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Re:Toll signs on 101 report your transponder setting on Friday March 11, 2022 @12:58AM (#30636798)
New bus lanes on 85 were on the table as part of the Policy Advisory Board’s work. Haven’t been able to find any news on what’ll happen with those, unfortunately.
This may be true in suburban USA, but at least in European cities, sidewalks are used by pedestrians. You have to be alert riding a bike, but it’s a far cry from attempting to weave through foot traffic. The narrower roads also allow for quicker traffic light cycles, which is nicer than waiting a few minutes to cross your average suburban US arterial.
Re:One Bad Apple on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @01:33AM (#28138384)
You’re right, I was thinking about a breach of privacy in general instead of actual legal consequences. (Though the possibility of governments backdooring Apple’s servers to access decrypted files stands, that shouldn’t make a difference with this iCloud-Photos-only spyware)
Re:One Bad Apple on Monday August 09, 2021 @07:58AM (#28115644)
It seems that Apple does not need to be a co-conspirator, and that it would be sufficient if someone added ‘malicious’ hashes to the NCMEC database.
Vienna built a bunch of social housing under social-democratic rule to decrease rents, and unlike most other cities, they opened it to a relatively wide income bracket. The value added, if you want to call it that, is _less_ money is spent on rents in the city. Supposedly, a majority of units in Vienna still falls under social-housing restrictions, though I don't have the time to dig deeper now and so I can't tell you what proportion is directly owned by a public enterprise and what proportion is housing co-ops (a somewhat popular model in Europe).
In Vienna, you could rent from a city-owned enterprise.
Hate when people earn enough to live in the city they work in.
Re:The coming automation of propaganda on Saturday August 10, 2019 @01:38AM (#20660402)
Emails are optional on reddit.
2): Haskell.
Re:Headless CMS Is Killing the Buy vs. Build Decision on Friday July 19, 2019 @01:32PM (#20480717)
Hm, stable file formats... LaTeX doesn’t seem to be going anywhere ;)
Re:A giant whiteboard for $14 plus nails on Monday July 08, 2019 @04:39AM (#20380967)
Ikea's “Gerton” tabletop (90€ / $100. 155×75cm = 61×29.5”) is really, really nice — it uses ≈5cm-wide beech hardwood strips glued together and reinforced across the width with some metal . It works with Bekant legs (if you have a 10mm wood bit and some masking tape handy), which are also available as sit/stand legs (that's 430€ / $350, though. the non-adjustable ones are a lot cheaper.)
There are large wildlife preservation efforts in the Bay Area marshlands (particularly near shoreline park) that would be destroyed.
Re:Tesla Model 3 spoofed off the highway on Thursday June 20, 2019 @03:08PM (#20236181)
Yep, should work on those hundreds-of-miles-straight midwest roads ;)
Re:Tesla Model 3 spoofed off the highway on Thursday June 20, 2019 @02:56PM (#20236060)
Onboard computers can have compasses and a pretty good idea of how fast they're going. You could just be monitoring for any weird jumps or incongruences (eg. there is a road here, but it's at a different angle than the GPS signal indicates, the path recently followed doesn't match up with the map based on current GPS reading, ...) assuming you have good enough accuracy and can track it over time.
Re:Ask HN: Was my job posting hidden from who's hiring? on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @02:23PM (#19800084)
No, it's just not on the first page. (Try the "More" link at the bottom of the page.)
Sure, though it’s still a web technology taking over an otherwise unrelated space ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Can't help being reminded of that talk by Gary Bernhardt: “The Birth & Death of JavaScript”[0] — exploring a hypothetical future where JS takes over everything without (most) anyone using it of their own volition.

0: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

Re:Google Maps: Bird Mode on Sunday February 24, 2019 @10:01AM (#19238774)
emasculated → emaciated?
Re:Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018? on Sunday December 23, 2018 @04:24PM (#18748430)
Yes. I no longer had a need for it after leaving the private group I joined for.
Re:I Found the Best Burger Place in America, Then I Killed It on Friday November 16, 2018 @01:02PM (#18470532)
That can happen when the votes all occur in short succession.
As a ballpark for expenses: I know people paying well under €300 per month for rent in smaller cities. €2/day lunch at university is possible (though not necessarily tasty).
Re:To Grok a Mockingbird on Monday September 10, 2018 @01:37PM (#17953498)
FYI, your use of JS's `Map` class is wrong: `(new Map())['entries']` isn't undefined. The `get(k)`/`set(k, v)` methods should be used in this case.
Re:Introducing SnapKit on Friday June 15, 2018 @02:06AM (#17317817)
I want to be cynical about this, but they're genuinely kind of cool. (Maybe not the log-in thing, OAuth is more than enough [0])

[0]: https://xkcd.com/927/

I've got a gut feeling that judges will be pretty reasonable here, but I guess only time will tell.
I’d be very interested in hearing the counterarguments to this comment instead of just seeing downvotes.
Re:San Francisco’s Seismic Gamble on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @04:10PM (#16861860)
IIRC, Las Vegas is also pretty high on that list, hence the data centers.
note on [3]: This year’s first flea market was on March 10th, 2018 :)
Re:2017 Tax Software Developer's Guides and Test Cases on Saturday April 07, 2018 @11:59PM (#16784533)
That's actually what I was looking for when I found this. Sadly, it doesn't look like there is (but contact me if you find one!)

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