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Thanks for sharing the info on different approaches. I did check out your blog as thanks and read through a few posts, and decided to write feedback as a non-expert opinion in case it's helpful.

For positive feedback, the best part of the blog is the use of flowcharts, tables, and graphics that organizes the information quite nicely. This is a higher-effort and effective way to communicate technical information, and especially numerical information. The presentation of information in this way also helps your blog stand out from similar websites about the same subject.

However, the biggest weakness I can see (as a non-expert reader) is that it's hard for me to immediately tell whether or not the advice is credible, which is especially important because your blog is about money and personal finance. It is an unfortunate reality that there are quite a few financial blogs that give low-quality or even malicious advice. Though a reader could give the blog a chance and evaluate the advice logically and from first principles, that takes effort—it would be helpful for the reader and the blog to have more signals that the advice is trustworthy.

A good way to achieve trustworthiness would be to include a prominent About page (I couldn't immediately find one, outside of the brief introduction on the right-hand sidebar and a couple sentences on the Contact page). If comfortable, after weighing the pros and cons, the inclusion of your full name on the blog itself would also elevate the blog from a semi-anonymous blog to a personal blog tied to your identity. The advice would then appear more credible to the reader, as the credibility of the blog would have a more direct effect on your personal reputation.

A more detailed biography would also provide a chance for the reader to understand why your blog is trustworthy, and how your personal life experience gives you unique and useful insights into personal finance. For example, you mention your background working in major technology companies in the past on your Hacker News biography. Mentioning this upfront would add credibility to your articles on "Tech Stock Compensation" articles—while you present a bit of your personal background in the article itself, a reader landing on the homepage would find it helpful to learn about your background from that page of the website, as they decide whether or not to continue exploring your website by reading its articles.

To summarize: it's great that you are sharing your knowledge and experience through a personal blog, and this comment itself is another example of the insights you have to share. However, potential readers who do not already know you would benefit from having an easier way to understand why they should trust your perspective and point of view, especially as the blog deals concerns personal finance—with this subject, the consequences of taking bad advice can be severe. You can more easily communicate why the your advice is trustworthy by writing more about your personal background in an easier-to-find way on the website.
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What if we had cities, but smaller ones and made sure companies and business opportunities were not concentrated in a few points? We could enjoy the benefits of high demographic density that matters, while having walkability.

If we have zoning requirements for building residences, why not quotas for the number of companies allowed in a city, in a county, in a state? Why the fuck everybody needs to live in a ratcage in NYC, because every fucking oligarch feels like he needs to have his bank HQ in Manhattan? Why can't we have a few dozen smaller high density urban centers instead on this day and age?

something like "sorry Mega Company, we already have MegaCorp and MegaEnterprise here on this city, the quota is over, have you considered PleasantVille for your new HQ? I hear they have a free quota after MBA Business Machines finally fold down and closed their offices there. "
Seriously. That's how I've always described it. I drive a large vehicle. You will lose. Get out of the way. Use common sense and move. I like that. I'm going to put that on my car: "Yield To Gross Tonnage". Good shit.
There is a very thin line separating "scalpers" and "opportunistic investors" and that line moves based on where you are standing.
> cowardly half-measure

> in a free society

I feel these two go together. One reason that we have such a patchwork of messy ineffective policy is because the policymakers are pulled in different directions by a deeply divided society. Just look at this thread - there’s very little clear consensus about what exactly the right answer is. Everybody has an opinion. People vote. Policy lurches.

> do what needs to be done

In contrast, this kind of tough talk is more fitting of a non-free society where sweeping decisions get made by steamrolling stakeholders. The populace gets tired of pusillanimous party politicians, so they elect a strongman who can do what needs to be done. But will the strongman do the right thing? Strongmen don’t have a great track record.
People rightly complain about men who want a “big strong masculine” truck for no reason other than bravado. But, people tend to forget that women are the primary ones who want the other problematic category of vehicle: SUVs. They wrongly believe them to be safer, (in other words, they buy them so they can feel safer) and drive 80% of all new vehicle purchases.
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More people at more weight for many minivans. My vehicle is the size I need for my needs. I don't need to hold 8. Why do I want to add another 1,000lbs to lug around. Your answer is worse for the environment than an SUV.
We can have nice things and also take care of the planet. If your suggested solution to climate change is that we all wear loincloths and live out in the trees, foraging for a paleo diet, then your suggestion is going to be immediately ignored by everyone. There's no point in even suggesting trying to return to pre-industrial times, especially since we very clearly do not need to. Climate change is a massive engineering and social problem, but somehow reverting to pre-industrial times is an order of magnitude harder on both fronts. And pointless.
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>For instance, it was considered foolish to estimate how long a coding task might take, since at any moment the programmer might turn over a rock and discover a tangle of bugs.

