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Part of the reason everyone builds stick frame houses in the U.S. is because county building codes are restrictive and have not adapted to new ways of building such as with cob. Even California is way behind in this regard. That and consumer demand towards stick frame houses.
What’s with people doing videos instead of writing? I assume ad revenue?

Most videos that are 15 min long have content that could be summarized in a 1-2 min read.
Was it the m60 or m240? Was it delta force BHD? Good times :)
Even more amazing when you consider a full flow combustion rocket engine is an engineering masterpiece. The design and materials science are priceless.
If they allow side loading, the market will take care of the rest.
> direct democracy sounds good in practice, but these days pretty much every proposition is written by a special interest group

I think a key part of direct democracy is to make it as local as possible. It's my understanding that Switzerland has cantons averaging 350k people that have their own constitutions, taxes, schools, health care, even treaties with other countries. These are often further divided into municipalities. People might be able to vote on things several times a year. People can vote to cancel laws they don't like. Lots more info here [0]

California has almost 40 million people. That might be too big to qualify as "direct"

[0] https://wolf-linder.ch/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Swiss-poli...
I get the missing functionality, but would it really be wanted in the dependency managers directly? It feels like plugins or standalone tools are actually a better place for the more opinionated things or tools which require non-trivial source analysis to work.
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A lot of people hated Cataclysm, I thought it had the ultimate rule of cool of any expansions. Heroic Ragnaros back then is probably my favorite boss fight of any game of all time.
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> I agree there have been weird relative price increases. See for example this graphic: https://cdn.howmuch.net/articles/price-changes-in-usa-in-pas...

> But this is not inflation. It's a completely different issue, with different causes and possible solutions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease
If you look at the aggregate statistics, like the outcomes for first and second generation East Asian[1] and South Asian[2] immigrants, which bring with them a distinctly strong cultural emphasis on education, it becomes clear that structural impediments are far easier to overcome than typically claimed.

But I agree that the stickiness of wealth among Americans generally isn't because they actually value education as a tool of mobility. Rather it's more because education is understood as a class signifier; something that's expected of their class. That's why so many wealthy politicians and pundits who claim college is overemphasized and demand that it should be unnecessary for a middle-class lifestyle couldn't even fathom their own kids not going to the best college possible.

And the failure of other groups to achieve what East and South Asian immigrants have is precisely because they've internalized (e.g. whites and blacks) or brought with them (e.g. Mexican immigrants) the same working-class ethic that has always predominated in American culture. In American culture, as in perhaps most cultures around the world, only the elite valued higher education, and they did so for the aforementioned reasons. Not that "go to school" hasn't been oft recited in modern American culture. It's just that it's mostly a half-hearted refrain. American culture values hard work and personal sacrifice above all else, and "book learning" is considered neither hard work nor a sacrifice. Contrast that w/ some other cultures, especially many (but not all) Asian cultures, not to mention European Jewish culture, where formal study is very much considered hard work and a personal sacrifice.

None of which is to say luck isn't involved in individual success. Of course it is. Indeed, to some meaningful degree it's always a factor. But all that tells us is that we should refrain from judging lack of success as a personal failure, not that agency and cultural values are irrelevant to the probability of success.

Also, it goes without saying that a child who grows up w/ and internalizes cultural norms will find it far easier to exercise and apply those norms. As example, someone who never grew up brushing their teeth might find it exceptionally difficult to adopt and maintain that habit as an adult. Whereas someone who grew up doing that would find it difficult to lose that habit. Yet another reason to avoid comparing and judging personal character based on outcomes. At the same time, very clearly norms matters, and some norms are to be preferred over others.

[1] Because of the direct and indirect effects of the Mandarin exam system. But more recently see also [2].

[2] Because they tend to be middle-class self-selected to value, if not having already achieved, significant educational achievement.
100% agree- and only want to add the undeniable advantage that children from two parent households have, which doesn't necessarily require those parents to be rich in order to provide.
But they stay in place for 300 years. They withstand hurricane winds, floods and crowbars.
> trade never getting a promotion again for remote work

Trade you say? Sounds like win-win to me! Not being made to manage/lead a bunch of other engineers sounds pretty nice
This is 100% my calculus. I do not care if remote work harms my career because it is so amazingly valuable to me in other ways. Being given the choice to decide what my priorities are is way better than being told "well it'll hurt your career so we won't let you do it".
Where could I go for resources on that?
This is anecdotal, but when I host my buddy at my place (he is high diamond on all roles) sometimes he'll hop on my account (low silver on all roles) and steamroll. I'd say 3-5 wins per loss, and he tends to stay off his mains. Yes bad games happen, but he consistently will leave my account at a higher SR than when he arrived (please don't ban me Blizzard). I am pretty confident a diamond level player could boost a bronze account in any role without much trouble.
> I expect Twitter likely has some data to support their move towards more complicated and longer tweets plus more features.

