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Nope. There really isn't much reason to. The winters are mild, and Arizona is far enough south that there's still a good amount of daylight in the afternoons, at least compared to the northern parts of the US.

That book was a delightful surprise.

I never expected that the chapters about giant, intelligent spiders to be the parts that kept me hooked. I'm not sure I could have cared less about what happened to the humans.

> Personally, I feel the solution to insufficient teacher time is to use peer grading much more, and spot checks. Get kids to read and revise each other's works frequently, and teachers should aim to grade at least N papers per student where N is much less than the number of papers a student writes.

That's how it's done in creative writing courses. I've always found it infinitely more helpful than only having feedback from the instructor, even if the instructor's feedback was generally more helpful/useful than peer feedback.

Agreed. I lived in the southeast valley for 16 years. At the start of it, we were fairly near the edge of the sprawl, and now you have to drive another 20+ miles to get out of suburbia. It's definitely had an effect on temperature, particularly overnight.

Phoenix regularly has overnight lows above 90F. It's pretty bad.

That study [0] had so many flaws it's not even funny.

1. It only had 12 participants 2. One of those participants was excluded from the final results 3. They didn't test the participants' (or a separate group's) driving ability while under the influence of alcohol (they used a simulator, so it would have been fine), and so you really can't use the results to make any comparisons between dehydration and alcohol use 4. The study was funded by the European Hydration Institute

[0]: https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/dspace-jspui/bitstream/2134/20400...

Best feature coming in iOS 13 is an option to silence all calls from non-contacts.

I installed the public beta for that alone because I get so many of these types of calls, and it's saved me 19 interruptions so far this week.

Obviously blocking all unknown numbers isn't an option for everyone, but it's been great for me.

Which foreach are you talking about? Array.prototype.forEach, for...in loops, for...of loops?

The first only works with arrays and array-like objects.

The second works on objects and arrays, but it iterates over all enumerable properties, so you don't want really want to use it for arrays. It's also made a lot less useful because it only iterates over properties, not keys.

The third finally provides some sanity, but it's only been around since ES6. Before that, lodash's each method was the most reliable way to iterate over a collection, be it an object or an array.

Just because you don't know the reason for something doesn't mean there isn't one.

Right, and I absolutely agree with that. When I bought my house, I had no expectation that utility services would be the same. While my neighbors and I have some complaints about the quality of our internet service, we're looking for 15-25Mbps, not 100Mbps, and certainly not 1Gbps.

But GP's first sentence was mainly what I was trying to address:

> I am all for utility companies cutting service to rural areas, for cost savings or otherwise.

If my electric and gas providers suddenly decided that I was too expensive to serve and cut me off, I'd be out in the range of $20-30k to install batteries, a generator (since solar might not be adequate in the middle of winter), and to convert my heating from natural gas to propane.

Thanks for the link! I've looked briefly at LTE internet service but hadn't seriously considered it because I'm just on the edge of decent cell service. While my phone usually displays 1-2 bars, it's not even enough to make voice calls. I think due to the topography in the area, my phone can receive signal from the tower but isn't powerful enough to transmit back. It looks like UbiFi also sells 4G signal boosters and external antennas, and that might just do the trick.

I agree that the marginal cost of providing those services to rural homes is higher than urban/suburban homes. However, I think you're vastly overestimating the actual costs incurred, as many (maybe most) people who live in rural areas don't have most of those things.

I live in a mostly rural county in north-central Colorado. The county maintains ~250 miles of roads of which only 39 miles are paved (the rest of the roads in the county are state and federal highways).

Outside the few small towns in the county, there's no sewer or municipal water. Everyone has a septic tank and a well on their property that they're responsible for maintaining.

Same with cable/fiber. Unless you live in a town, your options are ~1.5Mbps DSL or ~5Mbps fixed wireless (if you have good line of sight to a base station). Neither the county nor any of the ISPs in the area have any plans to significantly improve services, so I'm really hoping that SpaceX gets Starlink up and running sooner rather than later.

Considering all that, I don't think that your calculated premium of $400,000 per rural home actually applies in most situations.

Asking about marital status or number of kids isn't just a red flag. The Equal Opportunity Employment Commission often views it as evidence of illegal hiring discrimination.

If they're asking questions like that, what they're really asking is how available you are to work tons of extra hours, nights, and weekends.

> That's an entitlement problem not an affordability problem. People feel entitled to live in certain locations.

I would like to live in/near the city where I was born, lived a good chunk of my life, and where most of my family lives, but the cost of housing in Denver has risen almost 500% since I was born.

Do tell, does that make me entitled? Because I feel pretty goddamn entitled.

My 2016 Jeep Wrangler has Chrysler's garbage voice control. When I say "settings," half the time it hears "español" and changes everything to Spanish, and also switches the digital speedometer from mph to km/h. The confirmation prompt doesn't understand "NO" even when I scream at it.

Once that happens, the only way I've been able to switch it back to English is via the steering wheel controls, but you can only get to that menu when the vehicle is in park.

