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A New Jersey city that limited street parking hasn’t had a traffic death in 7 years
  • A coworker of mine lives in Hoboken and grew up there. He speaks very highly of living in such a walkable city.

  • Slum in New York City, USA, 1888
  • Jacob Riis is the photographer and the slum is the Five Points.

  • Wells Fargo fires more than a dozen employees for faking work using mouse jigglers and keyboard activity simulation
  • I am an AV tech and we use a mouse jiggler script to prevent computers from going into an inactive state for presentations during events at my company. The script doesn't need to be installed, you just open the file by double clicking.

  • Sony buys Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
  • Considering the chain has been owned for a few years by private equity, I don't know if it could have been any worse than that.

  • North End restaurateurs use Wu's recent Italy trip in outdoor dining fight
  • Nobody needs to drive or park on Hanover. Close it to all cars except delivery trucks and emergency vehicles and that should solve the outdoor dining and narrow sidewalk issue.

  • Dublin and New York City portal to be changed after 9/11 images shown
  • Nice things like this can really only exist in a museum or immersive space, I think.

  • Qualcomm and Intel can't sell chips to Huawei anymore, report claims
  • I actually bought a Huawei Matebook in February 2019 (2018 model) from the Microsoft store for just over $1300. You know, the MacBook ripoff one? It was just a few months before they were banned. Honestly, that thing is still a solid laptop.

    Okay battery life, really good specs, super light, amazing display. Unfortunately heats up a lot and throttles under load, but not terrible. I mainly got it for music production with Ableton Live 10, and still use it for that. Gaming is meh but can play some games at modest settings. Good for Photoshop and Premiere. Great for basic computer use. It even barely had any bloatware installed. I suppose there could be some backdoor for spying as is often rumored, but it's really not something I am that concerned about.

    I guess it's a shame they got banned. I feel like there's nothing else in the PC market like it. These days it seems like I'm better off buying a MacBook Pro given my hobbies.

  • Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining
  • Lack of Ableton Live support is also why I probably won't switch to Linux. Even though years ago I used to dual boot Ubuntu and quite liked it as an OS, the lack of DAW support is the real deal breaker for me too. Ableton Live is just too good and I know it too well to switch away from it.

  • 'Vortex Cannon vs Drone' - Mark Rober shows off tech from a "defense technology company that specializes in advanced autonomous systems". That seems bad
  • I am well aware of this overlap and it doesn't come as a surprise. I perhaps wish more of these creators acknowledged the military industrial complex and addressed what it means for their content and for the world of engineering.

  • 'Vortex Cannon vs Drone' - Mark Rober shows off tech from a "defense technology company that specializes in advanced autonomous systems". That seems bad
  • I also had this uneasy feeling watching the video. It certainly felt a bit like a cog in the military industrial machine. While the actual content of the video wasn't exactly bad in my opinion, I don't know how I feel about pitching anti-terror or war machines to children through the lens of, "Engineering is cool!" That said, there are many more examples of that pitch out in the world in other forms. I do think Mark could be more careful especially when he is directly promoting a company in the defense industry.

  • Workers united!
  • Almost as if it's a grifter account that exists to illicit reactionary responses, both for and against. I would hardly even call this a "take" since it isn't even an outright opinion. Let me be clear though, I do not like this account either.

  • How sad
  • I am also not a fan of the doomerism. Feels harder to avoid here unfortunately

  • unless grandma was in the dust bowl, then she was just fucked
  • You divided backwards. It should be land divided by population. 5.34m / 8b = 0.0006675 miles^2 per person.

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    Gifts for the new year
  • Hey don't spoil the surprise!

  • Anyone remember anything about 2021
  • 2021 had GME meme stonks and was the start of NFTs. Also COVID vax started coming out.

  • ‘The Marvels’ Meltdown: Disney MCU Seeing Lowest B.O. Opening Ever At $47M+
  • Who could have ever guessed audiences would start getting disinterested in these movies? 😱

  • [article] Maybe Don’t Drive Into Manhattan | The Atlantic
  • I have seen some truly terrible takes elsewhere online from New Yorkers who think this is another poor people tax. This is the opposite of a poor people tax. I don't know where that idea is coming from, but it sounds like a Fox News and New York Post talking point.

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  • I also have a vested interest in furthering the socialist policies in the US. I would very much like to stay here since my life, my family, my friends, etc are all here. I just want this country to improve in ways I only see possible through socialism and moving from an individualist culture to a collectivist one.

  • Phones should have FM radio again
  • My comment pertains to the USA, but regardless of where you live, there is a very strong likelihood that your local commercial stations are owned by a company like iHeartRadio and much, if not all, of the content is syndicated.

    The only exception might be a local nonprofit radio station. You probably have at best one local station in this case, unless you live in a major city broadcast region. Keep in mind I mean one local station that plays music. A local NPR station is probably separate from this. Even most of NPR is syndicated, however.

    If you're lucky, a local college might still have a radio station broadcasting over FM, but so many have moved online since you then don't need an [expensive and volatile] FCC license.

  • Mayor Adams pitches dorm-style apartments, hallway bathrooms in NYC housing plan
  • Terrible idea for all the reasons that everyone has already stated. People in affordable housing deserve a real home too, not a dorm.

  • Music production PC build

    I am thinking about building a PC oriented towards music production. My current desktop is 10 years old this month and is due to be replaced. Had been considering a Mac Studio but I am having second thoughts given the significant price difference and Apple's expensive storage upgrades.

    [https://pcpartpicker.com/user/Legonatic/saved/#view=q8MYXL](Link to list)

    I use Ableton Live 10 for my DAW. I have a Scarlett 4i4 audio interface, so no need to add any sound card to the build.

    Going for a microATX build to save on physical space. Will also likely add another case fan somewhere. No Windows 11 license listed but I intend to get one. GPU is more for any light video editing or Photoshop I might do, not planning to do much of any gaming.

    Any suggestions for improvement on this part list or any thoughts in general?

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