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How much time did the farming take, compared to the software engineering aspect? My very limited understanding of farming is that it takes a huge amount of time, and you're usually…

How about your children? How about when they're not in public, but are at home?

> There are none in ticketing software or wiki's. But there might be API keys, passwords, unlisted URLs, email addresses, etc.

I would expect a city that's mostly retirement communities to have less snatch-and-run thefts than a city where tourists make up a large part of the population at any given time.

I wish I could add certain streets and routes to some sort of block list. There are certain roads I would be willing to spend an extra 10-30 minutes driving to avoid. (And certainl…

> Chattanooga (just hours away) has a DC Blox data center, approximately 50,000sqft (tiny!), located on the southwest corner of Main Street and Center Streets – yet if you didn't k…

> Can they limit the power draw and noise levels? Can they promise not to generate any power onsite (gas turbines, etc.)? Can they promise to cover the data center roof with solar …

Do Forge of God/Anvil of the Stars differ significantly from pretty bog-standard dark forest scenarios? I don't remember any other of his books that might apply, but I haven't read…

I think at the energy scales we're talking about, everything involved would basically act like a fluid.

What's the Pareto front of "get to the point" vs. "attempt to tell a compelling story"?

For the latter, you mught enjoy Greg Egan's "Perihelion Summer".

Reddit remains a guilty pleasure of mine, though I no longer interact with the website in any means other than reading. If they shutter old.reddit.com, or make it any more difficul…

> I was told that this person really had all the friends that they need. In my experience, this does tend to happen in smaller communities - a small town where everyone knows each …

> but it's not the tech companies' fault that it's perennially underfunded I mean, it's certainly a factor: https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/uber-lyft-proposition-l-...

If you read about the Japanese legal & policing system, you'll understand why - and the trade-offs that are made.

I disagree; I think the mistake is assuming that people always act rationally, all of the time.

> It is hard to imagine a world without ads - many sites and services would disappear. It is hard to imagine a world without horses & carts; many businesses would disappear.

> Washing the dishes is boring for the human I feel like the only person in the world who doesn't mind doing dishes. When we lived in the city, I feel like most of my friends would…

I wonder if you could use two sheets of glass, and have a double-paned system. Maybe even with vacuum or some gas that's an even poorer conductor of heat than air in it.

> many twiddling their thumbs Do you think some of them were wasting their time, by posting on various online forums only slightly related to their jobs?

Again, you're not wrong, but I think you're underestimating just how much hand-holding and very specific instructions a lot of kids need in these classes. You have to teach them bo…

I work in EdTech - that's definitely part of it. It feels nice knowing that I'm positively contributing to something that was a net-good, especially with the specific project I spe…

Looking at github, it looks like it's moderately easy to add new features - I wonder how hard it would be to add other languages, like ones that use cyrillic characters...

Is that ironic?

You're not wrong, but I've sat in an elementary school classroom while a teacher was doing the computer class. It was already difficult with a class attempting to follow instructio…