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timgilbert··on NYC Mesh Begins Broadband Expansion in Brooklyn
I believe that's one of the LinkNYC kiosks on Smith St. I wasn't aware they were part of this mesh, although the nycmesh site says they've "become unreliable":

https://docs.nycmesh.net/installs/linknyc/

timgilbert··on $1B for 20,000 Bay Area homes
While I don't have specific knowledge about earthquakes effecting zoning laws, there was a very real cultural resistance to building dense housing in the 60's and 70's, when the the term of art in the Bay Area was "Manhattanization," and which was almost certainly more of a factor than earthquake-proofing the buildings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattanization

timgilbert··on How I Eat for Free in NYC Using Python, Automation, AI, and Instagram
You're assuming that all 30,000 followers are actual people rather than more bots or spam accounts.
timgilbert··on A Brief History of the System: How We Built Dystopia
Hey, you got your Jordan Peterson in my Time Cube!
timgilbert··on Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text
While I generally like ConEmu, I personally find the multi-line selection to be pretty poor compared to something like iTerm2. (The way the selection buffer stays at the same coordinates while the text underneath it scrolls up isn't all that awesome either.)
timgilbert··on Don’t buy the MacBook Pros even on sale, in my opinion
Presumably they attribute any failures in typing to the chronic headaches they have from walking into Apple's invisible walls too often.
timgilbert··on Nerves – Craft and deploy bulletproof embedded software in Elixir
In particular, the elixir_ale library is a very pleasant interface to various bits of hardware you might want to interact with at the GPIO/i2c/etc level.

https://github.com/fhunleth/elixir_ale

timgilbert··on Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance risk than Facebook
I agree, though I'd say that this is because of general ISP incompetence, not because the ISPs don't want to do this.
timgilbert··on The Cambridge Analytica scandal isn’t a scandal: this is how Facebook works
I believe that many organizations are actively working in opposition to Trump using these kinds of psychographic tools, but I'm not really convinced that the upswellings of public sentiment are mostly, or even largely, the result of their efforts. Just reporting factual information about what his administration is doing works fairly well to alienate large parts of the nation which aren't part of his political base, and their opposition seems like a natural consequence of his administration's decision to govern from the far right. I think you should give people some credit for having good-faith opinions of their own.
timgilbert··on Police Say Uber Is Likely Not at Fault for Self-Driving Car Fatality in Arizona
Sure, but presumably that's because a human wouldn't be able to see the pedestrian in the dark; you would expect LIDAR to be able to detect them and so the autonomous car should have had the same chances to spot this person in the daytime or the nighttime.
timgilbert··on Ask HN: Who's using Clojure, and to do what?
CircleCI uses ClojureScript and Om for their front-end (and I think Clojure on the back-end too, though I don't have details).
timgilbert··on “Insanity Is Doing the Same Thing and Expecting Different Results”
Or trained for a marathon, or practiced playing chess to improve their skills.
timgilbert··on Genius laid off a bunch of its engineers
Well, I guess that explains why it's so widely-used for stuff other than rap lyrics then.
timgilbert··on Curl vs. Wget
HTTPie is amazing for working with JSON/REST interfaces. It's really succinct and generally designed with user-friendliness in mind, versus supporting every nook and cranny of the HTTP RFCs. It's installable via homebrew for Mac users.

Whenever I go back to curl I feel the same minor aggravation I do when moving from homebrew back to apt (want to install? apt-get. Search? apt-cache search. List? dpkg. Remove? apt-get again, for some reason). It's just not a very user-friendly CLI and I'm constantly pulling up the curl man pages.

timgilbert··on Datomic: The most innovative DB you've never heard of
Could you elaborate on that? What don't you like about the EULA?
timgilbert··on Clojure Community Night
Also the .key file only seems to include the first 7 slides, so it's a bit hard to follow the talk. Very interesting presentation though, thanks!
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