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The college I went to FINALLY tore down the slums south of campus (I guess maybe that was the city that condemned them) and built more, affordable student housing. It only took them 100 years.

I guess my point is, even college administrators from Texas can eventually learn that affordable housing for students and staff can be a benefit.

I was going to say "meh. you have to try harder," but the last paragraph made sense to me. The "real world" will make you feel isolated and alone unless you put in A LOT of work to find a social / friends group. And I think you have a point that college campuses are sort of set up to make socializing easier (if not easy.)

So... congrats... you changed someone's opinion on HN comments. I'm not sure it happens THAT often.

Meh. We almost got arrested when we walked into a movie together holding hands in Irvine. After 10 minutes of harassment by the mall-cops they eventually let us go.

Word of warning, Irving is not a safe space for queer folk.

I wouldn't exactly call SLU a "neighborhood." They chased out the poor people who used to live there, built Amazon's headquarters and a bunch of ugly condos and apartments that will probably fall down in a decade.

If SLU is your model for what California Forever could be... uh... I don't think that many people will willingly choose to live there.

Built next to an Anheuser-Busch brewery?

Has anyone here every been near a large industrial brewery?

It's not exactly the smell you want to smell every day.

But you do you, rich people.

Hunh. Just sort of thinking, yeah, they both own broken social media sites.

My motorcycle didn't come with a camera.

Weird. I was just talking about this book to my offspring. You're reading my mind, @GamerUncle.

Oh. I was sort of wondering why we were talking about Soylent Green on HN. I worried some VC had re-written a modern version of "A Modest Proposal."

I believe you to be high.

US politics always seems a bit hyperbolic, with either side accusing the other of some form of chicanery. It's interesting to note there is a process for removing a serving member of congress, but it's relatively difficult. You have to get both parties to sign off on the action as the bill to remove a member has to pass committees and the full body (house or senate.)

I mention it here to counter people (some of whom I have met) who may claim there is no way to remove someone from congress.

Well... Peopleware by DeMarco and (of course) Mythical Man Month by Fred Brooks. Also... just noticed that Richard Hamming's autobio got published a few years back (and has a forward by Bret Victor!) Amazon has a "Look Inside" feature so you can check out the first couple of chapters and see if it's what you're looking for. I just really love Bret Victor's presentations and Hamming is a bit of a legend.

And I just went downstairs to my library and found "The Manager's Path" by Camille Fournier. I read the first several chapters and found them reasonable. And I just rememebered I wanted to read the last couple chapters. The ones in the middle are less to do with my situation, but I'll probably read them eventually. Fournier includes a chapter on "what you should expect from a manager," which I thought was a good twist. I found it worthwhile.

I'm going to rename a file after Jason Shen.

meh. i worked for the first x.com as a contractor. i got paid, but it took years for the company i worked for to get money out of musk. from my perspective, he's been a con man for at least 25 years.

Though Amazon is known to hire people just so they can fire them during the next cycle of rank and yank, so they'll probably just fire those people and let the people they actually hired to do work stay full-remote.

Wait. Was this whole article created by ChatGPT?

Maybe they're trying to get in the market of selling services or software to other car companies?

Hmm... I've not had problems with hotels. Or rather, my linux laptop works on airplanes and hotels that work with my WinTel work laptop. I can't remember having problems with Starbucks, though I haven't used one of their hotspots in quite some time.

My problems have been more with Microsoft owned websites and Firefox on Debian. Poor Microsoft, they have so little money they can't afford developers to make sure image uploads work on LinkedIn or Github w/ Firefox. At least on Github you can upload images by checking in and doing a push. Until they break Github and make it a windows-only thing.

Ha! Lol! When you search Bing for "cars," they even return a reference to the 80s band "The Cars." Very clearly, Bing is made by Gen-Xers.

Or you could use STUN and just send packets to a peer. Or use v6. Or anything from RFC6544. The reason UPnP is popular is so many home router people implemented it. If you have a real router, you have more options. As I pointed out, I have a real router and talk to people who have real routers that support things other than a 2008 version of UPnP.

Which is to say, you do not REQUIRE UPnP for webRTC. But yes, if you have a crap router given to you by your ISP (looking at you, SBC and Comcast) then UPnP may be your best bet. My point is you don't NEED UPnP if you have a real router.

I should be saying... thx for bringing me up to speed on this. UPnP is obviously not something I spend a lot of time on.

That is explicitly NOT science.

As always, it's unclear on which side of the keyboard the intelligence lies.

Certainly the statement "ChatGPT-4 Can't Reason" isn't a great surprise to anyone.

What's the issue here? Not sure I see it.

It seems to be going along quite well until it doesn't. And it's sort of clear to see where it starts going off the rails. If you're going to trust algorithms that are under-trained and over-constrained, you sort of have to expect this kind of thing.

But then again, I always. Always. I am growing.

FYI... last time I tried, I could get the equivalent of a HTML <PRE> block by putting two spaces at the beginning of every line. Here's an example. Each line was indented two spaces:

  #include <stdio.h>
  
  int main() {
    printf( "Bonjour, totes le monde!\n" );
    return( 0 );
  }

Looks like it worked. It looks like it's rendering with a mono font.

+1. I also have had it disabled for ages. What features am I missing out on? When I look at the UPnP docs it talks about uses for which I have other mechanisms.

I agree with you if you're talking about tech savvy users. But I think NordVPN has enough users who don't know what's going on under the hood that they might not understand the implications of forwarding potentially copyright-hostile packets.

I don't think I was attacking people, but will defer. In less inflammatory prose, let me say:

There is a problem on the net that is exacerbated by funding models which seek to use free services to do "bad" things. The Ad-Driven model has problems that the needs of the end user are often not considered paramount, but instead the needs of the advertiser are. After all, they're the ones paying the bills. Print newspapers famously had this problem, balancing the interests of editorial and advertisement.

Furthermore, there are people on HN whose enterprises are funded by ad revenue. I worry they (and their investors) err on the side of the advertisers rather than on the side of the users when there is a conflict. I doubt there are many here who would go to extremes such as enrolling customers iPhones into botnets, but there is always that temptation. What if you were a couple weeks away from laying everyone off and a shady partner sidled up to you and suggested such a move. I believe it would be a moral crisis for any entrepreneur: shaft your customers or shaft your business, its investors and its employees.

I am lucky to operate from retained earnings and (at least for the time being) could firmly reject such an offer. I appreciate that I am probably in the minority in this respect.

I bemoan the current state of affairs where so many entrepreneurs could even conceivably be tempted by such a Faustian bargain (without asserting the majority are.)

I am ensaddened that experiments like Bitcoin seem to have devolved into ponzi schemes rather than effective micropayment vehicles. Such a platform could conceivably open up new business models which would allow entrepreneurs to ignore this particular devil.

If you're commenting on the difficulty of policing the intarwebs, I heartily agree with you.

If you're saying CD230 doesn't exist, I encourage you to rejoin consensus reality. But if you're trying to say CD 230 is in need of review, I would heartily agree.

Sarcastic? Not really. But I do see I am violating H. L. Mencken's rule: Never argue with a man whose job depends on not being convinced.

I sell to customers who purchase my goods. I'm not trying to sell my company to a VC whose using it to suck up ad dollars. My customers are my users, your customers are VCs.