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I drive a Mini. I frequently notice how the hoods of these trucks are taller than my entire car.

The really stupid thing about the light rail system, at least in the east valley, is that they could have run a line right up the middle of the 101 from South Chandler to North Scottsdale. Add a bus-fed stop every couple of miles, and that train would likely be packed every day with commuters. Instead, we added a carpool lane that does basically nothing for traffic, and the light rail continues to be basically useless for most people.

Did they ever fix the problems with Dependabot and forks of repos using it? That's what turned us off from using it.

I work on an open-source program full-time, being paid to work on it by a company that makes a commercial product overlaid on top of it. I don't feel like the company making a product based on it diminishes the work I do on it at all. We have a fairly vibrant community of users of the OSS software. I feel like any work that I contribute as a paid employee also enriches those users and their individual use cases for it.

I got an email from an AWS recruiter recently with the subject "Join the AWS family yes or no?". My first reaction was to think "good god this feels like someone just passed me a note in middle school that said 'do you like me [ ] yes [ ] no?'". There's something to be said for a bit of professionalism in recruiting, especially when talking to someone who's been in the industry for 25 years.

Steelcase Leap v2 with a headrest. I bought it new, since finding a refurb one with a headrest is really difficult. My company gave us a WFH-office-setup stipend at the start of COVID lockdowns though, so that paid for about half of it.

I went from a crappy Staples faux-leather chair with terrible padding to this, and the comfort level is night and day.

My wife and I maintain that fixed bed times are still one of the best parenting decisions we ever made. They're getting a little later as our kids get older, but we can definitely tell when the kids haven't gotten enough sleep. They get squirrely and overly giddy, and their ability to focus on anything goes way down.

I've seen people talk about girls on OF making hundreds of thousands of dollars a month and while I'm sure some are, I wish people would understand how few are actually making that amount.

I think this is the same result of people who look at Twitch and think they can be the next Ninja or Shroud. Yes, there are people on Twitch that make many thousands of dollars a month. The odds of becoming one of those people is vanishingly low for someone starting out fresh, and it takes many years to build up to that point. These are people who spend 8+ hours in front of a camera interacting with a live audience, 6-7 days a week, not to mention all of the things that happen in the background. Joe Shmoe in his house, streaming a couple hours a night when he gets off work, is likely not going to make it.

I had nearly the same reaction to the GoFundMe page, one that I'm sure this person has uttered in his lifetime repeatedly: "maybe they should just pull themselves up by their bootstraps". If that makes me a terrible person, then so be it.

Another comment I saw elsewhere said that the Elite league he plays in regularly is full of very good amateur/ex-pro players as well. It's not like they picked up a guy off the street and threw the pads on him. He had a ton of experience playing against players just below the caliber of current NHL players.

That's not to diminish what he did though. It's amazing that the NHL has something like this place, and the guy seems to have taken it very very well with a lot of humility.

It's mostly people who don't have kids/old people who vote with the mentality of "I don't have kids in school, why should I pay for other people's kids to go?"

I was prescribed tetracycline for my acne when I was in my late teens as well. It gave me a terrible sore throat (sharp stabbing kind of pain) so I stopped taking it. I've always told doctors since then that I'm allergic to it, because I'd really rather not repeat that.

From the article:

Each of the new parts is a quad-core design using HyperThreading, with Intel’s HD 630 GT2 graphics as the traditional ‘integrated’ low power graphics (iGPU) for video playback and QuickSync. This is connected via eight PCIe 3.0 lanes to the ‘package’ graphics (pGPU) chip, the Radeon RX Vega M, leaving 8 PCIe 3.0 lanes from the CPU to use for other functionality (GPU, FPGA, RAID controller, Thunderbolt 3, 10 Gigabit Ethernet).

So Intel isn't throwing in the towel on the iGPU, they're just augmenting it with a discrete GPU in an all-in-one package for system builders.

It doesn't, and that's why a large majority of economists were wholly against it.

Most kids can/do play a single sport year-round. Yes football is primarily in the summer/fall, but there are spring leagues for those kids who want to play. Same thing with baseball. My nephew takes the summer off from little league, mostly because it's hot here and his family takes vacations, but otherwise plays the rest of the year in multiple seasons.

I bought one of these https://www.ospreypacks.com/us/en/product/comet-new-for-fall... a couple years ago as a convention backpack after being disappointed carrying my TB2 messenger bag. It has a padded slot in the back for a laptop plus an internal pocket in that slot where you could slide a tablet easily. Separate from the laptop slot, it also has one large and one small pocket, with some smaller internal pockets in the small one. The straps are comfortable enough to wear for multiple full days, assuming breaks here and there and I've never been wanting for space inside of it.

Except that there's really nothing wrong with Common Core and if you talk to most teachers they're for it (disclaimer: my wife, sister, and sister-in-law are all teachers, and my parents are retired teachers).

Common Core is used as a political boogeyman against people who don't really understand what it's trying to accomplish.

Common Core doesn't really have much to do with the glut of standardized testing. Common Core is more about setting a guideline for lesson planning, allowing teachers across the country to share lessons and techniques to teach. It was developed by teachers for teachers.

Standardized testing is a completely different problem. There's this strange desire at the state and district level to boil everything down to a single metric that says "this kid was taught something" without looking at any of the data that can be provided by their day-to-day instructor.

I imagine that in combat (as bows were used when these techniques were "lost") you didn't have to be bullseye-accurate. Close to where you were aiming is often good enough.

Does it also take into account that charter schools have a tendency to boot out any low-performing or "behavioral problem" students after a certain date (usually right after state funding levels for schools are set for the next year)?

The reviews on Google Play don't look much better: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.currentc

Phoenix. Sure they have drought, but not much other weather or natural catastrophes to speak of.

I've been working on the Wheel of Time series for a while now. I just got through book 11, which means I'm out of the books that Robert Jordan wrote and into the home stretch of books that were finished by Brandon Sanderson.

Overall, the series has been good, if not a little long-winded and a bit repetitive at times.

"lawyers working to get Willingham a posthumous pardon"

Does TechCrunch actually have any documented cases where Nest has connected to a customer's thermostat and modified the settings on it? Or are they simply talking in the realm of "we think they can probably do this"?