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joemaller1··on Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?
No and I miss it. But I don’t see it as a technology issue anymore. The rise of video and podcasts have greatly reduced the signal to noise ratio. Even if we were to assume the conversations are as interesting and relevant, that content is slower to consume by orders of magnitude.
joemaller1··on Why Aren't Shoes Preventing Running Injuries? (2014)
Article is from 2014.

FWIW, I've been running near-barefoot for almost a decade without having to take any significant breaks for injury. I'm in NYC, so I run on cement, year-round, usually 20+ miles/week. I'm in my late 40s.

The best lesson of running barefoot is simply listening to your body. My goals are to feel good during the run and then to feel good afterwards. If things start to hurt, rest a few days. Nearly all running-related injuries are overuse injuries.

Mainstream running culture often has terrible advice. Don't try to run through pain. Anti-inflammatories can be helpful after long runs, but please do not take painkillers _before_ a run, pain exists for a reason.

joemaller1··on Nerd Fonts
Nerd Fonts is a terrific resource. The project does more than just aggregate, all Nerd Font variants are patched with extra glyphs and icons allowing for much more expressive and informative (and fun) terminal prompts. It's also a great source for text editor fonts. All fonts are offered in multiple formats making it easy to match your workspace across platforms.
joemaller1··on Using Firefox for a faster, calmer and distraction-free internet
This and other accusations against Brave came up in the last Firefox thread too. Can you provide a link?
joemaller1··on Bye, Chrome: Why I’m switching to Firefox (2018)
Brave blocks ads, trackers and third-party cookies by default, and has private windows backed by Tor. The renderer is Chromium, FWIW.

I haven't done any exhaustive comparison of Brave against Chrome/Firefox with uBlock Origin, but the media sites I visit in Brave sure do like to remind me about the ad blocker.

joemaller1··on Bye, Chrome: Why I’m switching to Firefox (2018)
Why not Brave? Honest question.
joemaller1··on $15 minimum wage didn’t hurt NYC restaurants
Is the author really in Buffalo? That’s the other side of the state.

From my personal experience in nyc, and from talking to neighbors who own restaurants, small and family owned businesses are absolutely hurting. They’ve reduced staff, and owners are making up lost hours themselves. Delivery has been mostly outsourced. The price of everything on the menu has gone up. A number of lower-cost restaurants have closed completely. Whatever reported numbers the author based this upon do not tell a complete story.

joemaller1··on Airborne laser scan reveals Arran's ancient sites
TIL there's a place called the Firth of Clyde
joemaller1··on Australia Will Join U.S. for 2024 Moon Mission, Mars Exploration
Politics.
joemaller1··on Ask HN: Best Linux Laptop Replacing a Macbook Pro?
This has been the single hardest thing I’ve found in switching platforms.
joemaller1··on US Navy will replace touchscreen with mechanical controls on its destroyers
If the controls were exclusively gaming mice/keyboards and Xbox/PlayStation controllers, they'd be the most agile, fearsome fleet in history.
joemaller1··on DoorDash Buying Caviar from Square for $410M
This seems like a smart move and a good thing for both parties, but Square’s trading lower on the news?
joemaller1··on Heat Wave to Hit Two-Thirds of the U.S. Here’s What to Expect
Logging in sort of defeats the point of private mode.
joemaller1··on FDA names dog-food brands with potential link to canine heart disease
Raw food spoils. Kibble lasts a disturbingly long time.
joemaller1··on The Future of Docker Desktop for Windows
We work with a lot of independent contractors, many of whom get by fine with Window Home, so this is great news:

> ...because WSL 2 works on Windows 10 Home edition, so will Docker Desktop

Glad to see this too:

> bind mounts from WSL will support inotify events and have nearly identical I/O performance as on a native Linux machine

joemaller1··on Canada Plans to Ban Single-Use Plastics, Joining Growing Global Movement
We're going to suffocate under a blanket of plastic long before the effects of CO2 kills us. Single-use plastics are essentially a slow-motion, global oil spill.

