Musings About Programming and Life
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Best Cities for Remote Work
Picking a place to live when you work remotely is a fun and interesting problem to have. Everyone has specific restrictions that limit their options, so no advice applies to everybody. Here I will share my opinion on this topic. When you work from home, you want to live in a place that: Many big…
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Google Chrome Sluggish on Windows 11
I have been having problems with the performance of Google Chrome on my Windows 11 laptop for a while. System level CPU, memory, disk and network usage are all low based on the task manager numbers, yet Google Chrome runs very slow and it also impacts the overall system performance to make the computer hard…
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Pick the Google/Android Devices That Track Your Location
If you change phones/tablets frequently you may notice some discrepancies in your location history. I personally allow Google to keep my location history, but I want it to be on my primary cell phone only. Not on my backup phone, tablet or any other device. To see a list of all devices associated with your…
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What Is The Point
What is the point of life? Why are we here? From a physicist’s point of view, the purpose of life is to convert the low entropy energy we get from the sun into higher entropy energy through our chemical processes. From a chemist’s point of view, the purpose of life is to oxygenate carbon. From…