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Really fascinating looking at the block my office building is on and it looking nearly identical to today. Its an interesting thought that people have had a similar experience walking down that block for the past 70-80 years.

So for a little anecdata:

My company maintains offices in NYC and Boston (among others). We chose not to renew our Boston lease and are in the middle of breaking our NYC lease. We do still intend to maintain physical offices, but they will be much smaller and used mainly for meetings. Once its safe, employees will likely only be going in 2-3 times a week if they are near an office. I doubt there will be assigned desks in our new offices.

My left AirPod pro began rattling. It's obviously annoying/upsetting that this is an issue, but AppleCare+ support was awesome. I chatted with Apple on a Thursday and on Friday I had a new left AirPod Pro via overnight mail. No cost to me.

I live in Jersey City and in March the mayor instituted an executive order capping delivery commissions to 10%. The effect of this was every Uber Eats order had a $3 "Executive Order Surcharge" for deliveries in Jersey City. They just removed the surcharge after the NJ legislation/governor passed a law making the cap state-wide.

If this is passed, I'm waiting for the inevitable data breach of US elected officials' personal/private data.

I’ve been hoping for this too. So there’s at least two of us.

Yes that’s a solution to the problem but it shouldn’t be the solution.

Why should I have to give up my coworkers, my domain specific knowledge, my job just to get paid what I’m worth?

I bemoan the fact that there are so few 16:10's on the market and nothing high resolution. 16:10 is such a great aspect-ratio and the extra vertical screen real-estate is very useful when programming.

It is interesting to see some laptops move off of 16:9 to 16:10 or 3:2. This gives me hope that we'll see new/better 16:10 panels.

From the linked documentation:

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> There are four system-wide options that manage how updates are handed:

> - refresh.timer: defines the refresh frequency and schedule

> - refresh.hold: delays the next refresh until the defined time and date

> - refresh.metered: pauses refresh updates when network connection is metered

> - refresh.retain: sets how many revisions of a snap are stored on the system"

>

I think people would be much happier with snap if there was a `refresh.off` option.

If that's too over-the-line for Canonical, a `refresh.prompt` with a dismissible nag-message would be better.

For context: https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768

There's a project/movement forming to gather police data and make it accessible. They are working on scrapers and filing FOIA requests for the information.

They are calling for volunteers and need technical folks like us.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataPolice/wiki/how_to_contribute

Now that I think about it, you are right about there being more concessions. You are seeing a lot of "2-3 months free" listings now.

Anyone seeing a similar dip in the NYC metropolitan area? I've been casually watching rents and not seeing much of a dip. It seems that there are less units available as well, so perhaps that is counterbalancing a decrease in demand.

Another plus is you are not potentially leaking information about your users to a third party.

> Nearly 50 percent of people experienced time dragging during March, whereas about 24 percent perceived it to be speeding up.

For me it's been a paradoxical blend of the two, months seem to drag on forever, but the week blazes by. Every time we get to Friday it feels as if Monday was just a day or two ago.

Bizarre.

I am curious why you think this. This may have been true like 10 year ago, but in my experience modern .NET and especially .NET Core has great tooling. What in particular do you find lacking?

I recently went down this path. I discovered the WiX MSI toolkit and it was very smooth. If you ever find yourself needing to create an installer and haven’t used it, give it a look. It can install dependencies, customize the UI, create/start/stop/remove Windows services, configure IIS websites, and run custom actions.

It’s all done via declarative XML and made my life much easier.

This works if you stay with the company you were working for in NYC/SF and then transition to being remote.

I use namecheap which has two-factor authentication, domain locks, and support pins.

I completely agree re: Retina. All laptop manufacturers should take a cue from apple and focus on DPI rather than resolution. Ideally, DPI should be fixed across screen sizes.

If you use an email provider to host your domain's email (e.g. Fastmail, GSuite, etc.), I believe you're actually increasing your risk factor.

The security of your identity will depend on your registrar, your DNS provider, and your email provider.

This doesn't always produce a new word. I got "metamucil", a brand of fiber supplement.

https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/metamucil/eyJ3IjogIm1...

edit: also got "redbull" https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/redbull/eyJ3IjogInJlZ...

One worry about tying your identity to your own domain, is the security of your identity (aka your domain) hinges on the security of your registrar. If a bad actor can socially engineer their way into controlling your domain, your entire identity is compromised.

Here's a blog post about this nightmare happening to someone: https://medium.com/@N/how-i-lost-my-50-000-twitter-username-...

Yesterday, I priced out the 13-inch MBP and the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition (Ubuntu 18.04). The config was:

- 32GB of RAM

- 1TB SSD

- 10th generation i7

- 3 year extended warranty with accident protection.

With taxes, the MBP came to just about $3.1k, and the XPS 13 was just under $2500. The XPS 13 also came with an UHD 4k touch screen (higher res than the MBP). The price difference was nearly $600. If you drop the 4k touch screen on the XPS and opt for the 1080p screen, the price difference is almost $900.

The other thing the XPS comes with that the MBP does not is physical function keys.

I'm having a tough time justifying the Apple premium here. I love the polish of macOS and the MBP's build quality/industrial design, but how much is that premium worth?

I'm curious if choosing the MBP and paying the premium is worth it for other people.

I would also be great if there was a way to export all of my OTP secrets out of the iOS version of Google Authenticator.

On a bit of a tangent here, but good commit messages are another thing I really appreciate 6 months later.

My company cannot run our infrastructure in the cloud because we do performance/availability monitoring from ~700 PoP’s around the world.

Not running our infrastructure in the cloud is part of our value proposition.

Our customers depend on us to detect and alert them when their services go down. We _have_ to be operational when the cloud providers are not, otherwise we aren’t providing our customer with a valuable service.

Another reason we don’t run in the cloud is because we store a substantial amount of data that is ever increasing. It’s cheaper to run our own SAN in a data center than to store and query it in the cloud.

The final reason is our workloads aren’t elastic. Our CPU’s are never idle. In that type of use case, it’s cheaper to own the hardware.

Maybe your particular development environment(s) don't use function keys, but I find function keys indispensable when debugging. Most debuggers I use have the function keys mapped for step-over, step-out, and step-into.

The editors and IDEs I use also generally use the function keys for code-search, goto-defintion, and symbol-rename.

For me (and I suspect many others), the lack of tactile function keys is a productivity hit.

Half as Interesting has a good YouTube video about this:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Wg_uXCYeZ30

This reminds me of a Planet Money podcast where they try to figure out the characteristics of the most typical American, or as they put it "who is the person I'm most likely to run into?"

To construct this archetype, they used the mode of various dimensions rather than the median or average.

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/28/755191639/episode-936-the-mod...