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calt··on The FBI now recommends using an ad blocker when searching the web
It might work for chrome since safari is actually the only browser on iOS.

Chrome iOS app is just a skin over safari with some of the history/bookmark/etc syncing.

calt··on SQLite the only database you will ever need in most cases (2021)
Your mental model of concurrency is not correct.

Node.js uses non-blocking IO to achieve massive amounts of concurrency on a single thread, while one-thread-per-request models such as PHP rely on OS threading to do the exact same thing.

If anything, the node.js model is often capable of more concurrency because of the inefficiencies involved in OS threading and context switching.

EDIT: of course, event driven PHP exist. I don't know much about the current state of it.

calt··on Let Teenagers Sleep
My public school in the US always started at 8:00.

I've never heard of a 6:15 start time.

Also, school was never a full 8 hours. So I'm confused about their reasoning.

calt··on Is Seattle a 15-minute city? It depends on where you want to walk
I think that the two go hand-in-hand. In car-centric America, if you can't meet the minimum of a car, then you can't live there. So you migrate to the city where the cost of a roof is artificially high.

And having more livable cities in America are exactly what we need to help solve the problem.

calt··on Is Seattle a 15-minute city? It depends on where you want to walk
Sounds like it used to function as something of a roundabout, and America forgotten how to navigate yielding to traffic coming from a relative direction (i.e. people already in the roundabout from your left) instead of someone always having the right of way, or the weird turn-taking stress of an all-way stop.
calt··on Housing Starts to Look the Same
What is this supposed to mean?

Why is the post cringe?

calt··on Why does it take five clicks to delete a Substack account?
> at its worst

Clearly you've never tried unsubscribing from the New York Times. I will never resubscribe to them because of how hard that process was.

However, I would hope that I don't accidentally delete an account just clicking around. A confirmation with re-entering your email seems appropriate.

Without more information it's a big shrug to me.

calt··on Americans stand united on one thing: NIMBYism (2020)
> This goes nowhere, except towards censorship.

I don’t understand what you’re talking about. How could sharing views and facts could lead towards censorship?

calt··on Americans stand united on one thing: NIMBYism (2020)
> Maybe people are capable to seeing things for themselves.

Except that no one builds their opinions in a vacuum. There are a lot of truths and viewpoints that we wouldn't consider without outside influence.

False NIMBY narratives run deep.

calt··on Salesforce, but for Dating
The little black book’s next iteration. It really is inevitable.
calt··on Salesforce, but for Dating
> Half a bit of data

I’ve never heard that idea before and I love it.

calt··on Fuckup Nights – Series of events where stories of failure are shared
Oof. That full page carousel is HARSH. Having a time limit to read the page that I'm on? No thanks.
calt··on Ask HN: Who Remembers “Abort. Retry. Fail?”
“‘Abort, Retry, Fail?’ was the phrase some wormdog scrawled next to the door of the Edit Universe project room. And when the new dataspinners started working, fabricating their worlds on the huge organic comp systems, we’d remind them: if you see this message, always choose ‘Retry.’”

— Bad’l Ron, Wakener, Morgan Polysoft

From Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (1999) when you discover Matter Editation

That game was awesome. I remember seeing it in DOS games when I was younger and laughing at the joke.

calt··on Wrap Up: Bicycle trip logistics
The Surly Long Haul Trucker is a favorite base bike.

Getting the bags and racks etc won't be included. A good local bike shop would be my bet.

calt··on The Brain on Psychedelics
I actually kind of like an MRI. The rhythmic pulsing is relaxing.

But obligatory relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/1453/

> Our fMRI study found that subjects performing simple memory tasks showed activity in the parts of the brain associated with loud noises clautrophobia, and the removal of jewelry.

calt··on Walmart, CVS face trial for homeopathic products next to real meds
Zinc is a mineral that's often good to take as a supplement. Zicam is a popular "remedy" that's homeopathic, and is almost certainly what they are referring to.

My friend bought some once and when I pointed out that it said "homeopatic" in very, very tiny text he was super upset that he'd been duped.

calt··on The Trouble with the Segway (2009)
Most importantly, smaller. Segways are Huge.
calt··on A new method boosts wind farms’ energy output, without new equipment
Wind engineers know this, but the software control work is non trivial and, apparently, simply hasn't been done.

A few years ago I was talking with a family member who is in wind power research. They were trying to convince me to start writing turbine control software because it is massively inefficient and naive.

I was shocked at some of the optimizations they are lacking.

calt··on Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after two decades
You can uninstall Apple Music. At least there's that saving grace.
calt··on Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after two decades
I ended up uninstalling Apple Music because it would similarly play the same song (I forget what it was) at surprising times.

Spotify doesn't give me the same problem.

calt··on Aerosolization of C. difficile after flushing toilets: the role of toilet lids
> hold down the flush lever

That's not what's being suggested. Slowly open the valve by slowly pressing the lever to let some water in before the valve pop all of the way open.

calt··on Aerosolization of C. difficile after flushing toilets: the role of toilet lids
Extend it, use more water, and get fewer aerosols into the air. That's the point of his post.

If you have C. diff. and don't want to spread it, it's probably worth it to spend (not waste, spend) the extra water for a slower flush if your toilet will work that way.

calt··on A Dutch city testing the future of urban life
> you'll have to hop on a bicycle

But that's exactly what you're missing. Hopping on a Dutch bicycle in a dutch city is like walking, but better. No helmet required. No hassle of dealing with cars trying to kill you. No pain from hunched over road bike posture. Just unlock your bike and go.

calt··on A Dutch city testing the future of urban life
Just move bicycles from being grouped with cars to being grouped with walking, and you're correct.

Dutch cities are designed for walking and bicycles. It helps that the bicycles are also designed for dutch cities. Upright, comfortable, a bit heavy and slow, and can be locked up for short times without needing to be locked to anything.

calt··on Don't make me think, or why I switched to Rails from JavaScript SPAs
Your sibling comment recommends the guides not the full lib docs, and, assuming your chosen technology has both, I'm inclined to agree with them.
calt··on The Revenge of the Hot Water Bottle
Heat your torso and the arms and hands will get better circulation and feel warmer as well.
calt··on How do you fix a stroad?
TLDW: A city that is less reliant on cars actually reduces congestion and makes it more pleasant to drive in a city.

Fewer cars on the road means less competition.

Bike lanes have more capacity to move people.

Well designed intersections and bike lanes mean that you aren't competing against cyclists and pedestrians for road space you're coexisting along just fine.

calt··on How do you fix a stroad?
> making pedestrians hit a beg button to cross street is just reinforcing that they are trespassing on land that is not for them.

I love this quote.

calt··on How do you fix a stroad?
> That or just let car people (majority) have these areas that are good for cars and

The idea is that a well planned city/suburb will turn car people into people that also enjoy safely not using a car some of the time.

> let the anti car people have their crowded little streets with no parking elsewhere.

Bleh. Such an us vs them mentality. I'm suspicious of cars because I have literally gotten hit by them while cycling (edit: multiple times, thank you very much). I'm not "anti car."

Try getting hit by 2 tons of metal and see how that makes you feel about safe infrastructure.

calt··on The benefits of not belonging
You’re not wrong, but…

You’re completely talking past the parent and telling them that they are wrong to feel alienated.

“You’re privileged so buck up son,” is all I hear, and it’s a ridiculous sentiment.

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