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Architects needs to be paid, something something, therefore we build bedrooms without windows. Sounds a bit like the underpants gnome reasoning to me.

I would understand if someone crunched the numbers and after a long and detailed reasoning they would have come up with this solution as the only one which can potentially work. But as far as I understand that is not what happened here. The donor has aspirations to be an architecture too and stipulated that this is the only way his money can be spent. No deviations from the plan are acceptable.
“This is a window into the precarious reality of people who seldom appear in historical sources that were written almost exclusively by men belonging to the elite, and who as a result risk remaining invisible in the great historical accounts,” - declared Director General Gabriel Zuchtriegel - “It is a case in which archaeology helps us to discover a part of the ancient world which we would otherwise know little about, but which is nonetheless extremely important. What is most striking is the cramped and precarious nature of this room, which was something between a dormitory and a storage room of just 16 sqm, which we can now reconstruct thanks to the exceptional state of preservation created by the eruption of AD 79. It is certainly one of the most exciting discoveries during my life as an archaeologist, even without the presence of great ‘treasures’ - the true treasure here is the human experience, in this case of the most vulnerable members of ancient society, to which this room is a unique testimony.”
So it's

O -> SLA

KR -> SLO

KPI -> SLI
> because someone somewhere ought to eventually correct it

After what they did to this man, they should be that someone. Never had a lower opinion on Wikipedia than today.
Did you get your architecture degree in 1890 as well? High density human habitats are infinitely better with modern technology. Central AC and dynamic electrical lighting, for starters.
Psychology as a discipline might recommend just a little bit more nuance.
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Platform loyalty in gaming has always struck me as an odd phenomenon. You don't hear people raving about netflix or hulu being superior, but for some reason there is a huge fanbase for Steam itself.

I mean, I don't mind steam, but I'd really prefer to have software that I purchase not check with a gate keeping entity before launching itself.
> 2. All the beds are at the back of the room, essentially "walled in" on 3 sides.

The rooms are 10x7 so these beds would need to be twin longs like (all?) US dorms.
Sounds like something a boomer who listened to too much Nancy Reagan would say.
As somebody who went to UCSB, has lived in LA, TX, NYC, NOVA, etc. you cannot compare the price of the average house in flyover country to housing next to UCSB
Why? What is the benefit of upgrading to Windows 11? It seems like literally more of the same.
Do you also not learn new programming languages for fear of not using them on the next project? Your words are really aggressive. Try to have a more open mind.
I think this falls into the "arms race" trap, though. If you can make an href invisible via CSS, then the scraper can certainly be written to understand CSS, and thus filter out the invisible hrefs..
> anything weird can make you been considered an enemy (the same would apply to a satellite phone)

Keep in mind that anyone who has access to the mobile operator can easily determine that you're doing this, so make sure to take proper precautions there too. Use a brand new phone that's not associated to you in any way from a location that can't be correlated with you, so that if they review call logs and see your suspicious long-lasting data calls they won't be able to find you.
That's an uncharitable and incorrect view of what I'm saying. There's TONS of right ways to build cities and communities, and ALL of them are not car-DEPENDENT. Whether some people want to use cars is a more fuzzy and complex question, and there's definitely a place for them and lots of good arguments for the benefits of cars, especially for specific cases. But there's no good case for building communities that are fundamentally car-DEPENDENT where you CANNOT live there other than by complete car reliance.

It's not about subjective tastes. Objectively, car-dependent places are financially and environmentally unsustainable. It's a matter of scale. Some individuals can live car-focused lives within a system that is not entirely car-dependent, and that can be fine. Cars can have a place. But if everything is car-dependent, we get non-resilient places that are not economically productive enough to maintain the massive amount of infrastructure that car-dependent communities have.

https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme

Subjective tastes are like choosing the color for painting a house. It's not subjective to notice simple facts like that cars take up orders of magnitude more space than all other forms of transit.

You are completely right that many people want cars. But people also want to be free of traffic jams. There is no actual way to build a system in which everyone has all that they want when our wants are incompatible. These things have to be balanced.

A lot of people might want to live in beautiful wilderness locations, but if we let everyone build homes there, the wilderness goes away. Saying that it's wrong to ruin the wilderness with suburban sprawl doesn't in the slightest deny the fact that many people like living in the wilderness and countryside. We simply can't all live in beautiful wilderness. But we COULD all live in non-car-dependent walkable places. So, while living in a special wilderness or ocean-side cliffs and so on is necessarily scarce and elite, it's possible to build enough human-scale walkable places for everyone who wants to live that way, and it's a tragedy and market-failure that we don't do that — and THAT is the point of the original article.
Where would you construct this to solve the housing problem within a reasonable distance of UCSB?
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Much better analogy than drugs seems like our fear of things like fats in our diet. Regardless, this is pretty fluffy.
At least it is less viral, and hopefully a little subtler. Most of the time, not always, I'm not aiming at a vapid rant, but trying to refine my intuition and understanding of things. I've been thinking a lot about computing, and after seeing 2-3 eras and their marketing cycles I got to wonder what was the point of all this and how much is really needed.
> I ask Munger’s supporters to please cite references to support their implicit assertion that humans don’t need natural light in their living spaces

I'm not in favor of this project, and I've posted in other comments that it also feels like plutocratic insanity, but I admit I'm becoming more open to the architectural plan in general after reading additional information.

