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cmcconomy··on Making Florida More Flood Resistant Is Forcing Hard Choices for Homeowners
in fact, I did not edit the original contents of my first message at all, out of respect for the reader. The edit merely acknowledged your point.
cmcconomy··on Making Florida More Flood Resistant Is Forcing Hard Choices for Homeowners
thanks - I was wrong about the plan being new.

However as of this year it's got ~$600B of exposure and $400MM in funds. at 3MM/residence that's 133 homes before they're bust, right?

see:

https://ains.assembly.ca.gov/system/files/2025-05/assembly-f...

https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/02/homeowners-insurance-...

cmcconomy··on Detect Electron apps on Mac that hasn't been updated to fix the system wide lag
strange, Teams is not on my list. Maybe you are not using "(new) teams (for business and school) v2 (new)"
cmcconomy··on Making Florida More Flood Resistant Is Forcing Hard Choices for Homeowners
reminds me of the recently enacted FAIR plan in California for last-resort wildfire insurance. It got state dispensation to carry otherwise-disallowed, lopsided balance sheets to cover more people -- but if a small fraction of those people do experience wildfire it'll go bust!

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edit: see below, I was wrong about FAIR being newly enacted

cmcconomy··on Not all OCuLink eGPU docks are created equal
i had a nuc with an eGPU, connected via a simple usb/thunderbolt connection, and I recall it was a nightmare to setup
cmcconomy··on Jqp: TUI Playground to Experiment with Jq
more general purpose is to use https://github.com/akavel/up

eg.

cat ./file.txt | up

and inside up, jq away!

cmcconomy··on Using Emacs Org-Mode With Databases: A getting-started guide
if you want to fall back to a less hardcore intro try spacemacs or doom emacs, very vim friendly
cmcconomy··on What Is Blueskyism?
this guy is like matt drudge, he caught lightning in a bottle and is holding tight onto that moment of relevance
cmcconomy··on Google deletes net-zero pledge from sustainability website
remarkable
cmcconomy··on Everything I know about good API design
grep for /* and omit /v2 ?
cmcconomy··on Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor
crazy if true
cmcconomy··on Modernish – A library for writing programs for POSIX-based shells and utilities
I greatly appreciate these kinds of tools but I always err on the side of what's installed by default wherever possible so I can work across hosts as soon as i land
cmcconomy··on Dépanneurs
this goes years back, but in the early 2000s I visited Paris and was a bit scandalized to hear the colloquial name for corner store was "l'Arabe" (!)
cmcconomy··on Million Times Million
Thanks!

This is the key piece of information for making sense of it. Ultimately the OP's insight is that the number-naming system used in the west is thousands based instead of millions based, but came to that by observing the number-naming outcomes instead of the source notation that led to it.

cmcconomy··on The Two Towers MUD
https://www.bat.org
cmcconomy··on Snowflake to buy Crunchy Data for $250M
I had them mixed up with Citus and was confused since I thought they already belonged to MS!
cmcconomy··on Long live American Science and Surplus
There used to be a place much like this in Toronto called Active Surplus. Sadly got kicked out as rents rose on Queen Street.

RIP https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6495767,-79.3925583,3a,77.4y...

cmcconomy··on Free-Threaded Python Library Compatibility Checker
please add geopandas to the list :)
cmcconomy··on AI's energy footprint
we should shut off clean water and shunt the energy toward more text generation
cmcconomy··on Gemma 3n preview: Mobile-first AI
I'd love to see this deployable to edge that have a Google Coral TPU
cmcconomy··on I made Headle – Wordle with a head-to-head twist
really fun - i had to play once to really understand what was going on
cmcconomy··on Show HN: Skip menu – get popular dishes based on reviews
would be interesting to also gather a list of disappointments so they can be avoided
cmcconomy··on Accents in latent spaces: How AI hears accent strength in English
This could be cool to apply as an acting aid, for actors trying to get in the role of a particular dialect-speaker.
cmcconomy··on Accents in latent spaces: How AI hears accent strength in English
I would love to be able to explore combinations of X spoken language with Y accent, like for example I've always been curious how French sounds spoken with an Indian accent.
cmcconomy··on Reverse Geocoding Is Hard
so would google's plus-codes,

https://maps.google.com/pluscodes/

cmcconomy··on Kezurou-Kai #39
you're stating that vacation planning is 90% of the pleasure as a truism???
cmcconomy··on Show HN: Tach – Visualize and untangle your Python codebase
I am having an allergic reaction too, I don't see any reason this should exfiltrate any information from my machine.
cmcconomy··on What are Majorana zero modes?
Welcome to the era of Majoranal Computing
cmcconomy··on The Unbrickable Pledge
why post this?
cmcconomy··on Five years of Brexit reshaped Britain
are you a time traveller from 2024?
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