Guerrilla urbanism is pretty much illegal to do everywhere, including in the article's subject city of San Francisco. The goal is to not get caught by authorities while doing it
Of course it's formally illegal. My point is that, while in SF authorities accepted and formalised an intervention, in other parts of the world there's a real threat of criminal proceedings, and not for modifying traffic infrastructure significantly, but for FILLING A POTHOLE.
Other interventions haven't been met so kindly. For example, last year after California passed a state-wide law banning street parking within 15 feet of an intersection (to improve visibility of pedestrians), some people tried to paint curbs (red curbs mark prohibited parking), frustrated the city was acting too slowly to repaint curbs everywhere. I don't remember if they were ever caught, but presumably they would have received a fine as it caused alot of headaches--it cast doubt on the validity of many parking fines issued after the law took effect as the parking enforcers couldn't know which curbs had been officially repainted, yet.
As for the guerilla bike lane on JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park, that entire 1-mile section of JFK was later closed off to cars entirely. It required a city-wide ballot initiative, IIRC, and was very contentious. But the city government was in favor of it, which may have something to do with why they were so accommodating earlier with the bike lane.
> It required a city-wide ballot initiative, IIRC, and was very contentious.
It's still very contentious and was on the ballot again yesterday to undo the previous ballot measure and make it available to car again. The proposal to undo was defeated.
Seems like what’s different is that in Romania, the administration views it as an insult. In the US, it’s viewed as a political issue (comfort of cyclists vs drovers).
You're onto something. Of course, the cases I linked were pretty different and there's a mix of institutional rigidity in there, but that's how I'd interpret the Romanian attitude as well.
Besides completely missing the fact that I'm pointing out different attitudes and what happens if you get caught, how does "just don't get caught" not apply equally to something like murder?
Murder makes the world worse, but guerilla road painting done right makes it better. So the advice for road painting is "do it right and don't get caught" while the advice for murder is instead "don't do it"
If you just want a "dumb" pair of wired display glasses, they have a $300 version (xbx a01+) that has no brick, no Android and no AI, it operates as a plain DP Alt Mode USB-C connection. They're like a modern version of the old Sony HMZ-T3, but with the size/weight/style of normal sunglasses.
I like mine, they are more usable as a work monitor than I thought they would be (I'm used to blurry VR sets but these are sharp except for the extreme edges). The FOV is not quite as wide as the new XR ones but I'm ok with that... I don't use them for any immersive effect.
even the $650 One Pros have most of the QoL features here, like the hardware IPR adjustments and an optional 6DoF camera
the only things that make the Aura tempting are the 70deg FoV (which like you say isn't a feature everyone wants or needs) and the 1000 lumen brightness. neither justifies burning extra money on the useless puck, even if Google is subsidizing it.
if the Aura was available at $700-$800 puckless they'd be a genuine upgrade over the One Pro.
My biggest complaint with the older models was the weight and the heat... even the A01's with barely any processing often get uncomfortably warm for me after some time, and it's already significantly cooler than the One Pro IMO.
I have tried the follow mode on my x01 but unfortunately it seems to add a slight (but annoying nonetheless) blur to the image... thankfully the normal mode does not bother me as much.
I've noticed that in the corners of my 1s in follow mode where it doesn't bother me. Lucky, because mine would probably gather dust if follow didn't work well.
I think this is pretty classic Apple – they take their time jumping into a new product segment and only do it once they feel their product would work and be received well. The iPhone Duo being released this year after ~10 years of foldable Android phones is a similar story
I agree with the other commenters that this is a pretty simple engineering problem, but I still enjoyed reading about edge cases the author worked to address (they could have taken the easy road with this but tried not to). I forgot that Safari on iPad doesn't specify iPad in user agent headers
> Moving our workloads off GitHub Actions to third-party runners with faster CPUs, higher-performance storage, and better cache infrastructure gave us faster machines to run the same pipeline on
Yeah, was not surprised to read this. Actions is convenient if you already use GitHub, but it can also be pretty slow. Given reliability is also a major issue with GitHub these days I expect to see more orgs moving to different pipelines
I think its actually because GitHub isn't solely running on Azure. They are currently using a mix of on prem, AWS, and Azure. The Azure migration has been a challenge with Azure running into capacity issues due to AI load.
to be fair all CI providers I've had the pleasure of working with have gnarly performance profiles for the boxes they provide.
I don't think it's out of malice, but I do feel uncomfortable with the fact that the people who sell me the CI coordination software also sell me the minutes for the boxes that run the CI software. There's _some_ alignment of interests but not as much as I would want!
I wonder why larger companies don't use self hosted github runners. You can buy a pretty beefy machine (TB of RAM, 256 cores, fast NVMe disk) and tests will run faster than on any hosted platform. Plus you don't have to shard as aggressively because more fits into one machine, benefit of shared page cache, shared persistent disk, can easily preserve working directory (for example my pnpm install takes 0 seconds, because the node_modules folder is already present from the previous run).
Microsoft is pushing so hard to get companies far away from the on-premises world. Once they're in the Cloud, there's too much vendor lock-in for big enterprises to go away.
It's sad that even so many greenfield businesses still default to it. There is no longer a need to. The barrier to alternatives used to be technical, now that's gone. 99.9% of web apps' CI needs are solved by a $10/month box.
Agree, and it's already happening. Mostly smaller orgs so far though, they can just swap the runner label and move on. Larger orgs are starting to look into it but it's slow, lots of red tape (security review, procurement, "we're already paying GitHub").
My company did this a couple of years ago to some machines we host ourselves. It is a bit of trouble to set up but it is not that bad and can easily save a 1000+ dollars per month since GHA runners are very expensive.
It is that grey zone where it is kinda worth it to pay someone to do it, but also might not be worth it the headaches of managing that person and the infra (like what happens if they go on vacation). The improved speed is the thing that tilts the balance.
We switched our Actions workload to blacksmith.sh (not affiliated) and have been pretty happy with how fast and inexpensive they are. I wouldn't be surprised to see this trend continue.
One thing that is bugging me (and maybe it's buried on the website somewhere but I missed it) is that I can't figure out what version of Android the phone uses. I wouldn't buy a phone relying on an older version of it
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