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by wfleming 2y ago
The biggest, densest city in the country being below-median among other major cities for that stat still seems pretty good to me! Particularly since 1. NY is dragged above the national average on the cumulative stat by what are arguably “le
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by wfleming 2y ago
Is this the list you were looking at [0]? NY is 20/100 for murder, 16/100 for rape, 40/100 for robbery (where 1 is safest). Below the national average for murder & rape according to [1] (above it for robbery, which isn’t
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by wfleming 2y ago
I recently watched the new Aliens remaster and actually thought it mostly looked very good. It was definitely a bit jarring at first because it doesn’t look like an 80s movie anymore: it’s too crisp. But once I got over the strangeness of
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by wfleming 2y ago
I don’t want to sound like a snob, but Godzilla vs Kong looks pretty out of place on that list. Can I ask what put it on your list?
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by wfleming 3y ago
The joke on an old team of mine was that because there was always enough important/urgent work to keep us busy (partly because leadership treated too much as urgent), the important/not urgent stuff never happened, or never happene
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by wfleming 3y ago
I saw a funny collision of imperial & metric measurements a while back. My BIL went through an Irish soda bread phase and wanted to learn to bake it himself. I suggested he find a recipe that used weight instead of volume, at least for
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by wfleming 3y ago
> when it's not necessarily worse than previous tech This is a good point, but on the other hand I think there is a notable difference between “the tool makes it hard to find the page with the correct info you need” and “the tool co
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by wfleming 3y ago
Well, ultimately, you pay for the rewards because merchants set their prices to account for what they expect to pay in payment processing, just like any other marginal cost. Even loyalty programs like the card with stamps you might get at
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by wfleming 3y ago
Sorcerer (1977) directed by William Friedkin (known for The Exorcist and The French Connection) is adapted from the same novel and is also great.
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by wfleming 3y ago
I also used a Safari for a long time and had the same frustration of “I don’t write quite often enough and it tends to dry up”. You might want to consider a TWSBI: I bought an ECO-T a while back and that thing does not dry up, they are extr
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by wfleming 3y ago
Did they not leave a voicemail at least? Article doesn't seem to mention that one way or the other. I at least glance at voicemails from unknown numbers to determine if they're spam or not.
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by wfleming 3y ago
Similarly, I wrestled for years with getting good results out of Kodi/XBMC. It was mostly good but never entirely reliable and took a lot of fiddling to get to that stage. I recently switched to Jellyfin with the Android TV client app
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by wfleming 3y ago
I use a cheap-ish fountain pen regularly, and I think in some ways the fact that nobody "needs" a fountain pen (or any pen) much anymore is actually a contributing factor to this, for a few reasons. 1. Status symbols are frequentl
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by wfleming 3y ago
Like a lot of stuff like this, it’s not that simple one way or the other. Eggs are the usual example. US regulations require eggs to washed, removing a protective coating, which is why Americans refrigerate eggs. Many other developed nation
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by wfleming 3y ago
It’s disappointing there doesn’t seem to be an easily available blog post or announcement (maybe I just didn’t find it), but the design doc lists a few motivations: https://github.com/ruby/prism/blob/main&#x2F
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by wfleming 3y ago
That’s what I thought they meant as well, but B2 is more like $72/TB/yr. Maybe relevant to another story on the front page right now, they have a very unusual custom keyboard layout that makes it easy to typo e for b and 2 for 7 ;
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by wfleming 3y ago
MS negotiated the agreement. So “allowed” seems like a fair description of the contents of a contract they negotiated and agreed to.
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by wfleming 3y ago
The US started out that way too.
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by wfleming 3y ago
In the UK that's correct because those kinds of positions pay a reasonable wage. In the US, restaurant workers can easily be making less than minimum wage without tips. (The legality is weird and varies by state, but my understanding i
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by wfleming 3y ago
> And of course, the tips and fees are always calculated "before discounts" which makes the default tip bananas I agree Uber is employing a ton of dark patterns and their fees are absurd, but for tips at least I think this is a
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by wfleming 3y ago
And in this case I think it would have been a lot of work to identify the number plate & bin logo if he hadn’t already had enough context to make a probable guess. The source image he was working from looked pretty low-res, that license
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by wfleming 3y ago
My critique is not “this behavior is acceptable”, and I certainly didn’t describe it as justified. My critique is “the industry is full of bad actors but everyone mostly yells about one particular bad actor”, which I think is unproductive.
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by wfleming 3y ago
Laptops, at least, are increasingly all-soldered RAM from many brands. SSDs are mostly still m.2, I think, so at least those are upgradable. Mac Pros were upgradeable until this most recent iteration switching to their ARM chips. The other
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by wfleming 3y ago
It dates to at least the iPod! https://m.slashdot.org/story/21026 Probably earlier: I remember people mocking the colorful iMacs. I’m sure you could dig up some pc magazine articles from the 90s dunking on the iMacs an
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by wfleming 3y ago
Overcharging on those kinds of bumps is standard industry practice, though. I just checked Lenovo, and they want $224 to bump an X1 from 16GB to 32. And that’s a sale price, the normal price is $340 (which seems largely theoretical since th
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by wfleming 4y ago
In the specific case of the big dig, absolutely! I moved to Cambridge right around when the dig was completed and saw those improvements accrue over the next few years. I had a bunch of friends eventually move to Southie & The Waterfron
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by wfleming 4y ago
I think in at least some instances of projects like this, the goal is not really "traffic reduction", even if that's what officials publicly claim to sell it to the public. As you say, the phenomenon of induced demand is well
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by wfleming 4y ago
I don’t think tinkering outside work/class is required to be a good programmer. Nobody rags on accountants for not fiddling with spreadsheets as a hobby. I think the frequent expectation in tech that programmers live & breath code
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by wfleming 4y ago
> Companies issue more stock to sell and raise capital all the time. Sure, but that’s still a small fraction of most trades most of the time. When companies sell stock (long after their IPO) the sales kind of have to be dripped out as
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by wfleming 4y ago
> When you buy stocks, the money goes to finance the business. Only if you’re buying directly from the business, which you’re usually not. Usually you’re just buying from another shareholder (could be another individual, a mutual fund, a

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