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I'll share an unpopular opinion, loosely in defense of some elements of NIMBYism.

I grew up in a small Marin County town called Point Reyes. It had 350 residents when I grew up, now maybe 1,000. The main reason people live there is to feel remote and rural. It is a way of life.

Given the proximity to San Francisco, the real estate prices have skyrocketed. Almost all my blue collar friends have had to move. It is sad that we have become a neighborhood for tourists and wealthy tech owner second homes. But, the character of the town remains, which is a nice silver lining.

With recent California rules, affordable housing is being forced by the state. Any open parking lot, any church, any building not considered "fully utilized" is now being allocated for low income units. Even most low income residents in the town don't like it, as it doesn't match the character of the area whatsoever - it undermines the very reason people live here to begin with.

I'm a unicorn founder so know I'm in a very privileged position. I actually bought a place in town which I'm turning in to multiple units for working class people because I didn't want someone else to buy it and turn it into a mansion. This is very different than state mandates that override any sort of local planning. I'm trying to help solve the problem while also preserving the essence of the community.

I think it is overly simplistic to call NIMBYs evil and YIMBYs good. I like living in a small rural town. People move here because they want that. Forcing a town of <1,000 people to infill with huge apartment buildings doesn't fundamentally alter the overall housing problem, but it does impact the people that live and work in the community.

I also don't claim any moral high ground here - there is no right and wrong about this. We all have our desires about how we want the world to evolve, and I wish we could all respect the complexity of the situation vs putting people in competing good vs evil camps.
Let me introduce you to "kashmiri pink tea".

This is your regular Darjeeling tea or whatever dried tea leaves which are boiled with baking soda for " hours" to process them.

The result is a pink color that is consumed with salt. No sugar here.

People are pretty much addicts of this.
For sure. I'm talking about direct payments to lower income families.

When you count in the externalities of pollution and climate change the amount we pay is cheap (it's still cheap per mile driven and just in general terms we drive giant cars long distances it's crazy...)

We're already spending billions on health effects, lost working lives, and even more on existing damage from climate change.

Biggest missed opportunity is the failed climate bill. I'm not optimistic about the future.
Not everyone wants to sit in front of the computer and read the help file. That is, sometimes it's easier to sit down with a printout, or on a tablet, and read it like a book (or as a document with working links, which this one is). Yes, it is certainly valuable to have it right there in the editor, easy to consult at a moment's notice. But saying there's "no need" for it sounds self-absorbed; you don't need it, so neither does anyone else.
It also shares a name with a prominent furry porn artist, as can be seen from the many NSFW results in Google images.
Only partially! They're heavily influenced by the time the sun rises. Your body's internal clock is actually 24 hours 11 minutes long on average. The only reason it doesn't drift hopelessly out of sync is that the sunrise "resets" it each day! (https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/1999/07/human-biologi...)
The change isn't because of India, it's because you change your clocks.

The half hour is only confusing if you're not used to it.

(Nepal has a 45 minute offset, which is a great timezone to check things work. Chatham Island in NZ too)
Adding time with mutable local variables is along the same axis as having mutable state in objects, only more fine-grained in the call stack. Yes you can write algorithms like this, if you like playing the computer ticker tape game.

These modern languages with lambdas are what enable writing in a functional style. One can choose to use single-assignment 'var's and map/filter etc, at that point you're not using the procedural aspect of the language which is great, but why not start with a language that more than allows it.
Nvidia should hire them.
Work and school are also social constructs and there's no reason we have to maintain some arbitrary start and end time. Why not start "1 hour after sunrise" instead of 9am? It would probably be healthier to tailor our activities to the presence of natural light instead of sticking to an artificial schedule.
That’s true, a binary tree isn’t a problem, it’s a tool for solving a certain class of problems. Since you can’t build reusable tools in pre-generic Go, (and, to be honest, only a limited set of tools with Go’s new generic system), programmers are forced to reinvent half-baked ad-hoc solutions all over their code base. I once read an article about a C codebase that contained dozens (!) of specialized linked-list implementations. Large Go codebases, from everything I’ve seen, aren’t all that different.
Banking is shorthand for Invest Banking, a subset of product and service offerings of a Bulge Brackets

I built trading platforms for a bank. I am not a banker nor was I in banking
I felt a sense of relief after ripping my Kindle books (deDRM) and closing my Amazon account a few months ago.

It was nostalgic looking at 18 years of purchase history.

Between tax avoidance and anticompetitive behaviour ( https://www.vox.com/recode/22836368/amazon-antitrust-ftc-mar... ), I no longer support Amazon.
> because "on record" represents a nanosecond of geologic time

We are concerned with human survival, not geological history, and human civilization has exsited within the current nanosecond. We don't want to be geological history.
I think it’s the difference between high energy and low every people. Hugh energy people want to start the day actively and early. Low every and low-t people are looking for comfort and relaxation later in the day.
> Make no mistake, no US citizen outside of the political class benefits from this or other atrocities. The exact same goes for the surveillance programs.

