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This guy's understanding of what constitutes "horror" is really high strung.

Like yeah, this stuff might be irritating. Maybe you wanted pinker shutters. But who really cares? Imagine getting bent out of shape about the color of your shutters or having to put up curtains.
i don’t know which part of Europe you’re referring to, but i’ve noticed various restrictions, from what kind of front door you’re allowed to install, house color, roof color/type etc etc they’re not called HOAs thou, but the effect is similar.
>What I think most of us really want is to be able to do whatever we want, while also being able to tell others what to do.

I think some people really do want this. But I don't. I really just want to be able to do whatever I want, and then want other people to do whatever they want, as long as it isn't doing material harm to someone. The problem can come down to defining 'harm' since some people try to define it in their own image of what they wish wasn't allowed, but I hope there are still people out there who espouse these values, because it's the world I would prefer to live in :\

The problem is that people think like this everywhere, because it's exceptionally easy to just lie to yourself and convince yourself that in your case, it's justified to tell others what to do. And you get a lot of mental gymnastics out of that.

I do understand that sometimes it might not be out of a strict desire to prevent people from doing stuff that they do not personally agree with. For example, maybe someone's primary concern is property value, or hell, just having a nice looking neighborhood. But honestly, if I see a neighborhood with a very tasteless looking front yard with shit scattered about, then at least that's a sign that the neighborhood is chill.

edit: And it shall be noted I am trying to make a case against HOAs. I think my note about “harm” was a bit ambiguous. In general I want the legal system to define what is harmful enough to be actionable. Imperfect? Yes. A sort of “nobody’s favorite, but everybody’s favorite”
-type situation, in my view.
Americans chafe at city government aggressively enforcing code. So cities have kicked that unpleasant task down a level to HOAs. As an added bonus, the cost of this regulation is now a HOA fee not a tax which is much harder to pass.
Not some bad ideas in there, but it suffers a bit from not taking a universal perspective on computation.

The flexibility of computers means you don't have to try to come up with one thing that works for everyone. Something different can always be implemented for those who want that something different.

The article would be stronger if, in addition to prescribing some macro ideas, it grounded them in a first attempt at implementation. For this new type of non-desktop computer focused on tracking fragments in an air traffic controller model ... where is the code?
The problem is Intels incredible tendency to cut, slice, and dice their market into tiny slivers of segments. For example Comet Lake has 80ish SKUs listed on its wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Lake_(microprocessor)

Combine this with the fact that they have completely different processor families for different segments concurrent with these, there are going to be hundreds of SKUs in total on the market at any point.

I don't know if there is any sort of naming system that can salvage that to make any intuitive sense. The actual product names mostly serve to function as keys to search ARK.
Mostly as an internal tool but could potentially be interesting for smaller VCs/angels and DTC entrepreneurs
It definitely is.
I bet that tracking a police car or spying police private conversations would be a typified crime, and with our name clearly written in the device serial number.

If police is trying to prove that you are a criminal, basically you would be doing they life much easier.
I'm wondering if it's legal to deny the return of the tracker unless they can provide a receipt of them purchasing it?

For all we know it could be an FBI tracker, or installed by some other PD. So whoever can provide a purchase receipt can have the tracker.
Depending on the hoa of course, but my answer is yes. Yes it is. As long as I’m on the board ;)

In all seriousness though, I hate the bureaucracy but being on the board gives me the opportunity to keep things in check.
Others claim mrustc is the second, but has anyone actually tried to use it? the readme does not inspire too much confidence, and looks to (currently) be a C transpiler:

"mrustc's primary goal is bootstrapping rustc, and as such it tends to assume that the code it's compiling is valid (and any errors in the generated code are mrustc bugs). Code generation is done by emitting a high-level assembly (currently very ugly C, but LLVM/cretone/GIMPLE/... could work) and getting an external tool (i.e. gcc) to do the heavy-lifting of optimising and machine code generation."

At least it can be used to bootstrap the actual rust compiler. It's a bit crazy to me how popular this language appears to be, but doesn't have a proper second compiler yet.
For me it was something I did with co-workers, and eventually at home, to de-stress. I was in a terrible place mentally, physically, and from a career perspective at the time, but it helped me feel like I wasn't going to suffocate from stress. I got my life together after that, but it so bad at the time that taking half an hour to smoke a cigar in the evening was a godsend.
> 50 years ago - still people found things.

Going back even more in time, we had word of mouth and domain experts to ask for advice. That works still now but it's pretty slow for somebody aiming at establishing a large scale business. Advertising money makes time run faster. I can understand why they want ads. On the other side I'm blocking all I can block and very rarely see an ad (not every month) and yet I find what I want to buy.
Rules do change all the time. My Coop (in NYC) decided to impose a 2% transaction fee, which works out about 10k on a 500k apt. They also can raise then fees anytime.

