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Damn, Svelte is not on there. I'd be curious what the author thinks to it as an approach https://svelte.technology/
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It's pretty standard. Building a wireless network in the US is VERY expensive, between FCC spectrum auctions, the vast amount of rural areas, and the fact that each individual municipality can make building a tower a huge pain with different regulations it's surprising cell phone plans are as cheap as they are.
> Switching your cell number to Google Fi doesn't preclude using Google Voice.

https://support.google.com/fi/answer/6246240?hl=en

"Whichever option you choose, once you activate Google Fi service on your phone, you’ll no longer have Google Voice on the Google Account you use with Google Fi. "
I'm so glad this editor has lasted this long. I haven't used it in years but now that it's free im gonna replace the default system text editor with it.
Yeah, me too.
Same question.

I live in France, I'm subscribed to the most expensive operator (Orange), and even then I get unlimited call/text and 10 Gigabytes of data (in 4G) for less than 25 € per month (~roughly 28 dollars).

These prices look like a joke to me, but it might be a US thing.
Probably. Although I'm more familiar with Orthodox Christian monasticism, but yeah, depending on the monastery they'll take in visitors and belief isn't required, though a certain level of respect and open-mindedness is. Monasticism also isn't so much about 'studying' as contemplation (it's actually quite similar in some ways to Buddhist meditation). Not every monastery is open to visitors (depending on their facilities and number of monks), but it's worth sending a few calls/emails.
>The change in styling has eaten up a good portion of the fuel efficiency gains from more efficient modern drivetrains for nothing except vanity.

TBH, I think a lot of people like the crossovers mostly because they feel like they're sitting higher off the ground. For whatever reason, that creates a feeling of safety.
FWIW I have a T-Mobile prepaid plan, and it's 10GB for $50/month. (Obviously T-Mobile's coverage is not as good as, say, Verizon's.)
Fi is still way more expensive than t-mobile's prepaid plan at 10GB for $40 with free music streaming. At these price points it's not worth taking the risk of wifi not being available.
If it did, that'd be a damn shame. It was an incredibly well-written and faithfully-ported version of the original.
It does, actually. When you sign up for Fi, you have to use your Google Voice number or lose it. The only way to keep both would be to transfer your normal # to a VoIP service that forwards to your Voice (now Fi) number.
Fi works best for low data usage.

If you don't use much data, the price can be a good deal.

If you use a lot of data, other US carriers offer much better deals.
They just introduced an optional (for now) "Enhanced Network" feature that sends all your data through a Google VPN.
I’m seeing a lot of people giving anecdata here but it’s very easy to fool yourself and imho this feels like a story that is going to need a lot more study for us to understand what’s really going on. I can’t think of any obvious reason that either climate change or pesticide use in areas hundreds of miles away would affect insect populations. But, there’s a lot I don’t know. So let’s find out but not panic.
Everyone with a new transit option plans to demo it between DC to Baltimore. The two cities are close enough to each other that a new company could fund the demo largely by itself. But the real hope is to convince government to extend it to go between DC and NYC, which is where the real market opportunity is, and, naturally, being the first to develop the technology, the initial company is the sole supplier. So plans to build something from DC to Baltimore should be taken with a grain of salt.
>The purpose of a library is to read, not to entertain your kids.

Libraries are just repositories for literary or artistic works. They have a secondary function of acting as a "third space" or community center. Being able to find places to read is part of that, but there is no reason you should expect them to be tranquil zen gardens at all times. Most people should be able to tune out the general background noise of kids playing or whatever. It's really just loud conversations that cause problems.

Hell, most public libraries in my town are basically just de facto homeless shelters.
Applying for a job costs time and effort. All other things being equal, I will prefer to apply to a job posting where I meet more of the requirements than one that is a looser match.

Adding requirements that aren't actually requirements is a good way to get your posting sorted to the end of my applications queue indefinitely, or ignored entirely. I will apply to the closest matches first, and stop when I pass a time threshold. If your process costs me more than an hour, and I only tick off 50% of your listed requirements anyway, I'm probably never going to apply.

There are all kinds of new postings, added daily, that will jump ahead of yours in my queue. So if I am searching while holding a job, I only apply to postings with the very highest estimated payoff, which are the very close matches.

So, single point of anecdatum: I will self-select against applying. The threshold for matches depends on how motivated I am to change jobs. About now, I will even ignore 100% matches, if they don't have a salary range listed, and an easy application process.
You only play for what you use. This rewards anyone who mainly stays on wifi. My bill is roughly ~$35 a month with them while everyone I know has bills of 70-120. If you sign up for 2GB but use 1.1GB you only pay $11.
Ah, but you can't just call any fight a street fight. Any fight is conducted according to unspoken rules. Bar fights and high school fights simply aren't dangerous endeavors, the rules pretty much proscribe it from happening. If you don't understand the social milieu bar fights can be dangerous naturally, but it's not hard to pick up and is certainly not within the realm of martial arts. A street fight absolutely is inherently dangerous, you don't get into a fight with random people you meet out in a place not built for socializing unless you're specifically looking for one.

