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Bought any cheap pickles lately? (Plain old cucumber dill pickles, that is, not achar etc.) If yes, odds are fairly high they come from India.

https://www.india.com/business/india-becomes-pickle-king-of-...
> intentionally misleading

Is "social media" truly social, or media?

Does "woke" really have anything to do with what you do when your alarm clock goes off at 6 AM?

What does an "online newspaper" mean? How can it be both on your Internet-connected screen and printed onto paper at the same time?

Does everyone understand what these three terms are, regardless? Yes. So they're useful.
Seeing at how my handling of contacting people and not only goes? I'd like that system, enhanced with direct mental prodding, too.
This article seems pretty misleading. Looking at the historical trends [1], there were more pedestrian deaths per year 50 years ago. And that is before taking into account that the population has doubled since then! There is clearly an uptick in recent years, but this nyt article is trying to hard to hype it up. Coming off historical lows, around 10 years ago, the percentage yearly increase can sound more shocking than it is- same thing when crime rates reach new lows and then bounce back a bit.

1. https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/pedes...
Why do you need to look for such far fetched explanations when you can clearly see massive amounts of people texting while driving? I drive quite a lot (for European standards) and I've seen the amount of people holding phones increase massively. I can recognize it from a mile away by the way people are driving.
It's a known hypothesis. Additionally when there is less traffic, drivers feel safer and are more likely to tune out by checking their phones, etc.

The book,Confessions of a Recovering Engineer(1), talks about this.

(1) https://www.confessions.engineer
I took the time a few years ago to learn a bit about how to use Autodesk Animator (it was released with a BSD license some ~10 years ago and can be downloaded legally for free these days). Was really impressed with the GUI. Just press a single key to open the menu that begins with that letter, then the first letter of the menu-item you want to use. They managed to use only words that begin with unique letters while still making a lot of sense. Plus some other single-key shortcuts. And many, to me, unusual design choices everywhere, but it all makes sense and is consistent in a way that after a few hours I was not bothered at all by the fact that nothing was like a modern GUI, and there was definitely nothing about using more modern GUI conventions I can think of that would make it more pleasant to work with.

https://github.com/AnimatorPro/Animator-Pro
The author got you to spread the message using a clever trick.
Climate change is real: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record

but the 'climate change will kill us all in ~10 years' is absolutely idiotic.
Child abuse is a serious topic. It should be treated seriously.

Evoking a topic like that, creating fear and outrage in an attempt to sway public opinion - by encouraging an emotional response rather than a rational one - is to be considered shameless manipulation, regardless of what agenda it's being used for.

Would any campaign that takes child abuse truly serious rely on tactless and tasteless marketing campaigns like that? Seems a bit unlikely. People who take child abuse seriously and understand that it's a very complex and multi-faceted topic, tend to really dislike seeing it misused for scare-mongering like that.

Did any of the previous marketing-campaigns that did rely on misusing the topic in manipulative ways result in an actual reduction of child abuse cases? Not that I am aware of?

Have any of those previous alleged anti-child-abuse surveillance measures been rolled back, after they have shown to be completely ineffective at actually combating child abuse?
Well, some have actually been abolished again on the grounds of being unconstitutional. But other than that, being not effective has mostly only resulted in loud demand for even more, equally inefficient, surveillance methods.

I really think that people should be called out over misusing the topic of child abuse as a populist scare mongering tactic to sway public opinion. That sort of thing needs to stop - regardless of what anyone thinks of the measures it's being employed for.
one the one hand. it is age discrimination on the other hand there are winds of change and the truth is unless your hip to the climate you will and probably should be replaced because business is going in a different direction and the customers are different.

How many people had their parents work at a company for along time? that would be bad advice to give to a kid now a days.

If you like things the way they are and believe the new stuff is wrong well thats politics and you better be good at arguing your case. some cases the dinos actually win. i know young people are getting hip to right to repair which was a given back in the day when things were simpler so sometimes old ideas are refreshed. other times like (on prem) kinda died off and cloud is the way most people are going (i remember aruging with a freind in 2011 about using aws and he thought it was the dumbest thing but here were are with most stuff in the cloud now)
>Releasing GMO chestnuts will contaminant the gene pool forever

So what?
> I find that the note-taking experience is now good enough [0]. You can start a note easily, write and structure your thought with minimal markup, include links and other material without much friction and save the note on your distributed storage/storage. I think we are close to maximal efficiency for this experience, at least in this note=text paradigm.

I don't think that is true, because solutions today are not much better than 20 years ago. It's just more flavors and whistles now, but the fundamental flaws are still there.

> However, when you want to search or reorganize, most tools only give you minimal support. Searching by keyword ? Only if you tagged it yourself or there's an exact match in the text (forget about synonyms).

