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My favorite is, some time around last summer, whenever I told Google to play the latest episode of Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, it invariably plays some random unrelated (not even a similar name) music on Spotify.

I could see people still being distracted scrolling through podcasts.

> An extremely fast Python package installer and resolver, written in Rust.

Is “written in rust” a legal requirement in the compiler’s EULA?

And United States <~> United Kingdom.

To compare OECD countries.

What’s the point of even doing the research?

> If I had other intensions [sic] and did not believe in my imputation approach, I would not share the data with him.

Admittedly this isn’t my field. But that sounds a lot like “I only show my work to people who will validate it,” does it not?

FWIW you can also get heat pumps that feed into regular central heating. The split units are nice because you can heat different rooms to your liking but if you prefer a central approach, that’s also possible, just like it is with a furnace.

The "wet room" thing is in Korea too.

I've been told it's for easy cleaning. You just pull the sprayer off the shower and splash the whole room like you're at a car wash.

Having said that, the person who told me that was not Korean.

Yeah, I get the energy savings with air-drying. And I've always air-dried certain items, too, because like you said, it's hard on fabric.

But right now, the humidity in Porto is 91%. A pair of jeans would smell bad before they finish air drying. Also, my 3 year old loves soup but hasn't really figured out how to hold a spoon without spilling. We do laundry so much because of that kid...

Maybe someone can enlighten me about how to do air dry all of my family's clothes. Clearly I'm missing something because I don't get it. If you lay out your clothes to dry on a rack, you have room for maybe half a load, so is a family just doing laundry every day?

Well yeah, that's a good example.

I haven't always had a laundry room in apartments I've rented in the US. When I haven't, there's been a shared machine room that all the tenants use with rows of machines. But most of the apartments I've rented in the US have had laundry rooms.

Laundry rooms are, as far as I can tell, something that simply doesn't exist this side of the Atlantic. They put clothes washers in the kitchen and even in humid Porto, vented tumble dryers are pretty uncommon.

Granted, New York, Boston, and San Francisco are different. But if you're in Denver, or Austin, or Dallas, etc, you can expect an apartment with far more storage than similarly sized European cities.

I've lived/traveled outside of Portugal.

It really holds true across the continent. Stuff is just smaller.

> Is this some old building?

Not that old. 2010, maybe?

It's a building with 4 stories. We're on the second (Portuguese would call it the first floor; like hackers, they count the ground floor as zero).

If you walk out our door, you see an elevator and a stairwell with an insulated steel door to the stairs. That's it; that's the only point of egress.

Though in a pinch, I could jump from the balcony and probably just break an ankle or something.

Take-out is so much cheaper in Europe than America. Not just Portugal, either. Take-out in Italy is dirty cheap and despite all of my hopes and dreams, I'll never cook something as good as what I can get for like 5 euros from a gas station in Italy.

> I haven't been to Africa or the Americas, but I'd say from my perspective, that things in the US are just extra large.

That's probably it.

I've also been to New Zealand, and everything was smaller there too. Though still not as small as stuff in Europe.

Cars are where it holds the most true. I told my American friend we're thinking of getting a Mazda CX-5. His reaction was, "why so small?"

I told my Portuguese tutor I was considering the same car. He asked why we needed something so large.

Kind of.

We live near a Lidl (similar to Aldi) and it's fine for a quick trip for the staples.

But if we're cooking something like what you'd find in the New York Times or Delish or whatever, we're driving to a big old supermarket just like in the States. We find ourselves still following the American model of driving to fill the car with groceries once a week because we like a lot of variety.

If you're content with the national cuisine of Portugal, you could totally always walk to buy groceries though. They're fond of fish and a specific kind of grilled chicken. And in fairness, their chicken is really quite good.

> In February, I, along with real estate developer Bobby Fijan, went on the Bloomberg podcast Odd Lots to talk about why it’s so hard to find a family-sized apartment in the United States. I argued that North American zoning and building codes work together to drive up the size of multi-bedroom apartments in particular, putting them financially out of reach for many parents raising children. In other words, even if developers built more two-, three-, and four-bedroom apartments, you probably wouldn’t be able to afford one, because they would have to be so much larger than units with the same number of bedroom in Europe or Asia.

So, as an American living in Portugal, I'm not so sure the grass is greener.

