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> I will never stop behind a car.

For the same reason I try not to be behind a motorbike (or a bike)

A turn that I can make at 30kmh safely becomes a turn where the two wheeler in front of me stalls almost to an halt and I have to break in the middle of it

They use different trajectories, which are almost unpredictable

They stop in front of cars at the traffic light, but their start is very slow so usually a jam is created from nothing (sudden start/stops are the root cause of the majority of crashes in traffic jams)

I think everyone should consider their strength and weaknesses and account for them

Being in front of a car without a differential, for example, means a much slower transit in turns

It's a scientific phenomenon, there is no right or wrong, but if you know it you can anticipate for it

If you don't, you risk to end up rear ended
This is an excellent point.
I know someone who is having a really hard time finding jobs because they just got out of school, but there are hardly any entry-level positions and the ones present are highly contested. They must have applied to >200 places at this point. This is in a non-software, but STEM field.
> Cycling is dangerous. Don't make it more dangerous by adding unpredictability to the mix.

Cycling isn't the dangerous activity here. Cyclists by themselves have an incredible safety record, especially once you adjust for the health benefits of exercise.

Driving is the activity that puts lives at risk, but with modern car "safety" improvements those lives tend not to be those of the driver or the passengers.
> The people you're replying to aren't realizing your mistake, and you're not reading their replies.

No, you're just not bothering to read my comment. I'll repeat it.

There are two (2) arguments commonly advanced toward the idea that gerrymandering is bad. In summary, they are:

1. Creating safe seats;

2. Nullifying opposition votes.

More of one means less of the other.
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This is incorrect; you can rebind the shell's keyboard shortcuts in Settings -> Keyboard Shortcuts. There are entries for "Switch applications", "Switch windows of an application", and "Switch windows of an app directly"; you want to switch the two that are bound to "Alt+Tab" and "Alt+`".
Thanks - this is a very helpful insight.
Yes, serious PC VR gamers will probably want to look elsewhere, for me my gaming computer is mostly running flatscreen games and being able to enjoy games like HL: Alyx via Link is a bonus.

Standalone headsets are so much more convenient, and are affordable to people without a high powered gaming computer, so I see why Facebook is going in this direction.
You do need a FB account - and a real one at that. If you create a fake one and you get locked out and you can't prove you are that fake person FB will lock you out of the account (and all bought software).
My (small) dog once had a fight with a squirrel. She paid a high price at the time, and so she learned not to do that anymore. I'm certainly ok with her decision, but I would suggest that -- unlike my dog -- Apple has end-users who really need them to keep fighting. They can't sit back and revel in past glories.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxqiDtkXtOCNJdckODHk9YA

This guy tells it pretty good. there are only 8 videos though
I won't be touching it until VIM support is a thing, it feels weird to see or use an editor without support for basic VIM keybindings...
Apple specifically declares that they do these things on device. If they don't, this is an opportunity for a class action.
Just beautiful, thank you for sharing.
Similarly, I've lost count of the number of times I've been nearly hit by cars in [everywhere] who think stop signs and crosswalk rules don't apply to them.
I've always wanted a comprehensive entity guide, broken down by drug type.

With that we could schedule PPV events like Mescalito vs ShadowPerson cagematches.
I'm not sure why you were down-voted so much. There are real negative consequences for a State-wide lockdown that aren't immediately as obvious and the consequences of not locking down. I'm curious how in depth that analysis/discussion was, or if everything has been just knee-jerk reactions to the latest news and data points.
Leverage is your tool. If you don't have enough, create more. You won't get fired if they need you. You can always find a place that compensates you enough for your work. Forget about what the engineering managers want. What's in your power? If you're a professional, give your stakeholders a meaningful time quote. If they don't like it, they can try finding someone who can satisfy their requirements. Or they can make sacrifices so that you can satisfy their requirements, given the amount of workers they have.

If you were selling someone watermelons, yet your client wants to pay you 50%, should you give it away for free? There are other people that like watermelons. And if he's the only guy out there that likes watermelons, it's time to start selling oranges.

Start cooperating. If your stakeholders won't, find ones that do.
> Honestly it pisses me off how casually you just assert that most millenials think this way.

He never asserted anything about "most millenials" and specifically talked about his friends. If someone talking about their personal experience with their owns friends pisses you off, then you're reacting to something else.
I worry that Quest-2 will be the death of VR as the next UX frontier.

VR tech is still a few years away from being 'seamless'. Historically, such moonshot ideas have only worked when they develop as expensive hobbies for years, until the tech catches up and they can be offered at a reasonable price.

Facebook seems to want to skip that step. Give people a half-baked product before it is ready for the market.

