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Anyone from Square, Stripe, or Shopify want to chime in on this?

I haven't had a problem finding Ruby devs, but I haven't had to hire in a couple of years.

I go to a bootstrap site and I know what to do. Familiarity is a feature.

Hear, hear!

Now compare the type of birds.

One of the earliest bits of net activism was Etoy - a Swiss art collective vs Etoys - a US online toy reseller.

Etoys got a US judge to seize the etoy.com domain name.

Etoy launched back with Toy War. A gamified activist platform were participants could earn points by attacking Etoys.

https://etoy.com/projects/toywar/

The original headline is wrong - garbage in - garbage out!

We switched to using Elm for our front end. One of the complaints about Elm is doesn't get upgrades very often (like years in between).

This has been a feature for us – we don't need to be upgrading or fixing for upgrades or learning new "things". We focus on building with what we have and know and it works.

I first received word about this on 4/15 via an email from Salesforce.

"But a W-2 an employee gets payments into social security, unemployment insurance, various protections, so it’s the decent thing to do, even if it costs a bit more."

You can adjust for those costs and pay the contractor more, ie you say to the contractor "look we understand you have to pay for your health insurance, self employment tax, etc so we are going to cover those expenses with more pay."

Of course it doesn't feel like it - the contractor still has to pay those things on their taxes which never feels good. So there is the psychology behind it - a W2 employee being paid less might feel better about their tax situation because they don't as much in taxes. Well, they do pay, but that money never reaches their bank account.

Capacity is the ability to produce energy and with renewables that number is very different than with fossil fuels or nukes.

Renewables never reach capacity, well your solar might for a peak moment, but then it will drop as the sun drops.

For example - you have a 200 MW wind farm, you might only be able to produce 10MW at that moment. The capacity is 200MW, the generation is 10.

Also the 3rd was a Sunday in spring - no office workers, less demand, not a heating or cooling day in a lot of California, ie a lower energy day than say a week day in summer where the temp is 105 in the Central Valley.

You do not pay market rate for electricity.

Texas does allow consumers to pay market rate for electricity, you may have heard about last winter people getting bills in the several thousands of dollars when prices spiked.

CAISO was 97% renewable for only a moment, not the entire day.

The 3rd was a Sunday, not a peak day.

And the average price for energy for the day was $30.77 (day head) $27.1 (real time) for TH_SP15_GEN-APND (per MWh)

Air tight homes and health problems.

https://www.cibsejournal.com/news/airtight-new-homes-creatin...

After high school I got a job as video game artist for Virgin Games (in 92). While there another artist brought in an SGI that he was borrowing from a friend and demo'd it. I fell in love with it.

So a year later, after being rejected from art school, I used my bit of college savings to buy the SGI and Alias.

I used it for a few small video projects and animations, and then started contracting for SGI doing design work for their website. They even gave me an old Indigo to work on.

I kept both machines for about 10 years and then finally gave away them away to a collector.

In 1993 I bought a used SGI Personal Iris for 10k.

32mb Ram, 1GB hard drive, 19”monitor. Monitor and system weight 80lbs if I remember correctly.

Alias was an additional 16k.

It sounded like a jet engine.

I loved it.

The article is about the fall of the Republic not the Empire.

Very different things.

The wonder elm-units is such a pleasure to work with and does just that.

https://package.elm-lang.org/packages/ianmackenzie/elm-units...

Even if you don’t work in Elm take a moment to look at it.

Changing the port cut the invalid auths from 1000s a day to 0. Why deal with and log that spam?

ERCOT does not have a capacity market. So you can’t get paid merely to have a functioning plant that will never run.

It is the only market not to have one. So you get to set the price when you do run. The price limit is 9999.99 which is the DB column size for price AFAIK.

https://cpowerenergymanagement.com/why-doesnt-texas-have-a-c...

This article aged well. CDC rolled back their numbers today.

Not well known is that the CIA commissioned an animated version of Animal Farm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm_(1954_film)

Oh I remember... I was a young lad and I thought this was the future! So much so I bought stock in Quaterdeck.

That didn't work out so well. Good to learn those lessons young.

Meanwhile many other cities are exploring mass timber more and more. This allow building larger snd taller buildings out of timber.

I’ve seen a few lovely mass timber buildings built.

These are radically different than the stick frame construction which is of dubious origins.

https://youtu.be/2gWxRVqNI3M

Then a good deal of the population was vaccinated. The US stopped vaccinating for small pox in, I think, 1972... just before I was born.

This story is much older than the Trump admin.

Here is 2012 story from the Economist – Who’s afraid of Huawei?

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2012/08/04/whos-afraid-of-...

Here is the bizarre part.

Open iTerm, login into a Linux VM, run vim. It will be snappier than native on the host.

Go figure.

In Church’s “A Formulation of the Simple Theory of Types” he says he is heavily indebted to Russell.

Well a buddy of mine found a bat in the backyard here in Portland. Went to dispose of it and the thing was still alive!

He called the Audubon Society – they wanted him to bring it in for rehab, which meant no rabies test. The animal can only be tested if dead.

The bad had an accident, died, and he sent it to Oregon State to be tested. It was positive!

Lesson, do not handle bats without extreme care, make sure your pets are vaccinated, and get the creature tested.

https://www.multco.us/multnomah-county/news/rabid-bat-found-...

Anytime I have a procedure, imaging, anything I ask for the out of pocket price. You can save a lot of money doing this especially imaging.

Mike has worked hard over the years to have Nokogiri come with its dependencies. It does come with libxml and all that is required.

From https://nokogiri.org

> These dependencies are met by default by Nokogiri's packaged versions of the libxml2 and libxslt source code, but a configuration option --use-system-libraries is provided to allow specification of alternative library locations.

Some authors work hard to have their tools do the right thing and consistently.

You say the state already has the dollars, but it will need more as BTC flows into the country.

Does the state handle the conversion - ie I sell my BTC to the state and it imports the dollars? This is the part I don’t understand is what part brings in new dollars at a lower cost than Western Union.