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1. The graph doesn't work on desktop. It keeps endlessly animating in the data values flyover at a given point.

2. Congestion pricing, more generally, is ivory tower social engineering (economic discrimination like toll lanes) and a disproportionate tax on the working poor. It would be fairer if it were progressively taxed based on income.

Step 1. Don't mislead or make promises you can't keep to investors because you're basically "married" to them.

It sounds like someone wanted to have it both ways after signing a convertible note with a promise that it would convert but instead decided they wanted to keep it as a loan. Uncool if true. Don't make speculative predictions or make promises you can't keep.

If only imps were transformed into tux- and monocle-wearing patrons.

In today's stupefied America, it wouldn't be safe because the police will be called and the police escalate things into unnecessary violence. In the 60's through 80's it would've been fine, but not now.

id Anthology might be cheating because it was a collector's set, but here it is: https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Id_Anthology

In recent times, I found 2 troublesome issues: one was network-side and another was client-side.

1. Google/Nest WiFi mesh APs being "too close" to each other (30 ft / 10 m), causing a periodic backhaul mesh collapse. There was no user-visible indication of this, it was completely locked away and only noticed by support. I ditched Google's junk and moved to Ubiquiti.

2. On macOS, ObjectiveSee's LuLu has nondeterministic packet loss that causes SSH connection resets and a whole host of other weird problems. It's totally untrustworthy and shouldn't be used by anyone until it's proven reliable.

Well, actually, that's untrue. Carbonylhemoglobin formation due to metabolic and environmental CO, and subsequent breakdown releases CO. There are, in fact, CO breath analyzers. Smokers and smoke inhalation patients have much higher levels, whereas ordinary healthy people have detectable, nonzero levels. For the point of detecting crowds, it's still meaningless.

First step. Get some therapy.

There are additional, multiple, overlapping and competing pressures:

- Commercial real-estate owners pressure on tenant corporations to utilize buildings, which then pass it on to their employees

- Pressure to use their owned real-estate

- Investor and peer pressure for corporate management to do what everyone else is doing

- Control through compliance

The "like" metric is dumbed-down to self-amplifying popularity that hovers around meaninglessness. It would be more valuable to weight things based who else you respect also rate a particular item.

Apples (dynamic language) vs. oranges (static languages). Python's gradual typing approach solved this problem similarly to TypeScript, which is the right way to do it: https://peps.python.org/pep-0483/

I can't use any of the kerbalspaceprogram.com domains because of improper discrimination against IPv6 clients triggered by CloudFlare.

    Error 1015 Ray ID: .... • xxxx-xx-xx xx:xx:xx UTC
    You are being rate limited
    What happened?
    The owner of this website (wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com) has banned you temporarily from accessing this website.

This sort of monoculture creates an Orwellian SPoF.

Ah the Erable HP48G/X. It helped me through AP Calculus BC, SAT-I (math section), and college physics and math for an EE/CS undergrad degree.

I remember using the HP 48's overpowered IR LED and ability to share apps to get the universal remote app to turn on and off TVs in the lecture hall from quite a distance. :@)

Actors immediately made me think of Pony. https://www.ponylang.io

Oh dang. One neat side-effect of increasingly-powerful storm energy from climate change.

I only surfed one time at Cowell Beach through Club Ed. It was fun and stood up the first time out because their instruction was really good. A chick from my San Jose high school class would often ditch to go surfing Mavs and recount how awesome it was.

The fallacy many people fall for is that low quality impression and cheaper and good value do not necessarily all correlate positively. Instead, can we not strive for excellence in all things as a matter of pride?

Ask any Japanese mechanical pencil manufacturer: it is possible commoditize excellence via mastery through refinement and then uniformity by making zillions the same way.

Sigh Rhetorically: What's the point of pride or doing anything in life if you're not going to try to make something (eventually, objectively) excellent?

I don't understand the change of the default block parameter name. It's already _1, _2, etc. Why create yet another, backward-incompatible way?

And still, they doom march forward with the fragmentation of rbs and sorbet/tapioca, rather than adopting in-band gradual typing like Python did.

I think the greater problem is Ruby appears to be developed by a nearly-closed small clique of people who refuse to listen to others or to reason.

After 40, getting hired has a similar to propensity to making friends. Ageism is a subtle, pervasive bias.

When I was 20, I looked about 13 and everyone wanted to hire me.

There's always going into management.. become an SRM today! ;o)

I don't know who they were or who they were targeting. I only remember their #TeamTrees annoying nonsense from 2019 and the popular Youtubers who fell all over themselves trying to celebrate this greenwashing nonsense without using their brains first.[0]

0. TeamTrees vs REALITY!! https://youtu.be/gqht2bIQXIY

For light, I'd have one or more glass or glass block domes on top.

I kind of like the idea of the conjoined egg-shaped rooms, but not the practicality of cylindrically- or compound-rounded walls.

I grew-up in a stucco-clad (like concrete, about 3/4" or 20 mm thick) tract home in California. Replacing a termite-damaged sill joist was insanely laborious just cutting through a little bit of stucco. Now imagine a building that's completely made from concrete. Yikes!

OTOH, imagine a home that's not prone to termite damage. That would be awesome. Makes me want to build any sort of house, underground or not, with any material that's not wood.

PS: I left ATX last year for the rest of the triangle by hill country and right around the 100th meridian west that's much less expensive and less prone to storms.

Don't you think I thought of that?

1. The reputation and business license of my local compounding pharmacy is on the line, so they cannot afford to sell anything fake.

2. Buying from China is likely fake crap, with fake purity tests.

Why would I gamble with my life to save 20% when I have a trustworthy source given to me from my doctor (who is not receiving any sort of kickback but is familiar with this specific opportunistic workaround)?

There's still ambiguity there that doesn't specify private persons individually, because it appears to read as "the people" collectively as part of a regulated militia, not as private persons. The 2a wasn't written explicitly enough, but it's kind of moot at this point because the interpretation and convention equates to largely unhindered private ownership of all but automatic, compact, and/or explosive weapons of war that can also be privately-owned in some jurisdictions with additional costs and hurdles.

> 14.0" (355mm) WQHD (2560x1440), anti-glare, LED backlight, WVA, 300 nits, 16:9 aspect ratio, 700:1 contrast ratio, 72% gamut, 170° viewing angle

https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_T... (PDF)

Also, I use a 49" external monitor with it more than the built-in panel.

I didn't say it was for full-motion video or arbitrary images. Interactive calibration is possible.

> It’s not meaningless, it’s an interesting coincidence.

> I agree that we need to figure out how to solve this, but our consumption of media is a key part of it. The very thing that uses fear and anger to keep us all engaged is the vehicle these attackers rely on to attain notoriety.

Bikeshedding about trivial details doesn't accomplish that.

4N is hard to beat because it can hold dozens or hundreds of components in place for one-pass of through-hole soldering versus needing to flip the board each time and 3 "hands" to hold 1 or 2 components.

Lindstrom and Piergiacomi are much better cutters... when I can find them in my messy lab.