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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I live a in less walkable neighborhood on this map - but about a year ago a small (tiny really, ~700sqft) corner store opened up 2 blocks from me. It sells coffee, pastry, simple sandwiches, but also pantry staples (flour, sugar, milk etc.) and has a really good beer and wine selection.

I can't do my normal grocery shopping there, but being able to walk 2 minutes to get coffee or a quick breakfast or that missing stick of butter for a recipe has been such a wonderful change to the neighborhood. (btw this store is not reflected on the map for coffeeshops or groceries.) They also host food trucks several days a week so its almost like having a restaurant in the neighborhood too.

All it took was 1 little store, owned and operated by a couple who lives in the neighborhood, to turn a 20 minute neighborhood into a 5 minute neighborhood for several thousand people.

Presumably even if it's illegal to sell tobacco in a store it could still be legal for someone to possess and use tobacco in a private setting.

How hard is the jump into the realm of computer vision/AI/robotics for someone with strong skills and experience building web applications? Is the coding much different? Is a company like this employing math/theroy-heavy people to develop new types of AI or are they working higher up the stack and just need people who can pipe data around?

By 2021 there were edicts in some departments that absolutely no new projects were to written with RN, with the emphasis moving towards their server-side rendering frameworks (Native Templates and Bloks.)