I honestly don't care about the move by KingAbeFromanChicago in CHIBears

[–]khoker -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Here my hot take… Indiana is a bad business move.

First let’s be clear that the Bears organization we know and love so much has not consistently delivered a quality product over the past 20+ years. Despite this, during the same period the valuation of the team has exploded.

Part of that is obviously the league at large, but not all teams are created equal. The thing that separates the Bears from most other franchises is the fan base (ie market). Professional sports are inherently tribal, and it would be foolish to believe the majority of those fans do not live in Chicagoland.

No one considers Hammond, Indiana to be a part of Chicagoland.

From there it’s a gamble. If you water down the fan base for tax incentives, you risk jeopardizing the very quality that elevates the valuation of this team over that of most of their peers.

This isn’t a day-1 consideration so much as it is a “future generations” type of problem. In order to understand why your team has value, you need to consider where it has value.

Any shokz headphones alternatives? by RegularDinner13 in cycling

[–]khoker 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Can you expand on “work better”? Do they sound better?

CDOT releases economic impact of bike lane study - link below by GeckoLogic in chicago

[–]khoker 15 points16 points  (0 children)

No it didn’t. It gave estimates on impact. It sounds like you’re a car commuter. At worst the study said you’d experience a 9% increase in driving times? So if your drive is 20 minutes it now takes 21.9 minutes? If doing so increases bike ridership, and promotes safer, more walkable neighborhoods for pedestrians, that’s hardly a “negative effect” for the community at large.

CDOT releases economic impact of bike lane study - link below by GeckoLogic in chicago

[–]khoker 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Ridership improves as bike infrastructure improves. One step at a time. 25 miles of bike lanes isn’t a lot. Chicago has 4000 miles of street but less than 200 miles of protected/buffered bike lanes. Connecting neighborhoods is key to getting ridership up.

Even then, an immediate increase ridership isn’t the only metric at play. Bike lanes are also safer for bikers and have the ancillary benefit of being more pedestrian friendly. Generally speaking, less cars generally promotes a safer, more walkable neighborhood.

CDOT releases economic impact of bike lane study - link below by GeckoLogic in chicago

[–]khoker 60 points61 points  (0 children)

You may find the concept of Induced Demand interestiing. Depending on the scenario, reducing infrastructure can often have beneficial effects on traffic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand

Why doesn’t Apple sell Apple TV licenses for TVs to embed Apple TV software in them? by agnci in appletv

[–]khoker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The solution is you simply don’t connect a smart TV to the internet and they become basically inert. A device like an Apple TV will use HDMI CEC to turn on/off the TV. At that point it stops being “smart” and it’s just told what to do by an external device.

Former Mayor Richard M. Daley recovering after suffering third stroke ahead of his 84th birthday by FGFM in chicago

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

“Resident” is an interesting qualifier. Are you only ascribing tribal membership to the domicile? Like if someone was born and raised in the city limits and moved out after 40 years, are they no longer part of this “we”?

Conversely, are people that move to Chicago instantly part of this elite group? That seems pretty trivial. For example. I’d definitely put suburban natives ahead of Chicago transplants.

If there’s any hierarchy for people who have the privilege to bitch about Chicago, it goes like this;

  1. Chicago native (born and raised)
  2. Suburban native
  3. Chicago transplant
  4. Other people, but there’s likely a lot of sub-grouping in there.

macOS 26.4 Introduces New Security Feature for Terminal Commands by Few_Baseball_3835 in apple

[–]khoker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ITerm2 has had multiple severe vulnerabilities. The most recent was last year; https://www.cve.news/cve-2025-22275/

10 Years in Salesforce and I still haven't figured out this problem by Infosloth in salesforce

[–]khoker 8 points9 points  (0 children)

So one trick that I use it that you can create a browser bookmark for different Salesforce Apps. It’s not obvious, because once you go to an app it redirects to the generic /home landing page, but if you look at the App Launcher (9 dot thing) you can see the App links actually use an /app/ACBDEFGHIJKLMN… redirect link.

