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Hmm, I have been commuting by bike in Portland since the late 80s. The city did achieve some good things during that time, but has lost steam more recently. The pandemic may have shifted people slightly off of public transit and onto bikes, but not as much as it moved desk jockeys like me into remote work. Still, there have been some recent new interesting bike infrastructure projects, there's a bike/ped only bridge over I-84 that opened recently, and a couple years back a new train/bus only bridge over the Willamette river opened with nice bike and ped amenities. Drivers have become a little more reckless and hostile, but I don't find broken glass / tents to be much of an issue on any of the routes I regularly ride (8mi / 13km round trip 4X per week).
Lol, I was on a team that was required to stand during standups, even though we all sat together and could just swivel our chairs around.

One dev flat out refused to stand. I can still see the pulsing vein on the neck of the project manager who so wanted to scream ‘You will stand during the standup dammit!’
Well… no actually. Many satellites are “bent pipes”, and do no signal authentication. They just transpond and send the data back down. If you can get the uplink to hear you, you can use it. The problem is uplink may not always be listening in your direction.

It’s actually really easy to jam or pirate many satellites for this reason. I’m unsure if spacex has more auth than the industry standard.

Source: I used to geolocate jammers and pirates.
lol look at the active normalization going on even here in this thread!
I think another reason why it feels like there are much more beginners in frontend than backend is that the ecosystem moves much quicker and there aren't any long-term established frameworks/patterns yet. You can't build as much experience on something that's constantly a moving target. (browsers themselves move and change what patterns can be built and whether the existing patterns are worth pursuing vs starting over)

In constrast, on backend, experience with an MVC framework and SQL database from 10 years ago (even 20 for databases) is just as current today. The APIs might change superficially but the general pattern is the same.
There are 2-3 fatalities in cars per day in Chicago from what I can see. Both are useless stats without more context. A good comparison might be another city. For example there are approx < 10 cycling deaths per year in London which has decent cycling infrastructure these days.
I use uBlock Origin to set a dark mode that I like but would probably make other peoples eyes bleed. Change colors per your preferences.

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They got what they wanted, which was to annoy everyone, and to be subjected to forcible removal by the authorities.

This allows them to feel as though they were suffering for their righteous cause. Being arrested whilst making oneself the target of obloquy from an otherwise insouciant public is deeply satisfying to a certain type of narcissist.

Knowing that the act made them hated is all the reward they need. Fixing the climate this way is a fantasy ideology, much like Bin Laden blowing up the WTC to stop American imperialism, or J6 trespassers shitting on Pelosi's desk to protest an election. It's not the cause, it's the people.
Not sure if there's an additional certification, but it would not surprise me at all that an electrician here would not want to work on a home with an unusual setup that they're not particularly familiar with.
well, this is literally a press release/announcement from the university, not a work of journalism, so relax.
Are these allowed to be posted on RECAP? If so, the cost could at least be shared by multiple interested parties.

(You can see some other Kytch legal proceedings there for free. https://www.courtlistener.com/?q=kytch%20vs%20gamble&type=r&... )
> always makes me nervous

I primarily drive and am often nervous driving around pedestrians and cyclists. The reason for this feeling is that I understand, even if subconsciously, how easy it would be for me to harm them with my vehicle. If I imagine myself being the cyclist it's more worrying that I can't control other vehicles that could easily harm me. I constantly remind myself that the road was made for people and drivers are just one class of person -- the most dangerous one to others on the road at that.

The best piece of advice I could give is to slow down and match the bikers' speed if you don't feel safe passing.
Making this even more of a fun coincidence, San Carlos Airport was SQL long before Oracle was founded!
Pentagon Wants to Buy 1,000s of Small, Cheap, Autonomous Drones in Next 2 Years
Less folks are working downtown, Portland has a very high CRE vacancy rate. I believe they had a net outflow of people last year ( https://www.kptv.com/2023/05/23/portland-is-one-fastest-shri... ). That coupled with the ongoing homelessness crisis, I would not be surprised that their civic budgets are strained.
So all that would be needed is 100,000 people acting toward the same goals, in concert without any formal organization?
Helicopter flight costs per passenger were much cheaper back then due to low oil prices, less stringent safety standards, and close to zero regulations regarding noise around helipads.

Maybe as little as a fifth of the cost, inflation adjusted, a similar heli service in 2023 would be.

