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moltke··on Ask HN: Do 'economic drainage basins' exist?
IMO: Wealth/money/capital is more like heat. Heat doesn't pool, it spreads (although it spreads faster through different materials.)

Maybe something like products or workers pool like water but I don't think wealth really does.

moltke··on To Keep Students in Stem Fields, Let’s Weed Out the Weed-Out Math Classes
IMO: If you've learned to study math well you should be good at both. That you're good at one and not the other should make you rethink the way you approach the subject.
moltke··on To Keep Students in Stem Fields, Let’s Weed Out the Weed-Out Math Classes
At least for me Discrete math was far easier than calculus. The hardest math class I took was the "statistics for science majors" class which was super application oriented and didn't justify half the things they did. Plus the textbook was this godawful online only thing that was super hard to read/search (and extremely poorly organized) and the online computer graded homework counted for half the grade (usually with math homework I just turn in the scratch paper for the practice problems I do to study it and get something around 50% but do very well on tests so that just didn't fit well at all with the way I study.)
moltke··on Show HN: Oh-heck, a terminal command for when you forget other terminal commands
busybox still has a simplified ifconfig.
moltke··on The Line of Death (2017)
Does Elinks have a line of death? Is it possible to recreate its dialogs (even on a totally static page?)
moltke··on To Keep Students in Stem Fields, Let’s Weed Out the Weed-Out Math Classes
Calculus is not a hard math class and the idea that it "weeds out" students is pretty brain dead.
moltke··on How to start learning code for non-coder?
Are wanting to be able to badly hack things together and get stuck but not have to spend too much time learning or do you actually want to understand what you're doing?

If it's the former then just learn some web technologies, if it's the latter then the language you learn doesn't matter and you should focus on learning the fundamentals.

moltke··on Using hamburger menus? Try sausage links (2019)
How about just put a <ul> with anchors in it on your index.html and call it a day.

I can't be the only one that's tired of hieroglyphs and controls whizzing everywhere.

moltke··on Ask HN: Your brain gets connected to a supercomputer. What do you do next?
Make sure the supercomputer is running free software.
moltke··on Amazon completes its $8.5B acquisition of MGM
I'm sure it will be great given the history of Netflix and Amazon.

https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmYqh8z4hoFhJPko6TvjBEWQqGZ...

moltke··on Ask HN: Have you ever experienced any paranormal or unexplained phenomena?
I saw something pretty similar over a field in rural central Virginia once.
moltke··on Semiconductors are more than just processors and GPUs
I read somewhere that some people used EPROMs and decaped Ram chips as digitizers for early computers.
moltke··on Microsoft accidentally reveals that it is testing ads in Windows Explorer
Eventually a Windows update will include a "portal to Hell" feature and people will keep using it saying something like "the demons are really annoying but I need Office and don't want to learn a new UI."
moltke··on Xdm – Powerfull download accelerator and video downloader
"Unix is running out of two letter acronyms."
moltke··on Microsoft accidentally reveals that it is testing ads in Windows Explorer
Every time I have to use Windows I think my memory of it is some exaggerated negative tribal thing and I'm always surprised that it's far worse than I remembered.

Gnome sucks but it's still better than this, and with a very minor amount of effort you can use Linux without Gnome.

moltke··on Sleep experts say Senate is wrong: Standard time, not DST, should be permanent
Instead of time zones just use an almanac. This is like using a different thermometer scale in the arctic because it's colder! It's completely ridiculous!
moltke··on Microsoft to build energy efficient, heat-producing data centre in Finland
Heat is really a nuisance in Maryland almost all the time, so it makes sense.
moltke··on Homelessness Is a Housing Problem
Homelessness is caused by:

1) Drug addiction (addicts and the mentally ill are no longer rational actors and it's cruel to treat them as such, stop paying them to sleep on the sidewalk)

2) Immigration (like it or not, pumping up demand weather they're paying for it or the government makes housing much more expensive for everyone.)

3) Cheap credit (Everyone knows how this works and worse still it directly effects the most disadvantaged while funneling their money to the wealthy.)

4) High cost of construction labor

5) Material supply chain issues (which is largely the same as the last two, it's all just inflation.)

6) Expensive regulation that adds to construction cost (zoning, building codes etc.)

Housing is part of it but not the only part. Some of these things could be easily fixed in ways that benefit everyone who lives here (housed or not.) No one in charge wants to though and you should be asking why.

moltke··on Google Analytics 4
>Page views

Why are people using client side (even more, 3rd party) code for this? The server knows it, you can get it from the logs.

moltke··on What's my place in the world population?
Meh, it only does global population which isn't meaningful. Most of the world has much lower rent because there isn't a constant flow of immigrants competing for a small number of very expensive, carefully zoned single family houses who's prices are propped up with cheap credit.
moltke··on Sleep experts say Senate is wrong: Standard time, not DST, should be permanent
IT DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER JUST PICK ONE AND LET PEOPLE ADJUST.
moltke··on Microwave ovens and their hazards
Careful observation and investigation is never "anti-science" by definition.
moltke··on Ask HN: How to prove that astrology works?
I have a personal theory that Astrology did actually work to a small degree in ancient times but it worked by coordinating people in a kind of mematic way that was replaced by the active coordination we do now via the internet etc. It didn't have any real supernatural power.
moltke··on What You Can't Say (2004)
We knew where it was going decades ago but it was considered too fashionable.
moltke··on What You Can't Say (2004)
>the last American president was a right wing racist Nazi

If you go and ask the actual Nazis (or NatSocs as they prefer) they'll tell you they don't like him because he was not a right wing racist Nazi. CivNat maybe (but if he really is he toned it done a lot to pander to minorities) certainly not a Nazi.

moltke··on US Federal Reserve raises interest rates for first time since 2018
We can always just bring in more immigrants since that seems to be the solution to every problem like this. /s
moltke··on Sleeping. Closed for business. 10p to 6a
I really like this idea. I might put my router on one of those timer outlets.
moltke··on libmill - Go-style concurrency in C
Without go's nested functions and variable capture it's really not the same. The best use for channels in go (IMO) is to use variable scope checking to keep people new to the codebase from messing with resources outside of the right threads. You put all the critical code in a nested function and pass it over the channel, viola the compiler helps make sure your program is correct.
moltke··on The Last i486 Online
Heh yeah, you don't even need to do TLS.
moltke··on LibreTube main devs account has been suspended by GitHub without any reasons
Sounds like someone's getting cancelled.
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