I don’t know if I agree with that. I think folks underestimate how much conflict in interests “regular people” in different countries really have.
So it’s a timing attack?

:D :D :D
What about getting kids ready? Commuting?
I was going to write exactly this and I'm glad you beat me to it (and that someone else is experiencing this benefit). It's obviously not a replacement for a human writing a big program (yet...), but it does a damn fine job of giving you a shell of a function based on a comment.

PS - it is also AMAZING with CSS and saves so much time on easy things that I just haven't memorized. "Style the LI so there are no bullet points" and boom...'list-style: none;'
"badly-written Perl scripts..."

You are much too kind to the monkeys who put this together.
The config is nice, but Chicago? Chicago font? I thought that was buried deep, long ago.
They seem to call a lot of male attackers "incel terrorists", even when the attacker doesn't espouse incel-like views. Roy Den Hollander was undoubtedly misogynistic, but I don't see any evidence he was an incel. The judge in Alek Minassian's case claimed he didn't believe the incel movement was a motive. That's two out of the six examples the article uses to try to establish a pattern. They seem to be stretching to find a pattern that may not be there.
The futures price is going down a good amount. There's really not much we can do about it except bribe Venezuela, iran, and MBS.

Which seems like we're trying to do. Which is gross on its own too.
Thanks: those are quite interesting.

I wonder where the preference for DST then comes from? I've replied to that thread with a question of what the population distribution is in regards to West/East sides of timezones, and I also wonder does this apply if we move the timezones even further (another 1h or 2h?). Basically, it would indicate that the modern rhythm is out of whack, though it'd be harder to test that.
>But it also means people are implementing modified ISAs... which sucks for compatibility.

I've seen this a lot, both as misunderstanding and as FUD.

RISC-V was designed from the start with extensions in mind. This includes allocations for custom extensions that aren't standardized by RISC-V.

>(such as this CPU which has a non standard V extension)

There's nothing actually "incompatible" with this SoC, in the conflicting sense.

D1's V does naturally use these custom extension allocations and thus does not collide with the standard V.

It will therefore run RV64GC code just fine, and an illegal instruction exception will trigger should standard V code be encountered.
This is just a rehash of stereotypes. The main thrust of the attack against pornhub started after the NYT article that documented quite a few examples of revenge porn, lack of moderation from pornhub, etc. Maybe you should go read that since you don't seem aware that there are actual examples of what you say they weren't able to find. & NYT isn't exactly known to be a source of evangelical propaganda/zeal.

You can choose to ignore that, but to say that it was all the evil american evangelists boogeyman is just non sense. It's a tired trope that you often see coming from some europeans that have a very weird and misinformed view of American society. And ignoring the insane amounts of documented abuse in the porn industry.

Visa and Mastercard were also concerned by the potential for prostitution that onlyfans could have, and after what happened to backpage they did not need any outside pressure. Payment processors have always been hostile to porn.

This is all so widely documented that I just really fail to see how you got to that conclusion.
It wasn’t repealed. That law was temporary.
I’ve had simple issues with Google Ads that took MONTHS to resolve. Basically their algorithm marked one of my sites as having an image that contained malware. There was nothing I could do about it. That’s right, somehow they think a PNG hosted on AWS Cloudfront had malware. It was absurd, and they kept canceling my ads and never fixing the problem. Their customer service is atrocious.
Not a sports fan, but it's strange how much local sports contribute to local culture in large western cities, seems to bring abundant entertainment to sports fans in my life that it's better to bias towards having stadiums than not. Having lived in multiple large Asian cities without developed major sport franchises, I do feel like life is different without it.
This is my preferred outcome. Unfortunately change is hard, and coordination is even harder, so it's not going to happen. Permanent DST is the best realistic option.
Don't you just love it when people enjoy shooting themselves in the foot?

Think it's smart to block 300 billion of Russian cash reserves? Welcome to your own (possibly fatal) cash-flow problems when a mere half of that cash can't come your way.
I like this advice. Both practical (I agree with all points) and yet acknowledges the emotions we feel when buying stuff with a side of financial sense.
This is a problem we already have in the form of people taking lunch at different times. We can schedule meetings around lunch just fine.
I mean, yeah, with a thing popping up on my screen to ask me for it. Which is fine if I, say, install it as an app (eg PWA or whatever), but super annoying on websites I’m visiting for the first time.
well that just seems like the worst sort of idea. lets just totally screw over nocturnal animals
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Doesn't every country have official languages that they teach and conduct business in? There are very few groups who still speak their native languages after being assimilated into the US. Tibetan is still being taught in schools there along with mandarin.
Wouldn't it be hard to integrate into the business community if you didn't speak the official language of business in a given country?
We had a series of town-hall meetings about it at 11 AM on Tuesdays, and nobody objected.
The problem for me seems to be that everything is regulated to exahustion. Let things be more organic and consensus is easier, over time, without forcing it.