So not as extravagant as it sounds in the modern context.
Many HVAC systems in the US also use inverter compressors now. The efficient units (which includes most minisplits) are inverter. The efficiency requirements of the recent government subsidy program pretty much requires an inverter.
I just moved from a place where, if I ground my beans and then turned on the kettle or toaster, I could hear the motor slow down.
The problem is it's not reflected in day to day life. In most part bc of the corruption. Cities are designed poorly, quality of services is poor(education, medicine) compared to other eu members, there's a big car dependency problem... I can't wait to emigrate (
My company sends out notes on how to improve your health and quality of life. One of their recommendations is to change your streaming providers every 90 days. Keep cancelling and rotating through. You'll still be able to watch everything you want and you can save a lot of money.
How many people are boiling the correct amount each time though? I fill my jug up all the way and then keep reboiling which seems less efficient as the boiled water keeps cooling down.
A lot of the time, the reason why it fails is simply because the feed bucket is filled too much to heat it up to a high enough temperature in the 4 hours, but the error codes give no indication of this unless you go into a service menu which the code is not available to the owners of the machines. If you could get into the service menu, you could find out what the problem is, fix it, and have it successfully complete a cycle, if you had access to the settings, you might be able to set it to try for a 5 hour cleaning cycle to give it more time to heat itself up to clean itself. It's not about trying to bypass a safety lockout, it's about being able to troubleshoot the issue and fix it.
I have a really old infrared range that takes 20+ minutes to boil a pot of water. Believe me when it takes that long it does matter. (it is on the list to replace, but there are higher priorities in this house to fix first, and only limited budget)
Many programmers believe that the more complex the better.

In my experience good code looks silly simple, such that you might think the problem was easy. And thus underrate the author ...

I have never read someone else code at work and complained that a function is too big with too many if clauses.

However, deep call trees are really hard to comprehend. Especially if some function is called multiple times in the same call stack (unless the algorithm is recursive in a good way).
Stardew Valley is great. But note that the author took a classic approach to solo assets and devlopment: pixel art on a 2d canvas. This is a great game in a well established medium, and the concept itself is part homage to Harvest Moon, originally a 2d title released in 1996.

Contrast this with the fact that Steam is now averaging about 1000 new games per month. [1] There are undoubtedly some excellent games in there that haven't survived the onslaught of choices. Sadly, finding them without either significant marketing by the dev or the right conditions makes it nearly impossible to sift out the gems from the asset flips.

[1] https://steamdb.info/stats/releases/
It sounds like a good idea, but also seems like the gist of it that got circulated to us laymen was very inaccurate.
In the German IT world no. Unions are not needed for a works council. Our works council has 11 members of which one is a union member. 10 are not.
If you are not aware of certain facts in certain parts of the world, it certainly would sound that way.
> This lack of effective institutions or incentives was really brought home to me recently by the publication of a paper in the prestigious journal History & Technology by Jenny Bulstrode of UCL, in which she claimed that the inventor Henry Cort had stolen his famous 1783 iron-rolling process from Reeder’s iron mill in Jamaica, where it had been developed by 76 black metallurgists by passing iron through grooved sugar rollers. It was a widely-publicised paper, receiving 22,756 views — eleven times as many views as the journal’s next most most read paper, and frankly unheard of for most academic papers — along with a huge amount of press coverage.

It is pretty obvious that this became so widely spread because it agrees with a certain political viewpoint.
A lot of devices are actually structured that way. Android has an A/B flash system that works kind of like that.

It really comes down to how much time and care the developers have in their implementation.
Access to a real usability lab is one thing FOSS lacks. I've never figured out how to crack that nut. Maybe there's some way academic institutions could help fill the gap.
I'm getting 403'd on these links
Tom Scott has a fun video not on voltage but on the merits of the wall sockets them selves:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEfP1OKKz_Q
Sounds like any widespread use is still a ways out if we're in the "setting rules for trials" phase now, but I'm curious what impact artificial wombs would have on abortion laws in the US, if any.

The non-religious aspects of the abortion debate partly hinge on this idea of fetal viability (specifically, the time at which most fetuses have a high chance of survival outside the womb), and I could imagine artificial wombs bringing that viability threshold down a bit. Which then opens the door to a whole other debate about whether terminating a pregnancy could (or should) involve transplantation. I know some current bioethics argue that abortion is currently permissible because the death of the fetus is merely a side effect of terminating a pregnancy, rather than its goal...
I don't believe "engineering" as a full-time employee is a good career track and this is the beginning of the end. Look at houses - when you hire builders to build a house, do you keep paying the builders once the house is built and you live in it? No. You may occasionally need someone for maintenance, but you will never need the same amount of people that were required to initially build the house.

