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People forget your first point way too often. I’ve had to deal with air handlers that were retrofitted with a UV systems that I’m sure sounded like a marvelous idea to my institution; however none of the insulation or wiring was rated for UV exposure. So after a few years it was a total mess.

I’ve changed out the super high intensity blue LEDs on my computers for amber 30 MCD ones. I don’t sleep in the room with them, but if I have someone crash on my couch they don’t have search lights blinking at them all night.

They’re plenty bright to see in daylight, and personally I like the retro charm.

This thread made me think of Dr. Evil and his insistence on putting lasers on sharks. Some startups seem to think just throwing some more technology into an already refined process will somehow be “disruptive”. Solutions searching for problems is terrible way to streamline or even add value to an industry.

Arcologies always seemed like a neat idea to me, but I've never seen an in-depth look at their proposed infrastructure.

What would power and communication distribution look like? HVAC? I assumed chill water with several distributed plants. This place is going to need lots of loading docks or it's own trainyard for food and other consumables. Domestic and waste water would probably both need to be handled on site.

I've never seen those aspects of an Arcology design explored.

There was a piece on PBS Newshour recently about older workers (largely skilled blue collar) staying on longer with verious incentive because employers couldn't find skilled replacements.

What stuck me as ridiculous was some owner who said something about having invested 30 years in these guys. He hadn't invested shit as far as I could see. He has a handfull of employees that had invested in their own skills. If he had invested in his employees he have a new generation ready or almost ready to step up as one retired.

I don't think we'll see socket SP3 Epyc on mATX for a few reasons. The chip itself is huge and you'd have to throw away a lot of PCIe lanes and DIMM slots that couldn't fit on the motherboard. Supermicro's ATX boards already halve the the number of DIMMs of their proprietary form factors or Gigabyte's eATX boards hold.

*Edited to clarify I meant socket SP3 boards rather than embedded.

I really don't understand this either. I feel like once upon a time email clients used to go so far as to show you the full header by default; but UI trends made it important to hide anything too technical from the end user. It seems like a total dismissal of function for the sake of form. Especially since the uninterested just scroll a little to get past the techno-babble. I think having the header right there was good, it reminded people that email wasn't magic, there was understandable technology at work, and you could easily see what was going on if you cared to look.

Zach Galifianakis uses a fair amount of physical comedy. Some of the gags most likely to make me laugh in his show Baskets are physical, but it also has lots of situational humor and pathos. I think physical comedy used well can show what's funny about a character on a deeper internal level.

Granted I don't know a ton about Zigbee other than it's the approved wireless standard for BACnet, but I'm glad to see comments like this. It's seemed silly to me that all of this home automation stuff gets marketed as new and revolutionary when it's just balkanized and proprietary implementations of technology that's been in commercial buildings for decades. BACnet seems to have become the defacto standard in serious building automation. It's ridiculous that this home automation market seems to ignore a tried and true open standard for all this proprietary nonsense.

In the past year or so I feel like I've had to resort to bangs like !g more and more. It's like Boolean searches don't work with DDG anymore. Quotation marks in particular seem meaningless to it.

As an aside, I recently learned that the N in NHL would have originally been Canada.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Hockey_League

In retrospect it makes a lot of sense; but I guess in my subconsciously Americentrist way the thought never occurred to me.

That's always super annoying. In my mother's old neighborhood there is a former train yard that was an empty field for decades. It was two or three blocks wide, about dozen blocks long, and split into thirds by a couple cross streets. When uppermost third was finally developed, instead of joining the existing street grid, they surrounded it in a fence and ran a silly meandering loop inside.

I don't think the article is a critique of environmentalists so much as lazy pop science news that inacuratly simplfies and conflates issues. "Lungs of the Earth" stories distract from the very real problems with a inaccurate bumper sticker slogan.

Cisco's been accused of have assisted China in identifing members of Falun Gong.

