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> The point is that car-dependency is quite astonishingly more expensive than public transit based systems.

Bell peppers are also astonishingly more expensive than wheat, and oysters are more expensive still. Imagine the cost savings we could make if we just all exclusively ate wheat and beans.

The point is that cars are more expensive in a sense that people spend more money on them, but they are very much not more expensive if you compare them like for like in terms of actual service. They simply offer a different thing, which in the mind of the huge majority of population is superior service despite higher cost (most people who do use public transit would prefer personal cars, but they cannot afford it, so they use heavily subsidized public transit). It is just not viable with today technology to provide public transit service that offers similar travel times with similar schedules, in fact it is barely cost effective to run existing public transit with lousy service quality today (e.g. here in Seattle, a $2.75 bus ride actually has operational costs of something like $7 on average, which is way more than operational costs of driving your own car).

You do not, however, compare the actual service. Instead, you just take 3 random numbers that carry very little information about actual problem being solved, at least one of which is off by a factor of 20x, multiply them, and pretend that what you do is a serious economic analysis. This is basically assuming that humans are identical, uniformly distributed spheres etc etc.

The people who believe that public transit can be made cheaper than cars while offering similar service apparently are so clueless about actual costs of operation public transit that they are off by a factor of 20x, and see absolutely no reason to change their mind when they are corrected about it.
Try to read a 'How to read a book', it's not easy one, but it explain what you just said.
Ex-Apple engineers raise $7.5M for new Seattle data storage startup
Virgin Orbit reports ‘anomaly’ in satellite launch from UK
> You’re at Amazon, in 2001 and you know that in 5 years there will be a thing called AWS and that’s going to become the most important thing?

Much of this is attributed to the email Jeff Bezos sent telling people to productionize internal APIs.

My guess is: yes. People would be building what would have become AWS early on by solving the root problem for any given issue, establishing a decent API for it, and then consuming that API in some business logic.

Bezos' big contribution was telling people to do what they would have usually done.
I’m not an authority on this so my comment is layman internet garbage, but my somewhat-researched understanding is that IF is only problematic when it exacerbates existing issues. Examples could be eating disorders or conditions where fasting can cause acute issues.

Some studies suggest the benefits are significant, others suggest they’re neutral, but I’ve yet to find anything indicating that it’s innately risky to fast intermittently. Me not being aware of studies showing harm doesn’t mean it’s not possible, but it seems unlikely at this point. I’ve been doing it for the better part of 10 years or so and I always regret it when I stop. Fasting in general appears to be good for people when it’s controlled and done sensibly.

In the developed world it really does seem we do more harm to ourselves with what we do consume rather than what we don’t. Less is more (health) with common western diets.
> Reducing my caloric intake

IF isn't really about reducing caloric intake as such.

If I remember correctly Terry Crews eats something like 4000 calories during his window of eating, but fasts for the remaining 16 hours.

That said, if you're trying to lose weight, it is probably the laziest way to eat less for someone who can't cook their own food (or doesn't want to).

Skipping a meal is much easier than convincing the family to add cauliflower rice or go keto with the breads. There's very little substitution going on that someone else has to sign up, if you share a life with them. You can share meals when it is the family meal time.

I will say that fasting is much less social media friendly, because I can't really post a bunch of photos of meals I've skipped to feel good about the life change I've made.
I've found this practice very useful when naming servers, which is an idea I picked up from the Debian project's infrastructure. A physical machine will have a cute hostname, and then the actual service it provides is a CNAME (DNS alias) to it.

That way, the physical identity remains steady, but the responsibilities (CNAME) can move around (usually because of upgrade)
India's 6 year old UPI does 7B transcations per month. Its used by all classes.

Crypto is pathetic in comparison
> This is very much not an improv-player attitude IME; improv-players mostly want in-genre things to happen

Hardly. Everyone likes to pretend "they're just in it for the story", but in my experience, they just want to give themselves advantages in my experience.