I lived and drove in the Phoenix metro area for many years, and there are very, very few areas that are as dense as most other cities. On top of that, the infrastructure is relatively new, the roads and lanes are nice and wide, and weather isn't a major concern almost all the time.

GP's assertion that driving in Phoenix is easier than most other places is absolutely correct.

> Fast internet everywhere - 100Mb/s+ cable, 5GHz Wifi, 4G cellular

I used to say that. Now I live in a rural area, and the fastest speed that's even available is 5Mbps (and the uptime isn't great). My house also has zero cell service from any provider.

It's also a bit presumptive that everyone can afford a 100Mbps connection. The last place I lived, it was like $120/month for 100Mbps. Not everybody can afford that.

That being said, has anyone out there come up with creative solutions for working remotely on a crappy connection?

I suppose the theory is that open source is better (a) because you can audit it if you want to, and (b) it's more likely that someone out there has audited it.

In practice, (a) falls apart if the user doesn't have the knowledge, experience, or time necessary to perform an audit, which is quite likely for security software. And I feel like (b) isn't great either, as there are plenty of examples of major flaws in open source projects that went undetected for long periods - heartbleed is just one example.

You might enjoy this article from about 6 months ago (as I did). It doesn't get into torx or hex drives, but covers quite a bit of history of Phillips-like drives.

http://www.instructables.com/id/When-a-Phillips-is-not-a-Phi...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15748942

I think the intent there would be that you can't intentionally degrade unrelated parts of the service. For example, if Facebook disabled your ability to view or upload photos because you wouldn't consent to sharing your location.

It would be unreasonable of anyone to expect to see location-based content if they'd opted out of location sharing.

I have the same issue. My favorite part is the sleepless nights: PVC -> anxiety about PVC -> can't sleep -> extra anxiety about missing sleep -> panic attack.

Anecdotally, daily calcium and magnesium supplements seem to reduce the frequency.

I've always been under the impression that concepts like thread/continuation-local storage were generally discouraged, but I never fully understood the reason.

Obviously, you'd want to avoid coupling your code to an HTTP-specific context if you want to expose a gRPC endpoint in the future.

Are there any other downsides to this approach?

I'm not an expert in IR or computer vision by any means, so take this with a grain of salt.

Air has such a low thermal mass that it doesn't measurably affect most IR sensors. Hot pavement could be a potential issue, but that shouldn't have a major effect on forward-facing sensors.

Besides, it's only March. Even Arizona isn't that hot yet.

> The concepts are clear to those with a Computer Science (CS) educational background, but since the large mass web developers come mostly outside of this arena it is a hindrance.

Seriously?

A CS degree is not necessary in order to understand functional programming, and it's not like reducer functions are all that complicated.

IANAL, but in the US, I think only government agencies are barred from introducing illegally-obtained evidence.

I could be wrong, but I think that if I (as a private citizen, not affiliated with any law enforcement agency) steal evidence to submit to the police, then that evidence is still admissible in court, provided no government agent solicited me to steal it. However, I would still be guilty of any crimes I committed to obtain that evidence.

Sort of like how Facebook isn't subject to the first amendment. The bill of rights only protects against government actions.

Most of the dependencies installed for a hello world React app are not runtime dependencies.

I don't know if there's a real "standard operating procedure" or not, but it seems to me that it's the responsibility of each project maintainer to evaluate the fitness of a particular dependency for that project.

Just like with every package manager that I've ever heard of, you're responsible for what you install. I'm sure you can get buggy packages with poor test coverage via apt-get install / brew install / gem install / whatever-else install.

Maybe it seems longer than it is because I'm on mobile, but a lengthy post with such an opaque title could really benefit from an executive summary, or even a short subtitle such as:

"Guidelines for open source maintainers."

To answer your question, probably Gamergate.

In an article about maintaining an open source project, it seems to me like covering contribution guidelines (which I would consider a CoC to be part of) is pretty important.

In my experience, many projects maintain codes of conduct not because they've had frequent problems, but as a statement that the maintainers welcome contributors from all backgrounds, skill/experience levels, etc., and that they won't tolerate behavior that alienates others.

Regardless, every project has some sort of CoC, even if it is never explicitly stated. Putting it in writing makes it clear to everyone (including the maintainers), and that seems like a good thing to me.

> Whether expressing anti-diversity sentiments at a workplace is a protected “conservative viewpoint” or, rather, a form of bigotry that actually creates a hostile environment is at the heart of the case

Expressing anti-diversity sentiments does create a hostile environment. I don't understand why this is so hard for people to grasp.

> PHP developers [...] visit a disproportionate amount of Vue.js questions.

I would guess this is because the installer for Laravel (one of the most popular PHP frameworks) defaults to scaffolding a Vue.js app for your frontend.

> Flight ceiling: 4000ft

I’m wondering if that’s the absolute service ceiling or it’s legal operational ceiling due to its classification.

I suppose they won’t be selling them in Denver if it’s the former.