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fl4regun··on Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? (2025)
it's because the expected future income is based on what current tenants are paying, extrapolated to the number of units in the building, ignoring vacancies. I get what you are saying, it should be based on total rental income from the building - full stop - but that isn't how it is done, and this is the result.

Simply stated, if you rent a new unit for 25% lower, then the value of the building just dropped 25%. If you don't rent to a new tenant, your value must be the same, that's what the existing tenants are paying (not that I agree with this, it's just how it works right now).

It's similar to how people holding low liquidity assets will claim they are "worth" whatever the last person who paid for this assert, even if the real value of it is dropped, the "book value" is still sky high.

fl4regun··on Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff
my toasters have all been the opposite, once you warm it up with the first batch, the next batch actually gets more toasted than the first one, even with the same setting.
fl4regun··on Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff
My laptop has a microsoft copilot key built into it. It is hardware mapped to a hotkey that inputs win+shift+f23, instead of just being the right ctrl key. Why would anyone want this?
fl4regun··on Running local models is good now
In my experience, with a system of 32GB RAM and 24GB VRAM, no, they aren't that good.
fl4regun··on I Love the Computer
I think we do get to have a say when a large amount of the way people use computers has basically just turned into companies trying to get people addicted to their social media platforms so they can sell them ads.
fl4regun··on Hetzner Price Adjustment
The innovations aren't better versions of things we had in the past, they are more so unique new inventions. Plumbing is not electricity is not globalized food chains is not computers.

Also we don't need to make more land to have more people. We can make more habitable living space within the same amount of land area, especially in countries like canada and the USA where we dumped a bunch of low-density housing absolutely everywhere, we just choose not to do that.

fl4regun··on Hetzner Price Adjustment
This is a truth very few people are willing to confront. My grandmother lived in a village, on a farm, growing her own food and slaughtering her own animals, with no working plumbing, using a well for water. Of course a lot of that changed even just moving up to the 70s, but at that point there still wasn't quite the consumerist "buy whatever you want from wherever and whomever you want and have it almost immediately" environment. I can go to a grocery store here in Canada, buy tropical fruits year round that grow nowhere near me. I never have to concern myself with "this ingredient won't be here because it is seasonal", it'll be there, it'll just be more expensive out of season, worst case I just have to go a bit farther out to a different grocer than I usually go to.
fl4regun··on Fox to buy Roku
why not just keep an HDMI cable and a laptop near you and hook it up when you want to watch something? It can basically do everything these little tv boxes do and more, you probably already own a laptop capable of this and the hdmi cable, and you don't have to worry about ads. The toughest part might be if you have 4k videos to drive the display.
fl4regun··on I Won't Buy You a Coffee
I think there's a distinction between content designed to be monetized, for the purpose of generating the maximum amount of income possible, and content not designed to be monetized, but has a mechanism to generate income (i.e. putting a "buy me a coffee here" link at the end of an article or the bottom of your site or on the about page or something). I like the discrete donation link. I hate the promotion in the middle of my youtube video.
fl4regun··on Ear Training Practice
Not just fretted instruments, pianos as well. Anything which lacks ability to adjust tuning on its own, while being played (things that wind instrumenst and non-fretted strings can do), for example a steel pan drum, would be equally tempered (assuming you want to be able to play in all possible keys).

>That's why symphony orchestra players will often have a different flute, clarinet, or oboe for different tunings. Not sure what you are referring to here? Clarinets don't come in different "tunings" unless you mean different keys - like Eb or Bb clarinet, but those aren't there for intonation, they play in different ranges of pitch than one another.

