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This particular building doesn't seem very nice to me but I agree with the hope of making non-cookie-cutter places.

It seems to mostly revolve around (not) designing cities for cars. The typical suburban towns and cities in America are almost not towns at all, more arbitrary geographic boxes drawn around anonymous wide streets, traffic lights galore, parking lots, driveways.

In my area there are occasional attempts to improve downtown areas or build new "Euro inspired" developments. This has varying success but they tend to be isolated caricatures, more like shopping malls than communities people live in... there isn't a coherent regional long-term plan. And there is always a pressure to deal with traffic, adding more housing/density creates more and more traffic and parking needs. There's a bus network but it also gets stuck in traffic doesn't properly deal with the far-flung regional destinations caused by the fundamental lack of density.

The cars also cause a general feeling of danger. Even in quiet neighborhoods kids are at risk of death from a passing car.

Some of these books describe obvious (or at least uncontroversial) things. Like one book describes issues with Celiacs eating wheat in a way that implies it's a general risk for everyone.

However diet can clearly affect the gut microbiome which is involved in development of various immune diseases (including allergies). Less clear how it might treat it after the fact, where evidence seems lacking.

Diet can clearly affect symptoms/complications. If someone has gut inflammation then different foods (or fasts) can be dramatically more or less compatible, and could potentially improve quality of life or stave off surgery. In general though, expecting too much from diet is likely to cause disease worsening compared to getting on the best drugs.

Women also have better peripheral vision.

I played it on 3DS via emulator. The "redux" romhack vastly improves the experience (e.g. remove the intolerably frequent help messages). Not sure if the official Nintendo offerings have ever tweaked old games this way.

So what you're saying is banks don't want to pay well.

NIH syndrome

He's just referring to the sleep part. He hasn't slept since 2004.

I do recommend switching to tea. Anecdotally I do feel better on tea than coffee, but coffee has a long-lasting addictive pull. I guess it's a good time to quit coffee again.

In days of yore, when scrollbars were fat and mice lacked wheels, we did indeed drag them.

They should have to include some actual reason, perhaps a QR code or something which can produce a Cancer Facts.

Or really just add Cancer Facts into Nutrition Facts, complete with estimated QALY cost per serving. They should also incorporate IQ damage and not only cancer.

The video is talking about a Soviet ES-1841 computer from the Chernobyl zone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ES_PEVM

> Police only work _AFTER_ the car has been stolen

That sounds like lax policing to me. (Which itself derives from policy.)

It seems you need Do Not Disturb set to prevent the wakeup. (Moon icon in menu bar, if enabled.)

(replying late for posterity)

MacLean doesn't say the brain is an onion with a tiny reptile inside!

It's not uncommon to want to shut off the display independently while a machine works on stuff. It seems with Macs you can learn to invoke that easily in the OS but it's probably not "discoverable" at all.

Meanwhile, displays with indepdent power buttons have been around since decades ago and still tend to work that way with typical TV/media setups. Although that was always unergonomic and we now have semi-reliable HDMI fixes.

As far as I can tell this site is run by an amateur, not a "climate professor".

There also are cultural norms and/or enforcement around stuff like loud cars or trucks. I visited Asian cities recently and did not notice offensive noise. No crazy/rowdy yelling people, quiet buses.

I slept in quieter neighborhoods but they were still dense.

Try Trumer Pils. Or Longboard Lager.

Or grab a case of Kirin or Asahi from costco.

Chapter 1 of the SICP book says that the main reason it uses Lisp is its convenience in manipulating procedures as data.

There is a "JavaScript Edition" of SICP. The preface says ECMAScript 2015 enabled a close match by adding lambda expressions, tail recursion, and block-scoped variables and constants.

It doesn't mention much downside except that JavaScript's "rigid syntactic structure complicated the implementation" of some programming language design book material.

I suppose it depends on what issues we should consider to be introductory. Maybe the older theoretical approach was more fundamental then than it is now. Like, maybe that was effectively more practical given the old hardware performance constraints and likely having more control of the entire program stack.

It's interesting that Sussman kind of lumps together "uncertain software libraries" into the same category as machine control robustness (e.g. hysteresis). I never thought of it that way but I guess in practice it's all just "stuff", those libraries are just another piece of your program's environment like any other.

"Most people" don't get to choose, they're stuck with 40. (Or more, for some salaried positions.) The idea is generally "all of your time".

In principle they can just not do those particular jobs. In practice most "careers" expect "full" time.

Some fields are inherently quite flexible, like some doctors/dentists can decide to not schedule anything for a week.

In the linked comment JC said "I am deeply appalled at the thought of trading away individual freedom of action and additional value in the world for that goal."

But the point is that freedom is ephemeral. The world has all sorts of incentives that promote race-to-the-bottom behaviors (cf. https://www.slatestarcodexabridged.com/Meditations-On-Moloch )

In the good ol' days at least a family might likely have the mom at home with the kids even if dad gave blood to Moloch every day.

The issue of boring lectures has been around a long time. Lectures of that sort seem somewhat obsolete anyway, probably it is more efficient to work in smaller class sizes with more video content. I greatly appreciated video lecture playback with variable speed, rewind.

With big lectures I remember details about the lecturer more than the class material. The professor's style, tone, gravitas. Their anecdotes.

An important part of the package there really is about marshaling student attention. Getting out of the home, going to a dedicated place of learning with others, restraints on distraction. Similar issues affect WFH/remote. Or various other psycho-hacks like wearing special uniforms, daily rituals.

Perhaps ADD correlates with cultural looseness around all such formality.

Speed (low moves #) to win is an important bragging factor in some roguelike communities. Can be part of the score.

Or try adding a time->danger game mechanic like Spelunky.

When looking at market prices, how should we distinguish between "affordable" and "undesirable"?

Isn't this misleading? It's not "no zoning" it's specifically required to be low-income or whatever housing. Right?

The comment needs little elaboration. It's devastatingly clear and almost vulgar, all the more truthful for its strangeness.

A tyranny exercised with good intentions "may" be worse than all possible ones? Weak.

So, that includes all possible versions of good intentions? All good intentions lead to torment? There are no sociopathic tyrants lacking conscience?

Anyway, I doubt Yahweh considers it a sin to install tracking software onto people's phones.

Agreed. The article displays a "me vs. the world" attitude and the whole thing aims to evoke admiration and sympathy in the reader. There's no evidence of any true human empathy. Who gives a flying f__k about his abdominal muscles?

It's all fun and games until you get the brain-eating amoeba. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naegleria_fowleri

Film grain is a funny topic... if it was the original look then it can be considered highest quality/fidelity to retain it. Filtering it makes for easier video compression.