one of the funniest things about going to NYC with a toddler was how very chill it was to go with a toddler

there are parks everywhere!

There are! Central Park of course. But also pocket parks all over the place.

But i dont work in tech

this actually seems like an reasonable technical solution to the non-technical problem that causes deprecations to be ignored in the first place

Degrading performance exponentially (1ms, 2ms, 4ms, 8ms...) WILL create a 'business need', without directly breaking critical functions. Without this degradation, there is no reason to remove the deprecated code, from a business perspective.

It should slow down your compile instead of the runtime. That way the pain is felt by the developer who can fix it.

To be honest, I'm not sure it is a 'covert influence network'.. Or at least, that is a much more conspiratorial turn of phrase than I would use here.

It strikes me as wage arbitrage if anything, an opportunity for these engagement farmers to make very good money (relatively), an opportunity which was all-but-explicitly created by Elon Musk's payout system.

All else aside, its very funny that this is an example of a market-maker once again (un)intentionally destabilizing the social fabric they talk so much about.

> an opportunity which was all-but-explicitly created by Elon Musk's payout system.

Nobody seems to remember it now because the narrative got shifted to "Russians manipulating the election" but, in 2015/16, the whole "Fake News" phenomenon was originally attributed to click bait websites being thrown up to get Facebook/AdWords revenue. I believe it was a European outlet interviewing an Indian person, IIRC. (Found it, or one of them, this isn't the one I remember and it's from after the election) [1].

Once the narrative turned to it being Russian bots influencing the election (to further the "Trump as a Russian agent" narrative, speaking of fake news...), that reporting seemed to dry up.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/11/23/50...

I want them to come back, but isn't at least some of the problem with SRO's tenant's rights laws?

It's hard (or at least, unattractive) to run a flophouse if you cannot easily + risklessly kick highly disruptive individuals out.

For the longest time, i thought random drivers were flashing their brights at me all over chicago

only recently did i realize, it was the regular headlight LEDs being shined directly at me as they went over a speedbump

Have to remind myself every time that the bright headlights would actually make me blind instead of flashing for a second.

why is this flagged lmao

a couple of weeks ago, i was walking my 3 year old daughter and her friend to the beach, pushing them along in a wagon.

I was crossing the street (a busy thoroughfare) in a marked crosswalk, that did not have a yield/stop sign or streetlight. A middle aged man in an SUV floored it in front of me. As he drove by he shouted 'FUCK YOUUU', as if I was in the wrong for walking in the crosswalk.

Anyways, there's no reason i'm sharing this anecdote.

you've seen this old article, right? https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-usps-email/

as the son of a (former) mailman, i would have loved an @usps.com email

TIL - this seems supremely messed up. If anything, they should count towards the place of their original residence.