toddsiegel
I think that was part of Apple's rationale, that is was all coupled together. I assume that’s not the case here?
What I did not anticipate was that someone would do it with this much style.
God, I fucking love those people.
I do not know why the parent commenter chose those streets, nor what knowledge they have of the city, but if they posted 1000 more links it'd be more of the same.
Denver is not even trying. The landscape is completely dominated by cars, and utterly hostile to humans. The Mayor and City Council pay only lip service to making Denver more bike and pedestrian friendly, but little meaningful work has been done. Money has been spent, and things have been done, but none of it impactful.
In the 10 years I have lived in my house in central Denver, I cannot think of a single project, within a mile radius, that the city has planned and completed[1] that has made me feel safer as a cyclist, or pedestrian[2]. And I live in the densest part of the city, where these projects should be happening.
We even have a Vision Zero program, which is a joke. With the exception of the pandemic, traffic deaths continue to rise.
> Since Vision Zero was implemented in 2017, traffic fatalities have increased every year, except 2020, which saw a significant decrease due to stay-at-home orders and people working remotely. In 2021, traffic fatalities reached an all-time high with 84 deaths, surpassing Denver’s 2019 record high of 71 people.
This includes pedestrian deaths.
Source: https://denverite.com/2023/02/17/denvers-getting-money-to-st...
And road safety aside, bike theft is out of control in Denver. I only take my bike to do errands if I know I lock it up where lots of eyes will be on it, during daylight hours.
That all said, I am happy if the incentive program is paying off. Let's see. Maybe the city got it right. I remain skeptical, for now, given how hostile these streets are.
[1] - During the pandemic they closed 80% of the roads in Cheesman Park and have not reopened them. I am glad the city has stuck with it since it has completely transformed the feel of the place. I truly love it, more than I did before. But they did not plan this. It was a fortunate accident.
[2] - For context, my wife and I share one car, and otherwise we walk or I bike. My wife does not bike. She is afraid to, and I do not blame her.
According to them you cannot actually feel the tremors. They all live on the central south coast or eastern tip of the island, and the tremors are happening on the western half, but it’s not a terribly big place.
Hopefully this will turn out to be nothing and will just stop, but it must be very odd to have the potential of a sudden disaster unfolding, yet it seems like just another quiet day on a quiet island.
They tried to get us all freaked out that our kid had a speech delay and that we needed speech therapy, and possibly other interventions. It was obvious that he understood what we were saying and could act on what we were saying so it seemed to us like his lights were on and that the language parts of his brain were working. Plus friends of ours had been down this road and gave us similar advice.
In a few more months he started talking and talking and talking, and hasn’t shut up since.
He’s in first grade now and his teacher is super impressed with his elevated vocabulary, and generally how articulate he is.
Sometimes kids just take their time getting somewhere.
Of course, there are times when something might be genuinely wrong, but if your kid seems happy and healthy and their “lights are on”, for lack of a better expression, just enjoy the hell out of this time because it goes crazy fast, and you never get it back.
When I’m at the counter the whole thing never seems to take more than a few minutes. It’s always quick, and smooth, and I’m out of there, seemingly, in no time at all.
I desperately want to know what other people are saying or doing at the rental car counter.
The evening before Thanksgiving we got some flurries, and that’s about it. Nothing I’d call “measurable”.
In September I also recall a few pleasantly rainy days, but overall it’s been uncharacteristically dry and warm. It’s going to cool off next week, but it’s mostly been in the 60s lately with a few days in the 50s or 70s.
I also only blew out my sprinklers last weekend because we’ve only had one or two light frosts. That’s the latest ever for me by over a month.
Sometimes I want watch a show I like, but don’t care which episode it is.
My wife’s and my workaround is that one of us picks a season number and the other an episode number, without looking. Then we commit and watch it. Avoids a bunch of analysis paralysis.
https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2013/01/16/169511949/a...
But then again, sometimes kids reject the stuff you into, just because. They’re excellent trolls that way. :-D
My major criticism in the past was the difficulty of migration, but that seems to be better addressed in this version. (I have not yet tried to migrate, though).
