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by maxwellg 2y ago
I very much agree- but swapping out the database is a scary operation if you use the database for any sort of nontrivial logic. You need to make sure that your unique indicies, partial indicies, constraints, views, triggers, etc. work just
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by maxwellg 2y ago
Grazing on leftover Forkable lunches is one of the great pleasures of going into the office now. I eat my regular lunch at noon. At three or four, I do a lap to see if there are any unclaimed leftovers from folks who didn't make it in.
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by maxwellg 2y ago
Shoup wrote a LOT about how charging too little for parking leads to everyone using it, which makes parking worse for everyone involved. San Francisco charges about $50c a day for residential street parking in areas that have a parking perm
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by maxwellg 2y ago
The High Cost of Free Parking is a wonderful book and I would recommend it to anyone. Parking - and car-centric development - shapes our day to day lives in tremendously powerful ways.
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by maxwellg 2y ago
I think OAuth can complement computer use. Imagine if an agent went through an OAuth flow to get an access token, and was able to use that access token to interact with the same UI that a human interacted with. You'd get a few benefits
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by maxwellg 2y ago
This is why I'm so bullish on OAuth for sites with logins - you get a strong real user identity to tie the agent's behavior back to. This means you have (some) proof that the agent is helping your end users consume more of your si
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by maxwellg 2y ago
You've never had to debug code that someone else wrote?
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by maxwellg 2y ago
What does the additional .09% of purity get you - if the xenon or nitrous is mixed with air at inhalation time anyway? For example, divers and pilots use ABO oxygen which is only 99.5% pure. https://www.aopa.org/news-and-med
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by maxwellg 2y ago
Hypoxic altitude tents have always interested me as a runner living in sea-level San Francisco. You're supposed to sleep in them for a few weeks in order to simulate being at higher elevation. However, they're apparently pretty te
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by maxwellg 2y ago
Who would be willing to take the risk to do road maintenance in a radiation zone? Hitting a pothole at 120 mph would be devastating.
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by maxwellg 2y ago
> Mezmo recently put in production Quickwit to serve thousands of customers and petabytes of logs, drastically reducing infrastructure cost and complexity while delivering the same user experience. I can't imagine they feel great ab
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by maxwellg 2y ago
Does anyone have any concrete proof of this actually happening? I find it extremely doubtful.
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by maxwellg 2y ago
I never really understood putting consistency on a pedestal. It's certainly nice when everything operates exactly the same way - but consistency for consistency's sake is awful to work in too. If a team realizes that logging libra
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by maxwellg 2y ago
Tons of companies use shared 3rd party data providers like Pave to set comp bands for employees too. Your compensation is very likely determined algorithmically as well. I know mine is. I wonder how long it will last.
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by maxwellg 2y ago
- Stops moved to be after the light, so bus isn't stuck waiting after people board - Stops moving after the light mean Transit Signal Priority works better. GPS on the bus can "hold" the green light for longer - https:/
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by maxwellg 2y ago
I provided a list of the biggest ticket items from the past few years. If you want to only look at projects that increase transit availability, reliability, or speed within SF County, check out the Muni Forward projects. Usually half a doze
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by maxwellg 2y ago
> All we do in SF is make car driving worse, we almost never make public transit better. In the last half decade we've seen the opening of the Salesforce transit center, the Chinatown subway station, the Van Ness BRT, the Caltrain E
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by maxwellg 2y ago
For a concrete example of carrot and stick - check out ridership numbers for the 49 after the Van Ness BRT project finished. 49 ridership is more than completely recovered at 140% of pre-pandemic numbers. In comparison, the 38 and 38R didn&
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by maxwellg 2y ago
I'm incredibly hopeful that NYC congestion pricing pays off in a big way - and that we start to see it in other cities across America. I really, really want congestion pricing in downtown SF. During rush hour, cars block the box and sl
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by maxwellg 2y ago
I finally took the time this weekend to get the family switched over to using NextDNS. I use uBlock Origin on my laptop but it's nice to have something for mobile too. I've been getting heated when my partner hands me her phone to
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by maxwellg 2y ago
And the worst is that you need to exactly match the domain and path semantics in order to delete the cookie! Domain is easy enough because there are only two options - available to subdomain and not available to subdomain. But if you have a
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by maxwellg 2y ago
Does any country or government enshrine "Right to Drive" in their constitution?
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by maxwellg 2y ago
Cookies are filled with weird gotchas and uncomfortable behavior that works 99.95% of the time. My favorite cookie minefield is cookie shadowing - if you set cookies with the same name but different key properties (domain, path, etc.) you c
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by maxwellg 2y ago
You personally may pay lots of property taxes but California's Prop 13 means that people who have been here for a long time and kept property within the family are paying significantly less. Our average tax rate is 35th in the nation -
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by maxwellg 2y ago
You're right - here's a better source https://www.iihs.org/topics/bibliography/ref/2249 and commentary https://www.autotrader.ca/editorial/20220510/large-forward-b...
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by maxwellg 2y ago
Does anyone know if beg button presses get tracked? I often wonder if pressing it increases some great counter in the sky that future city planners can use to design an intersection better.
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by maxwellg 2y ago
A-pillars are the pillars of a car that support the windshield and the front of the roof. They've gotten bigger in recent years - which reduces the visibility of pedestrians, cyclists, and other cars. Drivers can't see through pil
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by maxwellg 2y ago
Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
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by maxwellg 2y ago
Speed bumps are a type of traffic calming, but traffic calming can include a variety of other techniques that can have other benefits. For example, extending sidewalks in residential areas or adding protective bollards to bike lanes - both
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by maxwellg 3y ago
Yep - (my understanding is) the Go HTTP stdlib module predates the concept of context in Golang, so the implementation was bolted on to ensure backwards compatibility. NewRequestWithContext was only added in Go 1.13 [1]. Previously, request

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