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I was extremely impressed with the standard screens shown at Alamo Drafthouse. In the Downtown LA branch, after seeing Last Night in Soho, I just had to talk to the projectionist. He was kind enough to discuss technical aspects for over an hour. He explained that they do projector and audio calibrations as part of their bring up for adding a new film. The video calibration being a special laser they use from the center of the room combined with the projectionist's gut feel. The audio being setting up microphones through the room and measuring test signals through the different speakers. The results show: the standard screening of Last Night in Soho looked and sounded better than the Dolby version I saw in AMC. AMC does not have this kind of care placed on their screens because I think they have essentially cut their projectionist staff down to the bare minimum.

The article alluded to the massive investment AMC is doing by replacing the majority of their standard screens over to the new Barco Laser projectors. Here in NJ they are rolling these changes out theater by theater. It was really disappointing to see that AMC Empire 25 really messed up the presentation that the author saw as they were one of the first theaters to undergo this renovation.
And it's completely obvious bullshit. Consider any more salient issue affecting children: the leading cause of death for children under 18 is car crashes. The response to this large and growing problem is to a) blame the victims (they shouldn't have been in the road / they should have walked a mile out of their way to return to the spot 100 feet across a road / they weren't wearing construction vests & waving flags / walking to school isn't allowed in the first place) or to wave it away as the cost of doing business.

Were there a shred of consistency in actually advocating for children's quality of life, I could forgive those who are duped by these underhanded tactics. As it stands, there's no actual concerted "save the children" bandwagon that we're being invited to hop on to.
> public transport.

(Not GP) It's not a "to each his own" - I don't have any problem with you working in an office, in a place where public transit is a functional commute. I'd probably want a return to office if I lived somewhere that had that, but I don't. It's not so much that I'm "choosing" remote, it's that non-remote commutes make office jobs that much worse because of the lack of functional public transit for that commute. And, in other cases, because office locations are shit (office parks).

(I live in LA: We do actually have great public transit... kind of. It just goes to limited places, so those places are packed. Otherwise it's buses, and those don't work as a read/write commute - at least in LA, both b/c busses also have to deal with traffic, and the US's social safety net... issues).
Didn't happen with Google maps. Mapbox is definitely not 1400% cheaper. And many many people use Google maps before and after the price change. So I would disagree on both points.
I mean that's the law in California but tipping is even worse here then most of the country.
> Houses get built on streets

well somebody is doing it... if they bothered to build a whole house, how hard is it to assign a number to it? Sounds like a chaotic nightmare and not nearly as cute nostalgic as the article tries to make it.
When you're young, you can pick up a new topic, sleep on it and be better at it in the morning. When you're older with all sorts of cruft in your head, this ability retards. Music can "un-clog" but only to a certain extent, it needs some plasticity to function in the first place. If you have just enough but not an excess of plasticity, then new music (really, new sensations) will be almost impossible to integrate. Plug this into disdain for a civilization winding down on its basic tenets of family and community, and you get complete disinterest in whatever's new. And anyway, there's quite enough music to last one's lifetime. Some people don't feel like they need new music at all.
Good intentions do not make up for negative outcomes.
Stripe made this change recently, I believe. It looks like Square is following Stripe's change.
"We never claimed the vaccine would prevent or slow the spread"

We live in a civilization where there is propaganda, and only propaganda. Given that, ChatGPT will do just fine.
> In 200 years, what will people think of your comment?

Probably the same think I currently think of the typical Baptist warning that letting a municipality go wet will lead to an uptick in sinful fornication and fisticuffs. (And dancing!) The reasoning is almost certainly off. But as far as consequences, they're not wrong. :)

I'm more concerned about those who would hand wave problems that come from these specific pieces of social media technology in a growing number of studies of those specific social media services. Referring to train-induced insanity reveals OP's flawed reasoning, but it doesn't address at all what "the Phones" are probably doing to U.S. girls and young women.
Cars absolutely are more dangerous when pedestrians and cars intersect. They're also not on the sidewalk, where pedestrians usually are, while bicycles (and, in my experience, especially e-bikes) tend to be. I've never gotten hit by a car. I have gotten hit by bicyclists. I'd rather not be hit by either.

If we're all on board with punishing bicyclists (and, again, especially e-bikes), who get to act like vehicles when it suits them, from being on sidewalks and potentially endangering pedestrians, I think there's a great dialogue to have about that.
I'm assuming that: OCR is something that's in a GPT's wheelhouse, and that OCR is something that can get much better with training. What is fact and fiction is hard on the internet for humans, look at how we have to teach youngsters how to not cite Wikipedia. But the difference between a T and an A seems much more cut and dry? I'm thinking OCR errors can be fixed / trained much easier than most domains.
There is definitely no such trend in Japan.
see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34994614 (and maybe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34996727 ?)
Canada seem to have imported the tipping culture and default tipping amounts (a la Square Register) from the US.

