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> As with most of the things that Ive produced at Apple, this is very pretty, but ultimately unusable.

I wouldn't go that far.

There is a reason the average Joe and Georgina love Apple products. Simplicity makes them usable. Before the iPhone, most high end phones were complex and clunky. It takes a special combination of design aesthetic (from Ive) and a laser focus on user happiness (from Jobs) to come up with something like the iPhone.
The collective obsession with TikTok is very strange and cult-like.

This event has nothing to do with TikTok. Hand signals are not new and any medium of communication can be used to propagate their meaning. TikTok is certainly not the only medium by which this particular hand signal has propagated, and might not be the most significant force behind its adoption.

Why was TikTok mentioned so many times? Just to draw clicks on the headline?
> I would agree (and really wish I could) if most people would recognize disinterest and stop there,

For all the whinging about anti-social nerds, I've found the people most obtuse when it comes to social niceties to be the overtalkative that don't pick up on subtle cues that the person they are haranguing just wants to be left alone and get on with whatever they were involved in before they were so rudely interrupted.

No one owes anyone attention, particularly undivided.
Reddit certainly has its flaws. I suppose I've been fortunate that most of the sub-reddits I'm interested in have pretty good members. There's invariably always a jerk or two. I've run into that on Discourse, too. I suppose it's just something ingrained to online communities. I don't love Reddit, but it is the closest thing I've found to a central hub for multiple communities.
> People talking about converting vehicles are missing the point.

the point of a crate motor is literally converting vehicles though. That's what they're for.

> They'll look at the F-100 at big car shows, and a few years later see e-crate conversions at the local car shows, and then when the price of an electric F-150 has dropped enough, that's what they'll be buying.

The cars that people build with crates don't really go very far usually. The people that complain about road trips in an electric car aren't using the car they built. This could be their chance to play with electric to prove its good enough to ditch the ICE F150
E-scooters in Europe are generally soft-limited to 25kph (15.5 mph). This is seems like quite a good practical measure, although it's "problematic" from a software freedom perspective. It's quite hazardous for the rider to go much faster than that anyway, scooters are much less stable than bikes.
Also, is there actually any evidence of reduced traffic enforcement? Or are people just assuming this?
I think part of the problem is that many companies hire external staffing companies and expect them to find the "perfect candidate", and not someone who is "good enough". This combined with the Great Resignation means that both candidates and employers are likely being extremely picky with who they choose hire / work for. As someone who was recently on the market, it was rather strange to see so many companies desperate for talent whilst also being frustratingly meticulous with hiring decisions. I made the joke to myself that companies are being far pickier with their next hires at the moment than most people are with their romantic partners. The arbitrage opportunities in the market for human capital right now are just staggering.
As someone whose calendar is often wall to wall, this is really stupid. The fact that I'm two minutes late because I'm a biological creature and need to piss occasionally doesn't mean I should be excluded from critical discussions.
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This is a little off-topic, but does anyone have a good way to manage different identities on Discord? For example I'm in one Discord with real-life friends, one for a game community, and one for programming. I'd like my account to have different names and profile pictures for each. So far that appears impossible but maybe there's a way I haven't found.
As long as they're speed-limited to conventional biking speed I don't think this is much of a problem. E-bikes have similar mass to normal bikes so the forces are basically the same.
Not from LA, but was able to test it in real life during one of my visit with friends there (a couple of years ago).

We got to Santa Monica beach in the afternoon, spent some time there, and we had a reservation for dinner in koreatown (close to downtown), roughly 15 miles away. Closer to 5:30pm it was time to leave, so we split into two groups: 3 people decided to take Uber, 4 people (including me) decided to take those Lime/Bird escooters.

The results were rather surprising. The escooter group got to the restaurant about 15 minutes later than the Uber group, but only because we were navigating to the wrong place and overshot the restaurant by almost 2 miles. Without counting that, our overall trip was around 1.5 hours.

Here is the kicker: batteries on those scooters were rather not the best. With 4 people riding together, every 20 minutes or so, someone's battery would die (because we didn't all start with 100% at the same time, it doesn't mean that the battery life on those was just 20 minutes, it was just the offset that led to this). And when the battery would die, we wouldn't abandon the person, so we would start searching around for another scooter being available somewhere nearby.

With this in mind, if it was just 1 person riding by themselves, it would definitely beat an Uber ride on that day. And even with 4 people with batteries dying every 20 minutes on someone's scooter, we pretty much beat the people who took Uber by a small margin (which would have been much larger if it was just one person on one escooter).