It's true that our apartment would be illegal to build in the US. There's only one point of egress in a fire, and it's the stairway we share with our neighbors. That means there's no need to have a long hall like in America, but I'm not really sure the reason prices have ballooned in America is the extra few square feet spent on a little bit of stairway.

There are other ways European apartments are smaller, of course. Even our three bedroom apartment has no linen closet, no laundry room, no closets at all actually. The bedrooms have what I would call extra-large armoires. Again, our three bedroom place is very much built for a family, but the kitchen has a refrigerator smaller than the one my American best friend uses for beer. It's really RV-sized.

Just everything in Europe is tiny. T i n y. And frankly, it's not that much cheaper over here either.

Maybe the extra hall space you need to have two points of egress in a fire is part of it, but that ain't all of it.

> “Nothing in this opinion should be construed as prohibiting universities from considering an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise,” Roberts wrote.

That's occurred to me too. Or put more bluntly, the admissions boards who strongly disagree with this ruling will find a way around it by simply putting their own personal bias into essay anecdotes about race.

America has long had most of the best universities in the world. Getting rid of all standardized tests and instead relying on (heavily inflated, or not) grades, combined with bullshit essays, is going to significantly undermine that.

Half the Internet is indeed forums where bad behavior is taking place though. Reddit, for example, has plenty of bad (often illegal) behavior on it and the moderation is far from aggressive. You eventually go down the rabbit hole of gradations of moderation and "how much" moderation you'll require.

There's always going to be something of a judgment call though. You might say "this content is against our TOS", but what if that content is in a book? At a bookseller?

You can think of many other examples, but the point is, if you think there's an easy-to-create and easy-to-enforce content policy on the Internet, I think you're mistaken.

Mine doesn't have a pam_smartcard.so line(?)... It has pam_rootok.so, but adding below that doesn't work. Odd.

Clever, but still not an acceptable use of a font. There are very valid security reasons why browsers don't advertise installed software. Using a font install for reasons unrelated to having a font is still not a valid use case, even if the goal is a smooth UX.

Visual Basic was mostly just used for line-of-business software -- forms, reports, etc. That's mostly been moved to the web, but it was seldom used for anything where performance was important.

This is just my own anecdotal experience. I have an M1 Max, which definitely has a fan, and I use Xcode, PyCharm, and Docker fairly regularly. Just looking right now, I see that in the past seven days, my fans have spun up only three times.

I wouldn't say that merely using the IDE seems to be enough to cause my computer to want to use its fans. However, when I do a full build or full test suite on a larger code base, with any compiler or build tools, it sometimes results in the fans spinning up.

So my instinct is that it really depends on how often you're compiling code and how long. If you're constantly in compile cycles, it seems conceivable to me you'd lose out on some sustained performance with a MBA as opposed to a MBP.

And yes, I've had 100% single-core utilizations result, over time, in the fans spinning up. But it takes a while (~20 minutes?).

They could either block the Italian website (as is getting increasingly common) or go after vendors, like hosting providers.

> This means that anyone who's in a country that has blocked GitHub or where GitHub has been blocked due to sanctions is unable to participate in the Rust ecosystem. Or maybe your account has been blocked due to sanctions? Boom, all your work gone. You can't access your account now.

Is there reason to believe that if crates.io were self-hosted, it wouldn't be subject to the same laws? Or is the theory that Microsoft/GitHub is covered by sanctions rules that a not-for-profit might not be?

The disappearing tracks is really the main problem with Spotify. I think at some point licensing to streaming services needs to be compulsory, like licensing to radio is, so that there aren't "exclusives."

I thought the watermarks were UMG, and on all streaming services, not just Spotify?

EDIT: Apparently fixed for most tracks: https://www.mattmontag.com/music/an-update-on-umg-watermarks

For my purposes, the biggest drawback of using an SoC is being constrained to just the unified memory.

Since I run a lot of memory intensive tasks but few CPU or GPU bound tasks, a regular m1 with way more memory would be ideal.

Most criminals are not clever. I had a girlfriend whose house was broken into; the thieves stole an xbox, an air conditioner, various electronics, etc. After she reported them stolen, sure enough, the serial numbers showed up at a pawn shop, the pawn shop had taken the ID of the sellers down, and warrants were issued. She got her stuff back and the thieves went to jail.

Most criminals wouldn't be doing what they're doing anyway if they were clever or did a modicum of research on what they can actually get away with.

Disallow: /harming/humans

Honeypot or snarky?