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> I was under the impression that offices generally are environmentally speaking better buildings than your average condos and houses.They have to follow specific sustainability standards.

The house/apartment you live in is still there (because you still live in it) regardless of if you WFH. The difference is if you WFH, it's actually being utilized 100% of the time instead of just at night and on weekends. Conversely, the office literally doesn't need to exist in the first place if everyone does WFH. So we have to compare having your apartment + having an office, to having just your apartment. The office situation is a net negative no matter how environmentally friendly it is unless it is actually carbon neutral or carbon negative. And that's ignoring the commuting aspect. If we were to abandon all offices tomorrow and let nature re-claim them, it would have a massively positive effect carbon footprint wise. And it's not like offices turn off the AC at night.

> Except a lot of people will gain time and money to spend later.And that's usually one of the main arguments in these discussions that people hate to spend time and money to commute.

By this logic, we should keep everyone poor because god forbid they consume something. Consumption isn't negative across the board. And overwhelmingly these days it's digital anyway. If I stay at home and watch Netflix, I have a much smaller carbon footprint than someone who goes and drives somewhere. You can see from the statistics above, the average person drives ~39 miles per day. I'm saying reduce that by 32 on weekdays and you're saying "oh no, what if they replace that with other consumption???". I think it is borderline impossible people would consistently do something _worse_ than their commute (carbon wise) across the board. It's like saying "oh no, if we ban unhealthy deserts in schools people will buy them and eat even more unhealthy deserts outside of school". They won't -- on average kids would be healthier. It's a no brainer.

> I dont think you can make an equation like this.People instead of walking to their favorite restaurant might decide to order more or make longer rides to go to "the better restaurants" instead of just consuming what is within the walking distance from their apartments / office.

There is no reason to suspect this would happen. If you work from 9 AM to 5 PM, and you cut out your commute, you have _more_ time to for example make a home-cooked meal. If anything people will order out less. All the statistics on WFH (and I've done contracting for a meal planning company so I can guarantee this one specifically) support this. People order out less when they work remotely, across the board.

Regarding the "taking longer rides thing" -- people aren't going to do that so much that it becomes as demanding as their commute. Then it would be annoying.
Piston-engine planes are a remarkably small market. Automotive dominates the fuel market in total, and jet fuel (which is a lead-free kerosene derivative) dominates the aviation market.

As far as I can tell, no one has demonstrated any tangible cost from the (very small) amount of leaded fuel still burned in piston-engine planes. Even imputed cost from environmental lead levels is iffy -- the only places you can find detectable lead are the immediate environs of long-used GA airports.
When you're ready for the next upgrade experience, try a clad pan (stainless on the outside, aluminum in the middle). You get the even heating of aluminum with the durability and ease of cleaning of stainless steel.

I cooked on cast iron for years before switching to clad. Cast iron's poor conductivity causes hot spots underneath the burner. With clad pans, you find yourself pushing the food around less to get even heat.
Paul Graham and Nassim Taleb on Engineering vs. Science
That sounds like a recipe for creating filter bubbles.
I mean yes it has surged. I see a lot of it in very specific and weird ways. I'm seeing that in some instances, house prices are stable. And in others you see a random manufactured home on 40 acres going for 600k (and the project at the time it was built was probably 200k). And yet in the same year another manufactured home that was just as nice (but only on a measly 11 acres) goes for 220k (no acres in that area are not worth that much).

:shrug:

There are explanations though... go into the 220k house and smell the 10 years of cigarettes... or the 40 chicken coop across the street.
> Secondly, to avoid the problem in this article, you should have an external password necessary to unlock the drive; not a TPM. This is, of course, not what most people do, since typing in passwords is tedious.

Back when I worked at MS, a PW was required on boot to deencrypt the drive.

I am honestly shocked that isn't the default for bitlocker. But then again it does require people to have a unique bitlocker PW, and if they ever forget it, everything on the machine is gone for good. (Which I've actually been bitten by, oops!)
Indeed, thank your (figurative and literal) janitors and maintenance staff! :)
Not sure I follow. Heat storage is not the same as conductivity. Consider a wooden trivet.
This would seem to be a scientific approach to the matter, given the studies illustrating T-cell and long-term bone marrow immunity in the previously infected. Why put anything in your body, even saline, if you don’t need it? There’s always some risk with any medical procedure.
> a lot of jobs like machinists often get cuts on the job that expose your blood

And how many instances of person-to-person HIV transmissions have been caused by that kind of occupational exposure?
Governments printed so much money, everyone knows houses are a hedge against inflation. Its not that they're worth more, its like money is worth less.
According to the legend, folks at Pixar were way more productive when Jobs was busy at Apple, and vice versa for Apple employees! The true power of remote work?
No, aluminum retains heat better. As you said cast-iron's thickness is what's doing the heat retention, not the material.

https://www.makeitfrom.com/compare/6061-AlMg1SiCu-3.3214-H20...

