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I think you can get very far with ArcGIS Online. There are things you can only do in ArcGIS Pro, but basically everything shown in the article (and a lot more) can be done in the browser. And you get a great set of apps (including Field Map
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Disclosure: I work for Esri, creator of ArcGIS, so obviously I'm extremely biased. But I'm not in sales, just a lowly dev fwiw. QGIS is great software, and I respect what they're doing. ArcGIS Online is a pretty great option
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There’s a lot of collaboration and spontaneous connection that happens in hallways and kitchenettes. That’s the sort of thing that isn’t immediately obvious, but becomes more noticeable as time goes on. The first months of the pandemic peop
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Household saving just slows down the inflation if you’re lucky; it gets spent eventually and reduces the immediate effectiveness at the fed in moderating things. But that assumes people will save, and that isn’t as likely in a situation whe
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Anecdotally, there has been a striking increase in the amount of new service workers in training at restaurants and coffee shops in Portland. There was a very acute sense of labor shortage for the last few years, and that has gone. I’m hopi
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You can sign up for the personal use subscription and stick to Online. You can’t use Pro on Mac, but the web map viewer has grown into a highly featured editor and does a lot more than viewing (data editing, styling, analysis, charts, filte
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High DPI and a full color palette are no excuse for not getting margins right. Attention to detail is still doable, it just isn’t something that is valued by MBA/PM types. (Being an ambitious personal project made in limited free time
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I was triggered by the first few paragraphs of this piece. It was obviously and unmistakably Seattle throughout, with a few shots of Portland, OR for the hospital. I find the rest of the piece as insightful and perceptive as the first parag
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Slippy maps is the baseline nowadays but it wasn’t always. Example video showing terraserver: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uaQNdMQ3NNk As others mentioned there are also many maps meant for printing. There are also map ser
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Only in a paper clip factory view of the world. Situations where the simplistic PM dashboard metrics model breaks down: - Users watch more videos than they want because they can’t find the right ones (maybe because the dislike button was re
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I’m surprised YouTube is getting all the heat here. User-hostile product design has become the norm in the industry, _especially_ among FAANG/MAMA. Twitter, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, all streaming sites (anything that makes you scroll
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Portland had 96 homicides in 2022. San Francisco had 55 and Seattle had ~50. Both of those cities are much larger than Portland. But ignoring homicides traffic violence is at a 70 year high after the traffic policing team was cut to support
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Imagine calling for “defund the NHS” and not expecting private alternatives to spring up. This is a completely predictable outcome and reveals a lack of systems/second order thinking on the part of activists. The defund crowd imagined
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A bit of both. PPB is a tiny force for a city the size of Portland. 313 patrol officers over 3 shifts for a city of 650,000. https://www.portland.gov/police/open-data/ppb-staffing-repor... But even if they were fu
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It opens PDFs and images. The nice thing is it is super quick and has a lot of features built-in: OCR of text in images, form filling in PDFs, signing PDFs, annotation, cropping, resizing, metadata inspection, background removal, etc for im
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Absolutely love it, choice of window or aisle seat is guaranteed if you’re not obsessed with being the very first person off the plane. Also in practice Southwest’s system is the fastest way to board.
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For 2022, Obsidian on iOS and Mac (with PDF Expert for annotating PDFs in my vault). For all time, Preview.app on macOS, possibly the single greatest advantage Mac has over Windows.
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That statement applies equally to any web-based framework, any native framework, Java, appkit, UWP, Silverlight… Apple could have invested in SwiftUI on Mac to the same extent they did on iOS, and things would look very different. SwiftUI a
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If you want a clickbait video that describes the situation well: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OHKKcd3sx2c
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Does SwiftUI really count as native on the Mac? My experience is that Apple has not invested enough for that to be true. Apple is Apple, so when they say jump, developers jump. But if any other company tried pulling what they’re pulling wit
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Anarchists seem to think they have a monopoly on mutual aid, but it turns out that police agencies are all about it as well. At least where I’m at, people think that mutual aid is the secret sauce they have to defeat the efforts of the stat
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I thought masters degree was just a trick/glide path to get a visa? My own experience is that masters is for people who need to immigrate to the US for work and can afford a masters degree. When I was in school, the masters level CS st
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It depends. Local politics can be pretty touchy depending on the place. I feel like I have to be pretty careful and use the right incantations to stay safe in public (“hi I’m name, he/him pronouns, dialing in from unceded lands). I can
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I was taught to use “he” by default in grammar lessons in ~2005.
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I don’t think this person actually has much experience with local governance in the US, because collectivized responsibility and mutual aid is a hallmark of basically every local government I’ve experienced, across the US. Pass the guacymol
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They just have bad taste, or are overly fixated on later seasons.
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As Andrew said, it depends on the community. Portland is has been setting records for violence, getting pretty close to a reversion to the 90s. NYC is reverting to mid-2000s levels of crime. All the west coast cities are seeing major public
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Fast, best battery life, better UI, the tab groups implementation is great. I like the approach to the extension store better.
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It’s amazing seeing all of society stumbling towards re-learning basic economics after being in a collective fugue/mass delusion for 2020-2021. Fed discovers relationship between interest rates and inflation, more at 11.
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It feels weird seeing boondoggles like the Senate Launch System actually deliver. On the one hand it’s exciting because we’re actually really possibly maybe finally going back to the moon. On the other hand, it is at the price of, minimum,

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