dtertman

Years ago I went to a BBQ cooking class run by the owner of a small, one-location restaurant in Chicago. He said that Sysco and US Foods reps called him every single day to talk about outsourcing his pulled pork and brisket to them.

This feels oddly similar, except there's only a couple Sysco's and US Foods' and probably thousands of AI Content Farm startups at this point.

I hate the weather where I live (Chicagoland), so I spent a week a couple years ago downloading weather data from WUnderground and geo data from a bunch of places and turning it into a reverse weather index - instead of searching by place, you'd search by weather.

I found the best weather for me was in Antofagasta, Chile, but I never did anything with this knowledge :)

Unfortunately it was all built on an OpenShift gear on the free tier, so it's dead now.

At desktop resolution, the floating table of contents menu blocks out two of the (excellent) illustrations (second and second-last). Deleting aside.toc was very helpful.

It's used to manage your Global Entry membership.

The idea described here is implemented in e.g. TikTok's API, and as a consumer of that API (in Java at least), it has been awful to code against.

Because most people abuse status codes, most tooling is built around status codes. All of the Java HTTP libraries, for instance, throw very nice and easily-handle-able exceptions for non-200 status codes, but do nothing at all for 200 codes. So, now, we need to:

* try/catch the call anyway, because it might fail * parse the result * figure out if the result is an error or OK * throw / return early from error results * separate that throw from the try above

It's all so much hassle to avoid a mistake that _client libraries don't make_ : using the wrong URL in the first place.

> (if the covid effect is persistent for a year)

I think that's the important bit. The article (at least) didn't indicate that the same standard applies at the 180, 270, or 360 day mark, so I don't think we can just say COVID patients roll the dice on mental illness 4x as often as the general population. If that's actually being implied, it's horrible.

This helps a lot, thank you!

Yeah, agree, but how do we compare time slices over probability?

If people were willing and able to fly, the free market would close this arbitrage by ... driving up the cost of flying to Dubai. The other prices are controlled.

It was no such thing. A Cloudflare router advertised some bad routes.

The Red Apple, quoted in the story, closed their original location (that had been open for 30 years) last summer to make way for condos. At 5% margins it's pretty easy to see how a builder could make them a great or even life-changing offer.

I had that experience (while hunting for the old default) as well - really nothing looked "good" or at least like it used to.

Yeah, that's the rub it seems - if you picked a default, you kept your default. If you had the old JetBrains default, you now got the new JetBrains default.