1. Power on laptop (it is powered off every day at 5 PM).

2. Log into VPN.

3. Log into Okta.

4. Log into AWS accounts, one per container (about 7 or 8).

5. Log into Docker Desktop.

6. Log into AWS CLI to get daily credentials.

The whole thing takes about 3-4 minutes. A former colleague referred to this as my "mise en place", or my daily arranging of my working environment. Like the article suggests, I find this offers me a "centering" before I open my email, calendar and missed chat messages and get started for the day.

But does anyone else think it's crazy how many logons you need to do on a repetitive basis?

Go ask your baker how early they had to arrive to make sure your croissan'wich was ready at 8:23 AM.

You can use aws vault to open the aws console using roles:

    aws-vault --help
    usage: aws-vault [<flags>] <command> [<args> ...]
    ...
    login [<flags>] [<profile>]
        Generate a login link for the AWS Console.

You can just to `avli some-role` and it will pop up in the browser in a new profile.

The only downside here is that you can't combine them into one window.

But it takes the pain out of logging in, and 2 factor, etc.

When choosing one of several A/B test options, a hypothesis test is not needed to validate the choice.

    import pandas as pd


    purchases = pd.read_csv("purchases.csv")

    (
        purchases.loc[
            lambda x: x["amount"] < 10 * x.groupby("country")["amount"].transform("median")
        ]
        .eval("total=amount-discount")
        .groupby("country")["total"]
        .sum()
    )

    (
        purchases.loc[
            lambda x: x["amount"] < 10 * x.groupby("country")["amount"].transform("median")
        ]
        .assign(total=lambda df: df["amount"] - df["discount"])
        .groupby("country")["total"]
        .sum()
        .reset_index()  # to produce a DataFrame result
    )

purchases[amount <= median(amount)*10][, .(total = sum(amount - discount)), by = .(country)][order(country)]

```

- no quotes needed - no loc needed - only 1 groupby needed

Does anyone know why they care about this structure? Naively, there are 36^7 (minus edge cases) combinations available, which will always be sufficient.

In addition, all-numbers-plates, I believe, are reserved by California exempt plates (emergency vehicles, police), and vanity plates are absolutely a thing, much more likely to start and/or end on a letter, so that's why you see numbers at the beginning and end. Like you can kinda see “6EIC023” and say “oh yeah my car looks like an ad for Geico” but because the start and end are numbers it doesn't occur to most people.

That’s the primary way you can differentiate them at a glance from the DP (Disabled Person) plates.

Just a little odd fact; I know you meant the more standard plates.

I may be wrong, but that’s what get when I see them.

This is not a shock. After moving here, I find that CA's highly-touted "car culture" is pretty retrograde compared to other major metro areas.

Writeup about some of the ideas that went into it:

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_112_slop_ideas/

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