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Dissolving Atherton and replacing it all with dense housing would be so satisfying.

I suspect there's enough political influence in that town to prevent it from happening

MacBeath is an amazing wood store, but its on the opposite end of the spectrum in terms of cost and practicality from Urban Ore.

I can't think of a project that would be served by a visit to both.

That being said, 100% agree that its worth checking out.

Good.

The city needs to stop living in the past

I worked on tooling for a fairly large JDK based monorepo using vanilla gradle + some custom tooling. It worked well until we acquired companies and became more polyglot. If I were doing it again today I'd probably go with Bazel

The best thing about waymos is the screen that shows the machine vision and object identification. It sees all the cars, bikes, pedestrians, buses in a full 360 degree circle around the vehicle. It can make good predictions about what each one is doing.

This visual makes it clear how much better it is at driving than humans. There aren't blind spots, it stops at stop signs, it doesn't dangerously speed around corners.

Human drivers create a lot of dangers for pedestrians and cyclists in the city.

This sounds similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking which is a concept that's been around for a while, but would probably be way easier with a well tuned AI model

Isn't dataloss the main selling feature of redis /s

I believe that the conflict over masks stemmed from a fundamental difference in perspective.

Masks work great at blocking transmissions even if the fit is bad, much like covering your mouse when you sneeze.

Masks CAN work great at blocking absorption if fitted properly, but thats hard to do correctly

If you are a fundamentally selfish person you only care about whether masks prevent YOU from getting COVID, you don't care about spreading it.

If you are non-selfish, then you probably care about both yourself and the broader community well being and are not only concerned about catching covid yourself, but also spreading covid to other people.

I think its hard for these two groups to interact because there's not much common ground.

I would argue that if you only care about your own risk of catching COVID and don't have training on N95 masks, then the argument that masks aren't worth the hassle is probably right.

I recall seeing this photo back in the 90s and it seemed like the pinnacle of display technology

https://web.archive.org/web/20110927044427/https://geek.com/...

Back in the day (~1998) when I was doing Q1 map development I used a tool called QuArk.

For laughs/nostalgia from this post I decided to Google the editor, figuring that it would have been mostly lost to history.

NOPE! I was very wrong. There was a new release today.

The community around these games is really amazing.

I kinda don’t want things that have spinning blades running Doom

Also, let’s not forget that much of the seafood coming from South East Asia has a high risk of using slave labor.

Make your own decisions about what that means for you.

It’s more expensive, but there is a lot of seafood that’s produced in the US. No guarantees of humane treatmenr, but I bet much better than East Asia.

This is really going to impact how I play Wingspan.

I wonder if the Google and such will be remembered like bell labs in 50 years?

I learned about RDC engines from this great video https://youtu.be/fRMMSyCcTDI?si=ccXeWtJ7N3oibyuH

Often times I think lawsuit culture in the US is ridiculous, but maybe its justified in some cases. I'm astounded that he only got $180k from these lawsuits. I would expect a conviction like this to result in sums that would bankrupt the news paper. Even if dozens of other celebrities got the similar amounts it would be low. Also this article doesn't discuss the felony aspects of phone hacking. Was it not illgeal in the UK in the 90s?

I wouldn’t call Fitbit a “tech giant” unless they’re referring to google

The team's I'm talking about don't meet in person that often. Once or twice per year. Every month feels like a good cadence to develop and maintain good relationships.

I should push for more frequent meet ups. Given how spread out people are this is certainly difficult.

I know that the common perspective on HN is that remote work is good. Certainly, as a senior engineer and parent I appreciate the flexibility that remote work provides.

However I think there’s a huge problem that’s silently growing. New engineers are falling behind. We’re growing a generation that isn’t developing some critical social skills. They’re not learning how to effectively learn from their peers. Maybe this is simply a set of skills they’ll develop later, but I worry about their future careers. I don’t know the reasons that these big company’s are choosing to force RTO, but I do know that colocated teams have a better culture and perform better.

I wish I could take a flight on it. Seems fun.

There's a lot of haters in this thread. You don't need to use Java.

I don't use Java day to day anymore, but I'm excited to see the language evolve. I would highly recommend watching some of the talk from the Java architects. They're very smart and have thought a lot about how to design languages. Java obviously prioritizes different things than newer language, so decisions are always made in the context of maintain backwards compatibility.

Biscuits (UK) as in Cookies (USA) ?

Does it matter if they never tow anything? People want to be ABLE to tow something. Every truck commercial features giant trails or a loader dumping rocks into the bed. Probably <10% of pick up trucks owners ever do this, but people still like the image of having a truck than can do this.

This is definitely a parody. I assume, in response to the open office discussions from a few weeks ago.

What's with people (boomers?) obsession with "Rock'n'Roll"?

It seems like there's been a constant conversation over the last 30? years about what is and isn't rock'n'roll. I simply don't understand why people are so focused on some ultra-specific definition of what music is.

Can you just choose to listen to the music you want and choose to go or not go to specific shows?

I don't know if OP is intentionally trying to ragebait readers here or not, but it certainly feels that way.

I get it, you're an old man who is angry that the world isn't the same as when you were 18 and happy.

Most cities have Hotels in very specifically zoned neighborhoods. Sometimes these are in neighborhoods you actually want to be in sometimes not.

AirBnBs allows you to stay in neighborhoods where people actually live. This is a huge difference for a lot of folks.

I guess I'm not the only one watching For All Mankind this week.

This kind of nuclear research is obviously way less popular these days, but I do wonder if these engines could be made more practically with today's technology. Surely a lot of the dangerous testing could be replaced with simulation.

edit: Looks like there is some research being done, https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2023-07-26

Is that what's happening here? Has law enforcement become more intense over the last 15 years? I feel like its become less intense but the drugs have still become more potent.

Sesame oil is the worst. It has a shelf-life of a week or two.