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Right, and most people opposing datacenters don't _yet_ have one near them, so they don't have the direct experience yet.

"Airbus tests extended-length wings to see if it's worth developing the technology to produce folding versions of the same"

I don't think the average person actually knows anything concrete about them.

They're a proxy for peoples' sense of powerlessness about what's going on around them.

Skyrocketing electricity prices, the sense that elected officials aren't looking out for their interests, job losses, etc. They're a convenient proxy for many disparate concerns because they represent all of those things in one way or another.

Huh? What does WebOS have to do with windows?

Very true, but isn't that exactly what the parent is suggesting? That even a ship full of sailors given the opportunity to care, very few do?

Or are you suggesting that by the time they are in the Navy, it's after the age where one might be most easily encouraged to care?

equivalent of a frontier AI lab

Except frontier AI labs basically consider the entirety of human creation, multiplied by 100, to be their total addressable market.

The most important architect in Chicago could only ever be able to capture a small fraction of a single city's architecture business.

same. over 2t in one day.

honestly, the lightning CONNECTOR was far better, but man, I really appreciate the standardization. We have one device on the house left using lightning (my wife's iPhone 13 mini) and .. well, I just wish they'd release a new mini, that's all.

Wow, sorry, and thanks. Not sure what went wrong in my brain there :)

Loan was originated in 2014. Our particular circumstance was that it was a run-up in home valuations in a short time period that caused appraisals to start coming in short right when we were trying to close. 20% down turned into 10% down plus a small shortfall.

Excellent work with the reading there, champ.

Even the mom and pop landlords use management companies that run you through a black box for approval/rejection with little room for negotiation.

Rental approvals are ridiculous. We're renting an apartment while we remodel our house.

We've taken out mortgages, refi'd mortgages, and (by now) taken out 3 HELOCs in a row (2 of them subsequently closed as we needed to re-file for more $). While there's a lot of paperwork involved, it feels pretty easy. "Promise to pay us back? Cool!"

Filling out apartment rentals was awful. The rejections, the tiny paper forms asking you about creditors and bank accounts, how much money you owe each of them every month, personal references, "supervisor's phone number", have you ever been to jail, ever failed to pay rent for any reason, previous landlords' contact info. Look, I get that rent is an unsecured obligation (vs a mortgage), but every step of it was gross and accusatory.

When I was a kid, we never had a ton of extra money, but my parents were very supportive-- they paid for most of my college expenses, for example. Their outlook was that us kids shouldn't have to work-- "school is your job". (However, both my sister and I _did_ have jobs while in school).

However, I never _asked_ my parents for money. I had a good education and a well-paying job, and was able to turn IPO money into a house down payment. In the end, we struggled to close the deal, and my wife and I both asked to borrow money from our parents. Of course they were happy to do so, but I still remember it as feeling so hard to do -- just something that I "shouldn't" have to do. And, of course, it also made me reflect on those who didn't have family support to fall back on, let alone jobs that paid well.

From TFA:

"I think it could be half over the course of the year," Noble said, adding that he believes a fair value for the shares is around $30, implying a decline of roughly 78% from current levels.

What do you mean by "doing release Fridays"?

As a night owl who sleeps late, I'm stoked to not waste morning daylight while I'm sleeping, and have more time in the evening to go out and do shit before it gets dark.

Wow, TIL! I moved from a Linux desktop to a Mac when OS X was new, and thought it was cool that I could run an X server locally. I didn't have much experience with classic Mac OS, and never would have guessed there was an X server for it.

#1 rule of sales. If someone is trying to sell you something, you _probably_ don't want it. Eg, they need the sale more than you do.

The very fact that they were asking the question is such a huge red flag.

plastic bag!

That's crappy, but it's also a beta, so it's not yet time to render a verdict.

That was mentioned in the Guardian piece as well-- can you help explain the particular appeal of this film in Sweden?

Seems like you're playing a dangerous game if your navigation app becomes known for optimizing for the collective good rather than individual fastest transit time-- people will trust your app less, and use a different, more "selfish" app.

The original edutainment?

Probably a good argument for the agreement; puts teeth behind worker safety/comfort.

I have very mixed results with LLMs, but I actually find they're really GOOD at, unprompted, pointing out existing code that is redundant and could be simplified and so on.

Where it really, really struggles for me is in existing complex infra codebases.

I think this is usually done with idle fees and the like. I was recently apartment hunting and we tested out the EV chargers -- in this case it was a Tesla destination charger, but I didn't realize those now had smarts built into them to provide for billing and idle fees just like superchargers have.

We ended up in an apartment without any way to charge, so for now we're dealing with supercharging -- and just recently found a nearby condo complex (1/3mi walk) with 19 completely free chargepoints. But yeah, this is Menlo Park, so we have 5 superchargers within a few miles.

We choose not to, because most consumers of ambulance services don't have to pay for it. So those of us who pay out of pocket for an ambulance, like I did ($1700 to go 3/4 of a mile last year) are a tiny minority.

Remember when we didn't have enough electricity for electric cars?

No, I'm referring to how a smaller diameter wheel can't roll over bumps as easily as a larger one.

I'm surprised the small diameter wheels allow for such a good ride.