Woke up by 7:15am. Coffee, egg salad on bread, omega-3, L-Carnitine. L-Carnitine feels like amphetamine for the body (and not for the mind); I should be careful with it. 

Train at 8:50am: quite empty, but many people got on the train at 96th. I finished the paper about Pinochet and the rise of human rights discourse. The argument is that the language of human rights bound both left and right, so it became a powerful ideology for its own sake transcending national states, and transforming dozens of countries in the 1980s. Then I read about C++ containers. Turns out new T[3] and new array<T,3> are slightly different: the former is just a pointer which won’t provide further type safety (can assign it to any pointer of another type); so, the latter is preferred.

At the office, everyone from my team seems to be working from home today. But I thought I’d go to the office since I have so many IT issues. They may wanna stop by and talk to me. Otherwise, the office was more lively than usual: many people called, zoomed, and ran discussions by their desks. Seems people don’t use the meeting rooms here. Then people started heading out early, before 3pm.

Still, no email access. They replied it was fixed and closed the ticket. Fixed something in AD; but my email is still not working. I thought I’d wait, maybe something needs to propagate the change. Then Igor called and reopened the ticket himself.

Now I’m responsible for making my life comfy in the office. What will make my life comfy? Good tea selection, gaiwan, cute cup, etc. Oolong, red, and pu’er tea. Snacks? We have no snacks here at all. Pretty notebooks: one wide, and one smaller. That’d be enough for happiness for now. 

Then I learned Kotlin. Pretty language. Like Swift or Scala. if returns values like in Scala, unlike Swift. ?. syntax sugar for nullable like in Swift, unlike Scala. Tried to build the project, but it was complaining about the AWS region something. I thought maybe I’ll just wait till Sunny comes back from vacation, or when I get access to the wiki.

I read HN thread about our new throw-away app experiment. “I find the NYC public transit system to be one of the most interesting in the world. Beyond the subways and LIRR and Metro-North (which are covered by the MTA's app), there are literally dozens of other transit providers: Nassau bus, red bus, Suffolk bus, NJT, PATH, HBLR, Roosevelt Island Tram, and a shocking number of smaller targeted transit providers, as well as specialized transit modes like Citibike.” Yum.

Learned that London’s TFL Go app is our major design inspiration.

I went home by 5:30 and pushed myself to go to the gym. Why would I take L-Carnitine, after all? Though I took it in the morning; does it even help at the gym in the evening? I didn't think through my biohacking routines yet. 

Watched some of “В Круге Первом” movie before bed. Good movie, based on Solzhenitsyn’s novel. From Russia in 2006. How strange when I lived in Russia in 2006 I didn’t know about any good movies being made at the time. The same about today’s movies: hard to see what will be considered “good” in 20 years. MUBI is good. But those are too good to watch tired before bed.