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It probably functions as a fire alarm and PA so having the ability to control the content is important. The hotel already has radio - Wifi.

NotJustBikes is very good at articulating the problem with suburban car culture. I knew it was that guy before I even clicked it and many of us have already watched it so unfortunately it's choir preaching on HN. I hope town planners and suburban SUV drivers can also be influenced by his videos.

The problem with a lot of countries is that the car culture has spread to every city due to planning laws and such. You just need one place done right that can grow into something more European.

How does it handle spam filtering? Surely the big mail providers have a network effect going on when one person marks an email as spam it's applied to similar emails.

Interesting table - very easy to see which fats are the worst. It's a pity they don't include animal fat in there but I guess it's all from an Indian context. Coconut seems like a good option but it can still go rancid if you don't refrigerate it. Some the early citations [2 &3] are not the best quality as they are based on questionaries. In the Minnesota Coronary Experiment which involved 9400 institutional participants eating controlled meals they found that cutting saturated fat can reduce blood cholesterol but that doesn't actually make one live longer. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/records-found-in-...

Creepy just means unattractive

Ideally you would cook with a saturated fat like tallow, lard, coconut fat etc as they don't have a double bond to break. Monounasturated fat like (real) olive oil at least has fewer double bonds than polyunsaturated fats (seed oils). Cheaper olive oil is extracted with heat and solvents or even blended with seed oil.

The extraction process turns the oil rancid but it's supposedly okay because there is a process to remove the bad odor. The main concern is that when heated polyunsaturated fats convert to transfats which are bad; the article claims it's fine to cook with as you're renewing the oil frequently but I have doubts it's safe as they admit the process is still happening. Old fryer oil smells odly nasty - do you want even a fraction of that in your home cooking?

Anecdotally, a family member gets headaches from consuming uncooked sunflower oil but olive oil and other fats are fine. I noticed this years before the anti seed oil memes.

Virgin olive oil (not the mafia fake crap) is really great, as is beef tallow.

The fruit trees in the red zone are a bit run down in my experience. Fruit trees need a lot of care to do well: pruning, fungicide, pesticide, bird netting, irrigation etc. It's interesting to see which varieties thrive on their own. Plums and grapes seem to do well.

I agree. SO is great because it doesn't try to please everyone. It's for professionals not to build your whole app for you.

There seems to have been a swell in beginners learning to code perhaps due to economic motivations rather than curiosity. These people seem to want SO to do their homework for them without having done any leg work themselves. I can sympathise with people trying their best to find the answers but lacking the domain vocabulary to find the answers; Usually closed questions point them in to the right place anyway. However a lot of the questions are 1) duplicates or 2) high level questions for which there isn't a definite answer it's a matter of taste.

That's not what SO is for. It's your job to figure out the high level picture, learn the absolute basics of the tech stack you're working with and SO can fill gaps where information is too esoteric to find easily in docs. The questions are generally unique rather than duplicated and improve over time rather than a constant stream of crap that reddit is.

I switched to REST-Client for VS Code many years ago when Postman wanted me to sign in. I knew that was the beginning of the end for Postman.

It uses these amazing things called files. With files you can commit them to a repository of other files where your team can find them.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re...

Or you could accept that people have opinions that are different to yours and books are orthogonal to her opinions anyway. It's really concerning how authoritarian some people are while ironically claiming others are the bad actors. This is what the echo chamber voting system on reddit results in.

I really want a label that says this product is safe and free of all the bad things like forever chemicals and phthalates. Think vegan or halal. Unfortunately the plastics industry loves to pedal the BPA-free meme while they are free two swap out BPA for very similar chemicals. Outside of food and drugs, chemicals that are given a free pass until we find out it's been affecting peoples' health. That needs to change too as it's quite clear we cannot trust DuPont or 3M to do the right thing.

> This has resulted in a very diverse and fashionable line of lightweight clothes with high clo-values. A great deal of this progress is due to the use of new, synthetic materials

... which are endocrine disruptors turn produce microplastics. memo: plastics are bad.

Chess.com is more polished than Lichess. Particularly the puzzles and learning features.

My first thought: no shit. Plastics are the the asbestos or lead of our time.

Not only are microplastics are huge burden on the environment but plastics and related chemicals are a health burden as well dropping sperm counts and causing mutations in babies. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/05/books/review/shanna-swan-...