It is a real shame, because all the tech needed for great VR getting better at a rapid pace in consumer products. Mobile processing, Tiny/curved displays, high refresh rate accommodations, low latency throughout the stack, battery efficiency are all getting better FAST.

With a few killer games and apps for VR, we could have had a killer consumer VR headset in 2-3 years. I worry that the Quest 2's half-bakedness will forever ruin the reputation of VR in the eyes of your average person.
Well, tbf, German universities aren't exactly a debt trap either. ($300 enrollment/semester, includes health insurance, and usually a bus ticket)
Ho! Very interesting. I always thought it was very much an active thing.
I don't think there's anything with acknowledging the engineering trade-offs that are made between the various approaches. Julia has a lot of advantages in terms of code speed and its multiple dispatch paradigm leads to a lot more code reuse and composability of packages, but there is a trade-off of JIT loading time. I personally think it's the right trade-off, and with the JIT loading time massively decreasing in v1.6 I think it's hard for me to recommend starting new students in anything but Julia. This is especially since, in the fields of scientific computing and their connections to machine learning, model-specific kernels and the speed of calculations are becoming common place, so no matter what someone in this field really needs to know how to write their own high performance code. However, I can still see that it's possible for someone to rationally look at the trade-offs that are made and making a different decision that matches their specific professional use cases.
How about the scanning of your home in precise 3D?
You mean there is a need for this?
I sort of love the username posting these totally relevant, well-conceived questions.
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sucks and bail
Depends a lot where you are from. Here in Copenhagen, biking is a fairly safe and well respected way of transport. Pity it does not seem to be so in many other places.
I can see the local channels being a deal breaker if you otherwise can’t get them. They have a solution for most people, through AirTV, which I quite like. I have the “AirTV Anywhere” and it’s pretty nifty.
The US is pretty awesome if you're in the top 10%. Of course, more than 10% of the US population likes to believe they are in the top 10% or have a chance at being in the top 10% in the future.
Yep, I've been doing this for nearly a decade. This in combination with Gmail's spam filter works just fine. I have caught quite a few emails to my parents from people who can't spell their (simple) email address.
Oh how exciting - now if they only removed their restriction of OS installations on old devices then maybe I could make use of it. As it is it's just another nail in the coffin for me ever being able to download an app ever again because their app store doesn't do backwards compatibility well and everything needs to go through the app store.
While yours is a better title, your comment also helps me rationalize my behavior on a bike. Many people have irrational hate towards bikes, and those people operate much heavier equipment. They do so while staring at their cell phones. This is certainly a problem where all sides need to pay more attention, and not hate on each other.

And just because; my "tour de france cosplay" gives me a butt-pad for comfort, nice pockets on the back of my shirt to carry things, and dries really quick in the rain. I suppose if I spent $20,000 on a rolling sofa that would be better?
It's probably worse than that. When you blow out all the air from your lungs, what's left is still at atmospheric pressure. In a decompression event the pressure drops very quickly unless you plug your nose or something. A sibling comment has more concrete numbers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_of_useful_consciousness
Considering that for iOS/mac/apple platforms devs will probably chose xcode, and given the premium one has to pay for mac computers these days (justified or not, I'm not saying either), I fear the answer is no.

Most devs that do _not_ make native apple apps (e.g. web devs) do not need a Mac, so the market of devs that do not use xcode, that prefer a Mac and that are willing to pay for a proprietary solution, over other proprietary solutions, is likely not that big.
Test your site out on Firefox, then we'll talk.
It's sloppy coding and not portable. If you really don't want to check for malloc() return value because you consider that it shouldn't fail (or that you won't be able to recover from it anyway) just implement an xmalloc() that just aborts on failure and do that. At least it'll crash "cleanly" this way.
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I used Emacs for 10 years. When I started writing JS almost exclusively at my current job, I switched finally to VSCode (albeit with emacs keybindings).

The plugin/extension experience between emacs and vscode is, of course, almost an apples to oranges comparison. But VSCode is much better in that regard in my opinion.

I want yak-free IDE. After ten years my Emacs config is a herd of beautifully shaved yaks. VSCode is yak-free, for me, right now.
In saying that, it's astonishing how much the the smart IDE features are better in Visual Studio/C# compared to VSCode/Typescript.

The text editor in VSCode is better than VS (multi cursor support isnt great in VS). I would love to see VSCode get the smart refactor features from Visual Studio, working with Typescript.
I could say the same for android 11: screen recording, and centralized home automation control are old news for iOS users.
I've used FreeCad for some time, I'm not doing anything super advanced but works well for all basic modeling task.

One big caveat, which I've experienced on several past versions is that it freezes up completely (like freeze freeze) for 3 - 15 seconds whenever you open it, saves files etc.

I have a 2017 MacBook Pro 16 GB, with MacOS 10.14, so I don't think it should be any problems, but.