To underline, I was surprised by two things on that day: how awfully close to the stereotype LA traffic actually was and how viable escooters were in that environment. Prior to seeing it with my eyes, I was also thinking that LA was a bit too sprawled out for it to work. Glad to have been proven wrong.
You can also build a good network working on open source software, committing to GitHub and talking to people at meetups.

CS is really unique and wonderful in this aspect as the “means of production” are available to anyone, anywhere.

So why do we need to gatekeep this knowledge for $45k or whatever bc this is…illogical and a barrier to upward mobility for many.

IMO access to a good paying developer career should not be constrained by ability to pay/geographical location/familial status. It’s just there you gotta do the work though.

If you really want a degree there’s WGU in the US or open university in uk/eu.
Yes, this seems to do it! Kind of needs more enclosure, but it’s only 50kg and seems to meet the other requirements. Work bikes can be up to 150kg (not counting rider/payload) which sounds like a good upper limit on empty weight, so something like this should be doable, even able to add a small extra seat and be fully enclosed (with heated seats?).

https://www.motrike.com/product-item/city-commuting-recumben...
https://archive.ph/FCzDQ
I could not agree more with this. Among other things, I am interested in how a person thinks, how they solve problems, how they communicate and how they face new challenges. For the most part, I could not care less what languages they know today.

My perspective on this is likely very personal. Nearly 100% of the technologies that we use today did not exist when I was in school and started working as an engineer. I am fond of saying that they only things that survive the test of time are C, math and physics.

I do like people with low level experience. By this I do mean assembler. That tells me they did not come-up in an idealized world that is completely isolated from the underlying hardware. I like to remind people that Bjarne Stroustrup was very much into assembler and microcode before creating C++.

My standard test is to learn what language a person does not know and have them solve a problem using it. These days that typically means something like Forth, LISP or, my favorite, APL. Having used APL professionally for ten years, this is one of my preferred go-to interview languages.

I could not give a shit if someone memorized a hundred interview problems (Fibonacci and palindromes make me want to vomit).

I also find that this instantly relaxes the interview process. I'll say something like "I know you don't know the first thing about APL. No problem. I want to understand how you might approach having to write something in a language or framework that is completely new to you. I know the language well. You can ask me anything you want, google it, or, here's a couple of books for you to refer to." We then sit down, hack and talk.

Computational problem solving is a creative as well as technical job. If you want to hire robots who can memorize and spew out hundreds of trained little problems, by all means, go for it. It might be the case that large companies like Google and FB have no choice but to filter this way, I would not know. I'd rather work with people who can say "I have no clue, but I'll figure this out".

Not saying this is the only way, just my way.
Being able to be made surreptitiously can be enough though. Nothing's foolproof, but if an abuser is trying to over-manage someone's communications or hand gestures, that itself is a give away for people to pay more attention.
I'd say that language use-a-likes are very easily fungible. Some incomplete examples: Java/Go/C#/Python/JavaScript/Ruby/Kotlin (service languages), Scala/F#/Haskell/Ocaml (functional languages), and C/C++/Rust (system languages). As long as they have experience in the same category you're good.
Whole heatedly recommend the MX master, feels really comfortable in the hand (and usb-c!!). Shame they don't make a left one for people who are left-handed.

Still looking for an equivalent mouse with hardware support for accelerated elastic scrolling and high-dpi.
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In a perfect world, sure. But it's quite a bit better than treating bikes as human powered cars. It's also pretty easy to do safely: walk and ride on the right, pass on the left, and only when there's no oncoming traffic. People here follow that convention and it mitigates almost all of the issues.
How is it that in a land on Nokia N95 and the likes, introducing the iPhone was not revolutionary?

You are cutting short and focusing on the design of the software (which I am sure Ive had a limited say in) while ignoring decades of excellent design work.
Not to mention they behave differently with respect to HiDPI.
Street legal ebikes don't let you go any faster than a fit cyclist. They just make hills, taking off, and long rides easier.
Something like this pulling a bike trailer for your daughter is very close: https://www.motrike.com/product-item/city-commuting-recumben...

EDIT: this is even closer: https://www.better.bike/models
> When I picked back up over the summer I was absolutely floored by how bad the game had become with cheaters.