There is fulltext-search. But true, synonyms would improve this. It might even be not that hard to implement. All you need is a list of synonyms for your preferred language, and maybe a spelling check for the input. And it might be better to be just an option, people don't really like oversmart systems which do things they didn't ask for. Google is doing this too, and often enough people are annoyed by it as it leads to wrong solutions.

> Notes in domain A but not domain B ?

Each domain it's own folders/vault. But this is something for a mature search engine on googles level. Not the kind of technology we will see on crappy apps yet. Maybe google could build their own note-app, boundled with their web-search. But I fear it would suck on details and closed after 18 months.

> No sharing and user permissions.

Such systems are called wiki or CMS. Note-Taking is not limited to better text-editors. There are mature enterprise-systems in this space. Though, a simple wiki is already enough for most of this.

> Taking notes and organizing them on the go is still very second-class citizen.

Not really. The Web-Solutions are not worse or better on mobile than they are on desktop. The major problem are small smartphones which are generally bad for working well on the go. Though, you could use a tablet, chromebook or notebook computer. The other problem is, web-service generally suck if you have custom demand or just don't wanna pay for them.

But then again, mobile note-handling is one of the most improved areas in note-taking-space in the last decades. But mostly because mobile is now possible for cheap and on relative high level, not because note-taking itself has improved much.
You just believe them with no evidence? Ban evasion suspensions say "ban evasion". They obviously triggered an unrelated system.
> Our standards aren't that low.

What standards? We accept more failure from software than pretty much any other product. If your car’s engine broke down as much as windows you’d never buy from that company again.

Crap software has trained us to accept complete random crashes, and if you look at most code written today you’ll realize it’s only getting worse.
Best execution kicks in on most exchanges. The second order never hits the order book (nobody observing the book will even see it) and the trade executes at the price of whoever put on their bid/offer first.
i made 2 letters look slightly different, threw up my hands on how to write 3, and ignored capitalization. that's not "conpletely changed". what other redundancy are you saying i've thrown out?
Funnily enough (part-time) landscaper is neat the top of my list if I would change careers from software.

Being outside, dirt in your hands, physical exercise, and the satisfaction of seeing large changes and accomplishments relatively quickly compared to many trades.
Or "nothing overcomes issues that say do not contact, you're not worth their time"
One thing that has become apparent to me over the years is that most of these exploration and visualization tools will be pretty ineffective unless the data is modeled correctly. Some of the tools mentioned here will actually do a lot of the modeling before the exploration and visualization kick in, but the tool is probably only doing the best it can but will most likely not understand a lot of the structure and business nuance that have been accumulated throughout its existence.

Moreover, if you plan to adopt and build upon one of these tools that infers and generates the models as well as provide the explore and visualization functionality, you might be painting yourself into a corner and forcing all current and future workloads to use this layer. Otherwise you'll be having to reinterpret and reimplement your models all over the place; one off SQL scripts/reports, web analytics, dashboards/visualizations/reports on other analytics tools. Then you'll also end up having to scale this tool up in both compute and storage to handle the load that grows over time. This can end up being quite costly in time, money and responsibility.

While these tools will offer a lot of value providing visibility and insight into your data, it'll probably be worth circling back and seeing if the data can and should be modeled correctly (semantic layer) before hitching your wagon to your first choice.

Once your data is all modeled, it might be worth re-evaluating all the tools that you started with and see how they manage now that your house is a little more in order.

Remember, your modeling doesn't have to be done by the same tool that does your exploration and visualization.

This is a great article related to these ideas: https://benn.substack.com/p/is-bi-dead
If this system is used as a gateway to schedule a meeting or ask for a favor then might be all right! Like, if you're honest and say "hey I did even setup a reminder to make sure we agree on our next meetup that we talked about earlier". And then remove it from the reminders and make sure to follow up as with a normal friend if they want to. A reminder has to have a specific reason, and "say hi" is not specific enough.

Otherwise, nobody wants (downvoted posts at the bottom) to get a message from a person who did it because a CRON job sent a reminder to their email, this is how sales people work. Furthermore classification should not be that explicit, yes we have our favorite acquaintances, but not with labels in the lists. Labels have a weird side effect, what if you follow up and have a convo and them meet a person, do you go back to the list and elevate their status?
Read it, or don't. It's unfair to the author to complain because your "scan mode" is inadequate.
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One change could be people are spending more time outdoors walking. I am not sure how to back that up with data, but anecdotally it seems to be true.
Yes, and I think some of the media directly drove the "outrage economy" and profited from it. You get a little blip of adrenaline getting angry about something for a second and you get accustomed to it. Then you get accustomed to getting it from being angry.

