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uxp100··on String of recent killings linked to Bay Area rationalist 'death cult'
It was very cult like with Ziz cutting off members from their friends and the internet. And writing long complicated essays that didn’t make sense if you weren’t in the group.
uxp100··on A Laptop Stand Made from a Single Sheet of Recycled Paper
60 or 70 years ago.
uxp100··on The Nvidia Way
Yes, it’s only $4 retrospectively due to splits. At the time the price was listed higher.
uxp100··on Almost all leading AI chatbots show signs of cognitive decline
An interesting angle to take/experiment. I don’t think it necessarily means anything about capability of ai to automate tasks, including medicine, but i do think it is neat. Looking forward to reading the paper.
uxp100··on The Headlight Brightness Wars
That’s a link to a standard gas vehicle being ticketed.
uxp100··on Weight-loss drug found to shrink heart muscle in mice, human cells
Nutrient deficient, sure, protein deficient? Probably not.
uxp100··on The withering dream of a cheap American electric car
Is there a $27k base model ram truck? Seems like the base model on the ram website is $38k and when I tried to price a regular cab one from stellantis fleet those were like $46k, but I could have made a mistake on that site.
uxp100··on The brain summons deep sleep for healing from life-threatening injury
That is not how it always goes. We had sustained periods of sleep and time alone following delivery. My partner actually wasn’t a huge fan of her OB before the delivery but thought she was great during. Loved the combo of kind and gentle nurses and a doctor coming in and just ordering her around. Kinda personal trainer vibes.

We made it clear we wanted to be left alone over night, had reasons for why (neurological issues that are exacerbated by poor sleep) and they largely respected that. Maybe if we didn’t have that excuse it would have been worse. Shit, even the vending machine salads were pretty good. Didn’t love sleeping on a foam bench for 5 days, but we felt quite positive about the delivery center we had our child at in the US.

uxp100··on Trump wins presidency for second time
Yes, it’s been good for the rich. Stock market gains do nothing for most people.

I’m skeptical about the vibes based methods of evaluating the economy, I think the economy really is better for the lowest income workers, but forget stock market gains. Also, rents remaining flat might be a Bay Area specific phenomena. Or even SF specific? Don’t know where you live.

uxp100··on Trump wins presidency for second time
I don’t completely disagree with you (I mean, I mostly do, just not completely) but do you have reason to think the hawkishness of the Biden administration (a lot of which was inherited from the hawkish first trump administration) really influenced people? Like polls, or even surprising anecdotes?

Americans mostly don’t seem to care about foreign policy at all.

uxp100··on 3 Years After Allocating $5B for EV Chargers, 17 Stations Completed
I think it is likely true that only 17 chargers have been built so far. The government subsidized chargers near me were only recently had their locations announced. It is possible the installation could get done fairly quickly now that sites are chosen.

What is relevant is not $5B so much as how much of that $5B has been used already as several commentators on the (better than I would expected for the National Review) comments section of that page note.

uxp100··on FTC announces "click-to-cancel" rule making it easier to cancel subscriptions
Staff often doesn’t like it either. Probably some combination of actually making less money and being overly optimistic about what they would be making if they were getting tips. a bar I was aware of that advertised paying $20+ and hour with no tips switched to a tipped model due to staff complaints.
uxp100··on Some Automattic employees accept severance package offer
Do you know when they stopped being frictionlessly open? I’m curious when they started doing the to continue you have to log in pop overs. It preceded musk, as I said. I think every link still worked, but scrolling and navigating twitter like a typical website instead of typing in a link had log in gates.
uxp100··on Some Automattic employees accept severance package offer
As someone who wasn’t a twitter addict, I know it was true because people would link me to twitter, I would see the tweet but attempting to scroll too much would result in a log in popover years before the musk buyout.
uxp100··on Some Automattic employees accept severance package offer
That might be true about the traffic, but twitter wasn’t open before the musk purchase either, it would stop you from seeing posts if you weren’t logged in if you tried to scroll more than a few times. Its current behavior of showing just a few posts sorta, uh, randomly selected might be easier on the server, idk.
uxp100··on Elon Musk's X Backs Down in Brazil
I think as much speech as is allowed within local laws is a coherent position. (Obviously not the one Elon holds, exactly)
uxp100··on 20% more powerful perovskite solar panels enter commercial use
Yeah, my dad has that setup. Over provisioned panels so he still can get max output more of the year. Not to the amount you suggest, but his inverter can safely have about 20% more input than output.

