Depends on where I'm going, whether I've been there before, and how long my trip is, but as a rule I'll always seek out the local food and try to see a mix of famous big-name sights and weird niche things that interest me. For example, when I was in Tokyo last, I went to the top of Tokyo Tower at sunset (normal tourist sightseeing thing) and also went to see their underground flood-control tunnels.
I don't enjoy "sit on a beach and do nothing" vacations, but more power to you if that's your style.
lobste.rs is an interesting case study. On the one hand, it sucked to want to join and be unable to! I was in that boat for a while. And it is also disappointingly low-volume; it can be hard to get much of a discussion going just because the user base is so small.
On the other hand, when a discussion does get going, it has easily the highest signal:noise ratio of any technology message board I've ever participated in. Very few low-effort posts, and a high percentage of well-thought-out, respectful conversations.
I'm not saying I think lemm.ee should follow this model, but it's not without its merits.
I haven't run into too many bugs in the game, but in combat it's frequent for the game to have to sit there for several seconds thinking about what an enemy should do next. Hope that's one of the performance improvements they're working on.
Your answer touches on something I can't really relate to, which may be the key to my lack of understanding: people's desire to get information in the form of videos rather than text. It just seems so much slower to me. I can skim 50 Google or Yelp reviews of a restaurant in the time it takes to watch a single short video review. I might watch one video along the way if I want a sense of the ambience of the place, or some other information that's hard to convey well in writing, but that's it.
It does seem like it may be a generational thing, though. I've seen the same trend in my work-related searches: sometimes I search for technical information and instead of a blog post that takes me 30 seconds to digest well enough to tell if it's even going to answer my question and that I can copy-paste example code from to play with, I get an hourlong YouTube video. This is a relatively new thing that has only become common in the last 5 years or so. I used to think it was purely about monetization (videos pay more than blog posts) but I see people, especially beginners, asking for technical information in video form. To me that's like saying, "Please answer my question in the least convenient form possible."
Apparently this is my "kids these days, who can understand them?" topic.
More recently, there’s been a shift to entertainment-based video feeds like TikTok — which is now being used as a primary search engine by a new generation of internet users.
I must be an old fogey because I can't understand how TikTok would be usable as a primary search engine unless all you ever search for is TikTok videos.
If I'm part of the new generation of Internet users and I want to, say, see the menu of the restaurant where my date is taking me for dinner, or check my favorite band's discography, or see if the reviews for the latest Netflix show are good, how do I do any of that on TikTok?
Someone please explain how this works, assuming that statement in the article is true.
I’m not optimistic that this kind of approach will move the needle that much.
A lot of city corruption is related to construction. Part of the reason that there’s a market for the services of corrupt bureaucrats is that things like building permits that would be issued in weeks in other cities instead take months or years in San Francisco.
You’ll never totally stamp out “I want to pay you to let me break the law” kinds of corruption, but a lot of SF’s corruption seems to be more like, “I want to pay you to let me do something legal because going through regular channels is too burdensome.”
My hunch is that the state’s “build more housing, or else” policy will ultimately do more to reduce the amount of corruption in the city than this new proposal.
This is an obvious case of "headline is written by someone other than the article's author." The article compares ANA and Singapore to United Airlines specifically. The headline is the only place where "US carriers" are mentioned as a generalization.
Personally, I dislike flying United but other US carriers like JetBlue are fine.
Here's some Apache-licensed code that addresses this exact problem. The language files are in CSV format and get turned into JS files as a build step. It prints warnings for strings that are missing from other languages. In dev environments, there's middleware that watches for edits to the CSV files and rebuilds the JS files.
A bit off-topic, but why do people still insist on writing its name in all caps? That was the original name, granted, and you can still find it here and there in the tool, but it has been called "Jira" for years now.
Yes, and I even have it as an automatic scheduled payment so I don't forget. Even with its flaws, it remains one of the shining gems of the Internet, and a resource I use frequently in both my professional life and my personal one. I remember how it was to suddenly want to learn more about a random topic before Wikipedia and I don't want to go back.
My intuition is that it's probably in about the same range as the broadcast networks, but I have no numbers to back that up.
I don't think it can be significantly higher or lower: if the cancellation rate were significantly lower, "streaming services always cancel after one season" wouldn't have caught on as a perception, and if it were significantly higher, it wouldn't be as easy to find multi-season streaming shows as it currently is. But is it slightly higher or lower? I have no idea.
I actually did run some numbers on this at one point and found that the cancellation rate on network shows has ranged from 30-50% for the last 70 years, with the average number of seasons hovering just under 2. Reddit post with graphs and sources.
Running the same numbers for streaming services is trickier, and I couldn't figure out a reliable way to get a good data set to analyze. But even so, the numbers for broadcast TV are high enough that it would be numerically impossible for streaming services to, say, be 3 times more likely to cancel a show after one season.
It is bizarre to me that people act like streaming services invented the concept of canceling series after just one season, or believe that it's a new practice. Broadcast TV has regularly done exactly the same thing for its entire history. Streaming services almost always at least release all the episodes rather than leaving some of them unaired.
As I understand it, that's been the Hollywood jargon for streaming services for years. "Variety" is responsible for a bunch of those kinds of words. They even have a dictionary on their website. It's a bit out of date, but you can see they use "cabler" as shorthand for "cable channel," for example.
O'Reilly books were my go-to when I worked at a company that had a training budget I had to spend every year. Not hard to rack up a couple hundred dollars of book purchases.
Depends on where I'm going, whether I've been there before, and how long my trip is, but as a rule I'll always seek out the local food and try to see a mix of famous big-name sights and weird niche things that interest me. For example, when I was in Tokyo last, I went to the top of Tokyo Tower at sunset (normal tourist sightseeing thing) and also went to see their underground flood-control tunnels.
I don't enjoy "sit on a beach and do nothing" vacations, but more power to you if that's your style.