Still true tbf
you can definitely have nice affordable housing near work without making commuting miserable, and that's the only way to get people to not commute
I think you misunderstand “Right of Way”. It’s not just an option for a pedestrian to cross, it’s incumbent on them to maintain predictable movement through the intersection.

Giving up Right of Way creates more confusion (think about the “go” / “no you go” game of a car not moving when it’s their turn at a 4-way stop).
Obligations under regulatory law are correctly called "legal obligations". They might not apply to you, but they may still exist for "many" others.
I think some people do like the suburbs (and they're allowed to), but the sky high housing costs in "nice" or "popular" cities indicate that there is unmet demand to live in dense walkable areas.

The car industry has been very very successful with equating driving with freedom though which makes this a hard conversation to have with people.

It should all be priced accordingly, you want to drive your private vehicle into my city? Then be prepared to pay a fair value for parking and road maintenance.
Yeah, not to mention trying to validate results. Unless we grid install weather stations every 200 m on a mountain top...
May as well try to goad virus makers to target MacOS. They probably could but it wouldn't be worth the hassle as so few computers would be affected, relative to the global desktop market.
There are rocky deserts.

70% of Sahara is rocky, not sandy, for example.
Had seen most of the Ghibli movies and then turned on Princess Kaguya for the first time as something to help my spouse fall asleep. By the end were both crying. This was 3 years ago and was the last time I cried and can't recall the last time I cried before that.

Princess Kaguya is my favorite Ghibli movie but also never rewatched because it's so emotional. All that and I'm not even a parent, let alone good with kids whatsoever.
>Some foods are highly processed or ultra-processed. They most likely have many added ingredients such as sugar, salt, fat, and artificial colors or preservatives. Ultra-processed foods are made mostly from substances extracted from foods, such as fats, starches, added sugars, and hydrogenated fats. They may also contain additives like artificial colors and flavors or stabilizers. Examples of these foods are frozen meals, soft drinks, hot dogs and cold cuts, fast food, packaged cookies, cakes, and salty snacks.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/what-are-ultra-processed...

Simpler than that, generally speaking if you can look at the thing you are ingesting and identify what it was in nature it is likely unprocessed or minimally processed. Corn on the cob is unprocessed. Canned corn or corn meal is minimally processed. High fructose corn syrup (and any substance containing it) is ultra-processed.

Even simpler than that, if what you are eating comes out of a machine that looks like this: https://www.starchprojectsolution.com/uploads/1805/2-1P50516... it is almost certainly bad for you.
"Became irrelevant"?

They made a decent living for a number of years off of their creations, without having to sell the rights to some mega-conglomerate and without ending up in the kind of sudden-celebrity death spiral you see all too often.

They're still producing Homestar Runner content today, though at a much slower pace (I presume it no longer pays the bills on its own).

If your only metric of "success" is becoming a massive celebrity and being a household name for the rest of time, then I think you've got both a very skewed idea of what is possible for 99.999% of people, and, in all likelihood, a very frustrating future ahead of you.
This. Thank you.

> "Where are you going?"
It is good to add that this is not my first question. Like you suggested, it is better to start with something that can be perceived by both parties (the author in the book refers to this as triangulation), you talk about something 'simple and stupid' like the weather to 'gauge' if the other party is interested in engaging. The author of the book (Joe Keohane) actually gives a bunch of tips to prevent the conversation from stalling because of 'standard script' (e.g. standard conditioned questions+responses like 'how do you do'). Worth the deep dive if you're experimenting and looking to get the balance right (and prevent to be perceived as the 'town's fool'. )
Given the cost of launching stuff into space anything you want to have up there is worth at least thousands of dollars per pound.
Probably because this is where ToS set the jurisdiction.
You say that it doesn't work, yet there's numerous examples across the globe of how it does work. Sounds like another example of "'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens"[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_to_Prevent_This,%27_...
Don't forget traffic calming features, to help with slower speeds eg in suburban areas.

