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The main subject of the article, “Frank”, is already married. This is the part of the article that explains his motivation:

There were the kids at school who taunted him for his height; a longtime online fan of his artwork who remarked, on meeting him, that Frank was “shorter than I expected”; or the guys who randomly shoved him in the street a few years ago, tearing out his headphones. They wouldn’t have done that to a taller man, he reasons.

In my experience the truth is somewhere in the middle. It's helpful to neither completely ignore nor ruminate over one's traits, but just _be aware_ of them.

It's been very helpful for me to pay attention to and think about how my own personality compares to others'. For example, I tend to be a people-pleaser, but I used to think that everyone was just as people-pleasing as me, which only reinforced the people-pleasing because I didn't feel right putting my own needs first when everyone else was already sacrificing their own needs (or so I assumed).

At the same time, medicalizing these things paints them as "abnormal" disorders that need to be "cured", overlooking any of the positives these traits bring. When it comes to my people-pleasing, I like it about myself that I care about others. As long as I recognize that it sometimes comes at my own expense, I can begin to make more conscious decisions about when to allow the people-pleasing to flow versus when to try to subdue it.

I agree with the author that this is a reasonable way to indicate their intent. But I've seen so many accidentally ineffectual code snippets that if I saw this code I'd be inclined to delete it unless there was also a comment expressing its purpose.

Certainly it might not make sense to build extensive public transit in or between every tiny town in Wyoming.

But within individual cities, or areas like the Northeast Corridor, the density is comparable to areas of Europe with fantastic public transit.

The issue is car-centric policy and culture, not lack of potential demand.

As some other commenters have noted, in cities like Amsterdam and Tokyo there are enough nice safe public spaces that even young children are free to play outside on their own and there's much less planning required to go places since you don't need a car.

That being said, I'm sure there are plenty of North Americans who love having a ton of space for gardening etc. But I would guess they're actually in the minority and that most people choose to live in sprawling suburban developments because they're the only affordable option to guarantee access to good schools and a safe neighborhood.

There's no "cannot", it's a conscious choice - if you have more space than necessary that absolutely does not require that you expand to fill all of it. And in particular this has caused issues because American cities tend towards sprawl, filling up area with low-density housing that requires significantly more infrastructure per capita, and implementing zoning laws to prevent higher-density development even as the population grows, resulting in housing shortages.

Not Just Bikes has some excellent content about this, e.g.: https://youtu.be/XfQUOHlAocY

If you slow down the pace to help the "zero percenters" and only cover 80% of the material in the allotted time, the students who could have handled 100% of the material will be limited to 80%. And that slowdown still won't be enough to help the slowest learners much, so they'll still only learn, say, 20% of the material.

There isn't an assumption that all white men are racist here. Instead, I think the reasoning is that the vast majority of white men have benefited (probably unknowingly) from structural racism to the detriment of other groups. The training is intended to make these men aware of that in an effort to chip away at structural racism and its harmful effects.

What's worse, the dropdown doesn't even work for me (on iOS Chrome). It's stuck on 1 month.

Know of any apps like this that are available for iOS? I loved the old wunderground app's graphs and have been trying to find a replacement for ages...

Not sure if this is trolling or what, but either way, can someone with more karma please flag this?

Out of curiosity, how did you get started with distributed systems side projects? Do you use e.g. a bunch of Docker containers or cloud VMs?

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20329699

Having just spent several months preparing for FAANG interviews myself, I would say not - these go far beyond the data structures I'd expect an interview to cover at most tech companies.

It wasn't so obvious to plenty of smart and competent teachers and textbook writers, so if nothing else it's worth "rediscovering" to bring it to their attention. Not everyone has the time or energy to derive their everyday decisions from first principles.

I've seen several doctors who have confirmed that it's not a serious issue... All the treatments I've heard of have a higher likelihood of side effects than I'm willing to risk to fix something that's just an annoyance.

Wow, that looks perfect, thanks!

I developed eye floaters about a year ago that are annoyingly noticeable against any page with a white background. The Dark Reader extension (https://darkreader.org/) has been a life saver for me, and I've found my eyes to be less tired overall when using it, too.

My only wish now is for a way to invert PDF colors on Mac - I haven't found a good way to do that short of inverting all screen colors, which messes up all the other apps that do have a dark/night mode.

Not to detract from the gravity of the situation, but the main picture (and caption) are amazing.

"A man holds a laptop computer as cyber code is projected on him in this illustration picture taken on May 13, 2017."

To be honest, I feel like Python's philosophy makes it easier to focus on the "craft" of programming; instead of worrying about small details like how to iterate through a collection, I'm able to just do it the boring-but-effective Pythonic way and move on to higher-level details of the program. So I guess I'm not strictly disagreeing with you, but I think the craft of programming is about far more than just how your code looks, and I find Python to be excellent for pursuing those other areas of craftsmanship.

But it's still so easy to just clear cookies or open it in an incognito tab...

I finished undergrad this year (small liberal arts college), and all my classes beyond the CS101 equivalent used git. But the deepest we got into git in lecture, even in a software engineering class, was add + commit + push and hence most of us saw it as nothing more than a homework submission CLI. Most of our assignments were pair-programmed though, so we didn't often need git to be more than that.

+1 on the Kinvara. I'm a current college XC runner, and I've been running in the Kinvaras (many different versions) for 5 years now. I've found that the low weight makes a big difference, allowing you to run with a higher cadence and thus with shorter, lighter strides, reducing impact forces and generally improving form.