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kitten_mittens_on Amazon starts flagging frequently returned products that you maybe shouldn’t buy

It's a Japanese loan word. I was mystified the first time I heard it out loud in Seattle back in 2015. I don't think I've ever seen it written.

kitten_mittens_on Remote work is starting to hit office rents

If the commuter rail ever electrifies and becomes regional rail, it might not be so bad.

kitten_mittens_on These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us

https://www.transportation.gov/mission/sustainability/corpor...

MPG and GHG emissions per mile seem to both be part of the fuel economy standards in the US now.

kitten_mittens_on No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health

Driving is hazardous to other people's health in the form of crashes AND pollution in the form of noise, dust, and exhaust.

kitten_mittens_on Cherry: ClojureScript to ES6 Compiler

The LTS version of node is now 18, which supports its special flavor of ESM.

kitten_mittens_on State of CSS

With grid: https://jsfiddle.net/1oghfL9s/

kitten_mittens_on Zig-style generics are not well-suited for most languages

> Is it the first font in the list, that my browser recognizes and I have?

Yes. More info here:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@font-face#...

kitten_mittens_on Analysis of Chromium issue 1196683, 1195777 (2021)

Javascript has two number types. `number` and `bigint`.

https://tc39.es/ecma262/multipage/numbers-and-dates.html#sec...

kitten_mittens_on A legal fund to sue SF over housing deadlock

> Additionally, by June 30, 2022, Oregon's large cities (with population over 25,000) and cities in the Portland Metro region, must allow duplexes, triplexes, quadplexes, cottage clusters, and townhouses in residential areas.

Including the Portland Metro region seems sensible. In the Boston metro, municipalities have too much power.

https://commonwealthmagazine.org/opinion/zoning-variances-ar...

kitten_mittens_on White House Is Mulling a Ban on Bitcoin Mining

The third per capita by your link.

kitten_mittens_on A legal fund to sue SF over housing deadlock

What counts as a city in Oregon? If you have a municipality X of 10K people next separated from Portland by another municipality, is it exempted from 4-plexes by right?

My hometown in western ID is 25K people including the surrounding county. The parts of town that were built along the railroad are 5 stories tall in a few spots. But everything since then has been 95% zoned for single family homes.

kitten_mittens_on Building a house in California is not a housing development project [pdf]

The number (100 units) is very low. 1% of housing stock is still meaningful in the context of places like Boston where we don't build much at all relative to the metro size.

kitten_mittens_on Building a house in California is not a housing development project [pdf]

There's also BANANA (build absolutely nothing anywhere near anybody) which is perhaps a bit more tongue in cheek. It also sounds like the "YIMBY absolutists" mentioned in the GP.

kitten_mittens_on Building a house in California is not a housing development project [pdf]

Ending single family zoning in Minneapolis resulted in something to the tune of 100 permitted duplex projects.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/what-happened-when-m...

> Minneapolis had 425,336 residents as of mid-2021, the Census Bureau estimates, and 199,143 housing units as of April 2020. By my count the end of single-family zoning has so far allowed for the permitting of at most 97 new units (the above table shows numbers of buildings, not units), some of which haven’t been built yet. If things continue at this pace, ending single-family zoning will have increased the city’s housing supply by just 1% by 2040.

kitten_mittens_on The Portuguese can no longer afford to live in Portugal

You leave out Western Mass though.

kitten_mittens_on Hyoka

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyouka came to mind, but it has a long vowel (ou) the post is missing.

kitten_mittens_on Best practices for TypeScript monorepo

https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/project-referen... might help out.

kitten_mittens_on Future trains could provide carbon capture

Even in Boston, the metro transit authority (MBTA) has talked about the options for full electrification of commuter rail costing 18 billion+. https://d2o8eokdkim9o8.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/20....

kitten_mittens_on A coding error caused Rogers outage that left millions without service

Is America particularly foreign? Looking at the EU as a model, it makes sense for the two anglophone countries to have a closer union.

kitten_mittens_on JavaScript Obfuscation Techniques by Example

Do you mean ancient like something has replaced it? Or old enough to be in widespread use?

kitten_mittens_on Why BART uses a nonstandard broad gauge

The T in Boston is almost cartoonishly short compared to the other 4, but it's definitely a workhorse.

kitten_mittens_on New MacBook Air with M2

I've only lived in Germany, and while I was doing so, I went back to the States to buy an iPhone to save $600 USD at the time between the German and American prices.

kitten_mittens_on New MacBook Air with M2

The VAT too (at least in Germany).

kitten_mittens_on America Is in Denial

While I don't find myself in the author's company politically, I do think that the Mormon center right can be much less aggressive than folks expect from Fox News et al.

kitten_mittens_on The new wave of React state management

arcanis has a PR to patch up the issue that's sat for a year plus now. https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/43632

> In addition, if you want to have your app load as smaller chunks rather than a single large bundle, you need to be careful to ensure that things work even all the backing reducers aren't yet loaded.

In the decade old application we use redux saga in at work, a large portion of our 7MB minified/gzipped main chunk is redux handlers. It'd be nice if there was a relatively simple way to not synchronously load all the reducers up front.

kitten_mittens_on Bird Is Laying Off 23% of Its Staff

Walking on a roads was a thing (and still is in some places). Tokyo, for example.

kitten_mittens_on Ask HN: What does your mother tell people about your work or employment?

I work in 'spam mail.' My company name is basically never remembered.

kitten_mittens_on Monorepos in JavaScript and TypeScript

You might mean with pnp as the node linker? Migrating to yarn 3 from yarn 1 wasn't an issue at all for me with `nodeLinker: node_modules`.

I just wrapped up switching over to pnp though, and that '95% of the way there' line you mentioned rings a bell for me.

kitten_mittens_on Monorepos in JavaScript and TypeScript

Sounds like https://yarnpkg.com/features/zero-installs might be something to help out. Especially if those installs are mostly just filling out a giant set of node modules folders.

kitten_mittens_on Why developers seem to only build luxury housing (2018)

At least in the city proper, I think I only see two-three new towers of housing Downtown. There looks like there's a retrofit of an office building by Post Office square, but I'm not sure if that's housing or not.

http://www.bostonplans.org/projects/development-projects?sor...