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> Roads were absolutely, definitely the issue

Maybe. The article didn't touch on more modern developments, like suspensions.

But not all ancient roads were all that bad. Cities specially. You can ride on dirt just fine. Which is arguably a more realistic use-case, riding on cities.
1TB sounds more reasonable than 10. 10 is way over the top
Man, you're sounding just like I did 6 years ago before I left -- and I realize (with sympathy) that it's only become more intense there since that time. You'll be very happy to escape. Good luck!
I'd consider myself super active, can do up two hours of intensive exercise without feeling soreness the next day.

The last three months I started walking 4km each day at a pace of 12 minutes per kilometer.

Mentally it is game changing. I began remembering childhood memories, came up with new ideas, start connecting dots of what I've listened and read, and noticed a huge boost on my mood.

I look forward each day for my afternoon walk.
> Für die anderen Nutzer soll sich dadurch nichts ändern, ihre Mails sollen weiter standardmäßig verschlüsselt werden.

They seem to suggest that it really only applies to this one specific inbox
Well, if they were only afraid of them, rather than needing them, they're in decent shape, 'cause the last few years have kind of given the impression that self-driving cars aren't coming any time soon. They've been "90% here" for at least ten years but that's not enough.
> they often don't even know they're getting sued.

What do you mean by that? Do you not get a mail that you should show up in court? Or do you have to read the newspaper public announcements?
ughh ... I've never seen HTML code uglier or harder to read than what came out of prettier on the code bases we have that it is used on.
I'm so happy to have had the opportunity to switch to Sonic's Fiber last month.
The big scare at the time Uber started it's own unit was that "once Waymo or another competitor has self driving cars, it will be easy to offer a ride share network and compete with Uber"
TheCovidMonitor co-founder raided by Florida State police
I've both made friends and strengthened existing friendships at the blackjack table and craps table. I love gambling for its own sake, but it's still a little sad to me that so much of a casino floor is slot machines which are not social.
How thoroughly do you test all of your components? For example, do you always test keyboard navigation when making changes to the styling of your components that might conflict with keyboard navigation?

The reason I'm asking is because I've used or evaluated dozens of CSS frameworks and React component libraries, including custom solutions developed by the companies I've worked for, and none of these solutions are as well-tested at Bootstrap. And one example of the issues I've encountered with these other solutions is bugs relating to keyboard navigation (e.g., Ant Design and Semantic UI were two of the worst offenders the last time I evaluated them).

For many developers nowadays who grew up with touch-based UIs and can't touch type, keyboard navigation might seem like an odd thing to focus on. But I've found that checking if CSS frameworks and React component libraries fully support keyboard navigation is a quick way to evaluate them, like how David Lee Roth evaluated concert promoters by asking them to remove brown M&Ms.

And if the teams that made Ant Design, Semantic UI, etc. can't adequately test their components, how capable is the average developer of creating their own well-tested CSS framework?
Yup. Paul Krugman once said something to the effect that the human race would benefit from an Alien Invasion, because the way things are going, we don't invest in the planet, we don't unify and put aside petty grievances and selfishness, until there's a unified enemy.

If an actual high probability ELE asteroid collision was detected, people would get their shit together real quick. Or maybe not, the COVID crisis has shattered my faith. I'm sure a bunch of people would claim the asteroid prediction is a NASA scam to install socialism or something.
I had the same problem and contacted my state representative and my congressperson. This has since been fixed by regulation in California, and by having to follow California's laws, most companies' subscription services have been fixed for everybody.
Machine Learning on Source Code: An overview and example
Yet you can do a few simple thought experiments.

What would those fast-dev do in a vacuum? Or with only clone of themselves coworkers.

What happens when one of those fast-dev quit?

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If everything is/would be fine, then yes, they are truly rockstars (in all the good meanings of that word and none of the bad). Or maybe merely decent among mediocre ones.

Otherwise, there is a free-rider aspect in their approach.

