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- Comment on How I hacked my washing machine 4 hours ago:
I saw this when I had to get new machines 7-8 years ago. However they were an extra like $300 for each machine. wtf.
I would kill for some sort of audio out or usb, but even better would be Zigbee/z-wave/thread, and you can do it for less than $20 in parts
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 5 hours ago:
You could say the same about pretty much any infrastructure. It’s hideously expensive and will never get paid back by utilization.
- highways
- local roads
- bridges
- air traffic control
- utilities of most kinds
- canals
- flood control
- erosion mitigation
All are hideously expensive and will never get paid back by utilization.
Are they all bad investments?
I claim they all are critical for their indirect benefits to an economy, a society, and rail is exactly the same.
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 8 hours ago:
It wasn’t even necessarily a bad idea given property growth, but it will be interesting to see what happens if they can’t stop population decline
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 8 hours ago:
Trains everywhere connecting the entire country is a very worthwhile goal for a country, regardless of profit motive. If we can see the benefit of doing that with roads, why can’t we see the benefit of doing that with rail?
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 8 hours ago:
Id argue the northeast corridor is effectively the only place we have intercity rail.
While there are other routes, it’s mainly just keeping the lights on. How can rail be useful at 1-2 trips/day, travelling at glacial speeds? We shouldn’t even count it. If we ever start funding rail seriously, we’ll save a crap load of money where Amtrak kept the right of way sort of in use but that’s the only benefit.
The 2022 infrastructure bill would have made a huge difference increasing several routes to “sort of useful”, but even then a decent rail system would be a century out
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 8 hours ago:
Given that we here in the US are still trying g to work out from under 150 year old rail infrastructure, I don’t the ink they need to worry about it for a while.
Rail generally lasts longer than roads even if you don’t maintain it. We’ve proven that
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 8 hours ago:
You might ask if capitalism is the sole definer of policy, what’s the purpose of our elected parasites? If they can’t define a reason for their existence, they too need to be replaced with ai.
- Comment on Where are all the successful "red cities"? 2 days ago:
Yet the reason you’re getting none of that is your own conservative flock. I have no idea what you need but I’ll damn well try. Be ungrateful if you want. Turn it down if you want. Reject all hope for the future if you want but then don’t come crying to the rest of us. . But don’t be trying to tear down my world too. Don’t be getting self-righteous about it. Don’t claim its not fiscally conservative when you’re getting more money than you paid in.
- Comment on Where are all the successful "red cities"? 2 days ago:
Did you vote for the racists and fascists? Vote for suspending human rights, kidnapping people off the streets with no due process? Current politics have really made me understand how much white privilege I have and this is the fullest time in my life that I’ve been “woke” enough to be grateful for my skin color. What is going on now is way beyond the pale.
- Comment on Where are all the successful "red cities"? 2 days ago:
For example, I’m currently looking at the worker retraining programs, and the closest one is 70 miles away
And yet this was one of the major points where Hillary Clinton lost. Part of her platform was greatly expanding job training opportunities. People shit all over that …. While they had a point that those haven’t always worked well in the past, at least it’s something. At least it’s better than the guy lying to everyone’s face with no intention of doing anything.
Why vote Democrat where some people would benefit from job training when you can vote for some blowhard spouting gibberish who will just make your life harder?
- Comment on Where are all the successful "red cities"? 2 days ago:
Why does everybody assume that the 2k people living in my town don’t want any of that stuff?
I did grow up sort of rural. I do know what it’s like to have fewer people, fewer amenities. But my town always managed to vote for at least good school funding.
But it is all politics. I started from conservative attitude and have gone much more progressive over time. Part of that is moving to a more progressive city and seeing how well it works. But most of my life it’s been “you deserve the same benefits that I have”. The same quality education, connectivity, infrastructure, all the modern amenities that make up a good quality of life. But I keep voting for that when it seems like rural conservative areas are the ones voting against it, those who would most benefit, are most against. Most of my life I could understand where they’re coming from, most of my life I could see the logic. I just can’t anymore. The modern conservative/progressive divide just doesn’t make any sense. Maybe part of it is money. In my conservative phase I cared a lot about being fiscally responsible and there was never enough money to go around. But now I have a better idea where the money comes from. It’s my money. I live in a major city that is the economic life blood of the region in a blue “donor” state that gives more to the nation than it takes. I’m voting to spend my money on your buses, your internet, your renewable energy, your education and job training so we can all benefit and I don’t understand why conservative people shit all Over that.
I also used to be conservative for strong family values, but that really seems performative and inconsistent with what I consider family values. Don’t be all self-righteous with your family values that really don’t seem to value families.
Why should I not complain about that?
You should complain. You deserve better.
- Comment on Where are all the successful "red cities"? 2 days ago:
I’m sure these services are a big part of it - you can’t see all the poverty assistance spread out across a wide rural region but you can see there’s no bus service.
Certainly some services only work with higher population densities, but that’s why some of us prefer cities. Rural areas have advantages too, but either way is a compromise. We each made a choice where to live.
