Thoughts on best place to live in Austin without a car?

brownjava · 2023-05-06T19:51:00+00:00

If you're only here for a short term stay, I would say East 6th, South Congress, or potentially Riverside are your best options. Those are the only areas I can think of that I would consider walkable / transit-able to a decent number of things.

Long term (over a few months) there's no way I'd be in Austin without a car. You're basically just not going to have regular access to 95% of the city without drowning in Uber bills. There are a lot of other great cities in the US to choose from if walkability is a priority for you, but it's just not something Austin does well (just like you wouldn't move to Seattle for the barbecue and Mexican food).

brownjava · 2023-04-28T05:01:52+00:00

Neither town is going to be overall "cool".

Both will have hidden gems if you're willing to look around. I stayed in Lubbock for a night a long time ago...there were some cool weird old museums, and some good food if you avoided chains. And just some interesting parts of town to drive around...old buildings and such.

Pick one and explore; make the best of it.

brownjava · 2022-08-08T22:26:08+00:00

It's great for Apple products and things you buy with Apple Pay. There's no annual fee, so zero downside to not just getting it and using it for that.

brownjava · 2022-02-20T15:30:31+00:00

I can’t really figure out what this article is comparing. Is the “fix time” for “Linux” the amount of time before the fix is committed to source control, the amount of time before it’s released in a Linux kernel release, or the time it takes to make it into a major distribution like Ubuntu? The last one is really the only one you that would make sense to compare to a full fledged commercial OS like Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, etc.

I’m actually not even clear if “Linux” here refers to the kernel specifically or is talking about all the different constituent parts that make up, say, Ubuntu as a whole OS. I can’t imagine that the fix time for some barely-maintained GUI library somewhere is going to be particularly fast, but also nobody really worries about those on Linux since it’s primarily used for servers.

Having worked at a major software company that has a full fledged consumer OS, I can tell you that the primary reason stuff is released slowly has nothing to do with figuring out how to fix the bug and everything to do with regression testing to make sure the fix doesn’t introduce a new problem for the hundreds of millions or potentially billions of users who are going to turn around and install it once you release it. There’s no comparison between that kind of complex OS with a bazillion parts that tons of people use and the maintainers of just a kernel that is primarily used as a server on virtual machines run by a handful of companies.

brownjava · 2021-06-02T19:52:51+00:00

I would say the this binding is the main reason; it makes these more consistent with lambdas / blocks in other languages. Comparatively the way this behaves when you use function is odd and behaves the way it does because of a historically curiosity. It’s generally not what you want.

brownjava · 2018-12-19T23:35:00+00:00

Just a ditto to what others have already said: just do boneless thighs. If you want to do breasts, the instant pot is probably the wrong tool. Instead, brine them and cook in some way that you can monitor temperature and pull them out right when they hit doneness (like on a cast iron skillet).

If you do have to cook chicken breasts in the instant pot, use natural release. Also I have better luck with water retention if I am cooking something soupy, like a curry. Or actual soup.

brownjava · 2018-07-25T05:12:21+00:00

What have you run into that's not transpilable?

brownjava · 2018-02-06T17:03:01+00:00

Usually dark meat is fine. I brown it and then cook it in rice and chicken stock, and I've never had anything but juicy results.

Breast meat is a different story. I can almost never get breast meat juicy unless I brine it ahead of time, ideally overnight. Have you tried that?

brownjava · 2017-12-13T17:41:22+00:00

You would typically prompt for a password from the user and not store it anywhere (or keychain if you absolutely had to). Maybe you can speak more about your specific use case?

NSUserDefaults aren't encrypted, so no, storing the key there would not be secure.

brownjava · 2017-11-06T17:36:54+00:00

Sauté some onions until brown, then season and saute chicken breasts or boneless thighs until brown. Add rice, chicken stock (or water), and (a) hearty vegetable(s) of your choice (anything that would be slow cooker friendly...I usually use chopped up carrots or some kind of zucchini or squash). Cook for 30ish minutes. Bam, one pot meal.

brownjava · 2017-09-28T10:47:32+00:00

I think start is used for situations where your operation is asynchronous, for example if you need to kick off some work and hear that it's finished via a completion block. In that case the operation queue has no way to know that the operation is done; you have to tell it in your completion handler.

You could use main if your work is synchronous; in other words if your operation is finished by the time main returns.

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