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I am bookmarking your site because I will be using the jobs board.

As far as the blogging part is concerned, I would rather use Medium because it has a bigger network and, more importantly, I do not trust your platform.

I don't think "we don't take VC money" and "no ads" will help you build trust. It's good that you don't do those things, but that's just avoiding bad stuff. As far as building trust goes, I think you have to actively do good stuff too. In my eyes the jobs board helps with that.

Just my 2¢. Best of luck.
Our German au pair was astounded that every project that requires shutting down a lane on a road has two guys waving people through the remaining lane. Apparently in Germany they just use portable traffic signals.
Perhaps a better option would be: "How to avoid a 'Victim' Mindset at Work?"

"Openness" totally confused me—I thought the article would be about being open to other people's viewpoints, or something like that.
I am still not clear on whether or not avoidance of pronoun use is allowed on SE...
Presumably free speach was more relevant in a world of honour duels where you had a regulating force to people who said bad things. Not so much today where recourse is limited to Twitter disagreements.
> Seems like a good way to increase rates in a somewhat progressive way.

how is it progressive, exactly? seems like it’s just another tax on the poor who have to get to jobs at exact times.
> I don’t think folks in the US romanticize small living quarters

There definitely isn't any one thing that Americans do or feel, but there are people that are really excited about tiny houses, or in the bay area, van life. Some people do it out of necessity, some people romanticize things associated as you say, but definitely some people romanticize the tiny living space lifestyle directly and aspire to it.
> The same is true on the 9th ave x 50+th street area where there's active water sanitation department's work going on. I walk along 9th ave every weekday morning and there are a lot of idle 'workers' who are probably supervising. I'd say only about half of them are doing useful work while others sit/stand around and chat.

This looks bad, and some of the time it is just inefficiency, but in many cases there may be a series of tasks, dependent on each other, some of which require a lot of laborers and some that don't.

It's often better to employ a welder for the day than to stop work entirely when you don't have one milling around on site waiting for their next task.
We've torn down more than a million SROs. SROs would be the closest thing to just giving people a room. They typically have shared bathroom facilities down the hall, a shared kitchen and the ability and permission to use a microwave, hot plate or similar to cook within the room. They typically have their own sink. They may have a private bath of their own in some cases, but generally have no kitchen. If you add a kitchen, it's now a studio apartment.

I suspect the organizations promoting the concept of Missing Middle housing aren't for bringing back SROs. One site used to describe "residential above commercial" as fitting the definition of Missing Middle housing, but they seem to have changed it to "live-work." This excludes the idea of small units, like SROs, above a rental office or other commercial space in a downtown area.

Maybe they did that to intentionally exclude SROs or maybe they aren't aware the change has this impact. Regardless of the logic, it suggests they aren't including SROs in their agenda.

Reintroducing SROs and boarding houses would be one way to provide genuinely affordable spaces for small households, such as single individuals, childless couples and single parents. I think we could even improve on what typically gets provided in our remaining SROs which tend to be in old buildings.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_room_occupancy
> Not sure I understand what happened and who why people were offended.

I'm pretty sure no one outside of SO does (except perhaps the terminated mod, if they have already reached out to her a they just said they would), since the whole reason for controversy was termination of a mod without explanation (there was circumstantial reason to suspect it was connected with the new CoC, which seems confirmed implicitly, but even then he exact relationship was an remains unclear.)

People are offended because the CoC changes concern a culture war issue, so people on both sides are keyed up for a chance to be offended, which ambiguity always provides.
Please make it open source if possible. I would love to be able to use it.
Uh, no they aren't. Look closely at maps of the NYC subway: with very few exceptions, the lines run directly underneath the streets themselves. Even many of the curves to traverse to following a different street occurs underneath the street right-of-way or the underneath parks. I count just five places where the subway runs underneath a tall building, and I believe in all but one of those cases, it's the subway that predates the building.
Regarding (2), I hate the completion for fdisk [1]. It filters device filenames starting with /dev/disk/{by-id,by-path} even if those names make it easy to select a particular disk.

[1]: https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/blob/master/bash-comp...
What you wrote about CPUs many people believe, and many simpler CPUs operate like that. So it was difficult for me to detect as parody. Sorry that I missed it! It's funny in hindsight.

Not sure what the parody was in computing 2020 before 2019.
In many ways it would (lower heating/electric) needs but it also decreases food storage spaces and increases take-out usage. If you need to travel somewhere to perform similiar tasks those costs need to be accounted for as well.
> Parking minimums are certainly a problem, though, especially when they limit dense construction in places with excellent public transit.