Engineering (whether FE or BE) exists to solve a business problem and drive profit. The free VC money raining down in the last decade made some people forget that and even created perverse incentives where complexity was sometimes seen as an asset (to solicit more VC money) - it made it possible (and normal) to keep the "builders" around and intentionally make the house more and more complex so it's intentionally never finished and the builders have a justification to remain there and pocket part of said VC money.

The free VC money has now dried up. Businesses are back at chasing profit (those who can't will go out of business altogether) and are cutting back anything they can. All the "builders" were suddenly let go and the FE market is now saturated, which is why you're seeing so many issues with finding a role (the leetcode thing is just a symptom of this problem - LC gives them a solution to filter through the hundreds of resumes they're getting - it's not a good solution, but it's cheaper than manual review). Your issues with job search have little to do with "respect" and more with the market being saturated. The Leetcode test you said you completed successfully in another comment and then got ghosted? Someone else completed it just as well, but was a better talker (or bullshitter) during the actual interview.

The frontend market might be the first hit, but eventually the same will apply to other verticals. I suspect cloud-focused DevOps might be the next hit as businesses finally get tired of paying 100x margins into Jeff Bezos' pocket. Retraining to backend or whatever field you feel is more respected now might buy you some time but ultimately the same outcome will happen.

This doesn't mean frontend experience isn't valuable, but you should stop seeing it as "frontend" vs "backend" and start seeing it in terms of what business value you can contribute because that's ultimately the only thing businesses want to be paying for. A lot of solutions however definitely will include a backend component so gaining some experience there would be beneficial and would put you in a good position to deliver end-to-end solutions.
> Every ad blocker gets full and complete access to all your data.

Except uBlock Origin Lite¹ which is permission-less.

¹) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicular_cycling

John Forester's treatise "Effective Cycling" was a huge influence on me when it came to urban cycling.
Unnaturalness in the evolution process of the SARS-CoV-2 variants
Full title:

Unnaturalness in the evolution process of the SARS-CoV-2 variants and the possibility of deliberate natural selection
A few reasons come to mind, mostly that bike infrastructure often seems designed by people who have never ridden a bike in traffic.

First, those involving cars.

- Turning Left while a bike lane is on a right.

- Cars don't yield to the bike lane before turning right

- Car occupants don't check a bike lane before opening door.

- Car parked ahead in the bike lane.

- Cars squeeze bikes next to the curb because the car can't maintain a lane / 3 foot is a really small distance at 30mph.

Next, those involving infrastructure

- Bike lane is made of segmented concrete; creating a thump and loss of traction every 3 feet, at 30mph.

- Bike lane is the gutter of the street, and street sweepers never come so it has much trash to be dodged

- Bike lane is shared with water infrastructure, where modifications lead to a longitudinal groove that is easy to get a small tire stuck in, get a flat, throw you unexpectedly.

- Bike lane is shared with storm infrastructure, so it is sloping, or has drain grates that cause bumps, loss of traction, potential to throw you -- again at 30mph

- Bike lane is "designed" for "recreation" with curves such that it is less efficient at getting from point a to b as quickly as the road.
Even assuming it's impossible for a single person to produce something as good as a large team, why would this be "something to be really afraid of"? There will still be demand for high-quality films -- why wouldn't that demand continue to be met? It's been the status quo for at least a decade that one "normal person" can make and publish a "movie" (e.g. filming something on their phone and posting it on YouTube), and yet Hollywood somehow hasn't been upended.
Wonder if it handles non-linear pages correctly, or if it does what iBooks does and treats them as some sort of end notes feature.
Could I pm you at some point. You've lit a small fire in me, it seems
Even in the context of your refrigerator example (which I don't necessarily agree with), a kettle should have two thermostats - a primary one that keeps the temperature setpoint, and a safety cutoff in case the primary stops working. In both fail and the kettle is somehow drawing its nominal power for hours at a time, the main safety hazard is going to be the kettle itself trying to dissipate >1Kw.
I would imagine the cardboard holds up well in poor weather due to the wax coating.
The simple thing to do would be to look at comparably dense areas of each country. The result will be the same conclusion as OP. Even the densest places in the US have shitty infrastructure.
Not "sometimes", most of the time.
You remembered me, founder of startup where I worked talking with cofounder:

Co: "what we can do, we a really close to be bought!"

