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15 votes
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GitLab announces $268 million in Series E funding, at a valuation of $2.75 billion
13 votes -
Wi-Fi just turned twenty, but things could have gone very differently for the now ubiquitous wireless connectivity standard
8 votes -
Joel Spolsky and Clive Thompson discuss the past, present, and future of coding
4 votes -
Where to put buttons on forms
12 votes -
Could we terraform Mars?
6 votes -
AI: The Somnium Files | Release trailer
5 votes -
When prosecutors bury NYPD officers' lies
7 votes -
Inside the narrative design of Control, Remedy Entertainment's least linear game
6 votes -
Rockstar releases their own game launcher, which is now required to play some of their Steam games like GTA5 and Max Payne 3
15 votes -
The new Steam Library
17 votes -
Humble Builder Bundle - featuring Portal Knights, Bridge Constructor Portal, and others
7 votes -
Merriam-Webster adds sense of ‘they’ as a pronoun for nonbinary people to the dictionary
22 votes -
American becomes first person to swim English Channel four times without stopping
8 votes -
‘Battlestar Galactica’ reboot from Sam Esmail in the works for NBCU's Peacock streaming service
12 votes -
NBCUniversal announces "Peacock" as the name of its streaming service and unveils initial content lineup for April 2020 launch
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Moving Firefox to a faster four-week release cycle
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GameInformer interview with Hideo Kojima about Death Stranding
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I haven't owned a car in twelve years. What should I buy?
My question is exactly what it says on the title. For the past 12 years I've lived in a downtown area and all my workplaces have been metro accessible. I've gotten by with car shares and rentals...
My question is exactly what it says on the title. For the past 12 years I've lived in a downtown area and all my workplaces have been metro accessible. I've gotten by with car shares and rentals and borrowing other people's cars when I really needed them. but I'm applying for a job that would have about 45min to 1 hour commutes each way and will need a car to get by. I'm also just looking forward to having one, both because I have a dog now and my wife and I will start trying for a kid soon and it just seems more convenient to get around than relying on lyfts.
Yet having been out of needing to care about cars for 12 years, the modern world of everything being electronic is new and scary to me. Apparently transmissions don't need to shift gears anymore, there are alerts and alarms and sensors everywhere. . . I'm lost. I need help folks.
So here's what I'm looking for, ordered by priority:
- Visibility! I live in a city with busy streets and am terrified of accidentally killing a cyclist or scooter. So visibility is important to me, both blind-spot visibility and visibility on turns. Every rental or car share I've used has had shit for rear visibility. This includes the Ford Fiesta, the Mercedes GLC, and the Mercedes GLA. The Chevy Cruze has been okay, but still pales in comparison to the faithful 1999 Sentra of my youth.
- Fun! I haven't owned a car in forever. I want to enjoy driving it. A manual is out as my wife will need to drive it too, but something that feels peppy and has a good drive feel is important to me. I really like to "feel" like I'm driving and want something with really responsive steering and an okay amount of pick-up. We don't need to be getting into racer level, but I also don't want it to feel like I'm struggling to merge onto the highway (as I often do in a rental Fiesta or Cruze).
- Easy to park. Again, I'm in a city and parallel parking can be a giant pain and I always feel guilty holding up the people behind me when I'm doing it. Some of these features to alert when you're close to the car behind you or the simulated overhead view that some cars can give you seem great. I'd probably just settle for a backup camera and proximity sensors though.
- Cost of ownership
- Roomy and easy to get in and out of, including loading dogs and car seats for kids. I want to be able to drive around 5 people comfortably, with decent shoulder room and not make people feel cramped on long drives.
- Not too "basic." As in, I value some level of novelty and originality and would prefer something unique that not everyone else has. This is the most childish of my requests, so I don't rank it too highly.
Price-wise I'm leaning towards around $30,000 and could maybe be persuaded to get to around $40,000 for something that's REALLY perfect and cheap to own long-term. I'm currently considering a Prius, the Mazda3, a VW Golf, and a Toyota Rav4. I generally prefer sedans because of the responsiveness and drive-feel.
My logical brain is leaning Prius, but my inner teenager is saying "DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO BEING A LAME OLD MAN!!" The Golf and the Rav4 Hybrid are kind of tied. The Rav4 is bigger and harder to park, but it is roomier and has a lower cost of ownership. The Golf seems easier to park and would be more fun to drive, but it's also kind of expensive if I opt for a GTI or sport version. Plus it has less room, seems less luxe, and. . .I don't know it just looks kinda bland. I'm definitely leaning towards a low-mileage certified pre-owned whichever way I go just to not have to pay for depreciation.
So, any advice? Any other suggestions? Anything, feature-wise, I should be paying particular attention to?
The Mazda3 hatch seems really nice, but I'm worried I will 100% kill a cyclist
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Iceland hosts first major international #metoo conference – three-day gathering will explore why movement gained traction and effect it has had
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The powerful women whose patronage shaped art history
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We need an alternative to Medium, and it’s not Wordpress
Introduction I hate medium and I think it should die a slow death. I tried to get some information on the subject to substantiate my belief. What Medium Does Bad Medium is slow On Gmetrix,...
Introduction
I hate medium and I think it should die a slow death. I tried to get some information on the subject to substantiate my belief.
