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I'm about 2 years in on 100% remote. When I moved from one state to another did my employer care that my phone/Internet, my car insurance, my health insurance and cost of food was higher? Did they care that if I hire some guy to work on my house his rate is twice what it was where I used to be? No, and I didn't think they should care. I get paid what they think I'm worth. How and where I spend the money isn't their problem. So I agree, I don't make SV wages, but I sure can't complain - especially when I get to live where I want to live. It is hard to put a price on that.
That's not really an answer to the question. You may not agree with it, but there are many orgs out there using Redis as a persistent datastore. If Google wants their money, they're going to need persistence options.
uh, what? take care not to overgeneralize your personal experiences

anyway, their pool of available actions is still constrained by user preference, even if you believe facebook is that crucial.
If any company does this to you they are clearly telling that you are just another cog in their machine and they primarily value the number of cogs over the productivity and value of an individual. Use that information as you will.
> They pay artist the most

Do you have a source for this?
Buses have two main problems as I see it.

Number one is an image problem - they aren't sexy. Here in the States, we are obsessed with the 'European' way of life. Most major European cities have some form of streetcar system or underground metro, if not both. To us, those are sexy. Nevermind that those cities have buses, too.

The bus _could_ be more sexy. BRT with dedicated lanes, priority signaling, clean & modern interiors, at-grade egress, and most importantly, consistent and reliable service. Those changes would go a long ways towards making the bus 'cool' enough to ride.

The other is that because buses are inherently at least a little inconvenient, there has to be an incentive to use them. For most people, the main driver is financial. Ten years ago when the economy was shaky, I, a consistent multi-modal commuter, saw a huge uptick in the number of people riding the bus. When the economy got stronger and more surefooted, buses started to empty out again. Now I see fewer and fewer people of 'means' on the buses - the ones that remain likely don't have other options. When people can afford _not_ to be inconvenienced, they won't be - whether that means buying a parking pass, ponying up for gas & insurance, or taking rideshare everywhere.
I love me a good Facebook bashing article as much as the next guy, but these numbers have no context to implicate the CA scandal as causative. Is this related to seasonality? Is it outside the bounds of normal fluctuation month-over-month? Is it US-only or international traffic as well?
So far one person has self identified as female, and 2 or 3 commenters have provided anecdotes from their female SO.
I'm too spoiled to walk in the rain is hardly rational debate.
I tried pomodoro for the focus effect, but I keep using it for a different reason. To avoid the "just one more tweak" trap I sometimes fall into. When the timer is up I decide whether the task is done or not. The latter means I commit another complete block to it, otherwise I move on to the next one. This also works great for non tech things like making music. But don't know if this is "officially" part of the methodology

Distraction wise I have eliminated anything long before that. No notifications except the 3 I actually have to react to immediately, phone in "do not disturb" mode and co-workers learnt that it can take several hours for me to respond to slack messages (but once I do, they get a quality response).
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If your bike doesn't stop at your door or doesn't go where you want to go, you're using it wrong.

I bought an electric bicycle recently after years of being a staunch car supporter. I am now convinced that the electric bicycle is the perfect mode of personal transport for non-rural areas. It takes up hardly any room, it doesn't make much noise, it doesn't go fast enough to be a danger to anyone, it doesn't get stuck in traffic, you can park it anywhere for free. You can even take it through pedestrian-only zones if you get off and push. Being electrically-assisted, it can actually get you up hills at a fair speed without making you arrive at your destination sweaty and smelly. Being a bicycle, it can still be used even if you ride it so far that the battery goes flat (well over 30 miles).

It's personal transport of the future. Everyone should get one.

Edit: and if you want to try out an ebike, there's almost certainly a bike shop near you that will rent you one for a day.
I understand your statement. That doesn't change the reality that most people, even well-compensated white-collar software developer types, cannot afford to spend a million dollars on housing, especially if all that is actually buying is a piece of land with an uninhabitable shack. There is a real, potentially destabilizing housing situation happening up and down the west coast right now.
Deflationary headline: "land with decrepit house sells for market rate near Silicon Valley"
Given this idea, I can't figure out how to deal with the fact that fonts are finite and, even with ligatures, relatively quickly enumerable. User interfaces, on the other hand, often require drawing arbitrary pictures. As I understand it, Chartwell takes advantage of the fact that charts have finite resolution, so that it's possible to enumerate all the possible heights for a bar or angles for a pie wedge as individual glyphs. But would that be possible for a general user interface? I may be missing something obvious.
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Computers aren't orders of magnitude better, at chess or propagandising. Yes previous propaganda wasn't individually tailored, but it was still produced by manipulation experts with vastly more resources than the individual reader. The same techniques for living in a world where propaganda exists still work.
The public already publicly agrees on this. AB716 gives BART (and other CA transportation agencies) the right to give riders a "stay away" order. If my personal interactions with BARTPD are indications, this law is however designed to keep away people who look like "undesirables," which is why these kinds of things are generally a bad idea.
You've described "calling men creepy for no reason" and then described the reason. I think you're really saying that the word creepy means something different than its 'face value', as it were.

