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Ebike is a good solution. I ride 20 minutes to work and never show up sweaty. The breeze works better than AC to keep me cool even on 85F+ days.

I invested in a good rain jacked with helmet compatible hood and a pair of rain pants and I am able to ride in all but the heaviest of PNW rains.

I do end up nearly always carrying a pannier with me wherever I bike (usually to hold the extra layers I need while biking) but that has turned out to rarely ever be an issue.

I have been able to replace ~80% of my car trips the bike, it could be 99%+ if I were a little less lazy.

I couldn't disagree more. If possible, always interview with companies you really want to work at later in the process (its often not possible, but this should be plan A.)

Why does that seem crazy to you? Some artificial interventions in the earth's natural processes are bad for humans (global warming, increased rate of desertification) and some interventions are good for humans (increasing land available for sustainable food production, killing malaria carrying mosquitos).

There isn't some "human interventions good/human interventions bad" duality. Some are good some are bad. We should stop doing to bad things and do more of the good things. We should continuously audit for new effects caused by our actions are adjust accordingly to achieve the best outcomes for human life.

I don't understand the argument that you have to rewrite your application everytime React introduces a new feature.

My current company is using a React app, built on top of Create-React-App, and still has some class components sprinkled throughout.

We simply have simply chosen not to rewrite everything each time a shiny new feature comes along. Instead we incrementally adopt the new things as they come along. Everything works fine. Those class components are in parts of the codebase that haven't needed to be updated in years...next time I need to make more than a trivial change to one of those components I'll take the extra 15 minutes to update them to use hooks.

We are looking to get off of CRA since Vite has a much quicker build time - but we've managed to make it ~8 years before deciding this upgrade was worth our time.

We have absolutely 0 plans of migrating to a framework so we can use server components.

The app makes lots and lots of money.

I 100% agree about traffic enforcement cameras.

The article makes it sound like these cameras are not intended to enforce traffic laws but rather track the location of every car it scans to aid in solving other types of crime.

Should we stop trying to enforce laws because people try to evade enforcement?

The article makes it sound like these cameras aren't intended to enforce traffic laws but rather help solve other crimes that were aided by a car in some way.

The article doesn't mention window tint...but I couldn't imagine that is having 0 effect.

Anecdotally about half the cars I see have very dark tint on the driver and passenger window, making it nearly impossible to see a pedestrian through it at night when making a turn. I know tinting these windows used to be illegal in my city, but a few years ago they stopped doing emissions testing and that was the main place they ticketed violations for tint, so its completely unenforced now.

You're only insulated so long as don't have to move. Very few people stay in 1 house for thirty years. If you own a house you are now stuck there - hope you don't need to move for a new job, hope you don't want to have another kid, hope your parents don't age into needing substantially more care, etc.

People are unhappy about housing.

If you own a house with a fixed rate mortgage then inflation will have a heavily muted effect on your personal financial situation since your (most likely) largest expense isn't effected.

However, people look around and see that they can't afford to move to a different house of similar size/quality because prices and interest rates are so high. And they definitely can't afford to move out of that starter house into something with an extra bedroom so they can start a family or take care of an aging parent.

This creates a deep sense of instability and the sensation that you are stuck where you are, and people generally don't like feeling unstable or stuck.

I truly believe 99% of the economic woe in America can be traced back to the lack of housing.

God I hope the truth 1% as interesting as this

I worked on a very large production rails app from 2015-2019 and came away loving Rails and hating Ruby. Give me Rails in TS or Go and I couldn't think of any reason to ever use anything else for a web app backend.

The Rails Console has to be one of the greatest productivity enhancers I've ever come across.

Or for a couple grand more you can get a base model Subaru with symmetrical AWD and a it will easily get to 200k+ miles.

Agreed. If they had this mixed with some sort of inpatient rehab I could see it offering a lot of hope to some really in-need people.

It shows up on all 3, I think it might be a labeling issue. My guess is that its a classified as a "convenience store", but in reality its closer to a coffeeshop and bottleshop that sells pantry items.