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I've seen a similar solution in the swimming pool changing cubicles at a Center Parcs in the UK. The cubicles have two inwards opening doors opposite one another. Once inside, you close both doors and fold down a bench which blocks the doors shut and gives you somewhere to sit. Very clever solution.

EGPUs sounds great on paper. A graphics card that I can use easily with either my macbook or windows desktop. I really think that could be an exciting way to prolong the life of old hardware or to get decent gaming performance out of non-gaming hardware.

At the moment, unless you're Windows only, the reality is a bit rougher. Although there are some pretty compelling enclosures out there (Node Pro, Mantiz Venus, Sonnet Breakaway), with Apple not supporting Nvidia (the only GPUs worth getting at the top-end) it's probably not worth it. Sure you can get it working with some hacks, but I personally wouldn't want to spend that much money to be reliant on 3rd party scripts.

Eventually the picture may change, AMD might release a competitive GPU, or the support on MacOS might open up. As soon as the software support is there I think this becomes a really compelling idea and it'll only become more so as the years go by and thunderbolt 3 becomes more widespread.

My understanding is that since High Sierra, Mac OS supports eGPUs natively, but only with AMD GPUs and only using thunderbolt 3:

https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT208544

There are some hacks to get other configurations working:

https://egpu.io/external-gpu-macos-10-13-4-update/

You can already disable SMS, phone and location permissions (and others) for each app in the previous version of Android (Oreo). I'm sure this has it too.

Australian cities do tend to have poor public transport, but I don't think the kind of issue you mention will go away, even as transport is improved.

In London you quite often have the same issue, and that's a city with excellent public transport coverage (albeit a much more populous city). I have a friend who lives only 5 miles from where I used to live, and transport between our places often involved 2-3 changes, and could easily take 1.5 hours.

It's interesting you cited Melbourne, as I think it's the Aussie city generally considered as having the best public transport.

Not sure, actually! I'm just staying with someone at the moment. They're coincidentally changing broadband provider to this tomorrow - https://node1.com.au/

From Perth, Western Australia:

                  test1   test2   test3   test4   test5   test6   test7   test8   test9   test10  Average
    cloudflare2nd  94 ms   81 ms   81 ms   79 ms   97 ms   90 ms   85 ms   89 ms   84 ms   78 ms     85.80
    cloudflare     74 ms   316 ms  69 ms   83 ms   77 ms   69 ms   85 ms   69 ms   82 ms   74 ms     99.80
    neustar        98 ms   100 ms  99 ms   102 ms  107 ms  113 ms  113 ms  112 ms  106 ms  100 ms    105.00
    adguard        154 ms  133 ms  133 ms  91 ms   94 ms   133 ms  96 ms   95 ms   98 ms   99 ms     112.60
    norton         132 ms  138 ms  117 ms  118 ms  131 ms  147 ms  133 ms  143 ms  141 ms  141 ms    134.10
    cleanbrowsing  154 ms  142 ms  140 ms  137 ms  155 ms  178 ms  158 ms  115 ms  77 ms   111 ms    136.70
    quad9          187 ms  170 ms  168 ms  154 ms  156 ms  156 ms  165 ms  164 ms  170 ms  174 ms    166.40
    opendns        258 ms  128 ms  121 ms  135 ms  125 ms  317 ms  124 ms  266 ms  131 ms  119 ms    172.40
    google         148 ms  264 ms  153 ms  137 ms  225 ms  274 ms  74 ms   258 ms  136 ms  279 ms    194.80
    google2nd      149 ms  284 ms  159 ms  223 ms  257 ms  412 ms  125 ms  254 ms  134 ms  268 ms    226.50
    comodo         273 ms  290 ms  303 ms  286 ms  308 ms  280 ms  314 ms  302 ms  263 ms  299 ms    291.80
    yandex         511 ms  567 ms  482 ms  442 ms  516 ms  443 ms  477 ms  471 ms  449 ms  454 ms    481.20

I'm not completely sure it's the same thing, but I remember a technique for picking using colour maps. It's described in this tutorial:

http://www.opengl-tutorial.org/miscellaneous/clicking-on-obj...

I agree with that. There are always shades of grey to every argument.

However the point that I'm trying to make (maybe badly) is that the Police are different to most other organisations. They're probably closest to healthcare in that the population, or maybe even distinct communities of a country needs to be able to trust the entire police force has its interest at heart.

From an outside perspective, this is failing in a bad way in the US. It is more than likely the actions of a few that is causing it.

That failure has bad repercussions, things get worse because people start taking justice into their own hands ... it leads to riots, clashes and worse. That's why you can never tolerate any corruption in a justice system.

I've witnessed first hands the riots here in London that resulted from questionable Police actions (we still don't know the full story of those events). It feels like society is crumbling when things get that bad.

Hi - do you consider non-US remote candidates?

That's fine. I don't really understand why you have an issue with concepts like zero tolerance for corruption, police reform, collective responsibility, police accountability.

They are fairly commonly held opinions–that individual actions can destroy trust in an organisation, and that passiveness or tolerance within an organisation of such actions is equally as damaging.

I also think I've made fairly strong points about why your comparison is, in my opinion, incorrect. Not sure I'm being obtuse, but sorry if you think that is the case.

Just because you can't see the difference, it doesn't make it irrelevant.