With regards to tweet length, they definitely do in the form of average tweet length based on different languages. Cant remember where they posted this data, but they found that in more "compact" languages (i.e. languages where you can put more meaning into fewer characters) almost all tweets were under the max length. For languages like English, though, a much higher percentage of tweets bumped up to the max length and then spilled into the next tweet. They basically then optimized the length so that, even when using less compact languages like English, the majority of ideas people wanted to share could fit in a single tweet.
But your text is just as misleading!

Only about 14% of what we pay in Denmark and probably a comparable amount in Germany goes to paying for the actual electricity.

The rest is for "Green taxes" that pays for our new green infrastructure, R&D and lots of things that will benefit the transition.

So if we just said "we good now", 86% of the cost would disappear, and probably not be much more expensive than US energy, or even cheaper, at least soon!
Usually tilting is used to turn a 5 hour journey into 4, or 4 into 3. An extra hour will definitely convince some of your passengers they may be better off taking the hourlong hop in a plane; the entire value proposition of a high speed train is convenience and comfort.

It also doesn't necessarily have to slide off a table. There is an ad for the '70s tilting APT in which the person lauding the train has a cup of tea on the table and it's just sloshing out of the cup, which is at best making a mess and losing drink you paid for, and at worst some inconveniently placed burns on your lap.
Can confirm this description as correct. The individual contributors are effective at remote work but the management still wants the luxury of keeping the employees in an office location. Google's people management is notoriously weak and is one of the weakest in the IT industry in my experience. Poor managers prefer management by "walking around" which translates to organizational games played though unaccountable face-to-face meetings and political back-and-forth. Also, the senior management (reasonably) expects that once remote work is freely available, the employees will relocate to other areas of the country to minimize their cost of living. Once that happens, senior management loses sway with municipal and state governments that dish out kickbacks to companies based on their impact on the tax revenue.
Here is an excellent lecture on the subject from CWU professor Nick Zenter. If you watch this there is a good chance you'll decide to watch all of his lecture on the channel. Very enthralling.

https://youtu.be/UJ7Qc3bsxjI
On the surface the adjustments seem pretty reasonable to me. As a thought experiment, would you want to live in the 70s just to earn 5x more? I wouldn't. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dL5G4QYEhc
There are apps that don't use push notifications.

I find at least as big a driver from our clients is that until webapps case be searched/discovered/"installed" from the AppStore, businesses still want mobile apps.

I've also heard war stories of people who built PWAs for Android and published them in Play Store, then wrapped them with Cordova to make a "native" iOS app, only to have it rejected from App Store because the reviewer found the PWA/website and used the "apps must be 'beyond a repackaged website'". :sigh:
Extra work can make a difference if you are trying to get to competitive with fossil fuels and electricity.
Is it worse to be zero sum with your own business or zero sum entirely to a competing form of attention, gaming or otherwise?
it's Cinco de Mayo, so, maybe time for the "1 tequila, 2 tequila, 3 tequila, floor" joke? (which only work with English sounds for numbers)
It seems to be all going into inflating house and stock prices, i am way more concerned about the asset bubble
and i am an individual, its my money and i dont just hand it to people with ideas i disagree with.
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> What they don’t want is companies that are spending say $2-4 million per month to be able to put in a hard limit at $2.5M.

Why not? It would make companies happy.

The reality is that, as much as many would like this feature, I'm not sure that a lot of large customers are actually asking for it. Does anyone who works at a large company know if they've asked for this feature before?

I can imagine why startups might want it, but also, AWS is extremely forgiving with startups and throws tons of money at them, so idk.
If you really think inflation has been double digits annually since the last recession, you have no idea what you are talking about, sorry. Let's take the most charitable interpretation of what you said and assume it was 10% since the last recession. (Do the math with something like 15% or 20% if you want to laugh.) 10% annually would be a price increase of about 3.5x since 2008, so if bananas cost $0.63/lb now they would cost $2.20/lb, or if an average home cost $205k it would now cost $718k.

What actually happened was that time, basic goods generally got cheaper or stayed fairly similar to their 2008 prices. Bananas are actually around 10% cheaper. Bread is 1.19x its 2008 price. The median new home is $300k versus $205k, or 1.46x - one of the largest increases! That's around 3% annually. The median new car is 1.08x more expensive (and far superior to its 2008 competition.)

No, sorry, there is absolutely no way whatsoever that inflation was double digits for the last decade.
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I don't get the sense the EM sells himself as SJ, but some of he people I know that have worked a few levels under him definitely don't have the same kind of awed respect SJ's acolytes did, although they respected him a great deal.
Lead maintainer of Pixie here.

