Coding Fiend

@timecaptales today there are players who can dunk from a standstill at the free-throw line That's how big and athletic players have become. It's really somewhat frightening.

During the 1987 Slam Dunk Contest in Seattle, Michael Jordan famously took flight from the free-throw line to secure his first-ever dunk title.

@WallStreetApes San Francisco is very hostile to CARS. they've made it so difficult to keep a car there. And using parking tickets as a major revenue source is obnoxious And other example of government using their rulemaking powers to extract from the citizens instead of keeping order

American says the ticketing in San Francisco is extreme She says she’s now average getting 1 ticket per week from the city on her car This is actually wild because California Democrats don’t do anything about the drug use, homeless or crime. Yet they target productive Americans San Francisco gives out roughly 150,000 traffic citations a month, that’s 5,000 daily SFMTA estimates 1.5 million citations per year totaling over $100 million in fines

@TheAliceSmith The first Doctor Strange movie was extremely faithful to the comic books and in many ways it's one of the best marvel films made because it didn't change the characters in any significant way stan lee was a genius and mediocre minds should follow not try and second guess

The lesson to be learned from The Lord of the Rings film trilogy: The closer you stick to the original story, the more successful your adaptation will prove. The lesson Hollywood learned: We need to deconstruct and reimagine every book-based franchise.

@redwoodricker @APompliano There is a very old principle in the law that the severity of the punishment has to be proportional to the crime Giving police qualified immunity, requires them to have some common sense and some wisdom about balancing enforcement and the possibility of serious injury

@CodingFiend @APompliano Good grief. Talk about oversimplification; a perfect example of Single. Cause Logical Fallacy. "The cop is responsible!" No Crime -> No Chase -> No Fatality

This is insane. A New York City police officer conducted a drug bust on a known criminal. The criminal tried to flee the scene on a scooter, so the officer deployed a non-lethal weapon (threw a cooler at him) in an honest attempt to stop the suspect. The suspect died, which is unfortunate, but now the officer has been sentenced to 3-9 years in prison. That alone would be ridiculous. The judge took it a step further and explicitly said the aggressive sentence was meant to be a deterrent to other police officers. For what? For stopping criminals from committing crimes? The hardworking men and women of the NYPD deserve better than this. They risk their lives every day to protect innocent citizens from drugs and violent criminals. Activist judges who abuse their position of power over politics should be removed from office as well.

@MikeAxeWagner @APompliano There is a very old principle in the law that the severity of the punishment has to be proportional to the crime Giving police qualified immunity, requires them to have some common sense and some wisdom about balancing enforcement and the possibility of serious injury

@CodingFiend @APompliano This is a high speed chase? So in your world if someone does harm to your family and run the police should just let them go. You’re an idiot!

@JoannaStern i'm a Mac developer and working on a new Email Butler that uses local AI to prescreen the mail to sort into piles so you don't waste your time looking at scams or ads or receipts people involved in this stage have a chance to influence the design send dm with contact info if in

Is there a great Mac email client? Like an actual great one where I won't find myself going back to Gmail web four days later.

@moseskagan in each town, there's usually only one or two companies that accept recycled metals have a policeman go there and arrest anybody that comes in with wire It's so simple of a crime to stop, It's not funny. the police seem to be some combination of preoccupied, lazy or dumb

If you were down on your luck and needed money, would you think to go out at night with a set of power tools and strip the copper wire out of street lights in your city? Neither would 99.9% of other people. Crimes like these aren't random. They are the work of a small number of repeat offenders who make careers of them. So, instead of spending $$$$$ and time "fortifying our streetlights", why don't we send some police officers to arrest these criminals and then put them in jail so they can't keep doing it?

@DefiyantlyFree California already proved it There was an immediate drop of 30,000 jobs And the remaining restaurants are run with skeleton crew, and not that pleasant Government mandating wages is stupid, leads to teenage unemployment and a society where the Jong don't learn to work

How is it not common sense that a $20 minimum wage for fast food restaurants will kill the entire industry and end up bankrupting them and costing people jobs.

@jonbrooks housing is an auction And the price of a house shows how much people are willing to bid If your statement were true than these big houses would be inexpensive But they cost a fortune so you're not correct

Nobody wants a 3,500 sq ft boomer house. Gen Z doesn't want it. Millennials can't afford it. Foreign buyers are gone. These homes are becoming stranded assets. And there are thousands of them sitting on the market right now.

@StrongMarriage5 this is very sound advice

LADY WE TALKED TO RECENTLY: "Personally, I've learned in my 27 years of marriage, that when I regularly have sex with my husband, he's more open with me, he communicates better, he goes out of his way to serve me and he meets my needs. AND, it’s not because he feels obligated … but it's because he feels closely connected to me when are regularly making love. Why would I NOT want all this in my marriage? Having sex with my husband blesses me inside and outside the bedroom." US: Well said. I’m glad you get it, because many couples don’t. (FYI: This was from a lady who has a healthy marriage and sex life for 25+ years.)

