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Suburbia is subsidizing nothing. They are a drain on the urban core of every single city. There is not enough density in a suburban land area to even reclaim the taxes required to build the infrastructure to get there. And we stupidly continue to build new suburban development for new tax bases that don’t even reclaim the cost of building them. Then there’s no money to maintain them.

Urban development subsidizes everything.

Go watch some Strong Towns.

Fuck suburbs, unless they were built around a streetcar.

I clicked on details and scrolled directly to a PCBway ad.

This was a very high effort advertisement. Shame I’ll never know how it works because I immediately left the page.

I would have been more interested if the details link actually went to the details of the device.

The real parallel is Walmart, Sam Walton and Bentonville Arkansas.

Walmart corporation owns half the land in Bentonville and anybody who lives in Bentonville or Centerton, which is the bedroom community for Bentonville, either works for Walmart or knows someone who does.

When I worked at the Walmart corporate office in DGTC, they gave us an orientation, covering the company’s history and the founder and his family and all of the CEOs since, and in the most recent episode, I experienced a similar experience with my family when they came for lunch.

Maybe this is a really really, really, really, really dumb idea:

What if we started Refining and reinforcing these Extremely fast thinking, models with text written exclusively by stoners?

Stoners think slower, but they have more wide, branching thoughts. I find I do some of my most seemingly creative and explorative thinking when I am high.

If there are effects of time and season and energy in models of LLMS such that you can say it’s June and it performs worse or it’s January and it performs better. Or you can say you’ve got a good nights rest so do better and it does, due to the fact that human writing is affected by our mental state, and our mental state is affected by physiological factors.

So then, I wonder what happens if you do HFRL and refinement on text from people under the influence of marijuana.

Legitimately and I say this was absolutely no shade intended. This is a reading comprehension problem, nothing to do with aphantasia.

He clearly states that he was reading an article, he uses past tense verbs when referring to Ross, and to the events spelled out in the article. If you somehow thought that he could be reading an article that ostensibly has to be describing a past event as he was seeing it in real time that is a logic flaw on you.

It has nothing to do with what you can or cannot visualize. All you have to do is ask yourself could he have been reading an article about Ross’s arrest while watching it? Since nobody can violate the causality of space time the answer is no.

This isn’t just you this is everybody in this thread who is reading this and going this is a little confusing. No it’s very clearly him speaking about a past experience reading an article about a past event.

I prayed for long stretches of dry days during the summer when I was a kid, because we had a tree-lined trail with an incline leading to a back field. The trees were such that there was little to no grass on the house side of the trail, so when it dried up nice it would become dusty and loose. My siblings and I would spend all day taking turns ripping down that trail then locking up the brakes to go sliding into the dirt patch, sending up dust clouds and competing to see who could make the biggest.

We kept this up into our teens (bc we were rural way outside of town and our parents were luddites about the internet so we had little else to do after playing all our video games to death) and I got to the point I could drift down the latter portion of the trail and right the bike and ride away without touching the ground. I had moved on to a regular "mountain" bike by my teens so I had to tighten my rear brake and true my wheel so it didn't rub to get enough stopping force to lock out the rear wheel. At one point I was using that move as a core workout lol. (That and side flips on the trampoline.)

FWIW I actually really enjoyed that VR Home concept, far more than any of the current ones. At the time that I had the headset that supported that and still ran windows I was enamored with the space and spent a lot of time in the loft space, the one at the top of the skyscraper.

I did as much of my computing in that space as possible, pulling up multiple desktop windows and floating applications and pinning them places. On one wall I had the Zune software with my whole music library, and my music played from that place, so I imported 3d models of speakers (I managed to actually find an end user use case for that default Windows user folder and I still as an admin and dev wonder why it's a default) and stuck them next to the app and they persisted. I'd drag discord around with me and I could even access the screen of my phone by bringing up Your Phone.

I found it really kind of nice to use, and I wish the space had been more capable. Able to take more object formats, able to handle more vertices, I wish I had been able to boot directly to the virtual environment and eschew the step of switching between desktop and virtual mode. It also visually paused basically every app and desktop you didn't specifically keep active, except for Zune--that would go into Mixview and look cool as hell on the wall.