But... You're contributing to that since you're one of the cheaters? Is there some sort of cognitive dissonance at play here?
I will rank all 46 Imperial Faberge eggs
There is a world of difference between writing a control structure in C using macros... and Tcl. And even more so when you look at a proper Lisp. Being able to construct new control structures is amazing; I miss it when in other languages.
That process solution for getting people to meetings on time. I'd expect the meeting times to be changed to have more affordances for say, going to the bathroom between meetings, or the elevator being busy. A proper process solution says that the process is the problem, not the people using it
Only if it can be associated with your person somehow.
Yep, have recently had some troubles with provisioning two relatively new products (Redpanda and Materialize), and both of them relied on Slack communities and it's really not an experience I enjoy or find helpful.
With NNTP, I could access the entire archive and it's separate from my email account. As far as I know, Discourse notifications only start from the date you subscribe, which makes it fine for new conversations, but isn't terribly useful when trying to avoid asking a question that's already been answered. Trying to be a good netizen, I search the archive first, but that brings me back to an isolated Discourse web instance.

Additionally, with NNTP, the "sign up" process is very low friction. With Discourse, I need to seek out each community separately. It's enough work where I'm unlikely to experiment with new communities.
Definition of a mostly useless idiot.

He was useful as a foreign scapegoat that could do the dirty work and take the blame for "excesses".
TikTok helped popularize the sign.
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I assume more the latter.

Even in the places I'm familiar with which still allow escooter rentals, my observation is you don't really see very many of them--either being ridden or littering the sidewalks. It does seem to be one of those things that, while you still see them, appear to have mostly been a fad. At least in the cities I'm familiar with.
You'll get better mileage by just setting the default meeting length to 45 minutes rather than an hour in your calendar software.
You are not factoring in opportunity cost: that $30B would buy a hell of a lot of solar panels and wind turbines, with perfect reliability. Displacing a megawatt of carbon-generated power now is worth a lot more than displacing that same megawatt in 10 years, because 10 megawatt-years worth of carbon did not, thereby, go into the atmosphere.
You cant make statements like that without looking at the math. That's the problem. Every time I look at the reality of implementing such systems I run into the reality that the cost, complexity and timelines just don't align with the imagined benefits.

I could be wrong. You could be 100% correct. I just have not found evidence to support these ideas. It all sounds good until math and physics do their jobs.
They aren't limited to conventional biking speed. The rental bikes are close but they're still significantly faster than any human-powered vehicle on the bike path.

A buddy of mine bought a Super73 which has speed limiting modes but operates purely on the honor system. In the "unlimited" mode it can do 28mph, without pedaling. In the "limited" mode it can still do 20, which is faster than most people are capable of for any extended period of time without a power assist.

A Super 73 weighs 73lbs. That's double a regular bike. Moving at 2-4x the speed. Sure the rider is more than that but e-bike numbers are a lot closer to mopeds than bicycles.
Yeah this is annoying.. There should be an option to 'just use it as installed'. It worked 2 months ago, why would it suddenly need an update to work. Sometimes I don't feel like doing the update but it forces me to anyway.

I'd understand if it didn't allow you to do multiplayer that way but I never do anyway.
I don't think they're allowed to do that. I mean, they can /ask/, but until the court hears the case or releases the stay, they can't /tell/.
I’m not sure if you’re joking (sorry), but a ‘crowned republic’ [0] is definitely a common way to characterise the effective political system of many constitutional monarchies today — in particular the UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowned_republic
This article is taking a few tragic cases and acting like defunding the police caused these murders, when there's no reason to think the police could have stopped them in the first place.

Never forget when the NYPD went on strike and major crime actually fell
https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-proacti...
MS streets and trips was available at OfficeMax for $50, though.

We used that suction cup attached blue LED USB GPS receiver and a laptop for war driving, so much fun.
That may be partly true. But we simply never managed to build enough of them fast enough to know if economy of scale could be reached. I think even if so, cost of building the structures and maintaining them won't be negligible and will have to be payed for (we need many smart and skilled people to build and operate them and we need to pay those people).
> You have to see how this is a completely selfish position right?

> The road is dangerous for cyclists so cyclists make the sidewalk dangerous for pedestrians. Sure there's a difference in degree but that's not a justification.

Have you ever tried biking on a 45/50mph road? The chance of you not being hit at the end of the day is not high. I'm not sure where else would one bike when there's such a large speed difference.

And in some US cities there really are no alternative roads with lower speeds limits to bike on.
python never seemed like a good fit for me, because it's just not suited for DSLs. It's too imperative and has too much built in syntax, you'll end up in callback hell as soon as you need an actually descriptive DSL.
Not all, and some "JITs" are not of the "make assembler" version. You can "JIT" on top of your own bytecode. Or not have a bytecode and compile to lambdas...
While I am also disappointed to see it flagged, it is the most predictable response to the content presented in my opinion. It has been my personal observation that opponents of he ideas presented and arguments made on the proposed university's website prefer to intimidate and silence rather than openly argue and discuss.
Even that has its own logical sign(1) with a variation to indicate diarrhea(2).