That’s why HOAs can be a problem if they have too much power. The fact is that most HOA board members/directors tend to be older folks that have more time on their hands than you do. And they set the agenda. Good luck with that.
I think one way to look at Apple's iOS App Store is like a mall. Storefront property in a mall must be leased from the mall, it's not available on the open market. Shop owners pay a lot for access to the large amount of foot traffic the mall provides.

Developers are free to take their business elsewhere, such as to Android or PCs, or even to some open source phones. Apple just happens to own the "mall" with the lion's share of the foot traffic and the wealthiest customers.
No kidding. I don't see why you'd need to clear your desktop unless you're screen sharing and have things open you really don't want the other person seeing. If you're trying to find something on the Windows desktop, Win+D once to minimize everything, then a second time to bring all your windows back.
Reminds me of OpenDoc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDoc

The idea was that the main element of a computer shouldn't be an application but a document... and a document is a composite of pieces like spreadsheet, video, etc.

At the time, the idea was to have an open standard to replace the Microsoft apps... and to be able to replace MS apps with any other, piece by piece. It didn't work out then but, in a way, we now have a kind of open standard to build composite document (even including applications inside): HTML (with javascript).

Maybe it could be a good time to give this idea a new look?
Americans are full of contradictions like that. They formed their nation out of spite for monarchy, but every chance they get they try to install their own. The Bushes, the Clintons, the Kennedys.
It doesn't seem like they do it that willingly. You can't just buy a house in the HoA area and opt out.

If that's the definition of willingly, than i suppose most citizens of dictatorships are willing participants.
Fully vaccinated people who catch Covid variants may pass virus on, study finds
I think this is it.

The extreme alternative to "device, please don't ask me when you want to update something, just do it" is losing control of your computer. If you're comfortable, like the author mentions, having your digital "home" be away from your devices, to "live in the cloud", I guess this doesn't matter (at least, while your favorite cloud providers and services don't shut down taking all your data with them, decide to hike prices, or ban you for breaking some ToS rule).

If you want to fully own your computer, it matters. You don't want to give away all control over it.
> don't even get me started on the "it's harder than quitting heroin" nonsense)

Out of curiosity: did you try both to know that for fact?
I am laughing so hard at:

> This teardown is not a repair guide. To repair your FBI Tracking Device, use our service manual.
Alcohol is also addictive expensive and bad for you, and yet no one asks why anyone would drink alcohol
+1 for affordable, come-and-go but private office space
I was actually pretty interested in reading it until I saw that paragraph.
I had never heard of the California vaquita. Google revealed:

"The tiny vaquita porpoise is the world’s most endangered marine mammal. Its numbers are decreasing with fewer than 19 remaining. Vaquitas die from entanglement in illegal gillnets which are intended to catch totoaba, in a lucrative illegal fishery that serves an illegal trade of swim bladders to China."

https://www.mmc.gov/priority-topics/species-of-concern/vaqui...
It protects property values for the entire neighborhood.

It's very hard to sell homes for top dollar when your next door neighbor has old toilets in their drive way, or parked cars on cinder blocks. Or someone who wants to raise chickens in their backyard. Just makes the entire place look bad and property values will diminish, affecting one of your biggest investments.
Americans love things that keep the "undesirable" people out. HOAs are basically just white gatekeepers. They're legally backed rackets in every instance I've ever had to interact with them.
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I am immune, it’s easy. Just don’t smoke. I’ve probably smoked hundreds of cigarettes with beer with friends. I’d just never have one on my own. I’ve never had a drink on my own either. It’s obvious and easy.
Controlling paint color is a bit extreme IMO, but people like to decorate their home and it makes sense to me that the view from their home is part of that. I don't necessarily support it, but I understand the desire to have a nice home in all aspects.
This is a truism that extends to any governing body. But there are people that having lived under the tyranny of power mongering HOAs, work to keep the rules to a minimum.
Is that any different from paying +$240/year in your property taxes? My small town in canada has those amenities as well, sans HOA. All municipal, and managed by the town's parks department.
Imagine caring that your neighbors have pinker shutters or don't have curtains? Imagine caring enough to fine them until they either comply or have to move out?
We have rethought the computer 'Desktop' as a concept and it is what we have with Android / iOS and it consists of two separate launchers.

The Applications that run on these devices also generally use a paradigm where they don't really store files but really store objects which can have Hierarchies. They do have search and some of them support a stylus as input.

Another aspect is the ability to use your voice to interact with computers which is still quite limited.

VR looks like it may offer something different eventually but it will have to be explored more.