@WallStreetApes why do people keep falling for well-meaning words but complete dysfunction in results? Los Angeles has degraded markedly during her 10 year She should be ashamed to be in public with a terrible statistics

Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass announced an additional $360 million dollars in funds to “prevent homelessness” The money is being given to NGOs, to support 80 new housing projects with the construction of 1,528 new affordable housing units Here we go again…. More NGO homeless money laundering incoming

@jamesacowling @martin_casado this is pretty good advice because being able to roll back a change is pretty important I have seen so many bungled system version changes, an abundance of caution is quite prudent because humans are fallible

Time for a big systems advice thread! In distributed systems there's no magic "push everything to prod at once" button. Every service gets pushed independently and nodes within a service get updated incrementally. If you mess up forwards/backwards compatibility you can fail irrecoverably. So how to avoid this? 1/5: Decouple data and code changes. Never push out a release that changes how data is stored at the same time as the code that uses this new data. If there's a bug and you need to roll back to the old version of your code it won't be able to handle the new data in the new format. Instead push out a release that first changes the data in a way that’s compatible with both the old and new code (e.g., optional fields etc), when that’s stable push out the new code that uses it, then when that’s stable you can change the data to remove backwards compatibility. This is known as a “migration” in the database world and yes it’s annoying, but yes you need to do it.

@fchollet there's a justly famous book by Hermann Weyl on symmetry It goes way beyond compression, it is really about an aspect that is omnipresent in nature and beauty since math is the study of pattern, it is frequently encountered there as well

The reason symmetry is so important in physics is because symmetry is a highly effective compression operator. If a system is invariant under some symmetry, you only need to explain one axis of it. Scientific models represent the systematic exploitation of the universe's internal redundancies through symbolic logic.

@bridgietherease man in the high castle was evidence once again that Philip K Dick was the greatest inventor of situations in the last century in fiction but not a good writer He's had more movies made from his stories than anyone except Steven King whom i detest Dick had incredible imagination

always thinking about the I Ching turning against PKD news.ycombinator.com/item?id=112743…

@BenjaminOkunola this movie was actually pretty good, they were a fun couple and I thought Anne Heche was quite pretty

A snake swum up her pants while swimming 😳 Her Next reaction will shock you 🎬🍿 Watch till the end 👇

@Darkdarling00 of course I have all 20 because I'm 72

7 for me!!….I feel confident nobody Has all 20!! How many for you?🤔

@DrDiGiorgio sorry, but your statistics are misleading Every single person should go through a year of nursing school in high school because with the longevity that we now have we have a massive need for medical knowledge especially late in life doctors are too expensive. We need way more.

This myth needs to die. Both the number of medical school and residency spots has outpaced population growth in the US. 70 new medical schools have opened in the US since 2000. Another 20 are opening in the next decade. Medicare has stopped funding residency slots, yes, but this did nothing to slow the pace of new slots. If the AMA is trying to suppress supply of doctors, they are doing a terrible job.

@Handre taxi could've been a lot cheaper if government hadn't regulated them to the point where they cost a fortune Uber broke existing laws, but nobody could sue them because they weren't doing the driving NYC could've easily allowed double the number of taxis would've been cheaper

NYC taxi medallions hit $1.3 million each in 2013. Then Uber launched and destroyed that artificial scarcity overnight. By 2018, medallions traded for $160,000 - an 88% collapse that represents the largest peacetime transfer of wealth from rent-seekers to consumers in modern history. The taxi cartel had politicians bought and paid for (Bloomberg took $50K from taxi interests while blocking ride-sharing apps). They artificially restricted supply to maybe 13,000 yellow cabs in a city of 8 million people. You'd wait 45 minutes in the rain while empty cabs refused to go to Brooklyn. Uber didn't just compete - it obliterated the entire regulatory capture scheme. Consumers voted with their phones, choosing abundant rides over government-rationed scarcity. The medallion owners screaming about "unfair competition" sound exactly like telegraph operators complaining about the telephone (creative destruction works both ways, fellas). This is why bureaucrats hate entrepreneurs. Every successful startup exposes how unnecessary their permission slips really were...

@DrDiGiorgio The supply of trained physicians is artificially constrained by the government, which is preventing new schools being accredited That's why they can charge so much for medical education because there's almost no competition Government is holding back the healthcare industry

A basic example about the scarcity of healthcare resources touched a nerve. The replies to this post are wild. It basically comes down to two arguments. One is that we can just somehow train enough healthcare professionals to overcome scarcity. Anyone with a basic grasp of economics knows this does not solve the problem. But let’s examine the thought experiment: Somehow you centrally plan enough medical school and residency slots that the physician workforce expands without significantly diluting the quality of graduates. What quantity of doctors is enough? Does every American in rural Montana get immediate access to a subspecialized cerebrovascular neurosurgeon? A high quality, conscientious primary care doctor who makes house calls? Obviously not. So who decides how many doctors is enough and that they are distributed equitably? And how do you train all those doctors without draining resources from other sectors of the economy? Does this system motivate people by making medicine more enticing than tech, law, engineering, and everything else? Then what happens to THOSE fields? The second argument is that we just triage the way other countries do. But that does not guarantee a right to healthcare. It guarantees a right to a waiting list, which is not the same thing. In Canada, the latest reported median wait for neurosurgery was about a year. So you do not really have a right to a neurosurgeon. You have a right to wait a year for one. Even the Supreme Court of Canada famously said that “Access to a waiting list is not access to health care.” So you are back to the first problem, which is how do you determine what level of workforce is adequate for the population, and then how do you socially engineer that level of physician workforce without bankrupting the country and decimating other productive sectors? Scarcity does not disappear because politicians declare a right. Someone still has to decide who gets seen, when, and by whom. Which is why I like markets. Markets and their price signals are the best way to answer that question. I do not like markets because I want rich people to get healthcare. I like them because when doctors are making good money meeting demand, more doctors and practices have reason to expand supply, WHICH INCREASES ACCESS TO CARE. And if you want poor people to have access, give them a subsidy to participate in the market too. That is a far more honest and workable way to increase access to care.