mr_cyborg

Counterpoint: The town I grew up in just turned 400 years old. Things haven’t always been perfect but it seems pretty self-sustaining at this point.

You say not true but the article says not enough data:

"The study finds no evidence of Omicron having lower severity than Delta, judged by either the proportion of people testing positive who report symptoms, or by the proportion of cases seeking hospital care after infection. However, hospitalisation data remains very limited at this time."

Emphasis on that last sentence.

I used to be a big LastPass proponent myself, but I only ever used their free tier. After the LogMeIn acquisition there was something people were frustrated about, I don’t remember what though, and I started being less satisfied with their products.

I got a referral trial of 1Password from a friend and it was so nice and polished I have been a paid customer of theirs ever since.

I hope that LastPass becoming more focused on their original mission will allow them to succeed more at it.

I can’t say I’m familiar with those myself! Sounds cool though.

I really enjoyed this read.

I deeply enjoyed the tone of this article, and the insight inside is tremendous. Although the companies mentioned are no longer around in the same sense, this piece touches upon some universal threads that are as true today as they were when this was happening.

Thank you for sharing this!

Parking in the UK was a nightmare for me. I don’t remember the specifics, but either a 1 or an I is a valid character for a license plate, and the other isn’t valid. The app used standard iPhone fonts such that the one that will never exist in the UK looked exactly like the WRONG character on my phone.

I got a parking ticket from the first parking lot we parked in on that trip, within just a few moments of walking out of the lot.

I had screenshots and everything that showed that I paid, and the language the company used on its tickets and also appeals process was completely foreign to me, an American.

Total nightmare but after many rounds of back and forth I was able to successfully appeal, and then get them to explain to me in more plain language that it actually was successful.

I’ve always felt that the word “rescue” when applied to dogs (it’s almost always applied to dogs as pets vs other animals) comes across as self-serving.

I used to think it meant the owner was busting down doors with animal rescue police to take an abused animal out of a bad home, but more likely than not it just means someone got their dog at a shelter.

Interesting comparison with cars, I would think a Hyundai is much more reliable and less expensive to maintain than a Mercedes, and Hyundai is now being positioned as a more premium brand than it once was.

On topic, GitLab is great at CI/CD and awesome for self-hosting things.

I think it’s wildly interesting how different generations appear to have totally different relationships with social media

What generation do you fall into?

I’ve noticed some groups of people are better than others. Most of my baby boomer relatives are really bad about social media, sharing tons of political things (often nasty and offputting) and seem to liken social media to spending time with people or catching up with them a bit inappropriately.

I would say this is largely true for myself and my peers, but to older relatives Facebook is conflated with real life and actually keeping in touch.

I’m not really following the part with the mold - can you not pull the fridge out and give it a deep cleaning, or worst case hire someone who specializes in that to do so?

I’m a big fan of how GitLab approaches things. Their design library is a tremendous resource: https://design.gitlab.com/

This is incredible. Great work!

I recently looked at making a really simple RTS using something like Unity and I was surprised how little love that genre gets from a lot of engines.

This is awesome. What did you use to handle the location search?

As an aside, I grew up with “chicken fingers” everywhere, on restaurant menus, etc. but now I can’t think of the last time I didn’t see them called “chicken tenders” outside of one regional fast food chain where I am now. I live in a different region now so I wonder if that’s a regional thing or just an overall trend

This is good to note. I remember I was trying to hit return to rename it and that would just open it. I was probably tired because I felt so flabbergasted! It looks like you can rename from right click too. Not sure how I missed that

Thanks for this reply - for me it was “website.app” so this wouldn’t have applied

I own a .app domain and in naming a folder on my Mac that I lost the ability to open the folder in Finder. Cracked me up and outside of the terminal I could find no solution.

I wanted to add that a lot of the people I know who are “vaccine hesitant” are just waiting a little longer to see how things go. I don’t see a whole lot of representation of folks who intend to get the vaccine this summer when I read publications and articles about it, but I would wager that there’s more people intending to get it but not quite yet than we think.

Also ignores risk by age group, which can be significant and relevant to someone’s risk profile.

Serifs can be a good thing for readability! I don’t know that the creator’s choice to force sans-serif was ideal here.

> ask Martha Stewart (a billionaire) how her attempt to save $45K ended up to see why this is so

Wasn’t Martha Stewart charged with obstructing an investigation and not actually securities fraud?

I think this is more of a state culture thing than anything else. Regardless, political parties tend to be pretty different from state to state and vs the federal overarching party.

> And if you think cars aren't utopian, tell me the last time you've seen an automobile ad that showed somebody being stuck in gridlocked traffic in the lincoln tunnel inhaling gas fumes for over half an hour.

I don’t think this is as ubiquitous as is suggested here - there aren’t really any tunnels in a lot of places, and New York has one of the best park and ride systems around if you have to make that trip regularly and want to avoid this scenario on the daily.

> I will contend that there does not exist a single automobile advertisement that shows the average car owner's typical experience of driving, certainly never in an urban setting.

I think it all depends on where one lives and their lifestyle. There are plenty of places, urban or otherwise, in America at least, where the picture painted preceding this quote is not a regular experience for people. I would venture to suggest the urban traffic grind is probably not the experience for a large majority of people. A ton of people drive in rural or suburban areas and run local errands and things as is depicted in many car ads.

Overall, I understand the importance of alternative means of transportation, but cars are one of the most personally efficient modes to get from Point A to Point B directly.

For a point of comparison, in the state I live in in the US, you’re looking at 2-4 hours to a lot of vacation destinations. Many of which don’t have fast chargers along the way. In a normal pre-Covid year, I’ve driven upwards of 8-15 hours one way to go places, multiple times a year.

Public transportation is available but far less convenient, and charging stations would add possibly hours on trips that length.

This is exactly how Docker works too - they recently rate limited anonymous accounts, and by signing up for the free plan you agree to very similar terms and conditions in return for a higher pull rate limit.

Source: https://www.docker.com/legal/docker-privacy-policy

See Section 3. Use of Information Collected

The Gervais Principle is a great read for fans of The Office and/or people who work at large companies. Nice to see it get a shout out.

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...

Thank you for your response.

I feel like homeowners may become more resistant to city services and improvements in their area if it will impact their bottom line disproportionately. I guess it would come down to the value formulation.

Thanks for this response. Disclaimer: I live in a city that is growing constantly and has many growing pains that are being worked through.

To me, it almost sounds like this type of tax puts more power in the hands of big developers, which is a challenge many municipalities deal with right now - striking the right balance with that. If they want to force someone to sell the remaining property in a block they’re trying to develop, wouldn’t they just need to make enough improvements that the city drives that person out with taxes?

I can’t help but think it could incentivize municipal governments seeking revenue to approve big projects without input from people living there, and incentivize people living somewhere to being actively anti-development.