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My daughter does. She uses it in NYC exclusively because of the public transportation info (subway/bus). I occasionally use it as well.

I’ve been using colima for cli docker on my arm mac. It’s pretty straightfirward using homebrew.

I worked on a project (15+ years ago) that used Jython to put a web front end on GDS systems (airline reservation mainframes). It was in production and being used in some of the largest travel call centers at the time. The whole thing was built in Jython.

I have used the USB-C apple adapter with linux and it works fine. I used it for a year hooked up to an older dell laptop (Xubuntu and later Manjaro) for my home sound system (spotify client on the laptop). Works great for the money. I eventually moved to a standalone dac. Not sure it sounds any better but is more versatile.

I have used the lightning headphone adapter on my iphone almost daily for a couple of years. Whenever I have problems like you describe it's because the lightning port has dirt/pocket lint in it. I have a plastic tool that I use to clean it out and it works fine again. The only other issue I have is that the thin wire does wear out over time.

i grew up in Athens and was in high school/college during this time (graduated hs in '83). Unfortunately I was not that involved in the music scene but still got to see some great bands.

The article spends a good bit of time on the B-52's but they were long gone to New York by this time and didn't really come back for public concerts until 'Cosmic Thing'. The popular bands that I remember were Love Tractor, REM, Dreams So Real and Kilkenny Cats.

The scene as I knew it from a distance revolved around a few venues. Foremost at the time was the 40 watt club. It started as a room off of a back alley (with a bare light bulb?) that had moved by the time I was old enough to go. Lot's of history there. Other venues I visited were the Uptown Lounge, the Georgia Theater and surprisingly house parties.

My favorite memories of the time were seeing PYLON and REM with about 50-100 other people at 'teen night' at the I&I club, I didn't really know PYLON but the show blew me away. Easily the best performance that I've seen. The Hillbilly Frankenstein album release party was wild and a blast. I also got to see the Flat Duo Jets at a house party and several times at small venues. Dex and Crowe made an amazing amount of sound for two guys with simple instruments.

It was definitely a fun time to be in Athens and I certainly enjoyed myself. In hindsight I wish I had gotten more into the scene but growing up there and being so young I had no idea that there was anything special going on there.

Walmart was a very different company under Sam Walton. Sam tried to visit every store once a year. When he got there he would throw the managers out and talk with the employees to find whether or not the managers were doing their jobs. He also believed in empowering the employees. Employees were responsible for particular sections of the store and had access to sales and inventory data and made decisions about how the section was run. In short Mr. Walton felt that the line employees were the most important people in the organization and treated them accordingly.

This of course did not survive after he passed and Walmart employees are not well off today. The quote about Unions above does seem to fit his philosophy but rings hollow with the changes that occurred after his death.

Can confirm. Have Red Tail nesting pair in my back yard. Have heard them a couple of times today.

Note that the 300k hp is for the fuel pumps, the first stage max output is roughly 160 million hp.

Nice to see this come back up. I worked with Jamey years ago and he was brilliant. I think he has a write up for Ms Pacman as well.

I use a Sharp 43" 4K tv as a minitor. It is a little on the large side but I have changed how I arrange my windows to cope. Generally I have whatever I am working on take up the middle third of the screen and arrange smaller windows on the left and right thirds with whatever else I need at the time. I usually have mail and slack on the mbp that is driving the screen. I find this to be more productive than the two 1080p 21" monitors I have in the office. Also I got the tv as a refurb from fry's for <$300 so it was cheap if it didn't suit me. It's also a great tv in my bedroom.

One source http://www.goodcarbadcar.net/2018/10/september-2018-ytd-u-s-...

AT&T dropped fiber in my front yard too. I ignored it for a few months because previously they only offered bundles with tv and telephone and crappy speeds to boot.

A coworker told me he was getting symmetric gigabit from AT&T for $70/month so I decided to check them out. I switched from Comcast and everything has been awesome except for the supplied wireless router. My iDevices will not work reliably on it so I added my own.

My bill dropped almost in half and I got away from Comcast's metered, expensive, less reliable crap.

I am in Atlanta so the 'threat' of Google Fiber may explain the great deal I got. Not affiliated with AT&T at all and am honestly surprised at how good the service has been. YMMV

Which after having kids can become a SITKOM life. Single Income Two Kids Oppressive Mortgage.

This is a pilot run of 50. Think of them as prototypes. They will use what they learn from these prototypes to build a larger fleet. If they can make these purchase price competitive with their current trucks it will be a huge win.

The chicken tax effectively killed foreign competition for light trucks and domestic automakers punted as mid-full size trucks are more profitable.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax

Do you have any pointers to info on using Hammerspoon as you describe above? I have a low dpi 4K (43") monitor and would like to be able to assign windows to pre-determined regions of the screen.

I couldn't do anything in an open office without blocking the noise. Visual distractions are almost as bad but are harder to block.

I use sox to generate audio. It is available for win/Mac/Linux. I set it for 90 minutes of brown noise which gives me a reminder to get up and walk around when it ends. I believe it can generate white or pink noise if you prefer.

>play -n synth 90:00 brownnoise brownnoise

This is certainly a nice surprise. I took my first CS course from Dr. Covington. I remember on the first day of class he went through the roll of 70+ students telling almost everyone the linguistic origin and meanings of their names.

He has many interests and seems to be an expert in nearly all of them. I consider him to be the smartest person I've ever met. Thanks for posting this.

How much heap are you allocating? I was seeing unusually poor performance while working with a large project until I bumped the heap up to 4-6g. It still takes a minute when I open the project but is pretty performant otherwise. Also, I've had to invalidate the cache a couple of times when idea was behaving strangely (over a 5 yr or so period)

I also listen to noise instead of music to block outside sound. I use sox on mac/linux/windows to generate brown noise which I find less tiresome than white noise.

Sox is well documented but here is the command I use for 90 minutes of brown noise (I try to get up and walk for a minute each time it finishes).

play -n synth 90:00 brownnoise brownnoise

I believe that pilots refer to this as density altitude. It factors greatly into allowable takeoff weight, takeoff distance and ability to climb over obstacles in the takeoff path. Pilots are or should be very aware of the density altitude on very hot days especially at high altitude.