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This dorm really is an abomination and the correct response here would've been for the university to say "thanks, but no thanks" to Munger's money with the stipulations he placed on it.

In following this story someone raised the comparison to University of Cincinnati's Sander Hall [1], which was actually less crowded than this. This now demolished building had problems from criminal offences to evacuations caused by people intentionally setting off fire alarms.

Evacuating this dorm in such cases is going to be a nightmare given the ratio of students to fire stairs and you know that's going to happen.

Architecture matters. The experience matters. Common areas, such as they are, with this many students will undoubtedly turn feral almost immediately. Putting people in windowless cells but defending it as "everyone gets their own room" is not the solution.

Billionaires reach an age when the only thing they value is putting their name on everything. It's why there are so many concert halls, colleges, etc named "Carnegie" (after Andrew Carnegie, the 19th century steel industrialist). You don't have to take their money. I'm sure UCSB isn't struggling for cash.

[1]: https://medium.com/@spncrtckrmn/the-rise-and-demise-of-ucs-s...
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Strange how often I encounter that on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28988495
> who support ephemeral discussions and/or an explicit data retention policies

Matrix's variant of that:
https://brendan.abolivier.bzh/matrix-retention-policies/

> In case that wasn't clear, in the XMPP model, the backlog for a room is kept on the room's server, not on every individual home server. In

Which makes your history dependent on a plethora of different servers. Result: very bad usability

> replicated on all servers

No, this is misleading. It is replicated between servers that have users participating in the conversation, i.e. know the conversation anyways

> which eats massive server resources

I'd like to have a source for that.
To my knowledge Matrix cryptographically verifying actions between servers (prohibiting various bad actions due to the decentralized nature of rooms in Matrix) and the implied DAG is really what needs resources
> It sounds to me like Munger is correct, and on average people would rather have a small private room with a fake window and lower rent and than a shared room with a real window and higher rent. I’m not sure why this particular structure has provoked so much more outrage than the previous ones.

There's something that feels off about this statement. It reads much like the articles that talk about how young millennials are "choosing" to live in pod houses/tiny homes when in reality they can't afford anything better. They are forced to live in these conditions which are then normalised by authors framing it as a free choice.
I agree entirely, you should comment on the RFC for this usecase (binding to database objects). It would be super helpful. :)
You didn't like it. Rather than being flippant yourself, you could engage, and use your words to explain why you didn't like it.
Hi there - Some customers in this situation who plan on using us in the future will pay via bank transfer, and they purposefully make their payment much large, like €10 or €20. This then gets entered on your account in credit and you're invoices will be deducted from it. If you choose to do this, please make sure to note your customer number in your bank/wire transfer. If you later decide to cancel your account, we'll refund you for any credit still left on your account. --Katie
True, but we are particularly nasty.
I'd say I got similar benefits living on a shared corridor (single kitchen, bathroom, etc. between 8 individual bedrooms). Sharing a bedroom still just seems bizarre.
Munger is one of the most expensive residence halls at Stanford. The rooms are quite spacious compared to EV and Rains, and all the finishes are much nicer.
That's some kind of protestant work ethic. It doesn't need to require days of busywork to be powerful. VS Code is more powerful, easier to configure, and more productive out of the box. The default feature VS Code offers make hundreds of lines of Emacs configs with dozens of custom plugins look laughable. Tramp mode is pure trash compared to remote editing in vs code. Stuff like syntax highlighting, intellisense, git integration, and other useful features are years ahead of Emacs too. Every language, including C, is supported better.
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In your kitchen, you will find a variety of equipment ranging from the refrigerators to the microwaves and toasters and people are increasingly reliant on them in contrast to the past. As these appliances work, they get broke too, needing a decent appliance repair in Coquitlam. It is completely normal and simple too since we can now engage specialists from appliance repair companies in a matter of minutes.
But he isn't paying for it. He's paying for a fraction of it.
Emacs' user base is probably larger than any time before.

Granted, market share dropped because many people are never exposed to Emacs (or vim), directly start with PyCharm, VSCode, etc.

The question is: Can emacs increase its market share by becoming more approachable? Probably yes, on the other hand since Emacs is so different to the User Interface expectations of 2021, it will always have a hard time.

I myself have been a hardcore vim user for now 20 years, in the last 2 years I have made an effort to learn Emacs and like it quite a bit. I am also a VS Code user at work.

> Why waste time on fiddling with configs?

Config fiddling is not specific to emacs. The time I spent fiddling with VSCode configs and plugins, or IntelliJ config. The difference is that with emacs I see the result of my fiddling in the form of emacs lisp code that I can store and easily transfer from computer to computer and for the IntelliJ stuff I had to take notes on what I changed where so I could reproduce it.
The top 1% heavily skews the mean, the UK's "median wealth per adult" is 165% of the US $132k vs $79k [1].