Put differently: the word "creepy" means one thing. Actually saying someone is "creepy", however, is a social signal with a very different meaning (namely: your attention is unwanted / you are lesser / something like that).

Parsed that way, it makes sense that that message would not be sent in situations where it doesn't seem socially unacceptable to send it, even if everyone is thinking it. One of the better things about being an adult is that it becomes socially acceptable, usually, at least in good company, to do what's right even if it violates some status-signally thing.
Totally! My bad reaction is to things like interstitial “um” which is completely unnecessary in a computer voice.
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I agree as well, but only in part -- there's a big difference between the email suggestions and the voice assistant.

The email is _as if_ coming directly from you. It's got your name signed on to it. The argument that your voice may be distorted rings true here.

When your phone is making calls on your behalf, it's not literally calling up and saying, "Hi, my name is ${USERNAME}, I'd like to book a spa" It represents itself as another person, doing something on your behalf. (The assistant in the example call asked to book an appointment "for my client".)
It depends on what you mean by "profile". I've got a feeling you're using a very specific definition and we're not going to come to an agreement. For me, a shadow profile is a set of data that can be correlated with you personally after the fact if you do decide to sign up for an account.
I have done both Vue and React projects. I like React philosophically. But my coworkers, who were keen to learn react, struggled conceptually and I ended up doing a lot of the React work. Then on another project we trialed Vue which worked out far simpler for people to learn and I also find I'm far quicker developing things using Vue. So while I'd tend to recommend Vue, I'd encourage people to trial both on something not too trivial before settling on either.
Here's a possibly dumb proposal: don't support wheelchairs on buses, instead give them a city/state-run uber-for-wheelchairs service. The problem is that supporting wheelchairs adds an inordinate burden to buses and makes sticking to a schedule completely impossible even if there is no traffic. If you want to take the bus 3 miles, a wheelchair user getting on could double your ride time. So would giving the wheelchair users their own service actually even cost much on the net? Presumably the bus service could save money by not handling wheelchairs on the bus while still sticking to a given level of service and reliability.

I'm not sure it's economically feasible but if service to wheelchair users improves too then it might be something you could sell as a good thing above and beyond the improvements to the bus service.
I use my bookmarks constantly and I have a well structured folder hierarchy so I don't run into the problems you describe. There is no downside to having lots of bookmarks. It isn't the same as a physical space in which the 'clutter' or 'less is more' ideologies may have merit.
"You're not important enough for buses to cater to your needs" is not a very strong argument for using buses.
My visualization of supply & demand.

Somewhere in rural America...

"Will you work for 80K?"

"Yes."

Meanwhile in San Francisco...

"Will you work for 80K?"

"No."

"Will you work for 120K?"

"No."

"Will you work for 160K?"

"Yes."
Or maybe he needs additional quotes...
Short term hit's still represent huge 'fines' for bad behavior. Chipotle may nominally make very little per customer but their fixed costs stay the same either way so their actual losses are far more significant.
Of course Uber will eventually raise their prices to profitable levels. But if they have their way that won't be until they've driven every other taxi and ride share service out of the market and they have us all by the short and curlies.
The problem with Dendrite is that we've had no choice but to focus on keeping the current servers (i.e. Synapse) scaling and alive, especially the matrix.org server. The problem is compounded by the two devs who originally led Dendrite sadly leaving during the funding uncertainty we had last year.

However, we have new folks joining to work on Dendrite over the coming weeks, and we should be able to get it moving again. But it's now looking like a two-pronged attack; one to mature Synapse to being usable - and another to keep Dendrite headed in the right direction to be a good alternative (initially for AS traffic, then full CS traffic).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16940880 has a lot more info on this.
I'd love to know where it was, and what a house next door that wasn't dilapidated would have sold for.
Unless someone of comparable skill will do the job for cheaper.
Diesel buses are very energy efficient. Electrified rail is surprisingly inefficient.

Building bus rapid transit lanes makes more sense than spinning up a light rail infrastructure almost any way you measure: capital costs, energy, maintenance, flexibility...

I also wonder how much sense intercity rail even makes for most trips. If you could set aside a lane for buses only on I-95 Boston to DC (for example), you could have a bunch of routes that go directly from various neighborhoods to other neighborhoods at mostly 110 mph.
Wages and the prices of many other things are determined by supply and demand. It's going to cost less to hire someone where demand is weaker.

