Very well written article! For further reading, I would also recommend diving into the conceptual overview of the gradient boosting framework LightGBM. It features some interesting optimization techniques for better overall performance.

https://github.com/microsoft/LightGBM/blob/master/docs/Featu...

> Now I can't open FB in the public

The problem here is that the ads would still show on other devices that have no ad block.

Very interesting to read about the history and etymology of the term "Foobar"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar

statcounter reports it to be 3.11% in the period Aug 2019 - Aug 2020

https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desk...

Concerning the second question: I assume it is displaying the placeholder value before replacing it with the actual value.

Agreed, especially what I often see from search engines related to health and fitness. Many blogs with short, descriptive domain names, that are completely over-optimizing in SEO, changing publish dates of articles and offering bad UX in general (invasive ads, popups, trackers, ...)

From the article:

> As they have raged for months in Australia, the fires have pumped 400 megatonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere

That's crazy. For comparison, 400 megatonnes is roughly half of what Germany emits in a whole year.[1]

[1] https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germanys-co2-emissions-...

Well, in this case, your decisions define "healthier". In fact, it's up to you whether you study the daily snow bulletin and decide to ski in moderate avalanche danger. It's up to you whether you ski down the steepest descents.

However when skiing in a resort, others can bump into you by accident. Your muscles cool down while sitting on the chair lift, and get tired at the end of the day without really noticing it, which leads to a number of accidents. I've torn my ACL in a resort couple of years ago, and ski touring feels much safer - at least for me.

I think you overestimate the size of Mozilla Corp. As somebody mentioned above, the average CEO salary for a similar sized company is 800k.[1]

[1] https://chiefexecutive.net/ceo-and-senior-executive-compensa...

It would be a good idea to limit the comparison to Bay Area companies of that size.

Top few execs made above 800k but not 7 figures when I was there.

I guess I'm being a pedant about the way one might pursue the line of reasoning of comparing to other companies' pay, not its validity and overall applicability.

Mozilla constantly says it is not like “other companies”.

We were and are in the Bay Area, which is every year more expensive, but not 3x more.

It could be the 2.5m/year is justified, but not by market share up, new revenue lines, or both. What else? Competition? No, it is a custom fit job, chair of both boards and now even acting CEO. No competitive recruiting or chance for others to get the job, no real oversight.

Right.

> I'm just about to hit 50% on the life meter. It's very motivating.

I feel like the exact opposite of this. Thinking about hitting x% on the life meter makes me feel kind of depressed. Could you share your mindset behind this thought?

I think it starts with being happy with what I've accomplished in life already.

I look and I think, "wow, I've already done so much, and I'm not even 1/2 way there!"

But if you're not happy with what you've already accomplished, I can see how it would be a demotivator.