Warning: It can get wild, lower volume... Tried out a bunch of samples and by slightly tweaking some parameters you can end up in overdriven white-noise hell depending on the "brain" + samples.
I spent 2-3 years alone, I alienated my friends and pursued my interests, spent 1/3 of my spare time playing CSGO, 1/3 of the time crafting music, and 1/3 of the time writing software and coming up with ideas for startups and web projects. Other than work, I was truly isolated.
Half of me was completely content with the fact that I had my own space, my solitude, my quiet space, my time. I was in control. Yet, after years of this, heck... even after months of this, something starts ticking in your brain... that feeling that you are missing out on things.
Since then I managed to connect with people, through gaming, but later on in real life, that became a huge part of who I am. I also opened up to coworkers, and even though anxiety and depression can be a massive burden and make it really hard to "open up", I fought through it, through the panic attacks and everything, and now I feel like I'm finally starting to appreciate company.
Yet, I love being alone. I love creating, I love my space, and I love being in control of my time, as it is finite, and we can control how to spend it... But it feel nice to let other people into that time, and also to give some of it up to spend time with others; we are all humans with a million thoughts and a million things troubling us and pulling us in all sorts of directions...
That said, I think solitude has massive benefits as well; over time it allows you to read yourself, which in turn helps you to read others. To discover how your mind ticks is to discover how we all differ, and social clues notwithstanding, it does help progress towards a more social behavior.
Solitude as well as companionship both are indispensable in the long term; the key is to balance both. One time I went to a hotel next to a waterfall in northern Mexico for 3 days without a mobile phone... it was bliss. Yet at the same time I recall festivals with friends, barbecues, and gaming nights with the same fondness.
The target market of the business is a strategical internal investment from a marketing and product perspective; this is not something that needs to be communicated externally...
Simply direct internal AEs/CS/PS + branding/messaging/content to target & serve specific segments whilst offering a very basic level of support towards SMBs, and remove free tiers (opting for "contact us for pricing" action buttons for example).
Afterwards the organisation will organically shift towards that direction; but by making this a public thing it hinders opportunity and affects public perception.
Whenever I'm anxious it is not just one voice but almost an internal cacophony. I found that if I shout "STOOOP" at myself (internally), while clenching my fists, it almost always quietens the whole chorus down.
I clicked the 5 because it is the only thing I found that looked like a link, and half expected to go to the end of something (this was after scrolling through amazon results, page after page without finding what I was looking for, so I guess my idea of "reaching the end" might have been biased.
I had this earlier! A bunch of sites were down for me, I couldn't even connect to this site.
The problem is I don't know where to find what was going on (tried looking up live DDOS-tracking websites, "is it down or is it just me" websites, etc. I couldn't find a single place talking about this.
Is there a source where you can get instant information on Level3 / global DNS / major outages?
I believe these are mostly non public channels where backbone and network infrastructure engineers from different companies congregate to discuss outages like this.
please dont call yourself that its more like i [and others] are hyper paranoid and marginal in behavior due to the nature of pastimes [i myself can promise you that im not malicious but i cant speak for others, i would leave it up to them to speak for themselves]
it isnt so much the channels that you want its the current IP of a non indexed IRC server[s] that you need, of course you could create and maintain your own dynamic IRC server and invite people that you trust or feel kinship toward.
here are a couple of "for instance" breadcrumbs for you to start from:
I'm definitely an amateur when it comes to networking stuff. At the time, the _only_ issue I had was with all of my Digital Ocean droplets. It was confusing because I was able to get to them through my LTE connection and not able to through my home ISP. I opened a ticket with DO worried that it was my ISP blocking IP addresses suddenly. It turned out to be this outage, but it was very specific. Traceroute gave some clues, but again I'm amateur and I couldn't tell what was happening after a certain point.
So yeah, I too would love a really easy to use page that could show outages like this. It would be really great to be able to specify vendors used to really piece the puzzle together.
I found places talking about this earlier. A friend of mine who has CenturyLink as their ISP complained to me that Twitch and Reddit weren't working. But they worked for me, so I suspected a CDN issue. I did some digging to figure out what CDNs they had in common. I expected Twitch to be on CloudFront, but their CDN doesn't serve CloudFront headers; instead they are "Via: 1.1 varnish". Reddit is exactly the same. I did some googling and found out that they both apparently used Fastly, at least to some extent. Fastly has a status page and it was talking about "widespread disruption".
So I guess my takeaway from this is that if the Internet seems to be down, usually the CDN providers notice. I don't know if either of the sites actually still use Fastly (I kind of forgot they existed), but I did end up reading about the Internet being broken at some scale larger than "your friend's cable modem is broken", so that was helpful.
