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Your last sentence uses a metaphor that promotes firearms or weapons of war. You should consider steering clear of that ;)

Places that aren't on SCE, SDG&E, or PG&E. My utility is municipal, and my rates are about 17 cents a kWh. It's awesome.

Because constituents will often fight such an attempt. For every covenant that's annoying you, there are people in the vicinity that like it.

People generally like setbacks. It prevents their neighbors from being too close, or the street getting crowded in. Property owners might want to develop along the edges, but their neighbors may not want them to.

So clearing these covenants out wholesale is going to be a fight. And going through the legislative process for a single property is really inefficient.

I have a similar “origin story” with the Precise V5. I remember how so much better it was than the ballpoints I had used before. Still use it today.

That being said, I miss the old color scheme of these pens. In my day, the V7s were vividly color matched to the ink, whereas the V5s were a lighter shade of the same hue. The black V5 had a gray body, the blue one had a sky-blue body.

This reinforced my opinion of V7 users as babies with their crayons, while us V5 users were sophisticated and elegant.

My math homework somehow seemed more exacting because of that spindly little nub laser-focused on the work at hand.

All stories on the site this morning were lacking any comments. Not specific to this story.

My brother gave me a beeper as a Christmas present in 1996. It was cool, but it got really cool when I bought an 800-number from LDDS Worldcom. The only thing I was charged was (IIRC) 6¢ per minute, and no call setup charge.*

I got paper bills in the mail for $0.34. Friends could page me from a payphone without having to drop a coin.

*(EDIT: I think I misremember a bit. If the call originated from a pay phone, I think I was charged additional for that.)

I color code mine. Yellow if I’m listed as an optional participant, blue if I’m required.

I don’t attend the yellow ones.

But if they're not looking at test scores, then they start admitting 80th-percentile applicants without knowing it. Applicants that got help writing their personal statements, or padded their time in high school with the "right" extracurriculars. The ones who have a 4.5 GPA because grades don't mean shit anymore.

Plenty of high school graduates have the 4.5 GPA and a snazzy personal statement and all the right "add-ons", but aren't actually equipped to succeed at Harvard. The SAT is plenty useful to evaluate that.

"It" would become so crowded that it's not "it" anymore.

A quaint mountain town is no longer that once you double capacity and build dense housing. Which, depending on who you are, might be fine or it might not be. There's no neutral right answer here.

But if someone grew up in a small town—and is now lamenting that it's nothing but tourists—building more accommodations won't return it to its former status. It'll transform it into something else.

Not only that, but the light source that's creating the shadow gets smaller (in terms of arc length), so the shadow becomes more crisp.

Wow, your commitment to accuracy is impressive. I’ve heard of pre-registration for scientific papers, but Yelp reviews is a new frontier :)

Are you waiting for news on your colon? Refresh. Jacob just left you a message a few minutes after you posted this comment.

Tons of banks are offering around 5% on savings accounts and CDs. I have a 6-mo CD right now at 5.05%. My Apple savings account is at 4.50%

Times have changed.

Just when you think you've found all the possible side channel attacks, along comes a new one: The mole can Morse-Code-tap their secret messages on your Cisco edge router and abscond with your secrets.

Depends on what it’s controlling. The tune of my car? Red = performance, green = eco-mode.

The valve on a pipe? Red means “stop” (off) and green means “go” (on).

What about a heater? Does red mean hot? Or stopped?

Sibling comments cover colorblind users, but those concerns also apply to most e-ink users as well.

I used to have one or two pints most nights. During a yearly checkup, my doctor grabbed my belly and said, “You need to make this smaller” (as he jiggled it in demonstration)

I decided the easiest 3-400 Calories I could cut were those beers, and stopped right then.

I still drink on occasion, but it’s like twice a month. Sometimes more, sometimes less. Those were the easiest calories to cut.

Clown’s left hand. Yup.

I’m disappointed that after our last talk, you decided to try and fake a “solution” rather than swapping your screens as we had agreed. I’m getting complaints that the “NY JETS” pennant in the background is flipped now.