And you're just making my point for me, that martial arts training increased your confidence, and that made you not a target and gave you an appreciation for how horrible real violence is. The actual contents of the training don't really matter as much as these other things.
Pret is really obviously doing the loud music thing too (and has for a couple of years at least). They lost my patronage. Not that they care: I think they had very good financials before their sale to Krispy Kreme.

[aside rant] We have a very strange cafe culture in the UK compared to continental Europe: too many chains, too expensive, poor quality, takeaway coffee. The latest insult is chains not wanting to wash cups, so now we have to bring in re-usable cups. At least they're offering discounts, for now.
Yeah moving from the USA to UK, one of the things I definitely don't miss is us telecom pricing. I just signed up for a new plan here for 20 GBP per month that gives me 15GB of data and free call/text/data roaming in US, Canada, Australia, etc..

I pay less money for access to more data in America then my American family does.
Looks like it has international support for roaming at the same price though, I wonder if we (Canadians) could just use it anyways...
A somewhat misleading title:

'No one will be forced to take part, the firm stressed, but staff will be "actively encouraged" to get diners to participate.'
I have a LG Sport Watch which has a Sim card. Anyone know if this is now supported? I've never been able to get it to work because you need to register the Sim card on a device that works with Fi and my current devices are sim-less.

I've been on Fi for years and highly recommended it.
What are the downsides to using an MVNO such as Google Fi? As far as I'm aware, carriers are prone to de-prioritizing MVNO traffic to favor their own customers during periods of high congestion or emergency, but I don't know if all MVNO traffic is treated equally, or if certain MVNO carriers are de-prioritized because they pay less for "budget/excess capacity" network use.
All I’m trying to do here is trying to see whether the claim made in the blog post is true or not. Some commenters were claiming it was false, but I don’t think they considered all the components of the claim.
Fi also wins over T-Mobile for international data, where they give you 4G instead of 3G.

(Unless things have changed—when I had T-Mobile, you had to pay extra for international 4G)
FWIW, I successfully used my unofficially supported Galaxy S9 in India. I did hit one snag, which is that I had bought the phone prior to going on the trip and hadn't installed the Project Fi app yet which meant I couldn't connect to any network after landing. Once I got on wifi and installed the app, I had 4G during my entire stay even in the most rural areas on overnight trains and no issues.

Though had I bothered to go through the whole passport photo/scan 24hr submission process for Airtel it would have been way cheaper.
>Obscenity doesn't cover much more than child pornography. It used to, but not anymore.

The definition of obscenity isn't well defined, but there are still numerous laws throughout the US that ban obscene speech that have been upheld--zoophilia porn laws, and bans on selling sex toys are 2 examples I can think of off the top of my head.

>The reasonable time, manner and place restrictions aren't enforced and also wouldn't be upheld

The government very regularly enforces this. What do you think free speech zones and protest permits are for?
What carrier can you trust? All of them are also in the ad business. IIRC, it's why Verizon bought Yahoo last year.

I think I trust Google more than any of traditional telecom carriers.
Its fairly on the expensive side. The nice part is they prorate the cost to your actual usage. If you have variable data rates such as months you travel and months you're mostly on wifi, its fine.

I end up spending ~$35-40/mo on average with peace of mind of unlimited data. The charge also caps out at 6GB I think so the max bill is $80 or something like that.
This the Ad Coelum Doctrine in legalese. I don't think it makes sense either.
No, it shouldn't, and I hope Google isn't lazy enough to add an unnecessary limitation. T-Mobile's very similar roaming (which Google's seems to be based off of) works fine with unlocked non-T-Mobile branded phones.
It's great for long, rambling forum posts that keep hitting on the same points, and you want to find out if it's worth the time reading it.
Thanks for the explanation. I don't think it's a good idea, but it does clarify some things.

In git, a branch is a branch by virtue of being an actual physical branch in the data structure.

To elaborate, I think a branch having multiple heads is not really a good thing, since that leads to the actual structure being one or more branches (each point of divergence results in a branch in the commit lineage), but only one name to refer to the collection of commits making up those branches. That abstraction doesn't agree with me.

