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Two things about excursion fares:

1. The MUNI "A" Fast Pass doesn't charge excursion fares inside SF. If you commute regularly in SF, the Type A Fast Pass is a great option, especially if you can get a subsidy from work.

2. Otherwise, a Bart attendant can scan your ticket, see that you recently entered and let you out for free, and fix your account so you can get back in without hassle.

> The puke-green text bubbles from android and calm-blue bubbles from iMessage

This quoted bit is actually incorrect. All messages from android and from iMessage are in identical gray text bubbles.

The blue/green bubbles are for your own sent messages only

To add to this CA DOT (aka Caltrans) does not regulate motor vehicles.

From https://dot.ca.gov/about-caltrans :

> Caltrans manages more than 50,000 miles of California's highway and freeway lanes, provides inter-city rail services, permits more than 400 public-use airports and special-use hospital heliports, and works with local agencies

Motor vehicles not under their jurisdiction

Also Google, Verizon, and Goldman: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2019/07/23/google-set...

> uBiome was a biotech company that seemed to have it all. Idealistic leaders, a promising idea, and lots of venture capital funding. But eventually, the company had a spectacular downfall.

> This March, uBiome's two leaders were charged with defrauding investors and insurers in a multimillion dollar scheme, and the government says they're fugitives.

I work at Slack and have learned a lot from our Incident Response program. Brent Chapman helped put it together, and has a USENIX talk about it here: https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon21/presentation/chap...

Response for this incident went by the book, as described in Brent's talk above. Incident Management programs like these ensure that incidents can be resolved while also minimizing stress and chaos for engineers and other responders.

PagerDuty has a good Incident Responder and Incident Commander training courses, if you are interested in setting up a program similar to Slack's:

- https://response.pagerduty.com/training/courses/incident_res...

- https://response.pagerduty.com/training/incident_commander/

Fun fact: Brent Chapman is also known for creating the `majordomo` mailing list manager from the early 90s

My Volvo has a remote start option, but it costs $200/year to subscribe to the Volvo On-Call service to be able to use it.

> SiriusXM also owns Spotify

Sirius XM (nasdaq:SIRI) and Spotify (nyse:SPOT) are two different companies.

Sirius XM bought pandora in 2019.

Please see this heartbreaking Twitter thread from Jason Scott on Sparky Herring and QWK

https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1417941046781259782?s=2...

If you ever used Fidonet or BBS mail, this was Mark “Sparky” Herring, who developed the .QWK file format, that tragically died.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWK_(file_format)

They couldn’t use forward slash, as it is the divide operator.

They couldn’t use a period, like python or java, because they use it as the concatenation operator.

See also Burrito Eater, who ate and reviewed 1000 burritos in SF: https://burritoeater.com/faq.php

Touchstream is such a magical device!

That page links to their GitHub:

https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail

20M is the number they switched to after failing to meet their estimate from 3 months ago. In October, HHS Secretary Azar said that Operation Warp Speed would deliver 100 million doses by the end of the year.

https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-c...

Have you considered manufacturing f.lux for home lighting, such as a wall-mounted controller for Hue or Ikea bulbs that changes color spectrum depending on time of day? Or possibly bulbs with f.lux build in, so no external controller is required?

These fires are being set intentionally by agribusiness. They don't want to put them out.

- https://www.newsweek.com/pray-amazonia-brazil-jair-bolsonaro...

- https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/22/americas/amazon-fires-humans-...

Slack offers the ability to encrypt messages with your own key, managed in your own AWS KMS account, so chat history and search still work until revoked for a particular channel or time period :

https://slack.com/enterprise-key-management

I’m surprised there wasn’t a push to standardize units after this incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter

His request to call his employer or an attorney was denied:

> I asked the agents if I could speak to my employer or an attorney before unlocking my devices. This request seemed to aggravate the customs officers. They informed me that I had no right to speak to an attorney at the border despite being a U.S. citizen, and threatened me that failure to immediately comply with their demand is a violation of federal criminal code 18 USC 111.

> The agents proceeded to search my belongings and demanded that I unlock my smartphone and laptop. This was rather concerning for me. My phone and laptop are property of my employer and contain unreleased software and proprietary information. I’ve signed a non-disclosure agreement promising not to give anyone access.

His employer is Apple. I was always worried about this same scenario when traveling with an Apple-owned laptop..

Microsoft’s use of Linux on Azure cloud was in violation of patents in the OIN patent pool, which includes patents held by Google and IBM. Now, not only are they not in violation without having to pay for licensing, but they are also getting a lot of great PR.

> The starting revenue share is 70-30 in Apple's favor, presently. Google offers a similar rate, but Microsoft recently announced a cut to its share of revenue to developers' favor

Apple’s cut is 30%, but this sentence makes it sound like Apple takes 70%

I was raised in the rural midwest and moved to San Francisco for the same reasons as you. It is shocking how much religious extremism, homophobia, and racism exist in the midwest. Growing up in the midwest, kids and adults alike would come up us and tell us we were going to hell, or to go back to where we came from, or call us racial slurs like "sandnigger". Grown adults had no problem harassing little kids at school or the playground. People shot our windows a few times. Racism is so widespread in Missouri that the NAACP has issued a travel advisory and warned minorities to not travel there. Earlier this year a Garmin engineer was murdered in Kansas by a racist who walked into a bar and shot two Indians. There is no way I would raise my children in the midwest.

The Recurse Center's social rules are really well thought-out. After I learned about them, I started to see how people who violate the "no feigning surprise" rule can make team members feel excluded and belittled, often unintentionally. This includes myself, and have since changed my behavior.

I feel the "social rules" are quite valuable both inside and outside the workplace. I wish more employers and groups practiced them: https://www.recurse.com/manual#sec-environment

They knew it was not a bomb. They were bullying him. If the school or police had actually thought it was dangerous they would have:

1. Evacuated the school 2. Called the bomb squad

Thanks!

I am trying to find out if archive.org is still being blocked or not, as we are hearing conflicting reports from users.

I queried the Indian DNS servers on this list that are marked 'valid' or 'new': http://public-dns.tk/nameserver/in.html

Only one of them (182.59.1.235, operated by MTNL ISP) returned the fake IP being used for blocked sites (59.185.3.14). The other 1843 servers returned the correct IP.

I am trying to figure out if that means archive.org has been removed from the block list, or if the DNS servers listed on that page haven't yet been updated with the blocked sites.

If anyone can help us figure out if archive.org is still blocked, it would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks! -raj at archive.org

You might also be interested in a browser extension I made to try and make Twitter more readable.

It hides promoted tweets, 'trending, and 'who to follow' boxes, and adds a 'temporarily hide all retweets' button. It attempts to counteract the myspace-ification of Twitter by toning down colors and removing custom background images, and swaps the timeline and dashboard so you can shrink the window and still see content. It also hides the beginning hashmarks so sentences with hashtags are easier to parse.

For Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/readable-twitter/l...

For Firefox: https://github.com/rajbot/readable_twitter