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The EPA's power to cut emissions has always been limited. That's always been part of the problem. The current Supreme Court didn't suddenly create those limits, they just adjusted the dial a little.

TL:DR; the EPA has never 'protected people from emissions' well. This article seems to ignore all that history and focuses on the hot take of ruling reactions.

Because they're uncomfortable and I don't want to wear a collar (or take one off and on repeatedly throughout the day)?

Because that would be a stupid, factory floor mentality?

Around second grade, something odd happened to me: I discovered I had a photographic memory. For a while I was a trick pony who could read an entire book page once then recite it verbatim. I couldn't understand why other people couldn't do this.

Then, a year or so later...it stopped. Not all at once; it became gradually harder and harder to do it, and one day I realized the ability was gone.

As all of this was happening, I happened to read Flowers for Algernon. It gripped me, and for many years I was afraid that the same thing was happening/would happen to me...I'd gradually become 'dumber and dumber' until I couldn't do anything. It scared the hell out of me.

As an adult in my 50s, I sometimes have random episodes of 'photographic' memory--I'll recall a page from book I read years ago, or an entire conversation from high school. I can't control it--it's entirely random. Seeing this book again brings back a mild echo of that anxiety I had about it. To this day, I just can't read it again.

At every turn, in every instance, for decades, all stories involving Microsoft end in "...and then Microsoft fucked people over." I've witnessed this firsthand since the 80s.

Define ‘senior’. Doing that in a way that everyone understands will reveal your problem.

No, this is called homeostasis— the ‘set point’ or 'settling point' idea. Your body only sees weight loss as a threat to survival and tries to achieve a balance. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6039924/

What an oddly romanticized view of construction. I like Kevin's writing, but this is just fluffy nonsense.

I'm reminded of the software world, where 'interim' or 'just ship it now and adjust later' actions lead to...technical debt and often worse. I feel nuclear creates the mother of all technical debt.

Given Gitlab's fairly transparent chronicling of what they've learned and how they work, I disagree. One of the things I like best about Gitlab (as an organization) is their ongoing effort to conduct business and process learnings in public, and share them.

>Sedentary, white-collar jobs are less arduous (and less lethal) than manual work. They also promote obesity and heart disease.

I'm always baffled by the dismissive wave of the "activity level causes obesity and heart disease" trope--because it's mostly wrong. The first world diet is the primary cause of obesity and heart disease, and it's well-proven. Starch and sugar, processed foods, a diet primarily consisting of carbohydrates. Diet is the driver, not activity level.

>So imagine my surprise when I showed up at my first day on the job at a startup and found no tests at all.

In my experience, this is the norm, not the exception. Especially in certain areas like 'web development'. Everybody talks about tests and nods sagely in their direction--but I've rarely encountered some kind of meaningful test harness.

Maybe. Sort of. What I'd really like to see is some sort of data on long-term income from these sorts of models. Yes, I know there are some--but I haven't seen it widely successful over several years or more for more than the '1%'.

I owned two Newtons. The jokes about the handwriting recognition are a bit overstated, especially as later apps made it a joy to use. Also, Newton was way ahead of its time, and though it looks quaint today, it was really something back in the day.

Still amazed daily at how many people eagerly line up to work at Facebook and Google, two companies engaged in mass fuckery with long-term harm to the entire population.

Maybe you thought I was trying to respond to your point, instead of adding more information of my own.

Underneath all this is a recent phenomenon to recast Central/South American civilizations as 'ancient' and 'comparable' to other non-American civilizations. A lot of this is normal, on the level kind of research, but there's a significant amount of breathless hyperbole about it too. You can usually identify the latter by the language it uses.

This article does a lot of that ("Mind blowing!" "Challenges archeaological dogma!" "Mysterious"!), and it repeats something that's very suspect, even amongst conservative historians--it dates civilization in the area to "10,000 years old". Also, much of what's in these kinds of articles is not new, but simply repackaged content.

Great, but they’re not ‘ancient’, at least by common definitions of what ancient means. They’re relatively recent, historically speaking.

This seems...underwhelming. In most features, especially the screen. Also: I've used multiple high-end HP laptops at work (a requirement), and they are awful.

Grain is at the root of our dietary and other consumption problems. Much of farmland is given over to growing corn for —-corn syrup and variations to put in processed, artificial ‘food’.

We can live better, healthier lives without grain.

I like the concept of this laptop. I really want to like the laptop itself, enough to buy one.

But for me, it always comes down to the experience of the user interface--the keyboard, trackpad, and screen. And that always brings me back to Macbooks and ThinkPads. I'm a Linux fan, but 'ability to run a specific OS' is not even in my top three must have features.

Medical imaging is not copyrightable (in the US, and I would be surprised if it were anywhere else). This explains a bit:

https://blog.photoshelter.com/2018/01/who-owns-the-copyright...

Maybe what's losing market share is the monolithic 'CMS'. Content, for lack of a better term, has long since outgrown the hoary confines of tools like WP.

I’ve had an ebay account continuously since 1999. I never use it for selling anymore; the Chinese junk resellers, bias towards those kinds of sellers, and ridiculous fees have warned me off. I only buy.

No true Scotsman.

(Almost) all programmers are niche programmers.

I work for a major healthcare provider (thousands of nurses) and while there's a lot of unhappiness, nowhere near '90%' are considering leaving.

And really, this is a red herring; the real problem started long before COVID. This video essay nails it (or so care practitioners at my workplace say, anyway): https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000008158650/covid-...

I would still use OS 8/9, warts and all, if it were practical and worked reliably with modern software/hardware.

I still pause when I see how much Sabine looks like Klaus, the lead singer of the Scorpions.