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I like this Douglas Adams quote:

"For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much --- the wheel, New York, wars, and so on --- whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man --- for precisely the same reasons."
Synthetic fuels are potentially valuable because they allow existing capital assets (internal combustion engines and the industry that produces them, fuel distribution infrastructure) to continue to be used.

Won't engines have to be modified and reprogrammed?
> There are enough smart people claiming this that you can't dismiss it (Linus Torvalds for example)

Torvald's anti-C++ rant was full of factual errors when he wrote it and it hasn't improved with age.

If you want to point to "smart people claiming C++ was a mistake" you need to actually use people who actually know & have experience with C++ in the first place - which isn't Torvalds.

There's also other smart people, like John Carmack, who have been converted from C to C++ and now prefer the later especially for working in a team environment. C++ is far from perfect, but there's also pretty strong arguments that it does still represent an improvement over C on average. Yet (almost) nobody argues that C was a mistake.
I don't know what these words mean.

Take Amazon shopping. Right now I go to their homepage, search, browse, add to basket, check out. Occasionally I look through my order history to start a return; and very rarely I contact support if there's some problem like a refund not being processed.

What does chat.amazon.com look like under your vision? What's different?
Look at another comment in this thread about VRBO. Same problems exist for VRBO too.
For the unknowing, this is probably a reference to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Breaks_Guitars
My boomer parents have been able to keep up with Bitwarden. We installed on their Windows laptop and smartphones. I've still have to get them on OTP, something like Authy to get them off mobile 2FA when possible.
In my teens, I could regularly churn out a small GUI program after school in an application like HyperCard, or later REALbasic (now Xojo). I remember writing a saved game editor for Psion Boy[1] which had an editable list of inventory items, fields for character stats, and buttons for saving and loading game files.

I have many more years of experience programming now yet I could not make the same program nearly as quickly. Fire up Xcode and then fumble with storyboards or SwiftUI or IBOutlets? Start writing functional React components on a Bootstrap grid with some live reload script injected into the browser?

Modern frontend tools enable improvements like accessibility, internationalization, cross-platform compatibility, touch screen support, etc. But they have really extinguished my excitement to build anything beyond the command line.

1: https://macintoshgarden.org/games/psion-boy
> It’s my first Mac, so I can’t compare this experience to Intel Macs, and so I don’t know if it’s just that MacOS is so unstable in general, or if those are still pains of migration to a new ISA.

Your issues are not normal. For example, here on my Studio, the uptime is 9 days, with Sublime Text started from the beginning and used quite heavily during most days. It has 5 windows with 5 to 10 tabs in each with no issue whatsoever. My experience with my previous (Intel) Macs was about the same; I haven't seen visible effects of the ISA change besides not hearing any fan anymore (and a speed bump, but I tend to use my computers for a very long time, so there is always a speed boost when I get a new one).

If it is under warranty, it's probably worth having a chat with Apple support. Otherwise, I would recommend trying to diagnose hardware failures (particularly RAM; beyond 8GB it should not swap regularly-used applications).

MacOS is rightly criticised for becoming less robust in several ways, but that is mostly fancy new features. And Time Machine. For some reason they cannot seem to get it perfect, which is a shame because it is the best backup solution I have used yet. The core OS is quite reliable and really should not crash things like that.

[edit] There is a wealth of information about AS Macs here, the site is well worth a bookmark: https://eclecticlight.co/mac-troubleshooting-summary/
My parents tried that, but they kept misplacing the notebook in which these passwords were kept, and the passwords were too simple and guessable by half in any case.
Well I did hedge my wording because AirBnB has different effects in different places, so there is no global effect that can be measured.

If you live in a ski town or beach town then it probably has had far more effect than the locals looking to buy or rent would want. if you live in a small town with very little tourism then people may feel like you do that its a non factor.

New York city seems to think that 10,000 distinct places to live will come back to the market, is 10,000 units in New York "negligible" to use your wording?

I don't know but I'm guessing it will have some measurable effect.

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/28/1145709106/nyc-could-lose-10-...
I didn't look into Redux for a while, but RTK looks really good. That's a meaningful evolution.

I never did really complex frontend applications, but once I used React Query or SWR most of the needs for global state were gone. And so the need for Redux.
As far as I know, there is no such thing as an 'unflag' option.