But turn this back to what would you do? As a liberal elite urban snob, i freely agree that my ideas are not likely to work well: maybe you don’t want internet service, education, connectivity to the modern world, infrastructure, fine. But im trying and i dont know what else to try. Step up and propose something. I don’t have any say for your county but if you say you need rural bus service, I’m all for that. And I’ll go further and say we should fund intercity rail, and rural bus service to all the towns it passes, to open more of the world to both of us. Stand up, tell us what you need, and you just might get it and more …. It’s not charity it’s a pooled resource making life better for us all.
This article pisses me off a bit, because it does seem likely, but there is no one that people on the left like, who is so corrupt, spiteful, narcissistic, destructive as Trump. We’d never vote to tear everything down, including the democratic traditions that are the foundation of our society. Plus if your strength and independence is so core to your self-image, where is it? Voting for a tantrum to knock everything off the table is no one’s idea of strength. Instead of denigrating what other people try to do for you, stand up and tell us what you need. Make a proposal we can all get behind. A big difference this article misses is that we want the best for you and will act to improve your life if you meet us half away, we have the entire resources of the country pooled to help all of us, where rural MAGA voted for lashing out, for hurting people
- Comment on Is the periodic table still getting new additions? 3 days ago:
As long as it could be thousands of years we can dream about fantastic new elements that could make arc reactors or interstellar travel possible.
The more likely reality is a boring line of research of interest only to scientists
- Comment on The Future is NOT Self-Hosted 3 days ago:
The authors approach to not owning anything digital was to attempt self hosting. But the authors reaction to the amount of work was that he shouldn’t own the “self-hosting”? He does not even realize that he’s back to not owning anything
- Comment on Ice cream trucks still around? 5 days ago:
I hear one sometimes, but either it zooms by when I’m not looking or it’s just going to the nearby playground.
When my kids were little, we tried to chase it down a few times without any luck
- Comment on Is Mexican food uniquely good with alcohol or have I just been conditioned? 5 days ago:
Well said, I came here to say something like this not as well.
But definitely the pairing, the lime in common
I’d also put Italian food up there as exceptionally well paired with Italian wines. Of course I like margaritas much better than Italian wines, so I rarely go there
- Comment on Is it just my area or has this been an insanely humid summer? 6 days ago:
And a superhero would never mislead you !
(At least that was true before The Boys showed a much more negative picture of superheroes)
- Comment on Is it just my area or has this been an insanely humid summer? 1 week ago:
Both heat and humidity. It feels like I went directly from heat to air conditioning with less than a week in between. Today is finally decent weather to turn it off and open windows but it might be only the second time this summer.
It doesn’t seem all that many years ago that I objected to air conditioning on the grounds that it is expensive and you only need it a couple weeks of the year. But now it’s hard to see living without it where I am
- Comment on Do dams pregame? 1 week ago:
Cool, it’s on my queue. I don’t generally listen to podcasts but a bunch of their titles look interesting . Thanks
- Comment on Do dams pregame? 1 week ago:
So they were relying on 47 year old charts, not updated for climate change, to guide their operations. That seems mighty suspicious
- Comment on Do dams pregame? 1 week ago:
Thanks for lots of good detail I’ve never seen befire
- Comment on Do dams pregame? 1 week ago:
This needs to be more public
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- Comment on Did you have one of these? 1 week ago:
Recently dug one up. My older kid is interested in retro tech, so he has the boom box, a record player and a cassette player. He’s started buying vinyl and cassettes, and discovered my old crate of CDs in the basement
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 2 weeks ago:
OP is talking 6 AH batteries. If that’s all SiC can do, why would Apple use it in place of current 18AH batteries?
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 2 weeks ago:
Apple was never leading edge - their goal is to incorporate when it works well
But you’re both cherry picking and wrong. There’s huge lists of features on every new phone, you’re picking two and deciding that means no innovation. Take a look at the dozens of other features on models from each manufacturer.
SiC batteries that offer 6-8k mAh
You’re complaining about battery chemistry that you believe is innovation, yet current batteries are much larger. Why switch if the technology is not as good yet?
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 2 weeks ago:
Yep
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 2 weeks ago:
Interesting idea… we actually have a plan to go public in a couple years and I’m holding a few options, but the economy is hitting us like everyone else. I’m no longer optimistic we can reach the numbers for those options to activate
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 2 weeks ago:
As a developer
- I can jot down a bunch of notes and have ai turn it into a reasonable presentation or documentation or proposal
- zoom has an ai agent which is pretty good about summarizing a meeting. It usually just needs minor corrections and you can send it out much faster than taking notes
- for coding I mostly use ai like autocomplete. Sometimes it’s able to autocomplete entire code blocks
- for something new I might have ai generate a class or something, and use it as a first draft where I then make it work
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 2 weeks ago:
Shame. There was a time that people dug out of their own messes, I think you learn more, faster
Yes, that’s how we became senior guys. But when you have deadlines that you’re both on the hook for and they’re just floundering, you can only give them so much opportunity. I’ve had too many arguments with management about letting them merge and I’m not letting that ruin my code base
Speaking of meaningless metrics, how many people ask you for Lines Of Code counts, even today?
We have a new VP collecting metrics on everyone, including lines of code, number of merge requests, times per day using ai, days per week in the office vs at home