(1)https://www.babysignlanguage.com/dictionary/poop/
(2)https://www.handspeak.com/word/search/index.php?id=5860
"In-depth" interviews and news reports seldom even scratch the surface of complex subjects. Thinking that a man who has spent years working with architecture, even if he's not a licensed architect, can explain his rationale in such a short span is, frankly, laughable.
That's only to allow access to Google Servers from China. Not required for the mod itself.
> An HTTP proxy that can access Google (you may not need this if you are outside China)
https://github.com/derekhe/msfs2020-google-map/blob/main/REA...
5 miles is quite a distance for a bike commute. I've done about this distance for a while and I won't go back to doing it.

Interestingly, the average distance the Dutch ride is about 1.2 miles per day:

https://www.peopleforbikes.org/news/best-kept-secret-dutch-b...
I have all the issues the parent post is commenting about. I thought I was crazy... but same happens to me. Simple stuff... why doesn't sleep to wake work correctly? Why are my peripherals schizophrenic? My Windows 98 Compaq didn't have these issues... and that was two decades ago.
> Seriously, a lot more phd students just need to embrace their ADHD.

This hits so close to home that I think I just heard a knock on my front door.

I was diagnosed with ADHD about a month before I started a PhD (in my mid 30s). In my 3rd year, I finally took the required course on theory of computation and almost failed it because I spent all my time reading SEP entries about the foundations of mathematics and the origins of computing. I even started reading the Homotopy Type Theory book, despite a woefully inadequate formal mathematics background.

Meanwhile, I’ve got two papers in submission on a topic that I think is a dead end and a waste of time, and I’m hoping that my advisor won’t be too upset if I just refuse to work on any of the follow-up papers that he is considering. I prefer to hang out with math PhDs rather than my lab coworkers, so I can pester them with questions about category theory. And I’m supposed to scrape together a dissertation in, like, 18 months.
You're right. But the way to do so is to give users a choice, instead of using solutions that bundle the server side with the UX.
Now that's cynical. Love it!
Wisdom of the crowd. Thank you for your service!
Synopsys used to have their own scripting language that was so limited you couldn't define functions. You had to resort to setting variables as pretend arguments and continually including another script for any code you needed to invoke multiple times without duplication.
Oh, I'm well aware of this workaround. The problem is that Ctrl+F is muscle memory by now, so I usually hit it and immediately start typing... then notice that it's the wrong search, swear, hit it again, and type again.
all tech support interactions should be searchable on the public web.
Sure. My argument:

- A search engine is good when it provides results that are useful and what you wanted.

- Seeing pinterest links in google search is not useful and not what people want (just read this thread)

- Therefore, by making pinterest results dominate google search, you have made google search worse.

- Google search is the main way people navigate the internet, so by making google search worse, you have made the internet worse.
I agree with this. I definitely think there are some kinds of pedestrian traffic that probably shouldn't use a high traffic mixed trail. Situational awareness and understanding how to stay on your 'side' of the trial is pretty important.
> Numerous examples and research show that overly loyal people are more likely to participate in unethical acts to keep their jobs and are also more likely to be exploited by their employer.

This is presumably why companies would wish to imitate organized crime families.
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I keep hearing this line that Zillow must have Cassandra-like visions of a housing collapse and that's why they're bailing. The obvious question is, if they have such good foresight, what possessed them to overpay for houses so much in the first place?
There's nothing wrong with craftsmanship and it can coexist happily with what's described in the GP. Most of the engineering marvels of the early 20th century were done with an abundance of incredibly skilled craftsman running machine tools and process controls.

The toxicity is in blaming an inherently fallible human for having the audacity to be fallible. It's not productive, it's just an intellectual dead end.
For another similar example, the Blendle website (note - not the app!) hijacks Esc when reading an article, and interprets it as a shortcut to return to the main page of the site. I actually reported it as an issue to them, and they said it's by design and not going to change. :/
One thing in particular that's really stupid for a flightsim is that it lacks military and dual-use airports in the Netherlands. So major passenger airports like Eindhoven (probably the #2 nationally) don't exist at all because there's a few F-16s based there too. Even the aerial photos have been edited to resemble a farm. It's so dumb.

I think it's because Bing still blurs those too. It's not been required by law for over 10 years and Google doesn't do so. But bing never bothered to fix it.

It's just really stupid when going for a high fidelity sim and then leaving major airports out.

Ps: sorry for being so outspoken but I just don't understand how it makes sense to leave so many airports out. FSX never did that, X-plane doesn't and even other mapping services don't.
Mumford's work influenced Jacques Ellul, author of The Technological Society https://archive.org/details/JacquesEllulTheTechnologicalSoci...