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This depends on other conditions being good as well, like being bike/pedestrian friendly and reasonably safe. There's no amount of new homes they could build that would revitalize Houston's downtown because it sucks. Most of the people I know who live and work inside the loop go out of their way to avoid downtown. I live adjacent to downtown and haven't been there for anything, including events, for years.

What's the first thing people / developers do after houses are wiped out by a flood in a floodplain? Build more houses in the same spot. It is pretty common still, in Houston, for people to openly disclose if their house didn't flood during Hurricane Harvey when trying to sell their house. If they did flood, you look for the negative signal there. I heard people keep rebuilding because they can usually get affordable 'Insurance of Last Resort'.

There was a post on HN recently with a workaround these apps are using. I don't have it handy but I'm sure you can find it if you look.

It is really simple. Stop buying HP products and any others with shady business practices. For years Brother laser printers have been recommended on HN (except that one time they weren't). Just buy one and forget about your printer. Personally, I'm tired of reading about people being duped with printers.

I've used both LineageOS and GrapheneOS and the latter would have been my choice for security purposes as its entire focus is on privacy and security.

There are a lot of great addons that improve browsing immensely. I'll dump mine:

* ublock origin: block ads

* uBlacklist: block domains from Google search results

* SponsorBlock: skip sponsored segments in youtube videos

* Thumbnail Rating Bar for YouTube™: show a rating bar along the bottom of each YouTube search result

* Firefox Multi-Account containers: Site storage segmentation

* Bypass Paywalls Clean: bypass site paywalls (mostly news)

* Clear URLs: clean tracking / referrals from URLs

* TTV LOL: block some Twitch ads

* ViolentMonkey: Greasemonkey scripts for further site customization

I write a lot of Rust code and, outside of performance optimization with Release builds, I've had next to no issues with iterative compile times, even on fairly large projects. Honestly it feels like a bit of a meme at this point. My CPU is also 5 years old (4 cores at 5ghz), so it isn't like I have a super beefy setup either.

Yea, that existed, but it got even worse after the code was released. There are many examples of issues that most likely resulted from the leak.

For example: https://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/rbpyh0/this_happened_w...

When the TF2 code was leaked, it resulted in new vectors of attack on the servers being found and the development of bots that are still ruining the game.

>> US copyright law only applies in the US

This isn't entirely true, due to various entangled trade agreements that require countries to respect each other's intellectual property as a prerequisite.

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention

The annoying part are all the tipping-adjacent restaurants trying to get 'in' on tipping. Like burger joints and pizza carryout defaulting to 15% tips at checkout.

I could see it eventually going the way of internet advertising.. so noisy that a significant minority rejects the system altogether.

Simple answer: There aren't any incentives in place to reward it in most professional contexts.

Food calories / caloric consumption, as an idea, are a gross, erroneous oversimplification of bodily processes to the point of being bunk science.

An appeal to complexity isn't really helpful. The human body is complex but the causes of widespread obesity aren't, IMO.

Congrats! That's an impressive number of years to stay on keto.

Calories as a concept is bunk science. It was since the beginning. A better generalization is "garbage in, garbage out" (qualitative).

It is the fat profile of seed oils that is the problem, at least in my investigations. We are consuming certain fats in very high quantities now that we never did historically.

Yea, whatever ends up working for you. I've done low carb diets, and they worked for me up until they didn't. I haven't been able to sustain them for over a couple of years at a time.

No, I've experimented with diet for over two decades, this isn't some new realization.

Also, as I mentioned, I'm eating more calories now, not less. Calories are bunk as an idea anyway, so that point is moot.

No, I have no reason to believe they are connected directly, just both are bad in the quantities consumed when eating processed foods.

Anecdotal but it was simple for me. The cause was seed oils and sweeteners and they are in most processed foods. I stopped eating them and then, a few months later, I stopped gaining weight. Instead my body now seems resistant to gaining weight, even when I eat poorly for a short interval.

It is interesting because I actually eat more macros (carbs, fats, etc) now than before but don't gain weight, which indicates to me there is a qualitative component that often isn't accounted for.

I generated several more responses to the same prompt as I mentioned above. They were all funny, not just a select few. Here's another the model came up with. I have to admit I found the apparent creativity hilarious.

Response:

"What are you doing here?" I asked it.

"I'm waiting for you," it replied.

"Oh," I said. "Well then, let's get this party started."

And so we did.

Messing around with the new model, I found some great laughs:

Prompt: "Finish the story:

Once upon a time, I walked into a nearby forest only to find a single porcelain toilet sitting in the middle of a grove. It was covered in moss and mushrooms were peeking through the soil."

Response: "I was curious and walked closer to investigate. As I approached it, I noticed a little door on the side of the toilet. I opened it and found a small, furry creature inside. He introduced himself as the Toilet Gnome, and said he had been living in the forest for many years, protecting the forest and its inhabitants. The toilet was his home, and he asked me to help him keep it safe. I agreed and we became friends. From then on, whenever I ventured into the forest, I would always make sure to visit the Toilet Gnome, and together we would look after the forest."

Only somewhat related but what I'd really like to see is an investigation as to why Firefox takes so long to acquire a connection on Linux.

I suppose it could be something particular to my setup but it is very slow in comparison to 'ungoogled-chromium' which I keep around as a second browser.

On the network tab I routinely find Firefox in a 'blocked' state for 100ms. On chrome this rarely exceeds 1ms. I've tried messing around with various configuration options and haven't found an answer. The end result is Chrome feeling much snappier.

A couple reasons I'm more productive:

1. I'm familiar with lifetimes and they don't slow me down anymore. Also, I usually structure my projects such that I don't need to explicitly express them.

2. I spend a lot less time fixing bugs because Rust makes them impossible.

While I respect the author's anecdote, this doesn't match my experience. I've been programming for 20+ years across a wide array of languages and I'm by far the most productive in Rust.

With a competent teacher, experienced devs should be able to pick up on the memory model pretty quickly, and that is really the only initial blocker to productivity. After that a dev can essentially write procedural code if they want, like other common languages, while refining their thinking and practices towards idiomatic Rust.

I'm no Elon fan, but why does essentially everyone in these threads automatically assume he is wrong?

Has no one here worked at companies where there was more dead weight than talent? Where 80% of the work being done is by 20% of the people, and there are whole teams that do almost nothing?

What if there is no clean, efficient way to discover who should be fired and so Elon's fallback plan is to test for who really wants to continue working for the company vs. who is apathetic?

I'm not saying it will necessarily work, but I'm also not going to assume he is grossly incompetent either.

That doesn't make it a ponzi, otherwise offering corporate bonds at higher interest rates would also be a ponzi.

Donating your customers' deposits isn't charity, it is fraud.

Yes, and I've gone the other way too, i.e. taking a bunch of microservices and rewriting them as a monolith, saving the company over a million dollars a year in the process.

It isn't one or the other, the 'skill' is knowing which to apply when.

To make most of these types of projects work, the sponsor needs to demand an incremental approach that delivers real value, piece by piece, all the way up to retiring the original system(s). Tie-out is also necessary for many projects, and all the associated testing. It is a big grind, which is probably why so many of these projects fail.