drdeadringer

> especially if you don't live there

I do live in the neighborhood NextDoor area where I speak of, and my experience is not uncommon. I have seen the online NextDoor and have in-person physically walked the lived reality as well.

"In Other News", where I live has an outdated reputation. That outdated reputation lives on despite reality and my personal efforts to tell and demonstrate otherwise. Folks on NextDoor tend to be those of long life and//or long memory. Psychohistorical math [albeit perhaps Asimov-in-Reverse a bit here] comes in to play.

Over the long run, the folks who really want to be listened to -- and have a legit and right to that -- have clocks in their perspectives to adjust. Their voice needs similar.

> ads for surveillance cameras

How much of that advertisement is based off of "Paranoid Paige" with too much time on their hands?

Not to necessarily rail against using metrics, but metrics can be tilted -- if everyone's Paranoid Paige, how deep and legit is that gold mine?

This is the best and most generous description of NextDoor I have found so far.

I don't remember local or small-town papers to [generally] being toxic or cesspools of hate.

However, one of my True Jokes is "NextDoor: Hate Your Neighbors" just as "Facebook: Hate Your Family & Friends" and "Twitter: Hate Your Heroes".

NextDoor sounds good, but it generally proves not. Everything from "suspicious teenagers on the sidewalk again" [meaning: local kids walking to their local home from the local school but Nosey Nancy is too busy "Taking Notes & Reporting To Police"] to "if public transit comes here so will the meth-head homeless pulling the rug out from under my overpriced house" [reality is baseless fears about recycling, commuting, and less cars on the road].

I gave up using anything other than VLC long before you did. [I'm not trying to play a trump card here, I'm saying you had a lot more patience on this than I did].

What did me in was realizing the insanity of installing the "Gordian Knot Codec Pack" (or whatever it was called back then) every time I refreshed my OS ... and hoping it would work. That did work for a little while until the traffic cone finally opened my eyes and I never looked back.

> There is no 'more church' if your an atheist.

There are the Unitarian Universalists where many -- including atheists -- are not only welcome but also find worship.

> test code by hand

Personally, I find it helpful to bugger out things with pen and paper before coding it out. This is helpful and useful.

Greatness to you of you need not the analogue. Others "below you" may and can do just as well. Please do not down your nose upon such folks.

I wonder how feasible, realistic, &c it would be to have included in the deletion/destruction policy to have a step/section in there to say "after verification of deletion, make a new backup to replace the old backup" which would be a backup refresh "outside" of the usual periodic backup.

My girlfriend loves Popeye's whilst I McDonald's. I'm from New England, she from California.

Ah.

Thank you.

... I need you to finish because I can't read your mind.

How fast do you walk when you are:

1) exploring 2) a new place 2a) which also happens to be dark 2b) with potential safety hazards 3) whilst your buddy is filming the potentially interesting things you point at

> That resonated for me because I've seen that happen in software, that classic pattern where cowboy coders ship garbage to QA. The lowest bug rates I've seen are where everybody cares about quality.

On the flip side, I get nervous when I hear something akin to "We don't have QA here", sometimes as a matter of pride. Think of those times when you've heard someone snear at "Safety First", but for QA or testing.

Perhaps one ideal would be to promote a "everyone cares about quality" environment whilst still having some people focused specifically on QA.

Perhaps like in 'Lord Of The Rings', don't think too hard about Gandalf and the Great Eagles.

Around 2015 or so I audiobook'd the book "The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes and Why" by Amanda Ripley [2009].

This book covers similar topics that you do in your comment. One is from a chief security employee in the Twin Towers, along the lines of "Never run to the roof". Which he did to try to save more people, which IIRC he didn't//couldn't.

In other related stories, taking note of emergency exists whilst boarding an airplane [and similar for other folks in similar situations] noted out better survival over others. "Triangle crowding" at exits is also mentioned, which is partly why folks in charge scream "single file! walk do not run" at you as everyone rushes for the door to escape.

The distinction is also made between "flight" and "fight" and the often left-out "freeze" response to in-time disaster.

I found it a worth-while read.

So far it looks like "Don't Hire Who Drinks Your Kool-Aid".

Kool-Aid is good for some of your group.

The opposite is also good for your group.

> I think of web scraping as nothing less than automation of human work.

I did this with Python regarding market prices for ETFs, Stocks, and Mutual Funds.