I'm just attributing it to "these are quirks you accept when going full open source and not paying for it"
Is that a general rule? In NL that's also common, but it must be specifically declared on the road sign.

If you see this in NL, the road is also closed for cyclists (in this direction): https://verkeersregels.vvn.nl/verkeersborden-en-tekens/c02

But if this modifier sign is put below, it's a two-way street for cyclists: https://verkeersregels.vvn.nl/index.php/verkeersborden-en-te...
No comment on the HEPA ventilator, then? :)

My father is significantly at risk; I'd much rather he wear an inexpensive HEPA ventilator (99.97%+ vs. 95% suppression, fresh air, ...), than even an N95. Wouldn't you?

And what exactly to "people like me" deserve? I'm used to being hated by both right- and left-wing people, so I'm OK -- but who's going to give "it" to me?

Edit:

FYI: https://www.hamilton-medical.com/en_US/E-Learning-and-Educat...

Note especially the effectiveness of HEPA vs. particulates in the size range of SARS-CoV-2...

If this is rated HEPA in the US, this must provide 99.97%+ filtration in the "worst" particulate size, 0.3micron, and apparently even better in the .06 to .2 micron SARS virus size: https://www.amazon.ca/AirPro-Rechargeable-Electrical-Purifyi...

Its a hundred bucks... Why not opt for this option for people at high risk from viral respiratory illnesses? Why the push-back, here?
I definitely used to back in Windows 95-2000 days. It was one of those things people like me who cared too much and wanted to share screenshots of their beautiful desktop / wallpaper / skins / etc used to do.

I don’t anymore. Eventually the regular reinstalls became too much effort re-setting all of my endless customisations. Trained me well for the modern era of “photos app not working right? Have you tried erasing all contents and settings and not restoring from backup?”
The point is that Julia is easier to use and faster than Python for just about any scientific task. Even if Python is fast enough for you (which it probably isn't), it's harder to use and less expressive than Julia. This is why I consider it strictly inferior: it is not better at anything at all, only worse.

Python is so slow it is even unusable on trivially small data sets. Also it uses a massive amount of ram. I loaded a 2gb csv file the other day in Pandas, and it consumed over 40gb of ram. That's totally unacceptable in my view.
I disagree with almost everything you said. Firstly it's not the same weight; it's 10% lighter. If you want a better head strap then you can get the official upgraded one and combined it's still cheaper than Quest 1. Tested's review [1] says battery life is the same, plus there's now a battery strap you can buy to double it and balance the weight distribution. Tested also says the controller tracking is not worse, audio is better, and all things considered the screen is a significant improvement. Then of course there's the extra RAM and upgraded SoC.

The only serious downgrade here IMO is the IPD adjustment, but for the vast majority of people it's not an issue. In other ways it's a clear improvement. I won't be getting one as I have an Index, but this is going to sell more than any other headset. The tech and the price are both incredible.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x6lux6f_6g Tested's review is the one to trust. Norm knows his stuff.

Edit: Ah I see about the weight, you must have been talking about the weight combined with the upgraded headstrap, which does indeed make it heavier than Quest 1, by about 7%. I'll reserve judgement on comfort until I try it. Quest 1 wasn't exactly comfortable for me but it's about more than just the weight number.
> While it is easy for city dwellers to call everyone else unsophisticated, it is plain to everyone else that people who spend their lives as city dwellers tend to collect neuroses.

One of the best quotes of the article.
If it was true, there would be no biker left alive
In my view, the chance that a loan will be paid off early can be worked into the risk calculation that the bank uses for coming up with the interest rates and fees that they are willing to offer, and also for computing the cash value of the mortgage on the secondary market. At the end of the day, the bank just wants to know that they can sell the loan for more than it cost to originate it.

An issue with consumer debt is that a proliferation of fees and "fine print" make it confusing for folks to understand what they're signing up for, and to do comparison shopping on loans.

Traditionally, folks were advised to be wary of prepayment penalties because of a widespread strategy to prepay a loan if possible. When interest rates were high, this was like an investment with a guaranteed percentage return.

For instance, my family took out a loan with a particular payment, but we paid more than the minimum each month because we could afford it. On the other hand, being able to drop back to a lower payment was a kind of safety net in case something happened to one of our jobs, or something like that.
It depends on the language, but this works great for me in Neovim, using coc.nvim and the language server for whatever language I'm working on.
Because despite the name this "betterC" is not a C dialect, but a D dialect which is an entirely different language than C99?