I don't believe anyone is arguing "humans don’t need natural light in their living spaces". The proposed Munger dorm actually has a lot of living spaces with natural light, it's just that these are common spaces, with the goal being that the dorm room itself is primarily just for sleeping.

Not saying one needs to agree with that thesis (I don't think I do), but one should at least argue about what the proposal actually is.
I understand your point, but I just want to say that electric cars are well beyond 1% in markets where they are for sale.
15 years ago Wikipedia didn't supply the info in Google's (and other search engines') Knowledge Graph panels, and didn't tell Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa, and other voice assistants what to say in response to queries. Wikipedia's and Wikidata's dominance in this respect is only like to become stronger for the foreseeable future.
Economist John Cochrane has a good critique: https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2021/11/woke-week.html .
> Seems to me that HN users in this thread and UCS students aren't able to look past those tradeoffs.

It seems like HN users (and architects) aren't even considering that those tradeoffs exist. It's like they want to design a building without any regard to land use, cost or how many students it serves.

I see no acknowledgement that:

1. UCSB is located on a narrow coastal plain, where land is at a premium.

2. Giving every bedroom a window implies blowing up the surface area/volume ratio of the building (so build it taller or build 2x or 3x as many buildings).

3. A bunch of long, skinny buildings requires more land (and probably more $) to house the same number of students as one borg cube.

Additionally, much of the criticism fails to acknowledge the actual design of the building.

Yes, each bedroom does not have a real window, but bedrooms are grouped into suites of 8, with a study area, kitchen and bathrooms... and that common space does have real windows!. An additional common area on each floor, shared among 8 suites, spanning the width of the building, has a wall covered with real windows!.

I agree that the borg cube is ugly, but I'd like to see the proposed alternative. The alternative needs to house the same number of students on the same amount of land and cost roughly the same amount. I don't think you can do the first two without building something 35 stories tall (more than twice the height of Storke Tower). And then you'll get the predictable comments about the "Manhattanization" of SB.
yes, giant blocks of silicon to divine the future
> Munger said he based the dorm’s design on the Unité d'Habitation in Marseille by Le Corbusier.

And in typical LeCorb style: it’s a top-down design for little people who have no souls, to live like the people in charge think they ought. Personal space is unimportant; privacy is an afterthought, because your life is not important except as part of a unified collective, which we, the elites, will manage to our own ends.

Glorified common areas — dark and puny individual cells.
Hey, no argument from me there.
>It's somewhat off topic but why do you say this? Is it the 'progressive' issue or the 'web app' issue.

It's the Google issue. They've been shoving these APIs down our throats trying to make it happen solely to build up the Chrome ecosystem. Firefox does not and will not ever support them, and they will never become an actual web standard, although Google has tried to present it as such.
Which means if they don't. I'll be really worried. But also, I don't worry anymore because I'm not afraid of the future.
It is super bizarre how against this the author is, considering they literally put no effort to assume the best intentions.

A huge component of being a human doctor is talking to humans. When you’re a doctor this isn’t just a thing on the side, this is a major component of what you do.

being reminded that instead of “morbidly obese” vs “person suffering from sever obesity” is not like a bad thing.

Any way, I just find the tone of this article bizarre. They’re acting like something is being taken away from all of us, even though this os literally just for doctors, and it’s about sort of negative terms anyways that doctors may use without realizing that there may be a more effective way to communicate the same thing.

Edit: tl;dr acting like this is about wokeness when it’s not
To me, even with good trust, the naked "let's talk" or "team meeting at X:XX" communications tend to come across like a dead canary.

I've had good trust with most of my managers but since they'd usually include a few words to indicate what they'd like to talk about, then the rare cases where that context is missing tends to imply that it's something too sensitive to mention over e-mail or chat. That's almost always bad news.
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Okay but now you're just making things up about him that he never said or implied. You are welcome to have whatever opinion of him you want, but it has nothing to do with his quote about preferring to be wealthy and unpopular over being popular but not wealthy.
> if it's actually spent wisely.

Precisely.

A spending bill is like any other kind of investment: for it to pay back, it has to be made carefully and thoughtfully, and must be watched over like milk on fire until it actually bears fruit.

That's what the private sector and private capital does best, because in that space, failure spells death.

