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You know what would be 10x better for society? Not have a society where half of every city is compromised of parking lots.

The car and parking lots problem is a huge part issue in the US in particular. Not only is the whole concept incredibly bad environmentally, in terms of CO2 of course, but also emissions and other problems like cities being hotter and causing water management issues.

These parking lots are also a huge economic problem a symptom of the reason why so many towns are functionally broke. Encouraging cheap building for box stores or fast food restaurants with huge parking lots represents and incredibly uneconomic proposition and is losing cities money. Lots of infrastructure cost for very little in terms of property tax.

Not to mention that such a development pattern makes city centers less attractive, and that is exactly the place where cities could be making actual money. Often is actually the poorer denser areas of the city that financially support the sprawl of the richer part of the city.

So instead of plastering solar panels all over parking-lots ever effort should be made to eliminate the parking lots themselves. Infill development has to be done, and the city needs to support it with by relaxing their often borderline sociopathic zoning orders (along with a host of other harmful regulation).

Changing the development pattern would save far more energy then plastering parking lots with solar panels will ever do.

And not only will it help for the environment, things like the housing crisis in the Bay Area (and other places could be solved or at least massively impacted). Talking all the under utilized commercial zone property in the Bay Area and zoning it for mixed-use could potentially add 1000000s of housing units in the 'missing middle' segment.

See this talk on the Bay Area by City designer Peter Calthorpe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUtdFbK4YG4

The organization 'Strong Towns' has made this one of its central issues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em7nqDqQ8oM

For some more details on the economics Joe Minicozzi: The Cash Flow of Urbanism:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFC_Q4WQKVk

So what I end up with is that inside of cities you shouldn't have parking lots hardly at all, and outside of the urban environment you might as well just put them onto some empty space. Putting solar panels on parking lots will just make those parking lots an even more persistent and harder to remove in the future.

So remove the parking lot, don't buy the solar panels, invest that money in a trolley bus instead. It will be better for the environment and the city.
Many of us who like learning and view educational positively should read this: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-toward-the...
Or the silicon type of material that is the on/off button develops a tiny crack that lets water in and ruins the insides.
Scoped down to the problems that nix solves, I get the same vibes using nix as I did in the early days of docker. It solves painful problems, with a community and suite of tools large enough to be useful, and people who have paid the initial mental investment are happily using nix in lots of ways today.

But when you widen that scope to incorporate the rest of nix's warts, I'm not sure whether the project carries the requisite momentum to become a ubiquitous tool. I hope it does! The project has lofty goals and it really deserves a layer of porcelain to soften its usability and bring its benefits to more developers, because the actual, pragmatic results it delivers border on magic sometimes, and I wish more people were able to experience it. I don't blame people for avoiding that ramp-up time investement. I tried, gave up for many years, and only in the past six months or so devoted enough time to use it proficiently without training wheels. Not everyone has that luxury, nor should we in the nix community expect people to pay down enormous initial learning debt.

I began freelance consulting at the start of the year, and interesingly, more than one of my engagements turned into "let's solve this with nix", which is both surprising and encouraging. If the nix community can trim down the harsh thorns that encircle the language and tools (and provide rock solid learning materials), there's an actual chance that nix could really bloom in the near future.
> The panels easily pay for themselves over 30 years, so - yes.

But do they cover their opportunity cost?
How Thieves Are Stealing Hyundais and Kias with Just a USB Cable
You typically have to implement those optimizations yourself, and most people don’t. It’s outside the scope of the renderer in most cases for it to decide what should or should not be rendered. As a result, immediate mode GUI, while fast to develop, typically really kills a battery life on mobile.
IBM i, Unisy ClearPath and OS/2200, related offerings, now you can feel pedantic and differentiate which of them are proper mainframes, which are mini, microcomputers or whatever.

We are discussing technicalities here, the whole point started about Linux isn't the only way to have access to such called "modern" Web tools.

Technically they exist in any UNIX environment, mainframes (or whatever you feel like calling them), and Windows.

Missing stuff like fork () doesn't even matter for most of those runtimes.
https://www.usenix.org/publications/login/fall2016/atlidakis
I don’t play a lot of games anymore, but the last one I spent a considerable amount of time with was Stardew Valley. And I couldn’t believe it was made by just one guy.
Philip Jarmain captureed an echo of Detroit’s former opulence in a series of photographs titled American Beauty:

https://www.kostuikgallery.com/project/american-beauty/
If you want to learn more about these murals this might be of interest - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000pm01
So this lawsuit is to try and force the release of some documents that might be embarrassing.

However, if the lawsuit is won, I would think it very unlikely the documents aren't rewritten 'on national security ' grounds before release.