My recommendation screen shows me at least a dozen categories. If I watch a few machining videos, it'll helpfully show me the following:

Machines, Lathes, Tools, Metalworking, Milling, Machine Tools, Steel, Woodworking, Drills, ...

Um, yeah, thanks for that wide diversity of content, Youtube.

I doubt the mass of gum in an airplane ashtray would add even a single extra gallon to the fuel burn.

The least efficient plane[0] burns 1 gallon per passenger every 64 miles. A 3,000 mile flight will burn 47 gallons of fuel per passenger.

A stick of gum can be up to 7 grams[1]. Let's assume it's even heavier once chewed, and is a nice, round 10 grams.

If we assume the mean passenger weighs only 50kg (or, 5,000 pieces of gum), then each piece of gum is responsible for 9.4 milligallons of fuel for that trip. Or 1.2 fl-oz.

Now if we consider that there is gum all over the plane, maybe a soda-can's worth of jet fuel is burned up ferrying it all around. But that's with optimistic passenger weights, pessimistic gum masses, a gas-guzzler of a jet, and probably a calculation error I've made converting between all the different units above.

:)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft#Airli...:

> On the other side, the least efficient was British Airways at 27 pax-km/L (3.7 L/100 km [64 mpg‑US] per passenger), using fuel-inefficient Boeing 747-400s with a low density of 0.75 seat/m2 due to a high 25% premium seating, in spite of a high 82% load factor.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewing_gum#Product_varieties

> Chewing gum can come in a variety of formats ranging from 1.4 to 6.9 grams per piece, and products can be differentiated by the consumers' intent to form bubbles or the sugar/sugarless dichotomy.

I used to run ZHA on my Home Assistant setup, and switched to Z2M a couple years ago.

At the time it had a longer list of supported devices, and the UI for configuring them was better. It felt kind of “dirty” to layer in yet another protocol (MQTT) between the Zigbee side and the HA side, but it’s worked great.

It could very well be that ZHA today is the same or even better than Z2M, but at the time I made the switchover, there was some device that I couldn’t use with ZHA that Z2M supported.

In the unregulated scenario, you at least know the score. In the current scenario, you have a false sense of security that this must be the real deal, because Apple reviews the app submissions.

Great link!

I like how that comment is from an anonymous source, but now that the NTSB preliminary report is out, it seems thoroughly corroborated to me. The dates of certain events and the reason for the door's removal—er, "opening"—both match the comment in your link.

Thanks.

Yup.

The Power of Pricing is a thing that exists whether you want it to or not. Smart policy uses it to great advantage. Dumb policy redirects this to hurt those it intends to help. Rent control, restrictions on production, byzantine zoning and construction rules... all contribute to distorting the market in ways that push back on the original (or at least, stated) intentions.

You want housing to be cheaper? Increase supply. That's it. You don't want foreign investment in your properties? Don't make them so damn attractive as pure investment vehicles. How? Increase supply.

There's always a boogeyman to be blamed when markets are so broken like this.

Isn't this kinda like mounting a fan on your car's roof to charge the battery? You have accelerated your spaceship to 0.995C (or whatever) and now you are encountering space dust at a phenomenal rate. Some of that dust is moving away from you, some of it toward you, some of it is at rest. On average it's all just sitting there unaware that your vessel is about to smack into it. The energy is in the difference between your speed and the particle's. If you try to harness it, you slow down.

(I'm asking genuinely here. My analogy might be wrong because it's too classical!)

According to [0] it’s not the same origin. Phew!

0: https://www.etymonline.com/word/cod

Not if the Overton Window is out of whack. Reality could conceivably be to the left or to the right of what we consider the extremes.

What we label as “centrist” isn’t guaranteed to be the “actual” center of reality’s spectrum of ideology.

I just now changed my limits to $300k/$500k, and the monthly premium increase was—not joking—about $3.50.

That was the highest choice I had through my provider’s app. I might give them a call and see what else I can get.

What does “put them into debt” mean here? Force them to take a loan to pay a judgement? If so, who’s doing the lending?

Many states cap the profit, yeah. But that’s not the issue raised by this article. The states’ minimum required liability limits are.