you in the future. So, while you're busy living your current life, plant seeds that all have a reasonable chance to grow into a life scenario that you would enjoy later. Don't focus on a single objective, make sure you pursue at least a handful. No need to be obsessive. And then, water the seeds when you can, abandon those who die, replant when necessary. It is mostly a background process, be gently alert to spot potential future opportunities. It has made wonders for me.
Could you give some examples of "seeds" you've planted?
Do you mean to cultivate new hobbies, or keep paths open in your professional life (e.g. become a manager, or have a side project), or grow friendships with common interests that may remain common after ten years (e.g. not drinking buddies)?
Life is probabilistic, you can't define your future for sure but I believe you can increase the expected enjoyability of the outcome by working on adding potentially enjoyable scenarios to the collection of potential future outcomes. As for examples, I invested in some friendships at moments when there were more pressing rational things to do, thinking that maybe, some day, it would flourish and be worth it. Or I managed to set up a working environment where I sat for 10 years in the same space as a friend I would love to build a business with though we had completely different jobs. I was patiently waiting for a real opportunity for us to work together, all the while I was embracing my regular job. I was also building new skills in things that interest me. I was always acting with determination but not with obsession and anxiety. I was mentally accepting whatever scenarios would eventually materialize, I was only optimizing on increasing the quantity of possible enjoyable scenarios. But, as said before, all this is worth nothing if you don't treat your body with respect and are not very disciplined with your finances.
Although as a non-native speaker I find their service very attractive, I've so far refrained from installing their apps/extension. I was never confident enough about how Grammarly would keep safe every word I type (emails,...). This bug is a confirmation I should not trust them or any similar service.
I tried it and my browsing exeprience was just terrible. It made Chrome so slow that there was a delay in typing and the character appearing. Haven't tried it again.
This was my experience as well. I don't know how anyone is able to use it; it brought my 2017 MacBook pro to its knees every time I would start writing a HN comment. I uninstalled it after about 5 minutes.
With English being my second language I find Grammarly absolutely essential. I dabbled in creative writing in my native language, was a bit proud of my skill and made it a point to use correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling in all kinds of written communication, even on IMs.
To get to this point, I did primarily two things: I read a lot, and I wrote a lot. I then submitted my writing to my peers, similarly interested in creative writing, who would also -
in addition to the story, characters and so on - criticise my word choices and my grammar. It took years, but it was enjoyable, and I acquired my second (and last, after programming) skill that could be of some value.
A couple of years later, when I started working, I had to switch to English. It wouldn't be that big of a deal were it not for my experiences: every time I had to write anything, I felt incredibly constrained, like I'm missing half of my brain. I was used to being able to express myself precisely, clearly and elegantly in writing - all of that stopped working after the switch. It's incredibly frustrating, to the point that for a few years I was in complete denial and refused to write in English wherever I could get away with it.
Well, I thought, I got proficient in Polish, so technically I should be able to get to the same point in English, right? It's easy - I just need to read a lot and have a group of people who'd like to read my writings and correct my mistakes. Easy!
...however, I'm not in high school anymore. Between work and the little social life I have, there's not that much time available for pursuing other matters. I do read a lot, exclusively in English, but these are mostly tech-related articles, blogs, and books, written by people who couldn't care less about beauty and elegance of their writing. It's actually counterproductive if my goal is to get better at writing - such posts are chock-full of both errors and merely weird wordings and constructs. And nobody seems to care.
There is a creative writing StackExchange (and many other places), where I could submit my texts to get the criticism and corrections I need. Unfortunately, I don't have the time - even if I had the skill - to do my part of the deal, that is, to read and comment on writings of others. I'd feel bad exploiting strangers like that.
As you probably already guessed, this is where Grammarly comes up. It gives me a bit of the feedback I need to improve my writing. It's not at the level of other humans, which is obvious, but it does catch some mistakes and some stylistic problems. It doesn't rely on unpaid work of others, so I have no qualms about using it. I'm not worried about following its advice because even if it's wrong, nobody would care. The amount of contempt for the language in the tech community is staggering; average tech-related writing is on such a level that I'd rather chop my hand off than write like that, but it shows just how unimportant correctness and elegance is for people (as long as it gets the point across... right?)
So, to summarize and get back to the topic at hand: Grammarly is non-ideal on so many fronts, that to simply enumerate them would take until Friday (it's Wed today). But it's also the only tool I can rely on, and it does an acceptable job at what it does. It breaks web pages, it's unusable from outside a browser, it's error indicator is frequently displayed 3+ lines from where it should be, it's stupidly dumb and cannot, by itself, tell where the additional "actually" is actually needed, but it's the only help I can get, so I use it.
Of course, if your goal is merely communication you do not need anything other than basic spell-checker and a book on basic grammar. On the other hand, if your goals are similar to mine, then Grammarly is one step above that combo. It isn't, and probably won't ever be, anywhere near the level of human reviewers, but it is something.
PS. For a long time, I wanted a feature in Grammarly that would automatically slurp content of blog posts and articles in, so that I can just click a couple of times and then read the post without all the mistakes and weirdness people so often put in there. Reading the top-voted comment here, about the license, I see why they won't implement it. Similarly, I guess Emacs plugin is not going to emerge anytime soon. Whatever you use Grammarly for, you should assume it's public. It doesn't make it any less usefull for writing comments on some sites or posts for my blog, though.
My first computer as well. As there was no hard drive included, I had to save on audio tape the programs I was inventing or typing from UK 'Your Computer' weekly magazine.
Also, graphical definition was 64 by 44 if I remember well, meaning that imagination was welcome when playing 'games'!
IIRC, graphics used 2x2 block characters. With 24 lines of 32 characters, that would give you 64x48.
However, video memory ate into your 1k RAM. At 24 lines of 32 characters, a conventional video memory would need 75% of that 1k bytes, so they did things differently; video memory was laid out as you would do in a text editor, with each line ending in a line separator character.
That way, an empty screen took just 24 bytes, a full one (32x24) + 24 = 792 bytes, leaving 232 bytes for a program.
=> few programs for the 1k version could use the full screen.
You are correct, but the screen's last two lines of text required some tricks to take advantage of (search for “reserved” in http://www.tebbo.com/archive/pw810601.htm ), so “64x44” is also a correct description from the programmer's point of view.
The particular trick that enabled the program to use the last two lines was easy to come by (I was in the countryside, hundreds of kilometers from the nearest user group, and I only had a few books as source of information). The existence of such tricks, including the pure software “hi-res” more that I read about at the time but didn't get to see until the Internet made it possible 12 years later, is one of my fond memories of that era.
I remember implementing the Mandelbrot set ("Apfelmännchen"), and it would plot one of those "pixels" every few seconds, so the whole thing only took a few hours :-)
I'm 28 and I've read it 3-4 times now. It's a truly an inspired work. I think that it would appeal to the HN community because the author, Robert Persig, arguably reaches a statement of enlightenment entirely through deductive reasoning. The story is essentially Persig's attempt to piece this whole event together after having undergone electric shock therapy. The story unfolds as Persig and his son travel across the US by motorcycle and is complemented by intermediary "chautauquas" (philosophical monologues) and technical monologues about motorcycle maintenance. The book is an enigma (unlike its sequel "Lila" which is not), and there isn't any other book that I've read that is like it.