Since a branch (a lineage of commits) is unambiguously defined by its head commit, having a named ref as the branch abstraction makes more sense to me. I don't know how it could be any simpler.
Plus they actually have quality, near instant customer support in my experience. I was shocked to be talking to a human so quickly.
"everyone"? I suspect of the non-echo-chamber populous that is not on this website, 99.9% of them would "know" the search engine Google as "the company" Google.
We pay a lot in the US but it sure doesn't sound cheap to me. I must be misunderstanding something.

I pay, I think, $40/mo for 6GB with no phones and then $25/line to add unlocked phones. so I guess $90/6GB? I'm FAR from being on the cheapest plan in the world, but Google's plan starts at $35 for the same 2 lines, with NO data, then $10/GB?

So this groundbreaking new plan would be $5 more than I pay, and I ALREADY am sure I'm overpaying because I don't shop around.
>but warm air does not rise in space so astronauts in badly-ventilated sections end up surrounded by a bubble of their own exhaled carbon dioxide.

Whoa, I didn't think about that.
Using optics to detect radio signals, perhaps? https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611977/get-ready-for-atom...

Also, a tongue in cheek answer, being able to get a company into big trouble for mishandling data via the GDPR ;-)
In what country? For me switching to Fi saved money over Verizon although that was years ago and may be different now. Biggest draw is that you pay for what you use without stupid penalties, which is probably not true of your plan, and let's be honest 2GB/mo is not enough for anyone who leaves the house every day.
Go around and ask any people, younger people the better, what the last three books they've read are.

Watch them struggle.
So from memory, project-fi support on phones was all blobbed up in google play services. No way to use the features on AOSP. Now that they also support iphones and other android phones, has it been merged into AOSP and/or some standard ?
Sounds a sensitive one :-) Technically I meant making them not fitting them, but mea culpa, the whole horseshoe area is not my domain so I'll watch my step!
HN screams bloody murder when Google grabs location data without being clear about it. But I see nothing critical iin this thread (yet) of the idea of Google providing this service? So confused.
its got a dark mode, if you have 10.14.+
How are you using 3GB a day?
Because not every problem is a nail.
Wouldn’t it be worth forming the LLC in a state that doesn’t have ongoing fees and forms?
As a sidenote: I looked it up because I was curious and apparently that quote is a misattribute: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/10/10/twain-father/
He's referring to the typical phone performance (parse and execute) and network bandwidth for an Indian user, not the network latency.
It's not as simple as that. Owing to the larger populace that India has, the cost is being shared amongst consumers. The magic being that bandwidth is oversubscribed. As in say 20 users share the same resource, so if all 20 users are online they get only 5% of the promised bandwidth.
What provider is this?
Every BSD system I’ve used never had X installed, let alone a web-browser - but now I’m curious what a text-mode Flash player would be like.
It is a niche price.

More expensive for high data users, but less expensive for low data users. Flexibility is really king here, if 9 months of the year you use < 1 GB/month ($30/month) but want the option to have much more (e.g. emergency) and international travel, full speed hotspot, then it may be for you.

As to "why is the US/Canada so expensive?" Urban areas subsidies rural cellular. The US is hugely populated on the East and West coasts and a cellphone network that only targeted those population centers would be as cheap or even cheaper than Europe. But most networks are deploying LTE to middle-America where there are few people, and most cellular infrastructure loses money.

Networks have tried doing cellphone networks that only work within New York State, California, or Texas for example but people want the hypothetical ability to travel on the open road whenever and wherever they want.
The company moved into a new office for a few months that had terrible cell service inside the building. Everyone had to do phone calls outside. But having Fi meant I could do everything on wi-fi. I think it's only a matter of time before features like this become ubiquitous. Do we really need cellular networks if something like Starlink beams high speed internet to every corner of the planet?
I still haven't seen any applications of qc, one day...
Reminds of another problem in restaurants, the annoying music they pipe in.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/dining/restaurant-music-p...
Is the set of people who can only enjoy, or even read, books in silence pretty large? There is certainly a threshold of noise where I lose reading comprehension, but it's quite loud.

Do other people need silence, like absolute silence, to read?

Before I worked for myself, I never worked in any office that remotely came near to silence. Most were roughly the equivalent of moderately loud cafes, at least.
On the higher range, but if you consider that it is global LTE data, it is an amazing deal, particularly if you use more than 6GB/month.

Being able to land or drive into a country and have LTE working without having to do anything is amazing, especially when going through several countries.
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Same. After moving all my email stuff onto Protonmail, I’m at the point where I may and would like to delete my entire Google account but it’s tied with Fi. I’ve been using Fi with my iPhone SE for close to three years now and it’s been a smooth ride.
No, it's not reasonable. T Mobile is at $70 for 50gb, $1.4 per (at 50gb they change your priority; on the surface they claim unlimited data of course).