Pixie will remain licensed under Apache 2.0. We are also working on moving Pixie over to the CNCF, to maintain this guarantee. This is being tracked here: https://github.com/cncf/toc/issues/651

In addition, we will likely move to a DCO (Developer Certificate of Origin). We are still trying to figure out the exact logistics, but this will allow commits to happen without signing a CLA.
We really need to do something about our local building codes.
Andy (the Orbit author) has his own very interesting Zettelkasten-like set of public notes. In this page, for example, he compares/contrasts his "Evergreen note" approach to a Zettles in a Zettlekasten: https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z4AX7pHAu5uUfmrq4K4zig9x8jmm...

Additionally, his system does have spaced repetition built-in, too:

"I’ve embedded a Spaced repetition memory system into my notes: The mnemonic medium can be extended to one’s personal notes. This has substantially changed the medium, but in ways I don’t yet understand very well."

I do not believe he has open-sourced his note taking system, but it is fun to browse around in; he presents a lot of interesting ideas, particularly if you're into this space.
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Framing is considerably simpler than finish carpentry.
I've been doing woodwork for a long time, and get most of my wood from used single-size bed frames on Gumtree/Marketplace. People effectively throw the beds out (or at most want AUD$20-50 for the entire thing), and they're generally made of some pretty decent wood, especially the older ones.
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So both Klaviyo (on behalf of Framework) and Mailchimp (on behalf of Carta) are aggressively oblivious about security. The latter is more immediately worrisome, because they are entrusted with information about Carta customers' stock transactions.
I mean there's been a huge number of updates since it launched and quite a few added maps. You should give it another shot.
Agreed. I'd add that perhaps "the system" is not optimized for the people.

For example, perhaps the people of towns/cities should be able to vote on things "closer to home" for themselves (like property taxes and zoning), leaving things involving multiple localities (like water rights) for the state.
I went from hardcore-raider-lite to casual and then they gated my characters progress behind raid level dungeons I just lost interest.
>If you are concerned about reducing it further, western "baby subsidies" aren't a good place to start.

Nowhere did I say the subsidies should be western. Naturally the subsidies need to be global to affect the largest areas of population growth. This would have the added benefit of helping pull those in the poorest countries on earth out of dire poverty.
> jokes are somehow the structural foundation of genocide

Again, the 'pyramid of hate' logic does not claim that jokes necessarily lead to genocide or that jokes are structurally required for genocide.

Just that they can be one of many causes of erosion of the social boundaries that ensure people think of each other as people rather than dehumanizing others. It is only to the extent that jokes become a tool for hateful sappers to undermine your team that they start to become necessarily problematic, but you shouldn't let things get to that point.
Too late to edit but it chromium browsers it's about:flags not config
They do an incredibly poor job expanding the content. The only thing expansions provide, aside from occasionally requiring the relatively trivial act of learning slightly different class mechanics, is progression content.

That is, content that provides new/better gear, more challenging fights, etc. That is: content that heavily rewards a hardcore from day one play style.

They consequently are in something of a race against time: the current game is hostile to casual players, who quickly give up and leave when it takes hours to find groups for leveling, and stale to hardcores that “beat” it quickly.

So one can intend to play casually or hardcore and be poorly served in both cases.
Ah yes, the proverbial "trouble at mill."
It would be interesting to study how the uniqueness of new programming language names and the superior technical search results they bring about causes programmers to adopt new languages as time wears on.
>Over the years, the methodology used to calculate the CPI has undergone numerous revisions. According to the BLS, the changes removed biases that caused the CPI to overstate the inflation rate. The new methodology takes into account changes in the quality of goods and substitution. Substitution, the change in purchases by consumers in response to price changes, changes the relative weighting of the goods in the basket.2 The overall result tends to be a lower CPI. However, critics view the methodological changes and the switch from a COGI to a COLI as a purposeful manipulation that allows the U.S. government to report a lower CPI.

But adjusting the basket totally makes sense from a reporting point of view. Consider the reverse. As countries have gotten richer/industrialized, so have their consumption of meats. If a country is undergoing development, should their CPI basket continue to assume that people eat meat once a week, even though most people eat meat multiple times per week?
> if an average home cost $205k it would now cost $718k.

That's completely within the realm of reason in many places across Canada.

I'm not being pithy, it really is.
> Eg socially by recognising their genius.

That's ripe for corruption. Social recognition would largely be in the hands of the wealthiest, i.e. the government in that scenario. You want individuals to be able to generate their own wealth so they can defend themselves. Patents, capitalism, etc are a means of delegating power to the people. Keeping all that control in the hands of the government is costly and less efficient.
That's a tricky comment. For disabling something that is perfectly functional I agree, but if it's broken then what to do?

