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Past methodology applied to public housing has resulted in problems. Historically the method was “how cheaply can it be made so the local building cartel can make the most profit.”

America really needs to deal with the mid-1900s mafia family like mentality still running US politics; electoral turnover flushes rent seeker politicians and their financier’s political support: https://www.nber.org/papers/w29766

The US was trending progressive before it opened it arms to post World War racists and migrants fleeing Europe. Oh what an ironic narrative their progeny babble today
Wasn’t there an OpenAI paper where they showed that MM multiplication with the numerical imprecision of floats was enough to get general function learning?

You might not even need anything else…
I tried this! I went completely caffeine free for over a year and was... fine? But way more tired all the time, and generally having trouble focusing on tasks. In my particular case, I suspect caffeine is a self administered coping mechanism for mild ADHD tendencies, and without that I became much more sensitive to the food I was eating and my changing energy levels throughout the day.

Eventually I realized I had stopped coping with caffeine and, instead, started coping with *sugar*, and gained 20 lbs in the process.

I'm back on caffeine again, but the rules are: one (1) cup in the morning, however I like it. Then water for every other beverage all day long. That seems to have done the trick, and now I again sleep through the night and can more easily remain focused throughout the day.

The point is, experiment, yes! But it's your body and your mind. Take notes and figure out what works best in your case. Everyone is a little different.
Tired of using beautiful web apps with the shitty look of Chrome around it?
Everyone’s different. My neighbor is Greek and 90, she doesn’t speak fluent English. Her kids and grandkids are still Greek to the core but are regular Americans too. Great people.

I’m a second generation Irish American. I grew up in a NYC neighborhood that was heavily Irish and Italian. My grandparents and parents were into Irish orgs. My grandparents were in a fraternal society for the county they were from, we had a lot of extended family within a few minutes of where we lived.

That affinity faded, for good and for bad. My uncle dating an Italian girl was mildly scandalous in the 80s. (“My son, getting married at St Anthony’s parish? Gasp!”) Thats not a thing for our generation.

We’re fortunate to live in a society where it’s ok to do you. Art is an expression of how we think and feel, and these expressions are a good thing. How awesome is it the the mass culture of Indians has evolved from some version of Apu from the Simpsons to some level of actual representation of the cultures of the subcontinent?
Very well done! You might also be interested in my Bach cantatas app (https://www.cantatasapp.com) for iOS and Android which has an infinite liturgical calendar and lots more of information about Bach’s wonderful cantatas (complete text, instrumentations, hymns, readings and even score references).
The graph titled "Caffeine Accumulation With Long Half Life" is weird. Isn't that not how half-life works? A higher blood level should mean faster elimination, but here it acts like the baseline changes each day. No matter how slow the user's clearance is, the ratio should always take the same time to get halved.

Edit: actually this graph implies that people like the author would end up poisoned by a lethal dose of caffeine after a few weeks to months. Maybe these people exist but it can't be common.
Do you have any concerns about TVP being ultra-processed?

> For example, you'd dump it into a bolognese pasta sauce instead of ground beef and it comes out the same.

In my experience it comes out, kind of, edible but slight disgusting, with grassy, soy aftertaste and spongy texture.
Local governments need to change zoning.

The federal government needs to extend low-interest (<4%) credit to home builders.
Oops, it's just a mistake on word choice in the nutshell summary. This works on static files like on a local filesystem (in that case the "server" is the local filesystem that serves me files that happen to be html)

Edit: on second thought, direct filesystem access has different origins which would mess with iframes. I'm not on the computer now to test. But at the very least you need a basic web server that serves files.
> but that seems more like a fetish of the founders than something regular customers are asking for

The whole company does, to me. But that may be due to their publications being so engineering focused.
This is why iowa has the first caucus. As a small state you need much less money to reach everyone and a win will get you attention and money to target other states.

as an Iowan I hate it as so many caucus only for the strawpoll.
Housing prices are mostly insane in some places because a lot of people have decided they want to live in the same places because of jobs/culture/etc. There's at least some evidence that areas where a fair bit of development has happened over the past couple of decades because of demand still can have very expensive housing.
Yes, they don't; it would be possible for a compiler to gather info about such call sites into a list and then, when it's finished compiling a compilation unit, to check this list against the now-complete symbol table and fail if some called functions have mismatched definitions or are still undefined... that's apparently was too much work back when C was designed so we have "hope for the best" design instead.
I do think it would be nice if we had health advice that applied to all people.
Good for the author, but there are plenty of people who don't drink caffeine and still have a hard time sleeping well.
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Apparently the nine in question were working underground, there is probably no realistic chance of survival if massive amounts of earth are covering the entrances.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68287504
It sounds like 'probably, yes' to adding a disclaimer, if only because I rather took it at face-value seeing it posted here on QBN so bookmarked for investigation later... .
Public housing does help address one of the roots of the problem - this is a problem with multiple roots. Public housing does not need to factor in rent seeking in their pricing, as housing is end itself, not the means to another end. It also helps address the other factor of financing housing construction at scale - build standardized and in bulk, and you bring down the price of construction, which is not insignificant.