> And I note you skipped the Locate City nuke

3.5 is known to be pretty busted. I'm not aware of this sequence of events being possible in Pathfinder, which is my preferred crunch.

There are certainly busted things in Pathfinder (see Summoner). But upon recognition, I talk with the player and we work something out. (see Summoner Unchained).

If something is busted and truly too much for the system to handle, I stomp down as dungeon master. That's my duty above all, to ensure fairness in the game.

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EDIT: Looking at the Locate City Nuke, it seems like the problem is solved if I just ban the Snowcasting metamagic feat from Frostburn.

In general, my rule is: Do the players want me (the Dungeon Master), using the trick? If so, I use it on them. If not, then its banned. Generally speaking, I, as the dungeon master, can take advantage of these things far more than they can. So its in their best interests to keep the shenanigans in check.

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Honestly, the "Locate City Nuke" sounds like a fun adventure setting, now that I read up on it. Its a complicated set of 7 metamagics applied to one level 1 spell

The players, unlikely would be using this tactic, because its an evil action (indiscriminate killing).

If this were "crunchier", and closer to level 5 or 4 spell, yeah, that's a problem. But with this much metamagic needed to make Locate City into an actual problem (plus the need for a very specific Sorcerer / class build to serve as "The Ritual focus"), "Locate City Nuke" follows the pattern of Magical McGuffin (Wizard tries to steal a Princess/Sorceror named Elsa, who has innate connection to Ice Magic) who then stacks 7x kinds of Metamagic to build a particular spell into devestating power.

Alternatively, I patch "Locate City" so that it has no "Area" but only a "Range". Dungeon Masters are allowed to patch spells after all.
Practically speaking: no. You can't always prove that your text was used to train the AI unless the AI spits it out verbatim.

Legally speaking: we don't know yet. This issue is only just starting to work its way through US courts.
Having some camping sized cooking gear in your emergency bag seems like a good precaution if you have cold winters. Does seem like the apartment communities could be doing more to take care of their residents during storms though.
What I also loved was that the Captain had once been arrested for marijuana trafficking with his airplane. Total bad ass.
Urban people both love and resent chaos. I personally find it best to embrace it as default and try to adapt around it, rather than ostensibly rejecting it while pretending it won't still exist via supply & demand. But that rarely flies in municipal politics or online rant-driven forums.
Just don't apply this to variable or function names please, thanks!
I've had a site let me sign up with a 128 char password, but the input on the sign-in page was capped at 30. Edited the form element to log in, pinged them about the issue, and got it fixed
XetHub raises $7.5M for its Git-based data collaboration platform
Are you sure you linked to the right thing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34271510

> Internet socialists / communists / transhumanists seem to infuse their content with a “chibi” vibe, filled with cuteness and hearts. Disagree with them politically, though, and watch out. The sunshine and roses suddenly become bloody slavering fangs.
ChatGPT doesn’t have an open API. You may try to hack the CloudFlare bot protection to use it anyway but that’s not a good business idea.

The GPT3 API is already not free and monetised.
> How do the players "win" or "solve" the puzzle?

Through fun, ultimately. Maybe its fun if they don't win.

So they try something, they fail. Its just a social encounter, now the King's guard is distrustful of them and the story continues. No biggie, I can handle that as a dungeon master.

Win or lose, the story continues. The importance is that the players have agency in the process, as well as knowing the limits of their own powers and capabilities.

> The best and most satisfying way for a player to "win" or "solve" a scenario, IME, is a) for them to notice setting or character details that they can exploit (maybe the younger prince is jealous of the elder? Maybe the chancellor is obeying the tenets of a less-popular faith that a party member has ties to?) or b) them to come up with something creative that I hadn't thought of but that is still genre-appropriate and sufficiently "realistic". And I don't think a detailed mechanics system helps a lot with either of those, because at the end of the day either the detailed mechanics system gives you an answer that lines up with common sense or it gives you one that doesn't, and either way it's not helping much.

