Someone page Dr House!
It's not lupus!
Readit Newsmayormcmatt commented on Ask HN: Tell me your stories of taking lower paid work to be happier · Posted by u/pcloadletter_
Not yet, but I'm trying to leave retail marketing web development to work at a local water utility. It's difficult to find a position I'm qualified for, though. If it pans out, it'll be a 25-30% drop in income, but with the benefit of a short commute, good long-term job security, and the peace of mind that my work helps keep the community alive and in clean water.
My best to all those out there pursuing peace of mind and happiness.
mayormcmatt commented on Engineering for Slow Internet brr.fyi/posts/engineering... · Posted by u/jader201
This topic resonates with me, because I'm currently building a horrible marketing static page with images and videos that top 150MB, prior to optimization. It causes me psychic pain to think about pushing that over the wire to people that might have data caps. Not my call, though...
My kids are tween and teen and they thanked me for giving them the freedom they get. I get weird stares from other parents like I neglect my kids when what I do is actually consciously educating them to be autonomous.
Back when I grew up in the 80s and 90s there was a child abduction scare due to high profile cases like the Michaela Garecht case in Hayward, California. In fact, we lived in the same general community as her family (my parents knew the Garechts). Yet they still allowed my sister and I to choose how we got to and home from school (bus, walking, or bike) or to our friends' house. Speaking to them in adulthood about it, they said their choice to allow that was a combination of what you said -- teaching us to be autonomous -- and also that it jibed with their busy professional lives. Seems like they also got stares of disapproval from other parents, but I think it was the right choice.
mayormcmatt commented on Claude Émile Jean-Baptiste Litre en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cla... · Posted by u/apollinaire
Adding this to my list of favorite April Fool's pranks -- my favorite being the recently featured islands of San Serriffe.
Our family used to attend Newman Hall Church in Berkeley, California back in the '90s -- a very brutalist building of a church. Although religion never took for me, I had fond memories of the after-church donut feasts in the community space.
I don't know if the intention of the architecture was to get me to focus on the mass, but young me just spent the entire time taking in the strange geometries of the place.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/3TtT716k3bUkdAVh6
Merced to Bakersfield is exactly right. Build it there first, figure out how to build it, fuckup where it's cheaper and gain the experience so when you have to tear up downtown LA and SF you know what the fuck you're doing and can get in, get it done right the first time, and then get out. No one wants to live in a construction zone, but it's worse when something goes wrong and the construction zone lasts 3x longer than it has to.
This, exactly. We Americans have very little knowledge base on how to build HSR, so it's as much a workforce training and proving ground as it is a functional line.
mayormcmatt commented on The Great American Rail-Trail railstotrails.org/site/gr... · Posted by u/peter_d_sherman
An east-to-west traverse would be the only way to trek this without disappointment, wherein the reward for surviving the un-fun and mostly flat east and lower Great Lakes, upper Appalachia excepted, and the windblown monotony of the Great Plains is the Rockies and the Pacific Northwest/Cascades, which are beyond awesome.
Do it west-to-east and you've seen everything worth seeing by Wyoming, so utterly underwhelming is everything east thereof.
I once started in Washington, D.C. and only made it to Chicago before giving up from overwhelming boredom, jumping the Amtrak (train) to Denver before continuing west.
Well, DC to Chicago sounds like it would allow me to catch up on podcasts...
mayormcmatt commented on The Rise and Fall of 3M's Floppy Disk (2023) spectrum.ieee.org/3m-flop... · Posted by u/Stratoscope
The folks at CD Projekt Red certainly haven't forgotten about them for their "very special" edition of CP 2077: https://www.cyberpunk.net/en/news/50098/introducing-a-limite...
Out of curiosity, I'd love to know more:
- how the backend look like?
- Are the channels are based on a static pool of videos by category?
- Is there a "schedule" for a channel or picked at random?