Edit: in addition, you don't HAVE to equally temper a guitar. You can choose just intonation. The problem is that you can only have just intonation on a single KEY for that instrument. So if you tune justly to C major, a key like B major, will sound horrendous!

fl4regun··on Oh good, screwworms are back (2025)
what is the risk here?
fl4regun··on Ear Training Practice Exercises
None of this is objective. The construction of our scale is subjective, other countries use different scales. Even with this same scale, there are multiple different tuning systems. There is micro-tonal music. Musical keys are arbitrary too. We teach the way we do because it is a culmination of musical history, our particular western musical history, and it's own arbitrary decisions that western musicians have made over the past hundreds, even thousands of years. If you like, there is also solfege, which replaces letter names with just sounds, "do re mi" etc, Also what makes you think colours are objective? Different languages have words for a single colour that map onto multiple other words in other countries, does not seem very objective to me, unless you are talking about notating colours as hex or RGB number values, or wavelengths (which we don't do in natural language)
fl4regun··on Ear Training Practice
"ear training" is the term we use as musicians to refer to the skill this website is dedicated to. It is a fundamental skill of music.
fl4regun··on Ear Training Practice
can you tell if a piano is out of tune? I'm curious since I don't know anyone with aphantasia. Can you tell if someone is playing your composition correctly?
fl4regun··on Britain’s output per person is now only just above that of Mississippi
In spite of this, I think I'd rather live in the UK than in Mississipi.
fl4regun··on AI is slowing down
You're correct, I just wanted to add that there is another definition that you may see used online, and it is very specific, and it's important to be aware it's NOT exactly the same thing most normal people mean when they say "productivity".
fl4regun··on AI is slowing down
economists define productivity as gdp per hour worked. Like a lot of other economic measurements, its mostly a bogus number people use as an argument on why their politics are better than someone elses politics. You can have an efficient business located in a poor country making the same product and same quality as that same business in a rich country, the rich country will be more "productive" because local cost of goods is higher there (i.e. a restaurant in NYC is more "productive" than a restaurant in bangladesh).
fl4regun··on Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds
by this standard, isn't a public bulletin board even included in the term "social media"?
fl4regun··on AI slop is killing online communities
Social relations do not require internet access. Social relations can be make through it, but it is not pre-requisite.
fl4regun··on AI slop is killing online communities
I also don't "need" nor "depend" on hacker news to live. We're talking about websites like they are vital to living, that's not real. They are not. The closest thing to a website someone actually "needs" might be a government website (to report or file taxes maybe) or a bank website (assuming no brick and mortar locations near you). Let's not use words like "need" and "depend" to mean much lighter things like "is convenient" and "frictionless".
fl4regun··on AI slop is killing online communities
I can assure you nobody in the world "lives in" nor "depends" on reddit to live.
fl4regun··on Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria
real world ecology contains both rising and falling populations over time, why should humans be an exception?
fl4regun··on Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria
Consider the level of access girls and women in poorer countries have to psychological assessment and medication compared to ours.
fl4regun··on Before GitHub
i've seen people argue about how the back button should work this year on HN
fl4regun··on ASML became the chokepoint for cutting-edge chips
Why do machines have to "make" things? Is a car not a machine?
fl4regun··on Agentic AI systems violate the implicit assumptions of database design
so what if there were some numbers in the report which are in actuality, an order of magnitude or two outside of what you think is reasonable, because something was wrong, but the AI agent reports something that looks normal?
fl4regun··on The Nintendo Switch Switch (2019)
>My dongle is 2357:0601, For some reason it does not have a vendor name but I confirmed that was not unique to the switch so proceeded along. This is because the lsusb vendor/device id lookup table was missing that vendor/device, probably just an old version of lsusb, but the vendor/device IDs look real (https://devicehunt.com/view/type/usb/vendor/2357)
fl4regun··on Statecharts: hierarchical state machines
My work in PCIe IP has regularly had me involved with reading state machine (or state chart) diagrams, the PCIE link training FSM itself have multiple sub state machines e.g. for recovery, or configuration, or power savings and it was not unusual to find a physical printed copy of this diagram in the lab to help aid in debugging.
fl4regun··on If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?
you didn't answer my question, and you didn't provide a methodology for measuring something like this in a study, so one has to ask, how do YOU know that ireland and finland shouldn't come out on top anyways?
fl4regun··on USB Cheat Sheet (2022)
You need to relax buddy, it's just a post on a web forum, why are you so angry?
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