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   by aworks 2y ago

   Likewise. After Google Reader, I was using both bazqux and Feedly. I finally dropped Feedly.
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   by aworks 2y ago

   For zip code 94025 (Menlo Park), the Meta/Facebook campus near the bay gets a crime grade of F. I can think of several possible reasons for this... https://crimegrade.org/safest-places-in-94025/
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   I used to write a classical music blog. I was an enthusiastic listener but only had 1 music theory class in my life. Yet I had enough mastery of the vocabulary to get classical musicians and critics to read what I had to say. I attribute s
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   by aworks 2y ago

   You: how many jurists have been selected in the Trump trial in New York? Meta AI: A full jury of 12 people has been selected for former President Donald Trump's trial in New York City, in addition to one alternate ¹. The selection proc
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   by aworks 2y ago

   I worked for a company that was very good at that. It resulted in software organizations in 50+ countries. I had teams in North American, Europe, Russia and East Asia. It resulted in a diversified set of engineers who were close to our cust
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   by aworks 2y ago

   Not quite the same thing but I subscribed to one of my team's code review email lists. I also cc'ed myself on bug reports. Mildly interesting but didn't really impact anything although I was always looking for signals in the
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   by aworks 3y ago

   I live in a neighborhood like this. Our house was built in 1947 and the other original houses are either the same or a simple variation. Of course, most of the original houses on the street have been torn down for large, mostly unique hous
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   by aworks 3y ago

   e.g. Spotify
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   I've taken the overnight train from Edinburgh to London. It arrives early morning but you could stay in the train for several hours while it was in the station. Quite comfortable. On the other hand, I took an overnight train from Wuhan
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    by aworks 3y ago

    The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art in Chicago is small but good. I found Darger's art there captivating and disturbing. https://www.art.org/henrydarger/
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    by aworks 3y ago

    I'd also recommend Hoptea.
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    I live in unincorporated San Mateo County aka West Menlo Park aka Menlo Park aka University Heights. The zip code is the Menlo Park zip code. The nearby branch post office, outside the city limits of Menlo Park, names itself West Menlo Park
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    by aworks 3y ago

    I think Kind of Blue is a better album but I listen to Bitches Brew more often, maybe due to greater variety of song and texture. The former is like swinging, poignant velvet, the latter a swirling, electronic groove.
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    by aworks 3y ago

    Interesting. The entire Kind of Blue album has the opposite effect. If I hear the music now, it pleasantly tranports me back to the early 1980s when I bought it as one of my first CDs. Then I go on to focus on the music...
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    by aworks 3y ago

    I wasn't aware of the migraine cure. When I had headaches, my neurologist told me to cut out alcohol, binge TV watch and caffeine. That helped but did not cure me. Then during the pandemic I started the enjoyable daily habit of drinki
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    by aworks 3y ago

    I'm reading an old book, Fifty Days of Solitude, where the author grapples with her emotions when mostly alone for awhile. It's surprisingly complicated.
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    by aworks 3y ago

    The Haight, Cole Valley, Hayes Valley, Chinatown, Valencia Street, the Sunset District, the Embarcadero, Van Ness Avenue, Ocean Beach, the Golden Gate, Golden Gate Park, Lake Merced, Mission Bay, Fort Mason etc. I was harassed at the SF Pub
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    by aworks 3y ago

    I'm also a Tiller user. It's much better to edit incoming transactions in an offline spreadsheet than a web tool like Mint as well as create custom reports. The daily email snapshot is also useful.
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    by aworks 3y ago

    I call something similar a "Facebook" stop. The light changes to green, the car sits there for awhile, the driver looks up and realizes the light is green, then accelerates faster than normal to recover.
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    by aworks 3y ago

    Interesting data. Even ignoring SF Muni Metro, the SF cable car system has more riders than San Jose or Sacramento light rail systems. Hills, density and history may matter.
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    by aworks 3y ago

    I wasn't sure why you were comparing the San Francisco Bay Area to Shenzhen. Then I realized you mean the bay area that's ten times the population of the San Francisco Bay Area. Now that's a bay area...
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    by aworks 3y ago

    Unsurprisingly, Atherton also has license plate cameras. They do have signs announcing this on incoming roads. https://www.almanacnews.com/news/2020/12/07/atherton-police-... https://www.ci.at
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    by aworks 3y ago

    It's behind a paywall but Barron's just removed Apple, Meta and Tesla from their "magnificent seven." Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, NVIDIA remain. They were bearish on Apple due to revenue declines for 4 consecutive quart
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    "urban archeology": The device was using an ARM processor extension that could directly execute Java bytecode. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle
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    by aworks 3y ago

    I hired compiler engineers among others during my career at multiple companies in Silicon Valley. I usually managed to get extra compensation but not always. It's a small pool of developers. Eventually, we hired mostly in other countri
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    by aworks 3y ago

    Interesting. Note that the price was $6.69 at that McDonald's and the one at Stanford Shopping Center. But it was $6.09 at the locations on El Camino Real in Redwood City, Menlo Park, Palo Alto and Mountain View.
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    by aworks 3y ago

    I tried this and Alexa replied: The temperature in Nyagen, Russia is current -31 degrees... I'm an American but I've been to Nijmegen so I think my pronunciation was ok.
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    by aworks 3y ago

    Interesting that I had never heard of this. I graduated in computer science from Purdue in 1981, my first job was working on a FORTRAN compiler and other development tools for commercial avionics embedded systems and then as an early adopte
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    by aworks 3y ago

    The comment perspectives are an interesting feature. I read HN via RSS so will compare that with these filtered results.
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    by aworks 3y ago

    I think there is still a place for filtering of physical books. Both bookstores and libraries do a reasonable job of presenting a set of potential books to read. I'm reasonably happy with the average physical book I read. That's m