The problem with replacing the computer 'Desktop' as a concept is that it generally is extremely hard to replace. It looked like a combination of a stream of information with the ability to search a stream or separate streams could have replaced it but we only see this in web applications (a good example is Facebook or Twitter).
Does Chicago have co-op building? They have different rules.
Why would you ever want that. There isn't any added benefit.
There is a reason EV have shielding around the battery pack. Now they want to beam it under the car?
This will just add time and money to road work and make maintenance harder and more expensive.
It's not efficient like normal charging and if we were to go completely autonomous "normal" charging via plug is much more economical, faster and safer.
TBH, I think the understated selling feature for Uber/Lyft was that they'd show you a price in advance of actually summoning the car.

No reason a taxi service couldn't offer the same experience, but you see a lot of scenarios where that's not an option.

Before Covid, I'd go to the head office in the suburbs of Chicago twice a year. The first few times, I took a taxi from the stand and watched powerlessly as the meter ticked up and up, not knowing when it would stop. With Lyft, I could at least see if it would be $25 or 65 before I agreed to summon the vehicle.

In other news, I wish Metra would go straight to and from O'hare.
> In the late 1940s, Kim Gu had unification talks with Kim il-Sung but the CIA had him assassinated in 1949.

Taking a look at Wikipedia, the assassin seems to have been an US Army Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC, of "ratlines" fame) asset. Are there indications of him also being employed by OSS or some of its descendants (among which CIA is included), or did you just mistake one part of the US government for another?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Gu#Death_and_legacy
For me it's largely true because I have kids. If I wake before them, or even before my wife, that's time when I can focus on getting a single thing done efficiently. Once other people want me to do something, I'm pulled in 4 directions often with equal force.

I think in the past I squandered mornings more often, but now they're kind of like a sanctuary. I might read, lift weights, work on a project around the house - regardless of what I do though, I tend to do it well and with ease. It's often fairly focused and high quality time where I get to be a human being I can recognize and enjoy.
In the Netherlands we have somewhat similar arrangement in appartement buildings.
Even the name is (translated) the same and operates like the described condo HOA from the article.
It’s annoying as fuck. We want to put up sun screens as our windows are facing south so in summer the house is an oven.

Nope can’t do, _everyone_ needs to agree that yes we can install them and what type and colour and whatnot.
We have to call a meeting for that, guess how many people show up?

Our next house is definitely not going to have such a thing if I can help it
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It's not always willingly, there are plenty of times I've been forced into moving into an HOA because of lack of choice and availability, or them being the only option in a given area, etc...
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> on Twitter, you think you're reading and writing text, but you're actually absorbing and spitting Oral fire
Who requires them, and on what grounds?
1) As I said, it's too involved. Only a fraction of your users would know how to do it, you will need to teach them.

2) Websites do that through Cookies and Local Storage. These have limits and users would be purging them en mass. The data of the app doesn't disappear for no reason.

3) As I said, the problem is that it runs within a browser if not added to the homescreen. It is a window within a window.

4) Professional or amateur design, websites data is managed by the browser and not you. Caches get invalidated, you download everything again. It happens all the time.

Just being able to do something is not enough, Apps are much smoother experience.
probably not what you meant but I think multiverse (VR being commonly used instead of going somewhere in person) is going to be a big thing.
Is it bad to want state institutions to act in a way that benefits you? Isn't that "government for the people"?
"Safety factors started being formalized in the mid-1800s for bridge building, where factors as high as 6 were used to cover for the massive inconsistencies in the quality of early cast iron."

I'm not a real Civil Engineer but I was a graduate one from 1991 - I'm now a IT bod. Anyway, Civ Eng uses established factors of safety or safety multipliers or safety factors or whatever. Structural steel uses 1.2 I recall - so you work out your worst case (in 100 years - look up tables) bending moment and mult by 1.2. Civ Eng is one thing and despite our bridges still failing after 2000 years of really solid knowledge. Tacoma Narrows (who knew the bloody things fly and shake) or London Millenium bridge - lol - shake, shake, shake the room - BOOM.

The thing about safety factors is that they need to be derived conclusively. In Civ Eng - wood is a bit wayward so the safety factor for it is quite large compared to steel.

I have no idea what you do for space thingies (yes I do) but I would expect my first 50 experiments to blow up - I need to explore the extremities.

If I ran a Space Agency I would say something like: "Soz, we are going to make some cracking firework displays first and then we will know what to avoid."
I agree with most of these complaints, but only if you're speaking purely about MacOS. Everything is fine on Windows and Lubuntu (I use all three more or less daily.) Only MacOS treats my every instruction with either helplessness or malicious compliance. I think the author should try a different desktop before they give up on desktop computing entirely.
HOAs allow townships to kick enforcement of these minor things down a level. They also get to dodge asking voters to approve a tax as it's now in the form of an HOA fee.
By definition sharing information about your product to convince people to buy it is an ad. Doesn't matter where you put it or how it reached the user. I'd love to hear your way of sharing information that doesn't match this definition.