Not everything needs to be regulated in such a way as to encourage or require more policing, and the associated budget increases.
Thank you! TIL.
Sturgeon's law ("ninety percent of everything is crap") is well known, and a lot of money has been made and time spend consuming a significant chunk of that 90%. AI only needs to be better than 90% of that 90% to succeed.
Can you imagine how awful a city with buildungs made out of this material would be? It would be completely blinding.
How did you know what I was planning??
No - because there is no data to support this, and I got my first vaccine over a year before this started in the first place, and have had subsequent vaccinations since it cleared up.
I disagree, I think a wagon or estate can be designed to look cool, like the Audi RS6 Avant, to take it to the extreme, a minivan not so much.
Not to mention that the mere act of sending it to space costs $30,000 per pound of payload, so it was probably $10k of quality tools totaling 3lbs of weight.
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Anyone who's interested in any XNA successors I'd highly recommend checking out FNA instead. It uses exclusively FOSS libraries, the maintainers are actively anti content pipeline (MonoGame actively invested time and resources into building their own version), and FNA's just all around more stable.
Honestly you're making my point. We (as in civilization) tried criminalization, and it is more expensive (and has other added downsides) compared with decriminalization/legalization + taxation and treatment. How do I propose to get people not to think drugs are their best option? Ha. Okay sure, in response to that straw man here's my stab at fixing human society to help reduce the number of people that go that route (since that's what it would take). UBI + free healthcare (including all procedures that may be used to either assisting with a miscarriage or causing an abortion) + free contraceptives + free childcare + additional assistance for parents + free school lunches + free higher ed + strong labor protections / unions (+ -- US specific -- constitutional amendments to allow for regulation of firearms, getting monied interests out of politics, lessening the influence of extremists in politics including ranked choice voting or similar, making public money available to third-parties, I'm sure there's more). I'm sure what I've missed could fill an encyclopedia. My point is that the problem isn't simple, so if you're going to try to "solve" it, you're wasting time debating whether incarceration is better than legalization.
> Well established fact that Musk is a figure head

Except there's many testimonies from engineers at his companies that attest the exact opposite.
Yes it's a bit light on details. But they do point out the most important facts, namely what gender the astronauts are and that it has not been officially confirmed whether the tool box contained a 10mm wrench. Personally, that's everything I needed to know about the situation.
It would perhaps be more accurate to say that this is a big leap forward compared to most existing off-the-shelf depth cameras for robotics. To address the iPhone specifically: you probably aren't going to mount iPhones on a bunch of production robots in the field.

Comparing to other alternatives in the robotics space (I've listed RealSense and Structure above, but there are others), there is somewhat of a laundry list of potential pitfalls and issues that we've seen folks trip over again and again.

Calibration is a big one, and a large part of what we're doing with HiFi is launching it with it's own automatic, self-calibration process (no fiducials). There are some device failures that a process like this wouldn't be able to handle, but the vast majority of calibration problems in the field result from difficult tooling or requirements, a need to supply one's own calibration software, or a combination of hardware and software that make the process difficult. A nickel for every time someone has to train a part-time operator to fix calibration in the field, and I'd own Amazon.

Depth quality and precision is another big pitfall — there are folks out there today using RealSense for their robot, but we've talked to a number of folks who just don't rely on the on-board depth. It's too noisy, it warps flat surfaces, etc. Lots of little details that on the surface you might not think about when just looking at a list of cameras! Putting our edge AI capabilities aside, the improved optics and compute available on the HiFi allow us to build a sensor that always provides good depth. That sounds like a baseline for this kind of tech, but there's plenty of examples otherwise on the market today!

Software is probably the other last big thing that we really want to leap forward on. We don't have too much to say about our SDK today, but when we launch it we hope to make working with these sensors a lot easier. I work with RealSense quite a bit (I am the maintainer of realsense-rust), and quite honestly what has been a solid overall hardware package for many years (until HiFi, I hope) is let down by how confusing it is to use librealsense2 in any meaningful project.

Needless to say, I think HiFi stands on some solid merits and I'm not sure it can be directly compared to other 3D sensors in e.g. iPhones, mostly because the expected use-case is so utterly different.
Higher hood-lines are often used to provide crumple zones pedestrian impacts, as required in some jurisdictions.
They call that "dead right" - when you had the right of way, and you're still dead. I don't really feel that kind of need to assert my right...
Why not give it a systemprompt that specifies some you're requirements: "you are a experienced senior ruby developer who writes robust maintainable code, follow these coding guidelines 《examples》"
This is exactly what has always kept me bouncing off of these things.

As a vim user I can reach a sort of uncanny valley where the core editing loop feels "right," but I end up having to fight against all that muscle memory when it comes to using features outside of it.
C# design team is ~5 talented well paid engineers who think how to improve language for past 20 years, every week and don’t let flawed features in and can spend years on how to add async/await, nullables, SpanT and many other features so whole language makes sense and is joy to use.
And they have another ~20 engineers implementing features in Roslyn making sure performance of IDE and compiler is acceptable and bug ~free.
Unfortunately not many languages can afford that…
Seems reasonable, I don’t think we would have allowed the sale of tobacco if we knew then what we know now. Also it’s a drug that is mostly just addiction. It doesn’t really have a high until you are addicted to it, so I’m not sure non addicted users are going to be breaking too many laws to get it.

