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First, the guy probably wouldn't have keycard access to whatever room contained such a switch. Second, it's highly unlikely that the system would be able to cool the room fast enough to avoid hitting the temperature limit.

Incidentally, we actually had a fire in the office building I worked in long ago. The HVAC didn't shut down, and smoke started to come out of random vents throughout the building. It was chaos. And yet, plenty of workers wanted to finish and send that email they were working on, commit code and push it to the remote server, etc. What sticks with me most is the one guy, a very senior manager, running around yelling at people to get off their computers and get out of the building, because no job is ever worth your life.

Building fires are no joke. Get the F out.

The study mentions the prevalence of red oak acorns as food for the mice. Why specifically red oak and not, say, white oak?

I did some sleuthing, and apparently the mice will eat white oak acorns immediately but will store away the red oak acorns for later. They only eat them when there is no other option, because they have lots of tannins and are bitter tasting. So basically, red oak acorns are a food to help get through bad winters.

I doubt that there was ever a “legal” definition of AWD vs 4WD.

But in modern times, technology has most definitely blurred the distinction. Higher-end Jeeps also have a “full-time 4WD” that sounds an awful lot like an AWD system that can also do 4WD stuff.

So, eh, it’s probably not a good idea to argue too much about broad categories anymore. Individual systems must be compared

Nighthawks shows up in this scene from one of the most iconic 80s teen movies, but the star of the scene is Pointillism:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vBBOMLURSGA&ra=m

They drive significantly under the speed limit; of course everyone passes them.

I am shocked at the reception, and I've contacted someone through this post. We've exchanged info and I'm happy to report that while nothing is guaranteed, the best chance at avoiding the landfill has been achieved!

Look, if it makes you feel better, I'm happy to state that I thought the SpaceX IPO price was too high and that it is probably still too high. But in the long run, it might turn out to be a great investment.

I believe that the Anthropic IPO price will be too high, but also in the long run it might turn out to be a great investment.

The most important thing I believe is that this is what I signed up for when I bought lots and lots of VTI. And that I can change to a different set of investments pretty much instantly for 9 hours a day, 5 days a week. With no tax hit because it's in my retirement account.

(FYI, CRSP doesn't exist anymore)

CRSP adjusted their methodology prior to SpaceX IPO being announced. It's part of a larger discussion about what the purpose of an index is and how people invest. Vanguard is not out to screw people's retirement up (quite the opposite really). Anyone is welcome to be part of the discussion, but it's hard to get anyone to take you seriously if you only come out of the woodwork when something "bad" is about to happen.

But would that change your opinion?

Do you really expect to learn something that you don't already know by making Anthropic do two quarters of audited financials? What happens then? Come up with another reason for delay?

There’s plenty of argument about how if a company has an IPO then they are, by definition, part of the market. And if you bought an index fund that means to represent a part of the market that this company is in, then that company should be in the index fund.

You had lots of choices, you made this choice, and you can always change your mind. Do we really need to have the government step in to prevent you from having to choose something else?

> But next comes ... "Viener". This is VERY strange. Where does this word originate? My first impression was it was from Vienna, a city; the german name for the city is "Wien"

Ok, so there is a company in Chicago named Vienna Beef, started by immigrants from Wien in the 1800s who made sausages using recipes they brought with them. In the 1900s they started making hot dogs as well, but high quality ones. You see, the hot dog in America has a reputation as being a pretty low quality meat product. There are now a number of companies that make quality products, Vienna Beef being one.

In a stroke of genius, Vienna Beef also sells neon signs of their logo to the roadside shops that will sell you a ready to eat hot dog, especially ones that do it “Chicago style”. It’s very Americana, and you generally see it in the middle of America, including Nebraska. So a lot of Americans have a word association with Vienna and a good hot dog. That’s really the only connection :)

If you’re the kind of person that finds American big cities thrilling, you will probably adore Paris as an ideal European metropolis. But it sure isn’t some fairy tail.

What kind of Walkman doesn’t play cassettes? Can’t wait to see what they come up with for a $9,999.99 Discman.

The default collation on MS SQL Server didn’t support Unicode until some fairly recent releases. Even though the database itself fully supported Unicode (you just had to pick a different collation).

So it’s entirely possible that they are using a fully up-to-date database, but the software depends on using a database collation that doesn’t support Unicode. I’ve seen software like that in active use even now. It can definitely get frustrating, and it’s not that hard to fix if you can just get some management buyin.

> You wouldn’t buy a loan if you thought it wasn’t going to be repaid.

Eh, people do weird things all the time.

Also, there is often extreme information asymmetry.

His neighbor is either lying or he's exaggerating.

Cook County has senior exemptions, senior freeze exemptions, and long-time homeowner freeze exemptions. They don't push any responsible homeowner into poverty. They also have a website so you can look up exactly what your neighbor's assessed value and annual tax is. There is no need to guess.