Maybe aggressive driving is part of that elevated adrenaline addiction: as you go about your day you need little doses from other places like the gas pedal.
Yes, sorry I tried to use a random webapp and I thought optimization was set to no optimization.

I was just thinking it would be nice to have a bot/api/webapp that I could give my URL to and it would give me a set of links to at least a bit optimized images. Maybe something built into all IDEs, or is this a platform responsibility.

For example, the OP images were much larger in pixel size than necessary. When I look at them in their full size, it is also a noisy image. Certainly a 1/2 resize could be reasonable while not losing meaningful pixels. I know this is a game of trade-offs, but it would be nice to have a standard that had very low friction. I guess TinyPNG almost does this.
The small US city I live in made such a change, it we had several pedestrians get hit in the first year or so because drivers aren't used to it, can't see people very well, and pedestrians just figured everyone would now just stop. We changed the laws to restrict it to only crosswalks and added in a ton of new crosswalks. Even then, it was still a problem because pedestrians don't realize when someone can see them. If the are in the shade of a tree on a bright day, they can't be seen. There was a lot of learning and training to be done (some of it dumb), but now things are ok.

"Crossing the road anywhere" is quite dumb, I think, and I guarantee you'll see a spike of pedestrians getting hit for a while. Just because you can legally do it doesn't mean it's a good idea.
Thank you for this cogent analysis. It sounds valid as they probably notify their subscribers that they forbid document release to the wild and use technical means to measure it. The only hope is the usual request to the authors, who have traditionally sent papers to all requests, of course the profs can also pay 'blotgelt', and as long as the fees are small enough or the prof can afford, file it as an open paper. I am encouraged that the open paper concept is gaining traction - in the days when Nobel was alive, his Nobel Prize was in fact created on this basis of open papers freely sent to others - sadly, had he known, he may well have included the open paper concept into his legacy to prevent the blatant rent seeking empires we now see.
That said, curation and acceptance/publication of papers is a service of value and it is needed, at a lower cost as the journals do a job of work to keep totally crappy AI/idiot created papers that get into the totally open journals who are unable to deal with the blizzard of papers they face - the bad get through. There are also the fake fee based online journals where a distressingly small fee gets you online for citation by your coterie of anti vaxxers, nutrition gurus, etc etc. - essentially insoluble, save by intelligent readers who often shed this burden to avoid the waste of time. Fortunately the 'contents **' publications winnow most of these out.
>After all of that happening can we at least agree that email is not a good substitute for Reddit?

Absolutely not, I have Reddit blocked in /etc/hosts as there appears to be nothing of value there at all these days. Sorting threads by vote count is brain damaged and brain damaging. Also everyone has email and it works fairly well. Viacom can’t just come in and “buy email” so they can kick people off for having certain opinions like they did Reddit. Despite new people asking the same questions on mailing lists, new discussions are often the norm unlike Reddit where the same mediocre garbage is always pushed to the top and the same uninformed comments fill the comment sections.

Not to mention, every day the Reddit UI gets more and more awful and they seem intent on destroying the site over it.
From my understanding, that's not really a migratable stack. Depending on what you're doing in 4.8 (aspx, wpf, aka windows only type stuff) there's not a direct migration. It's more of a re-write.
The idea of walking is foreign to a huge number of Americans, regardless of how fat/thin they might be. Try living in the suburbs and telling someone you’re going to walk an errand that’s 5 miles round-trip. You might as well tell them you’re going to Mars.

I grew up and lived in rural/suburban Florida (god-awful weather) and I never learned to drive. I walked everywhere (no sidewalks). People whose lives revolve around cars just can’t imagine a person walking longer than the distance from the parking lot to the front door.

Nearly everybody wishes they could drive less but nobody will actually drive less.
That has long been the law in California, but enforcement is poor. California also has the "jaywalking" law that clearly prioritizes automobiles over pedestrians.

It's worse for bicycles: almost nowhere in the USA are drivers punished for killing cyclists, despite what's written in the vehicle code.
Their developers decided donating their time to a bunch of demanding know-it-alls with no appreciation for their work was a bad deal for them.
Rackspace is now the roach motel of cloud platforms
For extra pain, you can go at the text above with your browser's devtools and change the font-family to something funny like Comic Sans MS.

Turns out text rendering _really_ does hate you.
They are free in the entire SEPA (for personal use, up to some number of transactions, within the SEPA in EUR).