The first news story I came a across searching (it seems fairly unbiased): https://m.sfgate.com/technology/dotcommentary/article/Cisco-...

I'm of the opinion America lost that conflict and it was so terrible because officials chose to be restrained in overt military action, out of fear of direct conflict with the Soviet Union, and at the same time unrestrained in covert action. It was a poisonous mix that achieve nothing but years of death and misery; that said a full scale push by America could have spiraled into nuclear war.

That wouldn't explain the fancy parts of their diet though. Huge quantities of grain where passing through Portus. Why would they waste the good stuff on slaves?

I do wonder if the cost of more exotic food in Portus would have been significantly cheaper than 15 miles away in Rome.

I like this, but I visualized it differently. I assumed the tree style tab bar could be placed horizontally and each tab could be a drop down tree from there. I'm not sure if that would even be possible but I'd prefer that arrangement. I rarely maximize my browser so horizontal space isn't just dead space for me.

Funny you mention it, forecast.weather.gov is now the first link on my phone browser's start page. I made the switch after the wunderground app started refusing to update and otherwise glitched out constantly. The only downside is I have to actively think check the weather in the morning rather than just have it presented.

The technology is exactly the same. They just eliminated a standard connector from their design and now require you to supply your own DAC; either as a dongle or integrated into the headphones.

The local chapter of the ACLU is in an office building across the street from City Hall in New Orleans. I think it's fair to say nothing comperable is the case in any major Chinese city.

I pretty much solely buy things from Amazon when their algorithm screws up and chances of counterfeits are low. I've bought several metal cabinets by a major manufacturer with free shipping for a price that had to be lower than the cost of shipping itself; much less the cabinets.

Were they beat up in transit, and take forever? Oh most definitely, one was even lost somehow; however they were so undervalued it was worth the fact they were bound to screw up.

I think this comment is being downvoted unreasonably.

Regardless of the (im-)morality of weaponizing space I'm fairly certain the only binding treaty signed by the space powers addressing weapons in space was The Outer Space Treaty of '66. That only banned nuclear or other weapons of mass destruction.

As far as the definition of weapon; popular opinion isn't germain if we're discussing a legal matter, only the legal definition and how loose it might be. In the past few decades the US, Russia, and China have all shot down a satellite with missles from Earth, and generated more space junk in the process I might add. If that didn't run afoul of a treaty I don't see how this project could.

An anecdotal observation. In the majority black city where I live 50% of black men are unemployed but if you look at the numerous construction sites workers are largely Hispanic.

I worked at a hotel for several years in the early 2000's the housekeeping staff was overwhelmingly black women and men but shifted dramatically to Hispanic women and men after new penny pinching ownership took over and started using some dubious temp agency.

I don't begrudge the immigrants, I'm second gen on one side and wanting a better life is completely reasonable. I do however think it's completely disgraceful that we turn a blind eye to employers that break the law because they don't want to pay a living wage, or want compliant semi-disposable workers.

I worked somewhere where we received a yearly Christmas bonus of some maximum amount reduced by various factors. Maybe the threat of loosing 10% of some yearly bonus for: "fails to meet security standards" would work well as a deterrent.

Sounds like by your absurd standards the B-2 bomber wouldn't qualify as being made in America.

My thoughts exactly. Some people seem to be reading this ruling as though no "tech company" could hire any "tech contractor". However, I read it: if a hypothetical company doesn't for example design databases as their bread and butter they could hire someone else to.

Electricians typically have a five year apprenticeship and apprentice pay is a percentage of the journeyman rate, for example I think a fifth year makes 80%. I think getting in unions can be hard, some more then others. NYC's Local #3 for example is notoriously difficult to get in.

There is a pickup that parks near my house that always has a piece of brick mysterious sitting on it's rear bumper. It took me awhile to realize it was probably put there whenever the owner parked to partially obscure his license plate.

She might when it comes to asset forfeiture time.

Not entirely true, if you buy products for commercial use you might still be able to get something that will last and be possible to, and worth repairing.