Toine

@Toine@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Child care costs more than a mortgage payment or rent almost everywhere in the U.S.: ‘There is no escaping it’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed, this is why child care is or should be heavily subsidized.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Child care costs more than a mortgage payment or rent almost everywhere in the U.S.: ‘There is no escaping it’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know how it works in the US but isn’t it normal that child care cost are higher than rent or mortgage? Unless you count as child care older kids (like above 3), you can’t expect a single worker to take care of more than 3 babies, and rent should be around 1/3 of income. So typical cost of daycare for 1 kif should be about typical cost of housing for 1 worker, no? For reference here in France, my mortgage is about 1300€/month and daycare (full time, private) for one child is 1400€/month, (of which about 700€ is paid by the state).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who makes money when AI reads the internet for us?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t need physical newspapers, but if you want good journalism you should definitely pay for your news.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poignant post on the state of things⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It could be owned by, like, multiple people? Also, a lot of companies in the world, and especially the ones managing costly infrastructure assets, are owned by states (which are a form of “multiple people”).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poignant post on the state of things⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, the Troika changed it when Germany took control of Greece 10 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NASA lost contact with its Mars helicopter⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe they took this into account when they designed the thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boeing 737 Max planes are grounded after a hole blew in one mid-flight⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Airbus is ramping up. They have had issues with the supply chain, but they should massively increase their production this year. They are opening assembly lines everywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Cybertruck gets less than 80% of advertised range in YouTuber’s test⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For trains and subways, you can build the stations slightly above the rest of the tracks so that a train will naturally break when reaching the station, and accelerate when leaving. Efficiently storing energy in potential gravitational form. I’m not sure how frequently this is done, but at least in my city the subway does this at most stations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Virginia sheriff's office says Tesla was running on Autopilot moments before tractor-trailer crash⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It also checks periodically that you’re in control of the wheel, or else will disengage. Disengaging autopilot when it detects you are not in control of the wheel sounds a bit dangerous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone knows a good lightweight self-hosted alternative to GitHub?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use gitea, it works fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Europe Reluctantly Chooses SpaceX to Launch Its GPS Satellites⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Except they launched them 4 at a time on Ariane 5 (which has similar capacity as falcon, so doubtful they would launch much more at a time with space, also it was available at the time of the start of the project…), and two at a time on the cheaper Soyouz. Also, it’s way better to pay even 200 million (more likely less than 150 millions) to domestic companies to boost your own economy than to pay 70 million to your number one competitor…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Europe Reluctantly Chooses SpaceX to Launch Its GPS Satellites⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The launch costs of Galileo satellites were much cheaper than 400 millions per satellite. The budget you mention covers the global development, deployment and continuous operation of the project.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨25 States Agree To Quadruple Number Of Heat Pumps In America⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Except when it’s very cold outside, which is what was discussed here. Heat pumps are great (have one in my home), but it might not be ideal in very cold areas, especially if electricity prices are high compared to other energy sources.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Escalating scandal grips airlines including American and Southwest, as nearly 100 planes find fake parts from company with fake employees that vanished overnight⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Preprend 12ft.io/ to the URL: 12ft.io/…/why-so-many-flights-canceled-delayed-ao…