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I am in the mid-eastern United States and my experience with professional HVAC technicians has been very poor across several providers.

Most techs I get from companies have been very poorly informed and almost hopeless at "debugging" any performance or functional problem. The operating model seems to simply be to replace parts in a pre-determined "likelihood of failure" model.

I don't blame the techs - I liked most of them but after casual conversation it seems clear that most of them don't get much training.

I guess my main complaint is that while I definitely want to "call a pro" my experience finding a good professional in HVAC (and plumbing for that matter) has not been particularly successful.

And don't get me started on part pricing - I am very happy to pay for knowledge (with high hourly technician costs) but more than once I have had easily purchasable OEM parts massively marked up by HVAC companies in what seems just like price gouging.
I personally think a better question is:

"What's the point of lab-grown meat?"
I think comparing gaps with exploringjs.com (separated by ecmascript versions) would be worth a shot.
Yeah it's so good that I haven't bothered to boot Windows in months. The odd game doesn't work (Horizon, Zero Dawn for example) but it's so convenient to use Linux for everything I would rather just not play the game than to have to boot into Windows.

Linux is just such a more quiet and less pushy experience, I find it relaxing.
> It's also the end of the post-08 crash era and the start of the post-20 crash era

What crash? SP500 hit an all time high on Friday.
The tech industry has beaten the Bay Area to within inches of its life. The pandemic may have saved it. Political mismanagement probably deserves most of the blame, because how else do you explain a historically significant economic boom reducing the quality of life for a highly developed region? I tried for many years to view the tech boom optimistically, but I as wrong.
Yes. In steam you just hit "install" et voila! It installs. Using Lutris you can install games from Origin or the Epic Games store the same way... just download and hit install.

I honestly didn't think I was gonna get to play Fallen Jedi with ease since I bought it on Origin (regrets) but turns out I was wrong. Was easy as hell just like everything else on Linux :)
Ehh in 1988 that worm was like an alien artifact from the cyberpunk future.

First "real" worm code, multi-platform, multiple payloads, "staging", first practical buffer overflow exploit and it does credential brute-forcing.

Heck it was not until nearly a decade later that people were really doing buffer overflows, and there were a LOT of easy overflows to be found.

I'd make the case rtm didn't just "make a worm" he foreshadowed the next few decades of computer exploitation.

Took a whole bunch of research and ideas, synthesised them, built an actual working "product" a decade or two ahead of its time and released it in a transgressive way.

If you are the kind of person who can do that I'm sure lots of people would like to be friends with you.
Sure, but So Cal has higher levels of air pollution, and never enduring cold weather is probably not good for your health in the long term.
Good luck with everything my brother
What do you think of Tailwind vs Tachyons ?
I sort of see where you come from, but it's practical, easy, and covers all the bases. Nobody ever got fired over choosing bootstrap, so to speak. It may not be a bold design choice, but for most, good enough is good enough.
Wow, https://zerodium.com/program.html literally places router RCE at the bottom. I mean I never trusted my home router router vendors but this is like an ice cold shower.
Yep, I agree completely. I'm just saying that in my experience, the person who leads that planning also does a whole lot of the implementation. I've been around the business 20 years from startups to enterprise to FAANG, from embedded life support devices to dev tooling to cloud services, and I can't recall an instance where there was a dedicated "architect" role that didn't dig pretty heavily into the codebase as well.
If steam would give me the ability to make it so that reviews from users on "unsupported" platforms didn't impact my score I'd be a lot more willing to do that.
I have never lived in Austin. I never will: too many Californians have ruined the place; now they've got skyrocketing housing prices, traffic, homeless tent cities with rivers of human feces and the general high quality of life one can find in other paradisical California shit holes. No doubt they'll find a way to jack the taxes up if enough move to Texas.

Very typical of a Palo Alto resident to think the only problem with California is prop-13 or some obscure housing policy or whatever. You can't even breathe the goddamned air in your utopia, the tax rate makes France look reasonable, the highways are designed for 1/4 the population density, the power outages are Zimbabwe tier, riots over ... people saying things, and you think a housing policy adjustment is gonna make it all better? Maybe you should try leaving your $4m bungalo bubble once in a while? Actually, no, stay right there. Enjoy it; you earned it.
The world is going remote, thus finally becoming the global village that the early start-ups envisioned. Why should there be a crash if huge optimization improvements are made? The only things that will tank are the airline industries and the real estate market.
This lecture by Steve Blank at the Computer History Museum is a great summary of the growth of Silicon Valley

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo
If anyone on the Gitter/Matrix dev team is reading the post comments, here's a question for those who already use both platforms:

If I have an account on Matrix, but I also sign into Gitter with Github credentials, how would I go about merging the two accounts (without loss of data)?
> This is stupid. Burning gas on-site for heat is far more efficient than burning something far away, turning it into electricity at max 60% efficiency (usually more like 30-40%), transmitting it through the grid, and then putting it through a resistance heater.

