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Not so good with out of control house prices, fueled by safe-haven demand … at least we won’t run out of freshwater as fast as Oz will … still, Mosman is heaps above Kits / Point Grey in my opinion! NYC is really a dump though. West Coast is the best coast! If you’re from NZ you will likely love the areas around Vancouver, Whistler & Victoria BC!

When you mentioned Grand Designs, I was expecting a link to the FACIT [0] house! I suppose that's CNC or cutting/routing based though...

[0] https://vimeo.com/53932758

Oh the joys of tweenage discovery! For me it was writing programs in dbase+ and lotus123 ... much later I did MFC and a precursor whose name escapes me now... what a programming dead end that was!

Interesting ramble and thank you for sharing. I would be curious to hear more about the interesting interactions based on the caste they grew up in!

  I will say that of the people from other cultures that I've worked with in my life, those from India tend to have more interesting interactions based on the caste they grew up in. The variance is far broader than most...

Could the article have been by Robert Sapolsky? He discusses something like that in one of his later books, the one with a chimp on the cover where he talks about how male chimps leave their childhood tribes and head out to seek mates... and the adjustment of moving from a close-knit social group to a new alien group is covered.

He's an endocrinologist/anthropologist by profession I think, but his books are sort of more about anthropology and psychology.

your desiderata are now available in the T60 form factor! Xue Yao makes the T70 franken-pad, a 4:3 IPS screen laptop with modern internals [1] ideal for someone who loved the x220 and t60 ... battery life is great too. you should take a look!

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpadsforsale/comments/attt0u/sg...

Mac trackpads are unmatched (yay/boo Fingerworks!) but you could always use an external mac touchpad. In any case, shortcut keys are abundant in Linux desktops, and a tiling wm (I like the default one in Pop OS) really changes the game.

if thinkpad is an option do take a look at X2100: a thinkpad chassis & accessories, but with modern internals. it's basically "Peak Intel", a swan song for x86...

I switched from a MBP to a Thinkpad for flexibility & performance: hexa-core processor, 64GB RAM, 3 disks (NVME+SSD+HDD) running Linux (pop-os) with the intent of running OSX in VMs. I didn't like the iOS-ification of OSX, and this will let me run my beloved Snow Leopard, and even run some older aqua UI OSX versions as VMs. I'll probably get an ARM MacBook when they come out, as MacOS and iOS go well together... but 64GB is a HECK of a lot of Chrome tabs, and the 3:2 screen is as good as on my Chromebooks. Linux has certainly matured since I used it as my only desktop back in the comp.os.linux.advocacy days, which is just as well as I can't be bothered futzing with x.org config files any more. My X210 (nb51) "Thinkpad" gets about five hours battery life on a dodgy battery, but if I can find a real TP battery that should rise to 10-15, and I expect the ARM Macs to do 20-24 hours.

This is simply a result of how vitamin D is manufactured, and the lack of sunlight in northern latitudes.

Thank you for a fantastic anecdote!

Back when the sterling actually meant something this could never happen. The world’s reserve currency must never be questionable. But WW2 broke England’s back, although they were only called on it by Soros much later.

There’s also the possibility that although other regimes were counterfeiting the greenback through the Cold War, Americans weren’t affected (due to the high demand for the greenback) and couldn’t do much about state actors like DPRK anyway. Modern USD notes are far more difficult to copy. Without bulk-counterfeiting or debasement by the Fed, Americans would have the same problems as the Swiss did when the Swiss Franc briefly became a safe haven reserve in the 2010 era.

And as sandworm alludes to down thread, Americans (USG) extended full faith and credit to all notes, whether old new or counterfeit, so that faith in the dollar would never come into doubt.

Come now, that’s a bit harsh... he didn’t nitpick at all, just asked for some pointers!

Varies by countries, cultures and sub-cultures I expect...

Gilad Bracha is one of the Smalltalk luminaries (his dialect is called Newspeak) and so he's really alluding to the ST way of doing things, where textual code is instantly compiled to machine-code or JIT-ed ... he's basically against the idea of a compiler as a separate binary that spits out an executable.

I believe that's why he goes on about 'live-ness' which is a very smalltalk concept of a "live-image" of the running program. I doubt what he means is directly translatable to the Javascript world, although perhaps a running browser with JS in it can considered to be the live-image (like, say, the Clojurescript/React/Figwheel way of working).

But as you note, in the JS-dev world, very often you do need to reboot and start again (say if an external resource like a CSS has changed).

thank you for a fantastic and interesting narrative!

YF-23 actually looked futuristic, the F-22 looks like a mild modernization of the F-15/18

Still a threat in some parts of Europe... Including urban centers like Moscow.

The solution lies beyond ... Prefab by Fogarty & Dixon.

References:

1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lju6IIteg9Q

2 https://www.washington.edu/news/2010/04/01/what-if-all-softw...

It's actually that you aren't qualified to say who's competent. The CEO can't hire a tech competent CTO and that multiplies down the line. In the absence of a tech savvy judiciousness they fall back on fluff like "devops culture fit" and "growing the team" to be like "silicon valley culture". Hundreds of recruiters will sell them that story (those recruiters are really in the PR industry) and you end up with incompetence all around except everyone has become good at selling their own incompetence as the highest form of tech savvy. Most prevalent in older enterprisey firms.

Even worse, engineering management is desperately in short supply. However the beauty competition nature of the project and vendor selection process is the root cause of failure imho. And that's not fixable in tech, in fact, the problem is so meta (and metastatic) that only the PG recommended "end-run" to provide value to end users can cut through the BS.

OtS is wonderful. Such a succinct and effective pedagogical style.

This is simply incorrect. Dietary cholesterol intake isn't even correlated with blood cholesterol.

All these results (re 'shown to be carcinogenic') are based on surveys as opposed to experiments. In other words, unlike randomized, double-blind studies, they cannot be said to demonstrate causation, but at best may point to interesting hypotheses.

As for eggs and cholesterol, about 80% + of cholesterol is produced in the liver, and increasing dietary cholesterol by HUGE amounts at best changes blood cholesterol by 2-4%

Sorry I can't dig up the study right now, but perhaps searching pubmed may find it.

This [1] may be of interest, and has scientific references (well, Nature) too. I believe there's an associated TED talk.

[1] https://proteinpower.com/drmike/2017/07/02/low-carbohydrate-...

Yes it's a multiplier scheme and if you squint just right, it's pretty much a ponzi too. But it isn't a pedantic way of restating "lend out".

Discussion of the issue is often fraught with accusations of conspiracy theory. Austrian economists (widely regarded as kooky by the establishment) have a bunch of books related to these issues perhaps the best of which is Rothbard.

_0 https://mises.org/library/mystery-banking _1 http://www.bundesbank.de/download/bildung/geld_sec2/geld2_ge... _2 http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/quarte... _3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvRAqR2pAgw

Perhaps the HN headline should mention that it's a static site generator? I didn't know what SSG stood for until I clicked through, perhaps others are similar.

Interesting article. At least three super-cars, or rather, hyper-cars, are built by hand : McLaren, Koenigsegg and Pagani all use plenty of high tech but have workers who are lifers.

It would be interesting to see the MacOS version of this story, say hacking an office full of Macs, like a Digital Agency or something...