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"Feet" doesn't cover it. "Body" is more appropriate.

Running with poor quality shoes unduly stresses your knees, hips, and lower back. Over time, this is likely to develop chronic pain, or bursitis, or other problems that can lead to long-term mobility issues.

If you're going to run regularly, you should find a way to either afford the propert shoes in good repair, or learn to run barefoot

Thanks so much for taking the time to respond

Or perhaps the octopus regard us as under-evolved for having done similar

Thanks. Another counter-claim I've seen to this is that WPEngine used to provide developers and sponsor events, but no longer do.

Any insights there?

Not trying to come across as interrogating or particularly concerned with the answer, but the whole thing is a curiosity.

I've seen conflicting claims made. Everything from "WPEngine gives nothing" to (in this thread) "WPEngine sponsors a dozen developers" [1]

I do not use either Wordpress nor WPEngine, so I don't have any stake in this nor insight into the dispute.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41656542

You're right. Apologies for the error. The correct figure per day is ~$1.70. $35 was for a month's worth of meals.

Apologies - I left out some words in my comment. The meal-per-student cost was roughly $1.70 a day. The $35 figure was for the month.

Sorry, I was accidentally very confusing. It cost $35 to deliver a month's worth of those meals to a given student

It costs $35 to deliver 20-22 meals of that quality to a given student. One every school day for the month.

Effectively, that meal was delivered -- SOMEHOW -- for a cost of $1.70

Edit: I see that not all of the words in my thought made it into the comment, and it was confusing. Updated.

I remember seeing a brief documentary on Youtube, detailing how school lunches were made in Japan. They just followed the lunch production for a single day, but it was enlightening. The menu that day was teriyaki yellowtail tuna, with roasted burdock root, apple slices, tonjiru miso soup with pork, tofu, wok-fried vegetables and dashi, with Koshikihari rice from the Nagano province.

Everything was prepared fresh in the morning, placed into bento boxes, and delivered by lunch for consumption. The per-student cost of all of this was ~$35 American -- edit -- $35 for the entire month. Roughly $1.70 a day to feed a student an amazing meal.

I was frankly dumbfounded at how delicious everything looked, and especially for how cheaply everything had been prepared. I would have been delighted to pay $15 or more for this meal.

I'd never used Fastmail and as a sometimes-UI guy, thought I'd check out their 30 day trial to see what all the praise was about. I saw your comment before going, so kept that in mind.

With a brand new user account, I was not at all able to reproduce your issue. I closed the browser and cleared cache and all that, but I did not see an entire page refresh at any point.

Perhaps there's some weird caching issue with your browser, or maybe you've got a browser extension misbehaving? Maybe I'm just lucky? Idk, but hopefully this helps.

    > i discovered that there was a arc featured called easels, easels 
    > are a whiteboard like interface, and you can share them with people, 
    > and they can view them on the web. when i clicked the share button 
    > however, there was no requests in my mitmproxy instance, so whats 
    > happening here?

I first noticed this on a flight to Paris. I was building a Flutter app using Firestore, and tho I had not paid for the onboard wifi (I was doing local development) I was connected and all of my Firestore calls were succeeding.

I thought this was novel, and assumed it was just something to do with websockets, so I switched to another, non-firebase-but-yes-websockets project and noticed it didn't work.

At the time, I debated moving calls to Firebase just so that I could work for free while I was on flights, but realized the ROI wasn't remotely there. Glad to finally have someone else acknowledge it happening, and give some insight as to why.

`install -y` is a fun analogue to consider here.

A "Hey, this is really going to delete files. If you're just playing around here, maybe try it with the --dry-run flag" seems sane and (so long as it's asked for) means less syntax to have to know up front.

Fascists can fight wars with other fascists, so that's not a counter to the argument.

I think it's a debatable point, but if I were to steelman the argument, LBJ significantly expanded federal authority through his Great Society programs, concentrated control at the expense of federalism, massively expanded the surveillance state to target civil rights leaders and anti-war activists, and advanced an aggressive foreign policy through military action.

Meanwhile, he was glad-handing Congress to exert stronger, central control over the government.

I'd be hard pressed to call any one of those actions fascistic, but if you believe that any parts of modern America are, then those greased the wheels to them. Certainly seems enough to have justified the descriptor of 'flirting with' imo

Arguendo, having to type extra characters to enable the functionality that the tool says it will do in its very name seems backwards to me.

With the additions of Gorsuch and Jackson, we have the most 4th amendment friendly court we've had in a long time.

That said, it still looks like a 5-4 tossup, with a clustering that will likely confuse the media. I'd wager Gorsuch, Jackson, Sotomayor and Kagan as a bloc here with hopefully one more in either Roberts or (less likely) Kavanaugh.

Hobby Lobby's CEO provided a handy list of reasons why they do not use bar codes, none of which have anything to do with them being marks of beasts

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hobby-lobby-mark-of-the-be...