Since I read your comment I've been trying to do the math on this. Obviously modern houses aren't going to use resistance heaters, they're going to use efficient heat pump/AC units. So let's assume (worst case) that the entire CA grid burns gas (i.e., no nuclear or renewables), and that only 40% of the energy from each unit of gas burned at a power plant actually reaches a home in the form of electricity. Let's also assume a fancy 90% efficient gas furnace vs. a standard 300% efficient heat pump.

So by my napkin math, for every unit of gas burned at the power plant the electric solution is getting us 40%*300%=120% of one unit worth of heat energy pumped into our home. Whereas for the same amount of gas (and assuming gas distribution consumes no energy, which is obviously silly), the gas furnace is getting us 90% of one unit of heat energy into our home. I'm probably not computing this correctly, but my naive understanding is that this means 33% more heat for a given fuel usage (and CO2 emissions production) when using a heat pump vs. burning fuel in the house.

But on top of that, CA's electric grid isn't burning just natural gas. It's burning a mix of different fuels, some of which are dirtier than natural gas, and some of which are low- or zero-CO2 emissions. This is before we consider the mandate to add solar to new houses. So presumably even today, using an electric-based system will give even better CO2 results than the mere 33% improvement in heat-per-unit-CO2 would seem to give us if we assume everything is powered by natural gas.

Maybe this is wrong, but I'm really struggling to see why we would pump gas into our house and burn it under these conditions.
From my own experience, it's just not a good time to change a job no matter how enticing it sounds.
There isn't a rational way to value "thrill" - each person has a different thing that gets them the thrill.

For you, maybe increased dexterity or knowledge is good, but for another person, that's downright boring.

One other way to "value" thrill is whether it is legal or illegal, whether it damages other people or just a single individual.

In terms of pleasure derived, you can't really say "this is useless entertainment" vs "this entertainment makes you smarter too so it's better"
It's not just SF, it's the region and it's inability/refusal to act like a cohesive region. But SF has certainly suffered the most.
Right, but that's the "traditional" E.S.Co system. It doesn't explain how the Benefitting company gives value to token holders, it just says they pay the E.S.Co.
It is a nice tour of JS features.

Some things missing: Typed arrays, template literals, Internationalization API (Intl).

Date will be replaced with TC39 Temporal soon.
Yeah I would imagine Unity Linux gets a lot less attention within Unity than the Windows version.
>Guess which won out?

For a long time, Route 128 did largely win out, semiconductors in SV notwithstanding. The lead in computer-related technology did tend to shift to California with the shift to microcomputers. Although it's not clear that was in any way inevitable. (After all, Compaq was in Texas.)
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> Their home life is shit because they're frequently sharing a two bedroom apartment with another family

This sounds like a spoiled rich person talk: it's unimaginable how people manage to survive without a separate bedroom. And a private gardener, one should add.

A mere hundred years ago having a room per family was considered to be okay.

In USSR two generations living in the same one-bedroom apartment was a usual thing.

Somehow people managed to finish schools, go to universities and just do whatever normal people do.

Once you have a roof above your head, your living conditions are not shit pretty much by definition. We all got a bit too spoiled.
So, if Peter holds one opinion that goes against your worldview, you disregard him? is that how you make friends or take people seriously?

This just tells me more about you than Peter, lol.
They actually do need more people, there's quite a drain of young people in these communities which leads to closed farms and hollowed out Main Streets. But transient npm ninjas aren't quite the ticket.
Yea, it's still cheaper, faster and easier to use a 12 man hunter/killer team of knuckle draggers or even crayon munchers than to use what's described in the article. When Israel bombed a heavy water facility in Iran, they did a press release that the Israelis did an unprofessional fly over in Iranian airspace and the Iran air force intercepted and chased the Israelis away... no, they bombed the facility and got out of there before the Iranians even understood what happened. Oh, and Israel had, I think one or two teams on ground. They got picked up and evaced just as fast as well. Iran doesn't have the best history of telling the truth when it comes to their failures.
Yeah, the previous poster seems to be completely missing out that Austin and Seattle are major tech hubs, Denver is a secondary hub, and Santa Cruz is within spitting distance to Silicon Valley. Seattle alone is probably the second most significant tech region in the country after SV and Austin is easily third or fourth.
Last month they broke integration with PowerBI service with directquery, marked it “info” without estimated resolution time, posted a windows server specific solution, and ten days later silently fixed it for the rest of the platforms including Azure SQL.
right? this person is stuck in like 2015
The only way to justify these prices is movie/TV/advertising licensing which is negotiated for each specific instance. Streaming brings in a fraction of cent per play so his catalog can't be generating more than a million dollars per year at best. Using his music to sell prescription drugs to nostalgic baby boomers watching Fox News is likely the plan.
Amazing how slow things are moving ... took 50 years for RISC to catch up to CISC, and no other more advanced architecture is on the horizon.
Twenty years ago I was the lead architect of a web application -- I'm 48 now, for the ageists who would like to dismiss based upon that -- that was a power generation monitoring and control panel for distributed power across the US. We were one of the first users in the world of the XMLHttpRequest ActiveX object that the MSXML team released through subterfuge (I know because we hit every defect head first).