To make proper comparisons on prices paid between countries, you need to consider income levels in the country in question, not just the price unto itself.
Wow. I've got 8GB high speed 4G for £30, and I had the phone thrown in for free (Pixel 2)! Incredible how data varies so much in price from country to country.
Cars, industrial equipment, and things like HVAC systems all play a big role.

Racism was definitely the primary motivator of White flight for the cities, but I also wonder to what extent people just wanted to get away from industrial noise pollution, which surely must have been at a peak during that era.
Do you live in France?
Worth noting that specifically for Google Fi

* the $10/GB quote is pay as you go - unused data does not magically expire at the end of the billing cycle. While one can probably find a better promotional deal with a US carrier, those unclaimed gigabytes are unlikely to "roll over" to the next month.

* the rate is valid for any of Fi's international partners across 170 countries. Other US operators are likely to hit the user with roaming charges for voice + data
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RescueTime is good at what it does, but it's 100% just another product that mostly supports the productivity-porn industry.

As far as I can tell, this article is just another SEO/branding type effort, and written by someone who found a way to make a living selling platitudes to those not doing the thing his audience actually does.

As a 'millennial', I'm generally used to marketing mixing with life advice and whatnot, but I'm increasingly repulsed by this type of stuff.
I want to jump to Fi but is just super expensive for families. I have 4 lines.
With Mint I can get unlimited talk, text and 2GB/per line for $15. So a family of 4 = $60.
With Fi it would be $145. The difference is more than double.
ATT offers 4 lines for $120 with 3GB per line.
I remember when it was launched the price advantage was big. But since then the carriers came down and Fi did not (barring that $15 vs $20 per extra line thing)

The only advantage I see is the use of 3 networks(for those who live in places with bad coverage).
Oh, you can believe anything you want, including, from your many posts, that Putin is a nice guy.

I do read Russian, though, and can read Nekrasov's (not "some guy") twitter feed. HYe might as well be working for RT or Sputnik, and deserves exactly as much credibility as those fine news sources. They also want one to believe that evil Browder wants to start a war. Right...
> A little more detail here: it has a lot more namespaces than that.

And I don't think the function/value split is even the most important
namespacing it does with regards to macro hygiene ("functions are less likely
to be shadowed" always struck me as a kind of weak argument). Symbols being
namespaced under packages is a much more robust solution:

CL-USER> (defmacro m (x) `(car ,x))
M
CL-USER> (defpackage :p)
#<PACKAGE "P">
CL-USER> (in-package :p)
#<COMMON-LISP:PACKAGE "P">
P> (cl:macroexpand '(cl-user::m x))
(COMMON-LISP:CAR X)

CL:CAR isn't accessible in P, so (car x) by itself would signal
UNDEFINED-FUNCTION, but the macro works correctly. Defining a P::CAR function
wouldn't change anything.

That isn't just for functions, either, eg if you do:

(defmacro awhen (pred &body body)
`(let ((it ,pred))
(when it ,@body)))

(where you want to leak IT), and then import AWHEN but not IT, you'll get an
error that YOUR-PACKAGE::IT isn't bound to anything when you try to use it; it
doesn't matter that AWHEN-PACKAGE:IT is bound.

I don't disagree with anything you said, I just think it made CL macros look
flimsier than they are.
I was about to say, this is precisely the reason Svelte exists. I rewrote my personal site in it a year ago [1], and the development experience was similar to a Vue or Ractive app, but with compilation (ie, the resulting webpage doesn't have Svelte included - it's just my app specifically compiled) the result was tiny.

[1] https://mikemaccana.com, probably has a lot of small bugs since I spent my time working on more important things.
The key here is you acted together. Individuals acting alone have very little bargaining power. But once employees start acting together with a single purpose their power gets very difficult to ignore.

Whether people believe unions are a good idea or not, the key is to organize into something that allows people to work together and find common ground to address common problems.
​Google's Project Fi 4G is now available on most Android devices and iPhone
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Yes, it's truly a case of inadequate engineering IMO. If an automated system designed to prevent crashes (stalls, as I understand it) merely changes the failure mode into something harder to detect and correct manually, it's a poorly designed system.

A sibling comment mentioned that the sensors fail constantly. Seems that it might be possible to operate such a system with a significant number of critical inputs in a degraded state which could lead to unknown effects IMO.

In many ways, automated driving is much more complex than successfully piloting an aircraft in regulated airspace.
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Indian prices for comparison:
https://shop.vodafone.in/shop/prepaid/special-offers.jsp?Typ...
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They already make plenty of road noise just from the friction of the tires. If visually impaired people can't hear it, then it's likely because of all the OTHER sources of noise pollution around them.