For most day-to-day cooking where you're ingredients are in direct contact with the pan over a burner (sautés, searing etc) heat retention can actually be bad (it's difficult to adjust the temperature). For specific tasks, cast iron excels, that's why you don't see a lot of copper deep fryers.

(This is mentioned in the 2 experiments that person runs in their kitchen that you posted)
I like how despite all the efforts from RIAA and Hollywood Pirate Bay is still there after all these years, unsinkable, always coming back from death. It's a stern reminder to the music and entertainment industry that piracy can't be beaten using neither force nor threats.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

― Upton Sinclair

So with the internet ad market exploding (see Google's 69% growth in ad revenue to over $50B for the QUARTER) but somehow the NYTimes, with their "prestigious site" saw ad revenue DECREASE by 8.5% (1).

Perhaps someone can name a publisher that practices "highly commercial journalism" and "is in good shape" for us? Ideally there'd be 100's for a diverse ecosystem of free press.

If one does not see the threat to journalism one must be well paid not to.

1: https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2021/05/Press-Release-3.28....
I think poster meant you can do anything in the sense of actually cooking with it.

putting cast iron in the dishwasher seems insane to me though.
All this hype from the NFT fanatics and physical it is.

Proves once again that NFTs are a huge scam.
tl;dr/BLUF: 55, recently returned to full time programming, loving it, going to keep at it quite a while.

Longer version....

I was sort of a programmer 30ish years ago (programming was a small but vital part of my job, at best I was OK at it). Moved into management, then, about 20 years ago, cyber security consulting (PIAs, TRAs, governance structures, policies, PKI auditing, some bizdev, some product management, all in the cyber space).

Just over a year ago, I converted back to full time wage slavery, primarily as a programmer, with a few other duties (hey, startup), and this after spending about 6 months mostly programming for the same co as a consultant.

One month it's React and Node and graph DBs (for the compliance product), the other it's shell and C and C++ and SELinux (for the unidirectional gateway), rinse, lather, repeat.

Lots of customer interaction, lots of iterating, no face-to-face or bum-in-seat unless I want to (or it's required for security purposes), lots of learning, lots of interesting problems.

This stuff is great.

Will I be doing this at 60? That will depend on the right balance between three things: My health, status of the profit share, and my ongoing interest. Just having too much fun right now.
Im curious how it would compare to Halide Lang. They both seem to be targetting the same problem.
At least this lab leak here happened in a more transparent country, so we don't need to investigate the origins of the 2021 prion outbreak.
It was banned in the UK almost as soon as BSE was identified as a prion disease. Even before they culled the entire beef herd.

(Source: I live here, I'm old enough to remember it dominating the news cycle for months.)
Right, but any human could tell that a chimpanzee is not the same thing as themselves. Could they tell that with neanderthals?
Probably just a bit more training data and cameras will do just fine. It's a funny edge case; nothing more. I'd be surprised if it will remain a problem.
computing is a fraud, a CPU is literally a rock that we tricked into thinking
There are only a few in polar orbits, from what I've seen.
I want such a thing so badly that I've assembled and maintain it for myself.
If you know of tpm 2.0 features that have the disk encryption and decryption occurring in the TPM chip itself then please enlighten me. I have not heard of that.

Using a tpm without such features in order to improve a disk encryption setup to the same or above that of a password is difficult and full of problems, and there are some distinct drawbacks. There is a reason why Microsoft bitlocker is primarily intended to protect a users home directory after they have provided a password. If the pin to the tpm is in clear text on the disk, and all the tpm is doing is converting that pin to a password to unlock the disk, the benefits are generally small.
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Not necessarily. Routers can be used internally. Even consumer level routers are used in weird dual NAT situations.

(Also there is no requirement that you use RFC-1918 addresses behind NAT.)
That was my point, I don't know why everyone got what I said as anti capitalist rant.

The only reason I would trust a therapist with my personal life details is because of doctor patient confidentiality and there's absolutely no digital record of our conversation.

I think trusting any app or online service with such details is absolutely wrong with zero room for budging, and arguing that "well, maybe this company is okay" is naive to say the least.
> "Fertility statue addiction" has never been a thing.

How do you know? I'm not asking rhetorically, I'm genuinely curious how you know this. We do have ancient myths about people falling in love with statues.
I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not. If serious ...

This seems like a reckless way of regulating your motivation at work IMO. I don't mean to be snarky. But it really does put a lot of risk and cost on your colleagues, doubly so if you're leading a team, /and/ puts a lot of risk on your own career and reputation.

