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This is interesting. The zooming in though, the script seemed to cut it when it’s not zooming. When I’m zooming in from wide area imagery, I usually zoom quickly to the general area then pan to the thing of interest that caused me to zoom.

Is the takeaway from that part really that they’re zooming in on nothing?

I don’t see this form of protest as effective nor do I agree with the methods at all. However, we as human beings can only focus on so many things at a time. Sometimes something bad happens that causes us to suddenly become attuned to or care about an issue. This seems to happen a lot when people undergo a horrible tragedy like being a victim of a mass shooting or contracting ALS or getting breast cancer.

I don’t think it’s ridiculous at all that someone had something nearly bad happen to them (wildfires encroaching on their houses) and that caused them to become attuned to an issue and start taking a form of action to curb it (funding protestors).

Again, not the actions I would take and in my opinion they’re ineffective actions, but we shouldn’t guffaw at people for becoming attuned to something through tragedy or near tragedy.

I am amazed by this. I’ve been playing with a 3D scanning app on iPhone as a total amateur and totally new to the mode of collection and it truly produces amazing results with only iPhone lidar.

Scaniverse if you’re curious.

I’m an early adopter of things like this and I’ve been using Airbnb since about Day 1. There was so much promise early. One of my best AirBnB memories was staying at a startup hotel in SF through AirBnB, the hosts had purchased a Victorian house to turn into a boutique hotel, seemed young and optimistic, and it was a fun, quirky experience. There was still construction and things happening, apparently we were one of the first few people to ever stay there under its new ownership.

So I’ve been using Airbnb regularly, travel regularly, and in the last 2ish years have moved all my work travel to Marriott. For scale, checking my Marriott app right now, I’ve stayed 77 nights in Marriotts this year so far. This used to be all Airbnb stays, but as you mention the hosts have become so unpredictable and listings do not match up to the experience that it’s more hassle and actively hostile to stay in Airbnb in a new city to get to know some quirky neighborhood on a work trip. And the usual complaint of basically a chore list to do at the end combined with huge cleaning fees on top of the chore list.

Currently my only Airbnb exception is that my partner and I have two airbnbs that we know to be good in resort towns and when we’re going there we book those Airbnbs if available, because they have known good experiences and good hosts. Otherwise we don’t even look at other options, particularly because we use those during vacations where we want to relax, and instead just book Four Seasons or whatever nice hotel is there because the experience will be good and consistent.

I really yearn for the early Airbnb days though when listings were more accurate and high quality and one could explore a new neighborhood (perhaps one without traditional hotels one might never stay in without Airbnb).

As an aside, I started using UberEats since literal Day 1 when they were driving circles around the city with a fixed menu, you selected your meal, one of them would drop it off to you within minutes. It was amazing. But now of course the hordes have descended and it’s 90% ghost kitchens serving slop in my city.

Microsoft.

Jokes on them, I never read the articles and only ever read the comments unless the comments indicate the article was interesting enough to read.

I have a few of the Airthings View Plus units. Can’t speak objectively but when there are fires or something degrading air quality, PM2.5 rises, when all windows and doors are closed, co2 rises and then falls when I open the windows and turn on the fan blowing the air out. VOCs rise can be correlated directly with the nest turning on our old AC unit and then with it turning off and fanning the air out the windows. Radon seems to rise with outdoor temperature when it gets hot out. One per floor of the house and they are all correlated with the things above, and the VOCs in the room with the most air conditioning blowing rise the most, so I feel pretty happy about their efficacy.

I’ve been happy with these units so far after six months.

I think this just proves that it happens, not why it happens. Also the last flight I took proved that it happens.

I had a good experience doing the test app with fly, I’d definitely consider it for something internet routable and non-complex like a bot or something. Very excited for when I can run more complicated workloads such as workloads started with Docker Compose, without having to implement all the Docker Compose functionality myself.

Wiley is such trash. In college in engineering the prof would assign us workbook problems from the book. I did all of them to stay practiced (and did well in the classes!). Lots of people expressed interest in my answers so they could use them to study. I gave them away, then started selling the answers only, which weren’t provided in the course books, online.

Wiley threatened to sue me for copyright infringement. As a college student the threat of a lawsuit really rattled me, so I paid them a bunch of money to settle it.

How are you as a giant company going to threaten to sue a college student for copyright infringement for something derivative of your books?? To this day I have a strong, visceral negative reaction to Wiley and at least twice in my professional life have dissuaded orgs I’ve worked for from having anything to do with Wiley, so hopefully cost them at least as much as they cost me monetarily.

It’s somewhat self-serving to think this, but my inference after spending time on this site is definitely the opposite.

I have seen many cases in my career where people with less power in an engagement thoughtfully but thoroughly disagree and end up getting relocated off their team, demoted, or in effect nullified from having any further input. I’ve seen this enough to have noticed that it’s often women who seem to be put in this position.

I’ve never had the issues, as the prototypical HN poster demographic, and agree that the GP (?) post works for me, but fundamentally understand it’s also a strategy that can disproportionately lead to seriously bad outcomes for people in particular demographics.

Really good read enjoyable prose, if not a bit "much" at times.

