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901.
by davidw 2y ago
Tried 'famous cyclists' and that failed. Professional cyclists worked, but wasn't very inspiring.
902.
by davidw 2y ago
So what would that mean in practice? ISP's would buy into some stupid "great firewall" thing built by, say, McKinsey, that works in the most obvious cases, so they can claim "they're doing their part"?
903.
by davidw 2y ago
Most of the Klamath dams were pretty old and not all that useful for other things like electricity generation or flood control, IIRC. I drove through Klamath Falls yesterday... that storm is sure going to give the river a lot of water to w
904.
by davidw 2y ago
Yeah,if you look at the tariffs not as a fixed thing that applies to everyone, but a way to favor select companies and hurt others, I think they make more sense.
905.
by davidw 2y ago
This is taking it to another level.
906.
by davidw 2y ago
Wait until that same throwing out the accumulated wisdom is applied to the US government...
907.
by davidw 2y ago
If you follow and engage with enough people, the engagement bait stuff goes away, for the most part.
908.
by davidw 2y ago
It's early days, I think. So far I see good sides of both Threads and Blue Sky. Threads has a lot more users, but I see more 'subject matter expert' kinds of people on Blue Sky as well as smaller more intimate communities. Bu
909.
by davidw 2y ago
Wyden is so good on this stuff.
910.
by davidw 2y ago
Here's one from me: down with "the needle"!
911.
by davidw 2y ago
As someone who lives next to a large, very flammable forest, it's kind of worrying that someone might be able to use this or something like it for uncontrolled burns.
912.
by davidw 2y ago
I finally unsubscribed this summer.
913.
by davidw 2y ago
Yes! Tcl's C code is a real pleasure to work with and extend. I got to write some of the updates in this 2nd edition regarding the C interface: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/tcl-and-the/97803216017
914.
by davidw 2y ago
The fact that we work with the high level languages rather than the binary code, despite all their inefficiencies, speaks to the human aspect being pretty important in the equation.
915.
by davidw 2y ago
This is accurate, as a techie in Bend. But the map hives off Deschutes county all by itself, and at the same time lumps in Baker City with the "Greater Portland Area". That needs some work.
916.
by davidw 2y ago
> is a way to transmit concepts from one humans head to another (just like writing) That's almost its primary purpose in my opinion... the CPU does not care about Ruby vs Python vs Rust, it's just executing some binary code ins
917.
by davidw 2y ago
Interesting thought, but you'd have to extract the effect from all the environmental factors like abundant water, a warm climate, soils, etc...
918.
by davidw 2y ago
This kind of thing is the "best of HN" - encountering an interesting story with some scientific/technical elements that I otherwise would not have seen.
919.
by davidw 2y ago
I have RadRunner Plus with the big basket and bag they sell as accessories, and I do pretty much all our family's grocery shopping with it.
920.
by davidw 2y ago
Well this just proves my point. I graduated from high school when Nirvana, RHCP - and the far superior Fishbone - were in their heyday. Your dad and his friends were simply cognizant of the fact that the music when I was young was the best
921.
by davidw 2y ago
I want to see a video of this compared to explosives.
922.
by davidw 2y ago
Convoy by C. W. McCall regularly features on lists of bad songs and ... well... "roger that".
923.
by davidw 2y ago
The obvious reason is that the best music ever produced happened to coincide with my own youth. Right?
924.
by davidw 2y ago
> anyone as short as 5'2" can see over the hood Sure beats those huge trucks that are slaughtering Americans in the thousands. https://www.economist.com/weeklyedition/2024-09-07
925.
by davidw 2y ago
I don't think it's really a slippery slope. It's easy to say "no motor-powered vehicles", including eBikes. A horse is far more destructive to trails than bikes are. Even "no bikes except where allowed" wo
926.
by davidw 2y ago
As someone who loves long, mellow rides on my mountain bike, I'm conflicted about Wilderness areas. I like the idea of protecting more land, but the idea that you can ride horses into a Wilderness area, shoot an elk and pack it out, bu
927.
by davidw 2y ago
I always had the impression that Haskell was primarily an academic language. Not that you can't use it for practical things, but a bit different in purpose compared to Rust.
928.
by davidw 2y ago
Rents are going down in places that have built more, lead by Austin, TX: https://www.threads.net/@davidnwelton/post/C_T1ADRyAMi?xmt=A... Markets are competitive, even with RealPage, so you can't really just &
929.
by davidw 2y ago
The point is that high rents are caused by an imbalance of supply and demand.
930.
by davidw 2y ago
If they are really good at colluding, why are prices higher in LA than in Houston? I think RealPage and similar systems probably add a few percentage points to rents - and if you consider how much money that is across 1000's of renters

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