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> I don't know many people who would rather live in a house without climate control than an apartment. A house from 1936 with no improvements is worth very little. When purchasing …

Those details are not necessarily his firsthand account of things. I mean, in your own comment you quote something where Williams is posing as something else in order to take someo…

I've lived all along the West Coast from Tijuana to Seattle. There is no place along this coast which I would call homogeneous except the Bay. I would challenge your locals stateme…

I'm pretty skeptical that cheating to that level is plausible. Ohm's law is so fundamental that finishing an EE degree without knowing it would be akin to writing a paper on Gravit…

I've lived in high crime areas, and SF doesn't have the kind of high crime that would actually deter me. The monotony of a homogeneous population is enough to keep me away from the…

California is massive though, and I would argue there is nothing in the rest of California that resembles the Bay even a little bit. Redding is nothing like the Bay; Joshua Tree is…

My high school had majors and one of them was effectively EE; the 14/15 year olds in my major had those formulas down inside of 3 weeks... what EEs did you know that couldn't outpe…

This has little to do with human society. Western society, maybe. Plenty of other societies don't assert a distinct binary for gender (which doesn't even exist in sex; intersex peo…

This writing has a lot of parallels with the writings of men who are scared of women after the metoo movement. Anyway, you're conflating fear with disgust. I haven't seen much fear…

> Some saw the book as especially dangerous because it claimed to be based on rigorous science, was published by an imprint of the National Academy of Sciences, and argued that MTF…

> The trans activists don't want that. Equal treatment and tolerance isn't enough for them, they demand dominance above all else. Equal treatment and tolerance.. Ever since I start…

Alcohol is usually far better at all of that for me. For grief particularly (and I've tried this a few times), alcohol has made me feel far better than my initial state, whereas Ma…

It's wild how different experiences can be. Even as an intern I appreciated not being told what to do far more often than the opposite (and other managers definitely appreciated th…

> anything that does not break you, will make you stronger. Not even remotely true. Plenty of people have to spend years in therapy to undo their parent's trauma. Let's put it anot…

> Is it really too much to ask it with heated seats built-in? For a luxury automaker... Lol. Porsche takes this to a whole other level in my experience.

Funnily enough, stuff not working on my m1 over the past year or so is precisely why I stick with Ubuntu on my thinkpad for all of my tasks except the ones that require macos! I do…

Wow. As someone who has driven from LA to Seattle without breaks quite a few times (which is around 1,000 miles), that really puts in perspective how small Europe can be at times. …

> Arch also has "no instability ever". Lolwat. I've tried it in earnest several times over the years on basic thinkpads (once on my only development machine, in which my only custo…