KevinGlass

I don't think these "large number of employees" who want to keep working after having their salary slashed 70% exist.

The fact that everything is designed around cars is one of the invisible nooses around the neck of America. When you look around and notice that everything is covered in cars, that's hard to unnotice. All those cars, roads, parking lots, highways, box stores, mile of sewer and water pipe, cost a staggering amount and are going to start costing a lot more to maintain over the next decade as systems age out and need replacement or maintenance. Not to mention the cost of demolishing the country we spend the previous 300 years constructing. The vampiric system of automobilism has made everything much more expensive for everyone.

Living in a semi-crowded city, near your family and friends, should be the default, cheap option. Instead we've wasted about 10 trillion dollars pave the entire continent. Possibly the most expensive mistake ever made in history.

Yes. Exactly. If you want to live in a manicured cul-de-sac that's your business. If you live somewhere that isn't already a manicured cul-de-sac then you shouldn't be trying to make it into one.

Commonly repeated non-sense. You can check on Autotrader yourself. There is no effect AT ALL between colors and neutral colors might actually sell for less then flashy colored cars overall.

This feature should never have existed. I used to work in a computer repair shop and saw hundreds of people with spam, scams, and malicious content piped directly to their computer. Most people have no idea how to make it stop, have no idea where it came from, but are aware it's happening and hate it.

Browser push is probably close to 100% malicious or ads at this point. It's directly enabled scammers to steal 10s of millions of dollars.

If Google came out with a feature that just stole $50 of iTunes gift cards from your granny no one would want it. That was browser push is at this point.

Here in New England, USA November is firmly in Fall/Autumn And Feburary is firmly Winter. March is also Winter until the last week.

Unlikely as most researchers operate from the point of view that all animals are mindless automatons acting from pure instinct until proven beyond a doubt. Even then they will warn you against the heady Dangers of Anthropomorphizing Animals and Projecting your Emotions onto Unthinking and Unfeeling Lumps of Meat.

Personally I dislike using contact forms. If the email address is shown I’ll just use that. Some people say you’ll get spammed that way but that hasn’t been my experience. These days unless a client specifically requests a form I will use a simple mailto: link and avoid the hassle.

The OP's attitude is one that can't be logically argued against as it's not a reasonable position. They have no real reason to be against hanging laundry other then "I don't like it" and so will come up with BS reasons to obscure that fact.

If anything, your side is the far my anti-social position. A bunch of busy bodies should not have ANY legal leg to stand on telling people what they can't do just because "it doesn't fit the character of the neighborhood".

Unless cloud gaming company intend to put servers in every single city across the globe it's not going to work. Even in Boston with good, fiber internet streaming games have too much lag and the compression artifacts are horrible.

When there is fast movement the compression is much more noticeable, worse then the lag. Many reviewers doing graphical comparisons do it with static images. It's quite common for the whole screen to become a blur of compressed and pixelated blocks at the slightest network hiccup.

Also, you are misunderstanding what "reaction time of 100ms" means. It does not mean that any event that takes less time then 100ms imperceptible, it absolutely does not. The sound of a clap lasts 22ms and you are able to hear even shorter sounds. You can see light pulses of arbitrarily short length so long as they are bright enough.

What 100ms reaction time means is that you can't react to a given stimulus in less then that. Here's the important distinction, you don't react to lag, you perceive it.

To experience this for yourself, go this lag simulator webpage [1] and experiment with various lag times. You will quite easily be able to feel the difference in 0ms, 100ms, and 200ms of added latency. Keep in mind this is on top of whatever latency OS layers and browser sandboxing introduce.

1. https://www.skytopia.com/stuff/lag.html

Yes. If you have 3 kids and 2 are in the booster seat category, which some agencies recommend until they are 4'9" (145 cm), which some kids may not reach until 12 or older. You cannot fit 3 large booster seats in a Golf, or at least not comfortably.

I personally doubt the necessity of booster seats for older children at all but that's another topic all together.

I was exited for Sandman. It had the potential to be very good, good actors, good budget, decently long timeline, etc. Unfortunately it got "Netflix'd" and suffers for it. It's kind of bland and boring. Visually it's not very interesting and the music is alright but could have been lifted from something else entirely. Listen here [1]

The best comparison I can think of is the BBC's Johnathan Strange and Mr Norrell. Similarly fantastic source material, the show had a lower budget but is far more interesting to watch and that comes down to set design, cinematography, editing choice, etc.

It's like the Sandman production crew picked the safest possible choice at every opportunity.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2gCRK-f1pM

I've installed a few dozen HP LaserJets recently and haven't needed any kind of account.

The regulations where written by auto execs. The auto industries least profitable market got regulated out of existence just as their most profitable had regulations massively loosened and new tax relief for massive trucks seemingly every year?

