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Any corporation won't care if it comes with Linux pre-installed, as they'll want to image the machines themselves (CrowdStrike for instance).

> This is rampant human chauvinism

What in the accelerationist hell?

After going through the same pains as the author of the piece, I switched to CalDigit as well. No concerns or problems for me on a Mac for about a year. I had one that went bad, but I bought it off Ebay so I figured that might be more my fault (and it might not even be bad, I think I set it up wrong with the wrong Thunderbolt cable (too long for the power needed).

This is exactly my experience as well. I've had agents write a bit of backend code, always small parts. I'm lucky enough to be experienced enough with code I didn't write to be able to quickly debug it when it fails (and it always fails from the first run). Like using AI to write a report, it's good for outlines, but the details are always seemingly random as far as quality.

For frontend though? The stuff I really don't specialize in (despite some of my first html beginning on FrontPage 1997 back in 1997), it's a lifesaver. Just gotta be careful with prompts since so many front end frameworks are basically backend code at this point.

NYC really doesn't have this stigma at all. The narrative is more or less pushed by groups with anti-liberal agendas who want to convince people whom have never even visited NYC that it's just as bad as where they're from, when in fact the violent crime rate per capita in NYC is much lower than most medium sized midwestern and southern cities.

Celebrities, politicians, billionaires all ride the subway all the time. New Yorkers know to keep to themselves out of politeness not safety and honestly are more likely to step up and defend someone famous being harassed than join in. We're all just trying to get to where we're going and the subway is almost always the fastest and most convenient way (not to mention cheapest) to do that.

It's because the land-rights were more valuable than the steel rails, which the fiber optic companies bought up.

In my experience this is usually Spotlight indexing files/checking previous indexes etc. If you have any backup software running that will do it too.

The mayor of the town (a Republican) came out and straight up said Trump was lying about his town. The only people reporting it could barely point to the town on a map.

Macbooks do this as well automatically if kept plugged in for a certain period of time.

It's not encrypted by default, WhatsApp is.

For those who don't know: The "roomette" is still your own room, with two beds that are couches during the day, and the porter converts them and makes your bed for you. Roomettes also have a toilet in them, so if you're with someone else they may be going to the dining car for a few minutes here and there. The car itself has a shower in it as well that shared by everyone on that car. It's really fun taking a shower at 80mph.

I've done a long sleeper solo from NY -> Chicago (it's just overnight, so not as long). It was fantastic, but I got reverse seasick after getting off the train. Trying to sit on a bar stool was a challenge for about 36 hours after my inner ear had got so accustomed to the rocking of the train itself.

Even the Eastern US has to deal with river and water landings all the time. You can book a scheduled flight from the East River right in-between Manhattan and Brooklyn to Marthas Vineyard, or the Hamptons or a number of other destinations. Not to mention those happen in the middle of arguably the most complex commercial airspace in the world.

It's pretty cool to be on a ferry and see a plane land basically next to you in the middle of the river.

Here in NYC the MTA bus time app is pretty accurate, Google Maps's timing for bus arrivals I've never seen be accurate on the other hand.

It works fine for the trains and busses, you either don't live in NYC or don't know what you're talking about? The MTA app and displays are almost dead on accurate for arrival times for the busses and trains. Sometimes there's a minute or so of a difference from reality but that's more than small enough to be useful.

112 works in the reverse way in the US as well (along with 999 which is the equivalent in many other countries such as the UK). There's not really any reason not to have many numbers just in case. Tourists shouldn't have to memorize, and recall, new numbers in an emergency.

A little over 5km squared

Yea, it's not really the left that's the big proponents of this (maybe a few very fringe people). It's the ones literally given Nazi salutes at political rallies.

Sadly go look at the "masculine" channels targeting young men on YouTube (Tate and his compatriots). There's a LOT of holocaust denial, rewriting of Hitler as misunderstood etc. We're both lucky to not be exposed to it regularly, but unfortunately in my work it's a thing I have to be aware of.

Worse, an entire generation of young men especially are being told that WWII wasn't what it really was. You see the results of this in the US but also eastern Germany, Poland, Hungary, across Europe where right wing parties are on the rise substantially supported by these young men.

If you want a book in the same vein, and contemporary with Bletchley "Turning's Cathedral" by George Dyson is about the Institute for Advanced Study and the Manhattan Project. Needless to say there's a lot of overlap and it really defines the culture of computer engineering at the time.

tech has changed, but it's fundamentally doing the exact same job. GCHQ/NSA is still using the techniques pioneered at Bletchley.

WWII had little to do with America? Go look up lend/lease and then remember we were bombed by Japan. The US was intrinsically linked to WWII from the beginning, just not with troops on the ground.

Because boring and stable is good. I'm not a Django fan (Rails guy here) but it's battle tested for years, there's tons of support for it, it supports server-side rendering (not just a backend for React, which god help me if I ever have to touch that POS again), and even better people know and trust it. Go look up Meteor.js and the conversation around it 10 years ago, sounded the same, but gone and never to be heard from again.

Wired did a long-form on it too https://www.wired.com/story/delirious-violent-impossible-tru...

And often a highly exploitative one, especially for immigrants.

There's a (very good) brewery with an (excellent) tap room in Milwaukee named Third Space Brewing, not such a terrible idea. https://thirdspacebrewing.com.

I've setup and worked there many afternoons when I've been in Wisconsin. The drinking culture is different in the upper Midwest though, it's not party thing (always) as much as a social activity. You're not expected to get drunk, think France and wine.

If you can, try to rewatch it on a proper screen. The clothing and sets are incredible and the costume design and production design were nominated for an Oscar. It really deserves to be seen large.

Except those iPad apps also have to have a Web app now, and if you don't have a custom MacOS app your iPad app has to look good when run in MacOS. You then have to support all iPhone models. But also maybe Windows and probably Android. 25 years ago you could slap "IBM PC Compatible" on software and basically design for like 5 color depths and maybe a few resolutions.

Update cycles were on the order of a year, not a week (which also means all new features need to be ported to all the platforms above in that timeframe). Not even mentioning the backend infrastructure and maintenance to run and sync all of these when 25 years ago everything was on your local hard drive and maybe a floppy disk or CD-R.

Webster and a few other folks tried. It just didn't stick.

The problem here is people die when those things are removed even for a few weeks or months. You don't get to "put back" security for SSN data when it's already been accessed by foreign governments. He's not doing this in good faith, he's convinced he's the smartest man in the world and should literally be a dictator.