Since then I directed development on a number of absurdly rich and powerful platforms across telecom and the financial world. We were leading the respective industries when everyone was pushing Java, Flash, XAML/WinForms, etc at various junctures (each coming and faltering). We had a better than native mobile "app" using web tech.

I was one of the early and vigorous public proponents of SVG.

These applications, going back up to two decades ago, demolish the overwhelming bulk of web apps people are working on today in design complexity, actual functionality, and so on.

Yeah, I have a pretty good notion about "modern web technology", and often it feels like farce. Like it's a parody and I'm left wondering if I should say something because I missed the joke. The amazing self-congratulatory praise about, again, trivial nonsense just boggles.
There is a limit to the height you can tilt but you definitely can on the units I've used. I sear and baste in cast iron very often. If you lift it too high the stove will warn you that it does not detect a pan.
Element appears to have the same thing right now
You can meet new electric demand with new infrastructure. We'll need new transmission lines, new nuclear, batteries, etc. I surely hope we don't lay down and stop building great new things.
Not only that, but also consider the fact that you are paying 1.4M for a house that was likely built in the 60s, is not up to date at all, and has a perpetual tax liability of at least 15-18k per year (further raises in taxes are much more likely than not). The mortgage would also not be sustainable if one earner lost their job (or if the high-earner lost theirs), and remember that this high mortgage payment needs to be paid every month for 360 months. All of these are solid arguments against buying even if you did have the down payment.
I don’t mind that being an option, but I would not want that happening automatically.
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This is not an antagonistic comment but do you have any sources to share about this? I've lived in both cities and feel like I should know more about this.
Are you serious? SF's Castro is the gay capital of the world. Summer of Love. The Emerald triangle. The Hells Angels. I could go on.
Click Bait for Business Insider.
I've been playing Witcher 3 on Pop!_OS 20.04 recently using Steam/Proton. There's a few edges that occasionally popped up. For example, the wireless keyboard I was using would freeze the game when I tried to change the volume, but that's not an issue with the wired one I have. Overall, the experience over a couple hundred hours (oh, quarantine) of play has been overwhelmingly positive. I don't have a Windows machine, so if it can't be played using Proton, I can't play it. Valve are also my low-key heroes.
I did of course mean "NFS" and not "NTP".
Matrix now has two flavours of threading defined and implemented as we experiment with the different approaches: label-based threading in MSC2326[1] (i.e. "filter this room to only show msgs tagged #foo"), and full-blown free-form HN/Reddit/NNTP/SMTP/Twitter style threading in MSC2836[2]. The former is closer to Zulip, and is implemented in Synapse. The latter is closer to HN, and is implemented in Dendrite[3][4].

Clientwise, Element supports neither so far, but we're experimenting with the HN-style threading in a dedicated playground called Cerulean[5]. The idea is to get it working well there, and then figure out how to merge it most effectively into Element. So: it's not ready yet, but it's getting tantalisingly close. We'll probably start hosting a demo version of Cerulean next week so folks can play along and see how it feels :)

[1] https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/matthew/msc232...

[2] https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/kegan/msc/thre...

[3] https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite/pull/1589

[4] https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite/pull/1596

[5] https://github.com/matrix-org/cerulean
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How is it not a benefit? Currently we have several frameworks across different teams, all with different variations of a few different design systems. All use different CSS frameworks, and all have their own home baked components for each framework.

Consolidating that not only helps the design team have a proper standard to design against, it helps the developers who no longer have to figure out what components to use. It simplifies it all around.
Very nice, GJ! Matrix is the FURURE. Now the work begins converting all slackers...
Despite the idiotic downvotes you are absolutely right.

A minority of people can afford living in an expensive and safe area.

The majority is forced to choose less expensive, even if less safe, areas.
Or, you know, reasomable people, with their own arguments, you knee-jerkly dismiss...

(Not that Rust's safety over C/C++ is an "opinion" or subject to argumentation).
Yeah, also have coworkers moving there. If my family wasn’t in the Bay I would seriously consider it.
> HTML/CSS was supposed to separate content from looks.

IMO the problem is that HTML is woefully inadequate for expressing the sort of content we have today on the web.

It’s a document container that we’ve shoe-horned an application platform into. Much of what is displayed on some of the most popular sites can’t even be described as “content”—it’s interface, and that’s where things fall down.

