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jcgoetteon Tell HN: Salesforce is mandating RTO 3 days/wk for all employee

Sunk cost.

jcgoetteon Something strange is happening on the sun, and we've never seen it before

Making sure this isn't a photo of chorizo again...

jcgoetteon Friday night’s near-disaster at JFK airport

WSJ article made it seem as if these lights were already in place:

"Airport officials also inspected lights meant to indicate when it isn’t safe for planes to venture across runways and verified they were working at that particular runway, according to the summary."

jcgoetteon Tell HN: Doing a chargeback against Google will get your account banned

How do you feel about 999-year leases?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/999-year_lease

jcgoetteon The struggles of building a feed reader

Just discovered this favicon "trick" the other day in RSS-Bridge code:

https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge/blob/5e664d9b2b0cb0...

jcgoetteon Open Food Facts – a food products database made by everyone, for everyone

I'm a big fan of NCCDB.

http://www.ncc.umn.edu/ndsr-database-page/

jcgoetteon RSS-Bridge – The RSS feed for websites missing it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27712657

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19044295

jcgoetteon Write Like You Code

I like this book related to the subject.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/198856/it-was-the-b...

jcgoetteon Ask HN: News site that provides world updates only when relevant?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23542718

jcgoetteon Buried in Infrastructure Bill Is a Mandatory Backdoor Kill Switch for Your Car

The user has to QA the product?

jcgoetteon “Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says

>photo ID will get you a free library card

Results may vary.

jcgoetteon Lumber crash leads to 'blowout' sales as prices crater

Following this via WSJ:

COMMODITIES

Western Wildfires Lift Lumber Prices

July 22, 2021 04:45 pm ET

Fires are threatening an important swath of the U.S.’s wood supply, pinching output that has been under pressure since the pandemic touched off homebuying and remodeling booms and sent lumber prices soaring.

COMMODITIES

Lumber Prices Are Falling Fast, Turning Hoarders Into Sellers

June 15, 2021 08:29 pm ET

Prices have dropped from record highs spurred by the economic reopening, potentially pointing to an eventual return to normalcy.

COMMODITIES

Despite Lumber Boom, Few New Sawmills Coming

May 17, 2021 04:49 pm ET

Executives in the cyclical business of sawing logs into lumber say they are content to rake in cash while lumber prices are sky-high and aren’t racing out to build new sawmills.

MARKETS

Lumber Prices Break New Records

May 3, 2021 04:49 pm ET

Home buyers and renters are bearing the brunt of rising wood costs, while sawmills are poised for another quarter of big profits.

MARKETS

Lumber Prices Notch Records on Building, Remodeling Boom

February 16, 2021 05:17 pm ET

Lumber prices have shot to fresh records, defying the normal winter slowdown in wood-product sales in a sign that the pandemic building boom is bowling into 2021.

COMMODITIES

Lumber Prices Rise Again

November 20, 2020 04:42 pm ET

Lumber prices are making an unusual late-season climb, thanks to builder-friendly autumn weather and suppliers stocking up for what they expect to be another big year for home construction.

https://www.wsj.com/search?query=Random%20Length%20Lumber

jcgoetteon NixOS 21.05

> it's more of a Nix docker image

jcgoetteon NixOS 21.05

Would love to see an official Docker image.

jcgoetteon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2021)

Location: SC, USA

Remote: Yes, please

Willing to relocate: No, thank you

Technologies: Docker, Git, Javascript, Python, SQL, etc?

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jcgoette/

GitHub: github.com/jcgoette