If you need to over-engineer everything to stay motivated, you need a different job. A job where the _problems_ are hard and the challenge is to find simple solutions to them, instead of the other way around.
So, what are you implying, that shrinks know exactly who is off their rocker within a few sessions?
They look different so it should be able to tell them apart if the model has been trained on these shapes. My robot vacuum uses lidar, the maps it makes of my apartment when it cleans are remarkably accurate where you can identify certain objects pretty clearly.
Operations dominate the total carbon footprint of a gasoline fueled private vehicle. (And public transport buses as well.) so the comparison still is valid. To compete, buses need to also be electric (which is, to be fair!, super easy… electrifying all city buses is incredibly easy compared to electrifying all personal vehicles.)
Beats not doing it at all.
I worked at a video game company that outsourced to russia, and have worked with contractors my entire career--so i think i have some insight on the matter, too :-)

the video game company had a outsource good shop, with competent developers on the other side--the first big hurdle if I'm frank. they weren't cheap. sure, cheaper than local talent, but not gangbusters savings. If you don't want a mes in your codebase, paying for quality contractors is a must because you need to let them work independently.

even then, they were only ever given work that would be very discrete, so that they could work on it independently without getting blocked.

that is not collaborative, which is the point I'm trying to make. Is it constructive? sure. but is it collaborative? no. and it can't be--there was a 12h difference between the two zones. they were trying to go to bed while we were having coffee.

at my last gig (non-gaming), we also had people in: shanghai, sf, nyc, sheffield, and tel aviv. want to try and do collaboration like that? even as a digital-first company that has good hygiene around remote work? it doesn't work: just look at a timezone calendar. So then you're stuck partitioning work so that everyone can be constructive in their office hours, and don't need to worry about what is going on, on the other side of the globe. but again, that's not collaboration. that's six teams all doing their work independently and having routine touchpoints to try and synchronize the independent threads. synchronization takes time, effort, focus.

I'm not saying you can't get work done remotely, which is what I think you think I'm saying. I'm saying that if your work is partitioned to be collaborative, timezones more than anything are going to make a mess of your plans, and then add in cultural, langauge, etc barriers on top of that.
Would a stainless steel pan, the same thickness as a cast-iron pan, also work?

Would it have a similar "cooking profile" to cast iron while still being easy to take care of?

I realize that it would be prohibitively expensive but I feel that it would virtually last forever.
I just spent some time looking for the source, but I seem to have lost it, so take this all with a grain of salt, but based on some article I read:

My understanding of the "shared DNA" factoids is that they are based on a very rudimentary analysis of DNA sequences. The human-chimp 98.8% thing is "true" in that 98.8% of sequences that appear in the human genome also appear in the chimp genome. But this ignores other axes of differences: Humans may have multiple copies of certain sequences, while chimps only have one. Or certain sequences may appear in completely different parts of the genome in one or the other. And all of these differences are relevant.

TL;DR: 98.8% is true, but not really relevant for determining how "different" we are from chimps.
I spent years messing around with cast iron pans (even restoring some beat up rusted ones).

My favorite cast iron pan is a pan that I literally polished SMOOTH with with a rotary sander.

It's impossible to build up a thick layer of seasoning on it, but it doesn't matter, because the surface is smooth. All you have to do is oil it before cooking. When you are done cooking, it's super easy to clean, and I have zero qualms about stripping all of the seasoning off the main bed using soap and water and whatever scrubber I want. The only important thing to remember is to lightly oil it before putting it away in the cupboard.

Being able to use soap on a smooth, non-stick, cast iron skillet is a game changer.

I also adopted this same approach when dealing with my carbon steel pans. I basically just don't even worry about seasoning anymore. Just make sure you oil the pan before you put it away.
The best part is when they even tell you what is going to be served even if you do pay for premium. No ads but most tracking remains. It's mostly about image
Because it is Marc Girardot and based on your response you didn't read it anyway.
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I contend that you are not a denier. If you are convinced that there is an abnormal trend, caused by human activity, but are not too concerned with the trend - you are simply not an alarmist. I too, wouldn't be concerned if cherry blossoms missed a season.

The problem IMHO is, the climate science community doesn't connect the dots between warming -> unstable weather -> widespread upheaval.
From a neighbor's point of view: former German nationalism seems to have transformed itself into European nationalism, which is sort of cute and hopefully harmless. But German newspapers seemed to be really deeply insulted about Brexit, much more so that, say, Polish ones.
>Whatever your end conclusion about whether this is a good move, it's a complex issue that balances a lot of things and is worthy of serious discussion.