Or they could just... ya know... beat me (the Dungeon Master / chief antagonist) in the game. Or defeat the foes that I've laid out before them.

Generally speaking, social encounters shouldn't be high risk. The high-risk actions in my experience should be combat. If the players die, they know trouble will happen as the bad guys move forward and wreck the kingdom or whatever.

> Maybe. In my experience even in genre fiction the best stories aren't, and shouldn't, really be about the magic or the tactics - they're about the deep human themes, trust, betrayal, arrogance and all that Shakespearean stuff. Gandalf fighting the Balrog isn't about him realising that Moria stone was carved by the dwarves and would be vulnerable to magic, it's about him realising that this enemy is undefeatable and sacrificing himself for the sake of his fellows.

I don't need a story to play Axis and Allies, Chess, Go, or a myriad of other games though. When playing an adversarial game with my friends, its not about story. Its about combat and adversaries.

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I'm not here to offer Puzzles to my players btw. As the Dungeon Master, I also explain the rules before major decisions are made.

Especially to a new Wizard (who must select spells before the adventuring day begins), the "game" is about which spells the Wizard should select. We all know the Wizard could, theoretically, handle everything. But the issue is that the Wizard must "foresee" the use of all of these spells.

I know Wizards can solve Insanity with Limited Wish. I make sure the players know that. I also point out other curses (Flesh to Stone, Bestow Curse), and their counter-effects. Etc. etc.

Its not about tricking the players or puzzling them. Its about having them have to think about the decisions that they make (ie: which spells to pick).
An anecdote from the period described: I was working on a product which had hit an unknown bug on the japanese localised Windows, so our partner sent an engineer with a bunch of install disks to visit me.

One of the first things he said was: look, this is the difference between the US and JP — you have three computers on your desk (he was counting the ICE), but I have to share "my" computer with two other developers.

At the time, I took it for self-deprecating exaggeration. After reading this article, I fear he had probably just been making a factual observation.
Can I ask which continuous monitoring device you use? I'm looking for one to see how my blood sugar fluctuates throughout the day. The good ones seem to be behind a prescription wall, so I was considering the freestyle libre.
They already are investigating Microsoft for the Activision purchase. It takes time but Microsoft always buys out competition.
Nice font. I normally go with the ones from int10h.org, to get that hard-edged bitmap look.
There are papers reporting that very low calorie diet (VLCD) has similar effects. Not sure whether IF is any special when compared to VLCD rather than the baseline (no intervention).
This is why I default to 16 alphanumerical chars. This is more than strong enough for random internet accounts but has less risk of truncation and easier to type if the need arises. Only if the account is super important will I bump up the entropy.
Superloop! On the NBN for the infrastructure
"Accept it and move on" sounds like a pretty unhelpful response to someone seeking therapy for childhood trauma.
Fukushima and Chernobyl are the good outcome. They released well under 1% of the bad stuff before it was contained.

It only takes Areva or Rosatom having an oops with one reactor load of fuel because they bribed the geologist for the waste dump and it turns out it was actually unstable and linked to the aquifer or papers were forged on the parts for the transport cask or they buried it in a shallow dump in nigeria where it corrodes open in 2150 and you turn a country into the red forest for the next millenium.

This is 100% guaranteed to happen the second there's too much of it for mass protests to cover every fucked up thing the industry tries.
England is different from the UK. Original title says "the UK", so why not use that?
That explains why I pass by so many smoking burned out teslas. My turn soon I guess!
Typesafe Internationalization with SvelteKit 1.0
Reminds me of [0].

At work we tend to create backronyms for/from the cute names which is our way of having our cake and eating it too.

[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE
Cute names are fun when for a few special things here and there.

Cute names are a nightmare when a company has accumulated hundreds of quirkily named things that you have to memorize just to navigate through the basics of trying to get your job done.