For a govt, failure means nothing - to quote PT barnum - there's a sucker (or taxpayer in that case) born every minute. All you have to do is survive the next election cycle, and doing that these days has pretty much nothing to do with how well you actually invest taxpayer dollars and everything to do with how good a PR firm you hire.

Sadly, the US govt (like most govts) are neither good at investing nor at babysitting their investments: they are one of the most wasteful human organization on the planet, both unwittingly (bureaucracy and thousands of federal employees who serve no actual purpose whatsoever) and willingly (corruption and pork).

The trillion dollar that is being spent in this bill will neither improve the infrastructure of the country, nor go to the pockets of people who need it to help them lift themselves out of poverty.

It will just be wasted, like most of the rest of your tax money.

Oh, and - minor detail - it's a trillion dollar the government doesn't have.

It is therefore going to take on additional debt.

But, I mean, at this point who's counting anymore?

https://www.usdebtclock.org/
In addition to the fact that MS had previously said Windows 10 would be the 'last' Windows
Amazing, I just read this article, then pulled up reuters and saw this... if it wasn't real news, I'd think it was targeted advertising.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/least-8-dead-many-injured-t...
> that means you already have a communication breakdown and mistrust has already blossomed

This is too all-or-nothing. It's a business; things can happen that are nothing to do with trust. Not everything can be avoided by better relationship.
I agree with him that Renode is by far the best tool around. But I haven't yet managed to add support for my boards yet. Neither to qemu ditto. Renode has much more boards supported than qemu though.

Also, lvgl is a very good toolkit.
But in some cases it is also the reason why anti-cheat software is such a pain and for multiplayer it sucks :-/
I've worked with a colo in the US that hosts Raspberry Pis and they required that you have a PoE hat, so no sending in a power supply.
The average cost of a condo unit in the state of California is around 400 000$ :https://homeguides.sfgate.com/california-condo-vs-house-9255... https://la.curbed.com/2019/1/23/18194592/los-angeles-condos-...

Including the cost of land, for a full condo. It would correspond to a construction price of a condo of ~300 000$.

A dormitory room is going to cost less than a condo.
SPF. What could go wrong?
If you’re near Naples, I recommend visiting the site! You can get a tour guide, but just walking around the massive grounds and exploring is fun by itself.
I agree… and to amplify the point, pressing the physical button, in addition to kicking off a needed wipe, also brings the adjustment right up unobtrusively on the screen in case it’s needed.

And then, not that anyone needs to touch the screen normally (because auto mode as you say) but if they aren’t all triggered by such a possibility and want to, those multiple layers of on-screen UI (that the haters are always imagining having to click through) simply are not there because it’s already been surfaced.

A driver can even learn to use it with muscle memory without looking, since it comes right up in the same closest corner of the screen with the same layout every time. Again not that anyone would ever need to because auto mode.

I don’t know why people have to have such strong opinions on things they know nothing about.

OK, got a little excited ranting there :-)
Toronto’s deep lake water cooling (DLWC) is the world’s largest
This monstrosity totals at around 1.68 million square feet [1], which places the cost at around $900/sq ft.

New York City for various reasons has some of the highest construction costs in the world. Residential high-rise construction costs are estimated at $562/sq ft [2]. Obviously there is variance in building costs based on the quality of finishings, ceiling height, facilities, etc. I guarantee you, you'd prefer to live in a modern residential high-rise pretty much anywhere in the country rather than in these windowless cells (sorry, "rooms").

Why is this so high? Doesn't UCSB already own the land so this isn't a factor?

There are a ton of problems with this building. I mean windowless is fine until the AC fails or is inadequate or there's just a power failure.

These are I believe arranged in suites of 10 that are "private" with some common facilities. 10 is rather high. I know people who had a similar arrangement with groups as small as 4 and it was a problem.

This just strikes me as pure ego from someone who is never told "no" who wants to enforce his view on the world so that even more sycophants can tell him how amazing he is. And then there's the university that doesn't care about anything other than the donation check clearing.

Student housing simply shouldn't be this way.

[1]: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/uc-santa-barbara-mega-dorm-mung...

[2]: https://www.constructiondive.com/news/construction-costs-in-....
more but not much more.
Fun fact: the name “Amtrak” was a last-minute change. The company was planned to be named “Railpax” as a pun on the industry abbreviation for “passenger” (PAX) and “Pax Americana”.
230 could be limited to apply only if content creators are natural persons and accredited academic institutions*. There should be no inhibition for natural persons to share information and their opinions.

However, incorporated content producers are often fronts for political parties, wealthy private donators and foreign actors to amplify their opinion. They are quite resourceful and influental already and don't need further amplification by allowing social networks and news aggregators to share their content for them.

