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by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-01-15 00:18:02+00:00
> Either you are sealioning, or you genuinely can’t comprehend the written word.
Time and time again you keep hammering on this point, which is only a tiny fraction of mine. You keep hammering on the window dressing, while I am addressing the real elephant in the room, THE OTHER ⅓ OF LANDLORDS, WHO ARE THE MAJORITY OF THE PROBLEM.

What exactly is your point? For single homes, if only 2% of all homes being sold are owned by investors, releasing those would at most increase the supply by 2%.

But it’s even crazier that you think apartment buildings shouldn’t be owned by corporations and centrally managed.

Do you think individual owners will take care of maintenance, property taxes, collecting rent, a centrally managed tenant office erc?

Funny enough, I have an idea of exactly how that would conceivably work. I mentioned before that my wife and I moved into a condo. I didn’t mention that it was a unit we own in a condotel (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/condotel.asp). Each unit is individually owned. But the complex itself is run like a hotel (not a timeshare). All of the owners but us use there unit as some combination of a second home and an investment property. When someone stays in a unit the owner gets half the income and the property manager gets the other half.

To be clear, this is in central Florida close to Disney and it is zoned and was built as a hotel. Unless you are also opposed to corporations owning hotels

You have to have central management for a large apartment complex just like for the condotel we live in.

As far as farmers what do you suggest? Either every farmer distributes the food themselves across the country or everyone in the distribution chain does the work for free? BTW, my grandfather raised and sold pigs and cows most of his life and my uncle (his son) still takes care of the cattle. I don’t think he’s going to be killing and processing the meat himself. Should everyone between him selling the cows and it getting to shelves do it for free?
by alexfoo | 2026-01-15 00:19:32+00:00
And a bit further to SW20 in Raynes Park (a.k.a. “West Wimbledon” in Estate Agent vernacular).

I’ve lived somewhere in SW18/SW15/SW19 for the last 30 years. Having not grown up in London I can’t imagine living anywhere else. Apparently many other bits of London (North, East, central, etc) are good too but I’m not ready for change.
by simondotau | 2026-01-15 00:20:29+00:00
If you're talking about the JerryRigEverything video, the negative interpretations represent a fundamental misunderstanding of physics. Pinning the front down removes the main real-world load-sharing path (vehicle rotation and suspension compliance) so the rear subframe is forced to absorb an unrealistically large bending moment that would normally be distributed across the whole vehicle. This created conditions which do not occur in real towing, and which give no insight into the actual towing limits of the vehicle.

All the test demonstrated is that you should not exceed the towing capacity of Cybertruck while its front subframe is pinned to the ground by a tractor.
by herewulf | 2026-01-15 00:20:53+00:00
+1 for ripping with abcde

Make sure you enable its MusicBrainz support. I used to painstakingly input all the band / album / track title metadata but then discovered that people were already doing it for me.

However, then you go down the MB rabbit hole with obscure music that no one has ever inputted. Still, it's a quick and easy way to contribute and then it's available for everyone.
by Brian_K_White | 2026-01-15 00:21:09+00:00
This whole thread is utterly ridiculous. I can't take anyone seriously who is sitting here saying they can't take someone else seriously over this, or even saying anything at all about it as though it were the tiniest bit significant.

It's like Vance on Zelensky's clothes. Exhibiting high ignorance and triviality while in the very act of presuming to accuse someone else of being unserious.
by potato3732842 | 2026-01-15 00:21:23+00:00
>A pickup truck should just be max utility, especially if you're a manufacturer making your first one

How do you even define that? Give it a heavy duty bed and you're wasting weight that could be put toward hauling/towing capacities (and lord knows how people here would feel about ignoring those). A big engine for "reasonable driving" when fully loaded guzzles fuel.
by i80and | 2026-01-15 00:22:40+00:00
I'm sympathetic to the position that a lot of people just didn't pay attention before voting in the '24 election and voted purely off of some incomprehensibly puerile vibes, but the complete apathy I'm still seeing is equal parts profoundly tragic and utterly crazy-making.

Even if the US backs down, the transatlantic coziness that's felt like a permanent fixture all my life is just gone. And if we don't back down, God help everybody.
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by impossiblefork | 2026-01-15 00:23:11+00:00
I feel that those who fear the end of NATO aren't thinking far enough.

What's possible isn't an end of NATO, it's an EU-US war, with citizens of one in the other being interned, ships being prevented from leaving ports, complete embargoes à la WWII etc.