And wages HAVE to be higher where its expensive to live in order get people to live there. And the logistical advantages of having someone down the hall are usually worth the extra expense.
This is one of the few reasons why I'm totally ok with being an early adopter for most of Apple's products. They're not perfect but they're definitely best in class and I feel like they improve with each generation. I could hold off on most of them (and I do for a lot of them - I only update my phones when they die completely and rarely do for new features) but they're one of the few companies whose products have genuinely made my life better.
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Normally I'd agree. But it's not the case here. Fredin(the man) is the one who was "online shaming" women, and it fired back at him. Can't say he is a victim of online shaming then.
For example the PyPI download stats pipeline is here: https://github.com/mara/mara-example-project/tree/master/app...

The __init__.py contains the pipeline, and the rest is the SQL files that do the transformations
Very good question and something I worried about too. I actually verified this in audacity against some lossless samples of the same albums I already had and the decompressed wav were bit identical for what I checked (interesting enough, they were at a slightly different offset, I had to use audacity, zoom in to the numerical sample values and shift the waveform until they matched identically).

There's also the issue that if Tidal were selling FLAC copies (which cost twice the MP3 version) that are just FLAC encoded MP3s I imagine there'd be a lot of complaining and/or lawsuits.
Thank you! I was thinking the exact same thing about this particular part. I don't think it tanks her argument, but it is irritating to see this repeated so often.
> must be retrofitted to have a net energy draw of zero or less from the grid

How would you do this, when a huge percentage of that engergy draw comes from appliances that don't get sold with the house?

What you're proposing would likely result in home sellers 'installing' tiny cheap refrigerators and washer/dryer combos that would immediately be thrown out by the home buyers and replaced with the ones they actually want.
I have been at companies that did the remote cost of living adjustment. End result was that I rapidly outgrew their myopic policies and ended up at companies that didn't.

The real complaint here IMO is that compensation is set by supply and demand not value. That's kind of orthogonal to remote workers and location based pay. If you want to capture more of the value you need collective bargaining, regulation, or to be higher up the food chain where different forces are at work.
Amsterdam is not really what I’d consider ideal for transit (there is the walkable tourist area (with trams and for locals, bikes) and then a larger area around it with a fairly frustrating train system and great roads. Outside of the core tourist area, the main disadvantage of a car is cost.

Hong Kong seems like a better example of a place where transit clearly wins. Higher density, inferior roads, and better transit.
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Back in the day, there were a few more women in CS :)

I still agree that CS being "less social" is a huge factor. But have to admit it seems like there's some other factors too, and I think the "less social" and "wild west" combo is pretty significant.
But also maybe think from the perspective of men when all throughout your life all your attempts to socialize with women were quickly labelled as "creepy" and it's very easy and comforting to ignore socializing with them. I would never discriminate against a women coworker, I do perfectly fine communicating with my female coworkers professionally, and I cannot see anything ethically wrong with what I'm doing. But it's simply too hard to properly socialize with women. I don't get mad at people when they don't learn something I find fascinating like automated theorem proving, and it drives me crazy when my friends get mad at me for not learning how to socialize with women. It really is not the end of the world.
As I log in to Tidal right now, and got to top 20 albums, Kanye's The Life of Pablo is at #8 and Beyonce's Lemonade is at #9. TLOP has consistently been in the top 20 since it came out (over 2 years ago!) as has Lemonade (also over 2 years ago!). I don't buy any of it.
I recently moved to Marin county and use the bus to commute to SF. The Golden Gate Transit buses are pretty amazing. They come on time, the seats are clean and comfortable, and they have (usually fast) wifi. The clientele is clearly professionals commuting to the city in the morning and evening, and it works.

Honestly, if more bus systems simply got wifi and nice seats, that would be a huge step forward. I've taken the Muni buses before, and they are frankly disgusting. I actually look forward to my bus commute each morning now.
Depends on your hardware and drivers. On a couple of my older machines the Flash plugin is the only way I can get hardware accelerated video decoding.
We'll do a blogpost shortly to show where it's at and gather feedback :)
What exactly is equal? What is the correct amount? You really need to dig into these concepts to give a cogent answer, and look at how everything else works on the market. There's nothing unusual about this particular issue.

Would you pay someone in India the same salary as someone in San Francisco? You could argue that you'd be screwing your American employee in relative terms. The alternative is not to hire Indians if the cost is the same.
Same the applies to the complaints about the mouse. It was designed with the charger port on the bottom specifically for 2 reasons: 1) to keep the design aesthetic as similar to the original Magic Mouse as possible and 2) to prevent people from leaving it plugged in all the time while they're using it thereby defeating the purpose of a wireless mouse.

