imajoredinecon

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by imajoredinecon 2y ago
I learned to drive in Seattle, where it's 100% allowed, and then moved east and almost got ticketed my first day in my new city.
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by imajoredinecon 2y ago
If only “every other” were true. LIRR, NYC: same problem. Metra, Chicago: same problem.
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by imajoredinecon 3y ago
Some of the US citizen-facing services are very backlogged too. For example, it's around 18 months to get a response when you apply for the US-Canada travel fast lane ("NEXUS").
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by imajoredinecon 3y ago
The Bay Area is pretty special that way
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by imajoredinecon 3y ago
The methodology for "quiet" places seems particularly off. One of the ones in Chicago is right next to a highway that sees constant 50-70mph traffic.
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by imajoredinecon 3y ago
Speaking personally an American, any smart person building useful stuff is welcome in my country. That alone _is_ extraordinary ability, in my opinion (can’t speak to the intent behind the law).
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by imajoredinecon 3y ago
It’s funny that the post ends up recommending Jsonnet, which is a very close relative of the Google-internal “GCL,” which everyone at Google hates Pick your poison, I guess.
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by imajoredinecon 3y ago
Not to me, no. Snarky, yes; aggressive and vitriolic, no.
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by imajoredinecon 3y ago
I just don’t feel sympathetic for someone buying something really expensive and then complaining that it cost a lot of money.
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by imajoredinecon 3y ago
This article linked from the OP turned out to be a find too > in western Kentucky, a tradition of barbecued mutton still holds, although no one is quite sure why. https://bittersoutherner.com/southern-perspective/202
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by imajoredinecon 3y ago
No, they literally can't. The UK Competition and Markets Authority made Google promise they won't remove 3rd-party cookies from Chrome before adding alternatives.
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by imajoredinecon 3y ago
IMO, effective "scripting" just means the ability to solve ad hoc problems easily by writing task-specific glue that delegates the hard parts of the program to (1) an effective set of libraries you've written yourself and (2)
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by imajoredinecon 3y ago
From my experience working there, killing a cute toy project like this takes some breaking change in a dependency plus nobody willing to spend a few hours every now and then to maintain it. Both of these are basically luck of the draw, so
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by imajoredinecon 4y ago
The difference is that Google has come under enough historical privacy flak that they now aggressively privacy red-team new functionality like this and do things like make it opt-in.
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by imajoredinecon 4y ago
You estimate how many people use computers and how many people use computers you make. When you subtract the two, you get how many people use computers that your competitors make. Not every “internal metric” is something you can measure dir
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by imajoredinecon 4y ago
The tl;dr is “our lawyers and CEO hated it,” which is sad for the author who was just trying to have some harmless fun, but is not surprising.
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by imajoredinecon 4y ago
Yeah, the OP's counterargument is that you can filter down what goes into the test output. But at that point it seems not too different qualitatively from the traditional bottom-up approach where you just write assertions yourself, exc
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by imajoredinecon 4y ago
Your link [1] says that the Three Mile Island cleanup was 14 years, not 40, and cost $1 billion. I think you’ve counted to one strike against the ability of well-functioning societies to operate nuclear safely—-Fukushima—-because $1 billion
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by imajoredinecon 4y ago
Googling "largest whistleblower reward" turns up a $114 million reward and a $200 million reward. > create problems or make them worse Personally, I'd hope that the sophistication of the regulators involved, and the liable
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by imajoredinecon 4y ago
If you have an hour to kill, it could be worth taking a look at the dissents in order to see their reasoning. The justices (/their clerks) are very good writers and decisions and dissents are pretty easy for a layperson to follow.
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by imajoredinecon 4y ago
Dunno what I’d think if I reread them now, but when I was 8 I (1) devoured the whole trilogy for the characters/worldbuilding and (2) didn’t notice the religious metaphor. Seems like this might be the way to evaluate a kids’ book?
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by imajoredinecon 4y ago
> It is possible to pop some other grains like popcorn, but none of the ones listed here, at least not using the methodology described. I didn't read the article as asserting that any of the grains popped like popcorn? There's
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by imajoredinecon 4y ago
> iirc Chrome (the most used browser) doesn't use DoH by default. Last I checked, Linux was behind other platforms because there’s a lot of complex custom dns configuration that chrome (understandably) didn’t want to be accused of o
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by imajoredinecon 4y ago
...unless you're in Korea, where people use electronics and backpacks to reserve their seats _on different floors_ while they go to order their coffee (probably other examples too. This just floored me as an American)
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by imajoredinecon 4y ago
On the other hand, both sides of the aisle can dislike it too: > * On the left hand, you don't just get some level of control over maximum income, but also can just directly set an income-floor. What more do you want? "UBI give
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by imajoredinecon 4y ago
@dang: Would it be better to have the first part of the title be "Google Chrome" or maybe "Chromium"? The content doesn't deal with Google's internal codebase.
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by imajoredinecon 4y ago
A Google engineer on their science/climate team moonlights as a registered lobbyist: https://www.thirdway.org/memo/how-advanced-nuclear-got-on-th... (The article provides a really interesting window into a real-wo
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by imajoredinecon 4y ago
The engineering reality is that, much of the time, information asymmetry is a big help when you’re an anti-abuse engineer trying to build systems that distinguish good traffic from bad. It’s not an “undisclosed vulnerability” to build a ver
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by imajoredinecon 4y ago
Tone matters. The comment people don’t like comes across as really callous.
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by imajoredinecon 4y ago
I think GP meant “ayran” or “doogh.”

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