This was thought provoking, particularly the second sentence:

"Do not forget that medieval England was one of the most devoutly Catholic nations in Europe and one should never underestimate the ability of the pertinaciously pious to behave irrationally. A medieval person’s moral and world views were so intensely bound up with those of the Church that he would have had no doubt that these trials by ordeal were entirely genuine. It would never have crossed the mind of most medieval citizens that being tied up and lobbed into the local lake was not an effective method of proving guilt; shockingly, fluid dynamics and gravity weren’t particularly common topics of study in the thirteenth century. A person’s logic was interchangeable with that of the Church or the ramblings of the one-eyed crackpot codger at the local tavern."

Was this true, did people really not question anything? I always assumed people went along with it for fear of punishment but probably thought it was a little ridiculous. Are we this, forgive me--stupid--today? I would like to think not, but I also see some of the things happening in my own country in places like Florida and think maybe this is just human nature to want to put down our sense of curiosity and willingness to question and give it over to another entity.

Is posting things under alternate accounts to boost the submission allowed? I note that user "papercuts" and user "apeconmyth" appear to be the same person posting and interacting on their company submission.

I stopped using this years ago, except I still have an account and minorly check once a week or month depending on my mood. I'll give the same refrain I expect from most: how do I keep up with goings-on of long-lost friends, family members with whom I don't want to directly interact but want to know what they're "up to" and to know about major life events? Maybe the answer is that I should delete facebook and go back to beforetimes when the world was smaller and I only interacted with people in my immediate geographic area except at decennial family reunions.

That was my independent takeaway from the article. And requesting an appeal with the verbiage "you cannot possibly be this dense" is a poor way to treat people, especially when the author admits it was the AI banning, not a person, so it wasn't a front line person being dense in the first place.

> There is a clear path to getting unbanned from Twitter, but the author refuses to take it. Shame.

I disagree on the latter part, Twitter would be better without these egotistical people on it in the first place.

The latter is the standard meaning. If the author means something different, that means the author is being unclear and it shouldn't be on the reader to parse the author's nonstandard intentions.

From a common sense perspective: If I say something contains "100% more whatever", you would expect it to contain double what it normally contains.

I have a couple friends with them and ordered mine about a month ago, should be delivered any day. I've only heard good things about this device, I really don't think it's spam.

Currently they don't list USA as a place with availability.

From the shop page:

Shipping in August 2022. Currently available only for: Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, French Polynesia, Germany, Greece, Vatican City, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom

I don't think so, I feel like mine are pretty aligned with what my friends have. I pay the AppleCare monthly, a couple smaller things like Peloton and Apple Music. Doesn't add up to that much overall. I do donate $20/mo to Signal, which is my largest software-only app thing, and I see the OP seems to donate to Twitter in a couple ways, so I guess to each their own.

Very interesting, thank you! i mostly drone as a hobby to get some interesting shots, so this is my first foray into using it to do anything like this. Indeed I am talking about odm_orthophoto_render.tif, I assumed it was the higher resolution one because of the size (about 3x the size of the other two), and qGIS was not treating odm_orthophoto.tif well, but after closer inspection looks like qGIS just didn't like odm_orthophoto.tif because it was having trouble loading it full resolution, but it did end up loading it correctly if I gave it a few more moments to load, and works really well!

Thanks so much for the ad hoc tech help, will definitely be playing with this more!

This is really cool, just took my drone out and took 64 pics of my neighborhood and turned them into a TIFF viewable on qGIS via the ODM CLI. Love it. There are a few oddities, for example it produced a few geoTIFFs for viewing, two of them are correctly placed, but the high resolution one doesn't seem to contain geo bounds and just displays in qGIS adjacent to the world map. Seems like there's still some development to be done, but this seems like a really cool and interesting project. Excited to see where it goes from here!

edit: the above was user error (or my lack of patience waiting on the high-rez final photo to load!), everything works wonderfully.

In Seattle, yes. In Houston, no.

"Most companies used Triplebyte not as an interview replacement, but as an additional screening process, which means that as a candidate, you don't have any real incentive to use them."

I used them many years ago, this was my impression. When I got to company "on sites" they were just full-blown interview loops. I could have just applied to the companies directly.

But we could improve the environment and live longer, higher quality lives without going so far as to create "absolutely sterile and risk-free controlled lives."

I also got a few of the Airthings View Plus boxes, one for each floor of the house and one in the bedroom specifically. Learned some very interesting things, such as that when the A/C comes on at night, the VOCs and CO2 spikes so we were able to address this properly. As an SRE style person, the idea was that without observability into the current state, we didn't really know where the problems were or what we should do to fix them (though perhaps the solution is always just "buy an air purifier").

The power dynamics at play makes someone spending time with me during an interview process where they have nothing to lose and can exert influence in the selection of me for a full time job offer decidedly _not_ my peer in that situation.

I agree with this. I am no fan of BAH for personal reasons having been forced to work adjacent to them, but the recreation.gov website is quite good and a good experience, coming from someone who uses it extensively for camping.

I have worked at software companies where meetings were indeed the desired outcome, even if no one said that part out loud.

Strava Premium user for almost a decade now. Thought I was in the know, but absolutely shocked at how many competitors their appear to be based on comments! I've already signed up for a couple. Though I will happily continue to pay for Strava as long as they don't get purchased by Google or fizzle out or something for the reasons others have outlined and would be redundant if I repeated.