Reference Title “The Practice” Author [[Seth Godin]] Book in three Sentences (almost) ( Here’s my first stab at this, on [[February 1st, 2021]] ) If you’re not on the hook, then you are working as an #amateur or as a #hack Your daily practice is not about doing what you love but loving what you do. Author says if you are not doing for someone other than yourself, then that is also #amateur status....
Trying out Spark this weekend These are just my casual notes from doing that, updating them as I go along. Following this post to get kubernetes running in Docker for mac Per this post , I just ticked the “Enable Kubernetes” option in the docker settings. Kubernetes is taking quite a while to start up though . several minutes. kind of weird? Download spark image From here 2021-01-24 ok backup my docker images Per notes , I backed up local docker images, Like this… docker save citibike-learn:0....
Two updates to the earlier steak post. Earlier, I was getting a really low temperature on the meat thermometer I was using and I am pretty sure now that was because I was only dipping just the tip as opposed to basically burying the thermometer lengthwise. This time around I seem to be getting the expected temperature, above 130 F and even above 140 F, whereas before this temperature was not registering even though I had validated that it was working on some pie for instance....
Reading https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Git-Objects (pandars3) $ echo 'test content' | git hash-object -w --stdin d670460b4b4aece5915caf5c68d12f560a9fe3e4 I tried that and oh hah so -w tells git hash-object to actually add that hash to my git key value store database hmm.. lets see if i can find it .. (pandars3) $ file .git/objects/d6/70460b4b4aece5915caf5c68d12f560a9fe3e4 .git/objects/d6/70460b4b4aece5915caf5c68d12f560a9fe3e4: VAX COFF executable not stripped - version 737 Ah indeed. ok binary though. hmm but apparently this is actual data.. (pandars3) $ ls -lh ....
Meritocracy Trap Summary I Read this after hearing an interview with Daniel Markovits initially. (2020-08-23 to 2020-12-12) The Book in Three Sentences Meritocracy replaced direct inheritance style aristocracy after the post World War II baby boomers overwhelmed colleges–forcing them to create the SAT to deal with admissions–and has been snowballing a self reinforcing selection process that has been undoing the middle class ever since. The elite make bank slogging gnarly hours more than by stereotypical capital gains loop holes and “the rest” work fewer hours, involuntarily left out of the economy....