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Comment · 5 years ago
Good read from last year about how trucks from the current LLV fleet (which at this point are very old) keep catching on fire: https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3ezx4/post-office-delivery-...
Comment · 6 years ago
The police have said they are evacuating the building, but have not identified a threat: https://twitter.com/SPVM/status/1327353175670657024
Comment · 6 years ago
Credit to the people that wrote and maintained bugzilla, both as software and this particular instance. It's still ticking, much longer than (I assume) they planned it to.
Comment · 9 years ago
This criticism is pretty rich, given the venue in which it is posted.
Comment · 10 years ago
A hollowed-out book that contains something other than pages is literally a fake book. It looks like a book, but it is a fake. It is not a real book.
Comment · 10 years ago
If you are interested in this type of activism, and live in a city that offers its own form of ID (notably SF or LA), you can do this now by signing up for a city ID card. There is considerable concern that the city ID databases will be used as registries of illegal immigrants, so the more legal residents who take advantage of it, the weaker that signal becomes.
Plus, it's nice to have a second form of photo ID sometimes.
In SF, you need an appointment to get an ID. You can make one here: http://sfgov.org/countyclerk/sf-city-id-card
Comment · 10 years ago
Years ago I worked for a company who was building a piece of networking hardware, and we had bought some code that implemented various well-known routing protocols. This included the TCP/IP layer, but it was just the BSD stack.
Our dev hardware had a boot loader that would use FTP to download the most recent images to finish the boot. After we cut over to this code, we started having an occasional problem where this download would fail -- the box would send a spurious RST and kill the connection. I was one of the protocols people, and it ended up on my plate.
I spent 3 days staring at tcpdump, adding enormous piles of debug traces, and finally going through the code line-by-line with a copy of the Stevens book open on my lap. Eventually I found the problem - they had made one single change to the BSD code, and in so doing introduced the bug. It was compiler-dependent.
Writing this code correctly is hard.
Comment · 10 years ago
The disparity in disk snapshot performance was surprising.
Comment · 12 years ago
This is the comment I was going to make. This is an /extremely/ apologetic spin from Owen Williams, and seems very unlikely to be accurate.
Comment · 12 years ago
For technical positions, this was never a requirement afaik.
For at least some non-technical positions, a college degree was required, although not for any reason I ever understood.
Comment · 12 years ago
This is not an uncommon SV story archetype, but as many people have pointed out before me, it's one that highlights the concept of privilege with particular clarity. In the US, both men and white people are more aggressive at this sort of bluff than non-men and non-white people, and there are strong implications that this is because it's a much easier bluff for them.
Comment · 12 years ago
Valencia Street in SF has this, but it's set for 13mph, for bikers.