If we're talking about the US, excellent public transit isn't really a thing. IMO, roughly 50% of Manhattan qualifies, and that's it.
We're going in circles here.

Here's the thing: the law looks to intent. If the sole purpose of issuing these things is to evade regulations by coming up with something that's not designated a currency but otherwise operates like one, no amount of jumping up and down and screaming "it's not a currency! don't call it a currency!" isn't going to make it something other than a currency. Courts aren't dumb and they don't look kindly to parties who try to game the system.

In your hypothetical, the existence of an option of selling this thing on an exchange for other currencies makes it very similar to any other kind of currency. I think you'd have to eliminate that option to avoid getting too close to the line. But if you don't have that option, I just don't see how it'll have any significant value to the recipient.
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I don't think Chernobyl was nearly as bad as what's been told. That's my point. It can still be "one of the worst" without claiming thousands died.

And I still think 64 is closer to the real death toll for Maria. It's certainly no where near 3000. People who have been through a hurricane know what it's like. You don't need to inflate your numbers to get sympathy. A body count based on "expected mortality rates" is by-definition, not a body count.

"Which meant that in the first few weeks and deaths after the storm, doctors failed to record many deaths that were indirectly related to the storm..."

They even admit that they're "indirect" deaths. Maria didn't kill those people. If people that died weeks later are being counted, that's absolutely wrong.

You can be against Trump's policies, but no one can claim with a straight face that Puerto Rico wasn't at fault for the state of their infrastructure. Or empty bank accounts.

The reporters needed a shock-value to try and get people in the US to care. It didn't work.

(Also, vox isn't exactly a neutral source, even by mainstream standards.)
It may not be a construction problem, but it is also not primarily a housing policy problem. I see this argument time and again. But mostly this is just not the issue. In most places in the world housing supply far outstrips demand.

I say that as an Australian, where despite reasonable laws and ample land, we have some of the most expensive real estate per income in the world.

The issue is banking and tax law, which should weigh heavily on real estate capital gains, heavily on speculation and heavily on empty lots or tenancies. But go easier on rental income and losses.

These same arguments about nimbyism and building just have the effect of dividing and conquering, while carefully avoiding scrutiny of the real issue.. finance.
If you're interested in these types of implementation/optimization details, Andrei Alexandrescu gave a great talk at this year's CppCon about practical sorting, e.g. when to break out of quicksort to something else: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJJTYQYB1JQ
cheaper to rewrite software than to fix existing one

That's a very shortsighted thought, because the rewrite has also introduced its own set of new bugs.
> Why can't developers build 100 sqft bedrooms with shared bathroom/kitchen areas?

They have in the past. They were tenements, projects etc. Most have been torn down and a vow made to never do this again.

Look at places like Hong Kong and other big Asian cities today, to see what high density living looks like. It can be good but often isn't.
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Potentially. The policy still hasn't been finalized, so I'm not ready to assume that it's something she wouldn't have been able to comply with.
I think the is a difference between having space and hoarding things
I for one am looking forward to the $1000, 20-year-old Telsa of the future which I can thrash on the farm
just leave the community. The only real vote you have is, well, your participation.
> Robert Moses acquired power because people wanted to GTFO of the city, either for the weekend or for good.

Well, no, he acquired power by (a) having a massive independent river of cash to spend and (b) using the state's power to insulate him from the city's power.
I lived in an off-grid cabin from June through September. It's 240 square feet and has a loft. I had 4G and a 2Ahr USB battery bank I would charge at work, but no electricity and not even a composting toilet, just the woods. But all I saved from living there I probably spent eating out since there was no kitchen either. I probably couldn't do it year-round, but I will remember my time there fondly. I wish the author here talked more about their actual experiences and challenges and not making it a story about rent prices or the housing market.
Average habitable surface per person in Paris is ~330 square feet. The average tiny house is 500 square feet (quote from the article). It may be tiny for US standards but is livable.

https://www.cnews.fr/france/2015-04-28/paris-un-habitant-vit...
Milky Way's centre exploded 3.5M years ago
Yes! Let's shred the 1st amendment and have our government, judges, lawyers, colleges, and corporations police speech.

They've already done such a great job policing everything else.
Volunteer positions are still positions with responsibilities. If you're doing more harm than good, any good organization will ask you to leave.
What if you ask what somebody does and she explains she’s a mom? You don’t obtusely ask, “But I didn’t ask if you were a mom. I didn’t even ask about your gender.” Life is gendered. It’s okay to reveal gender. And in the workplace, or even church or social gatherings, people are definitely thinking of sex and sexuality all the time — who is surprised when coworkers start dating?

