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I had no idea panix was still around, wow. I had a shell account there in 94. Loved their service and PPP access!

(edited: I fused my panix and my nynet past experiences. Deleted that part.)

Thanks for pointing this out! The attention to exploration is why I enjoy using Observable so I am glad that this will be paired with the framework features to get us Notebooks 2.0

I really like using Observable. Coming from years of d3 and not having a lot of R or Python to do, Observable feels great and things look beautiful. Lots of examples and it is great to see what others are making. Also love that I can use SQL on data in the notebook. The Plot functions can make quick work of various charts. I am looking forward to the static output future, and to see what they mean by more vanilla js in the app.

Not saying it is better or worse than Jupyter etc. Just that it has been exciting to think I can make viz that would not look out of place in major pubs, etc.

I can see portions of a few walls that are out in spots that used to have a road over 100 years ago but now are reclaimed by the forest. Some of areas are densely overgrown now. Nice work.

I have come across the full dog poop bag phenomenon a lot lately on trails and sidewalks. A small group forms, as if there was a memo that someone else wants them or would be picking them up. It is baffling. I would guess that these are people who were not bagging their poop and were chided for that. And then these people took the command too literally, bagging but not carrying away.

I met Heifermann once during a project and I thought he was a grounded person. I remember one thing he did was paying not for ad slots, but to change your background to a dalmation spotted print for a promotion, with a link. This was long before CSS, etc.

He made his money just when the idea of value being divorced from real product to virtual metrics, “chasing eyeballs,” etc. was getting hot. The days when you sold a huge contract by showing a CD ROM of the website you were never going to achieve, to a client who had no idea what they were buying.

This guy was much more honest than the norm. The McD and meetup stuff reflects the fact that he kept people in the equation.

observablehq.com has built in support for duckdb, and I have found it to be very easy to use. Getting windowing and cte and derived columns is great and being able to just refer to sql query cells as an array of rows makes things much easier for me than breaking out into js right away.

Someone wrote an export function, so I can make a select into a table and grab that as csv to use elsewhere.

I wish for Simon Willison to adopt duckdb as he has with sqlite to see what he would create!

How are you relating this to the thread? Maybe you mean it takes time for capital to lower everyone’s income when market competition increases, the actual details of the excess humans matter less and less each year.

Artificial protection and gatekeeping by ordinance are there to protect those who got there first. Then we can blame others: women or immigrants etc, for wage depression. Unions do this less but still favor those who organized first.

If capital gets to hire for less, say that. Maybe the opportunity was an increase in certain pop segments, but they dont make wages go down. The people who pay wages do.

I want to find the equivalent of HN for healthcare, where I think you’d find a ton of women MDs and highly specialized nurses who are women expressing frustration with their adjunct or artist men. This community is not the whole story.

Wow this tuned into a different narrative quickly. The above comment did not blame women for men’s plight but did not compare apples to apples. Gender pay gaps usually involve different wages for same work, not downgrades that all genders do.

The “great” thing about cutthroat paring down by groups like private capital in management is all genders get downgraded at the same rate. So equity will even out in the race to the bottom, and we can enjoy more balanced stories of men contributing less to the household income.

I had a monthly or quarterly migraine for years before getting some wisdom teeth pulled. Now it is almost never.

Perfect summary, well done.

I just want to comment that the image of the Santa Ana property looks a lot like the main character’s apt in the movie Momento, adding some umami to the whole vibe.

You might have hit on a big factor, dealerships don’t want something that doesn’t need oil changes and needs fewer brake pads.

Feels like Detroit was happy to sell a few EVs for carbon credits or to soak up the tax incentives and not a unit more. They are well positioned to shoot for the ‘second car’ market. They didn’t have to go big, or work on trucks that can’t tow.

For example the Bolt is solid and GM should have done everything in their power to put one in every EV buyer’s driveway.

The bolt could have had a cabriolet version, a little higher range version, offroad, cut the price harder, etc. It is a shame to lose those years of market building. Imagine throwing that away while Toyota was gifting you that time.

The Mach-E was a decent placement, and you’d think the Cadillac could have taken a lot of Y sales away.

Rivian was smart to go toward the R3.

Yes, so bad. Those buttons do a poor job of allowing action and showing state at the same time - they only use one property (icon no color or slash etc.)

Also click-and-hold with or without haptics is not obvious. I was stabbing at the Tesla screen to activate defrost in a snow storm. I had to call the owner to figure out why it would not activate. I really like the 3 but you cant just hop in and go without some prep.

Learning to put work away for easier re-engagement is the exact thing I am determined to improve this year.

yep. Add wfmu.org which also has archives and has live chats every show.

I did not know that. I use FF on my phone, on Desktop I use MDN more than I use Firefox!

I dont know how relevant this is from grid level, but the Hotel Marcel refurbed a building with DC power. People point out how they use PoE for room lighting, and there are more benefits. https://www.smartbuildingstech.com/intelligent-building-syst...

> The reason why grafting is necessary is that in most cases the trees grown from the seeds produced by a tree with big and sweet fruits may have small and sour fruits.

This. Any apples grown for consumption are from grafts. Apple trees grown from seed are wild or experimental to try to find a new graft, or to be the graft base. I was amazed when I heard that planting a Honeycrisp seed would not get you more Honeycrisps in your yard. Cloning only!