I've heard of the existence of a 'vouch' option, but supposedly it only appears on [dead] comments, not the merely downvoted/flagged-into-oblivion. And of course [dead] comments are hidden entirely by default.
The con aspect of tax write-off is offset by him being stuck with a lot of early adopter systems that don’t really work. I suspect his family would have been happier using 5$ thermostats that actually worked than such poorly implemented home automation.

LTT is like 95% entertainment 5% actually somewhat informative.
A cabin across the street from me was an AirBnB rental: very loud parties all weekend, running long after midnight. Then COVID came, and now AirBnB has gone down the toilet, so the problem has not returned. Yet.
I reported a neighbour's AirBNB listing (showing 10+ reviews and plenty of pictures) and they had their lease terminated. I couldn't believe it :-)

I'd been finding bags of rubbish in the corridor, or in a recycling bin, and was woken several times by wheely suitcases bump-bump-bumping down the stairs early on a Monday.

Denmark changing the tax laws to require AirBNB to report short-term rental income for tax also helped.
> In my house, our nursery both cooled faster and heated faster than any other room in the house. The thermostat (a Nest) controlled the boiler from the living area, and would often turn off the boiler while the nursery was still chilly.

This Home Assistant project is great fun, and I highly recommend playing with HASS to anyone who likes to play around with and maintain these things.

But for anyone looking for an easier solution: Ditch the Nest and get an ecobee with remote sensors. Nest has remote sensors as well, but you can only pick one. ecobee will average across the sensors you choose. It also has a mode that can follow occupancy detection and prioritize rooms with movement, but that's not useful for a nursery with a sleeping baby like this.
As more and more people switch to Electric Heat (heat pumps i.e AC run backwards) off of NatGas more and more energy companies are pleading with people to turn down their heat in the winter and up in the summer as the grid can not handle it

For the first time I can remember, my power company was sending out Texts here in the midwest during that last Arctic blast telling people to use less electricity because the grid was over taxed.

Our National Energy grid is very very fragile.
I was skimming the article trying to find where it talks about concurrency. ;)
Did you watch Stutz Method?

He proposes that depressed patients work first on their bodies (eat, exercise), relationship (do not retreat from humanity. Don't be alone) and mind (diary, reflection).

That would give them back "life force" to begin working on themselves.

Make sense to me.
My HOA is primarily a collective bargaining tool for trash pickup. Over 80% of the annual fee goes to trash service. The cost of the HOA is significantly less than even the most budget-minded trash service.
What are people using now? Good old context?
It's a fail-safe against leaving in the morning for work, opening the windows, and leaving the heating on full-blast all day long as it tries to heat the outside. It matters even more now given the energy prices in some countries.

Hass just sends on/off commands to a self-contained thermostat in response to window sensor state change events. If it fails, you can still manually go to the thermostat and set it to whatever you want.
Great point on the hierarchy needed
My next door neighbor also rents out her house. She has 5 others she does the same in. These are long term rentals, which means when the tenant is bad it's bad for me long term. We got new neighbors last year, and while they struggle socially they're respectful and it's a huge quality of life improvement.

Our neighbors on the other side, unfortunately, own their home. This means I'm forced to live next to (depending on the day of the week), a live concert venue, a muscle car engine noise appreciation celebration, frat parties, and/or a farm (they had a goat for a week ?).

There's nothing anyone can (or will) do about any of these things, and no one's checking their papers to determine if ignoring the noise is your only recourse. The only way to attempt to improve the situation is show respect and hope it's eventually reciprocated. This is just part of living around other humans. The systems in place to mitigate these kinds of petty conflicts aren't taken seriously, whether the rental is long or short term, or the property tax kind.
Browser capabilities exploded dramatically as well as hardware, this is why we have Figma and virtual machines running in the browser. So the answer to this question seems obvious to me. It would be odd if UI complexity stayed the same.
> we have never entirely isolated a group of humans from the biosphere for even a year

Lunar Palace 1 made it to 370 days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuegong-1
Here's the reference, from the book itself:

Nahl, 89:

And We have sent down to you the Book as clarification for all things and as guidance and mercy and good tidings for the Muslims.

And here they went, they set fire on Big libraries of Egypt and Iran, thousands of years of knowledge went to drain simply becasue the book has knowledge about everything!
Guests can work around bad reviews by simply creating a duplicate listing with different photos.