Try to force regulations everywhere and then there will be fights and sterile discussion just for the sake of having a regulation, as if it were a must.
Babybsitters? You might want to sit this one out.
Yeah, same here -- serious 90's nostalgia in the best way. This is awesome.
I prefer abuse@nationalgeographic.com as that is the address you are supposed to use to notify a domain that they are unintentionally sending spam.
> If it was an hour long video, well, there's quite a difference in bandwidth consumed per view.

What counts as a view? If someone watches 10 minutes of a 2 hour long video, does that count as "1 view of the entire video" for billing purposes?
More to the point, you cease to be able to predict what people many miles away from you are doing:

It's 6 AM in London. What time is it in Denver?

The way things work now, it's approximately midnight in Denver, or close enough that the safe answer to the question "What is my business partner in Denver doing?" is "Sleeping" which neatly answers the question of what their likely response will be were I to call them now.

Now, imagine we abolish time zones:

It's 6 AM in London. What time is it in Denver?

It's 6 AM. It's 6 AM in Beijing, in Cairo, in Honolulu, at McMurdo Station, and in Sidney, Montana. I have little idea what anyone in Denver is doing, unless I happen to know that Denver is placed such that their dawn is six-ish hours after mine. But I have no way to express that conveniently, and nobody else thinks in those terms, so I can't build up a database of such information.

At least, not without reinventing something...

It's 6 AM in London. What time is it in Denver?

What would I be...

It's 6 AM in London.

Something occurs...

The clock is striking thirteen.

I almost...

DENHAM'S DENTIFRICE!

Consider the lilies of tzdata...

DENHAM'S...

Sorry, got a bit caught up there.
I think that's important to state what part of a timezone you currently live in when one states a preference: I am similarly in the very Eastern part of my timezone, and have the same preference.

Perhaps that's most correlated with the choice people might have? Esp since there are studies linked in this discussion that suggest people have better health outcomes (in a few very specific cases, but also winter depression) on the Eastern edges of timezones.
metadat, Thank you for the feedback. Zipy is primarily a debugging and monitoring tool that provides a functionality to record and replay user sessions along with all details related to a session including and not limited to the errors/breakages in frontend or network api calls. This helps the project teams to identify and debug customer issues proactively, quickly and prioritize them based on the impact and business intelligence we build over it. Hope this answers your question.
Well, there's always Tor browser. And while Chrome uses the system network settings (on Windows at least?), Firefox can manage its own proxy settings.You can even have per-container proxy settings with the Container Proxy add-on.

And Mozilla sells a VPN service for $5/month.
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Your comment came off as lacking compassion; perhaps I was mistaken in that impression.
OTOH, I find informative to know these little things and understand how things work below the surface :)
Something I'd like to see is a network of product manufacturing processes and dependencies
I've tried Copilot, Tabnine, and a couple of the others out there.

I find them to be an annoying Clippy-like companion that interrupts my train of thought and introduces a whole separate class of programming bugs: "autocomplete errors" which are like copy & paste errors, but written by another programmer.

I like my auto-complete functionality built in to Jetbrains and Visual Studio for hinting at variable names, function parameters, classes, imports, and so forth. But the boiler-plate code that "assistant AI programmers" provide are not worth the effort at this time and do not live up to the hype. I think they help less experienced developers out, but the kind of code I am writing won't usually be found in Copilot or Tabnine. I could see the appeal if all I was doing was churning out boilerplate CRUD app code all day long, which honestly, I would outsource to Craigslist for thirty bucks an hour. Or just hand off to my assistant.
A good software developer can be productive with any set of tools/languages. If you can’t be productive, unless you have a very specific set of tools, then the problem is you.
Property is tough in general. For most, they're coming into a game of monopoly that has realistically already ended.

While I feel for those who "own" not wanting things to change, I feel more for those relegated to go around a board that's entirely owned (at least the parts worth owning).
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Give this one a shot: https://apps.kde.org/krdc/

I've been pleasantly impressed coming from Remmina
It’s such a ghost town that they opened the new apartment building at University and Shattuck only 90 days ago and it’s already more than 90% leased out.
They already don't make sense when you're trying to coordinate communication with people more than a few timezones away
the rhetoric on all sides has been hyperbolic for years - I imagine if we could graph the use of "treason" or "lock [X] up" in public discourse we would see an explosion around 2014 and continuing straight to today.