It’s no more rude than having baby pictures or a wedding ring or a cross around your neck. These are all examples of intimate disclosure which have little or nothing to do with some idealized cold professional relations. People wear their identity in many ways and the rest of society is perfectly okay with it.
My take was a little different; I wanted a CLI app that lets me search my recipes, put menus together, and then see views for shopping and cooking: https://github.com/cproctor/cookbook/

One thing I'm looking forward to adding is tagging recipe steps as do-ahead, mis en place, early, late, and last minute. This will make it a bit easier to think through the mental gantt chart I use when cooking a dinner composed of a bunch of dishes. Also a simple scraping utility for importing.

The thing all these have in common is that they're reactions against the festering cesspool of hostile-UI, low-information-density, pages full of affiliate links that are today's cooking sites. (NYT cooking very much excepted.)

I wish we had a better mechanism for including more people in the project of iteratively refining the way we think about life tasks and improving the tools we use to think with. I think this is a great conversation and wish more people who like to cook could participate.
This is a very valid point that almost nobody makes, and I still cannot understand why not. People screaming about how unaffordable the Bay Area is, seem to feel like living elsewhere would be some kind of death sentence.
By all possible measures you are more free to offend people today than you were in Monty Python's time, not less. Remember the whole row when Life of Brian was released (nobody would bat an eye towards such "blasphemy" today), or that the word "masturbation" or swear words were censored.
Bring back dueling! Seriously. I am not joking here.
> I say that as an Australian, where despite reasonable laws and ample land...

Another Aussie here. Sure we have lots of land, but no water. Our limiting factor is potable freshwater. Our major rivers are dying, rainfall is becoming less predictable. Right now politicians are pushing to build more dams to fix the problem (for agriculture, not population) but that's only going to lead to more negative environmental impact.

Here in Australia we need more water recycling. It's energy intensive.
That would break DHCP-assigned static ip's if there was no way to disable it, a crucial feature.
> Worker productivity is incredibly low (too many meetings with people who have nothing to do there), lack of individual leadership/initiative, and "cluelessness" is rather the norm than anything else.

I agree with this. Mainly because of the belief that 'working hard' is working long hours. Lack of initiative is because being innovative and coming up with something new is considered as not having faith in what you already have and seen as betrayal or being disloyal to your cause.

But, it is certainly true that most people will satisfy their job requirements with utmost possible excellence and perfection. Not because they have to but because they want to. I still remember walking into a conbini (a term for convenience stores like 7-11) and buying two onigiris for me and my girlfriend, who was at the time browsing the store and not with me at the cashier. When she and I were exiting the store together, the cashier who saw us leaving came running towards us and handed a paper napkin. She thought I was alone and put only one paper napkin in the bag but noticing it's two of us now she had to give us another. I'd never expect see this level of observation and dedication to one's job in the US. This was just one instance, but I have several such anecdotes from my time spent in Japan.

> How about their excellence at using English, by the way? Their attention to detail when it comes to using other languages? I hope you realize how wrong it is to make blanket statements.

This is just anglo-centic racism and nothing else. Language is not a part of their job. You cannot expect one to do EVERYTHING in their daily life with attention to detail. If a Japanese person's job is to teach English or use English in a very professional setting where they are expected to speak correct English (and not just to get the point across) then they will learn it as required. They may still retain their accent but they'll speak with correct grammar. It can be extremely hard for a non-native English speaker to pick up the language. Grammar rules, pronunciations and exceptions are all over the place. It's unfair and very inconsiderate to judge someone based on this unless their job requires perfect English.
I regularly write emails on mailing lists in reply to people whose gender and pronoun I do not know. Sometimes their name is ambiguous (as an American English speaker — maybe it’s reasonably clear in another language or region). Sometimes someone’s name is in an alphabet or other orthography that I can’t read at all. In general, this isn’t a problem, and I usually manage without pronouns.

In fact, I would find a policy that would require me to know someone’s pronoun at all to be deeply problematic. Imagine for a moment a purely binary world in which everyone was simply male or female. I would still prefer to think of kernel contributors I’ve never met as people, not as men or women. Adding LGBTQ+ into the mix changes nothing. If someone sends me a patch to review, my response should not depend on whether the sender is male, female, “they”, “xe”, or anything else.