I miss it, and I'm sad they killed it and I'm not aware of an experience like it for linux on an openish device atm.

Go ahead and tune to your favorite station on an analog FM radio without using any digits, please.

Do you mind sharing what that station is with the class, or where it is on the dial?

I am not shocked that your ego shut your brain off the second that your suburban identity felt attacked.

I do implore you to attempt to reengage your brain, despite the the mental anguish it will require to actually comprehend what somebody was saying to you when it conflicts with an identity you don’t know that you hold.

The sprawling car based American suburbs are actually a result of propaganda and master planning by white supremacists. I find it amusing. That so many people are so sure that so many things are innate without having ever done an ounce of research or investigation into the source of why things are the way they are.

It’s OK to admit that you don’t actually know or maybe that you even have learned something today, but I did actually do a research paper with how and why we came to live in suburbs as a core point of research, and guess what? It was a result of master planned communities by white supremacists and their oil and motor industry buddies.

Most of the best old suburbs in America were built organically through bit by bit demand around street cars, not car cars. Then the motor industry executives and oil industry executives got together and lobby the government to create the crime of jaywalking, to buy up all the street cars and remove them from American cities, to build out the highway system, and to change zoning laws, to encourage if not outright force the building of car dependent American suburbia.

Do not get me wrong streetcar, suburb, designed suburbs are fantastic, walkable compact, wonderful wonderfully tight communities. But today in today’s world this year of our Lord 2025? Today those street car suburbs are urban compared to the car dependent suburban sprawl that we have now.

Your situation is literally the opposite of what I was responding to and your situation is not included in what I was discussing.

Your situation is a completely irrelevant red hearing for the discussion we are having. You are actually rural, and are describing an actually rural life—not a suburban rural identity & not an urban suburban identity.

If you don’t even have state or county roads, like no paved roads going anywhere near where you are and there’s nothing around and there’s no police around and everything else you described then that’s not at all what I am responding to. Because what you describe sounds to me like you don’t have anything within walkable distance, and I was directly responding to somebody who says that they have shit they can walk to.

You are living an actual rural life because you are outside the range of services provided, relying on yourself instead and in terms of my own personal Urbanist Theory that’s exactly how it should be.

I contend that The People don't know what they want

There's no doublespeak there. To regulate just means to make regular. If they make the reprehensible the regular way of doing things then they've still done the job they're nominally supposed to do. They could say all investigations have broad sweeping powers going forward and they would still be regulating investigatory powers.

We want regulation to be for the benefit of all so we attach an emotional meaning to it but nothing about the word says it has to be beneficial.

Like many in the suburbs have convinced themselves they're rural as a result of oil company propaganda (rural identity sells big mall crawler trucks), it sounds to me like you live in a central, quite urban area that's otherwise sparse on local options and have convinced yourself it's your extra special private enclave in the hills, completely separated from the economic center, despite it literally being your economic center.

Ditch the suburbanite identity politics and start advocating for the development of shows and museums in your local area that you could walk to, instead of taking your money away from your economic center at the benefit of oil companies (bc let's be real, suburban identity sells car dependence and even if you take the train, all the cultural momentum from the propaganda shaped your life decisions to move there and what's that train run on?).

I told my crow friends happy new year and I'm reasonably certain they know today is special even if they don't get why. [0][1] (this is just one and I offered peanuts first but it stared me down and did not budge until I put out beef)

[0]: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/433008121234063360/...

[1]: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/434337586182619136/13...

89 isn't 9^2, 81 is.

So then, if we can choose to scapegoat at any of these levels, do we choose to recurse to the base case and say that surely we agree that living in a society based on capitalism incentivizes it and money is at fault, or do we escape recursive loop before getting there by returning early and focusing on something else that’s inconsequential?

>Windows for an autistic girl who I wouldn't ask to adapt, and so forth.

Yeah don't worry about her, she'll adapt to Linux on her own eventually. /j

Do you mean person ITT saying all? Whether it’s two people or a dozen people, if there are people ITT, using the same word, then they’re all using the word.

I had the idea this week to use the Rocksmith USB adapter to develop a stenography system that allows me to control my computer using my guitars with chords, notes, and riffs.

Then why can’t I wear my tie dye shirt at most churches?

