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If the median is higher than the mean that probably means the distribution is heavier on the positive side.

Cheap apartments are illegal and the legal ones don't get financed/constructed. There's a cutoff much higher than zero for housing costs everywhere in the US and I'd imagine it's pretty high in NYC.

The metro in DC is pretty underrated and you can live car free pretty far out into its suburbs even.

It's all debt which inflation will wash away and the landlords will come out on top.

They find divisions between us that won't be reconciled, then tell us they'll deal with the people we don't like. Democracy has pathologies that people don't appreciate, especially at a national level.

I like easydns.

Wasn't that redeemable for metals in 1934?

They're a pretty terrible registrar/host but their marketing is fantastically good. Every non-tech business owner I've met uses them. It makes me kind of sad.

I don't think enlightenment should be in quotes here. I'm pretty sure this really is the logical conclusion of the ideas in the enlightenment and if we want to move beyond the trouble we have we're going to have to question those.

As someone who used to be a lot more promiscuous: I'm pretty sure hooking up is the opposite of emotional maturity. I love Seinfeld (the old TV show) because it actually does show this. The main characters (at least Seinfeld and Elaine) have this kind of superficial maturity but you pull them apart and they're actually very childish. The show ends with them and their friends in jail with more or less nothing to show for their lives. For what the show was it has a surprisingly strong moral lesson.

The older I get the more superstition makes sense. I used to think older people were superstitious because they were more likely to have existential crises (since they were closer to death) but now that I'm middle aged I've realized that it's because human reason is surprisingly slow and the universe is surprisingly big and there's just too much to work through from first principles.

>Modern desktops are still better than either option

If I hadn't found CWM I'd probably still be on FVWM2 (with the mwm theme.) IDK if that counts as a "modern desktop" but I'm certainly a fan.

I've seen some re-interpretations of phaux-3d rectilinear skeuomorphism that used a lot of light scattering effects and looked extremely modern. I thought around this year those would be common but everyone seems to be still hung up on flat design which is a bit disappointing (and then there's adwaita which is off in left field picking daisies as usual.)

Password plus email is one factor. So that would be 3/2 factor auth.

Countries that can't feed their people probably shouldn't be taking in massive numbers of immigrants.

Alex Jones isn't real and the man who plays him is part of a massive conspiracy inside the deep state.

Magic links are half factor auth. They're probably good enough for apps that no one actually cares about though.

>It's just gasoline

>It's just housing

>It's just plywood

>It's just food

Humans are biological, liebig's law of minimums applies.

WebAssembly is actually very high level. You need tail call support if you want to preserve the original structure of the program (which seems to be the intention.) I think you can get around it with eg CPS but then you'd get something more like traditional assembly.

I haven't thought about it but most of the movies I've really enjoyed were recommended to me by my dad, girlfriend, or my brother in law. I can't think of anything I really enjoyed from a recommendation algorithm. The last movie I tried I certainly didn't enjoy.

I'm not convinced having both parents in most families working is actually a good thing. It seems to depress birth rates in most countries to the degree that you eventually get a pretty serious crisis.

Vicious cycle is just dynamic systems jargon. It means something is going to naturally shrink if it gets small.

I own voting shares in a company and it's hard enough just getting information out of them that they should want to share. The idea that the average investor has any idea what's going on in the companies they invest in is absurd.

I agree it isn't a substitute but for software dev you really don't need it.

Plenty of stuff gets built with just email and IRC. My team never turns on their camera because it's just an extra hassle and we get plenty done. Most of our collaboration happens over IM and PRs along with a short scrum at the beginning of the day. We used cameras for a few months and it added nothing to the meetings.

A lot of people mention whiteboards. I only do white boarding a few times a year but IME the best is to get a cheap (under $50) drawing tablet and use a whiteboard app (webex even has one built in, I use whiteboard.com for my side projects and tutoring.) One of my coworkers tried pointing a camera at a physical whiteboard and it was super hard to see much of anything.

If A/Cs draw the same amount electric cars do then everyone switching to electric cars could double or triple (most households have two working parents) the power draw during parts of the day (around 5 when it's the hottest and everyone is coming home from work.)

People aren't going to have the vehicles charge at 3:00 AM, they don't like managing automatons like that. I grew up in a family where our ISP did something similar and I was the only one who would schedule downloads to start at midnight (including my dad who worked as a software dev at a large tech company.) They'll just suffer whatever consequences of having the thing charge when they plug it in are.

I like electric vehicles, I'm actually in the process of upgrading my boat to use electric propulsion. I think a lot of people overlook many of the downsides though and it's a bit concerning. The battery situation is particularly bad, the used electric vehicle market is going to look very different than the used ICE vehicle market.

Did scons change between python2 and python3? That looks like it might be part of the issue people are running into.

This sounds amazing! I'm going to have to try it out tonight.

I think I'd be more willing to go to the office if I got a large pay raise to but only because there's cheap housing within walking distance of mine. If I had to commute every day again I'd be pretty upset. Maybe if I could count the drive against the 8 hours I'm supposed to be in the office (so it would be ok to get there by 10-11am instead of 9 and leave by 3-4pm instead of 5.)

That didn't seem to happen in the Nordic countries.

It's all distorted by credit which heavily discourages building new housing.

If I don't get a house this year I'm giving up on using real estate and moving onto my boat. I wish more people would do things like this.

The security model on Linux is "don't fling binaries from strangers around." That's why you can get away with the lazes fair security model X uses and still have less malware than Windows. Heck half the garbage Microsoft themselves ship with the OS could be called malware.