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Not sure what "american undergrads" means? If someone graduates from an American university wouldn't that make them an American undergrad? Or do you just mean someone who was born in the US that then graduated from an American university? Also how can you tell where someone was born just by looking at them, especially in the US?

How it works in Seattle is that people are supposed to sign up and talk about things on the agenda for that council meeting but they are not stopped from talking about anything. This is why you'll see people like Alex Tsimerman (look him up) speak nonsense at nearly every council meeting. The councilpeople just ignore those comments and I believe they aren't included in the meeting record since they're off topic.

There's other ways to also try and limit the length of public comment, if there's more than say 30 people signed up, reduce public comment from 2 minutes per person to 1 minute. Be aggressive about cutting mics rather than giving everyone 10 extra seconds. For topics that council knows will be contentious and attract a lot of public comment they'll either hold multiple public comment blocks that day or literally just do a marathon session, 4-5 hours of just public comment.

Finally, if enough people are frustrated enough about an issue to constantly show up to public comment to talk about it, councilmembers should try meeting with those people at a different forum to at least hear them out to try and diffuse their anger. Council meetings should not be the only other place where residents can talk to their councilmembers.

I just tried opening a 730 MB file in both and VSCode's usage was just around 2 GB while Sublime's usage (fresh install) was over 3 GB. This is even with my normal VSCode extensions enabled (91 currently).

Yeah, there were numerous news reports about the AI CSAM problem on X

- June 2025: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/x-accounts-peddle-chi...

- Jan 2026: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/02/musk-grok-ai-bot-safeguard-s...

- Mar 2026: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/17/x-csam-ch...

Employees (at least on my team) get access to the Claude models as well when using Copilot CLI.

They mention bats multiple times in the article

>In the United States ... contact with infected bats is the leading cause of human rabies deaths.

> The same goes for people planning to ... explore caves in regions where rabid bats have been.

>The clearest example is someone who has been bitten by a wild dog, bat, fox, raccoon or other animal known to carry rabies. If someone had direct contact with a bat — for instance, waking up to find a bat in the room — this is also considered a possible exposure unless a bite or scratch can be definitively ruled out. ... If you find a dead bat, do not throw it away. Do not touch it or allow other people or pets to touch it. Instead, call animal control so that the bat can be tested.

>In addition, try to prevent bats from getting inside your home through windows, chimneys or other holes.

The author mentions the list of products that were impacted with this migration

> Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Sway, Publisher, Access, Project, OneNote, Shared Services (OSI), Shared UX, + everything in the web

According to reporting Rosetta will still be supported for old games that rely on Intel code

> But after that, Rosetta will be pared back and will only be available to a limited subset of apps—specifically, older games that rely on Intel-specific libraries but are no longer being actively maintained by their developers. Devs who want their apps to continue running on macOS after that will need to transition to either Apple Silicon-native apps or universal apps that run on either architecture.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/apple-details-the-en...

I used to work on a codebase at Microsoft that was classified as a microservice. Pretty much entirely written in C# and it was about 12 years old.

My major reason for using it is how open the platform is. I run a community project that involves posting pictures to multiple social media sites at once. Posting to Twitter was fine up until Elon's takeover broke a bunch of things. My API access got turned on and off repeatedly for unknown reasons. Checking the Twitter forums showed that this was happening to other developers as well with little response from the team there.

Bluesky on the other hand has been open first. You can now host your own Personal Data Server (PDS) which means if you ever want to post to the network you are basically never blocked from doing so.

I kept posting on Twitter manually (along side automatic posts to Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads) because people were there but with this latest shift in interest having to post manually is a pain so I'm dropping Twitter.

To the shock of some people as well, some people use Windows because they prefer it over other operating systems.

This is no longer the case. I signed up for Informed Delivery last year with frozen credit with no issues.

I implemented them for a personal project about 6 months ago. The library support is pretty good. The biggest draw for me was that it's easier for the users of my site to use passkeys.

I haven't seen any data showing if people became addicted to drugs first and then became homeless due to that or if it was the other way around. I can totally see people becoming homeless first and then getting addicted to drugs because being homeless sucks. Again, haven't seen any data to show which way happens more often but the data showing rates of homelessness are lower in areas with lower housing costs is pretty telling.

Glad to see Cowboy release an app to potentially save us VanMoof owners. For US residents VanMoof had a leg up because there were brand stores open in the US to take bikes to for repair. There's a couple of other features VanMoof bikes had that I preferred over Cowboy's so it's sad to see them go.

At least in Seattle both Amazon and Google partnered with VanMoof to let employees rent or buy bikes so there's a ton of VanMoofs around. I wonder what's going to happen with them.