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Also it can work only depending on the criticality level of the industry.

Ship broken crap quickly (but fix it quickly too)? Good if you are creating yet another social website maybe. Less good for e.g. medical devices.

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One more point: the business value approach is not necessarily the only one to apply esp. if there are tech infrastructure components in what you ship. You can easily be stuck in local optimums too far from global ones, and fossilize some aspects of your product. See for example the classical http://blog.zorinaq.com/i-contribute-to-the-windows-kernel-w... that includes some example of death by thousands cut.

What I mean is that moving fast is partly in the eye of the evaluator. Maybe you implement what PM wants quickly, and that's cool, but maybe also doing only what PM wants is not the best thing for the project.

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If you are easily able to plan things, have a good data model, and can develop quickly, probably you don't have a real code quality problem to begin with. At least not in the parts you contribute to. I don't actually distinguish the data model from "code" that much: it's all design.

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Final last thought: imagine you are actually a good fast-dev like you describe, and your colleagues are less good, but imagine a case where the whole organization would actually benefit from you slowing down a bit and working on developing better way to work more efficiently with others or making them improve, overall yielding even more business value at the end. This can happen too.
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I understand the explanation, but your final statement is still wrong. If you're doing "serious date calculations" for any modern organization, and you are asked to make a graph of 20th century data by decade, you will be expected to use the standard decade divisions, i.e. 190_, 191_, 192_. If you include data from December 2000, and get different results from your colleagues, you have failed. The last decade of the 20th century was Jan. 1990 - Dec 1999, according to everybody except the most pedantic of history majors.

And the idea that you could actually do serious date calculations that count backwards all the way to AD 1 while maintaining a precision of 1 year is also ridiculous. There are error bars around the year numbers from that long ago of something like 2-5 years.

I understand the basis for the [1901-2000] definition. However, I really don't think its defense outweighs its huge downsides, especially the split-decade problem.
> So make laws to prevent monopoly, rather than making size/employee count based.

Yes. That's generally what "no billionaires" policies are focused on. But "market power" is still a useful consideration.
To be fair, the levels of self-driving are almost never discussed so it's no wonder people say things like "Tesla already has self-driving cars".

For those unaware:

- Level 0: No automation

- Level 1: Driver assistance (Assisting steering or braking)

- Level 2: Partial automation (Assisting steering AND braking)

- Level 3: Conditional automation (Human supervised autonomy)

- Level 4: High automation (Full automation in ideal environments)

- Level 5: Full automation

I believe we're currently at Level 2-3.

More details here: https://www.howtogeek.com/401759/WHAT-ARE-THE-DIFFERENT-SELF...

If someone with more knowledge wants to correct me on the levels, feel free.
How would bicycles last for generations? One summer in the sun and most of the tires and tubes would be rotted out.

In Stephen King's The Stand, at least one of the groups of survivors tools around on bicycles, mostly because of all the gridlock of abandoned cars on the highways.
> Squeaking down a deserted highway in a rickety ill-fitting bike, knees akimbo, does not cut quite as dramatic a figure even if it is infintely more realistic.

This is basically how Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts starts. :P
The NetHack Learning Environment (NLE) Is a Reinforcement Learning Environment
I'm assuming there's something going on between the flash of the heart and the app render that's causing the slowness.

By profiling in Chrome (Performance tab -> refresh) it looks like the animations are causing the issue. Having said that, as a user it feels reasonably fast and it's just the flashing content that's weird.
Is this allowed on the free tier? https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/ 2.8 says:

"Use of the Services for serving video or a disproportionate percentage of pictures, audio files, or other non-HTML content is prohibited, unless purchased separately as part of a Paid Service or expressly allowed under our Supplemental Terms for a specific Service. "
I just flagged it
You are right, and yet I always asked myself if all the regulations ever made sense.

