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givemefive··on Is California Bailing Out Tesla through the Backdoor?
Never really noticed it until I started a new job and they were pitching all these federal and company commuter benefits and didn't see a single one for bikes.

But hey.. my work has a nice locker room that makes biking possible so it's not all bad! I also ride about half the way on bike paths under high voltage lines so I do get some benefits :)

givemefive··on Is California Bailing Out Tesla through the Backdoor?
yeah as someone that bikes 25 miles per day for commute it kinda bothers me how many tax breaks are given to other forms of commute like trains, buses, vansharing, EV, etc.
givemefive··on Ask HN: Which wireless router do you use at home?
Cool didn't know about LEDE, I use the iPhone app to manage the ubiquiti. But I don't really need to manage much. Just upgraded the firmware once...
givemefive··on Ask HN: Which wireless router do you use at home?
a ubiquiti AC-lite with pfsense on an APU2

I'd rather have my wifi be a black box that just works and my router be a little more just raw hardware with openbsd or linux or pfsense.

givemefive··on Architect explains why large development in LA seems to be luxury development
they only build luxury developments in dallas too.. it's not exactly rocket science as too why.. the land is expensive and they need a ROI.

they take care of parking with prefabricated 5 story garages.

givemefive··on Roomba Inventor Joe Jones on His New Weed-Killing Robot
I don't really understand what he's talking about. Most farm equipment nowadays has thousands in dollars of GNSS equipment and a multitude of other sensors.
givemefive··on Stopping the Internet of Noise – A useful internet back again
Yeah meta-moderation, limited mod points and a secret algorithm for earning mod points based on reputation works pretty well. Oh.. and a maximum score for comments.
givemefive··on A shift in China to less toxic coatings for containers increases shipping costs
even if the containers are made with corten, it's not good for sea. The protective rust keeps getting washed off by the rain and the salt is too much for it to handle. Ends up rusting just as bad..
givemefive··on Casper, Mattress Maker, Raises $170M and Plans I.P.O
couple hundred times?

So you're saying my $800 mattress cost $4 to make and deliver?

ok dude..

I could see the markup being twice or even a little more than twice, but not 200x

givemefive··on Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Climbing World Reels
free or aided?

Most people climb el capitan aided.

givemefive··on 22-Year-Old Lidar Whiz Claims Breakthrough
There's a video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AasQG3fR8Mo
givemefive··on CEOs Want Their Offices Back
I re-bought everything, chair, monitor stand, electronically raising desk, keyboard, two vertical mice - for left hand and right hand. I didn't find it that hard to use a left handed mouse as a right handed person but your mileage may vary. I swap between the two throughout the day.

I think out of all of those, having the monitor at the right height, vertical mouse, kinesis advantage and then using a pomodoro timer are the best bang for buck. The standing desk is nice but not really essential in my opinion. Just getting up and walking after a 25-30m pomodoro session is good enough.

givemefive··on CEOs Want Their Offices Back
I love it SO much. I wouldn't be able to be a software engineer without it. The amount of neck, shoulder, elbow, forearm, wrist and hand pain I once had is now gone completely. Not to mention I am a much faster and more accurate typist.
givemefive··on CEOs Want Their Offices Back
I have a proper keyboard[1], thank you very much. It also destroys a Microsoft Sculpt in terms of ergonomics.

1. https://www.kinesis-ergo.com/shop/advantage2/

givemefive··on Lockheed Knee-Stress Relief Device
:/ I read an article once and come back the next day and it's name has changed and open it again.
givemefive··on The iPad Mystery
every 3-4 years. but there are a LOT of grandmas without iPads yet! haha
givemefive··on The iPad Mystery
My grandma uses it for Internet shopping, email via Mail app, and banking via an app. She no longer has a computer. The security model is much better for her.
givemefive··on Fluent Design Is Microsoft's New Metro UI for Windows and More
Yeah well I use linux 99.9% of the time for a reason.

There's nothing dealbreaking about the platform for me, well there's hardly even anything nagging about it.

givemefive··on Fluent Design Is Microsoft's New Metro UI for Windows and More
Yeah I noticed this the other day. I couldn't believe the fonts looked so terrible. This is coming from a Fedora user where we typically put up with lots of complaints about fonts.
givemefive··on Ask HN: File based note taking with spaced repetition?
My 2c would be to have a special notation in your text notes that labels the data you want to study later. then just parse that and combined with anki's cards you can generate decks easily.
givemefive··on Ask HN: File based note taking with spaced repetition?
It's easy to write plugins for anki though. Anki's data is just stored in a sqlite db.
givemefive··on Ask HN: File based note taking with spaced repetition?
whats wrong with anki again?
givemefive··on Jeff Varasano's Famous New York Pizza Recipe (2008)
pan pizza

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2013/01/foolproof-pan-piz...

givemefive··on Show HN: Compressed directories on Linux
On top of each vdev (tank) you can make datasets (tank/logs) and mount those wherever

Each of these datasets can have their own options set. So yeah it's basically the same thing as btrfs?

givemefive··on Ryzen is for Programmers
Look at synthetic benchmarks of your chip and the MBP. It's night and day difference. I won't use a laptop to develop on either. It's too slow. (And the ergonomics are terrible anyways so a monitor, keyboard, mouse, etc are all necessary anyways)
givemefive··on IBM and Red Hat to Vote “No” on Java Modules (Jigsaw)
Here is maybe some reasoning behind the no votes

Concerns Regarding Jigsaw(JSR-376, Java Platform Module System) https://developer.jboss.org/blogs/scott.stark/2017/04/14/cri...

givemefive··on PfSense 2.5 and AES-NI
I don't know. What is your reasoning? I don't really understand why you'd want to force people to upgrade HW when they don't need to.
givemefive··on PfSense 2.5 and AES-NI
Sounds like a move to sell more hardware. My pfsense barely does any crypto. This will push me over to openbsd.
givemefive··on Is Every Speed Limit Too Low?
I don't think that passing makes any sense on this kind of road. It's just bad for your wallet in both gas and maintenance on your vehicle and also it's bad for the environment.

The chief component in getting to one's destination is the traffic and the second one is number of lights you get stopped out. Since all the lights are timed to 40mph it doesn't make sense to go faster unless they re-engineer the road.

Generally any car that passes me will be stuck at the light ahead and if there is light traffic I will pass them because I have a rolling start and if there is heavy traffic it's all the same.

Staying to the right in this situation only makes sense if you're unable to accelerate at a reasonable speed or unable to go the speed limit at all.

givemefive··on Is Every Speed Limit Too Low?
So I can ruin my gas mileage slowing and stopping every time someone in front of me turns onto a side street or pulls out in front of me?

No thanks!

Generally its the middle lane I use, but sometimes it's even the left if some landscaping truck or cement mixed is in front of me dropping who knows what into the road.

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