Each homeowner just needs to cut back a little and dedicate a percentage to native plants and wilder growth. What we need are the right insects in each region, then the birds will follow. A huge manicured lawn (pesticides make it worse but even without) and none native plantings allow the wrong bugs to win, and in some cases those bugs are not good food for the birds that live in that region or temperate zone.

We don’t need complete wilding or any bad feels, just learn to appreciate the beauty of a wilder native section of a property.

No, I am not an expert but this seems to be the easiest thing to do.

In the dry cleaning scenario, private equity gobbles those up to make a defacto large corp. Not exactly M&A but close?

I skimmed TFA and this is less about “environmentalist” boogeymen than it is about policy that leads to quick cash-in on incentives when better policy could make a more robust system that benefits more people. If we are going to have financial incentives let’s overpay for rooftop solar and neighborhood scale batteries, over-crop panels and rural batteries - and plonk a bunch of money down to get a grid that is more nimble. ex: Texas coal and oil electric plants are failing in the heat and the cold, we need more outrage there and a smarter grid to tap the renewables.

We will still be giving money to people/corps rich enough to own a lot of rooftop, but regular folks can benefit more. It should be easier to cool them down when overheated, they could help with blistering heat in parking lots etc.

Yes - and I would expand “censorship” to “control”. We have been shaped by whomever has built the algos for google, fb, twitter, etc and while that itself doesn’t make them evil they need to be evaluated somehow. I think the LLM fear comes when the creators tell us a full evaluation is impossible, etc.

I did not enjoy this - you need to get all the way to the end to see that he is ok with silos as long as his get to survive. The article is a bunch of breadcrumbs to get you to the point where he springs his models on the reader.

Which is would have been one thing he if was honest but the frame is bogus. If he wanted real diversity at the popular level he would not have cherry picked so very hard so assign blame.

His frame is that ‘wokeness’ is the real problem with AI, since results from AI language interfaces will be governed by whatever that is. But all sorts of systems can present the problems he wants us to understand. You can’t tell me that Thiel/Zuck/Q/4chan or any other entity on any spectrum could not pose a problem of similar shape, depending on ownership or algorithm mastery.

Having a bitcoin guy tell us the free market is gone and info homogenization will come because commie cat ladies, with no mention of megamergers and market capture through non competitive means, seems like he is burying his own values just to print some dunks he thought was clever.

It is rare for me to more insulted by other terms in a text when the author uses the word ‘ideate’ non-ironically but it happened here.

I am eager to see good debates about language mediated interfaces and debates whether LLMs will expand or contract knowledge, but not starting from his set of assumptions.

I like when these things are celebrated with humor. Letterkenny/Shoresy can do good things with that sometimes.

I should RTFNews but I bet they didn’t test for class.

And did they test vernacular vs accent? Many times in a work situation it is alternate grammar and vocabulary rather than accent that is taken to be unprofessional.

Did they track the difference in geo background of the employee and the wage-setter? Since this seems clickbaity I’ll guess the news piece wants to drum up an inter-regional anger when the offenders are probably intra-.

Personally I love all regional accents. I am drawn to Chris Arnade’s lessons in Dignity, where he remarks that class can be tracked partially by willingness and opportunity to leave one’s hometown to pursue wealth. To my ear, having a regional accent tells me that a person managed to mitigate that and I think it is cool.

I code-switched my very sharp Boston accent down when I got to college in the midwest. Two reasons.

There are many accents and vernaculars from any single region including Appalachia that denote class. Mine let people know I came from a line of laborers, teamsters, mechanics.

So, first reason: My accent infuriated a professor I had who came from New England but had a plummier more “Boston Brahmin” line. I know that cost me by the way he openly mocked me in class. I did not use vernacular in class - I did not use “wicked” as a positive adjective or anything like that. That was pure distain for my home - like he got mugged on the subway once by my cohort.

The second reason was that a lot of my new friends were from Nebraska and Wisconsin and they actually could not understand what I was saying at times. It became something I would have to actively cultivate to keep as I repeated myself with more Rs and -ing suffixes to make myself understood. They loved the vernacular bit and actually had fondness for the accent but the force was strong.

In the end I came out a little more like Arnade’s truth. I would go home and people could tell that something changed.

Anyway I hope that bias. am be removed from wage-setting. Unions are good for that. Salary setting is different and I hope that bias can be overcome, and no matter the quality of TFA maybe the salary setters here can take it as a reminder.

I have one and it has been great. We had to buy the most expensive trim to get one - not sure that is true anymore. We mostly use the battery as we live in a small city. Most of our commute and errands are within range or it swaps to gas. I fill up every other month if that. If we go on the road of course it’s basically an ICEbox but still gets better mileage than my older toyotas did. It charges the battery from our home charger in a couple of hours so on weekends we end up using the battery twice a day.

I was going to make a similar comparison.

There is a lot of dismissal in this discussion but there are people here like me who buy macbook pros that are solid/overbuilt, beautiful, just work without maintenance, and have very limited upgrade paths.

If I had the money and property I might be tempted. “Point and shoot” is the phrase that comes to mind. The thing looks like it will work the few times a year I remember to get excited. You can let friends have a go and take requests throughout the year, etc.

But I don’t have the means so I come here for the valuable alternative clues!