Those that really want to coordinate any kind of illicit activity, do they use Whatsapp thinking it is secure, or would they be smart enough to set up their own infrastructure? How many threats were stopped due to police/Three-Letter-Agencies being able to tap into the largest services vs going to the deep web and infiltrating/investigating the group "in person"?

In any case, my feeling is that all these regulations do is push privacy-conscious people into running their own infra. I was even on the point of running my own email, Matrix and even a SIP server at home, but then I realized that whoever I will be communicating with would not be doing the same so the whole thing is at best an exercise in my sysadmin skills.
Growing food also requires tons of fossil fuel etc.

Without it, in a fast unplanned event at least, humanity would face a very big population reduction.
Anyone speak Hebrew? How does he sound here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbdK9KwjBn0
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That may not make any difference, depending on your locality. Unfortunately AT&T infrastructure is still relied on by others such as Sonic, which leases lines from the likes of AT&T fiber, at least in my locality.
Is it possible that just having an app doesn't make you a tech company? Anyone else ready to think Uber might just be an overvalued taxi company?
> Most people really do prefer justified text.

“[Citation needed]”. Justified text (more often than not) looks awful[1] and breaks reading rhythm (even if not consciously perceived). That doesn’t prove your claim is incorrect; I’m pointing it out to explain why I find it dubious. What’s your source to say that most people prefer it?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25338737
I love it when job interview pitches fall flat like that. Many years ago, I had a job offer from IBM for a class of server I wasn't familiar with. The guy explained it to me like this: "You see, desktops these days are running Linux, and mainframes are running (IBM OS something?). We represent a class of server bigger than desktops but smaller than mainframes. It's an exciting space. The desktop class of PCs are handling bigger and bigger workloads every day, and the mainframes are getting cheaper and smaller all the time, too...." and then he sort of trailed off and we sat quietly for a few seconds, and then he started talking about the nice office.
On the flip side, bikes might have a different feel to them if they were the transportation of choice of action heroes. Action stars don't do cool things, they make things cool.

I imagine Aston Martin sales will bump up after the next Bond film gets released. What if Bond got around town in a Bianchi?
Ubers not been one to shy away from legal skirmishes though.
Fail fast and often!
It's the game'd business what you are running if you are ruining the game for other players.
For purely academic purposes, of course
Does profitability equate to paying back all the VC money burned getting to this point? They were losing billions every quarter for a long time. I haven't looked at their quarterlies in a while though but Id be surprised if they were remotely right-side up.
German divers find Enigma crypto machine on seabed
I think trying to pedal a direct-drive wooden-wheeled bicycle with no wheel bearings (just grease) would be a pretty unpleasant experience.
If you find a spot on Earth with no radio waves let us know.

AM goes pretty far, even amateur radio can travel across continents in the right atmospheric conditions.

GPS

Satellite TV

Every other civilian and military Comsat since we started launching things.

Starlink isn’t the problem if you are worried about being “irradiated”, the nuclear fusion reactor at the center of our solar system is likely of greater concern.
The art museum there is also pretty good. I lived in Toledo for most of high school.
One thing I never understood about Mad Max, is where did they get the gasoline for their spiked-up cars from?

Plot hole.
Youtuber Everyday Astronaut is on South Padre this week getting ready to live stream the festivities. I recommend all good space nerds have it on on the background tomorrow.
Anyone who’s tried to shoot a sawed off shotgun from a bicycle knows how right you are. Thinking about the highway scenes in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and my own run-ins with gangs of street urchins in Berlin, you’re also vulnerable to attack on a bicycle in a way that you’re not in a vehicle or even on a horse. Post apocalyptic literature is as much about the fear of being hunted as being the hunter.
There was! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bike_boom#1890s
I'm confused by what you're saying. I've made Tailwind sites that did nothing more than include their single css file from a CDN. Zero build process.

Do whatever makes you happy, I just don't want people who are passing by misunderstanding what Tailwind actually is.
Haven't heard of Shapez.io before, so went to try it out.