So I tend to agree with Monica’s publicly stated point: if I’m going to use a potentially gendered pronoun to refer to someone, I should respect their preferences. But I don’t think I should be required to do so in the first place.

For what it’s worth, there are contexts where personalized pronouns are a nonstarter. If someone is anonymously reviewing an academic paper or a blinded resume, the reviewer must not know the pronoun in question.
Ha! Good point. Although, I don’t think I was the targeted audience. It seemed to be more geared towards individuals that label themselves as “writers”. I remember practically nothing from my grammar education. Terminology like “definite article” might as well be Mandarin.
Yeah I made the mistake of reading about this. This stuff is why Republicans win elections.

If the tech world doesn't realize that having only people on the left and people on the far left is not cultural diversity it will be plagued with this stuff forever.
Well I thought the Norfolk joke that the other poster did was a bit low effort. So I thought I'd go all in and ask the real question - is in-breeding the reason the british and irish often have big weird ugly heads? I am leaning to 'yes'.

I make no apologies for comedy.
In addition to the defense of the need for real encryption I’d like to see EFF and others go on a more proactive offense as well proposing solutions for the bogeymen that governments keep raising — especially around child exploitation.
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As a European guy living in Japan, this article illustrates an interesting perspective to me.

Millions of people live in smaller places and are perfectly happy about it. It does look like her house is wasn't built to properly optimize for the space though (the toilet unit could be much better, having a sink, toilets, and a shower in the same tiny space with a very clean looking bathroom is a solved problem).

The rent price seems fairly high, but it seems to be aligned with local salaries and the (perceived?) quality of life the bay area has to offer.

As the rent price per square foot gets higher with smaller spaces, those tiny houses are probably more profitable than larger apartments or houses, so we might see more of those as landlords realize, and then maybe renters will get used to it like in Tokyo and Hong Kong?
Thanks and I will definitely add that to article,

I will just point to major shortcomings here of quartz (the go to job scheduler) scaling beyond one node is difficult because

* as it uses db locks to adding more nodes does not scale linearly.

* we can add custom partitioning (consistent hashing) on top of multi node multi db setup, but maintaining such setup would be very difficult eg adding and removing nodes, handling node failure (will have to move data around from its db to let other node execute those schedules).
Not sure how this is relevant to my comments - I haven't used "grovelling" except to describe the apology.
I think what you’re saying is true in the case where you apply it consistently to all people you talk about. When someone knows many people’s preference of pronouns but singles one out with “they”, name or avoidance of pronoun, that’s where the disrespect starts creeping back in.
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It's actually available today in messenger, but you have to start a "Secret conversation" first. FB's plan is to make it default
Factor in an Uber to and fro (included from what I can tell) and you’re probably coming out ahead with Uber.
Apparently the motivation behind creating Elasticsearch was also organizing recipes.

https://www.elastic.co/about/history-of-elasticsearch
Does anyone else remember the days before the tech community became filled with all these CoC writers?
My understanding is it would be illegal if it didn't result in a better price.
> What is the (business) rationale for Facebook to refuse?

Advertising, market segment/product substitution.

There's a pervasive idea that Facebook must be gobbling up your communication data and it's starting to weird the general public out. It's very common to see people discussing how their phones must be recording for Facebook because they said something near their phone and then they saw a Facebook ad for it. Making a big publish show of fighting the government over whether messages can be intercepted at all provides the kind of advertising that money can't buy.

Also, there will likely always be some subset of people who are more technically savvy and care more about their privacy. These people tend to also set technical trends for the rest of the population. People may leave your platform for being too insecure, but nobody is going to leave your platform for being too secure, so build a secure product and target both market segments. This will give you a larger market, and will also deny your competitors the opportunity to grow by luring away a subset of your users by offering what is to those users a superior product.
Except it will wildly harm the poor who rely on the subway
Personally, I go to stack overflow to find out about problems with my code, not about what set of genitals a person has.
If it isn’t profitable to be a landlord; why would anyone be a landlord? And if there are fewer landlords, who provides housing? The government? I’d rather live in a really bad tiny house than a government project.
I use Fish for that kind of thing. I dont write shell scripts for Fish thats what I use Bash for (portability) but Fish has intelligent auto complete hints.
Earthquake safety has only a minor impact on building construction costs. If you put aside land and permit costs, constructing a building in the Bay Area costs about the same as other major metropolitan areas.
It's because the brunt of the problem doesn't affect the people who have the choice to live wherever they want.