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Super useful knot for when you don't have a ratchet tie-down. Learned and used this knot all the time hauling around dirt bikes.

Ha when I read “I won’t name the system; let’s just call it Minerva,” I thought, “I’ll bet it’s called Athena irl. “

I have a lot of fun memories about when I moved to SF in 2006. Among them was meeting Craig and interacting with him casually a handful of times. He was a regular at Reverie in Cole Valley, where a good friend and mentor of mine was also a regular. The two of them were friends and times I'd meet with my friend, i'd sometimes talk to Craig. He always seemed kind and had a sharp wit. I remember the first time I met him, my friend introduced me and said I had just moved to town. I blurted out, "know a good way to find an apartment?" Craig gave me a good-natured eye roll.

I asked him one time what he was doing. Answering emails, he said. Customer support emails. I think he really enjoyed that part of the business.

I'm not picking up any subjective, simplistic labeling like "good" or "bad." Are we reading the same paper?

Haven't fully read the paper, just the introduction and skimmed through the rest, but it seems they're merely observing that a rent control law went into effect, and given some control variables, it seems like it depressed property values.

Their findings also suggest that while the wealth transfer of rent control factor is real -- that is, landlords are impacted more and existing renters see relative benefit -- that effect is greater among higher-income renters and less among lower income renters.

Second paragraph in the Conclusion:

"While the negative wealth effects for owners are large, our results show the positive effects of the law are poorly targeted. Though the intention is to benefit lower income renters, we find that the largest benefits are received in the neighborhoods of the city in which renters have higher incomes, are less likely to be minorities, and have more education. To the extent that price drops for rental properties reflect future rent savings, and thus housing wealth gains for tenants, our results suggest that the largest cost savings are going to be realized in the neighborhoods with the richest, most educated, and least diverse owners."

I agree with the sentiments -- knowing the scope of a change is more essential, in most cases, than knowing whether the change was a "fix" or a "feature" -- but much of the scope in a project can be gleaned from the files which were touched. So the use case of, "i need to quickly at a glance determine what commits touched what parts of the project" can be answered with some variation on

    git log --pretty=format:"%n%h %s" --name-only

Half of the purpose of me documenting things is to make certain that I fully understand the problem and its solution.

As I write out the explanation, if something doesn't make sense, that is a prompt for me to dig in and understand more fully either what I am supposed to accomplish and/or how I intend to do it.

That applies to everything from single-line comments on up to project READMEs and polished, customer-facing documentation.

One consistent frustration I have had over the years is that so much code is not documented or (worse) poorly documented. If there is a silver-lining to AI-assisted programming, it is that clear writing of goals and proposed solutions are rewarded with more accurate outcomes. It should have always been thus. but I'll take it.

As I'm sure many people on HN with kids do, I think very highly of my toddler's capabilities. I'm looking forward to the day I can stick him on a cross-town bus and have him fly solo (or at least with a peer/buddy). I'm hoping he can do it by age eight or nine. That was the same age my parents let me ride my bike several miles across town to a friend's house.

My biggest fear for my kid out in the world is not abduction, but injury or death by automobile.

as someone who laments the loss of spaces and pastimes that once brought people together -- bowling alleys, dance halls, pubs, movie houses, etc. -- to work from home, home entertainment and especially anything and everything online, I keep hoping for some kind of reversal.

Maybe the day is getting closer when anything and everything internet-related is so drenched in uncanny artifice and extractionary intention that people will yearn for imperfect, multidimensional reality, and feel like the best thing they can do with their time is walk through the park with a friend.

It's not that credit card companies have some kind of moral bone to pick, it is that the legal, logistical and political morass of dealing with the variety of state and national laws, definitions of porn, protections of children and non-consenting performers, etc. are such that it is not worth it for them to pursue.

Similar issues exist for, e.g., companies and sites selling legal THC and THC products.