The explanation for tipping in the US has been the lack of national healthcare and a social safety net.

I live in the NYC and grew up in London and Paris. In Paris tipping was culturally seen as optional and generally reserved for instances of great service. London was similar way back when with 50p or a quid being a tip.

When I got to the US tipping was a much bigger deal and has only grown over time. The explanation was that service workers don't get paid enough and unlike in the UK, France, and Canada there is no universal healthcare or safety net so we need to subsidize the employers to make the workers whole and safe which seems like a weird concept all around, unless you are an employer.
> 4W is more than non-PD USB can supply, so the fact that it doesn't work is not that surprising.

And still, it is an USB-C port with the label "storage" in it.

> ... these limits are usually very liberal so as to avoid users complaining that the USB port doesn't work with device X

It seems that there is an actual problem, then.
On macOS, it's a lot easier to ship highly compatible applications on your own website, that anyone can just download and then run on their Mac. So Apple's App Store is competing with that paradigm as well.

On Linux, the runtimes apps need vary too much from distro to distro, or even OS install to OS install, for that to be equally viable. So Flatpak here isn't just an alternative distribution model in a commercial sense, but a technical one— it's genuinely more portable than most previous options.

A Flatpak-based store also need not be concerned with taking over the world— Flatpak itself supports configurable repositories, so indie developers are totally free to publish their own apps via Flatpak on their own, or perhaps even on their choice of a range of competing Flatpak-based app stores, should such a field arise.

The point in the Linux case is not to corral users into using a single source for all their apps, but rather to provide a broadly compatible option, and also to make commercial development of proprietary software for Linux desktops more viable by allowing vendors to target more users with less effort.

If a universal Flatpak store for Linux desktops comes to be, it would probably still be fair to call it a success even if most users prefer to get most of our software elsewhere.
What's the point of the metric system if we have to say one million thousand grams?

Just say "lost one gigagram"!
Because you are getting the basics of economics wrong.

You have spent many years of schooling learning to count.
Have you studied economics for at least 1 year of formal education? Have you read a book by a real economist?

Read 'Economics, the user's guide'. This is not how they think, this is not how they argue.

What we have here, is a person who hasnt learnt math arguing that 3 + 3 = 7 and claiming it's logically obvious.

Or like a medieval scientist arguing that Spontaneous Generation (Mice spawn in straw by themselves) is a law of physics and it's logically obvious.
I see woke as being viscerally intolerant not only of differing opinions, but also of the people who have them.
It sucks that this was your office experience, but your experience is not universal. I commute around 14km taking around 25mins, or considerably less when I take my motorcycle. My office is a large, vibrant building filled with interesting people.

WFH is challenging for me, with two young kids and not enough space. I feel bored and isolated spending so much time alone.
Ok, I really dislike the overuse of jargon, like these are hilarious to hear:

> user-generated urbanism

> Infrastructure as a communications project

I admire and liked my experience with using streets like Amsterdam and similar, something that has really irked me is the disregard/naivety for why this doesn't and wouldn't work here and why it works in Europe, for example. We have size here vs anywhere else
That trivializes our profession and hard earned experience simply because a degree is not a requirement. It is ridiculous to say drag'n'droping something is halfway to being a systems designer. And the anecdote about "experience at facebook" was such nonsense. "I worked at facebook doing something other than distributed systems, and geez, I learned nothing about distributed systems". "QED!"

p.s. I missed this ad hom bit (no, not the issue here)

> If you have an issue with people leveling up, good luck to you.
> I haven’t found one who I believe their content benefits of the platform constraints

Yeah you're probably right.

The main account i had in mind when I wrote my comment was this: https://mobile.twitter.com/Ayishat_Akanbi

In each tweet she manages to capture a very nuanced point that doesn't seem to require further explanation. The last couple of tweets doesn't feel like they are totally representative thought.
> And I've just essentially stopped using things like Doordash where there's already like $7 or $8 tacked onto the bill even before tip.

They lure you in with "25% off first 5 orders" or "March Madness special" but offset that with ridiculous service charges. Years ago when delivery services were in their infancy and trying to grow, their discounts were awesome. Now that they are established, most of their discounts aren't discounts at all. Pity.
Thanks, I’ve just moved furniture around to make space a reading corner. I really like 15-60 minutes of reading and reflection in the evening, and it seems like a good idea to move it out of the bed.
I have never known anyone to tip their mechanic. The only places tipping was the norm growing up was waitstaff/bartenders, doormen, and haircutters/stylists.

