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by closeparen 7mo ago
And the average commute duration is around 27 minutes. If you happened to live in one of the very few places in America where there even are 15 urban miles to cross, doing it at city bus speeds of under 10mph would be a catastrophic collaps
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by closeparen 7mo ago
Bus lanes solve for variability during peak traffic, but speeds even in free-flowing traffic are far from good enough.
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by closeparen 7mo ago
Even in a dense city with no parking, it takes an unusually fast and frequent bus to compete with a brisk walk, and a heavy-rail subway to beat a fit or electric-assisted cyclist.
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by closeparen 7mo ago
You stated that parenting goes out the window if a child encounters a screen at a friend’s house. I dunno man, going over to friends’ houses to watch movies, play console games, later to show each other funny YouTube videos, and in high sch
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by closeparen 7mo ago
The corporate security theater that kills me is insisting that everyone tap their badge on the reader next to an already-open door. Even in the presence of a guard, this merely ensures that everyone passing through the open door has some
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by closeparen 8mo ago
I like to think of Claude as enjoying himself more when working with good tools rather than bad ones. But metaphysics aside, tools that have the functions you would expect, by the names you would expect, with the behavior you would expect,
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by closeparen 8mo ago
If the concern is time-wasting, even having upvotes or likes and sorting on them is plenty engaging. I spent thousands of hours as a teenager on Reddit, HN, and the old blue Facebook chronological feed.
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by closeparen 8mo ago
Do you believe the research shows that screens in and of themselves are so powerfully damaging that being exposed for, what, a few hours a week at a friend’s house will cause them to require psychiatric medication? So many questions. Are yo
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by closeparen 8mo ago
When I was growing up, we loved to lend the sheltered kids from the more conservative families media they weren’t supposed to have, like the Harry Potter books.
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by closeparen 8mo ago
A physical realm that is safe for children to explore in their own is clearly preferable to one where it’s transgressive to let a child go outside without an escort. It is plausible that the same applies to the digital realm.
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by closeparen 8mo ago
If you’re going to hold datacenter operators to blame for the waste associated with non-optimized computation, then it would seem to follow that they get some credit for optimizing.
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by closeparen 8mo ago
I don't think this shows that at all?
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by closeparen 8mo ago
Your biometrics are in the secure enclave of your specific phone. Apple doesn't have them in a database.
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by closeparen 8mo ago
The scanners were there before this.
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by closeparen 9mo ago
I prefer to steer, but radar cruise control takes a lot of the frustration out of minor speed fluctuations in front of me on the highway. I don’t feel as much need to pass all the time.
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by closeparen 9mo ago
You can develop locally if you want to, and lots of people do, but it’s community support. The environment that someone else is obligated to fix for you is the remote one (which they can do by blowing away the container and then you recover
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by closeparen 9mo ago
It’s not as dumb a client as VNC, but it’s close. Basic operations like typing and scrolling will stutter and lag if your connection is less than perfect. VSCode’s client is really VSCode from a UI perspective.
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by closeparen 9mo ago
Never liked Eclipse, but I’ve been forced to use VSCode over my preferred JetBrains IDEs because it is the only modern mainstream editor with a competent client-server mode. As in, actually rendering the UI locally while doing all the code
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by closeparen 9mo ago
The State of Illinois is going to lose its "business" already for other reasons. Do you think there is a reasonable privacy regime that prevents health systems from knowing where their patients live or using that information to si
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by closeparen 9mo ago
A website where you can upload POIs to a shareable map seems like one of those things that's so obvious and so useful it exists almost under any economic arrangement of the advertising industry. I get that data brokers and big tech are
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by closeparen 9mo ago
Having seen this world up close, the absolute last place you ever want your medical data to be is on the Windows Server in the closet of your local doctors office. The public cloud account of a Silicon Valley type company that hires reasona
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by closeparen 9mo ago
This has nothing to do with the "data broker system." Reading between the lines it was more of a "shadow IT" issue where employees were using some presumably third-party GIS service for a legitimate business purpose but
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by closeparen 9mo ago
Sure, but the gap between your hourly wages has doubled.
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by closeparen 9mo ago
That’s the Baumol effect. The rising tide does lift all boats to an extent, but not the same extent.
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by closeparen 9mo ago
A line cook makes no more burgers per hour, a hairdresser delivers no more or better haircuts, and a daycare worker watches no more children concurrently than they could have 25 years ago. Meanwhile the Magnificent 7 have emerged. Baumol ef
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by closeparen 9mo ago
Having a few fault injection scenarios is baby steps. Next would be Jepsen-style testing, and most mature would be formal verification.
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by closeparen 9mo ago
I think it is more of a social technology for keeping your ducks in a row. Developers won’t be able to gamble that something “never happens” if we induce it weekly.
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by closeparen 9mo ago
Killing instances of load-balanced stateless services is not that interesting anymore in the context of a mature service mesh. What is interesting is injecting failures or latency on specific edges of the call graph to ensure that “fail ope
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by closeparen 9mo ago
Also true of human-written unit tests. You probably also want to have integration or UI automation tests that cover the end-user scenarios in your product requirements, and invariants that are checked against large numbers of examples eithe
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by closeparen 10mo ago
Please make remote development work well in the IntelliJ-based IDEs. It's very difficult to get corporate employers to continue supporting their toolchains locally when VSCode Remote is "good enough" and disposable cloud VMs

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