So nothing will be learned either way.
> Some times however you'll want 15' clearance so that you can drive delivery trucks to the stores under them.

Not a problem. Solar canopies can be built 20' off the ground. (A grocery store near me has one.)
Ha I wonder who will take that bait :-D

I love both Bourbon and Scotch[0], but despite similarities in their ingredients they’re distinct enough in flavour enough that I don’t think a direct comparison is possible or makes sense. It’s weird that this largely comes from a couple of differences (using new vs used oak barrels, and climate where the whisk[e]y is aging). I will grant that Bourbon is a bit more versatile though - there’s a lot of wonderful cocktails that it really works well in, I’ve yet to see a scotch cocktail I like!

[0] - and American Single Malt, and Rye and Corn Whiskey
> Don't know what keeps him going. A desire to see FreeBSD fix those defaults?

And when they do fix any of those things, what is his reaction going to be? So far it's been "it took them so much time to fix this, let's keep that in mind".

The point of it is clearly to convince people to use OpenBSD instead of FreeBSD.
I ordered a longboard on amazon and the shipping came from costco. checked costco and the price was 25$ cheaper there.
It's only two or three conductors, at a lower current, and they're significantly larger. It doesn't seem too crazy that the AC cables hold up better.

I got a Razer once, and the power brick's integrated cable came with pre-frayed insulation, no extra charge. That laptop had tons of hardware bugs, too.
Or just name your constants.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(programming)
Are the current releases of NetBSD still fast enough for decade-old x86 machines, e.g. Intel Atoms? Or is this distro also slowly adding complexity with every release? Usercase would be either console-only or console with framebuffer graphics.

I'm a long-time Tiny Core Linux user (loving it!), but I often think about trying out NetBSD more seriously. The documentation seems superb; apparently, it is not hard to reconfigure some bits of the kernel even as more of a "lean systems hobbyist". From what I have read, it is quite convenient to set up as a RAM-booted system, just like Tiny Core.

NetBSD (probably 7.0 or 6.1) was a pleasant experience for me on a Thinkpad T42 some 6-7 years ago.
My last company, I had offices with doors, conference rooms with glass doors, and collaboration spaces in between. It worked very well.
WalMart lobbies hard to make sure all their buildings have basically zero value as it reduced property taxes. They will put up the cheapest possible building and invest absolutely nothing into it. They deprecate it very quickly. Investing on solar panels on the roof or the parking lot just means more investment in a specific location that they don't care about.
(I'm the author of the article)

I've written about requirements for docu-tools
https://www.innoq.com/en/articles/2022/01/principles-of-tech...

In short: You need text + diagramming tools. Go as light as possible, start small (draw.io and Markdown/AsciiDoc). Use high-end modeling tools (like Enterprise Architect or ArchiMate only in larger teams and/or with formal documentation requirements (20+ devs). Have a look at docToolchain.
That was exactly my point. And fusion can't probably be cheaper than "coal plant on free coal" for the reasons i have explained. So nah, it's not going to happen. Too late.
That's exactly what my dad takes, but half that dosage for NMN and Resveratrol because of cost. He already takes metformin for diabetes in a higher dosage, and prescription fish oil (Vascepa).

But what's more important, I believe, is social connections. He claims the concoction has given him more energy, and this month alone he has traveled three times. He's got a girlfriend now. I see him in a better mood, but I'm sure it's because of his increased social connectedness.

For all we know, David Sinclair might be running the long con on us, and NMN might be worthless or even deleterious. I'm personally skeptical, and I do not take it because it is hypothesized that it may speed up the growth of existing cancers in the young, if I recall correctly.

Don't forget daily moderate exercise. It works better than any supplement for many issues of aging.
The inertia at big tech companies is likely from the overwhelming weight of the business itself. No one wants to push out updates lest it upset the finally tuned business machinery.

A UI change can impact usage. Which can impact revenue. Which can impact stock price.

The end users for large tech companies are essentially shareholders and investors.
Because that makes it that those parking lots will stay there for 25 more years. You want to remove these parking lots systematically from any kind of urban or even subburban environment as soon as possible. Not invest more into them. That is a far more worthy investment.
I see your sentiment at r/antiwork but allow me to challenge that: Bare minimum to not get fired and doing what is expected of you are different things. There is work you accepted when you get hired and then if you fail to live up to that and all you do is just enough that the cost of replacing you isn't worth it, I think that is what the article is about.

If you are doing hourly type low paid work I get it. You get what you pay for and all. But salaried workers get paid whatever they are able to negotiate. Still labor in exchange for money but only if you show results.