By the way - the law agrees with me. Please read about police accountability: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_accountability

"The 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act authorized the United States Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division to bring civil ("pattern or practice") suits against local law enforcement agencies, to reign in abuses and hold them accountable.[9] As a result, numerous departments have entered into consent decrees or memoranda of understanding, requiring them to make organizational reforms"

Now apply your logic to black people, and you'll find that your views are worrying.

The basic issue is, that when the department/agency as a whole is not held accountable, they're able to avoid reforms that circumvent the issues in the future. Punish just the one police officer, and another later is able perform the same levels of corruption. It's systematic abuse of power.

This is why we must hold 'cops' or 'Baltimore cops' responsible, not just the few perpetrators.

But I didn't replace "cops" with "black people", you did.

An ethnicity is a completely different thing to a law enforcement agency.

edit: If you want me to explain why, I can. A law enforcement agency is a group of people who have decided to perform a particular duty. An ethnicity is a group of people who are born that particular way.

A law enforcement agency has a strict set of rules governing behaviour, which when broken purposely constitute corruption. An ethnicity does not a have a particular set of rules, they follow the same rules as wider society. If they did have a specific set of rules, it would be considered an apartheid style society.

A member of a law enforcement agency has far reaching powers beyond a typical citizen. A member of an ethnicity is supposed to have the same powers as everyone else.

What's interesting is that by comparing the two you get a good idea of why police corruption is a terrible thing.

And what's your argument?

A minority? I don't understand where that argument comes from. A minority generally doesn't hold power - police hold far reaching powers. Minorities normally do not choose to be part of a minority.

From wikipedia:

"A police force is a constituted body of persons empowered by a state to enforce the law, protect property, and limit civil disorder"

If there are a corrupt few breaking the law, the body of persons cannot be said to be performing its duty.

It's worth reading about police accountability: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_accountability

Generally the focus of reform is to hold the entire agency/force accountable.

The author is citing real events.

When some cops are corrupt, does it matter that the rest might be decent? An individual police officer represents the entire force. They wear the colours and the badge as a representative of the whole establishment.

Would you call the police if you knew there were such troubling corruption issues? It would definitely make me think twice - you just don't know which officer will turn up.

Zero tolerance is the only way forwards when it comes to this, otherwise the few destroy trust for the masses.

You don't have to use a cycle lane here, but there have been cases in recent years where police have incorrectly stopped/charged someone for not using a cycle lane.

I completely agree. There are similar rules over here about leaving a gap to the kerb, and that there should also be a gap left by overtaking vehicles. Both are often not observed.

Here's the (brief) rules for roundabouts: http://www.highwaycodeuk.co.uk/rules-for-cyclists-roundabout...

Most cycling proficiency courses here in the UK will tell cyclists to ride more centrally when in a narrow lane, which is good advice. A cyclist is also legally allowed to do that.

It gets a bit fuzzy though when there's a cycle lane provided.

The highway code says that cyclists should stay to the left. Even on a roundabout with multiple lanes, cyclists are supposed to stay to the left and cycle across exits.

I don't ever follow that rule when cycling, it does seem dangerous, but it is the rule, regardless of whether you disagree. You should always check blind spots when turning left, and you should have been coached to do this when learning to drive.

Oslo is a very clean city, but it also feels a lot busier now than it looks in these pictures.

A lot of the photos were taken around the parliament buildings, the royal palace, and the national theatre, which may explain why the streets are so clean and the standard of attire is so high.

Hi - would you consider hiring remotely outside of the US for your engineering roles?

Hi - would the remote role be US-only? I noticed the job spec says that you need some kind of US eligibility verification.

Hi, whereabouts are you based?

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That's quite interesting. Option 1 has happened to me a few times with an Oyster card, and I've always had issues claiming refunds, receiving this message: "We have been unable to process your refund application, This is due to a technical error."

Since switching to using my Monzo card, I've had this issue one time and received the refund no problems. Not sure if that's coincidental.

While you can check seat pitch with seatguru, a lot of airlines don't allow you to choose seats at the time of booking, and some don't allow booking of extra-legroom economy seats at all. Others charge prohibitively expensive fees for booking the better seats, and sometimes the good seats just happen to be completely taken.

It's also worth noting that there's just not a lot of variety in seat pitch. It's not like I can book a flight with Long and Tall airlines!

That's not always possible on every flight. Every airline has a different system and set of rules. Some airlines don't offer a system for paying for emergency exit seats. Other times the seats might already be booked. Sometimes the cost is prohibitively expensive.

When that happens you're stuck with the situation of having your knees caps smashed, just so someone can tilt their seat back a few degrees.

It's a very strange situation to agree that someone should have a small privilege to the discomfort or even pain of someone else.

> You read articles that say it should be possible to complete a user story within a single sprint, ideally within a few days. That’s entirely accurate.

I'm surprised by that, as I tend to break down stories even smaller, to the point where they can be completed in a day or two. Anything that takes longer I consider risky and potentially a rogue story that could end up eating a lot of time.

Smaller stories are easier to manage, easier to refactor, it's much easier to review the resulting code and they usually have less complexity. I think it's sometimes easier to clear blockers with smaller stories as well.

Downsides are that it can be harder to get an overall view on the progress being made during a sprint, and sometimes tasks can have more dependencies or it can be harder to work on things in parallel. It also takes more time to prioritise the backlog.

The biggest problem with user stories for me, is that the amount of text often ends up making the board view in JIRA hard to read!

I imagine when something about the project changes, it takes a really long time to rewrite all those stories? Or you end up never re-assessing because it takes too long.