Yes, this is correct.

My uncle used to be in charge of the fire services in a mostly rural, sparsely populated county in a Western state. They bought their equipment used from well-funded dense suburban departments, generally in New York or New Jersey where equipment was in almost constant use and replaced often to ensure high availability. Once in a more rural area where some equipment might go a month or more between uses, such equipment was perfectly fine. They would keep them around for 3-5 years and then sell to a fire district in an even more rural area.

So there's always equipment. Just not always someone to operate it. Especially when you'd have to pay decent wages for a crew to sit around and do nothing for days or weeks at a time, these places instead either have volunteers or part-time employees that only come to the station when called.

You know what’s funny is that, thanks to the interoperability, all of my family members have switched their toll transponders to the Illinois I-Pass because Illinois charges no monthly fees or additional surcharges and doesn’t care where you live or what state/country your car is registered. I’m sure there are other participating toll authorities with no fees, but all the places my family members live do.

So really, you only need one state to adopt your unified transit fee idea.

Yeah, it’s a strange window into someone else’s life.

A few years ago I stopped at an estate sale in a small town I was passing through, far away from home. Picked up an 8-track player and a few dozen cartridges, the majority of which were mixes.

It was just fascinating to listen to. I’m pretty sure it was mostly obscure 1970s and 1980s country with the odd Blondie song thrown in here or there.

It’s kind of crazy that, in freedom & liberty loving Texas, there is no mention of relaxing or eliminating the ordinances that people don’t want enforced against poor people.

I’m up here in Illinois and our dysfunctional and incompetent village council has managed to get nothing done over the last 3 years, except eliminating a bunch of rules about what we can do with our own property.

I’m pretty sure that when the railroads went bust that nobody pulled up the rails and put them somewhere else. And when the internet bust happened, they didn’t pull up all the dark fiber and lay it down somewhere else.

I would bet that if all those GPUs go idle, they stay housed and cooled in the data center they were originally installed in, for better or for worse.

> no one repairs clothes anymore

My son and I volunteer at the local repair cafe. The clothing/textile repair area is usually the busiest area, and I'd say that at least half of the people working the sewing machines are young women of reasonably affluent backgrounds - college-age or younger.

Perhaps people don't need to do it anymore, but many are choosing to.

This book (includes a link for freely downloading a PDF) might give you some ideas for making your workbench more useful. Measurements are in feet and inches because it’s written by a guy in Kentucky, but that’s not going to stop anyone in the UK.

https://lostartpress.com/products/the-anarchists-workbench

I used it a few weeks ago for a renewal. You upload the HEIC from your iPhone and it turns it into a jpeg with the appropriate resolution. The editor gives you the ability to make minor adjustments to the algorithmic changes it made, and then tells you that a human will review to ensure it meets the standard.

To be honest, the process was very well done, and the new passport was in my mailbox 5 days later without paying anything for expedited shipping.

He gave up in Chicago because the federal judge wasn’t ruling in their favor.

“They would have won given enough time and money” is certainly debatable, but this ruling was ultimately what ended the museum in Chicago:

https://cases.justia.com/federal/district-courts/illinois/il...

In federal court. And sure, if you want, you can put “lost” in scare quotes and claim I’m misrepresenting things.

I hope you are happy with their choice, because it would have required overturning this [1] to build. The museum lost in federal court, BTW.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_Central_Railroad_Co._...

Note that the museum was planned to be built on the actual land that was the subject of that Supreme Court case ;)

Are you going to be leading the campaign to get your national FA to return all of the money it received from the highest-revenue-sharing-ever US World Cup?

As far as big cities go, Chicago is a very easy city to build in. However, as you surely know, it follows an informal system called Aldermanic Prerogative, which gives a lot of influence to the alderman in charge of each ward. If the NIMBYs in your local area have excessive sway, it’s because your local alderman depends on them.

In my old neighborhood, if a developer wanted to build a high rise with 300 apartments, they’d make a proposal for 350 apartments, have a few public meetings, let people yell at them for a couple hours, and make a “concession” of reducing the project to 300 apartments. Then everyone goes home happy. Everyone knew that was the game, except perhaps a few obtuse NIMBYs that thought they were accomplishing something.

In the mile or two south of Roosevelt Rd, there are 5000-10000 permitted apartments/condos, just waiting for some developer to get a loan and pull permits to start construction. No public meetings needed. They could start building next week.

> “Progress occurs one funeral at a time.”

That's science, not politics. Scientists don't abandon all they've ever believed and switch to the opposite. Voters do. Why is that? I'm merely suggesting you get some personal experience so you can begin to understand. "We're going to win, just as soon as enough Republicans die of old age" is for fools and young people.