The government is also in charge of setting zoning policy, meaning that they are better positioned to change said policy.
> Slack/Teams, Postman, Outlook, FF/Chrome, Spotify in the mix, and all of a sudden I'm running 6 full web browsers duplicated with all their resources isolated

If those apps were PWAs instead, it would mean no extra browser copies are running. In my experience this only really accounts for 70-100 MB per app for the browser copy. No reason slack couldn't be a PWA, same with Spotify.

I'm not really sure how slack and others use so much RAM. I've built quite functional, complicated, and non trivial web apps. Mine typically use <50 MB with some coming in at 20-25 MB. When I'm deploying in electron I'm still in the 80-150 range.

The biggest performance questions for me are network latency vs local data and figuring out ways to mitigate network latency. The difference between 200 ms navigation and 5 ms navigation is pretty stark. Even if most people don't flinch at 200 ms.
And still not even mandatory if you use -fpermissive or -std=c89.

I don't envy how much tech debt they have to deal with, while still trying to make it possible for new code to have a more modern experience. For all the excitement around new languages, we're still going to have a lot of C code for a long time, and difficult work like this should be appreciated.
I'd bet it's this, plus something even stupider like hashing a connection timestamp millisecond as the "uniqueness" of the hash. I've seen a lot of terrible code implementations that assume that there will never be two clients connecting in the exact same millisecond
> “In the old days of office working, people realised that if you put everyone in the same room with no sound-proofing, it was all unpleasant and you didn’t have a very productive workforce,” he said.

Did they? The trend I've seen my entire career has been finding new ways to pack more people into less space, damn the drawbacks. To the point that a common theme on here is lamenting the death of cubicles.
I found it relatively recently and because it was frequently mentioned in tech spaces. (From videos to articles). After a while I checked it out and started reading it regularly myself.
Sometimes it feels like if you just abstained from everything, you’d be immortal.
I'm ecstatic to see this project is still alive. As a user of the Video Toaster 4000, I barely had a real understanding of the Amiga platform. (Every once in awhile we'd go back to the Workbench to launch Deluxe Paint, AmiPro, etc) After leaving the job where I used it, I started to get into the emulation scene. That was where I learned SO MUCH about the Workbench, AmigaDOS, Demos, Kickstart ROMs. I went back to my old job to visit, and was delighted to share so much knowledge with my old boss.

My biggest accomplishment (of that era) was running SheepShaver (macOS 7.5 emulation) on top of WinUAE, on top of Windows98.

Biggest frustration (of that era): Searching for UAE on Dogpile/Altavista/Yahoo... So many references to the United Arab Emirates!! (rightfully so, but young me had no idea what that even meant)
This reminds me of the study of ancient greek vase painters, who are usually known only by a place name or subject, even when we have hundreds of examples of their work and tracts have been written on their style and influence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Greek_vase_painters
Another reason to not regularly use caffeine is that it can be an effective medication, especially in combination with other medications. Caffeine increases blood flow in the brain, so it can be effective for headaches, and it increases the absorption of other drugs like ibuprofen and acetaminophen.

If caffeinated is your normal state, then it becomes much less effective at treating migraines, hangovers and other headaches.
>>> If you need guard rails to keep you from performing database manipulations in your views you have other problems to worry about.

Its a one off... Its just an internal tool... This is a prototype... It's a hot fix...

I know better, I have done it. It is only with dumb luck that they didn't end up as products. Some people dont know that they should not or that it isnt a place they should try to "get away" with it. These things grow and then turn into products and someone has to clean them up.

Source: I made a lot of money turning PHP "projects" into "software".

> Also I don't see how using a loop or conditional in PHP is any different from using one in a templating engine

One of these things is Turing complete. The other is not.

Templating languages have their own laments: see yaml configs used to create "workflows", "environments" and "servers" via templating.
> If North American cities zoned a quarter of their area as 5-story midrises with large parks and mixed use and made permitting quick and easy we could really bankrupt the rent-seekers.

I don’t believe that because it doesn’t happen in other countries that allow for 5 story midrises with large parks and mixed use and … the housing prices are often even more than North America in places that allow that in Europe and Asia. The only place with reasonable housing prices by our standards would be Japan, but housing is still expensive compared to what locals earn.
I started out drinking a lot, usually 2 cups per day, one at breakfast and lunch. But eventually I just weaned myself down to one cup at breakfast for a few years, and I was still having trouble sleeping.

