This is my planned use-case for the Soylent bars also.
My biggest concern is that it might not hold up in hot climates (see: Texas) during rides. I've already tried other bars that turn to mush in heat.
I also agree about the cost, since you can buy clif bars in bulk for less than $1.50/ea. And lately I've just been taking bananas with me on rides, which are like $0.10/ea.
I ordered a box earlier today, so we'll see how it works out. Worst case scenario, I keep them around for when I travel.
I live in SoCal, so I also have to avoid bars that might melt. Chewy granola bars do not handle well, but cereal bars do. Looking at my pantry, Trader Joe fig bars have 27 grams of carbs, but only 2g of protein. Honey Stinger waffles have the same amount of grams, but half the protein. Why are they around $1 per waffle? They do taste great and love that they pack flat.
I find Clif Bars junk, mostly sugar, but they do hold up in the heat. It might be hotter in Texas, but you are in the flats. When I am climbing Mt. Wilson on a bike, there are no stores to replenish my food supplies, except at the top. I cannot deviate from the only road just to grab something from a store. There is a ranger station halfway for water.
BTW, Clif Bars should be $1 at Whole Foods or Trader Joes, or at least they used to be.
When I travel, I bring an empty cycling water bottle with me and send it through the x-ray with the top off so it's obviously empty. Once through security, I fill it up in a water fountain and hydrate for free.
Yes, I do this too. Incredibly, a lot of airports only have hot water in the bathrooms. Or sinks designed in such a way that a bottle can hardly be filled at all.
Only place I've seen that had an actual bottle-fill station was Copenhagen airport in Denmark. But in many ways that airport felt like it was 10 years ahead.
Pittsburgh, Chicago, Dallas Love Field and Dallas DFW all have special places in the water fountains for large water bottles. Of course it is generally cold as it is in the US and we like our beverages below room temperature ;)
This is how I prepare mine at the end of each day before bed. If I know I'm going to be working late, I'll bring the pitcher in with me. Otherwise, I just fill a 28oz blender bottle for lunch and afternoon meals.
Looks like an attempt at pivoting, jumping of the privacy bandwagon. Doesn't really make a good case that this browser is based on belief of privacy as stated in their faq.
> Why should universities spend the student's very expensive class time to learn about this?
To turn this around, why should businesses pay former students to learn about this on the job instead of paying them to be productive?
From my experience, there's a large number of developers (both young and old) out there who are very capable programmers, but seem to not spend any of their spare time learning things on their own after leaving school. It's insanely frustrating having to teach new junior developers how to properly use a tool like git when they've never even been exposed to version control, all while they're supposed to be productive. It really can become a waste of company resources.
Are they capable of learning version control on the job? In most cases, absolutely, given enough time and buffer for mistakes. However, I believe, as part of professional development in the field they chose, it should be something they learn outside of work and preferably before getting the job. University seems like a very valid place to at least introduce and encourage use of version control systems early on, if not at the very least in a higher level course.
"To turn this around, why should businesses pay former students to learn about this on the job instead of paying them to be productive?"
Because it's expected that entry-level employees don't have a lot of experience. It's even possible that these young people have taught themselves all sorts of useful things on their own already, but haven't gotten around to teaching themselves version control or the particular database system or development environment that your company uses. I think it's a better investment to hire someone who is smart and a fast learner than it is to hire someone who happens to know the particular tools you currently use.
In the software field, we've somehow decided that it's normal for entry-level employees to have lots of practical experience. But in most other jobs, that's not the case: they learn at their employers' expense. How many new hires on Wall Street have ever used a bond trader's workstation? How many newly-hired railroad employees have ever driven a train? How many newly-hired lawyers have ever represented a client in court?
If you want people who know git, then hire people who know git. If you don't want to pay for people who already know git, then you're going to have to pay people to learn git.
My biggest concern is that it might not hold up in hot climates (see: Texas) during rides. I've already tried other bars that turn to mush in heat.
I also agree about the cost, since you can buy clif bars in bulk for less than $1.50/ea. And lately I've just been taking bananas with me on rides, which are like $0.10/ea.
I ordered a box earlier today, so we'll see how it works out. Worst case scenario, I keep them around for when I travel.