Edit: The term "academic institutions" should be understood to also include government archives open to the public and content from museums and the like.
Before the late 90's it WAS about games being optimized. The earlier, the more optimization was required.

An example I like to use is Elite on the BBC Micro computer. They fit 8 galaxies of 250 stars each with a planet with its own economy, and a space station, along with real-time 3D wire-frame space flight with hidden line removal in less than 32KB of RAM on a 2 MHz 8-bit 6502-based system. It was incredible for its time. For me, it was more incredible than DOOM when it came out. I found Quake a lot more impressive than DOOM.

The second version written for the IBM PC was coded by hand in assembly language by the same programmer who coded Rollercoaster Tycoon, mentioned by the OP above.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(video_game)
I think it depends on the user and hardware.
Many years ago I had a laptop with an AMD GPU and CPU, it was new like 1 year old when AMD drop support for the driver. If I wanted decent compositing on Linux I had to stay with an older kernel and Xorg version so I used old Ubuntu LTSes and debian at that time. And i decided to never use AMD, I got an Intel+NVIDIA PC, but now it seems NVIDIA is the one with shit drivers, and I don't change my hardware often so I will continue using my GTX-970 as many years it will hold.
We need to build the freaking nuclear plants and make hydrogen as an energy storage when not in peak.
The uniqueness of Snowflake comes from decoupled compute and storage with data lying at rest on object storage. This was very innovative at the time. The approach is being copied by more or less every competitor in the analytic space so over time it's harder to describe it as unique.
That's not in any way what he is saying there. He is saying open space on a top floor is great and one idea is to make that a common space.
Or salt and high blood pressure.
What you're seeing isn't supply and demand, it's prices given to you by people who want you to decline.
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For many years I was part of a bandwidth cooperative. We had a cabinet and a fat pipe and a bunch of sysadmins who wanted a place to keep their stuff. Early on it was all 1U or 2U systems. But later there was enough demand for Mac Minis that we dedicated a shelf to them.

It didn't make much sense from a professional syadmin's perspective. But for a Mac user who already had their little project on a Mini and wanted to get it off their home bandwidth, it made sense to them in that it was one simple, incremental change. I imagine the market here is similar.
Or maybe not. It was Navy training that destroyed TMI-2.

Instead of worrying about the loss off coolant, the operators worried about the reactor "going solid", which is slang for "no steam bubble is left in the primary coolant circuit". This made sense on the small Navy reactors they were trained on, but on the large land based ones. Arguably, it never made sense to take a submarine engine and turn it into a power plant.
Ok, so I assume you are saying it's good crypto is having bad news. May I ask why?
sir, this is a technology forum
Do you remember the name of the Linear Algebra text?
> I ask Munger’s supporters to please cite references to support their implicit assertion that humans don’t need natural light in their living spaces

I would ask the opposite: what's the evidence that it's harmful to have a window in the living room but not the bedroom? To my knowledge most laws requiring windows in bedrooms comes from antiquated fire safety standards, not any sort of natural need to sleep close to a window.

For what it's worth I keep the blackout blinds in my bedroom closed and the blinds in my living room open. I haven't died an unnatural death yet.
The Audio Signal Processing for Machine Learning [1] youtube playlist is a pretty excellent course on sound processing for ML. In particular, the MFCC video. [2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCwMQJnKk2c&list=PL-wATfeyAM...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_SH2nfbQZ8
What bad behavior? He says what he thinks instead of bs'ing around and has huge track record of good decisions including his very high rated campus buildings.

We need more of that.
Given that narcissism is fueled by past trauma and by beliefs of having greatness being unrecognized, that sounds like the exact opposite of helpful.
You can attach a big ass SSD to this and still pay just $6 a month. This is unique I think.

I wonder how they would feel if you add your custom electronics to the Pi's GPIO connector.
> Similarly, when learning about "priest holes" (places to hide a Catholic priest who came, presumably to lead mass, to your home) my sympathy was with those hiding. It never crossed my mind that they might effectively be plotting the otherthrow of the established order, only that they were oppressed and hunted down.

As a kid we learned all about the priest holes and catholic persecution at my catholic school. Then when out with my parents I saw a large monument in a park to a group of people who where burned at the stake for openly practising their religion.

More catholic persecution I thought. We're obviously the good guys being picked on by the bad guys.

I was shocked to discover that it was protestant martyrs who'd been burnt at the stack by catholic fanatics.

Before Guy Faulks the country had already flipped backwards and forwards between catholic and protestant absolute rulers.

That was a wake up call for a young me that there are very few "good guys" involved in anything to do with absolute politics or absolute religion.

Anyone you can't vote out is a tyrant, revolutionary or not. They will do horrific things simply because they can and no one can stop them.

Absolute power corrupts absolute rulers absolutely.
Wikipedia is quite open about other people's mistakes. But when it's their mistake, it's another matter.