The day-by-day dev log[0] is worth a read on its own. It's impressive what a single developer can do with the right determination and discipline. [0]: https://github.com/a327ex/SNKRX/blob/master/devlog.md
You're right that this is potentially anticompetitive, but “Companies will regulate themselves” is a cute libertarian bedtime story. I've never heard libertarians say that. Rather, they say that consumers have the…
Superb video, and in the public domain. Thanks so much for the link!
I certainly hope we don't. The First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech and the press, including the freedom to make mistakes and even outright lie. There is no godlike authority that can tell truth from fiction…
Seriously, switch to Firefox. It's good again, and prioritizes privacy.[0] After Chrome's forced-sign-in debacle [1] I switched away from Chrome on all my platforms (Windows, Linux, Android) and haven't missed a thing.…
Nothing built on X does mixed DPI well, because X itself (in most configurations) treats multiple monitors as simple viewports onto a single screen. A single screen with multiple DPIs doesn't make sense virtually any…
It's an improvement over writing csv files to disk. This is not a high bar.
This is not intended to contradict your point, but the first video is an obvious marketing fluff piece almost certainly funded by the Chinese government (China Daily is not an independent news source). It is designed to…
They are hired by the agent You can and absolutely should hire one yourself. Additionally, if you have a buyer's agent, don't make the mistake of using theirs either -- the buyer's agent has the same conflict of…
As simple as possible, but no simpler.
I like to trot out this old gem[1] when people wonder why there's so much hate for MySQL. Nontransactional DDL alone is sufficient to classify it as a toy DB for me. Yes, I've been personally bitten by it. [1]:…
You're mostly right, except that trees are now understood to not be a great way to sequester carbon: They eventually grow old and die, and the carbon in them is released as they rot. Over (non-geological) time trees are…
That's the apparent paradox in the galaxy rotation curve: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_rotation_curve
With the GPL at least, its major clauses are aimed at restricting software from being incorporated into closed systems. I don't know if eliminating that control was what the GP had in mind, but it would be one of the…
Copyright is the foundation of all FLOSS licenses, from GPL to MIT. You might know that already, but that's a sharp double-edged sword you're swinging.
Title II != net neutrality. Title II is a highly bureaucratic strong-oversight-in-all-things tool aimed at a completely different problem space, namely providing a legislative solution to the case-law-derived 1980s…
This is the problem that a lot of people have with the FCC regulatory approach, specifically abusing Article 2 of the 1996 communications act. Net neutrality is essential for the internet to continue to thrive and…
I know this isn't a comforting thought, but: Missiles from the most likely source (North Korea) are not thought to have very good accuracy. They may be as likely to hit Kauai or the big island (or the ocean nearby) as…
Thomas Sowell's Basic Economics[1] is a superb book on the subject. It's lengthy but very readable, especially for its real-world examples. Particularly excellent are the explanations for the unintended consequences…
> Has the top 1% really become _that_ much more productive over the last few decades relative to the middle class? No, and that's actually the crucial point: High wage earners in the US have remained that much more…
What do those charts look like for the rest of the world? I don't have the stats handy but I'm fairly confident that the middle class in China, Indonesia, and Malaysia has dramatically expanded over that time period, so…
Thanks for the tip, you made me go google some things! [0] Do you need a full-on JIT, or just a runtime? [1] [0]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-g... [1]:…
Yep. Civil disobedience, unsurprisingly, includes breaking the law.
One of the bigger delays to adoption in higher-density areas will be the problem of retrofitting residential parking with charging stations. Condo associations and rental companies won't spend money to install them…
Strategy tip: Don't tell him to know his place and listen to the enlightened; send him the next set of links that will satisfy and maybe further stimulate his curiosity. Without those links, your last paragraph is…
The day-by-day dev log[0] is worth a read on its own. It's impressive what a single developer can do with the right determination and discipline. [0]: https://github.com/a327ex/SNKRX/blob/master/devlog.md
You're right that this is potentially anticompetitive, but “Companies will regulate themselves” is a cute libertarian bedtime story. I've never heard libertarians say that. Rather, they say that consumers have the…
Superb video, and in the public domain. Thanks so much for the link!
I certainly hope we don't. The First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech and the press, including the freedom to make mistakes and even outright lie. There is no godlike authority that can tell truth from fiction…
Seriously, switch to Firefox. It's good again, and prioritizes privacy.[0] After Chrome's forced-sign-in debacle [1] I switched away from Chrome on all my platforms (Windows, Linux, Android) and haven't missed a thing.…
Nothing built on X does mixed DPI well, because X itself (in most configurations) treats multiple monitors as simple viewports onto a single screen. A single screen with multiple DPIs doesn't make sense virtually any…
It's an improvement over writing csv files to disk. This is not a high bar.
This is not intended to contradict your point, but the first video is an obvious marketing fluff piece almost certainly funded by the Chinese government (China Daily is not an independent news source). It is designed to…
They are hired by the agent You can and absolutely should hire one yourself. Additionally, if you have a buyer's agent, don't make the mistake of using theirs either -- the buyer's agent has the same conflict of…
As simple as possible, but no simpler.
I like to trot out this old gem[1] when people wonder why there's so much hate for MySQL. Nontransactional DDL alone is sufficient to classify it as a toy DB for me. Yes, I've been personally bitten by it. [1]:…
You're mostly right, except that trees are now understood to not be a great way to sequester carbon: They eventually grow old and die, and the carbon in them is released as they rot. Over (non-geological) time trees are…
That's the apparent paradox in the galaxy rotation curve: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_rotation_curve
With the GPL at least, its major clauses are aimed at restricting software from being incorporated into closed systems. I don't know if eliminating that control was what the GP had in mind, but it would be one of the…
Copyright is the foundation of all FLOSS licenses, from GPL to MIT. You might know that already, but that's a sharp double-edged sword you're swinging.
Title II != net neutrality. Title II is a highly bureaucratic strong-oversight-in-all-things tool aimed at a completely different problem space, namely providing a legislative solution to the case-law-derived 1980s…
This is the problem that a lot of people have with the FCC regulatory approach, specifically abusing Article 2 of the 1996 communications act. Net neutrality is essential for the internet to continue to thrive and…
I know this isn't a comforting thought, but: Missiles from the most likely source (North Korea) are not thought to have very good accuracy. They may be as likely to hit Kauai or the big island (or the ocean nearby) as…
Thomas Sowell's Basic Economics[1] is a superb book on the subject. It's lengthy but very readable, especially for its real-world examples. Particularly excellent are the explanations for the unintended consequences…
> Has the top 1% really become _that_ much more productive over the last few decades relative to the middle class? No, and that's actually the crucial point: High wage earners in the US have remained that much more…
What do those charts look like for the rest of the world? I don't have the stats handy but I'm fairly confident that the middle class in China, Indonesia, and Malaysia has dramatically expanded over that time period, so…
Thanks for the tip, you made me go google some things! [0] Do you need a full-on JIT, or just a runtime? [1] [0]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-g... [1]:…
Yep. Civil disobedience, unsurprisingly, includes breaking the law.
One of the bigger delays to adoption in higher-density areas will be the problem of retrofitting residential parking with charging stations. Condo associations and rental companies won't spend money to install them…
Strategy tip: Don't tell him to know his place and listen to the enlightened; send him the next set of links that will satisfy and maybe further stimulate his curiosity. Without those links, your last paragraph is…