If anything there are not enough trolls and devils advocates. It's a total hive mind. If opinion is split 40/60 on a contentious topic users only get to see the prominent opinions from the slight majority. The way the voting is displayed a sum total rather than up/down means users can't know how contentious something is. Facebook is the opposite where mostly controversial comments are shown. Both suck.

At least they didn't host a rock concert for worlds richest elites the night before.

Probably companies like Bayer and Yara. I'm aware that chemicals like glyphosate are detrimental to fungi and soil bacteria. But I don't think regenerative farming with no mineral inputs is sustainable either. As this story shows there isn't always enough PK to pull out of the soil https://www.newsroom.co.nz/green-dream-pushes-farmers-into-r...

I guess they have to justify their e-begging banner somehow even though a tiny proportion of the donations actually get spent on Wikipedia.

In my limited knowledge of fertilizers the larger problem seems to be P and K which are sourced from mined minerals rather than air. It's possible to fix soil N with legumes but I don't know of a sustainable solution for PK leaving the farm with crop outputs.

Apple seem to smash every other brand when it comes to laptop mouse input. The size of the Macbook track pads is incredible. They really 'get' it whereas all the other manufacturers have tiny afterthought pads and my fingers touch the edge before I can finish a gesture. I have a Thinkpad at home too but I never use the nub.

Companies love to hide hardware faults. I was the owner of the first Samsung Galaxy S phone. The GSP antenna was really dysfunctional and yet Samsung promised a software update would fix it. The location signals it could receive were almost entirely based off Wifi and cell towers and the accuracy was around 50-100 meters instead of usual 5-10 metres. As a result I couldn't use basic location based apps like driving navigation. At the same time Apple had a cell antenna problem whereby holding the phone 'wrong' would degrade the signal.

I'm going to start a new term: goldilocks repo.

Too small and you end up needing to deploy 5 apps to get your feature out and tests are difficult to coordinate.

Too large and the huge CI suite takes forever, people step on each others toes and it can be difficult to get things done. Access control and permissions is also difficult if you ever want to transfer ownership to another team.

The happy middle ground is to follow Conways law a little and have a few related apps/modules belonging to the same team in one repo and an a CI that has a simple integration test for all of them. It's fairly natural to achieve this if you don't have people following cargo cult memes.

I'm more interested in Bill being best buddies with JEpstein.

Ted had a point that the industrial revolution is a disaster for the human race. The thing is you cannot put the toothpaste back in the tube when your economic competitors have access to all the same technology. It's a race to the bottom.

The problem is that the power thirsty law makers aren't much different than hackers since they also want access to everything.

The idea is that you don't rely on the process but measure the outcome with a device like this blower door tester. Builders are notorious for cutting corners with insulation and sealing air since it's not that obvious to the naked eye. The testing device reveals any cut corners.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msZ_E-4GFs8

When you buy a car or a fridge you can look up all the details about the efficiency and houses need to be similar. If every house rented or sold were to require an efficiency rating the market would work a bit better. There are passive house tests with air pressure measurements that can already do this. It would be obvious if it makes _economic_ sense to pay extra for passive. If it doesn't make _environmental_ sense then the energy is not being priced high enough to reflect the environmental costs.

The construction industry is very learn-resistant so standards would bring the price down with higher volumes as with seatbelts and airbags.

Where I live in New Zealand the regulations are actually protecting the construction industry building poorly performing houses with junk materials. People want to build passive but it's difficult because there are barriers to entry for companies wanting to sell components like European style windows.

Blaming it on the consumers is why we have this problem in the first place. Every single phone in the shop is going to have a soldered in battery so how is the consumer supposed to choose? The consumer does not have perfect information either. How are they meant to know the failure modes of a new product line and difficulty of repair. Sure capitalism works if is high competition and all the actors have perfect information but that isn't true. I don't believe in over-regulating but the market isn't exactly working here and car safety standards have shown that it can work if done right.

I see where you're coming from but

1) When I say abandoned the original redactle.com has had it's problems. There have been several days where the original was down because the hosting bill was not paid. Some fans tracked down the hosting company and paid it. Also the certificate was expired for months. Some days it loads a disambiguation wiki page instead of a real article. The dev hasn't been seen on social media since April.

2) Everything I did in redactle-unlimited is from scratch and with significant improvements like multi-player and lemma. The copycats are actually using others' content by either pulling en eBaum's world and embedding the sites or in one case cloning the source code, replacing the logo and domain and claiming to be the "official redactle unlimited" on reddit.

3) I'm hardly the only person to have re-created a Wordle or web game from scratch.