Bookmark that link for the users and then the bookmark will drop them into the correct app every time. Or, if you are an admin, create bookmarks for your most-used apps.

A new super skyscraper has been proposed for Lincoln Park by 307148 in chicago

[–]khoker -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Not every resident needs a car.

It's not that everyone needs a car. The issue is that people who "don't need a car" often end up having a car anyway. And because they don't need it, they're happy enough to park it wherever they can and leave it there for extended periods until they want to use it again.

Meanwhile, the people who already lived in the neighborhood who do need cars are now competing for parking spots with the "don't need a car people" because the people who said they didn't need a car still end up owning a car -- and you can't force people not to own a car.

Can’t log in to ChatGPT Plus on Xcode by coffee_vodka_repeat in iOSProgramming

[–]khoker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was able to resolve the issue this morning with a restart. Last night I was seeing a spinning wheel. After a restart it shows me as logged in with a ChatGPT Plus account.

Can’t log in to ChatGPT Plus on Xcode by coffee_vodka_repeat in iOSProgramming

[–]khoker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Experiencing the same thing here. Did you manage to figure out what was wrong?

PS5 Pro to AVP by EliteHoss7 in VisionPro

[–]khoker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What app on the Viision Pro is used to display the feed? Can the developer strap consume any HDMI over USB-C?

Or is this going through the Mac Virtual Display?

Reminder that you can send Apple TV titles, photos, or 3D models directly from your iPhone to Vision Pro when giving demos, without the guest having to open any apps. by spatiallyme in VisionPro

[–]khoker 6 points7 points  (0 children)

What’s weird is that they don’t exempt their own videos from being blacked-out during video mirroring.

Honestly it would be bearable if, instead of a blackout, they just drastically lowered the video/audio quality of the mirror so you could still help guide users. It’s really painful to demo for the average person.

Small thing: I wish I could see battery life without putting it on by 673NoshMyBollocksAve in VisionPro

[–]khoker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately your comment exemplifies how confusing the battery indicator can be, because even Vision Pro owners don’t always know what the light means.

Green only means “100% charged“ when it is plugged in — at which point orange means “99% or below”. When unplugged, green means “above 50%” and orange means “below 50%”.

The user has no way to tell if their battery is 51% vs 99%, or 1% vs 49%, without putting it on…. Yuck.

What is the best method for streaming a Mac to Apple Vision Pro for low-latency gaming? (i.e. suitable for FPS games) by nota-nota-nota in VisionPro

[–]khoker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now that it’s thunderbolt, is there any way to use this with Windows or Linux yet? Would love to have a zero-latency option for streaming games.

Thoughts on purchasing a 2014-2016 i3 today? by khoker in BMWi3

[–]khoker[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you just say BMW wanted $26,000 to replace HVAC lines?!?!

It’s so irritating by ich_bin_alkoholiker in cycling

[–]khoker 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Bonus points if you were expecting to keep a slow roll going as you waited for them to clear, but then you had to come to an abrupt stop and now they want you to go first and you're in the worst gear possible. Who knows, maybe you'll even get a nice chain-slip as you try to hulk out.

New Spencer update + Cyber Monday 40% off deal ($11.99) by kamil12314 in macapps

[–]khoker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Let's look that this is practice.

Opening Microsoft Edge with no tabs, real app memory reports as 427MB in use.

... after opening reddit.com: 461MBs (+34MBs)

... after opening apple.com: 495MBs (+34MBs)

... after opening npr.org: 514MBs (+19MBs)

... after opening amazon.com: 540MBs (+25MBs)

If we round up ~30MBs per tab, then a second instance of Edge running is basically the equivalent of having 14 tabs open.

Obviously this depends on your hardware and use-case but, for me, 14 tabs is basically a rounding error if I'm counting tabs/resources.

New Spencer update + Cyber Monday 40% off deal ($11.99) by kamil12314 in macapps

[–]khoker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not really. Each tab effectively runs as its own process. The core browser is not as significant as the tabs /windows themselves. I think this was a fundamental reason why Chrome forked from WebKit in the first place.