One scammy place I stayed had 3 listing for the same place.
> with most campuses in urban settings, they are focused more broadly on hard-core crime

What makes you sure of that other than the base assumption that that's what police should do so that's what they are doing?

Consistently across several major urban area metro police forces the police self-reportedly spend about %5 of their time on that sort of serious violent crime. I don't see why campus police would be any higher than that.
Airbnb lets me rent a whole apartment for a couple weeks. Couldn't do that before. And Uber is so much better than the cabs it replaced that there can't really be any comparison. It's not just about price relative to competition.
The NLP people have developed a body of models and techniques for rapid and durable psychological changes. This body of work is systematic and repeatable, but the NLP folks haven't (yet!) "done science to it" to try to figure out why these techniques work.
Based largely on the keys and certain brands and easily recognizable kinds of lock (e.g., kwikset). Even in commercial buildings the default often seems to be cheap locks.
"For example, our electric grid can’t handle everyone using electric cars"

I bet you the electrical grid couldn't handle everyone having an air conditioner in Texas in the 1920s but slowly people installed window and later central ACs and the grid grew.

The situation where everyone suddenly had an electric car is implausible
> How about they fix their efficiency and reliability before trying to make a different battery chemistry work.

It's possible to do more than one thing at a time for most people/organizations/entities.
Apple(if they would be allowed to)
I dislike the idea of recommending these OS-specific password managers because what if they need to access their passwords on another machine? But I'm guessing for most folks that's not a concern. I also don't trust them _nearly_ as much as I do 1Password, but that's at least some prejudice on my side.
- Journaling.

- Processing emotions via creative writing. I tend to write songs, others might prefer poems or stories.

- Learning a lot about psychology. No matter how weird your issues are, most likely you'll find some helpful resources online.

- Self acceptance and self-authoring. We tend to tell ourselves pretty dumb and limiting stories about ourselves.

- Guilt free play time. Not trying to always be productive.

- Setting and enforcing boundaries in private and professional life.

- Listening to music and podcasts that resonate with me.

And of course basics like proper sleep, food, exercise, relationships. I don't watch TV, I don't use social media. That probably helps, too.
Whether i am serious or not doesn't change the facts nor does it changes what the press says about it, i just share the press articles, all of them are from reputable sources and from the West

Let's debate about them, and keep it civil and polite, thanks
They actually requested a review after cancelling this stay due to cash deposit issue. Whole thing is bizarre.
How so? lack of motivation? lack of time?
Seems so https://cdle.colorado.gov/equalpaytransparency
Async queues are far from meaningless. They are the basis of distributed, resumanble/retryable computation.

If you can't see the advantage of keeping your processors fed with work as close to 100% of the time as humanly possible, I got nothing for ya. Hell, AWS is basically popular because you can have novice programmers toss up synchronously programmed lambdas, and scale out the underlying infrastructure with Amazon magic, which in a non-AWS system translates to "define queue and message format which will be servicing producer/consumer workers, deploy and start dumping messages in/popping messages out of said queue; scale to taste.

It takes a while to wrap your head around async, but once you get there, you're building with one of the most powerful computing primitives I've yet to come across.

It's just unfortunate that the language and requisite mental model around it is, in my experience, a bit difficult to intuitively reach.
Pretty fun. It would be nice if it colored the pixels on the keyboard letters to match your known hints (e.g. when my guess was F but the letter is P, then when I am on the appropriate column, the T in the keyboard should have 4 green and 1 red pixels on its top row).
It's some specific fads that get complained about. Plus the big fact that, for the people who post on hackernews, more modern UIs are actually worse for them and their workflows.

Why would you not dismiss a profession that actively makes your life worse?
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Banking sites and anybody who suffers from any sort of attack, whether it's scraping, DDoS, bots, bruteforcing...

Does everybody get those attacks? Probably not, however, Cloudflare centralizes the attacks into a single IP reputation database so, if at some point, a certain node was abused on x site that uses Cloudflare, anybody who is routed through that node will have a poor experience browsing CF sites.

This approach of centralizing IP reputations has its own flaws and benefits, Tor Nodes aren't inherently given a bad reputation, it just happens that if 90 people are using the tool for all the good things, 2 assholes can abuse the IPs and have them blacklisted on almost any website, whether it's Cloudflare, Imperva, Akamai, PX, you name it. Cloudflare is the most known name but there are tons of other E2E/B2B providers that don't show up as often.
I read his requirements and thought bitwarden met all of them. The author discusses bitwarden and instead of acknowledging it meets their expectations, points out more issues.

