1. Yes, that's the point. 10x doesn't say "compared to what", but hints at "compared to now"
2. For sure. My 3 former companies let people spike while working, and I've seen mediocre engineers (lots of bugs, rework) become ok (barely any rework, a few bugs from time to time)
First the obvious: amazon is evil and the website is crap. Search is bad, filtering is bad, sorting is bad. All on purpose.
Here's some of my process when I don't know what I need exactly already.
- try a few keywords first to find the right category
- use the keywords to make the first search, depending on the item filter by 4 star and above, never by price
- browse listings:
- all caps BRANDNAME, skip
- same picture or clearly same item from different brands, skip
- listing has any badly photoshopped photo, skip
Arrive at a few options:
- there's customer photos/videos? check those (even if the review is fake, the photos are useful)
- shipped by == amazon, if false skip
- check 1 star reviews for delivery damage, if many skip or beware for delivery. amazon uses no padding most of the time.
- check 3 star reviews (then 4) for sensible users making good points
- always ignore reviews with "arrived fast/late"
- always ignore reviews with "seller" is sold by == amazon
Depending on item price, research product more and see suggested alternatives both on amazon and offsite
- check reviews on those products too
- check camelcamelcamel for price history
- current price ok, buy
- current price high, clear history of discounts, clean url from tracking and bookmark with price in the title (seldom open the bookmark, current price < bookmarked price? buy same or next day at most, price will likely increase after traffic)
With Windows RDP it's possible to login in the same session that was started at the phisical machine. Also the physical monitor doesn't wake up upon login and the desktop remains password locked.
None of the options I tried on linux could match this features.
NoMachine did perform well but having the remote computer in the same room I could see it was mirroring the physical monitor and I could type on the keyboard. It does have a feature to make the screen black and lock inputs but then you're unable to log in from physical even if you know the password
So...buying items made in your country is an extreme right winger thing.
And if you buy shitty stuff from communist china then it's exteme capitalism.
Would you watch a real time "movie" of the countless man-years it took to design and develop the infrastructure that made it possible for you to "watch", write and publish about this? I thought so.
Apparently it's difficult to understand that extremely cheap, highly abundant energy is the only way forward. It's not only a solution in itself but an enabler to even more solutions.