Ok, so why don't you start the "serious discussion" instead of just complaining? What exactly "complex" about it?

All 50 states, DC, and Puerto Rico have immunization requirements for enrollment in public schools and many private schools and daycares have similar requirements. On the federal level the military has all sorts of immunization requirements and USCIS have immunization requirements for visa/green card applicants.

As a result the vast majority of adults are vaccinated against a whole host of infectious diseases so companies don't usually find it urgent to implement their own policies - vaccine preventable illnesses simply aren't an issue in American offices.

We, as a society, have overwhelmingly accepted immunization requirements as a general concept - there's not really much to discuss.
In my experience, as an employee (with no real skin in the game), doing the unglamorous jobs rarely gets rewarded with anything but more unglamorous work. You have to fight for your career and be willing to switch roles or jobs when you recognize when you've hit a glass ceiling. If I was told no to a project I (a) wanted to work on, (b) was qualified for, and (c) needed to be done, I would be looking for a new job. Whatever "social equity" I've given up for a new job has always been worth it.
This is not the case for Macs.
What’s interesting is that at the same time, even though he was at NeXT and Pixar, Apple already had the first, albeit very rudimentary, commercial remote work system, AppleLink with GEIS. This eventually evolved to QuantumLink for consumers (later known as AOL).

The official history has AppleLink starting up in 1985, just after Steve Jobs left, maybe an Apple old-timer would know more about that story.
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Misleading title: Home prices did not go up 17% in May, they went up 17% over the past year ending in May.
Mostly because it makes the poors even more poor and when you live in a democracy that's a hard feat to overcome because they're going to vote for candidates who promise to make them not more poor.
How can we bring down temperatures?
@dang can change it, though
I believe the cheaper blended olive oils cause a lot of problems. I now use only pure, high quality olive oil (from Kalamata, Greece, where I visited a couple of years back and saw them make (and drink) the stuff) and have experienced far less oil burning issues in all my pans.
I mean, outside of small-startup environments, who cares?
Do I have a moral responsibility to care? Maybe. Do I have a real reason to care outside of that tenuous-at-best ethical reason? If you believe the author's piece, no.
Season it with flaxseed oil and you won't need the fat.
Stripe Atlas, don't waste your time with anything else
If that would be a traffic light in front of the car, it would get bigger as a car moves towards it. Basic perspective knowledge. But it seems the system is not considering it or not putting enough weight on it.
Hetzner Cloud is adjusting the price for new CX11 and CPX11 instances starting on 1st September.

CX11 goes from 2,49€ to 3,49€ excl. VAT, CPX11 from 3,49€ to 3,99€.

New Floating IPs will also cost more from 1st August - 3€ instead of 1€.

This does not affect existing instances and existing floating IPs.

Source: Received an email from Hetzner as a customer with the affected instances.
Your example is completely different though. Considering neighboring water columns isn't like adding more to the top of the plate, it's like setting up an entirely different plate next door. Which of course doesn't affect the first instance at all.
That situation is in the 'good problems to have' category.
It's funny you have this nice paying job but it becomes a lull/drag idk shouldn't complain.
Pegasus/NSO spyware owner Novalpina to be liquidated after internal bust-up
>Why? Lockdowns have no effect on anything, it is proven beyond doubt these days. Plenty of studies show that now.

What?

https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(21)003...

>Twenty-seven studies analysed the relation between lockdown and the reproduction number, case growth rates and cases, and 18 out them (67%) found an association with their reduction. Five studies found lockdowns to be the most effective control measure found it to be the only measure reducing the reproduction number below one. In contrast, five studies found it to be the least effective measure studied

Right, really sounds like it's proven beyond doubt
"The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller 20-city home price index, released Tuesday, soared 17% in May from a year earlier on top of a 15% jump in April. The May increase was the biggest since August 2004."

This article is garbled, as far as I can tell. What I think they're saying is that from May 2020 to May 2021, prices rose by 17%. So that wouldn't be on top of the 15% from April 2020 to April 2021, it would be overlapping with most of it. It also wouldn't be a "May increase" but a yearly increase.

They're talking about it as if it were a monthly price rise (or an annualized monthly price rise to be generous to the author), but if it were, what does "a year earlier" have to do with it?

The worst possible interpretation is that the headline is saying that prices rose 17% faster this May as compared to last May (e.g. prices rose 0.6% last May but 0.7% this May) but that wouldn't be a story.

edit: also, wasn't May 2020 around peak covid terror time? I can't imagine people were looking to make long term investments.
I guess you could use eye movement as a password then.
Two highly opinionated egos fanned by their respective sycophants trash-talk each other.
My current catchphrase, which applies to SO MANY of our current popular narrative lies:

Not everything that is plausible is true.