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Yes, when you can, find "The 3rd Alternative". It's a nice idea I first read about in one of Steven Covey's books. Looks like he eventually wrote a book by that name.

Of course not necessarily, but I keep seeing articles about how wind and especially solar power just keep getting cheaper.

Even if you take it as true that prices have risen recently, and may continue to rise as the VC subsidies dry up, they will fall again long-term. Inference will get more power effi…

It looks to me like what is called a "container escape" in this context isn't necessarily as bad as it seems. For example, in the advisory for CVE-2025-31133 affecting runc[1]: > C…

For those install scripts which allow changing the install prefix (e.g. autoconf projects---though involving a built step too), I've found GNU Stow to be a good solution to the uni…

They just can't be. Concepts like the soul, the inherent dignity of man, and the orientation of humanity toward a single Good are incomprehensible in the framework of modern psycho…

You can! [rhvoice]( https://rhvoice.org/ ) is an open source example.

One use of that data is creating 3d renders, like this site: https://osmbuildings.org/

> I don't know of any large retailer that eats the cost of unsold goods. Trader Joe's does this. Though they also rebrand the products they sell.

Oh another Santa Barbara resident! I was initially a little confused reading this thread until I remembered our great regulations.

> This person mentioned Einstein, but Einstein was just the byproduct of a time when people had the balls to publish what could be perceived as extravagant theories. As an outsider…