Going to Shapez.io though gives a Cloudflare error: "Error 521: Web server is down". :(

Trying the Wayback Machine, there's "something" on there but it doesn't seem to work. (?) eg:

http://web.archive.org/web/20201120204614/https://shapez.io/
Austin. Back to where I came from.

In my estimation, it has the most coolness-per-dollar. What I actually want is to buy a house, and I just can’t do that around here. Austin is comparatively cheaper and has a culture that appeals to me. It feels a lot like California, but without much of the baggage.

Parts of Colorado, Oregon, and Washington are also strong contenders, but I am predisposed to like Texas.
They are a logistics and pricing company. If they would license this tech they'd be rich beyond belief. They companies could really be Uber-for-X.
Deep Tech Deficit: Why more people aren't starting tech ambitious companies now
Stadia arrives in eight new European countries
I’d say it’s in the middle. Bike tyres last way longer than one summer, but certainly not more than a decade, let alone generations. A bike without rubber tyres is a pretty miserable ride.
The author is paranoid and delusional.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160617140921/https://michaeloc...

I'm big on permissive speech, but if anything were going to be modded away by its users, this should be.
Do they even appropriately license now? Gig economy is like Napster but with actual victims.
Every big city in the northeast wins or ties on all of those points (Boston has somewhat worse food, but much better art). Of course, they’re not appreciably cheaper (except for Philly, which is an amazing bargain, for now).
Oh man, I thought it was just my crappy old router causing the problems! I've just been too lazy to call them to replace it. I'm going to tweet at them right now.

Edit: Reading the tweet thread, classic interaction: ATT says "please click this to check your connection", guy replies back and says "I think we know more about networks that you do, please get a network admin in here".
I was fascinated to learn that Comma are the only (?) company whose ML algo dynamically segments the road and surroundings, whereas I believe Tesla specifically looks for things like lines on the road.
Or maybe they're just playing both sides. That way they always come out on top.
The support for remote has expanded greatly. Zoom isn't perfect, but it's a lot better than a group of people sitting around a speakerphone or a glitchy skype or WebX call trying to work with a remote person. And if everyone was remote, forget about it it was like getting the planets to align for everyone to be in productive remote communication. Remember spending the first 15 minutes of every conference call just getting everyone online and tech issues settled?
That is just another way of saying that good talent is scarce.
The world's most sophisticated engines on a vessel that started out as a water tower. I can't get enough of Starship.
Well apparently he thinks the laws of mathematics change based on your criminality status, for one.
Here he is talking 9 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myjSeORB1Og

The dude seems legit. This could be real.
This does not pass the smell test. Why would a peaceful alien organization contact governments if they're concerned knowledge of their existence would cause mass hysteria. Seems like a pretty major risk if they're actually concerned about that.

If they really want to research us for some reason, they could surely do that in secret if they're capable of secreting away astronauts to a joint Mars base, as claimed.
How does this address the fact that windows has 100s of badly written drivers that allow r/w to kernel? This seems to only stop the most advance cheats that actually execute at or before boot.
Doesn’t this blow Ubers value prop out the window to investors?

Did they just fold?
Yeah you do - the kernel uses linked lists to store everything from running tasks to memory pages. Insertion and deletion of entries are much faster in a linked list than in an array, and that's a very performance-sensitive operation in the kernel.
I'm betting on a spectacular crash, but they did nail Falcon Heavy on the first go.
The Walking Dead has a bicycle for I think two initial episodes but bicycles would run out of consumables (tires/inner tubes/chains/cables) though it might be better situation than automobiles running out of non spoiled gasoline in a year once industrialized manufacturing stops. The rubber in tires/tubes can rot/degrade with uv exposure and cables rust. Different use case from post apocalypse but I have to replace multiple chains/cables/tires per year on multiple bikes.
> Quite simply, modern electric ranges will heat your pan faster than gas ones can.

