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All but one state (in '19) was under single party control. https://twitter.com/ncslorg/status/1060137062853160961?lang=...

Do you have a source pointing at that common definition? I lived a majority of my life in the West US (ID, MT, WA), and have never heard North Dakota referred to as the West.

Maybe it's a Canadian thing? -100W is the border of Manitoba and Alberta?

Is biweekly twice a week or every two weeks? My previous gig had grooming/internal grooming every week. We had stand ups twice a week (biweekly). Almost all of these meetings were relatively worthless imo. They existed to justify a BA's position and "track velocity".

What's a suburb? Depending on the level of density and sentiment about public parks (poor people's lawns v. a public good), some relatively low density places are better about public bathrooms. Boise is something like 5K people per sq. mile downtown, but there's public bathrooms at regular intervals on the Greenbelt in places at lower 3K densities.

As homelessness has gotten worse though, there's been noticeable encampments/vehicle caravans building up at these bathrooms.

I actually still use it all the time. Just a habit from when I started using what was then OS X in '08.

Not quite the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-Nation_Alliance.

Never felt quite as old as watching that.

Indolence when you get don't get more out of extra work is a logical response.

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/407177/windowserve... started happening in Big Sur to me.

Property taxes can go to _those people_ who can't afford to live in your burbclave.

We're using https://next.yarnpkg.com/features/zero-installs, and it gets rid of one off issues like this (unless you have native deps which require an install).

Typescript works perfectly well without classes, even better sometimes (see decorators and Typescript).

The shape of data is more foundational than classes. An object without a class is a perfectly good way to organize data too, based on its shape.

In German, the vowels between schwül and schwul were really difficult to do for me as an American English speaker. I couldn't ever hear the difference between rounded and unrounded vowels. American English vowels are only rounded in the back. u and o (and in the East the au in caught).

Almost certain that macOS opens everything in my default browser of choice when clicking on a link in AirMail (Firefox).

Voiceless phonemes(?) tend to become voiced when they're between two vowels. Boise natives hypercorrect to say Boy-see, when most folks from outside the area say Boy-zee.

Historic shifts like that are loafes -> loaves.

https://overreacted.io/algebraic-effects-for-the-rest-of-us/ shows how OCaml's influence is part of hooks too.

QWERTY is awful for programming. I use https://www.kaufmann.no/roland/dvorak/. which puts control characters on the number row. `&[{}(=*)+]` is 1 to 0.

Starcraft II had a grid (I don't remember the actual name) mode keyboard layout that worked perfectly with Dvorak without having to remap keys.

Other games like the Java version of minecraft didn't work with Dvorak when I tried them. Even with key remapping.

macOS is macOS because the latest version is now 11.2.3. They could have gone with OS XI though.

French food is generally a different level of prestige than pirogis and gobs.

As someone who is fourth generation Polish in America--basically all that's left at that point is food and people butchering your last name--is that even though pirogi is plural in Polish, plenty of Americans have made pirogis the plural in English.

It does indeed. Thanks!

Is there a similar source that would let you compare MSAs for building of housing units? I'd be interested to see how Boise's MSA lines up with the Bay Area. Most Californian transplants I'd met growing up in the area were from Sacremento/SoCal though.

Boston does this better, where if there isn't traffic, sirens aren't run. At night, sirens are relatively rare. Especially compared to Seattle and Boise where I've also lived.

In Germany, I only ever heard a couple sirens the whole time I lived there, and none directly on my street.

Is Deno intended to be used with JS? I was under the impression it was a TS runtime.

Marines certainly are closer to harms way generally was the impression I got.

As the child of an enlisted Air Force solidier who served for 20 years, I always thought the Air Force got the worst rap of the branches. The "chair force" moniker didn't help.

By that logic, is https://json-schema.org/ is the reimposition of a schema within JSON?

While car safety has improved[1], for places where people still walk regularly like NY and Boston, going way over the speed limit is dangerous to people that don't happen to be in cars.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-08-12/why-are-c...

Let them eat Texan cake.