I feel like caffeine is a *results may vary topic, every time it is discussed many people have wildly different experiences.
Isn't subjecting oneself to feeling miserable kind of the point of religious fasting?
thanks for the details, you are probably right, then change linux to unix and chromium to blink in my comment, however, browser engines are all open source and they are the exact pitch perfect level to introduce competition

I am not so sure that chromium "kernel" or linux "kernel" ever become irrelevant... gecko or webkit maybe

even if only chromium engine stays, it is open source, if something goes wrong, you can fork or get back to gecko, webkit... we are all carbon based lifeforms, still there is great diversity I guess

why would we need to make so much effort to compete on browser engine level if it is so great that you cannot differentiate native to browser run programs?

I really do not understand what the point of your comments actually are... it is simply not true the browsers are not good for competition and I do not see what alternatives you suggest instead?
This reminds me of spiders on drugs[1]. Caffeine absolutely wrecks them.

[1] https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/nasa-spiders-drugs-experime...
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Magnificent 7 profits exceed almost every country in the world. Should we worry?
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll update the examples.

Edit: that is, after I wake up...
> Also we have deposits on bottles, most people here just toss the in the trash, not bothering to return them.

It doesn't mean the system can't work. It means the deposit is way too low.
But have you ever tried stopping caffeine and then comparing your sleep?

What if you think you sleep well now, but it turns out you can sleep so much better?

I'm not saying you will (I'm neither pro- nor anti-caffeine). But I am saying that unless you've tried it, you have no way of knowing. And I know lots of people who have improved their sleep in various ways, who thought they were sleeping normally/fine, and then discovered they actually hadn't been -- they just didn't know any better.

(And even if millions of people do something as a matter of culture, that doesn't mean it's good for your health. There are tons of cultural practices that are bad for health, or bad for a subset of the population.)
Cities are economically advantageous for a reason.

I don't think people are suggesting we make cities less appealing. Rather, people are advocating for measures that make cities more livable, such as investing in mass transit and reducing the amount of space inefficient car infrastructure and usage.
How much do 568 chips cost? What’s the cost ratio of it comparing to setup with roughly the same throughput using A100?
Yes, the music labels have a conflict of interest because they took financial positions (equity) in the streaming services in exchange for giving artists lower rates. So they don't really represent the artists. They instead joined up with the streamers to screw over the artists.
So this has nothing to do with `Grok`, the model provided by x.ai?

EDIT: Tried using it, very impressed with the speed.
Sure, I can do that. This isn't an exhaustive list, of course:

* Don't be afraid to ask for the sale
* Be comfortable "closed lost"-ing a deal instead of having non-productive conversations (SOGOTP)
* Recap all meetings with prospects or customers (email sent to them with information such as about your product, your call with them, their painpoints, next steps, etc.)
* Leave meetings with a tangible next step. Someone not wanting to schedule another meeting is a huge red flag
* You don't need a sales process or methodology, but you might if you're not able to effectively manage your deals.
* Be comfortable living in the present and future, as you want early prospects to help shape the future with you.
Keeling Curve hits all-time high [CO2 tracker at Mauna Loa]
Some of the features on that page are nice, like the hovercards and that "webmemex" thing that lists all outgoing links.

Seems a little busy, design wise, but I like most of those features.
There’s still some new product entries being discovered and added…not sure if what you found was on Amazon, but theoretically, eventually, candidates like that will land in the table.
would like to check it out and see how to set it up for my browser!
I mean, the problem with the War on Drugs is that the drugs were only ever a symptom—while it's true that some small percentage of people would try, and get addicted to, drugs otherwise, the vast majority of addicts were people trying to fill a major hole in their lives. Treating addiction as a disease instead of a moral failing or a crime, legalizing drugs, and making sure that people who want to quit have resources available to do so, are all vastly more effective at reducing the illegal drug trade, as other countries have found.

In a similar way, a huge amount of this fraud would disappear if we took more known-to-be-effective measures to combat poverty (because many of these fraud techniques rely on hiring a whole bunch of desperate people to help keep it going): things like providing housing, single-payer health care, and universal basic income.
That's part of the reason I switched to Beautiful.ai almost 4 years ago.

I hate building slides. Their tooling makes the formatting look consistent and well laid out so I can just focus on putting down the content.

Not associated with them. Just think it's insane how much time gets spent formatting slides.
Well, in reinforcement learning, wrong outputs are inherently painful for the AI. If the system expects getting negative feedback regardless what it does, I would say it is suffering. I would also define torture as giving it negative feedback for any possible output.
> Do you know anything at all about how all those artists got paid?

Do you?

