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The limitation mentioned about not being able to access localhost outside of your home wifi is easily solved with a dynamic DNS. I use DuckDns to be able to access "localhost" when I'm away.

It’s a crime that they set the default to shuffle in the first place. I can never understand how a company that doesn’t understand music came to be the largest music platform

Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

Republicans want a recession so they can blame the Biden administration. Pretty simple.

Just a couple things to note, which make this far from being a case against masking, or mask mandates:

- The data is from one county in CA ...

- ... for the time period June 3 - June 25, about 3 weeks

- Neighboring counties did not have mask mandates at the time, meaning that anyone traveling between counties and not wearing their mask would have spread COVID-19 to Alameda County just as well as if no mask mandate existed

- The article notes that the most likely explanation for the lack of a different outcome from neighboring counties is that people either do not follow mask mandates or do not wear effective masks

Pretty much a non-sequitor article AFAICT

Try out a tool called Gatling. That's my favorite. But I'll settle for JMeter.

I do subscribe to podcasts using Apple Podcasts but I use the "mark all as played" to regularly defeat the automatic queue in it.

I miss the days when podcasts were just posted like blog entries and you could conglomerate them all into one feed with a good RSS feed consolidation app. that was a way better approach than all the closed podcast ecosystems. Some podcasts I listen to are not available in Apple's podcasts app (and no wonder, they impose a lot of limitations for no good reason) but are available instead on other platforms which also suck (podomatic, mixcloud, etc.)

This is just muddy thinking and hand waving. “Pay in the private sector” is not based on accomplishing goals at all. If it were, there wouldn’t be a huge disparity between men and women, or between those who live in Kansas City vs those who live in San Francisco. Or between those who are over six feet tall and those who are under. And you also say this as if accomplishing goals isn’t figured into teacher pay.

> In Washington State, teacher salaries were raised substantially,

Can you cite where you saw this data, what time period it refers to, what "substantially" actually means, and include a comparison against inflation, please?

> ... plus a substantial increment for every student in their class that meets grade level expectations at the end of the school year.

I think basing teacher pay on merit is a great idea in theory but I have some problems with it. Most of all, student performance is influenced to a greater degree by things outside the teacher's control like the student's socioeconomic status, their attendance (or lack thereof), their parent's education, and even the air quality in their school.

I also don't know how "teacher" raises based on "meeting grade level expectations" would work past elementary school when students are cycling through seven teachers a day? Just because one child excels at math do you give the math teacher a greater raise?

Finally, what if a student does NOT meet grade level expectations, but shows the greatest improvement year-over-year against any other student. Do you fail to recognize the achievement of the teacher who improved this student's outcome because the student does not meet grade-level expectations?

These are just some of the problems which make this a much thornier issue and worth greater consideration. It sounds good when you say teacher pay should be based on merit, but it oversimplifies things quite a bit.

Doesn't this article display a classical fallacy when it attempts to equate vastly different construction projects (building an additional highway lane vs. building a factory, for example)?

My favorite guide on this is https://phauer.com/2018/code-review-guidelines/

There are also some great things in the book, Debugging Teams, like the Humility-Respect-Trust (HRT) concept.

The Epoch Times isn’t just a “source” that some people don’t want to see. And gmail etc has a shit ton of ads. This comment isn’t a reasonable critique of the article it’s denialism at best

I didn’t even know about some of the things that the author went over in this article, but it’s undeniable that power-mad mods have ruined anything I ever enjoyed about Reddit over the past ten years. And that there seem to no longer be many interesting voices or fair debate on the site. I found myself logging in less and less over the past four years and when I do, I recognize it less and less also. It just isn’t Reddit at all these days, no matter what logo is on it

I actually agree with this. There are a bunch of low-cost ways to prototype and collect user feedback. The paper notebook idea could have started with surveying people and finding if anyone actually existed who say it would be useful and they would pay for it. Or even just launch a one-page product site with an email sign-up list to get notified when the alpha version releases and wait until it reached some critical mass. All of this would have taken less investment than actually building it first lol.

As someone who has written down probably 100's of little ideas over the years, and never built even a single one of them ... I applaud you

Yes. Mostly through word of mouth and occasionally by search for topics

Wow! I can't believe someone else had the same formative experience that I did. I remember this was how it all started in software for me! There was a local newspaper interview I did in high school (one of those "spotlight a student" type things) and I said that I wanted to work for Microsoft in it. It was all because of QBasic and Nibbles! Thanks for the write-up, that definitely brought back memories.

One way to look at it is as an opportunity for someone to come in with a third-party app that gives you a valuable YouTube feed.

Personally I don’t use the YT feed and never have. I just watch videos from channels I subscribe to

I find that it’s very hard for me to make generalizations about a whole generation of people based on a sample size of 12.

There's two separate things:

1. The "music industry" which is a carefully controlled mafia of an elite few, yet which consumes as much oxygen as possible in popular media.

2. Every other musician and artist.

The best thing you can do is go around the corner and hear a local band. Go to their merch table at the show and buy the cassette or vinyl they have for sale.

> "For centuries before recording ..."

Yeah but today there's no live music income without recorded music though. Try putting a tour together without anything released. Try telling people, "We only play live."

The only time that works is if you're playing covers. Which works because the music is circulating in recorded format.

> This take seems very slanted towards new CD sales.

Yeah, because the articles that it's commenting on are about the supposed "increase in sales" of CDs this past year. Which only includes releases in 2021.

It was refreshing to read an honest post. If more people were willing to admit they don't know something, the world would be an infinitely better place.

This is why I love Hacker News lol

This was a great read. I think the biggest takeaway I had was how some banks and credit card companies themselves are not doing a great job at building trustworthy systems. That leads consumers into treating things that seem gray, like confirmation code texts coming from unknown numbers, as credible.

Imagine you joined a year ago and your RSUs vest next week

I always thought that "Affirm" was a scam. Glad I never went in for one of their plans.

I'm skeptical when percentages are named because I remember seeing one study like this where it was like, "homicides are up 10%" and then when I looked, there were 10 homicides last year and 11 the next.

> In Seattle and other Washington cities like Olympia they just don’t have a police force that is capable or even allowed to act.

You may want to check into this a bit more. As with anything it's much more complicated than that. For example, have the Seattle "police" been defunded? In late 2020, the Seattle City Council cut less than $10M off the specific police budget, with funds specifically allocated for adding 125 officers. Meanwhile they budgeted $100M MORE for additional community safety initiatives (see https://crosscut.com/news/2020/11/seattle-cuts-doesnt-defund...).

Every time there was discussion of anything like "police reform" the past two years in Seattle, the Seattle Times ran an article with a headline like "Seattle City Council defunds police" and you would read the article and find that nothing had even changed, but that the council had just issued a statement of support for the idea of reform.

This is the kind of spin/propaganda that is happening.

There's two things happening. There's a "{{YOUR_CITY}} is dying" narrative that is constantly being pushed by far-right-owned media companies. It has been going on for years. (see https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/06/24/fac...).

And that narrative is now having some success. It is getting people to apply a confirmation bias such that they perceive their city as crime-infested.

Meanwhile, crime statistics in many (most? all?) of these cities are actually down or flat. And compared on a per-capita basis look like even weaker support for that narrative.