F: "understand me right, I have not additional money to pay, so when cash will end, I will immediately tell people to not go to work next day. Yes I seen guys, who don't tell anybody and just hide, but I don't want this, I want to live as normal person".
Lower speed limits? 100km/h on rural roads here in Austria and drivers just don't care enough to keep to those limits. Smaller cars? Thanks to the SUV it has become a nightmare with those massive cars that cause a lot of wind turbulence when they overtake you on your bike.

Cycling in European cities is basically just pure luck and depends far to much on the local legislation and the major. The last local election in Spain has put a lot of conservative and right-wing majors into office, many openly campaigning with turn-backs on all the work Spain has put into creating cycling infrastructure. Here in Austria the neofascists Freedom Party interprets freedom and being able to drive and park everywhere by car, same for the convservative Bundeskanzler who is in a coalition with a toothless Green party.
Being a cycling advocate is a fight for each and every cycling path and even then the local city planners can still mess up and build the worst possible solution.
I use Proton and will remain a huge fan of Valve as long as they are funding most of the work that makes it feasible for me to run Linux on all my machines.

However, I think that this speaks more to the degree to which Apple have put the torch to Mac gaming than it does to the size of Linux gaming.
Could you effectively perform this hack from a satellite or an aircraft? 150 MHz should propagate quite a distance given line of sight.
I think I know that guy.
Capitalism has only been the dominant mode of production for approximately 2 centuries but feudalism lasted for ~6, so what if you want to do something about climate change sooner than ~400 years from now?

It's also not obvious what you propose to replace it with, because the world has seen communist governments and they do not have a sterling environmental record.

"Up to its collapse in 1991, the Soviet Union generated 1.5 times as much pollution per unit of GNP as the United States." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_issues_in_Russia)
Biggest issue with targeting "Linux" is revealed in the Linux OS breakdown. If you throw out the SteamOS, you are left with about 45% of the Linux users in the "Other" category (i.e. not in the 6 most popular linux distributions), compared to about 14% for Arch and Ubuntu.

There's plenty to disagree with RMS on, but he's absolutely right that Linux is not an OS; it's a kernel.
And also: what's the actual number of cyclists and how much do they travel? It's not close to 10 million, so a comparison with just raw population data doesn't really mean much. I guess there aren't many cyclists and they don't bike as much as the Dutch, making this death statistic even more absurd.
If the police enter your property without a warrant then sure. The potential presence of illegal activity does not grant the police special powers to skirt judicial process (unless there’s imminent danger to someone’s life or something, obviously).

I guess you've never heard of "probable cause."
> I am now lost in my 40's though

Can you elaborate?
https://archive.is/TD8jq
> its spammy attempts to shape public opinion were generally of very low quality, and often failed to reach their targeted audiences

imagine if they used a cutting edge large language model
Duplication is neither "cheaper than the wrong abstraction" nor is it "one of the most dangerous mistakes in coding".

There's a cost to abstraction. There's a cost to duplication. Our job, as engineer, is to stop applying blanket statements and instead reason about the tradeoffs. And no, they aren't static tradeoffs either, because requirements and constraints don't stay static.
I was banned from r/plex for even suggesting that it should do ebooks as well.

Don't think you'll see it from there.
Yeah its closest analogy is Aurora, but no serverless option, payment is per vCPU, memory, and storage.
You need to read up on how Pwn2Own came into existence.
Please let's not have driver vs. bicyclist flamewars. They're surprisingly nasty and always the same.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think the answer here can be different depending upon the ecosystem. I confidently believe that abstraction is better instrumented and practiced in functional programming languages than those of the still-dominant object-oriented paradigm. Awkward abstractions are much easier to grow and stumble upon when the basic unit (an object) encourages private, greedy, encapsulation of data and method implementations. In functional languages, living up to DRY (don't repeat yourself) is a much more immediate and clear proposition.
I mean BAH or whoever can continue doing that after they pay back the stolen funds if the state clerk will allow it.

I'm just griping with, time after time, a company stealing 100m dollars or whatever and then reaching a settlement that lets them get off scott free after paying back 50m.
Kick-back doesn't have to be a one time thing - my guess (unsubstantiated) is the contracts involved routinely time out, requiring more 'golf-course negotiations.'
Also a completely false stat. The link goes to a site that links to this:

https://activetrans.org/sites/files/crash%20report%202018%20...

It among other fun things only goes up to 2016 and was published in mid 2018 (thus could not cover 2018). It also says that only 18 bicyclists were killed in 2016.