Besides, that's not the point. Your previous way of making money is untenable, and has been since the invention of the Xerox machine.

What are you doing about it?

The manual drafters either learned CAD or got out of the trade.

The blacksmiths either learned how to be machinists or got out of the trade.

The farmers either learned how to use tractors or got out of the trade.

Your current business model is utterly dependent on the assumption that making copies is difficult and/or expensive. That's not true, and hasn't been true for quite some time. You can either deal with that fact or find yourself in the position of whalers after Rockefeller started cranking out fuel for kerosene lamps by the trainload.

> Why is it on the exploited to figure it out?

No one is being "exploited". No one is standing over you with a whip and forcing you to work.

Other people get paid for doing a job at the end of a week or month, and that's it. They don't continue to get paid for 90 years for one piece of work. I mean, yeah, that's a sweet deal, but sweet deals rarely last forever.

The stated reason for copyright (at least in the US) is to improve society by "promot[ing] the Progress of Science and useful Arts", not to enrich the authors per se.

> “Sorry bud, I know I keep holding you up for money. You really ought to figure out a way not to get robbed.”

Casual copyright violation is not, and never has been, prosecuted as theft or "robbery". The very concept didn't even exist until recent times, while real theft and robbery go all the way back to the beginning of history, likely long before.
“Speculative land investments” doesn’t sound dramatic enough. How about: A Land Value Tax will prevent wealthy corporations from leeching off developing communities and pushing the property market out of the grasp of young families.
I think the benefit of coffee over pills is that you actually need to get/make it, then drink it, which acts as a natural limit to intake (most people will feel sick after drinking several coffees)
I think many are just delusional.

For me, the risk/reward of 9-5 is so much better than going into business for myself that it isn't even close.

The utility of a 10x-100x increase in the payoff over 9-5 is just not worth the sure bet of 9-5 for me.

This is even more true when so many want to be in business for themselves.
I think geizhals.eu is the first time I've ever seen my Do Not Track header respected, or at least acknowledged. That's nice.
I am suspicious of studies that tout “% change in odds” in cases where the odds are pretty low (low enough to be modelled as Poisson) to start with.
https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/assange-smear-2-hes-a-rapi...
I think that would by definition be a two-pass compiler.
US has people that has no ethnicity? That's pretty wild.
In this context when people say "global variable" it is effectively shorthand for "arbitrary accessible shared mutable state" and the associated risks of mutating something which other code expects to stay the same, and also often unintentionally coupling things without it being clear that they are coupled.

I'd argue that an external database is not necessarily such a thing - it can be and sometimes is, but in many (most?) applications there generally is a somewhat well-defined layer that manages that state mutation and enforces any constraints needed, isolating the "global variable" from the rest of the program, just as a singleton class with constrained setter functions could do for an OOP approach to a shared state that's arguably fixes most issues with "naked" global variables; and standard data flow analysis in specifications can make explicit any coupling between components that happens "through the DB".
I've fasted for an entire day a few days at a time, it didn't really make me feel miserable.
So sorry to hear about your dad!

> I also ran a failed medical tourism company which sent people to get this treatment in Cuba

Why did the company fail? How effective was the treatment?
> I don't think many are reporting bad effects on sleep from drinking coffee only in the morning.

The article is precisely about how drinking coffee, even just in the morning, absolutely can negatively affect your sleep.
I still have some books on my shelf that include a floppy disk securely nestled in a pouch in the backcover.
What do you mean by speak? That word is doing a lot of work. Chatgpt can respond to a prompt, but speak seems a bridge too far. It performs statistical analysis.

[edit]

I'm not sure what i would call its actions, if not speech though. It does not think independently, but it does pass information. I guess it computes an answer.
Because millennials (and later) think the vertical aspect ratio is so cool and refuse to flip the phone to record video. The vast majority of video is landscape oriented, so the default players all have that aspect. People seem to very against black mattes to fit differing aspect ratio content than the frame, so some creative type came up with this.

Why is this difficult to understand?
Like the author, habitual coffee drinking gives me significant anxiety. I didn't call it that, when I figured it out in my early twenties - I said "jittery" - but it's elevated heart-rate, so same diff (that's something else we said back in the nineties).

What the author doesn't mention (and maybe didn't experience, but you might) is that quitting can cause splitting headaches. The two or three times I've gotten off caffeine have been miserable. I've felt worse, for longer, than the two or three times I've gone off nicotine.

A bonus effect, however, is that when I do take caffeine - usually when I need to stay alert driving at night or early morning - it's far more effective.
Dude, you're a spreadsheet. What are you talking about?
> I see software engineering as primarily a social practice.

Yes! I would say that the ability to collaborate well is absolutely necessary (but not sufficient).
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