If Denmark is invaded, we're at war, and I don't see how it can take any other form than this in the initial phases.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-15 00:24:30+00:00
Battery storage, solar, and wind can all operate as grid forming and provide synthetic inertia when provisioned to do so. Thermal grid services are not required for grid reliability.

Europe has languished on battery storage deployment, and as they rapidly deploy it, it will improve grid reliability.

https://www.energy-storage.news/energy-storage-significantly...
by lateforwork | 2026-01-15 00:24:57+00:00
The daily dose of distressing news from this administration is taking a toll on my health and I am sure many other Americans.

Why aren’t our leaders speaking out more forcefully against these outrages? McConnell did give a speech pushing back, but it barely registered and wasn’t reported nearly enough. Yes, we made a grave mistake in electing the wrong person as president—but that doesn’t mean the country is obligated to sit silently for the next three years while he lurches from one dangerous blunder to the next.

If impeachment and conviction aren’t on the table, then the least our leaders—Republicans and Democrats alike—must do is stand together and speak with one clear, unmistakable voice in opposition. Failing to do so isn’t just political cowardice; it carries real consequences. Our credibility with Europe, already strained, will continue to erode if the world sees that American leadership is unwilling or unable to check reckless behavior.
by quesera | 2026-01-15 00:25:34+00:00
You know, I was trying to remember if anyone from Usenet did similarly, but I couldn't think of anyone.

I was a bit post-Great Renaming into well post-Eternal September. And we may have followed different groups.

The style arises spontaneously in isolated individuals and groups of course (at least since e. e. cummings!), but it was pervasive-to-universal on IRC and MUDs.

I do wonder how it trickled into there though. The most boring answer is probably the correct one. it was slightly easier to type and kids are naturally flexible.
by DamnInteresting | 2026-01-15 00:25:42+00:00
> To be honest for 95% of stuff it would be enough to connect my smartphone via USB-C to a dock for mouse/keyboard/displays etc.

I was blogging about this basic idea back in 2005, just over 20 years ago:

https://www.damninteresting.com/retired/mobile-phone-as-comp...

I still think it's a good idea, but it sure is being slow to materialize in a practical form factor.
by barneymatthews | 2026-01-15 00:26:15+00:00
I am a voracious notetaker and a few months ago I started tweaking my notetaking system. The problem was I was paying more attention to writing my notes than the people in the the meeting. It started by assigning symbols like @ or $ to words I use frequently. Over time it grew so i had a set of symbols for objects like people or places, symbols for actions or ideas and symbols for numbers.

Then I realized by combining two of the symbols I could succinctly convey meaning. So I developed some rules. I even gave it a name: Two Talk.

I found it helped me take meeting notes at work without losing attention, it helped me capture my action items quickly, it made my bullet journal even more succinct and it was a great way for me to brain dump.

Instead of writing "Need to follow up with ACE about the budget issue next week. This is important." I just put "ACE <~ %# -# :> !#""

If you are curious, everything is here: www.twotalk.org.

I’d love to hear your feedback.
by tacon | 2026-01-15 00:26:17+00:00
I got Connect by T-Mobile a few years ago when it was $10/mo prepaid ($11.03 with tax), and I am grandfathered in. It has a hard cap of 1GB/mo, then nothing. Then I got Hello Helium with a physical SIM on my exercise phone (out in the rain, at the gym) and it is completely free with ... wait for it ... 3GB/mo of data. Go figure. The Hello Helium app used to require location permission on at all times, but they eliminated that.
by runjake | 2026-01-15 00:26:26+00:00
I've heard this claim. I have no idea if it's really true or not. I don't really care.

Here's why I rinse my dishes: it keeps the dishwasher trap cleaner and I get less build up in the dishwasher drain lines, so I have less maintenance to do. The dishes come out clean, anyway.

Edit: It’s true for modern dishwashers. I can’t believe I spent time looking into this. The recommendation is still to scrape food off to prevent the aforementioned issues.
by flyinglizard | 2026-01-15 00:27:45+00:00
You could look at agents as meta-compilers, the problem is that unlike real compilers they aren't verified in any way (neither formally or informally), in fact you never know which particular agent you're running against when you're asking for something; and unlike compilers, you don't just throw away everything and start afresh on each run. I don't think you could test a reasonably complex system to a degree where it really wouldn't matter what runs underneath, and as you're going to (probably) use other agents to write THOSE tests, what makes you certain they offer real coverage? It's turtles all the way down.
by potato3732842 | 2026-01-15 00:28:19+00:00
The sprinter is massively over-hyped by people who've never owned one.

