I find that for most seniors, you should follow the documentation with check ins from current employees. If the documentation is obtuse then have the new hire correct it so that the next new hire having the same information at that point will understand what to do better.
Yes, but double check their work. If they’ve made a mistake that is visible in the documentation, you can fix it now and also have a teachable moment. But as I said above: resist the urge to rephrase what they’ve said unless it’s factually wrong.
When I’m onboarding people, fixing bugs in the docs is the first task they complete. It helps everybody, and it keeps them from having to jump into fixing bugs in code they don’t understand at all yet for just a little while longer, while they build their 10,000 foot view.
Don't buy anything that isn't Zigbee (or, I guess, Z-wave). Wi-Fi is much too heavy and insecure for smart home stuff, Zigbee has a ton of features you'll want (much simpler protocol, automatic repeaters, etc etc).
All of my smart switches are Jasco (aka GE) Z-wave switches.
As I buy other HA toys, I've been getting Zigbee when I can. It has been less hassle to do the device adoption process and the USB dongle I use for Home Assistant supports both Z-Wave and Zigbee simultaneously.
This has only recently been a problem for me. There is a nice gentleman with my same name who picked up the gmail address without the dot. He lives in Arizona. Has a library membership. Plays in a softball league. I am not sure how much of my email he gets. I haven't set up a filter yet but I will eventually. I like seeing what my doppelganger is up to some times.
No, he did not "pick up" that address. Google won't issue a second address that matches the concatenation of the characters without dots. So, if I have john.smith@gmail.com, Google will not issue anyone else johnsmith@, j.ohnsmith@, joh.nsmith@gmail.com or any other combination to another user.
What does often happen is that people FORGET what their actual email address is when they hand it out to other people or write it down on forms. Or their friends or family mis-remember it. Your doppleganger may have actually been issued the address johnny.smith, or smith.johnny, but just forgets.
I have found it helps if I put an entry into hosts file for 127.0.0.1 for all the sites that I waste time on.
Eventually I will go back in and update it when I feel I have caught up but it gives me a reminder when I can't go to the sites at all.
I think a real time ranking system for students at a university that is visible by all is just going to be targeted for greedy or ambitious people looking to convert it into jobs or money.
If I am in the top 10 percent of the rankings in Rocket League sure I can make a few grand streaming, but if I am in the top 10 percent of rankings at a school I can get a better job than the rest. What are the bottom 90 percent's motivation for helping people improve at that point?
With very few exceptions, everyone who plays Rocket League is playing it because they find it intrinsically rewarding. When I taught intro stats I'd guess less than 2% of my students were studying stats because they found it intrinsically rewarding. Even when you get into upper level classes, even among graduate students, the percentage who are taking a class for the intrinsic reward rarely approaches 100%.
Trying to make education more like Rocket League, ignoring the wildly divergent motivations of the people involved, is a fool's errand.
The Grand Caravan interior was from 2005. It was showing its age. Also why make a minivan that sells around 30k when you can make an SUV that sells for 50k. It makes me sad but that is capitalism for ya.
Yeah but you won't pass as many people.
The density of SoCal is high but it is spread out which defeats public transportation.
Maybe once we get some kind of automated bus system and bus lanes this could be less of a hassle but I doubt it.
We have a list that our daughter asks us to put toys she wants on. Then we wait. After a bit we go over the list with her and see if there is still the desire. It has been edifying that most of the time the desire is gone and we remove the item from the list.
I have wanted to do something similar to efficiently dispose of my child's toys. Step 1: I put a red sticker on any toy I don't think has been played with in a while. Step 2: three weeks later, if the sticker is still there then I take the toy and put it in a holding pen. Step 3: if the child has not noticed it was missing three weeks later, the toy can be recycled/donated.
We haven't done this yet, but it's on our list of things to try.
I did something extremely similar with my not-quite-hoarder wife. She had an uncanny ability to ask about a thing the day before it was to make its way out our door. And my “holding pen” was 3 months.
The two hobbies you suggested get easier the more you spend. Surfing has a cap pretty quick in that if you spend more you aren't going to be suddenly amazing or get a huge leg up in the competition. You can catch some waves quicker with better gear, but experience is how you get good at it. It is only getting into the water and practicing that gets you better at surfing. Photography has many things that will allow you to take better pictures. Sailing gets expensive at the start and continues as you go. Surfing is a 1 to 4 items purchase sport that is relatively cheap to keep at since you don't need to upgrade.