There is a psychological hype effect which affects both audience and performers in a capacity room of any size. Whether it's 50 or 5000, if the room is full, you feel it, and it adds to the excitement, tension and maybe magic of the event. There's nothing worse than playing an empty room, and some of the best times I've ever had have been with a band and thirty people crammed into a living room.

only slightly serious. children are a joy! right? right??

It's not even "in the street" I'm worried about -- it's the lunatics who drive like they are the main character in a single-player RPG. Not looking for bikes or pedestrians, crashing into parked cars and houses.

Riight! I was wondering why some people had more than one. Like, I wonder that every single ever-loving day

My biggest fear of letting my young kid play alone outside is getting hit by a car.

The alphabetical streets in the Richmond and Sunset districts of San Francisco do a similar thing

The artist was the band Van Halen; the forbidden color was brown

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/brown-out/

It’s interesting comparing the enthusiasm I see in this thread compared to the more jaded responses I’ve seen in r/synthesizers

I think it looks cool and fun. Wish my workflow and time could accommodate it right now but they can’t. I’m really curious to hear what people who spend time with it are able to do.

Oh yeah makes sense

Digital Audio Workstation

in the context of computer-based recording it's pretty common jargon

> Yes, Canada, you are indeed in danger as well as Mexico.

No evidence. Unless you're arguing while NAFTA was around this was a way to create a "United America".

Trump recently posted an image on Truth Social of a White House meeting in which a map is displayed, of north america with the US flag superimposed on Canada, Greenland, and Venezuela. [1] He has repeatedly suggested that Canada is the 51st American state. [2]

[1] https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/greenland-trump-tariffs-tra...

[2] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trumps-remarks-on-cana...

When did Biden say the US needs 300M more immigrants?

When did Biden say the US needs 300M more immigrants?

hehe

I think it took me about four months of daily use to know most of the editor basics without having to pause to look up things. Another eight for it all to feel natural. And, maybe about six years later, it remains my favorite text entry and code editing environment.

I've been using the LazyVim <https://www.lazyvim.org/> neovim setup and a handful of extras, but not too many. I still have to look up some esoteric stuff, but for the most part, it's completely natural.

And for the first few years, I was a hardline keyboard-only absolutist, but lately I've been using the mouse where it makes sense, and sometimes it does.

(MacOS, iTerm2, neovim, lazyvim, love this combo)

The implications of the ongoing ruptures to the global political and economic order are significant. Tech is both influencing and influenced by these changes.

Completely agree, but at the same time I can't bring myself to believe that reinforcing systems like the electoral college or reinstating a state-legislature-chosen Senate would yield better outcomes.

Most people I know who have strong political opinions (as well as those who don't) can't name their own city council members or state assemblyman, and that's a real problem for functioning representative democracy. Not only for their direct influence on local policy, but also because these levels of government also serve as the farm team or proving grounds for higher levels of office.

By the time candidates are running with the money and media of a national campaign, in some sense it's too late to evaluate them on matters of their specific policies and temperaments, and you kind of just have to assume they're going to follow the general contours of their party. By and large, it seems the entrenched political parties (and, perhaps, parties in general) are impediments to good governance.

Good people too. a friend of mine used to babysit for them

similar observation here, with a 2.33-year old. In small doses we've exposed him to videos[1], never unsupervised, never as a parental substitute, but there are a class of them (which happen to be the lowest-effort, highest-contrast, most insipidly soundtracked CGI dreck I can possibly imagine) which are absolute baby crack. He watched some a few months ago and now he can't get them out of his head. It has gotten to the point where we are simply at a hard "no" about any videos because it always devolves into an inconsolable tantrum tearfully begging for more video crack.

[1] kid loves trucks and garbage trucks and trains, and so for a while it was fun to pull up a video of real life trucks and trains and watch them and talk about them. We'd read a book about trucks. He'd point and say, "what's that do," and I'd explain, then say, "wait! I can show you." Which was fun, until it became triggering.

I wonder if there is a somewhat predictable formula for the shape and size of the tail of a "death spike" based on rankings or other factors within this study?

Very helpful comments in much of the example code.