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I'm on Long Island and there was a train passing at the same time.

I've always had this weird thought - that doesn't really pass the ethics test, but here it is anyway.

I was raised by my grandmother - let's just say my parents were not ready. And I know a lot of parents that want their kids to have kids but the kids aren't ready. What if it would become the norm for Grandparents to raise the children? That way the second generation can focus on their careers, etc and the first generation could raise the third. That wouldn't mean the second generation wouldn't have a role and be a part of the process. Of course, there would have to be consent on each level - and if it was part of the culture maybe there would be. Also, technology may have a role in this also - if no one has to actually carry the children, the second generation could be more willing.

The whole point is that this happens all the time, but it's always seen as a break from the norm, not the norm. What if we just embraced it?

The next generation would happen earlier, the first generation would have their grand kids and the second generation would have time to "wait" for whatever reason.

Again, I know this doesn't really work out, but it's a thought I've always had.

If you had the Dark Reader extension enabled like I did when I first went to the site...

Exactly - time is relative to our reference frame, so that would be the best arbitrary choice.

How could we know if this is because we can only measure these specific heights, not that they don't exist at other heights? And is there even a real difference between these two scenarios.

The complexity of a object is not just the complexity of its ingredients. It's also the complexity of the factory needed to create that object. Time is a very important factor - and again, not just the time to make an object and the time to make the objects the object is made of, but time time to make the object that makes the object.

I've recently discovered Assembly Theory. There are so many interesting ideas in this interview, I don't know where to start. I think my favorite is: According to complexity: the Earth is the largest place in the universe. The Sun is simpler than a spool of insulated 22-gauge wire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boI0DJME_D4

This is what I've been told to take by my provider, and I've been taking it for at least 5+ years.

I think that maybe the author is projecting here. I would argue that that search for validation from the previous generations was in some ways invented by the advertising industry - and now it's not working anymore - but the author is still feeling the sway of it.

The author was given a faux need that the people she's projecting on don't even consider at all in the framework of their lives.

Like a lot of other comments here, I agree that it's been moved to private chats, but I would add that what's missing is:

- everyone having a "Profile" that can be passively looked at at any time. Having an old classmate or a friend from your friend group (kind of solved in group chats) that's not a direct friend, but you still want to be part of that community - or have a sense of their life without having to the whole social interaction part.

- events

- the ability to "look up" someone before actually interacting with them

- the ability to "post on someone else's wall". This is something that many Facebook clones got wrong. I don't want to tag someone, I want to put something on their page that their friends can see that I put there.

This is what I do now. I have a group chat with just me in it.

When looking for a monitor:

> 1k = 1920x1080

> 2k = 2560x1440

> 4k = 3840x2160

[even though it's not usually referred to as 1k, but rather 1080p directly]

It's unwatchable. I'd cancel Prime because of it, if I didn't want the shipping. What is the real purpose of them limiting the stream? It can't be because of pirating. The movies and shows show up on the torrent sites BEFORE they even hit Amazon Prime. So who's going to "Record" it there? They are only hurting their customers.

Every single time I see a huge SUV being backed into a spot instead of just parking I think about how dangerous this is. Starting in 2016 all vehicles have backup cameras so that you don't accidentally run someone over. The backup cameras have wide angle lenses. But now you'll have to pull forward with no such camera and a HUGE blind spot.

Inflation + Demand?

A: tron = ‘tool’ in Greek.

You can search for something simple on Amazon - scroll past to the end of the results and not find it.

You can then open up your favorite Search Engine and see it as the first result, linking to Amazon.

I think what's more important is that we used to get interest on our savings accounts, and now we have to gamble with corporations to make any returns.

> Grievant had the temerity to do stand-up while on a WFH doctor's note for MS

This adds a huge amount of context to this article. A big issue was that he was doing comedy, it's that he was doing it on company time.

The article mentions things like "raises concerns about the boundaries of remote work" and I was completely confused why they kept bringing up working from home if the article was bout inflammatory jokes.

I'll add that I am on Jad's side here, but the full un-biased picture is important.

You should know that a lot of IKEA coffee tables and shelves are the exact width of a equipment rack. You can buy ~$8 rails and turn that table into a rack for that server. though the weight may be an issue.

Edit: found one example: https://boingboing.net/2020/08/14/lack-rack-ikeas-cheapest-t...

There's a light in a village by me that won't give the walk signal unless someone hits the button, but instead will let cars turn. Last weekend when I went up to this light (as a pedestrian), there were two other pedestrians waiting. I had (wrongly) assumed that they had hit the button. But we waited two light rotations and I heard them complain about it not letting them cross. Then I hit the button myself and the next rotation it let us cross.

Not sure if it's everywhere - but where I am it is actually illegal to cross when it says don't cross and you can get a ticket for it. (not saying it's actually enforced).

From the article:

> Kiwix also allows you to download subdivisions of wikipedia — like the top 1 million articles at 43.53GB

And then they back into parking spots! Every car since 2016 comes equipped with a backup camera that gives a wide view, but now they see nothing when they pull out!

A lot of this has to do with the fact that you cannot feel velocity, you can only feel acceleration. So if you're walking and the coffee isn't spilling, you can increase your velocity at a constant rate (because you intuitively think it's the speed that matters). But when you stop, if you don't first slow down at a constant rate, then you're acceleration will change abruptly and you spill your coffee (because you intuitively think stopping won't matter).

I read an article linked off HN about how the reason that companies want you to come back to the office is because they want to have control over you - rather than them wanting to have the output you provide (I'm wording that wrong and wish I could find the article to quote it). But I think that's very related to this.

But isn't Visual Studio the same? You still have to install the relevant Workloads[1].

If I suddenly want to do C++ development - I need to install it. And it's not easier than it is in VSCode.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/modif...

This is what I'm saying! At the risk of ad hominum - I feel like a lot of the comments classifying VSCode as merely a text editor haven't really used it for development - at least not directly or in a long time.

Though this whole thread could really be considered off-topic since the original post is about Visual Studio for Mac!

VSCode is far superior to the actual Visual Studio in so many ways. It's definitely closer to Visual Studio than it is to Notepad++.

On personal note: my company pays for Visual Studio Ultimate + Jetbrains for me and I rarely open it these days and use VSCode 99% of the time.

The further I get into the video (I'm not quite done yet), the more I'm convinced that most of the people calling aren't actually scammers, but are people that have been scammed by the scammer to call to get their bitcoin.

As if they've hijacked the wrong side of scam.

My wife and I both work full time jobs. It's easy to do meal planning when one member of the family doesn't work - but when everyone [has to] work - planning a meal every night of the week is nearly impossible.

Currently we're trying to eat at home 3 nights a week, and even that's hard. We don't want to eat the same thing for multiple days. If neither of us has time to cook, then a lot of time the ingredients are perishable and get thrown out (so now instead of spending money to go out, we're spending money on food to cook AND going out - it's a gamble).

I would even add, that I think, as a society we should move to towards eating out and delivery being the norm - It's like anything else, I specialize in Programming, my wife specializes in Medicine. When we order food - they specialize in that. It's way more efficient than us having to do it.