"An advertisement (often shortened to advert or ad) is the promotion of a product, brand or service to a viewership in order to attract interest, engagement and sales."
Having to see ads even there was never part of the deal when I contributed mine (puny as it may be).
PreVue Channel also had an ad-delivery platform which served ads for the upper half of the prevue channel. The system was completely “headless”, using an A4000 that you could dial into, and upload new ads etc.

I developed that in 1993 — I think it was called “AdVue” commercially.

It was able to slideshow/carrousel the uploaded IFF/ILBM files or JPEGs, as I recall. I somehow managed to write a dithering algorithm for rendering as HAM8. I don’t recall how I chose the palette seed colors, as I didn’t know proper clustering algorithms back then.

I also somehow pieced together the “BBS” like Zmodem/Xmodem/etc. functionality for uploads. Long live Public Domain sources. This was pre GitHub ;-)

I’ve heard that the system was used for several years in both USA and perhaps Central and South America.

I lost contact with the company after going back home to Denmark.
You're entirely missing the point. Yes, having to re-paint your shutters is an annoyance in the scheme of things, but why should you _have_ to? It's your house; why should you _have_ to do what a committee demands?

And yes, you can say that he has to because he's signed the papers, but you'd still be missing the point.
Of course this is purely anecdotal, but I also smoke rarely when drinking, and only then. Some nights up to half a pack, sometimes just one or two, but only two to three times a year by now. Interestingly, I have no desire to smoke whatsoever when not drinking, not even a hint.

Something in my brain seems to be wired such that I'm repelled by the taste when it's not in the "right" setting. Even if I wanted, when I only had a beer or two I get so sick from it that I have to stop almost immediately.

It might be that I'm just super lucky, but I feel like there is more to it than that.
Only skimmed through it, but looks like a fairly typical specimen of the verborrhea produced by the Brazilian intelligentsia (who themselves usually come from the very elite that they claim to hate), except that this time it's written in English

Telltale shibboleths: neoliberal capitalism as the big villain (Brazil has one of the lowest trade/GDP ratios in the world, heck I wish neoliberalism was our biggest problem), an unhealthy obsession with "neoliberal" former president Fernando Henrique Cardoso (thanks to him for selling the "state-owned family jewels", growing up in the 90s we didn't have a phone line, only the rich could afford one from the the state-owned phone company), and "institutional coup in 2016" was the icing on the cake
Man whose WMD lies led to 100K deaths confesses all
HOA's were created to get around the supreme court ruling that racial covenants were unenforceable.
This ain’t a mass extinction yet
Because no one wants to buy a house next door to a pink house with the creepy year-round Christmas decorations. That directly affects the valuation on someone's biggest investment they may ever make in life.
Conversely, I have never had any urge for cigarettes. Occasionally, I crave for cigars. Snus, however, I crave roughly daily despite stopping around 6 months ago. During lockdowns my nicotine use via snus got a bit out of hand -- at the peak I spent roughly a puck a day (so like 20x pouches of maybe 14mg nicotine a day). I usually stayed up two days straight and slept for the third. Once I woke up, I could not get out of the bed without one. Once I stopped using when I ran out, I had headaches which felt like they crushed my head and put the world spinning. This continued for maybe 3 days. After 3 months of discontinued use, I tried one of the stronger snus brands while intoxicated -- the ones I would not given a second thought while at my peaks -- I became so overwhelmed in a matter of a dozen seconds that I could not walk, and had to lie down and avoid puking on the spot.

And despite stopping, I now have this clear cavity on my right side of mouth with the gums clearly redacted. I only spent snus heavily for roughly three months (which probably masqueraded depression or lack of motivation), albeit, during that time almost at all times and occasionally with multiple pouches.

Overall, I have done coffee at great amounts, tried amphetamines and ephedrine, cannabis in most of its forms, some benzos, and self-medicated myself with alcohol, and I must say the physical withdrawals for me have been worst with nicotine, with only benzos taking the lead on the physiological toplist.
This is spot on. People want to hand over responsibility for their computations to some big company offering a "free" service so long as you use the official app, and then they wonder why they don't feel like they have any power or freedom.
depends on the HOA. 20$/month is enough to paint the community sign and maybe look at egregious violations of the rules, but not much more.

this article talks more about 500$/month HOAs with free spirits that optimize everything
"HOA Neighborhoods" as the author defines them are largely a suburban construct IMO. In a large city like SF for example, single family homes aren't typically a part of an HOA -- you're free to extend your home as you see fit (with the right permits from the city), and you're also responsible for all costs including roofs and front porch areas. This is also true in rural America where you fully own your property and there are virtually no restrictions in what you can do.

I'm not very familiar with Europe but the couple of times I've been there it seemed somewhat similar to denser American cities and charming rural villages. I didn't see a parallel to "cookie cutter" American suburbia. I'm no expert on Europe but that's probably why HOAs aren't that common.