raldi

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1. 511.▲
   by raldi 4y ago

   30 million Americans own apartments; 40 million rent them. So yes, buying apartments is absolutely something that happens in the United States, and will happen more if the prices come down.
2. 512.▲
   by raldi 4y ago

   Nobody's trying to "take away homeownership". The goal is to make homeownership cheaper. (Apartments are a kind of home.)
3. 513.▲
   by raldi 4y ago

   You know people can rent single-family houses and buy apartments, right?
4. 514.▲
   by raldi 4y ago

   I’ve never met a person who grew up in a city and told me they wished they’d been raised in the suburbs instead. Who needs a backyard when you have dozens of wonderful parks within a short travel distance? Who needs a driveway at all?
5. 515.▲
   by raldi 4y ago

   And then NIMBYs call efforts to allow taller buildings “one size fits all”, whereas it’s the exact opposite: the status quo in these neighborhoods is one size (SFHs only) fits all.
6. 516.▲
   by raldi 4y ago

   It would be more accurate to say our experiment with apartment prohibition is coming to an end, and many American cities are returning to the rules that were in effect when all their best buildings were built and neighborhoods formed.
7. 517.▲
   by raldi 4y ago

   Thanks, looks like this is the relevant code: https://github.com/historicalsource/zork1/blob/master/1actio... As I understand it, the thief doesn’t travel via room exits, but rather warps through the roo
8. 518.▲
   by raldi 4y ago

   Not just play it, but even to serve as Dungeon Master. There have been a bunch of HN submissions about it.
9. 519.▲
   by raldi 4y ago

   I've never seen that before, but I'm configured to use the old UI. You can switch to it by changing "www" to "old" in the URL.
10. 520.▲
    by raldi 4y ago

    If you liked that, you might also like a deep dive I once did on the internals of the Zork maps: https://www.reddit.com/r/raldi/comments/10dtch/i_spent_my_we...
11. 521.▲
    by raldi 4y ago

    What do you mean by Segment and Plaid?
12. 522.▲
    by raldi 4y ago

    How did you plug it in without a hole?
13. 523.▲
    by raldi 4y ago

    Who keeps music?
14. 524.▲
    by raldi 4y ago

    Now, we’re didn’t have Bluetooth back then like you do today, so we used to plug our headphones in through that little hole you see on the side of every computer. I bet you've always wondered what that hole was for! We used to have the
15. 525.▲
    by raldi 4y ago

    I think it’s less like the crypto craze than the PC, web, or smartphone “crazes”, where businesses starting incorporating each of the above into everything. In other words, if you’re fatigued already, I have some bad news regarding the rest
16. 526.▲
    by raldi 4y ago

    Little Tech has a nice human-scale, handcrafted feel to it.
17. 527.▲
    by raldi 4y ago

    The entire intrigue of the opening paragraph is the claim: > there’s a floating point number that’s closer to 0.3 than 0.30000000000000004! But then you read to the end and find out this wasn’t true, and the answer to the clickbait headl
18. 528.▲
    by raldi 4y ago

    Bad for people who want to buy single-family houses, because the price of land will go up and a bunch of the stock will be converted to apartments, bad for people who own apartment buildings because now they have competition, good for prett
19. 529.▲
    by raldi 4y ago

    What does “FIXED” mean on these charts?
20. 530.▲
    by raldi 4y ago

    Before clicking, I thought it was going to look like the IP allocation charts (or Colorado River water rights), with some areas fighting for crumbs and other older stakeholders massively overprovisioned, but this actually looks quite reason
21. 531.▲
    by raldi 4y ago

    The article is illustrated with a photo of a meridian, but it’s not mentioned in the piece.
22. 532.▲
    by raldi 4y ago

    Imagine being stuck overboard like this and then, after two and a half hours, seeing your own boat coming back to pick you up.
23. 533.▲
    by raldi 4y ago

    How is that any different from a human driver?
24. 534.▲
    by raldi 4y ago

    If the fleet drives a million miles between such events, is that good enough for you?
25. 535.▲
    by raldi 4y ago

    I’d say they’re here when the probability of being injured, at every level of severity, is less than that of a human driver, and the occasional “oops we’re stuck in a weird situation” problems (which happen to human taxis too) are similarly
26. 536.▲
    by raldi 4y ago

    This is like saying a single little match blew up a building, neglecting to mention the garage full of oily rags and gasoline cans. The one line of code was the spark, yes, but the catastrophic consequences were due to a series of poorly-de
27. 537.▲
    by raldi 4y ago

    After the first one got stuck, don’t you think a programmer would teach it to do exactly what you suggest? Usually before deploying them somewhere, they have safety drivers take them up and down every road at least once, and sometimes dozen
28. 538.▲
    by raldi 4y ago

    I saw three autonomous cars driving around my neighborhood in just the past week, all with nobody at the wheel.
29. 539.▲
    by raldi 4y ago

    I think the overwhelming majority believes it's okay for 17yo children to roam free but not 17mo toddlers. Even if the gray area in between can't be made zero-width, I'd like it to be smaller.
30. 540.▲
    by raldi 4y ago

    So make a list of things we're not allowed to do.