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nicodemus26··on Senators strike bipartisan deal for ban on stock trading by members of Congress
It's due to her specific comments as Speaker of the House when leading a vote to dismantle prohibitions established during the Obama admin.

> when asked whether lawmakers and their spouses should be prohibited from trading stock while in Congress, Pelosi said, “No,” adding that “this is a free market.”

https://apnews.com/article/business-nancy-pelosi-congress-86...

It's also because her family profits disproportionately:

> Pelosi's husband, investor Paul Pelosi, frequently trades significant numbers of stocks. With her husband's assets considered, Pelosi ranks among the wealthiest members of Congress, an Insider analysis found.

https://www.businessinsider.com/we-are-free-market-economy-p...

nicodemus26··on Electric Cars Are Suddenly Becoming Affordable
https://archive.ph/SDOIP
nicodemus26··on GCC Rust Monthly Report #16 April 2022
I'm looking forward to diverse cross compilation as well as maybe some of the exotic targets gcc supports! I'm curious if there are plans to run Crater with gcc to check for rustc parity and maybe UB quirks?
nicodemus26··on Primel – guess a 5 digit prime number – each guess must be a prime
This script took less than a second to run:

seq 10000 99999 | factor | grep '^\([^:]*\): \1$' | cut -d: -f1 >5_digit_primes.txt

Using that file with grep was helpful for refining guesses.

nicodemus26··on The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human tolerance (2020)
Wet bulb 35°C, which feels like 160°F dry bulb for those of us who are in the USA with varying amounts of water in the air.

> The wet-bulb temperature is defined as the temperature of a parcel of air cooled to saturation (100% relative humidity) by the evaporation of water into it ... The theoretical limit to human survival for more than a few hours in the shade, even with unlimited water, is 35 °C (95 °F) – theoretically equivalent to a heat index of 70 °C (160 °F)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature

nicodemus26··on Why CRDT didn't work out as well for collaborative editing xi-editor
I think CRDTs would make much more sense in a projectional editor than a text one. When the changes are mutations to the abstract syntax tree its more well defined how a merge would end. Also, the merge results don't have the opportunity to be invalid syntax.
nicodemus26··on Multilingual word vectors in 78 languages
The next trick would be to create a matrix that is the closest to all of the languages and doesn't have gaps from missing words. Using English as the identity is probably a bit ethnocentric -- another reification of the three-percent problem of literary translation: http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/ .

Maybe we can call this new matrix Mondoshawan?