He bought used panels so the actual input may be a little lower than rated (though it doesn’t seem much lower), but he says he sees some ads for new panels nearly as cheap as he paid for used ones 5 years ago.

uxp100··on The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette vs. Internet Archive
I thought the person you were responding too was saying that isn’t what physical libraries do.

Also, as far as I know that isn’t what physical libraries do. They buy licenses to share e-books. And don’t physically scan anything.

uxp100··on The fight to ban gas-powered cars in the 1960s
It would have been easier then I think. Far less people had cars, Many people remembered life without cars then, and at least my city had a far better transit system in the early 60s than today.

In the 50s my grandfather was living in the country without owning a car, working in town before he attempted farming. He knew someone with a car, and if they were free they gave him a ride home, if not he walked 7 miles home. He would know if they were free by if they showed up at the end of the day or not.

So obviously, a car was a huge improvement in quality of life for him. But also, pretty much any car would do. 50 mile range? Fine. Slow charging? Fine. He had been just walking.

uxp100··on Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay
Commuting in a car is not possible because most people do it, I suppose.
uxp100··on Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay
People actually live everywhere in the Bay Area, and do every commute, and there is extensive mediocre transit in the South Bay. Commuting Santa Cruz into town, Livermore into town, every single suburb has people going to San Francisco, or to another suburb, or San Jose, or Oakland. In heavy traffic they are much longer than 1 hr apart, and the fastest train is 1hr 10min iirc.
uxp100··on Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay
Why assume everyone is living in SF? I can’t imagine Elon actually asking his employees and taking there opinions into account, but my experience is that people are commuting in every direction in the Bay Area. This will be closer for some people without a doubt.
uxp100··on LG and Samsung are making TV screens disappear
See through it? Nah, but wish it wasn’t there? All the time. Always hated how TVs ruin a room. However, I don’t think this really solves the problem, for all the reasons others in this thread mention.
uxp100··on Small businesses in crisis as rising numbers unable to pay rent
It doesn’t have to match inflation, and there is a little circularity here, since (residential) rent is factored into inflation. I don’t have any insight into commercial rents, but my experiences in residential renting in the 2000s and 2010s would indicate no, yearly rent increases are not expected. They happened from time to time, but far from yearly. Maybe Twice in 10 years? And rents have gone down when the housing market drops, though you might have to move. I’m not sure this really means anything though. It’s more like, how often do you want to evaluate the market. It’s made easier by (possibly cartel creating) software that automates the process now though, so things could be different. But the survey question does seem like it doesn’t mean that much on its own to me as well.
uxp100··on Convert an existing wired doorbell into a smart doorbell using ESPHome
Hey, this is good info. I’ve got the pictured Amazon seller kit, and it works really bad!

For the task of connecting 2.54mm “pin headers” on boards you prefer mini-pv. A little hard to search for, but does this require a special crimper of its own?

As a hobbiest you don’t recommend doing your own crimping at all, and I am willing to pay money, but I do kinda need specific lengths due to a tight enclosure without much room for excess ribbon (I guess round cable might be bit better). Is there such an option? I kinda searched for it, and on electronics retailers like digikey I didn’t really see the length I wanted, though it is easy to miss stuff on there.

uxp100··on Huawei unveils its own programming language the "Cangjie"
I would never call china democratic, but there is voting in china.
uxp100··on Neofetch developer archives all his repositories: "Have taken up farming"
Michigan is not particularly cool in summer.
uxp100··on Bicycle Rolling Resistance: Tire Rolling Resistance Tests and More
I think it’s a little different than bike weight, which makes very little difference for anything other than lifting it onto a rack or taking it up apartment stairs. Rolling resistance makes slightly more difference than that.
uxp100··on The USDA's gardening zones shifted, this map shows you what's changed
Impossible with my reel mower. Nearly impossible with my buddies electric mower. I think a good gas mower will get through it ok.
uxp100··on Google gave investors a $70B buyback,and laid off 12,000 people
We should moderately increase the capital gains tax so that buybacks are less advantaged for investors than dividends. Probably would not change the rate of companies doing buybacks, but why encourage it when so many people don’t seem to like it (doesn’t bother me, but I’m not wedded to buybacks either).
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