I don't really see why a "family-friendly" version cares about the underlying tech or filesize of the CLI clients, but maybe grandma or kids these days do get upset when when the run a program that is 8.0 × 10^-5 of their 1tb hd.
Thank you for this reply. It’s scary to see how many are so ready to “defund police” by “funding corporate ability to murder” (my quotes re sentiment) - which is what happened with Pinkertons, etc.

If those homeless camps have drug problems - the lowest hanging fruit may seem like enabling a private police force, but the hanging fruit will be in actually helping the drug problem…
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What you're explaining is basically a chatbot on a subdomain. Which has already existed for years.

This sounds like a expensive solution in search of a problem.
One big one is dropping the “self-made” mythology and being more realistic about what we tell kids to aspire to. Our society has a lot of attempts to subsidize the ultra-wealthy or remove protections for lower-income people which are sold as some kind of fairness based on meritocracy rhetoric with a hefty dose of blaming poor outcomes on the people suffering them and simply recognizing that would make things healthier.

The other big one would be earlier enforcement of white-collar crime laws. We don’t need to prevent hugely successful outliers nearly as much as their negative outcomes and not waiting until you have, say, peak 90s Microsoft or 2015 Trump to enforce existing laws would have helped even things out for competitors or stiffed contractors, and generated plenty of tax revenue to do things like help poorer people avoid the worst outcomes. We get a lot more out of, say, sending a thousand Appalachian kids to good schools and colleges than the marginal benefit of Bill Gates measuring his net worth in tens of billions rather than, say, hundreds of millions.
Well said. I've been following Andreas building Ladybird, and it has been an eye-opener to see the complexity of what is effectively an operating system built on another operating system.
Self-assembling proteins can store cellular 'memories'
That's why I miss good ol' VB6.

Spaghetti code? Yeah, not only that, but the whole pasta menu. On Error Resume Next.

The barrier to entry were none to zero.
This is a cool data point but I personally wouldn't call 45 mpg "staggering" - it's definitely good but not unprecedented by any means, many TDIs or smaller gas engines can get that on the freeway.
The research into synthetic gasoline fuels is inspiring but at a certain point seem impractical and too-little-too-late. There are already well established "alternative" fueling technologies that are very easily accessible and likely cheaper.
You are seemingly misinterpreting the article and even your Wikipedia link is speaking against you. The person being interviewed in the article started his work between 1996 and 2004, and most source/reference links in the Wikipedia page are from sources after this.

Read the article again.
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Having the time to grow my bootstrapped Saas business which is currently doing about 3k/mo in revenue, to eventually quit my 9-5

Just moved to a high COL city a year ago (for wife’s dream job and this is her dream place to live), bought an expensive house shortly after that, started a fulltime job 6mos ago due to expecting our first child and the economy (was subcontracting part time before that) and had our first child 3 months ago

big shrug

It was pretty tough the first few weeks after birth, but I’m more at peace with it now. The intense love for the baby I hope would materialize at first and conquer all but didn’t happen, is slowly happening more now since she’s started being more interactive, smiling, etc :)
There's an alternative to that as well. When the poor couldn't pay for the private police they didn't just give up on security they just created their own police force, the Italian Mafia the Irish mob, etc. Almost all of these started to provide security to communities that were otherwise not being provided for.
>>but there's a hell of a lot of people who could be perfectly adequately served by strong public transportation.

Never going to happen for 80-90% of the US. It is neither economically feasible, culturally feasible, or practically feasible for most people in the US.

Work places are too spread out, homes are not located near workplaces, and there is no desire from anyone (my self included) to increase density.

I want less density not more, "walkable" cities only work if people actually want to live in a walkable city. Many many many dont
> Evidently, this is a lie. Otherwise, how would the host know whether my review was good or bad?

I'm fully open to this possibility, we shouldn't take them at their word, but it may also have been a half truth (they couldn't see your review but they could see their average go down).
I try to behave like the person I want to be, even though I know it's all a fraud. I try to see myself as I appear to others and try to exceed their expectations of me. I can't bury my ego, but I can hide it sometimes. Even from the people closest to me. Maybe that's not mentally healthy at all. But it helps me feel a little better.