Free bank accounts are becoming pretty rare, unfortunately. Give it a couple of years and they'll be extinct :-(
It’s almost like the majority of developers write code to make money.
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elevated pedestrian crossing is the solution here. used across London with great effect.

anyway, there are many ways to calm traffic.
No, this is a matter of different strokes for different folks. Many people have chosen to live in low density areas even though there are no sidewalks. They have chosen for themselves what to do with their limited resources. For people who choose to live in cities because there are sidewalks there, they are the ones making the tradeoff that you like.
But i thought that with the push towards shorter commutes werent we also seeing more pedestrians? More pedestrians = more oppertunities for accidents. We cannot get to conclusions about trending driver behaviour before a proper analysis of the underlying statistics.

Also cellphones. 5g = better connectivity on the move = more distracted people driving/walking = more accidents?
For a while I tried to actually read EULAs because I wanted to know what I was agreeing to and felt which parts are overly generic gave a good indication of what a company might want to do without explicitly stating it.

But it's just too much and too overwhelming and most of it is just completely cookie cutter legal babble which I can't waste my time with. I recently bought a video game to play for fun and when I first started it I was asked to sign off on a ridiculously long legal text followed by five(!) revised versions of it from various updates. What am I to do? Spend a few evenings reading and comparing those instead of playing the game I'd bought? Realize that I couldn't play the game I'd bought and ask for a refund? Or just scroll through, click to make it go away and enjoy my game without thinking more about it.
i was gonna say something similar, entitlement
There is a whole article comparing Nyxt to plug-ins (such as tridactyl): https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/article/nyxt-versus-plugins.org
What exactly is the problem with sweating ? The rest of the world sweats without thinking about it.
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I'm a little surprised I didn't see more people mention Go honestly. It's kind of easy as a language to pick up, and depending on what you're doing, it might have everything you need in one swoop. Of course I've not done anything too advanced with it yet. Although uAdmin seems to be a Django inspired thing from Go, I'm not sure if it will ever take off or what, but it seems interesting at least to me. The name is kind of terrible though.
I tried walking around Salt Lake City when I was there, but I kept having to backtrack because the sidewalks suddenly stopped.
I think you're describing the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Tf6dFhH-nA
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I would also like to see some citations on this. He mentions experiences with Android, but nothing for iOS. It makes me wonder if the author is speaking from a place of knowledge, or just speculation.
My stock advice for any rookie has always been the same:

- Buy S&P ETFs, most preferably by Vanguard, because they are a non-profit and thus have very low fees

- If you have a large sum of cash, go all-in immediately, don't wait for the perfect time

- Now, just wait, ideally 10+ years, before looking into your account again
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It could have to do with how they are paid for. When the sidewalks were repaired on my street, each resident received a bill, proportional to how many of the segments were in front of their house. When the road was rebuilt, the money came from Somewhere Else.

Yeah, Somewhere Else is ultimately the same place, but homeowners don't see it as personally flowing out of their own pockets.
> In most places in America walking is not a practical mode of transportation because of distance; it’s miles from your house to the grocery store, for instance.

Which is because we’ve specifically built everything such that there are large distances involved which necessitate cars. You’re taking this as that natural order of things instead of a deliberate decision, which it was. We could have just built towns and cities with the right level of density instead. Even where there aren’t “large distances” involved such as the suburbs where the grocery store and doctor’s office have to be built a half mile or so away everyone has to drive because surprise surprise we’re stupid and made it so that you’re crippled and have to drive to go any distance, not just actual long distances.

> Separately, it would be nice if we had more sidewalks, but they are financially unsustainable in low density areas.

All the roads and highways are unsustainable too, more so, in fact. The difference is the government subsidized these instead of subsidizing sidewalks or more density to create the illusion of progress. Can’t be stagnating as a society if there’s a new road!
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In my experience, if you are in the road then, in the mind of the driver, you should not be there and there are various ways in which they will demonstrate this to you. Ranging from an angry face, at one end of the spectrum, to purposely accelerating towards you, at the other.

So, yes, I think you're right, casualties are more likely to increase since few drivers are going to be changing their behaviour any time soon.
Whatever problems may exist can be easily resolved by showering and changing clothes. They can be further minimized by dressing appropriately.
I recently saw a video of an awareness campaign by police at a crosswalk. Someone in a heart costume was trying to cross the road (at the crosswalk) and nobody stopped. When one car did end up stopping, it got rear ended by another car that didn't.
This is a weird take.

I have friends I've known for decades, some of whom have moved to different cities, different countries, different continents even. I don't talk to them regularly - we all have our lives and it's easy to get caught up. It's not that these people don't matter, just that we're not as close - physically or otherwise - as we used to be. Many of these people, if we did meet again in person, we could pick up exactly where we were as if I'd only seen them yesterday.

I don't use a system like this. But it's bizarre to say that just because someone hasn't spoken in a while that they don't actually matter