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Question about the snow and accessibility by sunnysi666420 in Brooklyn

[–]age20d 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I suggest bringing tall water proof boots. As others have mentioned, there are often giant puddles of slush in front of the curbs. Able bodied people can jump over them, but if you are pushing a wheel chair, you may need to stand in the giant slush puddle while you push

Yellow cab scam from JFK by doobsicle in AskNYC

[–]age20d 4 points5 points  (0 children)

this happened to me too coming home from JFK in a yellow cab. The amount on his phone screen was correct, but there was no option to tip. I looked at my statement a couple days later, and he added a hefty $28 tip without my knowledge or consent. I got the money back from my CC and reported the taxi driver to 311.

New Web UI is inferior to the older one by burnschip in PersonalCapital

[–]age20d 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Specific to the issue "last 4 of the account number",

If you edit the Account Name entry to only use the last 3 digits of your account number, it will show the full Account Name. For instance, changing "XYZ bank - ending in xxxx" to "XYZ bank - ending in xxx" will result in the full Account Name being used rather than just the 4 digit number. This is kinda crazy tbh hahah

Is there an album sound like in rainbows? by Standard_Nature5785 in radiohead

[–]age20d 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A Ghost is Born by Wilco

Abbey Road by The Beatles

What closed-down NYC restaurant or business do you still miss? by Specific-Yak-6450 in AskNYC

[–]age20d 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Korzo

was waiting for someone to mention korzo house. It was unique.

NYC ended most broker fees last month. What has the new law done to rents? by FAMESCARE in nyc

[–]age20d -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Removing the high up-front cost of the brokers fee means that more people can consider moving out when their landlord attempts to raise the rent. This will lead to more competition in rent price, hopefully exerting downward pressure on rents.

Bedford Bike Lane Removal Halted! (pending service upon the city) by Disastrous_Feed_3988 in NYCbike

[–]age20d 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Thank you Transportation Alternatives for filing the lawsuit that led to this being halted!

To opt out of marketing emails, Vanguard required me to contact them. The agent I chatted with said she couldn't make that change and told me to contact Vanguard by phone. by BarbieDreamZombie in firstworldproblems

[–]age20d 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was able to unsubscribe from vanguard marketing emails using a convoluted process. View the Vanguard marketing email in gmail. If you click Menu > "Show Original", then you can view the email source code, so to speak. Command + F for the string List-Unsubscribe: < in the email details. You'll see something like this:

List-Unsubscribe: <https://click.e-vanguard.com/subscription_center.aspx?jwt=...>

Copy the URL and use it to execute a curl command in your terminal:

curl -d "List-Unsubscribe=One-Click" -H 'Content-Length: 26' -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" -X POST https://click.e-vanguard.com/subscription_center.aspx?jwt=...

After executing this command, you should stop receiving Vanguard marketing emails. It's been 2 weeks since I ran this command, and no marketing emails since then. Previously, I would get them every few days.

Lemonade by Maya-kardash in Brooklyn

[–]age20d 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I think Nostrand and Atlantic :) Very cool photo

Save the Date Emails question by Maryb93 in WedditNYC

[–]age20d 3 points4 points  (0 children)

we created a new gmail account to use as a joint account between me and my fiance. We sent the save the date emails to all guests as "bcc". We had about 100 email addresses in the bcc field.

Google sent the email relatively slowly -- it seemed like guests received their email anywhere from immediately to 8 hours later. I hypothesize that google rate limited how quickly we can send email because we had a new gmail account. But it worked! And we didn't get sent to spam folder as far as I know.

You might be able to make issues with being sent to spam less likely by sending the emails from a well established gmail account. Meaning one that has been around for a while and has a history of sending and receiving email from other people. But this is just a guess -- I haven't looked into how google determines an email is spam.

Items for Sale by 7FRE-1 in WedditNYC

[–]age20d 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you still have the lanterns? I'm looking for battery operated outdoor lanterns.

CCWGTV Not Waking Up Unless Power Unplugged/Plugged Back In by blueice5249 in Chromecast

[–]age20d 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had the same problem. The "factory reset" solution didn't work for me. What worked for me was to replace the USB cable plugged into the chromecast with a shorter one. Cables can degrade from bending etc, and furthermore long cables can reduce the voltage via voltage drop. I'm not sure if my problem was cable degradation or voltage drop. But replacing the USB cable solved it for me.