Keep up the great work Bootstrap team!
> Colorado is one of nearly two-dozen states that have passed laws, usually directly written by regional telecom monopolies, that hamstring or prevent the creation of such networks.
> But in Colorado’s case, the state’s 2005 law included language that allows local towns and cities to opt-out of the restriction if voters agree to do so.
W.r.t. Denver, the headline overstates things a bit, but the contents of the article are accurate.
https://www.denverpost.com/2020/10/08/denver-issue-2h-broadb...
I never consciously realized how many ways there are to pronounce "ough". And not a single one makes sense.
That said, I am amazed at how quickly he's figuring it all out.
AWS might be a common link. I saw some CloudFront errors, but their status page is green top to bottom at the moment.
Heroku and Github have incidents on their status pages now, BTW.
I work in a coworking space. They’re not quite comfortable enough to wear continuously all day. If you take periodic breaks, and remove them when you go to the bathroom, get coffee, take a walk, that’s enough make it so you can keep them in while working at your desk.
Breaks are good so I don’t really count this as a negative.
They even perform well in super noisy coffee shops.
I have had very poor results using people who have a full-time job and are trying out freelancing as a side gig. They rarely seem to be able complete the work on time, and of the quality you desire.
It's never due to a lack of technical skill. It's in part because they seem to lack time and energy to do the work after grinding it out all day at full time job. But more importantly, they seem to lack the time-management, and communication skills to manage the work.
An experienced freelancer can juggle multiple projects, but someone coming from a single-focus, full-time job often cannot.
I think this is why a lot of people dabble in freelancing, fail and go back to full-time work.
Edit: This is more a general note, and not about Upwork specifically, but the same definitely applies.
I am not sure where you live, but I find the opposite is true. Where I live, in Denver, CO, USA, I have found that my city council members and state reps are often responding to emails directly since they have little or no staff.
I have found them to be super receptive and easy to talk to. If you have concerns, and you are polite and thoughtful, your ideas will carry weight with them.
This is very important, esp. in light the recent US Supreme Court decision on this subject[1]. Gerrymandering creates safe districts that make primaries hold increasingly more weight then general elections, which is leading, in a significant way, toward our increasingly hyper-partisan politics in the US.
In some states this also heavily tilts the balance of power to one party over the other.
The bottom line is this. Fairer redistricting will lead to more competitive races, which will lead to less partisan, saner politics with more compromise. (Oh dear god I hope!)
Related: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/voters-are-stripping...
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/us/politics/supreme-court...
I was specifically referring the "last mile" of distribution that gets it to my front door. I want to go to the store, and pore the produce.
I don't think Amazon, or grocery-start-up-of-the-month is going to fix that by removing people further from their food. They seem to optimizing for convenience, not the problem I referred to.
However... it's tough to beat the humble Fuji, IMO.
At peak freshness they are sweet, a little tart with hints of honey, and last pretty long. I feel I can find decent Fujis into late winter, at my local grocery.
I was briefly enamored by the Honeycrisp, but they are not as consistently good as Fujis and almost twice the price.
This winter I discovered Jazz apples. They taste good, but more importantly they are often hard like rocks. I detest even the slightest bit a mealiness, and Jazz are a great late season apple. When the Fujis looked shabby, I'd pick up some Jazz.
Incidentally, this is why I'll never use a grocery delivery service. I love food, I love cooking and am choosey about what I eat. I actually like going to the store and looking over the fruit, and chatting up the person behind the meat counter, etc. It'd be a shame if this ever went away. Don't disrupt grocery distribution. Disrupt whatever incentives that took carrots and made them taste like cardboard, instead of the sweet carrots I remember from my childhood.
I often think of NASA as exceptionally serious people, but it never seems to stop them from adding a bit of humor and fun to their work.
It is a good idea to discuss with stakeholders, at a high level, why things _seem_ to take long, but I find that works best as a conversation. No one wants a tome like this in their inbox.