What strikes me as the likeliest implementation of a fair-market system is what we have in the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) system, which is that the bureaucracy of ensuring fairness is so high that we end up with $400 tablets costing $4,000, as tech companies try to get into the space but find out that they need to hire a team of contract attorneys and compliance officers and DCAA compliant time-reporting software and retraining their employees to use it and be subject to regular audits etc. etc.

This seems... unsafe? I get that it isn't your fault if someone rear ends you, but the best advice I've ever hear on the roads was "be predictable." Stopping abruptly seems like a sure-fire way to cause an accident.

I don't know if it is any more, but as I understand it, the white dashed lines in the road would become solid a certain distance away from the light. That distance was roughly calibrated to being the distance it would take for the average vehicle doing the speed limit to come to a stop safely.

I was taught that if the light turned yellow and you were beyond the solid lines, you should come to a stop, but if you were inside the solid lines, you should proceed as if it were green[1]. This worked for a long time. Decades, before moving to a new area. I noticed that the newer area had stop light cameras, but I also quickly noticed that the lines didn't sync up to the lights. Perhaps there had been no effort to make them. Perhaps that was an older convention no longer followed. I don't know. But I miss having a reference for which way to handle coin-tosses without having to first become intimately familiar with the light's timing.

[1] - unless of course someone in front of you were trying to stop

This just further illustrates OP's point, of how very limited this market segment must be

The buyers of this product are people who:

  - spend enough time in their car to want streaming audio

  - spend money on phone and internet 

  - have a desire to improve their car to have streaming audio

  - but not enough to replace the car

  - and also not enough to replace the stereo

  - but definitely enough to pay money to add it

  - and are willing to remove the item they are paying for every time they leave the car to prevent its attractiveness to thieves

I was recently looking at starter cars for my daughter as a college graduation present, and I think you'd be surprised how far down-market those features have moved.

A brand new Toyota Corolla is $22k and comes with both. For older cars, you can get a nice stereo for $300. If you aren't an audiophile, probably $100.

Or it means that the people who can afford fast phones and expensive internet are capable of buying a $300 car stereo with AA/CP capability.

My 2001 Jeep Wrangler has both

What a weird critique. American or not, if you don't have a car you're probably not in the target market for a CarThing

I purchased mine without any intent on using it in a car, and in fact I never did, but it was clear that I was engaging in out-of-bounds behavior in doing so.

Ekaros answer is definitive, but if you didn't have those facilities and wanted to buy more time, you could beach the boat during a high spring tide (which is when the solar tides and lunar tides are in line), which would only occurs twice each lunar month

I think you'd be so hard-pressed in finding a court that would convict someone of "stealing" for having been in the path of trash that was jettisoned through two stories of your home as for the prospect to be infinitesimal

FWIW, I think there are even more errors in my figures. That said, I wasn't trying to bunk or debunk, as much as the grandparent's comment intrigued me enough to wonder "What if earthen barrier?" -- how much earth would that take. My guess was that it would be prohibitive, and that 116,000 tonnes traveling 8.5 knots is just too much to stop. Earth obviously can, as whomever alluded to the Ever Given points out, but a lot would be required. How much? I don't know, but I was just trying to get an idea.

You're right that it's amateur. This isn't remotely what I do. To your point though, I don't have that much confidence that the Skyway bulwarks would do -- I'm sure they're more than adequate in preventing strikes from my 40' sailboat. Probably much more than that. My gut tells me they are inadequate to stop the momentum of 100k tonnes at speed, but if they did SOMEthing, perhaps that would be enough to differentiate between bridge damage and bridge collapse. I can't find any details on how it's reinforced, with what, or how deeply those reinforcements are buried, so this too is wild speculation... but I wonder if it isn't somewhat security theater. My wife is already scared of bridges, and we're Marylanders who frequent that bridge and the (much longer) bay bridge -- putting something down there to calm her nerves enough that she isn't panicking for the duration of every crossing is almost certainly worthwhile, but doesn't leave the nerds much to ponder.

There are other issues with my work, namely that the central span is over 300m in width, not 30, as I had wrongly discovered, ergo the channel is passable even with my extremely half-baked solution.

That said, the dolphin-bulwarks around the Tampa Skyway are interesting. I've sailed through similar and not known their purpose other than to observe that local waterfowl like to line up at them ahead of tidal shifts to catch the fish as they're encouraged by the currents through them.

Yes, and that's an important correction.

I Googled the distances before the post but apparently got the wrong value. Danke!

Starting from xoa's calculations above, assuming you can pack a berm with well-compacted soil enough that it can absorb 1,000 joules per cubic meter, you'd need a buffer of something like 10 meters surrounding each piling with 3 meters of depth to keep it safe from this kind of impact. That's 10 meters in every direction from the center of the support -- let's assume the support has a thickness of 0 meters for the sake of the math, and acknowledging that the gaps between structural supports on the bridge is approximately 30 meters -- the only way to protect it with earth is to make the bridge impassable by water. Of course, this would protect it from ship strikes.

There are similar warnings for sailing vessels, but because the standing rigging of the ship is usually kept in high enough tension that putting your hands on a pilon to stop a collision might leave your hands vulnerable to being cut off by a mainsail's shrouds.