What gives me hope is:

a) McCarthyism (surely that was worse, yet we made it through)

b) this language is happening on privately funded cable news that approx 5% (I believe) of Americans watch on a daily basis. That's a far better place than coming from government officials.
Or perhaps we can just not post pay-walled BS? Someone was generous to post a mirror, and I was reminded WHY I don't pay for "journalistic" content.
Sadly Matt Yglesias deleted his tweet she was replying too, would have loved to have read it.

And you're spot on, why isn't there a Umeshism for "if you haven't shat in a bush..."
But DST isn't the only situation where time changes. Countries (especially those near the international date line) switch back and forth depending on the current economic situation. Plus if you need to deal with historical data DST is still am important detail.

So your code will still require this logic, it just may be easier to ignore the bugs of a while.
The quote you've provided aligns very much with the sentiment of the letter:

> I believe with all my heart that the monks who burned themselves did not aim at the death of the oppressors but only at a change in their policy. Their enemies are not man. They are intolerance, fanaticism, dictatorship, cupidity, hatred and discrimination which lie within the heart of man.
“To fix this gap, we really need to change how we all think about gender roles from birth.“

How are you going to correct humanities concepts of gender that have existed for a long time?
Technical debt is a made up problem and cannot hurt you :,(

All of this is entirely fair and worth considering, given pretty much all mature frameworks do tend to have some extension or build out option to make them "scalable" as far as I can tell. Now to choose one that's not Django, which I've heard is a bit of a nightmare for this sort of building out (but maybe more because of the problems you mentioned than anything wrong with the framework itself?)
> Switch to UTC and now the idea of the sun rising between 5-7 AMish is ruined

And this idea is critically important because?
DST solve nothing, I still don't understand why it was invented.
Agree also. In Spain October/November at 17:30 it is dark, maybe 18:00.

From 3rd week of June to mid-July it gets dark at 22:00. Uh, what a difference!
Ah yep, thought that was the case, thanks for clarifying :)
Pop music isn't meant to withstand the test of time. Stop treating it as such.

Enjoy what does. Lots of stuff from this decade will. If you can't find the stuff you enjoy why bother with modern pop at all?
At the companies I've worked at, people "dealt" with this by taking lunch when they didn't have meetings, not the other way around
Generally direct refutation of a central point is a constructive argument. Here’s another example of direct refutation:

You’ve given a strawman argument, specifically you’ve given one implementation which has abstracted the details (we don’t see the code for take, select and reduce). That’s just an arbitrary decision you’ve made, the equiv go example you could have posted might be:

// idiomatic error handling elided only for brevity
first20, err := Take(nums, 20);
odds, err := Select(first20, Odd);
sum, err := Sum(odds);

You’ve presented these different levels of abstraction and then argued against a point that wasn’t made. A strawman argument.

In the interest of steelman-ing your argument, the interesting difference would be in the comparison of implementations of take() or select() or reduce() - but ruby is a dynamic language so there’s not really a comparison to be made.

We can still say how we might approach Take() or Select() or Reduce() or Sum() though if we need them to be generic over argument types - in the absolute worst case (so not using go generate to help us here or an interface or the new generics functionality) in the worst case e we would have repeated definitions of these functions. Code that any junior developer will be able to safely reason about and change. Code that has utterly obvious risks (you might introduce a differing behaviour in one implementation of Take() for example) - so obvious that it’s trivial to defend against with nothing more than generative testing. Again, painfully simple code. Zero cleverness. Any developer of any experience level can quickly make a valid change.
Bananas are worse. All of the world's commercial plants are Cavendish bananas, and they are all clones.
> I am not sure I know a single person whose morning wake-up time is dictated by the rise of the sun.

So you don’t know why farmers, laborers, gardeners, contractors, garbage men, etc? There’s a long list of jobs where there’s practical reasons to start work when it gets light outside.
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Wonder if you run into any issues with your Google account you lose all your domains...
I like it when the US fucks with time zones. The more you fuck with time zones, the more likely US-based developers are to just say fuck it, we'll use a library. The more developers that use a library for time zones, the fewer pieces of software that I have to deal with that get this wrong for my part of the world.

(Did you know Australia has 11 possible time zones of which up to 9 are being used right now? It might even be 12. Most people don't, which is why most programmers fuck it up)
How does one define "Facebook"? Meta? A company headed by Zuckerberg?

There seems to be a Ship of Theseus problem.
Well if we keep going with that metaphor -- the crotchety rock might resist, but ultimately it ends up as sand on the beach as well. And the ocean cares not whether its waves pound a rocky or sandy shore.
How do you this isn't a "kids these days" situation?