[1] https://www.credit-suisse.com/media/assets/corporate/docs/ab...
both the leading global advocate for Internet freedom and the leading violator of privacy on the Internet

Freedom and privacy are orthogonal.

You can have Freedom without privacy.
Yes, I pointed that out in the follow-up reply.

But "classicide" is not genocide. I'm not interested in defending authoritarian governments or state capitalist empires. I'm pointing out that it is extremely ill-informed to compare modern China (or even Maoist China) to the Nazis.
Readers of this thread might be interested in reading "My Life as a Quant" by Emanuel Derman.
I get frustrated with the reaction to New Yorker pieces on here. Yes, a New Yorker piece is going to be long and have backstory.

Their feature pieces are like novellas of non-fiction. Many get republished into books, that receive acclaim like the amazing Coming into the Country[1].

It doesn't skim as well as some business insider article that is just a list of bullet points, but it was never meant to.

https://www.amazon.ca/Coming-into-Country-John-McPhee/dp/037...

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1977/06/20/coming-into-th...
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I think even this won't work. Friendship just doesn't work in this system. Everyone is just looking for an opportunity to take whatever you have; even if they have more than you overall, people are greedy; they will find the one thing you have better and subconsciously try to take it or ruin if for you. If you have something that someone else wants, they will take it as soon as you turn your back. If they can't take it, they will get satisfaction from seeing you lose it.

I think unfortunately, the average person is just not altruistic enough to deserve friendship. For sure, they exist, but you won't find them. The actors are too good and too many; they will waste your life.
The question is simple: Are they building it with end-to-end encryption? If not, it deserves all the criticism. Security/privacy has to be part of the design and cannot be bolted on post-facto.
Finland is beautiful, one reason for that is very low population density (1/2 of US and 1/10 of other european countries).
Network externality in social networks creates a situation where success is almost automatic once you cross certain threshold. FB did the initial growth well, then it has been mostly coasting and buying and shutting down competition using their market power.
At Cambridge we had a great compromise in the form of a "double set", in a building built in 1825: two very small private bedrooms, which share a lounge. A floor of the building had two or three of these, which then share a kitchen.
> The point I'm trying to get across is that, insofar as a Beyond burger is bad, it's because of some specific ingredients or processes. It's not substantive to just post the ingredients, or make nebulous allusions to them being gross or un-nutritious.

But your point is not right though! When you cook at home you put in the stuff you want to eat, that tastes good and nourishes you, and that's the point of food.

But the ingredients in highly processed foods are not there to feed you, or even to make the products tasty. They're there to accommodate the production process (eg emulsifiers), to increase the product's transportability and shelf life (preservatives), to make the product more appealing to the senses (colorings, flavorings etc) and, more worryingly, to hook you with huge amounts of salt, fats and sugar, that you don't find in base ingredients like potatoes or beans.

These added ingredients replace and crowd out the actual food you need and want to eat. That's the point, yes? The Harvard article I quoted above says it clearly: "Not all but some of these foods tend to be low in fiber and nutrients".

That's because they must be high in ingredients that are not "fiber and nutrients" and are there to improve the ability of the product to be sold, but not to nourish you. Because the primary goal of such over-processed foods is not to feed you, but to sell well.

Am I getting my point across? Whether fake meats are nutritious or healthy is not the industry's concerns. So it will not optimise for those properties. The industry's concern is to sell its stuff. So it will optimise for that. And if that ends up feeding its consumers unhealthy shit, so be it. That's the same industry that's been selling over-procssed, unhealthy, environmentally damaging junk food made of meat for years. It's now doing the same thing with plants. Nothing has changed.
Completely off topic - but I love the aesthetic of the post. "Vanilla HTML" is a design that isn't used enough. It's something I tried to apply to my personal blog, but I think it's been done much better here.
> everyone who's sharp in one way is utterly clueless in another.

That should be an unofficial motto of HN.
As you've done well to compare, the problem you describe arises only when dealing with individuals, but not with the large companies that (I presume) OP implied.
No, it takes 1.5 billion, of which this guy furnishes 0.2. https://www.independent.com/2021/10/28/architect-resigns-in-...

Housing 4500k students it is about 333k per student. Which does seem incredibly expensive given the tiny and low-quality space per student, but I have no idea about building costs in general.
I'm trying to imagine an ideal day at work for myself and then during the interview process I ask questions to understand how far it's going to be from that ideal day working in this company.