Contrast with hard drugs, most of the users are not addicts, they are recreational users.
Yeah, but MAUI is basically react native, Blazor on Maui basically Cordova/electron (just with much better plugin support) and Maui also had once some support for rendered control.

While I agree it is hard, there is no one who could rule this space better than .NET if they just would like.

Problem is: this is developer division funding which is not the Windows (which owns a UI stack) or office division (react native actually). DevDiv previous UI toolkits WPF was loved but then abondon because of the duplicity of UI toolkits in Microsoft.
Not sure if it suits your use case, but the best I have experienced is jDeploy
Only one point, how hard has it ever been for a minor to get alcohol and cigarettes?
Easy math: $100,000/$600 hammer

166.667 $600 hammers.
I don't go as extreme. I cut carbs out at lunchtime which seems to eliminate my post-lunch slump.
Is Aspire/Dapr comparable to something like ABP Framework?

Or are they completely different things?
You read the abstract wrong. The reduction was significant and more than from radiation and chemo (ed. for one of the tumors).

> Computed tomography following radiation and chemotherapy showed a reduction in the right frontal lobe lesion from 5.5 cm × 6.2 cm to 4 cm × 2.7 cm, while the mass in the upper-right lung lobe reduced from 6.0 cm × 3.0 cm to 2.0 × 1.8 cm. Two years after KD initiation and without any other therapeutic intervention, the right frontal lobe lesion calcified and decreased in size to 1.9 cm × 1.0 cm, while the size of the lung mass further decreased to 1.7 cm × 1.0 cm.
The reason why drug production and consumption should be legal is not that this will necessarily lead to better social outcomes as measured by conventional standards, it is because prohibitions on drugs are an insult to liberty. It is ridiculous for a supposedly free society to try to stop people from putting substances into their own bodies just like it would be a ridiculous for a free society to try to stop people from, for example, having consensual sex with each other.

Drug prohibition is in principle incompatible with liberty.

If you want a free society, some things must be legal even if the social impact of allowing them to be legal seems to many people to be negative. There are already laws against many of the things that people blame on drugs. I know that it is tempting to many people to criminalize drugs rather than to try to do a more effective job of policing things that people blame on drugs. But this is the same kind of mentality that would, for example, get rid of free speech because sometimes free speech leads people to commit violence. That kind of mentality is a pathway towards the US becoming like China.

Another issue with the drug war is unfair enforcement. Well-off people have absolutely no problem getting illegal drugs. A huge number of successful professionals do illegal drugs on a regular basis and only rarely even come close to potentially getting in legal trouble. Meanwhile poor people and dealers are probably more likely to get busted.

The drug war, by artificially making certain substances sell at prices that are vastly higher than what it costs to manufacture them, also creates a type of black market currency that enables the activities of all sorts of groups that engage in actually harmful behavior like killing people.
2023 saw more than 70% of the lower 48 states covered in snow. If you include Alaska, the largest state, it’ll increase a bit more.
That according to the article, it is a failure of implementation, not of concept.
This seems extremely bad.
We have electric wires on poles in the northeast US, too—largely because the ground freezes solid for several months of the year.

It's not that unusual a precaution.

(Though yes, as a sibling commenter notes, we do have to deal with them getting taken down by wind, lightning, and the occasional hapless driver from time to time. There's no perfect solution.)
Also, it may include a cost of shipping to orbit.
They can't handle deepfakes and misinformation in ads they publish, which have probably 10 000 times smaller volume than published videos.
> every inch is covered with intricate and interconnected systems already

The intricate and interconnected systems are what is required to make Earth habitable! If you wanted to live on Mars, you'd have to replicate the same complexity synthetically. Hopefully we can learn to treat the Earth with the same care that you'd treat the oxygen production system for your Martian bubble.
But I don't need it to be. Like at all. I've yet to find a programming task that GPT-4 would have made faster, and yes I have used it.
Yep and this is precisely why I drive a big pickup. Not because I need it, not because Im trying to flex, but because it weighs almost twice as much as regular cars. My wife works in a hospital, she sees the victims of drunk/distracted driving everyday where they are not the ones at fault. If it was plausible, I would drive an even bigger one.

Once cars are fully autonomous or have mandatory drug tests to be able to start ignition, or we have more severe punishments for driving accidents, then ill gladly sell my truck. Until then, if you hit me with a regular car, you are gonna get fucked up, ill be mostly fine.
I think some people do consider it (although possibly from the wrong angle and not very deeply) otherwise you wouldn't see stuff like massively lifted trucks, who's purpose is to look "aggressive" and "scary" to make the person inside feel better about themself.
Not a bad use case for backing up to other people's computers.
It should be necessary to get someone's consent to create fake porn using their faces.
Question: Luxonis seems comparable (I’ve used their products). Are you pursuing the same use cases? How do you plan to differentiate?