When I think of productivity in this context, I am referring to the rate at which one can generate value.
Software itself has value (eg, a client-facing web service). Therefore an IDE, which may require an investment to get past the learning curve, can have a productivity benefit as it can make generating software (and thus value) more efficient.
Do notes themselves have value? I would argue not really. For the most part things like "life planners" / "task managers" I've noticed are highly intricate but require considerable upkeep to maintain. Time that can be used to actually generate value.
Incredibly valuable for me. When exploring something new, I journal as I go. If a side task has to be parked, I can pick up again months later because I use it as a knowledgebase. Also, a quick scan for #gotcha in my notes reminds me of subtle bugs and workarounds in tools and processes that are easily forgotten. I also create quick reference charts for tools I want to become familiar. I hashtag every new note as if I'm making a Twitter post, so things are linked in a useful way. I usually have Obsidian open near the IDE.
Does the software itself have value? Isn’t it what people do with the software that really has value? The software sat on a floppy disk has pretty low value.
I’d then argue that software has as much value as notes do. It’s about what you do with it/them, what it/they enable - that counts.
But both software and notes are therefore extremely valuable to the activity of doing.
My notes are my software, heck I even call my note system “LifeOS”, which makes that even more apparent.
We're in a golden age of note taking so I'd check out some of the stuff in the "second brain" space. Obsidian, in particular, is like an IDE for notes that you can customize (e.g. note templates, YAML front matter, plugins that will parse the frontmatter and generate tables dynamically, etc)
A student or intern (first-year resident) doing your surgery in orthopedics would be pretty shocking. If that’s really the case you should be upset.
In teaching hospitals in the US, orthopedics is a 5 year residency (after 4 years of med school). Technically residents are in training but they are MDs.
Oftentimes (again in teaching hospitals) attending surgeons (the person whose clinic you went to) might “run two rooms” in parallel. Usually because there is a lot of prep time, anesthesia time, etc so they offset patients allowing them to tackle more cases in a day.
To the general public this sounds super horrible but in practice you were likely operated on by a 4th or 5th year training, ie someone with 12 years of medical training if you include premed undergrad. And the attending was likely in the room and maybe even did the hard bits of the surgery.
It’s a tricky balance because running two rooms ultimately may keep costs down (more productive, etc) and can provide more opportunities to train the next generation of surgeons.
Well I understand that new surgeons don't come out of nowhere, everyone is green at some point so I understand the basis for this but I guess I would have appreciated the heads up prior.
I think you have that backwards. Asymptomatic infection with likely transmission (plus presyptomatic transmission) was a big characteristic of COVID since day one (and one of the reasons it’s so hard to contain compared to say, Ebola). Research seems to show that vaccinated people have shorter windows of spreading virus, and (at least before omicron variant) were much less likely to have virus in their nose without symptoms.
From a policy perspective, it’s not clear that unvaccinated individuals will stay home with symptoms since some percentage of them seem to think is not real, not a real threat, etc.
I don't think I have it backwards at all. Non-vaccinated people are not going out and partying (partly because they legally can't, and partly because they probably don't feel like dying). There's very little avenue for them to even catch the virus, let alone spread it, especially because catching it means _probably_ being symptomatic and thus knowing not to be around people.
I mean, "breakthrough infections among vaccinated individuals remain uncommon" is simply false?? My friend's entire family of 15 people all got Omicron despite being double-vaccinated and boosted. After they already all had Delta last year as well! That's not "uncommon", that was literally a 100% infection rate, twice, for the family members who gathered.
> Non-vaccinated people are not going out and partying (partly because they legally can't, and partly because they probably don't feel like dying).
Here is a equally unsubstantiated claim: voluntarily unvaccinated people are going about partying and otherwise carrying on because they largely don't believe that COVID is real or has ever been a problem worse than a cold or flu, or don't care either way.
We don't know how differently vaccinated and unvaccinated people are behaving right now. Nobody is collecting that data. The only thing we know is that most of the severe hospitalized cases now are among the unvaccinated, and that the hospitalization/infection rate is significantly lower with Omicron than Delta.
Everyone is just trying to figure out how to keep the health system from being overwhelmed since The infection rate for this variant is so much higher. With the exception of the voluntarily unvaccinated, there is little blame to be laid on anyone in this situation. We are all just trying to do a controlled landing into the endemic stage of this virus.
> Non-vaccinated people are not going out and partying (partly because they legally can't, and partly because they probably don't feel like dying).
Do you live in the US? It’s not illegal in most southern states to go to bars and clubs with COVID, people do it often enough. Places aren’t checking your temperature or vaccination status.
Also, you must have missed the non-vaccinated college parties and then them returning home for break.
> I mean, "breakthrough infections among vaccinated individuals remain uncommon" is simply false??
The CDC defines a vaccine breakthrough infection as one in which a nasal swab can detect the SARS-CoV-2 RNA or protein more than 14 days after a person has completed the full recommended doses of an FDA-authorized COVID-19 vaccine. [1]
Everybody, vaccinated or not, was in lockdown in many parts of the world last year. Which meant asymptomatic infections were far less likely to result in transmission.
Now, we have vaccinated people allowed to mingle and do "high risk" activities without being tested, despite the vaccine increasing the likelihood of asymptomatic infection. Unvaccinated people, who are more likely to be symptomatic, and therefore more likely to know if they have covid, cannot do those high risk activities.
So the irony is that the people more likely to be unknown carrier, have more freedoms and can therefore spread the virus more easily.
> Asymptomatic infection with likely transmission (plus presyptomatic transmission) was a big characteristic of COVID since day one
It was a guess from day one (because "novel virus"), that got treated as fact. (From memory) asymptomatic spread before the vaccines was found to be virtually nonexistent near the end of 2020. I don't recall findings about presymptomatic.
This is all crystal clear by now. We know how Covid-19 spreads.
The height of infectiousness is just before or around the start of symptoms. You are infectious maybe a day or so before symptoms start. You aren’t infectious for that many days. This means pre-symptomatic spread is a major factor.
Truly asymptomatic cases also exist but they aren’t that common (and many of those, if examined very closely, turn out to be cases with symptoms, just extremely mild ones). So presymptomatic spread most certainly is a major factor. It’s how this virus can spread so effectively without non-medical interventions and vaccines (which, yeah, also reduce transmission).
That’s basic virus 101 and while we didn’t know a lot about this in mid 2020 we do know a lot about this know. This isn’t even speculative or on shaky ground, this is quite solid science.
AWS Fargate may be interesting as you can use containers but don’t need to manage VMs. There is support for scheduled tasks as well. I’d consider looking for convenience CLIs or wrappers on top.
FYI Kowloon refers to the peninsula part of Hong Kong which is incredibly, not to be confused with the removed walled city (the area of which is being redeveloped IIRC)
