robbyking

When I lived in San Francisco, my commute from the Inner Sunset was 40 minutes by MUNI (subway), 40 minutes by bike. Driving was out of the question.

What did Google do to Nest? I have a Nest cam and haven't noticed any difference in service.

Is there any data to support the theory that a rise in distracted walked has directly resulted in an increase in pedestrian fatalities?

While I personally agree with your preference, I think it's dangerous to assume that a new generation of users will have the same preferences we do despite being raised with so many new user interface paradigms.

Users tend to gravitate towards what feels "native" to them.

At first I thought you were making a joke, but it's blank for me, too, even with adblockers/https redirect disabled.

In 2018 I took a year off fro work to be a stay-at-home dad, and one thing that really surprised me was how little I used my MacBook; the only time I would drag it out was to connect my pre-bluetooth Garmin to sync my cycling workouts to Strava.

Had my iPad supported USB devices, there's a good chance I wouldn't have used it at all.

There's one pre-surgery photo.

"I disagree with the premise of the question."

But I want physical volume buttons, too! (The Touch Bar volume buttons aren't available at all when video is in full screen mode.)

I don't understand why it isn't an optional feature.

I really thought the Touch Bar would grow on me, and now a year or so later it's just as frustrating and unintuitive as it was on day one.

My wife and I rarely watch television, but when we do it's on our MBP. There literally isn't a way to adjust the volume on full screen video using just the keyboard; you have to exit full screen mode (to revert the Touch Bar to its default set of buttons), and then adjust the volume slider (which is still another screen deep).

It's infuriating.

>> Bay area voters have made their intentions abundantly clear, in numerous elections and voting: they don't want growth.

I'm sure this will be an unpopular opinion, but I first moved to SF in 1998, and in my experience it's San Franciscans who moved to the city to work in tech who don't want to see growth. The people who moved there for the culture of art, music, and radical self expression saw the writing on the way pretty early, and have been advocating for affordable, high density housing for decades now.

The problem is it's scary to live in a city that only has one employer offering jobs in your field. My wife and I moved to a new city last year, and while we considered a lot of smaller cities, it ultimately wasn't worth the risk to live someplace that only had a couple prospective employers.

I'm an avid cyclist (I commute and race), so I didn't think I'd made much use of a bike share membership, but it's been amazing. Any time I'm out and about without my bike and need to get somewhere that's only a mile or two, I just hop on a bike share bike; I don't have to wait for a bus, or pay Uber/Lyft rates, I just go. My annual membership is less than $8/mo.

My wife used to work at a cycling advocacy organization that was often asked for feedback on bike share implementation, Ford included. I was skeptical, too, but what they told her was that they've already reached market saturation in urban areas, so if they want to grow their customer base, they have to look at forms of transportation that aren't automobiles.

This is a bit of a side note, but I remapped my caps lock key to escape and it makes things a lot easier.

"Homeless by choice" is a long disproven myth. There are exceptions, of course, but often young people experiencing homelessness are on the streets because they were explicitly forced out of their homes by their guardians or were forced out because of sexual abuse.

From an article in Hoodline, quoting Mary Howe, founder of the Homeless Youth Alliance,

> [San Francisco's Haight Street] is an international destination for youth who come seeking refuge from abusive families, alienating foster care and group home situations, and juvenile justice system involvement. These homeless young people encounter constant threats to both their physical and mental health while on the streets.

https://hoodline.com/2015/03/getting-to-know-haight-street-k...

How is Swift JavaScript-like?

Uber's business plan under Kalanick was to create a monopoly and then raise rates. Now that Dara is CEO they're trying to legitimize themself, but it's going to be an uphill battle to say the least.

Where I live now, my bike ride to work is twice as fast as my bus commute, and in SF, it was about 30% faster. That said, my wife and I are both all season bike commuters, and because we make almost all of our trips (grocery shopping, taking our son to school, etc.) by bike, bikeability is a huge factor for us when we make housing decisions.

Nearly all the public transportation/cycling naysaying I read seems to be from people who didn't consider (or at least didn't prioritize) non-private automobile transportation into their housing decision, and typically, it's at great cost to them[1].

1. http://cityobservatory.org/transportation_housing_affordabil...

I agree with you in premise, but if you read the post, the website users were redirected to was a phishing site: https://wpdotjoshdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/snag-003...

A couple times I've caught myself saying "I know a person who..." when what I meant to say was "I follow a person on Instagram who..." It was really eye opening.

I had a similar experience. It was a while ago so I don't remember the exact details, but the long and the short of it is the three founders started a new company, moved all the company's assets over to it, then dissolved original company.

You can definitely get off the beaten path in National Parks, it's just that very few people choose to.

Drugs don't look fun anymore.

What did it do that Google Photos doesn't? I never tried it, but I know there are some die-hards who really miss it.

> The homeless aren't prosecuted for sleeping outside.

They most certainly are [1]. The people suffering from homelessness that you see in places like the Tenderloin or the Mission in San Francisco only make up a small percentage of the total number of people on the streets; what you see there are the worst cases of addiction and chronic homelessness, not the total picture. In fact, the largest percentage of homeless people are households [2].

[1] https://sanfranciscopolice.org/civil-sidewalks-ordinance [2] https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/homeless...

It's also really frustrating to not have the browser's Find in Page feature work.

I recently left the Bay Area to live in a major city in another state, and now that it's a little easier to see the tech forest through the trees, I see that for now, very few people want a lot of these types services outside of usual tech centric hubs.

It's like in the Kurt Vonnegut book Player Piano: there are certain services where people enjoy the human touch; I think food service is one of those.

Which is ironic since Reddiquette encourages re- and cross-posting.

I think it depends on the specific Reddit community and how it's moderated. I moderate a community with 80k+ subscribers, and I put a lot of effort into keeping it on topic and interesting. (And we have community flair so users can add something very similar to a profile photo.