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My understanding is that people have been hired to handle the horse shit. It’s not like the road in Central Park is 6 feet deep in manure. But there’s still horse shit on the ground and it’s still disgusting if you’re just out trying to get some exercise in one of the only car-free spaces in the city.

I agree with you that the animal rights angle is a weak justification. But as someone who uses the park, I’m glad the carriages are gone. Let’s get rid of the pedicabs next.

I think it's less that it doesn't hold and more that many people saying this are being disingenuous.

You’re “not forced to use them” in exactly the same way you’re not forced to use Apple.

I'm pretty sure they allow you to define safe areas where you can leave things without the lost indicator firing.

I'd guess it's skewed towards the former.

Maybe not from a security perspective, but WeChat has been extremely successful by virtue of implementing everything in one app.

It has the same concurrency semantics w/r/t IO as any other language that isn't using an event based runtime. If you wrote your app in C and used a single thread you'd have the exact same issue.

His point about wifi network polling is spot on. I noticed this exact issue once all of my meetings moved to Zoom. It turns out that location services on my Mac frequently poll all of the nearby networks, causing tons of dropped packets which broke up the audio and video in Zoom. Once I figured this out, which took a while, I had to completely disable location services to resolve it.

Switching to a Unifi router and picking an empty DFS channel also improved my wifi experience significantly since I live in a NYC high rise. For those that don't know, many routers allow you to use a set of 5GHz "DFS" channels that are normally reserved for aircraft radar. By regulation, any router broadcasting on a DFS channel must be able to detect radar interference and switch to a non DFS channel immediately for a period of 30 minutes or so. If you live in an area that aircraft regularly hit with radar this be very disruptive, but if not, these channels often perform better than the dedicated 5GHz channels since most routers don't use DFS channels by default.