I ask about meetings and their durations, performance reviews, bureaucracy levels, project management software, spyware used by the employer, the number of lines of code, and other potential red flags.
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The consume create dichotomy has worked for us. It’s interesting to see their reaction when I say ‘sure, you can use the iPad/computer, but no shows’

Sometimes it is whining and they go play outside or with toys because they don’t have the desire to use the screen for non-consumption, other times they play some games that have educational qualities or make digital art. Note: the TV is only for family movie night.
In the US religious context, "Catholic" and "Puritan" are mutually hostile, although neither is very keen on extramarital relationships.
Lovecraft. If we are talking about the people who expanded the genre, who opened us to new ideas, Lovecraft is right in the middle. Wells opened up scifi to the idea of interplanetary conflict, Lovecraft opened scifi to the concept of deep time. Dune would not have been Dune without Lovecraft opening the door to interstellar conflict across deep time.
I'm getting the hang of it, there are some helpful videos on YT already.

Basically I'm going through "Elements of programming interviews" (in Python), and filling in my gaps.
That's it. That's the reason. You can usually get Emacs key bindings (or a shallow approximation thereof) in most editors. But yeah, we're stuck, so I guess we just gotta double down.

It is fun when the young 'uns do a double take after you execute a particularly fancy macro. I do love that.
The Cambridge City Deal assigned £8M to install 5 new off road cycle lanes around the city, IIRC. I don't have the actual costs and delivered distances to hand (the data is online to be found somewhere), but we're talking about a few miles.
Yes, it takes work, it's like learning how to dance, draw, or paint. My emacs config is literally 64183 lines of elisp + 2356 snippets (just checked), so I'm not really considering a major editor switch at this point.

I've used VS code as well, it's fine for what it does and certainly much more beginner friendly.
>It would not really have been possible to build all this shopping in the city center, so there is the physical limitations. I think this is the main problem, that the cities outgrow themselves, and it is just so much cheaper and economical to build mega-malls instead of smaller centres for shopping and amenities.

But this is a matter of chosen-lifestyle.

This was really brought home to me talking to my mother-in-law (who lives in Nyköping). She is a keen walker and owns a bike - but when I ranted about the incredible scale of traffic in what is a small and should be an eminently walkable town, she said "How else can people buy their weekly groceries?"

The point of walkable towns (which these small and quite intimate towns in central Sweden could be), is that the center of town would be full of flourishing small and specialized grocery and other stores, and people would buy food from their nearby store, and keep the center of the town alive and busy.

Instead of this, people prefer to sit alone in their car and drive at a snail's pace in a polluting traffic-jam, to a stadium-sized parking-lot where anonymous super-grocery chains are located out of reach of the 'poors' who have no car, and therefore no means of getting there.
> That may be true in general, but I think what matters is that a screen provides much larger, richer and more complex information and experience than just about any other individual object in the physical world

Children pay attention to very small details. When they are looking at a plant with a spiderweb, they are looking at individual leaves, how the web connects to the plant, the spider, its movement, anything in the web, the colors, how it reacts to the wind, not to mention the 3d-ness of it all. Then they touch things and see how they react, training their fingers, hands, arms and rest of the body to make the exact movement they want, coordinating it with what the eyes see and what the skin feels.

A photo gallery in a smartphone is extremely dull in comparison, and that's why they can learn to use it immediately.
Sorry for misunderstanding. I see now that you meant autocompletion like LSP (rather than M-x minibuffer completion). Emacs could benefit from built-in LSP, I agree.

Emacs-devel are keen for it, and eglot.el is a good contender for inclusion.
FYI, ClickHouse supports querying PostgreSQL data [1], so it is quite easy to mix both analytical data from ClickHouse and relational data from Postgres in a single query.

[1] https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/engines/table-engines/integra...
That's a good point which hard to address adequately in a few sentences. I think, perhaps naively, that corporations would like to make more profit out of people actually feeling good using their services. You could say that being aligned with people's well-being is the long-term better profit, compatible even with the most cynical renditions of capitalism.
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Build complex system, when things starts to get messy move somewhere else. Rinse, repeat.
Can you have a career in finance as an engineer with Python and without C/C++ (professional) experience?

Your post really made think it, it's an attractive area to work in.
It looks like sound ideas, poorly implemented. A lot of these capabilities crop up in BEAM or Smalltalk. I do wonder if Erlang had better developer ergonomics we wouldn't have seen that instead of Python as a basis.
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I think Zuckerverse has shown that privacy doesn't exist in it. They could implement e2e but it'll be implemented in a way to so they can still sell away your privacy.
>> would you want to live in a city like NYC? Would you like to raise a family in those conditions?

A good example of this is San Francisco. Only 13% of the population is under 18. NYC is 21.
Ok. Let's assume it is a viable strategy. Recruiters, the people who actually make their living at this - who must make sure their children's teeth are fixed, their houses' leaks are fixed - have an incentive to use the best strategy available.

Why then are recruiters not using this strategy, do you think?
On the other hand, these magnificent creatures are basically genocidal maniacs, killing hundreds of millions of other living creatures on a daily basis, just to feed their largesse.
The whole thread is that taking an object from one simulation to another is not really the opposite of having distinct simulations: it just forces us to reconcile with what an object is.