Could just as well ask why not write it in Nim, Zig, Rust, Swift, Kotlin etc... This means a different audience, different target platforms, different trade-offs.
True! In fact, I now saw that others have pointed out that it's even possible to buy library cards as a non-resident in various places.
The problem, to me, is being prompted to approve or reject push notifications on a site by site basis. Unless I can have a blanket "shut off" option that applies to anything in a webview, I'd prefer none at all. It'd also be preferable if that blanket shut off option came shut off by default.
> Cyclists break rules because the rules were not written with us in mind.

And often the road infrastructure itself. My pet peeve is here in the UK you have junctions which sense when a vehicle has approached to trigger the light sequence, but many of them don't detect bicycles, so if it's quiet you're forced to sit and wait until a car pulls up behind you (or jump the light).
Certainly some of the apps and especially services are considered part of the operating system by most people.

You only have to look elsewhere in this thread to see all of the features which have been moved out of AOSP into Google Play Services to see this proved.
It kind of depends on the location of the commenter.

He could live in a country without those pesky US laws or be posting from international waters.
I don't know that it is that drivers are actively trying to kill me. I think it's that there's some phenomenon, yet to be documented by science, that causes people to become more solipsistic when they are operating a motor vehicle.

The net result being, they don't recognize a clear moral difference between cyclists, pedestrians, and orange construction barrels, and see their most noteworthy difference as being the fact that some move faster than others.
I usually delay MacOS updates by at least a month for this very reason.
I think the modifier stack is a proto-modeling history, but good luck with advanced modelling operators like shell or sheet metal and assemblies
> I like the default rainbow indentation, though I'm sure there's a VSC plugin for that.

I've enjoyed it for years now! https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=oderwat....
Here is the live Youtube Link so you can see their (amazingly quick) cleanup progress.
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And what is the marginal benefit of going full pod vs everyone simply wearing a mask?
I'd love to try a keyboard where the keys are a bit wider and with a bit more space between them than normal. Probably bad but still, I'd like to try.
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Not enough butt sniffing nor use of the hacker newss innuendo and nuance glossary and vocabulary of success, but in four sentences you complete my: we are by de facto a third world shit hole. Dare I say you sound like a commoner, aka a non hacker news poster who, god forbid, made perfect sense without the innuendo or the nuance. But by all means, chastise my moniker for speaking sense to a bunch of pamperered boot camp JavaScript noobies.
Making correct estimate on how much time feature will take is something different then just understanding the capabilities of the people.

Even developers themselves are often unable to produce good estimates. In fact, most developers tend to systematically underestimate how much time they will need for this or that task.

I have seen management to even add padding to estimate and it is still not enough in the end.
a better solution is raising minimum worker benefits & protections, pigovian taxes as well where necessary, etc. If a company cannot earn enough money while meeting some basic minimum requirements to society then it should fail quickly.

In the scenario you're asking for - the zombie companies just layoff employees, cut wages/benefits, landlords evict, etc. The zombie lives on just fine until the market corrects while everyone else fails.

You're correct that failing companies need to fail but your "just let the free market handle it" approach is a fairy tale.
I am so confused why they didn't put efforts into making this an iPad app. There is a market for something like this that developers are crying out for, but on mac why would anyone use this over VSCode (and pay $99 for the privilege?)
I thought MSVC added support for C99 at long last a few years ago? IIRC because it was effectively needed for a newer C++ standard, but still.

Also it's 2020, I wasn't even coding when C99 came out and I'm now a "senior" developer, whatever that means. You'll have to pry C99 from my cold, dead hands. Whatever compilers don't support it by now, I don't want to support them.
If it weren't for cars, traffic wouldn't need to be so tightly controlled because the stakes would be so much lower.

While I don't condone running red lights, driver rage at cyclists running red lights or pedestrians jay-walking (a term invented by the auto industry) would be far better directed at drivers who don't take the task of operating a multi-thousand pound machine at high velocities seriously.
I would be shocked if Nintendo released a competitive (I.e. not Labo) headset in the next year.
> it is perfectly safe for me to ride sidewalks

But it's not for pedestrians

I bet that if cars were allowed to drive on sidewalks their ride would be faster as well
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Read the same, asked the same question, WHY?
So, what's the title for a person with 43 years of experience programming computers - not just GUIs, applications, or programs, but whole systems, comprising tens or hundreds of thousands of lines of code across several platforms and languages, and that often include writing specs, designing protocols, drawing UML sequence diagrams and state machine diagrams, memory maps, writing documentation, assembly procedures, and sometimes marketing materials?

How about when my work includes reading datasheets and writing low-level drivers, designing and implementing bootloaders, designing schematics, laying out PCBs and ordering PCBs, and then soldering together the prototype boards I designed, and testing my code not just with IDEs and debuggers but with voltmeters and oscilloscopes and logic analyzers?

Serious question -- I don't actually have an engineering degree and so agree that I'm not qualified to use the title "Engineer." But what's the job title that conveys what I do?