The goal of these bans is to force use of better materials. The huge majority of plastic pollution comes from the economic fringes in Asia, but demanding goods come in better packaging to be sold in large western markets will hopefully tip the financial scales enough to force manufacturers' hands resulting in less plastic waste globally. I can get behind that.

joemaller1··on Apple introduces 8-core MacBook Pro
None of the promo pictures show the keyboard, Touch Bar or trackpad. CPU speed is not the reason I haven't upgraded. Those are.
joemaller1··on PHP in 2019
I've been using PHP semi-regularly since the late 90s. It's been empowering and infuriating.

The ecosystem is radically better than it used to be. Composer and the Packagist registry are as mature and dependable as npm, PyPI or RubyGems. (despite hours lost to my own namespace screwups). I'm also happy to see the Prettier-PHP project automating and enforcing code-style standards.

For whatever reason, I often feel clumsier after working on a PHP project. After working in other languages like JS or Python, I tend to feel like I've leveled-up my skills.

One thing I wish PHP would address is the inconsistency in its map-filter-reduce functions -- their argument-order doesn't match (array, callback) vs. (callback, array):

    array_filter($arr, $fn)
    array_map($fn, $arr)
    array_reduce($arr, $fn)
The amount of cognitive overhead I've wasted on those is ridiculous.

- https://packagist.org/

- https://github.com/prettier/plugin-php

joemaller1··on Blue Moon
Disappointed there wasn't an Amazon box in the payload illustration.
joemaller1··on 500 days of Duolingo: What you can and can’t learn from a language app
This is compelling enough that I'm giving the app a try. Thank you and congratulations to your daughter.
joemaller1··on I found two identical packs of Skittles among 468 packs
This was really hard to read through because I kept dreaming up systems and applications which might automate the whole process.
joemaller1··on Congestion Pricing: N.Y. Embraced It. Will Other Clogged Cities Follow?
well, technically...
joemaller1··on Researchers trick Tesla autopilot into driving into opposing traffic
California has incredibly good roads, generally maintained, thoughtfully designed and well-marked. It's the last place we should be testing self-driving cars.
joemaller1··on American Astronauts to Return to Moon Within 5 Years, VP Pence Pledges
Agreed on all of that and maybe it's a mistake, but I'm actually kind of hopeful this time.

Bush's made an empty campaign promise then Obama kicked the idea so far down the road it was totally out of sight.

But five years? That's doable insane. Like, get Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and NASA in a room ask them who wants this more.

joemaller1··on American Astronauts to Return to Moon Within 5 Years, VP Pence Pledges
The last time a human being stood on anything but Earth was December 11, 1972 (Apollo 17). God, I hope they're serious and can pull this off.
joemaller1··on American Astronauts to Return to Moon Within 5 Years, VP Pence Pledges
Not because it's easy, but because it's hard. And because it's there.
joemaller1··on Why do poor school kids have to clean up rich commuters’ pollution?
There's reason to doubt freeway traffic is the primary source of pollution at Tubman Middle School. Just across the freeway from the school is a non-trivial amount of industrial activity including:

* A Calportland cement facility (2500 ft mi)

* A Union Pacific rail yard (4000 ft)

* Tyree Oil, a small petroleum distributor (1200 ft)

* What looks like a power transfer station (2000 ft)

* At least two glass-makers and a ceramics studio (<1000 ft)

* A sheet metal fabricator and neon sign manufacturer (1100-1400 ft)

This article appears to have originated with a Bike Portland (and No More Freeways) campaign against freeway expansion and for decongestion pricing.

joemaller1··on NYC Open Letter to Jeff Bezos
Opportunity knocks only once.
joemaller1··on The Path Amazon Rejected
> Just days before, I had counseled a senior Amazon executive...

Can pretty much stop there. I think Amazon saw a mayor and governor who thought they traded tax breaks for a say in how Amazon runs its business.

This was a huge loss for the city. LIC will be toxic to big business for years. And now the mayor is passing the blame to the very corporations who would come in and create jobs.

joemaller1··on Self-driving cars will "cruise" to avoid paying to park
this would be a welcome repurposing for ad-tech real-time bidding markets
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