I’ve completely fallen out of the church and Christianity. I do believe in a force that exists and acts and behaves as we described God as I grew up, which is in us and all things and all around us throughout all of creation, but I do not believe that that is God. I just call that the Universe now.

Wastky concerts are more my church than anywhere else in the world. I feel connected and holy in his crowds. I wear my clothes until they’re threadbare because of that song.

When I analyze my life now, I recognize it as what Jesus commanded us to do, but none none none of what I have motivated myself to do has been motivated by Christianity or God‘s calling.

Watsky broke me free from the Christian church, but he shaped my behavior to be more Christian than it ever would’ve been then when I was in and a part of Christianity and taking my teachings from the Bible.

For some reason, chrome web store won’t load on mobile even to browse so I don’t know exactly what this extension is just yet but from the thumbnail, it appears to be the Tile tab functionality from Vivaldi.

It is one of the primary reasons I use Vivaldi alongside its ad and tracker blocker. Whenever I show people that I can CTRL + select multiple tabs and tile them like windows in 1998 they lose their mind. Then you can also stack tabs and tile the entire tab stack so that you only have one tab that shows you four websites worth of information and you could still select each individual tab.

Interesting that this should come up for me on HN today. I just started rereading Drive by Daniel H. Pink last night.

It covers older research that goes over these phenomena and how introducing extrinsic reward can actually hamper internal motivation.

As someone with ADHD who struggled with doing the job I was paid to do but would “waste time” on the business’s problems I found more interesting (usually automating paper processes or writing code to make tools to use to do my actual job), this book revealed exactly why that’s the case and how I mismatch many of the work environments I find myself in.

To gain an understanding of the implicit definition of his use of this word, I suggest you go read some literature. There exist a whole host of literature that are witness to a broad and eclectic vernacular. :)

I have known since before the election that Trump is planning to deport all of the immigrants. I’ve been angry about it. I’ve talked to the people about it. I have argued with people about it, but I haven’t truly cognitively processed it.

When I got to the slide about immigrant workers, I broke down, crying, sobbing tears—no no no no that can’t happen here tears. I already knew. It was something I already knew.

The reality of such a thing is so horrible to contemplate that even if you can attach the faces of people you know to the coming horror, you’re more likely to think of it in abstract terms. 20 million people is a number we can’t fathom. But data allows us to process it in an abstract way, and can connect the abstract to something cognitively meaningful.

When I saw the data arranged that way I was forced to confront the abstract representation of this category of people that drove home cognitively what could be coming.

At an early job all of my offical job duties came down to data collection and transcription.

If a certain router started timing out, I had to go reboot it. I placed it on a networked power switch so if the router timed out 5 times in a row, the power switch bounced, rebooting it.

I had to go collect temperatures from the outside thermometers around the small 3 building campus. Replaced those with net thermometers with APIs that could be hit to get a reading.

Every 30 minutes we had to record information from some netsend ping and check some jobs. I had to first engineer a solution to get the net send messaging working on Win7. Then I had to extract the information from it, transform it into a usable data structure and use a perl script to load that into our mysql journal DB.

There were data management tasks that required clicking precise locations in an application. I used tools to make sure that the window opened in the same place then I learned how to accomplish precise cursor location and manipulation with either batch or wscript, depending on the needs at the time. Then I nailed down a precise timing for each action in the tasks and virtualized the entire setup into a VM.

Then I used the host machine to refactor our Java 5 application to Java 7 with considerations for Java 8.

But that wasn't "my job" and when the owner died and his son inherited the business he hired his buddy to manage me out. When his buddy found out that I'd "automated my entire job", I lost my job. (Never mind the fact that the job had become refactoring Java code, writing blog posts for the website, and maintaining said website.)

I was getting paid $9/hr.

You won't ever catch me automating anything anymore.

I could hear Gavin Belson screaming during the broadcast when my stream was freezing as they were each making their entrance. Mike Judge is a prophet.

This was used as a magical trait in Tamora Pierce's Circle of Magic books. One of the characters has the ability to see magic and beings at the edge of her vision ("around" her glasses).

> what you'd do if your compiler gave a different result every time you compile your code?

Start calling their job Prompt Engineering.

They're not Sysadmins as far as I'm concerned because they ought to be blackballed for implementing such a heinous process.