The only way you can have separate simulations is if a person can define their own simulation. If you can't define "I won't let you bonk your coworkers on the head with a stick" then you're not in control of your simulation; you're not defining your own simulation, you're just running another instance of some agreed-upon single simulation. At that point, those are the same simulation. So a person setting up a space has to be free to define the behaviors of the objects in that space, otherwise it's not really their simulation.

If you take an object from one simulation to another, and it does not behave the same way in the two simulations, they're still the same object.

> Objets are not just here to mean something, but also to do something.

The fact that they do something does not identify them as objects. A pickaxe in Minecraft doesn't truly break anything. It plays a sound and deletes a cube. If you're in creative mode in Minecraft, it doesn't even increment your inventory. You can also delete a cube in a voxel editor like Magica Voxel. Is the pickaxe in your Minecraft game the same object as the delete button in Magica Voxel? Is the pickaxe in your Minecraft game the same object as the pickaxe in my Minecraft game? Obviously no. They all do the same thing, but they're not the same object.

The only thing necessary to satisfy "moving an object from one simulation to another" is that they be provably of one distinct identity and not be duplicable.
Compare this to 3Dconnexion, a maker of expensive 3D mice for CAD software. They rubberized their mice but the rubber decayed after a couple of years (spent $200+ in the 00's and got a gooey piece of junk 3-4 years later). For a decade, they've been ignoring customers and saying the issue was fixed in a later version.
You'd expect more intelligent people to prefer a tool that doesn't require days of tuning to start being remotely usable though
"is there a place on earth is not owned by anyone?"

Just tell me what place that is and I will sell it to you so you can own it :)
> artificially beautified

What's the difference between artificially beautifying and genuinely beautifying?
wow, I'm rather surprised that I've had 4 of these, and have enjoyed them. likely not enough to try the other 21.
Looking at pictures online, the Stanford one seems to have windows.

The Michigan one doesn't have windows in the bedroom, but does have windows in the apartment (shared kitchen/living room of 7 bedrooms, i.e., common area.).[1][2]

The 3d render of the apartment in this article doesn't have any windows at all, anywhere! The windows in common areas they seem to be talking about are study spaces outside the apartment.

[1] -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iRaug6kB14
[2] -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtkALW6Q2_A
>if people start to come mostly to me about technical questions over other people in the team, e.g. "how should I write this?", then I'm probably hitting a point where I should move on.

Why is this be a problem for you? Doesn't this imply you are the most knowledgeable in the team (technically)? Isn't this a good thing for a developer?
Metaverse to the rescue! Soon everyone will lay in their capsules with oculus on and walk the endless green pastures!
Motorised traffic, and cars in particular, are prioritised over non-motorised traffic everywhere I've been in the world, including Stockholm. The problem is cultural. You see, motorised traffic wins by default, unless there are strict rules to stop that happening. If you think about a street full of pedestrians, some will be quicker and stronger than others, but it's not OK for them to use their might to take priority and get in front. In fact, we tend to do the opposite and prioritise people who are less able when we can.

But that's not true on the roads. We teach children to literally fear for their lives around cars. Right now a child is being taught to give way to cars because if they don't the car will kill them. Vehicles with enclosed cabs like cars are the worst because the drivers are completely removed from the road. Their experience is not human. They can't express themselves, which leads to anger and road rage. They can't feel the speed they are travelling at or the effort it is taking. And we just let them assume priority. They've taken the roads for themselves and they are not going to give them back.
The worst option is sleeping on the streets. Quite common in California.

This building is a huge improvement over that baseline.
This isn’t the only residence on UM campus! The rest are “normal”. And what you said doesn’t align with the good reviews the pace gets, even compared to “normal” housing.

And to be honest, we’re always going to have to “force” people into some sort of living condition. There are more people than ever going to higher education, so people will have to accept either smaller living spaces, denser construction, higher costs, or longer commutes to school - space is (unfortunately) a rival good, and giving everybody a large dorm is likely not viable.
Yep, and commonly also a loan from parents for downpayment to buy.
Yes, but in React for instance, you could always do something "dirty" if you want. Like adding a class to some random parent element when a modal is showing from within deep down in the component tree, and remove on unmount, and also trigger a google analytics event.

In elm, the GA event is a side effect, so it has to come from your update function, using a port out to JS. So it has to be triggered by the same conditions showing your modal. Sometimes that leads to that logic being duplicated.

And the modal either the same to trigger some js code to set the class, or set a value on your main model somewhere and edit the render function of that specific element to take the new classname into account (so have to modify some other part of the code).

Of course, it leads to maintainable code with little surprises. But at a cost of a stricter way to do it.