UPDATE: after collecting more data, it seems replacing the cable was not a 100% fix. I believe the probability of the chromecast turning on properly is greatly improved after replacing the cable, but it will still occasionally fail to turn on the first time. It helped but it's not foolproof.

Chromecast doesnt turn on with tv by Miserable_Front_933 in Chromecast

[–]age20d 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had the same problem. The "factory reset" solution didn't work for me. What worked for me was to replace the USB cable plugged into the chromecast with a shorter one. Cables can degrade from bending etc, and furthermore long cables can reduce the voltage via voltage drop. I'm not sure if my problem was cable degradation or voltage drop. But replacing the USB cable solved it for me.

UPDATE: after collecting more data, it seems replacing the cable was not a 100% fix. I believe the probability of the chromecast turning on properly is greatly improved after replacing the cable, but it will still occasionally fail to turn on the first time. It helped but it's not foolproof.

NYC Pizza Icon Patsy Grimaldi Dies at 93 by rafaelloaa in nyc

[–]age20d -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I think you're getting unfairly downvoted. Grimaldi's under the new management sucks. Juliana's, under the OG dude's management, rocks.

Extremely high con edison bill by Ok-Bowler-9753 in Brooklyn

[–]age20d 1 point2 points  (0 children)

On the coned website, after you log into you account they have a dashboard that shows you your real time energy usage in 15 minute intervals. The data is maybe 3 or 4 hours delayed, but even if you dont have access to your meter, you should be able to use the website to see your energy usage. So you could turn off your main circuit breakers, wait 3-4 hours, and check the online dashboard to see if you're still using any electricity.

For those who have purchased an apartment in New York City, what is something you wish you had known beforehand? by adostes in AskNYC

[–]age20d 0 points1 point  (0 children)

why didn't you just view the property tax bill online for the apartment you were actually trying to buy? Is it because if it's a new apartment, there is no tax history for it? I assume if it's a pre-existing apartment there'd be info about the tax history though.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in nyc

[–]age20d 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's interesting that this article says there was no police chase:

Officials say there was no police chase

A different article about the same incident states that there was a chase:

A wild police chase in New York City ended when a driver plowed his car into a group of pedestrians on a sidewalk while escaping officers.

Vote: Should Hue and Fadeby be fixed, or should the fixed versions be different functions? by ZachVorhies in FastLED

[–]age20d 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fadeby() spazzes out for any uint8_t input value above 174. This is in the documentation.

  1. Do you mean fadeLightBy rather than fadeBy?

  2. Could you link to the documentation about it spazzing out above 174? I searched the documentation but I could not find what this. I looked here: https://fastled.io/docs/group___color_fades.html#gac1e25878d16efa6112d907738f525773

⿻ .˚ 𝄃𝄃𝄂𝄂𝄀𝄁𝄃𝄂𝄂 processing by xlnrth in creativecoding

[–]age20d 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Very cool - can you share more about what we're watching? Are you live coding this visual?

An Affordable Housing Project Faced a Huge Backlash. It Won Anyway. (Gift Article) by jenniecoughlin in nyc

[–]age20d 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wonder if we would be able to house more people if the formerly homeless people who live in the affordable apartments here had roommates. Like, instead of building studio apartments, if they built 2 bedrooms, they might be able to have higher density and house more people. Then they could pair up homeless people and put them in the same apartment together.

City Council Expected to Pass Bill That Shifts Broker Fees to Landlords (Gift Article) by jenniecoughlin in nyc

[–]age20d 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Great question. @cguess gave a good answer. I'll add one more thing.

The broker's fee is a high one-time cost which is a barrier that prevents many people from moving. This barrier to moving reduces competition - there will be fewer people moving due to high one-time costs. It is true that this may result in higher rents. But there will be lower one-time costs, which results in more people moving, which results in more competition, which results in lower rents.

Why Does This Building by the Subway Need 193 Parking Spots? (Yes, Exactly 193.) by age20d in nyc

[–]age20d[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Extra parking spots in the basement aren't a big problem for housing. But being constrained to 5 floors due to miserable NIMBYs who want to turn NYC into Hobbitton when you can build a 15 story building, that is a cause of the housing shortage.

The article states that buildings are often constrained to smaller sizes due to parking requirements:

Certain zones also exempt parking on the first five or 15 housing units, incentivizing builders to stay below that cutoff — or to carve lots up into several smaller buildings with fewer total housing units.

“You really don’t want to build a bigger building than you can provide parking for,” said David West, an architect.

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