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I'm coming around to the possibility that I may want a Fitbit Air on one wrist and a dumb watch on the other.

I would love to move to whatever planet you're living on. To me the estimate seems low.

As is driving alone in a car

I'd much rather be surrounded by people wearing earbuds than have people watching tiktoks through their phone speakers on the subway

Yes, and? What is your threat model here?

This is an easy fix. Ditch the HOV element and make the lane toll-only. Tolls already encourage carpooling -- more people in the car means less toll per occupant.

I assure you we sing it sometimes!

> given the incredible preservation that Dolphin provides for their original versions.

Does cemu not provide comparable preservation for the HD versions? I played through both WW:HD and TP:HD on my Steam Deck using cemu and found it a great experience.

Trump will certainly consider this provocation, so perhaps the news here is that Amazon considered this worth it, even given the inevitable retaliation.

I would be shocked if the rust documentation didn't explain very clearly how to bootstrap rustc starting from gcc

The strike emphasizes the importance of automation. We should be prioritizing the investments that will allow us to fire as many of them as possible as soon as possible.

I'm a little confused about when I'd use this, if I'm quickly iterating on code as I develop it, probably I also want to know whether it type checks, right?

I've been using this workflow with hg and it's great, happy to see a git port

The article makes it sound like the system was using eval (probably on a per-request basis, not just on start-up), and also like ceasing to use eval was pretty trivial once they realized eval was the problem. I'd be curious why they were using eval and what they were able to do instead.

Seems like the solution here is to set up buildifier so that it can send out robot CLs on an ongoing basis.

As I recall McCartney didn't like the idea of Live And Let Die being parodied as Chicken Pot Pie, since he's vegetarian. Funny thing is so's Al.

Submission title mentions NDA but the article also mentions a non disparagement agreement. "You can't give away our trade secrets" is one thing but it sounds like they're being told they can't say anything critical of the company at all.

The article doesn't seem to make any attempt at all to defend the first half of its thesis.

Coming at this from a naive outsider perspective, the central problem described in the post (commits to PostgreSQL frequently have serious defects which must be addressed in follow-up commits) seems like one that would ideally be addressed with automated testing and CI tooling. What kind of testing does the Postgres project have? Are there tests which must pass before a commit can be integrated in the main branch? Are there tests that are only run nightly? Is most core functionality covered by quick-running unit tests, or are there significant pieces which can only be tested by hours-long integration tests? How expensive is it, in machine-hours, to run the full test suite, and how often is this done? What kinds of requirements are in place for including new tests with new code?

I actually prefer to add a passing test asserting the bug exists in one commit, then fix the bug and reverse the sense of the test in a second commit. The second commit is now more or less self documenting -- this case used to produce this buggy behavior but now produces correct behavior -- and the fact that the test originally passed provides proof that the test is capable of detecting a regression.

Sounds nice. I've personally spoken on the phone with a police officer who told me he'd involve CPS if he saw my daughter walking (two blocks!) to school again.

This was my experience. There's this narrative that you move away from your parents and you have the freedom and independence they were previously denying you, and I'm sure that's very much the case for many people but it's not as though my parents were ever trying to keep me from going places and seeing people, the built environment where I grew up (suburb of Los Angeles) did that.

I'm strongly in favor of expanding the US social safety net, but I don't want to neglect other obvious factors here. Dutch children are able to walk or bike outside unsupervised. In the US they'd risk either being killed by a driver, or stopped by an overzealous neighbor or police officer. I think this kind of freedom of movement has a big effect on happiness, it certainly did for me.

ETA relevant links: https://youtube.com/@NotJustBikes https://letgrow.org/

If you're a child, or someone too disabled to drive, driving is consistently something being done to you

I would never recommend this methodology to a friend or a family member. Drivers are vindictive, violent people and the risk is too high to be worth it.

Still, I appreciate the people who do it.

This neglects the classic paper published in The Annals of Improbable Research, The Effects of Peanut Butter on the Rotation of the Earth: https://improbable.com/airchives/classical/articles/peanut_b...

The author refers to no metrics at all other than their invented one (the hot water rectangle) and then makes no attempt to motivate it by connecting it with something someone living in the home might care about. Does a smaller hot water rectangle mean less energy consumed? Faster hot water at the tap? Hotter water at the tap in steady state? Would other interventions (insulation on the pipes, say) improve these metrics at lower cost? We don't know.