It would be nice if we had a map of popular sites and which CDN they use, so we can collect a sampling of what's up and what's down and figure out which CDN is broken. Though in this case, it wasn't really the CDN's fault. Just collateral damage.
We should write a plugin which normalises headlines, essentially a de-click-bater. By training a NN on neutral headlines vs doom/anxiety-inducing/clickbait headlines we can essentially provide the inverse as well.
I actually wrote a half baked version of this to replace the headline with a machine learning generated summary of the article. Headlines wound up being sort of long and clunky but I did like them a lot more than the sort of headlines being discussed here (the reason I wrote it in the first place). Maybe I should finish that.
It's possible that there's common manufacturing involved, either of an ingredient or the whole product. That's fairly common for this sort of rather generic product, and can lead to extremely broad recalls. A while back, almost all hummus in the UK and Ireland was recalled; turns out practically all manufacturers shared one company in the supply chain.
A lot of them were recalled for containing methanol, which could be a characteristic of the original bulk alcohol. I'd imagine most plants are not set up to do the necessary separation
They were all Mexico, actually, except Tritanium Labs, which had this comment:
Product purported to be made at the same facility as Incredible Products SA de CV that produced methanol contaminated product; FDA recommended a recall on 7/30/2020
I'm pretty sure the supply chain changed drastically when hand sanitizer went into high demand mode. Opportunistic companies that had access to methanol, ethanol, or isopropyl alcohol probably jumped in too quickly.
Purell, a popular brand, is made in Ohio and France.
This may be an attempt to pander to US corn ethanol interests ahead of the election, in particular the swing state of Iowa which is a major corn ethanol producer and holds the first primary election. Note that it's not just a recommendation - the named products are now forbidden from import.
Circumstantial evidence:
* The very day before the import bans, Trump retweeted "President @realDonaldTrump is working to ensure that AMERICA produces the critical goods necessary to combat COVID-19 here" - along with a small speech about "restoring American manufacturing".
* The head of the FDA appears to be politically captured by the Trump administration, for example by ordering FEMA to distribute hydroxychloroquine to pharmacies nationwide.
* This administration has already attempted to pander to the Iowa ethanol demographic in the form of lobbying Brazil to lower ethanol import tariffs. Mexican ethanol is both cheaper and geographically nearer to Brazil, so discrediting its purity would make sense.
* Tiny methanol impurities, the cited reason for most of these recalls, pose virtually no contact risk in hand sanitizer. Even if you rubbed pure methanol on both your hands for a whole minute, you'd only absorb about 30 mg. That's about the same as you'd get from metabolizing a pint of diet soda (aspartame turns into 10% methanol by weight). Real hand sanitizer will contain tiny amounts of methanol, and will be in liquid form on the hands for considerably less than a minute. So I find the health justification for this rather suspect.
"The Danger Of Seeking a Life Purpose" from Sorelle Amore is an interesting video that lightly touches on this subject. Whilst I do not agree with everything mentioned, I do have one word of advice: Find hobbies, find many hobbies, switch constantly, and you might just find one niche you love... and once you find something you love, you'll dig into it like the hacker you are, and then you'll dig deeper, and you'll dream, and you'll envision, and you'll write, and you'll create, and you'll go leaps and bounds beyond what you thought you'd be capable of... and you'll fail, but you'll rebound... and you'll enjoy every single moment of it.
"Pouring your soul into something that can provide meaning to your life" doesn't just happen, your life has no meaning, just like mine doesn't... but you can pour something into your life regardless, and this will be much more satisfactory, knowing we all die, accepting we all die, and still having fun in this short moment of time we are here... and creating for fun, and... living!
In my case, I've started delving into creating a new language, creating a typography for this language, writing a universe where people talk in this language, writing a story that happens in this universe, and further down the line I plan to write poems and music that happens in this universe... and all along I know this is not my life's purpose. This is just a creation... We don't need a purpose per-se, we need something we love, like the love of exploring, the love of creating, or the love of pursuing new dreams.
The last thing you say is that you'd like to pour your soul into something that can provide meaning without rushing into the next side project... I'd argue against that, pursue ALL the problems, ALL the side projects... and then you'll find one thing that really clicks, and at that moment you'll know where to invest your energy.
> Find hobbies, find many hobbies, switch constantly, and you might just find one niche you love.
I think that if there is something that defines me, is that I change hobbies quickly, after a deep dive. That's basically how I got where I am. Should I keep doing what I always did then?