Surely this is the result of inept regulators and not blatant corruption!

Android 12 finally pushed me to iPhone after nearly 10 years on Android. I miss somethings but ultimately I'm glad I switched.

Like most things in the modern world, it's built on bullshit and hopes that no one notices. In this case someone noticed and going to clean house.

For what it's worth you can use RSTP streams from the cameras in most open source NVRs but you can only enabled it from the UniFi NVR thus requiring UniFi NVR hardware to begin with.

UniFi cameras are amazing. Superb video quality (better then so called "professional" cameras from the regular security companies), easy to setup (but still an order of magnitude more work then a Ring), self hostable, and from my experience highly reliable.

There isn’t anything that can be done to lower housing costs without angering current owners. Returning to the 1960s rules on zoning and approval would massively increase the number of houses being built but also devalue a lot of peoples “investments”. Winners would be any one renting now and anyone in the construction business. So most likely nothing will be done to lower housing prices.

How can you medically confirm someone has depression, chronic pain, or anxiety? You can't with diagnostic tests but you can observe their behavior and ask them.

"Long Covid" is extremely similar to other post viral illnesses that have been observed for decades, just getting more attention now.

You realize this is a fundamentally ridiculous comparison? This is such a strange comment. What point are you trying to make? Let's be clear here, footage of minors being abused is a thousand times worse then a scientific paper being pirated. Sure, it might be "the same thing" in mechanism but these are vastly different things in reality.

If you're a popular enough artist you can still get to big venues, even on important dates.

Vulfpeck, an independent funk band, played a sold out show at Madison Square Garden with no label and no manager and that was in 2019. Things are slowly changing.

Google dropped support for IMAP text authentication on May 30th but didn't enforce it globally until today. If you check the "Allow less secure apps" section of your Google account settings you'll see it's been removed. You must use OAuth2 if you want to continue to use an external email client.

Robocoupes are easy to clean and setup and take up little space when not in use. An amateur making coleslaw (or whatever) can process 10x the amount of produce then an average pro chef with a knife and cutting board. Yes, some gadgets are not worth the hassle but there is a reason these are in near every professional kitchen.

I believe we've avoided a civilization ending, peak oil disaster. Currently ~35-50% of global energy consumption (including shipping, automobiles, etc) comes from petroleum. You might say, that's a lot!, and you would be right. But the percentage of total energy consumption petroleum takes up is going down. Over the next 50 years petroleum will get more and more expensive and renewables will continue to get cheaper and cheaper. If another energy source is cheaper, it will win.

If one of the many "super battery breakthroughs" we've all read about in the last 15 years comes to fruition in the next 15 then consider the oil crisis solved.

Yes, converting everything to electricity will be expensive but that's cheaper then relying on oil. The trend lines look promising. Of course this is all speculation based on the Western world being able to keep it's shit together.

Something about this makes me nauseous. Perhaps is the fact that soon the market value for creatives is going to fall to a hair about zero for all but the most famous. We will be all the poorer for it when 95% of images you see are AI generated. There will be niches of course but in a few short years it'll be over for a huge swathe of creative professionals who are already struggling.

Some of the images also hit me with a creep factor, like the bears on the corgis in the art gallery, but that maybe only because I know it's AI generated.

This is true. I'd estimate at least 70% of all rental unit currently under construction will not be "affordable" for two people working full time for minimum wage. In northern New England it's easily 100% of units.

That said all rental projects that I know of in Maine and New Hampshire are all rented before they even finish construction.

EDIT: I'd also like to make a point about current regulation and zoning. It's not unusual for a developer to pay around $500,000 or more in state fees, environmental review, and layer time to get a new apartment complex approved. This requires insider connections and specialized knowledge of the municipality if you want it completed in a reasonable time frame. Partially this is because national building codes are more complicated then ever but more often building anything at all requires a zoning exception or amendment.

If you pull of the zoning maps for your town or city you'll likely find it riddled with parcels that have been cut out or otherwise exempted from the rest of the zone. This process can be expensive and take years to complete.

These can both be true at the same time. Yes, the biggest cause of homelessness is mental health and addiction but lack of affordable housing is the also contributing. The only city on the planet with falling housing costs is Tokyo. Tokyo also has the best urban planning policies in the world.

In America, our extremely restrictive zoning is massively limiting what can be built. In most Californian cities it can cost over $500k just for planning approval and environmental review. That's before any building materials, cost of labor, hiring architects, etc. Simply to be allowed to building something.

This is not sustainable. The fact that it's easier and cheaper to build a new development on virgin, untouched land then to upzone a single family house into a duplex is tragic.

The parent commenter is which the author of this blog post expressed their confidence in this analysis as a percentage, i.e. I'm 65% sure that Russia will lose; or I give Russia a 65% change of winning.

That way it's easy to compare different opinions and see who was "more right".