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West Coast - Seattle to Portland.

> If we had that in certain locations in the U.S., it would be absolutely amazing. You just show up a half hour before your train (gotta get there earlier in certain huge stations)…

I have a problem where Voice Isolation partially cancels out my voice, especially when background noise is pronounced, and actually makes calling a worse experience for both partie…

fyi GP’s post is sarcasm. In UK “rail replacement bus” means the train route is cancelled and there’s a replacement bus instead. Bus networks can work over small high density areas…

> As an aside, I really wish the VSCode team did more to integrate iPython REPL more seamlessly into VSCode as that is one of the big blockers for me to using VSCode for anything P…

This is great news to see. I’ve spent a considerable amount of time in Milan. It is one of my favourite cities, although the pollution is noticeable. Something else I’m hoping this…

Am EV over a fuel burning car is huge improvement, however EV’s alone are not a sustainable solution to our transport needs. There needs to be mass transit and wider adoption of cy…

> In the meantime, places like MIT, moderna, NASA etc are reaping the benefits. Can you elaborate more? MIT is well known but would interesting to know how Moderna and NASA are usi…

Take a walk through Hyde Park or Green Park round about now and you’ll smell intense, sweet aromas signifying spring turning into summer: sweet chestnuts, lime trees and hawthorns.…

I use Firefox Focus on mobile which lets you reset your entire browser and cookie history with one click. It also has some built-in tracking protection and content blocking. While …

It’s just gym equipment that’s designed to be durable outdoors. Kind of like jungle gyms but for adults. I’ve seen it in Cape Town, Milan, London, Auckland and always they are busy…

Part of the issue is that the harms of gender bias (and other types of bias) should not need to be made explicit, but part of the research canon. Should a security researcher outli…

Exactly. When I was a beginner I made off-by-1 errors (in Python mind you) all the time. Now that I iterate directly through arrays or use map-reduce patterns I rarely have to hand…

> But she didn’t show how this is harming anyone in a concrete way. To roll with the example “man” ~ “doctor”, “woman” ~ “nurse”, the harm is having a giant and widely used search …

More likely production systems will be written in C++ than Python.

You can also use VS Code notebooks and Julia support in VS Code keeps getting better. As a newcomer to Julia I am super impressed with the experience. No getting around loading the…

Is it just me but the way things are currently stacked, human insight is still the best line of defence? The OP and other anecdotes in the comments are examples why we’re not quite…

Statistics is a science as well. Unfortunately it’s overloaded in business terms and can mean anything from “knows means and regressions” to “has a copy of _Meyn and Tweedie_ on th…

>The other thing I'd emphasize here is dealing with "state". Data is effectively state. It gets even more complicated. It’s not just the current state that matters, but also the hi…

If only ‘race’ was such an innocuous attribute, and couldn’t be used to discriminate against or harm others, like ‘nike shoes’. Unfortunately history and present day experiences sa…

This is why a standard API is needed, like Open Banking in the UK. When I use a third party app, the access request is redirected to my bank app and authorisation is granted there.…

On the other hand, Plaid’s behaviour means that your data is not yours either, but is up for grabs by a 3rd party for which you may not have given consent to. Plaid is no Robin Hoo…

It works in the UK where open banking is regulated by the FCA: https://www.openbanking.org.uk/customers/what-is-open-bankin...