I'd like to emphasize "modern" here. Just a month or two ago I replaced an old resistive electric stove with a new resistive electric stove - and it heats shockingly better than the old one.
I would have killed for this in my advanced distributed systems class in university..
It depends how fast the planet depopulated. In Mad Max the original problem was water shortages. If most of the population was wiped out in the water wars, it’s reasonable that the dregs of fuel in the system could last the few survivors a long time.
Sadly, no. I ended up in a tough situation in college (someone bailed on housing part way through the semester), and I cut out fast food entirely. Take for example, the ubiquitous Big Mac meal, A drink, a burger, and fries for $5.99 (plus tax). You can assemble that your self (sans fries, maybe a salad instead) for probably $3 even. You can save up to 40% buying ground beef in larger "family packs", getting super cheap store-brand bread and buns helps stretch your money a bit more. Getting vegetables in bulk packs from places like Costco can save you money, that was pretty life changing to discover. When you really look at it, there's probably $2.50 of labor built into every fast food meal that you can save by cooking for yourself.
I like the Blik system we have in Poland. It requires you to use your bank's app to generate a 6-digit, single-use code that's valid for two minutes. That's the only piece of information you give to the merchant, so transactions are fully anonymous (as far as the merchant is concerned). They can't even link transactions from the same account.

After the code is processed, you get a request on your phone, with the merchant's verified name, the transaction amount, and the title of the transaction. You're able to deny this request, so it's perfectly safe to give your code to someone you don't fully trust, i.e. to let a child buy something, or if it's just more convenient if someone makes a purchase for you, but you still want to pay for it. That happens surprisingly often in families, where you're talking about a particular product, one person looks it up and is ready to purchase, but you're the one who actually wants it. You also don't have to worry about the security of the device you're entering the code on.

Of course, since entering a code is so easy, this often also works in ATMs and shops. You don't need fancy, super-secure hardware to process BLIK transactions, anything with a keypad and an internet connection will do.
Unnecessary refactoring and whitespace changes are hard fails for my code reviews. There are rare exceptions where refactoring is essentially intertwined with the change being performed, but they are rare.

I need to be able to see the intent and minimal definition of a change. Anything that obscures that is obnoxious not just to the reviewer but everyone after who might have to merge or understand the change. Perhaps it is because I manage code that is "high risk" and hence "I can't understand your change" equates to "it can't go into production" makes a difference.

Apart from that, it also ruins the chance to cherry pick / separately merge parts of the change.

To me this is pure laziness and selfishness and lack of discipline on the developers part.
I live without a car in SF, partly because I used to do the same in European cities :

- it is amazing to be able to walk / use public transport to go everywhere you need to

- I just don't like driving in cities. It is just a chore monopolizing my attention.

Still this is way harder to pull of here than it is e.g. in Paris. No subway system serving all the city here.

I am using an eskate to pick up the slack. If the market street project was already completed and we did the same for some other key streets, it would be 100% viable but in the city's current state :

- many roads are in a pitiful state. I haven't hurt myself seriously yet but I saw or know of many people who did.

- car drivers are extremely dangerous

100% on acceptance, culture scene and let's add food scene as well.
Sorry for not understanding, but I still don't quite get why is it a good time? From the description of your situation it looks like any new job right now is a temporal job. At least that's how I read it.
german here:

Tutanota is a german email provider which encrypts incoming email after those were received.
The court ordered tutanota to provide incoming emails to a single email account to law enforcement. This is "lawful interception" as you know it, as "service-side encryption" is useless against lawful interception laws.

- md
Bernie Madoff seemed legit, too.
assumes your reviewer is competent
While it's not often that an iPhone is called "Made in Taiwan" or the latest Gaming Console as "Made in Japan," Taiwan and Japan are still very much present in the US.

I completely agree though that the label "Made in Japan" isn't present. In fact, if I remember correctly, "Made in $Country" labels are an import requirement that may in fact be a form of protectionism? I'm sure the argument could be made either way.