Since the late 2000s all diesel vehicles sold in Europe have had a diesel particulate filter (DPF) that helps reduce NOx emissions. After 150,000 - 200,000km these end up becoming blocked up and need replacing. If you don't you'll have reduced engine power and could even damage the engine. Except you can't get a replacement, these parts are designed for that specific car, often have complicated electronics, etc. You can sometimes get remanufactured or used parts from salvage, but they probably aren't going to last very long and are still expensive (€1500+ for parts and labour). So you have a car that is perfectly functional, except the emissions system is broken. Replacing it may cost a significant fraction of the value of the car.

What pretty much everyone does (even in Western countries) is have it removed. Of course you aren't supposed to, and this is supposed to be checked when the vehicle is inspected (visually, note that car inspections do not test NOx emissions in Europe), but everyone turns a blind eye.

The manufacturers are the ones who are really to blame here. Why make something that can't be replaced on the car?

I'd really like to see the EU taking a harder line on diesel engines (petrol is much less polluting), but it's probably not going to happen because of the big car manufacturers who are all heavily invested in diesel. In most of Europe petrol is taxed more than diesel, which from an environmental viewpoint really doesn't make any sense. With hybrid technology petrol can be just as fuel efficient, and is mechanically much simpler. At least EVs seem to be set to take over both for light vehicles.
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I'm mostly annoyed by the anthropomorphization of the state.
> The simplest counterpoint to prion cataclysm fear is that it hasn't happened yet.

Well a prion disease (called Kuru) did affect the Fore people of New Guinea seriously in the 1950s and 1960s as I recall. Here is what Wikipedia says about the Fore people:

> Furthermore, Kuru predominantly affected women, as women more commonly partook in cannibalistic religious rituals. Because of this, there was a significant sex imbalance in Fore society.[14] By some accounts, this gender imbalance reached a 3:1 male to female ratio at its worst. This affected the family structure of the Fore, as it became commonplace for children to be raised and cared for only by their fathers.[1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fore_people
If they really want you, SpaceX can apply for a license from the government that gives them permission to “export” all the ITAR stuff to you.

Yes. The brain of a non-US person is considered foreign soil for export control purposes.
Additionally, the wildfires in the Northwest also contributed to glut of timber. The wildfires kill the trees, but usually don’t destroy the timber, which is still good for harvest — however, it must be harvested quickly before it rots or gets infested by insects. Thus the owners of burned timberlands are scrambling to harvest the timber ASAP. This results in plenty of cheap logs, but since sawmills aren’t keeping up, its a double whammy to owners of burned timberlands: not only they have to harvest at less than optimal time, they also have to pay top dollar for logging crews as everybody else is also scrambling to harvest their burned timber, and selling the logs for cheap, as there are so many sellers and too little milling capacity.
> If you’re at the point in your life where you can make major sacrifices to a greater cause

On the flip side, you’re making major sacrifices for the direct benefit of one of the richest men on the planet.
> I'm thinking mobile apps are a thing of the past.

They _should_ be mostly. Apart from push notifications and 3D rendered games and cutting edge apps using phone tech that isn't available in html - very few apps in use today couldn't be published as a PWA.

"App Store discoverability" its totally a thing people want though. You can't publish/find PWAs in Apple's App Store.

>But writing a book is a hell of a job. I did it once, it was hard, as hell and the everybody pirated it.

You probably know this, but don't get _too_ disheartened by that. Very few of the sort of people who happily pirate books would have paid for them anyway. Same as how the movie/music industries claims of billions of dollars lost to piracy are just self serving hyperbole bullshit.
That seems to be what they are doing. They are estimating that 20% of the company will be permanently remote. Last I saw, something like 25% of the company expressed interest in permanent remote work. So in most cases people will have the choice.
> new ways of building such as with cob

Ha! Cob is like as old as history. Im sure there are other reasons. When you add sprinklers wood isn't a bad choice especially for making modifications later. Adding a wiring/outlets/making modifications is a lot easier to.
> As long as safety + working conditions are not cruel and unusual, and someone is willing to work for $0, why are you trying to stop (or hide) that fact?

On the contrary - I want everyone to know that they’re looking for a photographer to do this for free.

I’m 100% behind a free market; part of a free market is that your business practices can and will impact your reputation.
> Close 2nd place: e-ink. But unfortunantely there doesn't seem to be in the market an e-ink device of a decent size and price.

I was going to agree with you. But then I googled the price of an Amazon kindle and those 7" screens like paperwhite are under a $100.
I love the look of metal framed houses while they’re under construction. It reminds me of Wolverine’s adamantine skeleton.