Maybe this is a West Coast or Midwest thing, but the idea of tipping my mechanic is a non-starter.
I'm not an expert in refrigerant selection but you've missed many critical aspects of a refrigerant: we care about viscosity, density, thermal conductivity, etc. because these all impact the energy efficiency of the system.
I watched this great documentary where the "problem kids" were fed high quality fresh food for breakfast and lunch. Many of their problems disappeared.

I think it was Cafeteria Man, but I am not sure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbCtpGV_Crg

Turns out there are a bunch documentaries that show how nutrition is a big driver in child development and school performance.
I would instantly subscribe if there was a 10$ subscription per month. I don't need all of the premium features. A simple Basic+ with more speed and storage would already be a fine deal.
I was told, while working at a Refinery, that is was mostly done by truck.
OK to ignore the cover letter/essay part and just send over the cv? (at least for those who are happily employed already :))
> Tipping also creates more space to display your bias.

One of the reasons tipping became a big thing in the US was specifically so people could display their bias without running terribly afoul of the law. Tipping allowed people to discriminate against minority workers, who were thus forced to be pretty much servile to have any hope of being paid decently.

> This changed once I learned that the staff makes less than the minimal wage because of tipping.

I don't recall if this was originally the case when the tipped vs non-tipped minimum wages were established, but by law if a tipped worker's tips + base wage doesn't add up to the non-tipped minimum wage, the employer still needs to pay the difference. In practice though, that worker is getting fired.

As I also said in another comment, some of the most vehement supporters of tipping nowadays are tipped workers, or at least a subset of them. So I wouldn't feel terrible about tipping less.
The meaning of any piece of writing is bouncing around the room waiting to erupt
A poor craftsman blames their tools.
I was in elementary school in Detroit (a city in the US) during the 1950's and the only name I ever heard used for that ubiquitous playground device was "monkey bars". I really enjoyed them as a kid.
Sure, fair enough I used the reported cases to deaths, for that rate which is what the world in data listed. In contrast the CDC claims that it is now a 0.6% rate.

This however, reinforces my point, even with an exaggerated deathrate we failed to properly contain the disease and take things seriously.
Several light hydrocarbons seem like perfectly good alternatives. Propane is another one. And there's also quite a lot of use of ammonia for refrigeration as well. It's not clear to me why these simpler, non-chlorinated, non-fluorinated compounds are so grossly undesirable that we keep chasing more-complex alternatives.

Is it really that people are simply horribly afraid of their flammability?
So, let me get this straight -- the EU is now requiring end to end encryption? Haven't they been harping this whole time on how that enables child predators?
I have been a big fan of gitlab and have definitely promoted its use in the organisations I have worked (putting a $ amount on it, I'm probably responsible for $30,000/y in their revenue, which doesn't sound like a lot now that I'm typing it out).

But honestly I'm extremely displeased with this. I guess nobody is ever happy to pay more, but gitlab was already more expensive than github.

More staggering is that there's no discount pricing for self-hosting your gitlab instance, so you may as well use Gitlab's resources on the SaaS platform, which is more expensive for gitlab themselves -- yes, annoyingly, storage over a certain volume is an additional cost, but you'd pay it anyway if you self-host, so whatever.

I know there's a lot of features that I don't use and that I begrudge paying for, just like everyone else (who probably have a different set of things), and I know the cost is probably trying to be just under the cost to switch away, but 52% for features I don't care about mostly is steep.

This is also the second increase in 2 years, even though marketing says otherwise, because "Starter" and "Bronze" no longer exists and was absurdly cheaper than Premium. ($4/u/m)

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Look: Going from $4 to $29 per user in 2 years is terrifying as a person who is now writing checks on behalf of my company.

For context, Perforce is basically a market leader in Gamedev (and as a consequence using gitlab for me is a fight against normality) and it's considered "too expensive" (to the point google made their own) but a necessary evil because there's no alternative at $41,25/u/m

So my users who use gitlab and perforce (everyone using gitlab is also using perforce) is now going to be $70+.

If you are balking at the cost of hosting, give us a cheaper licensing plan for self-hosting. - the idea that CODEOWNERS, protected branches and approval rules is worth $29 per user (even if they're non-coders!) is just absurd.
Non-AMP link: https://www.her.ie/lol/unbelievable-this-letter-made-it-all-...
Actually, It is not even that complex.

With the plate number officers can pull the car file which is connected to the files of the registered drivers which they can pull too, using their "terminals".

Those files have enough pertinent information to identify the car and the registered drivers.

Those tools in the hands of any "too much" authoritative regimes are freaking scary.

