It should be noted that in most states with medical one can tell a teledoc "I have anxiety" and get a card very fast.
The problem is you document your use, which is problematic for those who own firearms, work in information security, etc.
Readit Newsdijonman2 commented on Weed Is Coming to Circle K Gas Stations in US Next Year bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/prostoalex
I'm deaf as a post and rely on speech-to-text tools and features (Otter, Google Meet), usually paid, and constantly feel a sense of digital precarity: at any moment, these tools may be removed, changed, or experience outages, all which swing my world from inclusion to exclusion. I hope this works well, because it would give me control over my own tools for accessibility in a way that my workarounds don't.
Online tools also violate your privacy, as they have the contents of your conversations.
dijonman2 commented on San Francisco is spending $1.7M on one public toilet sfchronicle.com/sf/bayare... · Posted by u/crhulls
“the committee evaluates each project’s design, scale and massing for accessibility, safety and aesthetic merit.” The review process “ensures that each project’s design is appropriate to its context in the urban environment, and that structures of the highest design quality reflect their civic stature.”
This is a perfect example of why you codify requirements and any review for permitting is as objective as possible. In this case, it's totally subjective and will be abused to get money and other favors from developers that want the project.
This is pure corruption out in the open and they don't even try and hide it. They even mention that they might not need the full $1.7M and they'll find other uses for the money if it doesn't cost as much. This is theft of tax payer money by unaccountable officials.
Any extra money should be returned to tax payers and every single part and labor cost must be documented and justified.
I worked on a public project in the South Bay and the corruption runs deep.
Spend 15k on Airbnb in a week for one person? Expense approved.
Seems everyone took a cut somehow.
dijonman2 commented on 'I have worked from home in 78 different countries' bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan... · Posted by u/vanilla-almond
The problem with combining travel and work is that the travel part suffers, and the work part suffers.
When traveling, i like to spend my energy on the travel, not stressing about work.
It’s hard when you don’t have enough PTO. I’ll go across the world for 2 weeks and spend 3-4 days “working”.
Everyone knows what’s up, it’s barely classified as work. But it allows me to adjust my body clock and due to the time difference I fuck around for the entire day anyway.
dijonman2 commented on Sending UDP Messages in Node.js Without DNS Lookups hermanradtke.com/sending-... · Posted by u/hermanradtke
Looking at the UDP code in question in brightcove/hot-shots [1]. The createUdpTransport() function creates an object with a send() method that forwards to socket.send(), calling the underlying function with the same host and port argument each time. It seems to me that this code should call socket.connect(args.host, args.port) once instead, and skip the host and port arguments to the send() calls. Presumably this would result in just a single DNS lookup.
Bonus: the createUdpTransport() function also has a DNS cache, which the author of the article could have enabled with just "cacheDns: true". But if the library code used socket.connect(), this internal cache shouldn't be needed either.
1: https://github.com/brightcove/hot-shots/blob/564ac7bfdaaf366...
I think connect() is for TCP, at least it is in C. As UDP is stateless you have to call send() for each packet.
dijonman2 commented on American men are losing interest in fatherhood fastcompany.com/90796821/... · Posted by u/ppjim
Personally I don’t want to marry and lose half my worth, so a child is unlikely.
The courts are heavily biased towards women, and even the general public looks down upon a man alone with children.
I’ve spent time with a girlfriends kids and taken them out, got some nasty looks. Extremely unnerving.
sounds like hardened political rhetoric to me and classical capitalist realism - no place for that here
How does your comment differ from your own judgement?
dijonman2 commented on Office vacancy rate in San Francisco just hit a new high socketsite.com/archives/2... · Posted by u/elsewhen
At the same time, you should consider possible shenanigans that your neighbors may get up to. While there is always a lot of petty stuff going on in our HOA, I also see a lot of chatter from people on nextdoor who don't live in an HOA and their neighbors can be quite annoying. Loud roosters waking you up at 4am and the like.
I have a home in an area without an HOA and I have had a 100% resolution rate by just talking and explaining. Being decent and pragmatic goes a long way.
What do you mean? The goalposts were always clear, and open discussion was always acceptable.
Open discussion was never acceptable, even here on HN. I was quickly downvoted for saying anything against masking and vaccinations. Not even objecting, mere questions elicited this reaction.
Being able to do real remote work, including real time video calls, while on a plane is actually game changing. I'm sure this will eventually become standard on most airlines, especially for Business Class.
I hope not, I do not want to overhear obnoxious phone or video calls.