I wrote Python scripts, one of which was to web-scrape current market values, investment distribution, &c for ETFs, stocks, and Mutual Funds for whic I was invested in. I then would have to manually port that into a spreadsheet for "my own special graphs" and such.

I'm sure there are places online which would do this for me if I logged in, entered in all of my information and more, and provide that all for me ... but this story should sound familiar. And due to personal reasons, I've been lagging behind for far too long.

My Point: This information is publicly available and and it serves my purposes. There's no reason why I should not be able to do this. Yes, it's my fault for not using the information [and yes, the information dies with me], but the point is that I automated the gathering of that information for my own self -- and "everyone" else on the planet has that same information.

I never felt like I was illegal doing this. I'm happy to know if there is a "save" way to do this type of aggregate situation otherwise.

This appears to be a battle of philosophies.

May "the best business" win.

Our Dearest Zucky vs Freedom Fighter Stallman.

The enteral struggle continues.

I don't want to be a bee.

How can I be not wrong? "Entrepreneur" is not an answer.

I am so certain that atheists exist.

I am one. A valued friend is also. We are intelligent and emotionally aware people. Both of us know and value people who believe in God. Speaking for myself, I see no disconnect.

Regarding your "they claim the unknowable": if an atheist is claiming the unknowable, so is the theist. Yes, I do experience great emotions and experiences. I do not attribute these to God. If you do, that is great and please enjoy that. I will have mine as I shall.

My point is that if you insist that I am at best an agnostic, so are you. Pascal's Wager. We just are placing opposing bets in Las Vegas.

I understand your point.

I have two others:

1) Atheists do exist.

2) There have been insane and outrageous atrocities to humanity, science, and the natural world -- this might just be the next chapter in that saga. Either that saga continues until Humanity doesn't, God comes knocking, or a "Star Trek Federation" type scenario comes around.

> I'd say we could be better at remembering that some piece of information exists and where to find it instead of having to memorize it. This seems more powerful.

[paraphrase] "I wrote it down so I don't HAVE to remember." --quote from Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade

Seems similar to Einstein's "Never memorize what you can look up.".

I remember using Bolt.com in the late 90s. Some folks have described it along the lines of "10 years ahead of its time so that's why it failed". Think a 1990s version of Facebook. I liked it.

I use Podcast Addict on my [Android] tablet and Smartphone. Free with ads, cheap for no ads.

RSS for whatever you want: podcasts, comedian tour schedules, webcomics.

I've just realized a question//concern:

Is there any healthy place or way or method "juniors" can learn through experience without being screwed over? Be it low money, blood money, poor experience, terrible managers ... is "let the vile companies get the fresh graduates" the best answer here? What can be the alternative here?

[Edit:] Not everywhere has mentors. In my experience, mentors are a luxury. Saying "but mentors" isn't an end-all True answer. Same thing for Internships -- not all College Universities require them.

Maybe I am in a personal moral or ethical crisis here, but at the moment I'd like to stand by this line of question.

Now I know it's me missing something:

How does limiting the supply of technicians lower their wages? Is it because Apple is limiting their own supply of available technicians? Why can't a given technician go elsewhere -- is that because the "don't poach treaty" never stopped or something else?

That type of thing is exactly what I'm referring to. At its worst NextDoor is a social network for a clone army of Nosy Nancy. "Saw teenager walking on sidewalk. Suspicious. Noted, shall call police." Nosy Nancy lives a block away from a school and watched a student walking home after school.

Iterate ad nauseam for Goodwill donation trucks, VTA Lite Rail stations, recycling centers, whatever fits that neighborhood's definition of "undesirables" and what "attracts them".

Yes, there are good things regarding NextDoor and I have experienced some of them. However, in my experience the ratio skews poorly and towards suspicion and towards hate.

It's been a few years since I've been there and I have no regrets. On a nice day, it was a silly place.

> Companies like Apple endlessly mouth their desire to get more kids to code, then their arms release devices so closed off that even trying to take a quick peek at how they work triggers eighteen system integrity protection alarms. You can't have it both ways, Apple.

Apple C-Suites: "We want kids to code."

Apple Ads: "What's a computer?"

Whilst it might be me, somebody somewhere doesn't understand something.

I'm still waiting to see derelict shopping malls of the 1980s-2000s to be converting to apartments or other similar useful spaces.

I therefore have a doubt about the current COVID-19 Office Space Glut in San Francisco, let alone the Bay Area, on top of all that.

> NextDoor

That place was a nice idea just like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn were.

NextDoor worked out just as well as the rest of them.