I let you guess what would happen if wrong, not complete, out of context, a moment of weakness, information end up in those files.
I drove all over Costa Rica for a week, we were trying to go to a zoo or something but ended up in Nicaraguan border after getting lost.
Yeah it isn’t an encyclopedia so don’t treat it is one. The thing knows language not knowledge.

But if you’ve got language to give it to work with, results are spectacular.
> You typically need to completely vent the system for any maintenance on a refrigeration system anyway

On residential/small systems where it's commonly used today, sure. For larger systems this is not true. You're typically going to have a receiver and a valve you can use to store the charge entirely in the receiver. Then you can work on the system without having to dump or capture that charge.

It also allows you to have additional cooling circuits, so you're starting to see this incorporated into smaller commercial designs for the additional cooling efficiency.

> I think lack of ports is simply to save money

They're required to be hermetically sealed in the US by IEC and in most Pacific Island countries by law where they're more commonly used in residential applications.
> Minimum wage is not a living wage for the vast majority of the population

Minimum should be just that: minimum. For higher COL cities, the minimum (and tipped minimum, with an obligation to make the minimum if tips prove insufficient) should be higher.

Raising the minimum nationwide to New York City’s COL basically depopulates lower COL places; this is a source of generally misrepresented rural backlash against these broad-based schemes. Imagine if Germany and Greece had the same minimum wage; the latter would get screwed.

(Not arguing that the federal minimum shouldn’t be raised. Just that it should be too low for most of the country, because if it isn’t, it’s too high for some, and that’s a policy failure for a minimum. I haven’t seen a scheme for a dynamic federal minimum; that would make sense.)
In Ireland, each house / letterbox receives it's own postcode (eircode), 7 alphanumeric characters long: XXX XXXX. For example, the full address of the official residency of our President (Áras an Uachtaráin), could be written as D08E1W3.
>How is your entire comment not a mere assumption that the issue is within iMessage itself and not other logically possible factors, such as your carrier, your reception, or your mother using her phone incorrectly?

Because it's not an isolated incident. I've heard many people complain about the exact same thing online over the years. Just google it and you will see. Is it rare? Sure. But it's also not uncommon.

You point to "logically possible factors", but I never experienced ANY issues with SMS to SMS on android where a problem would be invisible. With SMS <> iMessage, the problem would be invisible: looks sent from one side, but the other has zero indication of an issue.

And Apple is under no incentive to 'fix' this or guarantee it never happens because they have a blatant interest in everyone using iMessage by getting iphones.

Is this slightly conspiracy theory talk? I agree it borders that. But I also think it's 100% realistic.

>Also, allowing alternative messaging apps to be installed in your OS is exactly the opposite of “flagrant abuse”.

Apple SPECIFICALLY does not open up iMessage to non-Apple platforms because they want you to buy their phones- something they share a duopoly with. That is the very DEFINITION of market abuse.

If Microsoft had some Windows-only messaging platform, most people on this site would be all up in arms about it.
We visited recently and I was tickled by how many of the homes had their names prominent from the sidewalk. Seemed like a cute meme, but this info makes it clear it's for postal deliveries and guests too.
The web of trust that was intended to be built by PGP is what would solve the "are you a real person" problem. We're connected to everyone else on earth by 3 or 4 degrees; it's unlikely that every path along that graph to another human is going to be adversarial such that a non-human can get added to the web of trust.

PGP's web of trust never worked because it was always too small to cover enough humans and take advantage of the low degree of overall connectivity.
such a system more or less existed in every premodern society. Some sort of a patron-сlient to system is absolutely inevitable in any complex non egalitarian society unless there is a strong state that can protect the rights of individuals.
"To avoid doxxing myself, I’ve carefully changed the address readers see."
Sending law clients original documents (USCIS approval notices, etc.), was always a nail-biter. Shout-out to DHL, which never missed one. Still we'd keep hitting refresh on the tracking # till it was delivered. Sounds a little easier now.
> Isn't this going to kill features that only some apps have or offer? What if one day Signal, Telegram or WhatsApp want to implement something "different" that could make messaging better but this policy is making things harder to implement because it would be impossible to make it interoperate with other messaging apps?

Just open the standard/api/protocol, document it, and it'll get integrated into pidgin or some other alternative within a few days. Currently it's not a problem of not having apps trying to integrate protocols, but protocol designers intentionally locking other apps out of the ecosystem.
What a bias as to what is “real” and not real about an address. Are addresses in Utah not “real”?

When Australia required that buildings be assigned a street number my grandmother simply ignored the rule: never posted a number on the gate and continued to use her house name, until she passed away more than four decades later. Was her use not “real”?
A Beginner's Guide to Ractors in Ruby
I see. That seems like an overly complex solution to a very simple problem, though. Not to mention the unnecessary use of electricity.