New hires suffer the most. It’s an extra layer of company-specific jargon that you have to learn to even begin to understand what your peers are talking about.
Cross-Game Avatar Platform for the Metaverse
Picower actually withdrew more than $5.1 billion. That was only his false profit. Apologies for the mistake.
Descriptive name guards from feature creeping because every one understands the scope of service. If it is always tempting to add new features to the existing services, creation of new services should be done to be easier.
Why is this theory right-wing, or conspiracy? Sounds plausible, given the (oftentimes) poor SNR of said outlets...
That sounds more like 99.9% not 85%. Guess it’s a good thing I don’t nap while it’s on.
Yeah this seems like a terrible argument. Here is what onboarding looks like, if we all followed this:

“Okay so, the part of the app you’re working on is weeble-wobble which handles transactions. Weeble-wobble interfaces with poopy-leg to create financial reports, and with screaming-kidney to do fraud analysis.”

Maybe this is fine for devops? I mean, if pets, not cattle is the regime within the org
UPS is staffed with union employees, FedEx Ground/Home Delivery (which is different from FedEx Express) is staffed with contractors, not even real FedEx employees.
Sure, black coffee is fine, but I hate the taste of coffee, so I drink it with milk and Monin syrup
It's useful (obviously) but not as a 1 to 1 replacement of search on it's own.
To help other people and provide a necessary service for society.
Or just copy it to the clipboard and paste.
I’ve never been more sure.
Mobian: A look back in the mirror And a glimpse of the future
The last commit is 5 years ago. Seems like unmaintained.
But each person in this expertise is less expert. Today you can totally “cargo cult” being a software architect, which means recommending the solutions that everyone recommends, whereas earlier in computing you had to understand the entire lower layers and be an ace at everything before you’d recommend the same solutions.

The difference being that the architect today has problems reasoning about problems, and can’t advise much. They’d tell you what the cargo cult says.
This trend is so painfully cringey…
If anything, ChatGPT will be for the masses. Programming as a skill has been commoditized a fair bit over the last decade and I believe the kind of hackers pg was talking about would actively eschew all forms of AI search.
Who are E trade?

Edit: The stock broker that went bankrupt in 2020?
I have one of the physical 4WD knobs, it’s wonderfully analog and sort of shakes with the engine in a way nothing else in the cabin does.

Even the base model has A-Trak. I highly recommend trying it off road if you get the chance. It behaves like an ABS powered diff lock and makes your brake pump sound like a machine gun and can make your 4Runner climb interesting bumpy hills.
I love jam. It’s my kryptonite. When I’m depressed, in a medical grade depressive episode, I have to force down jam. Forget healthy food that takes time to prepare. Hunger is indeed mostly in the brain.
Don't take it lierally, your heart is not beating that fast of course, it just gets a trigger to do so at 50Hz. This is what we learned when going through the German TREI training which includes learning about all product and safety norms.

Your heart is triggered by weak electrical impulses and what we learned is that these impulses are surprisingly resistant against outside interference, but there is a threshold at which this is not the case anymore. It certainly won't beat 50 times a second (or 60 times for the 60 Hz people), but it will get a signal to do so 50 times a second.

What we learned further was that electrical incidents have high variability, some people can die by just touching the wrong wire, some survive lightning strikes twice. A true gamble.

I cannot point you at more resources here, all my resources we had are A) German and B) fall under stupid copy right regulations which I think are a crime when we are talking about any kind of norm. "Hey these are the rules you have to adhere to! Just keep in mind to pay us a few grand a year to get the up to date version"
Based on the comments, if we accepted life is harder, life is shorter, and an individual's geographical world is smaller, plastic wouldn't seem so indispensable. I am not ready to accept either except for maybe the last one myself.
URLFormJS: Create sticky forms, stateful applications, shareable links
Same. FedEx constantly struggles to deliver packages on-time to my place, but UPS is reliable. It’s become an ongoing joke in our household and we make efforts to avoid FedEx when other options are available. DHL tends to impress me with very fast international shipments, but I use them infrequently.
Probably a better choice than a bronco for just a few more years as ford irons out the kinks
> New cars have everything on a touchscreen — like auto manufacturers noticed a trend from 2007 of phones moving to touchscreens, and decided a decade later that vehicle controls would benefit from the same evolution, never once considering that fumbling through a touchscreen UI in a rainstorm, trying to find the windshield wiper controls is an objectively worse experience than flipping a lever next to a steering wheel.