Another way I will put it is, business is a competition right? Each employee is a competitive advantage to their employer, any business needs a certain portion of workers to do more than bare minimum to not get fired or else it would end up providing service equivalent to that.

I am all for workers rights but this shitty attitude sucks. Just about any place I try to do business at I practically have to beg them to take my money and then smile as retail workers, customer support,etc... shit on me. Because they don't give a shit how their laziness affects others other than their employer. No pride in their work.

This is the difference between the US these days and countries where it is offensive to tip people because they take pride in their work and paying them extra to do their job is saying they are lazy and lack self-respect as a default.

Work set/scheduled hours. Don't overwork yourself but come on! Give a shit and do more than what it takes to not get fired because you take pride in what you do? Because you do it day in and out and that is what you leave behind, your story!? Because someone raised you to respect yourself and act honorably?

sigh what is the point. Might as well talk gibberish in this "us vs them" society.
Big Tech Has a Patent Violation Problem
I don't live in the US, but you guys post HOA horror stories frequently enough. How many times have we heard "I go the HOA that way, so they stuck it to me here, and here, and here". Maybe that's a bear not worth poking.
There is a danger that we could be entering another dark age. A lot of modern media is locked behind DRM. If future generations cannot access these materials due to the DRM then they may consider us living in a dark age.
Actually parking is dictated by the number of people they expect during peak shopping seasons.

They don't want to lose a single shopper because they make most of their money on those days.

If people couldn't park they would go elsewhere and that would be the end of that business.

Strong towns has a very myopic view on the world and they should not be used as a source.
Why? There is a false moral equivalence here. Kids in class are different to adults doing teaching.
We used to run it in the geophysics department of the university for workstations.

Also on Jump Hosts with a weird cpu architecture, so that you could not do much with them
Yes just browsing quickly I see almost nothing that applies to my computers, and I have used Linux on all my laptops and desktops for about 20 years.

Of course, it is pretty certain that there are some combinations of hardware where Linux may have problems.

For example:

"Under Linux, setting multi-monitor configurations especially using multiple GPUs running binary NVIDIA drivers can be a major PITA."

In this sentence, the only point that could be true is "multiple GPUs", because I have not tested simultaneously "multiple GPUs" with "multi-monitor".

I use "multiple GPUs" for computation with CUDA, and there are no problems there.

I have been using 3 or 4 monitors with an NVIDIA GPU and with their Linux driver for very many years and nothing could be simpler. Even when the monitors have different sizes and resolutions, it is trivial to arrange them in any layout you want with the dialog box of the NVIDIA settings program, in a few seconds, which will be remembered later. There exists no PITA.

Another supposed issue "30bit displays are unusable under Linux".

This is certainly not true. Since 2015, I have used only 30-bit monitors.

The only problem that I have encountered with 30-bit monitors was not related to Linux, but to Java. There are certain commercial programs that have installers written in Java and those installers crash on 30-bit displays, both on Windows and on Linux.

This is an old Java bug, which has not been solved for many years. So much for the myth of writing in Java for running the program anywhere.

Maybe some of the other complaints have been applicable somewhere, but I do not recognize any of them. For example Firefox and Chrome have always worked for me on Linux at least as well as on Windows. Both have ugly behaviors or bugs that I dislike, but those misfeatures are the same on Windows as on Linux.

The only complaint that I recognize is with NVIDIA Optimus on laptops, because some years ago I had to spend a couple of days with a laptop until succeeding to make Optimus work under Linux.
Imo, indie game devs don’t get nearly the amount of mainstream attention they get as artists. So many of them do everything on their own, from the art and music to, of course, the coding.

That kind of cross-discipline talent is so hard to find.
> why can’t I subsidize this and own my own piece over the aqueduct, the same as if they were on my roof?

How would that be insured? Suppose e.g. hail damage. Do you own a specific group of panels that you must fix if those panels get damaged?
Back when it was popular it was one of the early players which supported a lot of different formats, as well as early radio streaming. Competitors either cost money, wanted you to install IE toolbars, or simply didn't have the features Winamp had. It could be expanded with loads of different plugins (games, visualizers, EQs and other dynamic effects, ++), and could even be used to broadcast streams with the proper plugins IIRC.

For my part, having an updated version of Winamp would be great. I've got a big music library sitting around, never really became friends with foobar, and Plex and Apple Music struggles with some of the formats I've got.
Help anyone struggling on San Francisco's streets that wants help.
https://assets.amuniversal.com/b92d42f09df2012f2fe500163e41d...