I'm coming up on 6 years in Seattle. Lived in SLU or Denny Triangle (parts some people consider "downtown") the entire time. I've learned to just largely ignore the incredibly negative comments because my experience and the experience of all the people I know who live here are vastly different. While the city still has its problems I would like for people to approach solving them from a realistic point of view.

Either you're getting a different result due to whatever config you're getting served or they fixed it already because I'm getting 0.

I just timed the boot speed for my Windows 11 desktop. Once with a regular shutdown, once with fast startup disabled (which was introduced with Windows 8). 10-12 seconds to get to the login screen (after typing my BitLocker password). 7 seconds to login using face authentication. I do have very modern specs (Ryzen 9 5900X, 32 GB RAM, Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus) but my suspicions are that your boot speed could be dramatically reduced by just upgrading to an SSD.

Here's metrics from Tom's Hardware comparing an HDD to two types of SSDs (SATA and NVMe)[1] on a Windows 10 machine. The HDD had a boot time of 42.9 seconds. The SATA SSD a time of 17.2 and the NVMe SSD a time of 16.1 seconds.

With the advantage of fast startup the HDD machine was able to boot under a minute but the SATA SSD still cut the boot time of the machine by nearly 2/3rds.

1. https://www.tomshardware.com/features/ssd-vs-hdd-hard-drive-...

Jacksonville

>Usually when you get government "transparency" it is in the form of a PDF of poorly photocopied documents as images which are effectively useless from a analysis standpoint, unless you have many humans ready to read/transcribe.

Of the largest 20 cities in the US, all but one have open data sites where you can programmatically pull down datasets. I feel like this is more becoming the norm rather than the exception. Maybe it's just smaller municipalities that don't have open data sites?

No it's never happened.

I don't really understand this post. I'm a supporter of open source and free software and I can also understand wanting to avoid vendor lock-in. However I don't understand how this is Microsoft's fault for building closed source tooling. I'm upset with Microsoft's hypocritical stance on .NET and C# being open source without all tooling being open source as well but when it comes to useful tooling like Codespaces, Pylance, or the Java debugger in VSCode I don't see why Microsoft should be blamed them being closed source. Microsoft came into the Java and Python space and made tooling that is being accepted by developers.

The author does touch on why companies like Microsoft are able to succeed against open source software. It's because they have the money to pay their own developers to make good software.

Disclaimer: I work at Microsoft but not under DevDiv or Azure.

>The car opted to turn right — straight up the wrong way of a one-way street in San Francisco (around the 6:35 mark below).

Not sure where they got San Francisco from, this took place in Seattle. The video description they link to plainly says this

>Here's a vid of Tesla's FSD Beta driving through Seattle

Funnily enough this is the same guy who's Tesla lurched towards pedestrians crossing an intersection last year https://twitter.com/TaylorOgan/status/1542555188279517184 and once he started getting flak he copyright struck the Twitter videos and deleted the video from his YouTube account.

Large companies try not to be stupid. If they had a lot to lose if web3 became successful wouldn't they invest resources into it?

See Facebook trying to make a cryptocurrency and then abandoning their plans.

This is a really interesting breakdown of web3 (or as he calls it later on web2x2). I haven't dove into the world of web3 yet but it does seem incredibly ironic that there's already seemingly a large amount of consolidation around platforms to make web3 more accessible to people. This is good for early adopters and artists who are generating wealth during the gold rush but I don't think it's good for "web3 the idea" as a distributed protocol.

I assume it would be similar to how you sell an old computer with an encrypted hard drive. You unlock it, format it, and then sell it. If you have the credentials to unlock the PC you should have the ability to remove your encrypted state.

- WSL

- Game Bar (built in screen recording)

- Built in SSH

- Virtual Desktops

- Action Center (OS level notifications)

You're comparing two different things, the Apple and Android fees are to get access to publish apps to the store.

The developer toolkit which is used to build and test the apps (Android Studio or XCode) are free. The Microsoft comparison would be the $20 to publish in the Microsoft Store and Visual Studio Community which is free to build and test apps.

"MSDN" is a bundle of additional developer tools that you would use for a business (licensed Visual Studio, Azure DevOps, training, and support).

Loves is a strong word. I think it makes more sense to say that the IRS doesn't have the budget or resources to go after the big players. Yes, people cheating only $2k probably won't pay for a lawyer but from the IRS side it's just much simpler to analyze and prove that person is in the wrong. See this article from ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-irs-was-gutted

Seems strange that the source data doesn't also include per capita numbers. Sure Seattle went from 27 to 47 but with a population of 700,000+ that's a much lower per capita number than say Cleveland going from 121 to 175 with a population of only 380,000+.