Yeah, everything about it is "solid". The longblock will theoretically go a million miles but you're gonna replace every part around it to get it there. I'm sure they're fine when new but as they age it's basically the same "replacing way too much BS because while nice it's over engineered" as the rest of german car ownership.

Source: semi responsible for keeping one running
by owenthejumper | 2026-01-15 00:28:48+00:00
The article highlights Haproxy's blog with essentially the same name (from 2025): https://www.haproxy.com/blog/state-of-ssl-stacks

Since that Haproxy has effectively abandoned OpenSSL in favor or AWS-LC. Packages Re still built with both, but AWS-LC is clearly the path forward for them.
by rayiner | 2026-01-15 00:28:54+00:00
That's like saying "a lot of Silicon Valley's success is attributable to people." It's not a useful statement without specificity.

Key Silicon Valley companies like Fairchild and Hewlett-Packard were founded during the highly restrictive immigration policy that prevailed between the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act and the 1965 Hart-Cellar Act. Intel was founded just a few years after. A lot of golden age Silicon Valley companies were founded around or shortly after 1970, when the U.S. foreign-born population hit the lowest point in American history, under 5%.

Of course, even during that period, we allowed in German scientists, leading professors, etc. It's a handful of people. The highly selective immigration policy that prevailed from 1924-1965 is likely a key reason why so many Silicon Valley companies were founded by immigrants. That has very little to do with this story, which is about reversing mass immigration.
by i80and | 2026-01-15 00:29:02+00:00
I just cannot stomach the number of people who apparently value nothing except displays of performative cruelty and childish tantrums.

There's been a significant shift of an "ow-I-touched-the-stove" variety towards sanity among independents, but it's a Problem that some significant double-digit percentage of the nation just plain likes this violent self-destructive flailing, and will reward anything as long as it makes them feel like somebody is getting hurt.
by BizarroLand | 2026-01-15 00:29:30+00:00
I have 3 vehicles, an old project jeep, an old truck, and a sedan.

Sedan handles 99% of my driving, but can't really tow anything. Truck handles all of my towing stuff, but gets ~14mpg which hurts so I don't drive it.

Jeep is a jeep, it's always being worked on, but when I use it I'm using it to go ride around on dirt paths or for camping. It gets 17-20mpg when I'm driving it but I don't want to drive it often.

If the jeep was a 2000's series jeep I would totally just get a small trailer for the occasional towing things that I do with the pickup and downsize to 2 vehicles. I know I could rent a uhaul from time to time for about what I pay for insuring and titling the truck, but the $100 annual difference is worth it for the convenience of not having to deal with uhaul 4 times a year.

But I said all of that to say, that a hitch isn't a perfect solution for everyone. I would feel very uncomfortable towing an empty 4x6 trailer behind my sedan, not to even mention the occasional couch or dresser or bunch of boxes from helping a friend move.
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by budududuroiu | 2026-01-15 00:30:17+00:00
They won't, I genuinely believe the vast majority of Americans will call for war, invasion, etc if the price of their "treats" (TVs, cars, gas, ...) gets too out of reach.

Consumer prices are the only category that hasn't gone up in price in the last couple of decades. It's basically the only little "treat" you can look forward to while toiling away for peanuts
by kelipso | 2026-01-15 00:30:38+00:00
Europe doesn’t have a military that’s worth talking about. So it’s politically impossible for the EU to go to war with the US. They’ll do lots of protesting but that’ll be about it.

The US isn’t just going to straight up invade anyway. There’s lots of political this and that but it does want to keep the current world order to some degree.
by refulgentis | 2026-01-15 00:30:55+00:00
I believe LLM providers should ultimately be utilities from a consumer perspective, like water suppliers. I own the faucet, washer, bathtub, and can switch suppliers at will. I’ve been working on a FOSS client for them for nearly three years.

I hope that why the following is purely a factual distinction, not an excuse or an attempt to empathize.

The difference between the other entities named and OpenCode is this:

OpenCode uses people’s Claude Code subscriptions. The other entities use the API.

Specifically, OpenCode reverse‑engineers Claude Code’s OAuth endpoints and API, then uses them. This is harmful from Anthropic's perspective because Claude Code is subsidized relative to the API.

Edit: I’m getting “You’re posting too fast” when replying to mr_mitm. For clarity, there is no separate API subscription. Anthropic wants you to use one of two funnels for coding with their LLMs:
1. The API (through any frontend), or
2. A subscription through an Anthropic‑owned frontend.
by CapsAdmin | 2026-01-15 00:31:40+00:00
I appreciate the honesty. I'm not saying people don't have this relationship with art, I think everyone can have some degrees of it, including me.