Things seem terrible until you take an open-minded look at the priorities of the design. What might seem stupid at first might actually have a well-thought out background.
Hm. The taskwarrior app I use daily is gone from the Play Store.

The author now offers something called TaskwarriorC2 that may have similar functionality, with a different UI spirit.

Edit: I just installed TaskwarriorC2 and got it working (by hand-copying my hard-won profile configuration from original taskwarrior (pem files, taskrc, etc., the whole profile directory)) from kjv.task/files/ over to the com.taskwc2/files/ directory on the phone. Editing the taskrc file is currently broken for me, so if I hadn't already had one, configuration would have been daunting.

Now that TaskwarriorC2 is working: If you're a taskwarrior poweruser, the interface is awesome. If you'd never used taskwarrior before, it would seem inscrutable.
> Institutions like “don’t be evil”

Google is evil. Maybe they weren't at some point, but they absolutely are now.
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In terms of total accumulated radiation damage, the flights are much worse because having a child produdes no additional radiation explosure - transatlantic flights certainly do!
Yeah, that's their plan, I think. Bridges to other services instead of 'walled gardens' https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/matrix/
It's just for the property value, they're just tearing the house down. The "house" really had nothing to do with the transaction, as crappy as it is.
Didn't you just describe the downsides in dealing with women in perfect detail?

That complicated attempts at telepathing how emotional it is for them, "subtler approaches", "slower processes", "shutting things down because it's uncomfortable". None of that is needed when both parties are males. Not to mention the entire possibility of that scenario happening is then about nil to begin with.
Yes but its a virtuous or downward cycle. Really nice buses with wi-fi and improved reliability and frequency (of which the article discussed several possible approaches for) could attract more upper-middle class workers, especially young ones. Not unlike how neighborhoods gentrify.
A lot of that is fancy algorithms and not much distance compared to telling an encoded, attenuated interstellar broadcast apart from the background radiation.
> You're actually going to accept the reasoning they give uncritically and at face value?

That question should be directed at you. It should be obvious this is a nuanced and complex issue.

Why would anyone trust an internet-rando and a single article?

You accept what appears to be a one-sided view. Do you believe that should increase or decrease your trustworthiness?

I'd like to know what's actually wrong in NYC so I can prevent the same in my own city.
It's personal transport of the future. Everyone should get one.

In warm and dry parts of the world with good roads. You try biking in Toronto in the winter! Some people also understand that roads are dangerous, and being hit by a car when you’re on a bike is very bad news.
Do you use the Open in Reader View extension?

https://addons.mozilla.org/es/firefox/addon/reader-view/
I'm not sure the issue is either. Yes, there are some bad actors that everyone would rather not travel with for various reasons (those who are aggressive/commit various crimes on public transport for example), but then there's a much larger group that each individual might not get along with or tolerate, and that's a large part of the reason private cars and Uber type services are preferred when available. People's preferences are different, and bus/train services are always going to be a compromise in that aspect.
But what is the rate based on experience? The rate is determined by local factors and local supply and demand. It's meaningless in and of itself.
See, the part we disagree with seems to be here:

> so we try to keep it focused on the meaningful concepts.

For me, scattering a single feature across multiple directories makes it far harder to understand what relates to what. It's _less_ meaningful to group by type than by feature, which makes it harder to learn than it should be.

I'm not saying the docs should go into asides about the alternative structures all over, but rather the people promoting Redux should definitely consider whether or not their examples smell more of spaghetti code than they need to be.
We don't have any plans to make a separate desktop app from Riot beyond the Electron one. Instead we're hoping that someone will write a proper native MacOS matrix client, which will be a much closer fit. https://matrix.org/docs/projects/client/matrixclient.html is the closest I know of there, but someone needs to pick it up and finish it off :)
There's always rain gear...

But I'm already working on it, actually. Rentable covered trikes and quadricycles with electric motors and storage. Slim enough to fit two to three units per road lane. Capable of multiple trips across town up steep hills before needing to be recharged, and remaining light enough to pedal (the default mode being lightly assisted power). Tow trailers and rear sidecars are an option, too.
"Land sells for normal price in expensive neighborhood" is not nearly as excitable a headline, true.
Chipotle sales are still supposedly down, stock is way down: https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/05/07/is-chipotles-turna... (dunno about the rest of the article, but those claims seem pretty straightforward).
You're right that part of it is "if you have to ask, you can't afford it". But it's also frustration that they don't have a predictabe, structured pricing plan - they almost certainly tailor it to specific clients above the intro tier (otherwise, why not list it?).

Now I understand custom pricing has to be implemented at some level, but you usually see multiple pricing tiers before it kicks in.