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At the Federal Prison Camp (FPC) I was at the monthly pay for 80% of the inmates (kitchen, etc.) is $5.20 per month. Total.
For a secure grip on a bigger phone I suggest a pop socket. Helps a lot
There are waste amount of desert that is not used for agro or people.
https://github.com/stereobooster/programming-languages-genea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoiconicity
This looks like a great way to add scripting capabilities to your rust app! Binding ops to build your own runtime seems easy enough.

Would be nice if there was an easy way to integrate TypeScript and have access to the type checker. So you could load code at runtime, type check it and run it when possible. This, combined with Deno running a sandboxed environment seems pretty useful!
Show HN: Hey Google, what day is today?”
Try it...
Ask Google: "What day is today?"

Her answer is very zen
cloudiest city in America is almost certainly why it's a 30 year payback instead of a 10 year payback in a better climate
Unvoiced thoughts can be amazingly powerful. Hold on to the positives in a situation, eschew the negative.

Specific things given carry a numinous quality. Really? It was the gift of the ideas not the edition but saying that I know it doesn't ring true. 26 years later I hold onto small trivial gifts from my mother, and 28 years on the same from my father, nothing will replace them in my life nor will these tokens bring them back. It took a flood to teach me the ephemerality of these things as I watched photos drift away in muddy water, dissolving into smears. I rescued four, the scans are with me still. They didn't gift the tchotke to be memento mori, that's something we lay on top.
The current most advance fabs are place in Taiwan ( along the coastline which is nearer to China ) if those fabs are destroyed, there will no longer be newer CPU generation for a decades due to the recipe to make these chips are lost in war. Companies which relies on the advance of semicon will halt but will eventually recover as other players ( Intel, SMIC, Samsung or the parts of what’s left of TSMC ) catches up with progress made in the fabs in Taiwan.
I have trouble loving myself. Like the author my life is mostly great, though I sometimes struggle with health issues but I would not wanna trade it for any other life. I love my friends and family and they love me back. However I would avoid conflict at almost all costs in order to please people even if it is too my own detriment. It meant saying yes to everything in my last relationship in fear of losing her and being alone again (which is very egotistical) and it meant only 3 weeks of vacation in the past 3 years because I didn't want to leave the client/teams hanging. In romantic relationships I am desperate for approval and expressions of love since I do not know how to love myself properly.
I am also afraid taking steps into that direction will take away my motivation for self-improvement. But most of all I have no idea how to actually learn to love myself. It's not like I haven't read a ton of advice on the topic, it's just that it didn't work yet. Maybe I should find someone professional to talk to. It's not crippling me and I am fine but I feel like my life would be better if I loved myself.
IMO Beckman video is very good. Recently I liked this video too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2w45qRc3aU ("The Absolute Best Intro to Monads For Software Engineers" by " Studying With Alex
").
I also suggested a few resources at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28941127 which helped me much.
He said it himself on Twitter: by using old photos as profile pics.
Reading this, I've got the impression that prisons simply want to keep inmates busy 24/7: if all their energy is spent on basic needs, they won't have time for criminal activity. Money there is a meaningless token to facilitate the fiction of economy.
Again, parent poster didn't say there was a need for thousands. They were asking how many there is a demand for. One? Ten? Hundred? That's the question that is being asked.
As long as the natural disaster isn't affecting a large part of the continent, the electric grid should be able to handle it.
Title makes it sound like this happened 3 years ago. This accident is from 1989.
This is a good idea. Hope it gets shared wider.
I just did an installation on my roof. We have very high winds in my area, so I went with a provider that already did a few dozen roofs in my area. I was surprised to see that the frames are not bolted to the roof, rather, they are bolted to concrete blocks which sit on pads on the roof. Each 300W solar panel feels like it weighs no more than 5 kilograms, the bolted aluminium frames look very easy to scale inexpensively. There are no trenches, rather, DC conduits run the length of the panels. I confidently hang out with my 7 year old under the solar panels for a good half hour.
We recently had a new young coworker who was extremely slow and would show up only when he felt like it. He was even honest about it. Sometimes late, sometimes not at all. Since they needed 20 people and cant find any they just put up with it for a few weeks.

People complaint but I argued he was the best employee we had thus far. "If we can find just a few of these guys I too can stay home whenever I feel like it! We just need 3 or 4 of these guys to do what use to be a one man job. Then it will actually get done in stead of you guys wasting precious time talking about how bad he is, wanting him gone. Gone where? To sit at home and live of our tax money? Well, I for one love paying for it. He should sit at home until you guys wake up to the new reality!

Those unmotivated milenimals apparently are the answer. Waving a moldy dried out carrot in front of their nose has no effect.

Its not a real solution of course... at least I think not? Not sure really. But things will change regardless. It might not be pretty, it will at least be interesting times.
Lovely comment. Something I would really have appreciated hearing as a young person.