But my experience as an artist talking to non-artists about art, I don't think the sentiment that art without a struggling artist, purpose, story to tell, human arc, etc, is not real art is a true sentiment. First of all, because it's not true, because people apply their own meaning and form their own unique relationship with an artist. (The saying don't meet your heroes come to mind.)

Note that I'm not talking about AI at all here. I'm 100% for banning purely generated AI on soundcloud, bandcamp, spotify, etc. What I really want is to filter out art created by people who has put profit as first priority and thrown away any shred of artistic integrity.

But this is an impossible feat, because who am I to judge that someone else's favorite artist is devoid of artistic integrity?
by jaggederest | 2026-01-15 00:32:52+00:00
The other issue with "a huge token window" is that if you fill it, it seems like relevance for any specific part of the window is diminished - which makes it hard to override default model behavior.

Interestingly, recently it seems to me like codex is actually compressing early and often so that it stays in the smarter-feeling reasoning zone of the first 1/3rd of the window, which is a neat solution for this, albeit with the caveat of post-compression behavior differences cropping up more often.
by lkjdsklf | 2026-01-15 00:32:56+00:00
One use case that comes to mind is backups. I can have a zpool created backed by a S3 vdev and then use zfs send | zfs recv to backup datasets to S3 ( or the billion other S3 like providers)

Saves me the step of creating an instance with EBS volumes and snapshotting those to S3 or whatever

haven't done the math at all on whether that's cost effective, but that's the usecase that comes to mind immediately
by selectodude | 2026-01-15 00:33:46+00:00
The republicans want this. McConnell did everything in his power to make damn sure Donald Trump never saw justice.

This is the leadership. Congress abdicated their jobs and de facto doesn’t exist, the Supreme Court now solely exists to make sure that Trump is not constrained by law, and the executive branch is doing exactly what they said they were going to do during election season.

We’re not getting out of this unscathed. It’s too late. November 6, 2024 we were too late.
by impossiblefork | 2026-01-15 00:34:08+00:00
It's perfectly possible for the EU to have a war with the US. Wars take time. The EU has better heavy industry, better ability to replace destroyed ships etc.

If we're going to have a war it will probably last at least half a decade, probably a little bit more. What you say of the EU could also be said of the US at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941.

If we weren't open to the possibility, we wouldn't be sending tripwire forces to Greenland, as we currently are.
by stock_toaster | 2026-01-15 00:34:27+00:00
> The one use case where a DB backed queue will fail for sure is when the payload is large. For example, you queue a large JSON payload to be picked up by a worker and process it, then the DB writing overhead itself makes a background worker useless.

redis would suffer from the same issue. Possibly even more severely due to being memory constrained?

I'd probably just stuff the "large data" in s3 or something like that, and just include the reference/location of the data in the actual job itself, if it was big enough to cause problems.
by codingdave | 2026-01-15 00:34:33+00:00
Sure, so draw a different line - not all devs have access to withdraw cash from the corporate accounts, or to open the email of the CEO and board, etc. There are always lines of privilege drawn. The point isn't to quibble over where they are drawn, it is to point out that you need to do the same for LLMs. Don't trust them to behave. Enforce limits on their privileges.
by AuthAuth | 2026-01-15 00:34:36+00:00
I think that people often say they want things they dont actually want. Like living in the woods and we can only look at their actions to judge their actual desire. We know people dont want to live in the woods because when they have the money and freedom to choose ot live in the woods they buy an apartment.

Its even easier with dropping social media because the cost is actually so low and yet people still dont even attempt to.
by pmyteh | 2026-01-15 00:36:32+00:00
The larger vans used by tradespeople in the UK, like a full size Ford Transit, would be fine with those loads (though I agree I wouldn't stick a dead deer in one as they're harder to hose out than a pickup bed). 10ft long loadspace, 1400kg payload, plenty of room for couches, beds and things. They're quite different beasts than the smaller kind like a minivan with removable seats. Plus it rains so much here that having a roof on is generally an advantage.

There are some pickups here, having said that: more rural utilities people, or landscapers who move lots of dirt, or farmers, might have one. They tend to be smaller than an F-150, but then everything's smaller in Britain including the roads...
by 3ple_alpha | 2026-01-15 00:36:32+00:00
Vans work just fine on mountain roads. And driving off road is simply not a thing for like 99% of drivers.

Reality is, people buy these things thinking they would drive them off road, and never actually do it.

It's possible to make an off-road van, by the way. It's just that real demand is so vanishingly small that you don't really see them.