What Medium Does Bad
Medium is slow
On Gmetrix, medium.com has a
F PageSpeed Score
, with a 11.8MB Total Page Size and a Fully Loaded Time of 12.4s . A random article got a little better, with aD
scorePingdom gives Medium a
B
score, with a page size of Page size 12.4 MB and Load time 2.15s (much better). This is from San Francisco, USA.Probably because I’m closer, the results for São Paulo, Brazil, are marginally better. The
B
score remains, but Load time dropped to 1.68s.Tildes gotta a
C
on GTmetrix and anA
on Pingdom. On Google, Tildes got a98
and medium.com got a48
.What is probably more concerning is that builtwith.com’s lists 106 different technologies at use on a single Medium page, ranging from AngularJS to Subversion, Wordpress Grid (aren’t they competitors?), Microsoft Azure and AliExpress. Tildes list only 13 technologies.
Medium is annoying
I’m sick and tired of opening a random Medium article and being bombarded with an immediate call to action for me to subscribe or to sign into a useless mailing-list. No: I do not pardon the interruption.
It’s 2019: I don't wanna sign-in just to read a free fucking article.
Medium weakens your brand
On Medium, you’re not a content maker. Your a Medium contributor. There’s a great difference. There are little customization options, but you’re encouraged to strengthen the Medium brand instead of your own.
Medium does not support Markdown
In 2019, this is utterly ridiculous. I should be able to write my posts in Emacs, Vim, VS Code, whatever. Markdown is a universal format that simply works and not supporting it natively is unacceptable.
The Default Editor Sucks
It forces you to write in a certain (clunky) way and it doesn't work at all.
Too Much White Space
Medium uses space poorly.
Not FOSS
Wanna host your own? No can do amigo.
Your content is not (really) yours
Wanna export your Medium posts? Should be easy, like a single button, right? NOPE. And it can stop working at any time.
Most Content is Shit
I don’t wanna generalize, there are some good things on Medium. But most Medium articles are bellow 300-words, full of unnecessary subtitles with nothing more than obvious statements I could easily get from Google. Most Medium articles are from developers trying to leverage their status by showing knowledge of trivial technologies.
What Medium Does Right
A Social Network With Content Instead of Content With Social Networking
This is something no amount of Wordpress widgets will ever top. Medium is a social network. It gets views, it gets you “applauses”, it gets you validation. It’s the Instagram of text content. Medium makes you feel good about yourself, and give you the shot (illusion?) of exposure. Maybe you can be in a publication, which is just an assortment of posts within Medium itself! See, you’re growing! You’re reaching a larger audience! They might even read your stuff!
The Alternative
It is obvious that Medium does a lot of things right. It is an actual social network that engages people like no other current blogging tool. People that know better use Medium to their advantage. People use Medium to talk trash about Medium. So we need another Medium. One that is just as social, but that is faster, less annoying, less of walled-garden and respects your content. I’m not in a position to do such a thing yet. But I certainly wish it existed.
35 votes -
A bronze cauldron dating back to the Roman Age has been unearthed in a burial cairn in central Norway
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George Pell seeks leave to appeal child sex abuse convictions in High Court
News article: George Pell seeks leave to appeal child sex abuse convictions in High Court Background: How does the High Court decide whether to grant George Pell a final hearing?
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Programming Q&A Thread
An experiment I've been thinking about lately: a (recurring?) Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer other users' questions, or post suggestions for future threads. Don't forget...
An experiment I've been thinking about lately: a (recurring?) Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer other users' questions, or post suggestions for future threads.
Don't forget to format your code using the triple backticks or tildes:
Here is my schema: ```sql CREATE TABLE article_to_warehouse ( article_id INTEGER , warehouse_id INTEGER ) ; ``` How do I add a `UNIQUE` constraint?
Meta questions:
- Should I turn this into a recurring thread?
- If yes, should it be a weekly or a monthly thing?
- Should DBA and SysAdmin questions be allowed or should someone else make a separate recurring thread for these?
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The Dance House Helsinki – Finnish practice JKMM's newest project is set to become Finland's first venue dedicated primarily to dance and the performing arts
4 votes -
Scientists taught rats to play hide-and-seek with them
9 votes -
2019 Ambassador of Conscience Award – Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has been honored by Amnesty International USA
5 votes -
Astronomers detect the most massive neutron star yet
11 votes -
New Wi-Fi 6 certification is officially released, up to 3x faster than 802.11ac
11 votes -
Square wants to be a bank but doesn’t want to be taxed like one
15 votes -
WeWork's parent company is expected to postpone its IPO
9 votes -
Alexis Kennedy of Weather Factory (formerly Failbetter) responds to the abuse allegations made toward him three weeks ago
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Evolving AIs eating each other | With Pheromones ! [OC]
9 votes -
List of Apple Arcade games available at launch this Thursday
8 votes -
Let’s go further and hope for every last drop of joy to be drained from the world
11 votes -
10 Japanese board games worth checking out
10 votes -
Coil, Mozilla, and Creative Commons have launched Grant for the Web, a $100 million fund to invest in reshaping the economics of the web
19 votes -
The Far Side - A new online era is coming!
14 votes -
Russia carried out a massive breach of FBI communications system, escalating the spy game on US soil
18 votes -
Constance Wu’s Hollywood destiny - Coming late to celebrity, the star has felt the burden of representing all Asian-Americans
5 votes -
David Hykes - Gravity Waves
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Amazon changed its search system to boost more-profitable listings, including its own brands
19 votes -
Netflix acquires global streaming rights to Seinfeld for five years, starting in 2021
19 votes -
What happened to the real time strategy genre
14 votes -
“This has to end. We cannot say it any clearer.” A guide to the decades-long familial dispute over John Steinbeck’s estate.
7 votes -
Making sense of all the choices in the yogurt aisle
6 votes -
Working in high performance computing? These are the stats you should know
7 votes -
The launch of the Sega Dreamcast
4 votes -
Battle at Big Rock - Jurassic World Short
5 votes