Well, coincidentally, a couple days ago we had this in the HN frontpage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34283385

Since 2007 to 2020 when that study was done... one would hope auto makers would realize it too after 13 years
But any shell that tab completes make targets should also tab complete executables? Just write ./scripts (or whatever) and whack tab.
The plasma displays were actually awesome in person. Way better than green and amber monitors in terms of sharpness, and easier on the eyes.

They were even better than Atari and Sun station B&W monitors at the time, which were also very good. I wish there were a mostly B&W version of MacOS, where color is used only sparingly.

I believe one can coax macs into full grayscale mode via accessibility apps, and that's actually surprisingly good for focusing, although I am not quite sure why that is.
I think that's why parent says "private businesses", as opposed to public companies.
I wouldn't necessarily call them cute, but "Odin" (my phone), "Tyr" (my NAS) and "Thor" (my home server) would surely agree.
great question btw!
What a wall of text. Please add a TL;DR
The climate knobs are so great. Try them when going 60MPH in the sand (out one the desert) and it’s incredible how you can still adjust them accurately!
Longtime user here, liked the simple interface & control. But AMD with their massively overwrought control suite sometime in the last year seemed to just straight up block a good portion of Afterburner functionality, & I learned how to control my cards via it instead. Less pleasant, but Afterburner had stopped being functional.
I like that rendering of the 1MW system.

And you can see they are making progress in the lab on the technologies for each of the modules, with some very accomplished operators.

There is a lot of advanced back-of-the-envelope math and toward the end it says they can estimate breaking even with about 500 of the 1MW systems delivered.

Now when you make 500 of anything you really can not make money on every single one, and what the world really needs most of all is the carbon capture.

What I would like to see built is the 1MW scale carbon capture unit in the rendering, and expect it would take fewer than the full array of solar cells to operate.

That little system could give out some real numbers itself, and de-risk decision-making for the other modules at that scale. Even if there is no salable fuel output to offset operating costs, this would be the ideal demo and at least it would be actually removing atmospheric CO2 each time it was functioning.

And it would cost less to build and be faster to do than one of the hundreds of complete 1MW fuel-producing systems they are going to be building ASAP anyway.
Because 5-10 years is a long enough period for another generation of youthful greater fools to enter the market who weren't old enough to have been burned by the previous cycle.
Flagged to death. Sigh…

Kinda proves your point.
> It tests how well you can memorize a bunch of state law that you’ll never use after the bar exam.

What makes you a good lawyer is if you remember all those laws, and you know how to find them in your mind. Those laws are mostly necessary.
There's been more than two peaks and troughs, I would disagree with the numbers presented
Yeah I nearly posted the same thing. We had a service called "petal" which did settlement - "settle petal" is a bit of Australian slang.
> I don't want to be the one to advocate for delaying features so we can rename broadcast-service to broadcast-and-new-responsibility-service. That's going to be an unpleasant conversation with your product manager, for good reason: Because this never should have happened, and it's a waste of time to change the name.

Sounds like there's a workflow problem around renaming services?
Unfortunately DWIM was somehow intertwined with Interlisp macroexpansion so you couldn't disable it without losing macros.
"a quarter of Binance's assets"

Are they Binance's assets or the users assets?
It's funny that the author brings up the point about names being for identity rather than responsibility. Historically, names have often signified both. Ask anyone called Smith or Cook or Archer.