It’s hard to follow semantics when the only option you have is positioning and styling divs. In that regard the style becomes part of the content. Nested divs have no meaning, and there’s no way to give them meaning in the same way that <p> is a paragraph. Aria labels help on the accessibility front, but outside of that the only way to express meaning of something like a modal or a popover is visually.
A crash in the real economy, if you will. Equity prices may or may not follow. There's a good chance that one year from now, the S&P 500 will be substantially lower than it is today.
Maybe in the short term, but if it means a bigger part of the steam userbase is running games on Linux, it will become economically justified for more developers to work on first-party titles.
> How expensive is it to run your own single-tenant stream on your own website?

This is a function based on the number of viewers. The ingest and transcoding/transmuxing can be thought of as a fixed cost (and in many cases is free) and those operational expenses become rounding errors once the number of viewers surpasses a certain size. The real cost is egress (bandwidth leaving edge servers) and to a much lesser extent mid-gress (the cost of moving bytes between servers, e.g. from an origin to regional distribution server).

> Is that a bad idea?

Almost certainly a bad idea from a financial perspective. You have a bad bargain here. Either you have so few viewers that the bandwidth is manageable (i.e. no revenue) or so many viewers that there is literally no way for you to afford the bandwidth. If there is a goldilocks zone in the middle it is probably a tiny sliver. You have to have the perfect number of viewers and revenue with very little margin for error.

I remember one popular Twitch streamer (sodapoppin) was doing a QA with viewers where he addressed the question. He had hired some people to figure out the costs of setting up his own streaming server and it didn't work out financially for him. Other streamers have investigated it as well (Destiny?) and came to the same conclusion. If those top streamers can't make it work financially, I doubt anyone can to be honest.
> The system they're trying to convey is such a logistical and dev nightmare.

The system referenced is available off the shelf to governments today.

Also to your comment about the 3 man team: Yeah that is applicable, if you are in an area where you can easily melt into the background. Iran is a little different domestic security wise than say some Western European city.
I mean, just look at California's history. If people were willing to upend their lives since the 1800s to move their families to the other side of the country on vague things like the promise of striking it rich somehow, those people probably had distinct personalities. Every one of California's strongest industries have been because people escaped where they were to go strike it rich (in money or fame).

Wine, Movies, Farming, Banking, Education, Tech.

California is just a state with a long history with a weird mixture of entrepreneurs you won't find elsewhere.
> Left-wing run cities are much worse off than right-wing ones with respect to homelessness, violent crime, drug-abuse, etc, by any metric you look at

Unless of course you look at the generally much more left wing Western-Europe. But that doesn't fit your narrative.
What version? FS2020? or FSX?
Your last sentence reads like it never ended? What is the main message?
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Keen observers will notice a dozen or more US-based tech hubs emerging in those 20 years. Twenty years ago, where else would you go for a promising/lucrative tech career? Today, you can pick a state!
He doesn't care if some plebe laughs at him, apparently. He made a guess, he stuck to it, that's how most top people operate. Strategically it made sense to align with Trump.
Can you use Proton for games you've purchased on GOG? I've been funneling more (not all) of my purchases to the DRM-free store front lately.
You pulled this account out -- one that had been untouched for seemingly seven years -- to make these insults?

If you can't separate design from Yet Another Trivial Variation on a Theme, that's a you problem. Trying to conflate the two is disingenuous.
Your criticism is a little bit ironic, but despite that and the downvotes I think you make a fair point, it could come across harsh and probably not very useful for persuasion
This offers protection for users of debit cards.

I don't personally use credit cards at all, for a variety of reasons. Virtual card #s on my debit cards are very desirable when it comes to online purchases, especially with vendors that don't accept paypal.
Wow. I was hoping, at some point things would improve a bit.
Do you have a source for NO2 being difficult to direct out of a house with a range hood? My range hood is maybe ~3 feet from the source, I'm wondering if it's enough or if I should do something more proactive.
Are we looking at the same page?

Here https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/bounty-microsoft-cloud is a header "IN-SCOPE DOMAINS AND ENDPOINTS" with alist of domains and that is described with the following: "Only the following domains and endpoints are eligible for bug bounty awards."

I couldn't find something that would match the Teams app on general bug bounty website either (https://www.microsoft.com/de-de/msrc/bounty)
> New Carbon monoxide alarm never went off.

I use more than one CO detector and order from different manufacturers. Same as I have done with hard drives or SSD's.

Will note this is trivial to do typically cost wise.
Depends - Boston can be cheaper if you don't have a big commute and the public transportation can help. Source: I've lived in both.
Maybe I'm being picky but I'm a bit bummed not to see some sort of dark mode support here, especially after Tailwind released fantastic dark mode functionality last month.
Cold hand makes sense. Frank Zappa’s estate left his family at odds. Dylan could avoid that with careful planning.