shipscode's comments

Exactly. Not only that, the downstream effects and consolidation on platforms like Discord, Reddit, etc that heavily regulate the operators has a real chilling effect on making these tools and experiences less user-friendly than in the past. Feels like the golden era is way past us for people who have been in the game for a while.

Jailbreaking, emulation and gaming communities are so far gone at this point that it's hard to understand the impact here.

Yep. The people who agree with congestion pricing either hate or ignore these people, along with the thousands of lower Manhattan small-business employees, subsidized housing residence that have cars or street park daily.

I postulate it's because they don't actually live there, or just moved there, if they do actually live there, they'd have to be severely socially inept to never speak to a store or restaurant owner and ask what their commute is like.

To act as though it affects nobody of moderate or lower income is downright dishonest, when 22% of Manhattan households own one - it's no longer an upper class activity, just a basic tool to get to work.

Tell me you've never lived in lower Manhattan without telling me you've never lived in lower Manhattan.

Edit: Happy to be downvoted by people who actually live in Manhattan and take 5 seconds out of their day to talk to anybody who works in a local store. Brooklyn transplants can move along.

It's actually possible to live pretty cheaply in America if you can save up enough to buy a house or condo in cash. This article harps on ultra rural America, but there are plenty of closer knit communities that are quite affordable as well.

Lots of HOA communities exist with condos or townhouses. Example prices would be $175k for 3 bed, 2 bath condos. These can be found all over the country. Add a little more on top of it, say $250k-$300k and you've bumped up to a 3 bed 2 bath townhouse with a garage. For the price of a downpayment for a dump in a major metropolitan area, you can own a 20-30 year old construction fully paid off. And that's a mid-case scenario.

In a low tax area a place that's paid off like that might cost you $400-500/mo between taxes, homeowners insurance, and HOA fees. The big "GOTCHA" everybody comes up with is health insurance. Well between medicaid and Obamacare you can get sizeable tax credits up to fairly high incomes. If you're making around $50k/yr in my state PA, you can get around $1500/mo in credits with a family of 3, and end up paying ~$1200 in premiums per year.

There's literally nothing blackpill about this lifestyle. It's as walkable as any suburb, with the same CHATGPT-style standard of care healthcare that exists across the country, and it's actually more convenient to get from point A to point B in a car than in most major cities or in high density suburban areas. Fiber internet is likely more accessible and reliable too, unlike how it would be in decrepit city buildings.

A lot of pros, and not many cons - sure it isn't $432/month, but you can make situations like this work for $2-3k, which opens up an endless number of careers, projects, and opportunities to live off of.

The cool thing about congestion pricing is that you can still keep a car in Manhattan for free as long as you don’t leave the congestion zone.

Keeping a car in Manhattan is the closest thing to having superpowers most will ever experience - and I’m sure with congestion pricing the equation is even better.

The take on 4chan on here is super intriguing. I always felt that the current social media/doomscroll/memesharing landscape which has become so common worldwide is indiscernable and in some ways worse than 4chan. It feels like 4chan left it's homepage and went worldwide sometime in the early 2010s when iPhone-style phone use became more commonplace.

I remember that 4chan users had more honor than users on the internet today. One example would be 4Chan's "Not your personal army" mentality vs. the widespread doxxing/"call their place of employment!" witch hunts, driven by huge accounts on IG/Tiktok/etc, that hit normal people daily.

The modern social media landscape has become far more hectic, harmful, and downright scary than 4chan. Dodging explicit imagery is harder on Instagram's explore page than on 4chan, and the widespread popularization of OF creators has zero bounds across the socials. DOXXING is no longer frowned upon and now commonplace. And memes have become less unique and funny and more commoditized.

It's pretty cool that this license allows you to make up to $1mm revenue, at which point you can pivot and rebuild the stack. This is going to be a game changer for anybody who wants to MVP an app similar to Gumroad. MIT would be ideal, but I prefer this to GPL's force release model.

Ya, one of the most common crimes nowadays. Thanks for clarifying! I was too lazy to explain where there seemed to be a gray understanding of reality.

For me it's the opposite, I do not travel to places where I can't carry a gun on me, this usually means staying in the USA full time.

I personally would not feel comfortable in a country with restrictive gun laws, if my phone is stolen, I could lose valuable customer data which I'm entrusted to keep secure - it's not right to offload my security to others.

The body processes sugar compounds differently. Fructose is typically not preferred amongst athletes (bodybuilders, runners, etc). Reasons being Fructose's low absorption and requirement that it be processed by the liver - it needs to be converted to Glucose before the body can even use it. Fructose also lowers physical activity and increases body fat compared to glucose in the same dose and calorie intake.

So no.. all sugars are not equal.

This is bad - but I doubt there's an engineer in here that hasn't written throwaway code to make a deadline, joked about some code they wrote being "job security" because it's so confusing, or picked a soon to be deprecated package to use because it was quicker to get up and running.

Ethics is lacking in our industry, and as more and more people are laid off, you're going to have the equivalent of tens of thousands of "dead mans switches" going off at every company just out of sheer disincentivization of quality that's become so common in today's engineering culture.

Incredible move for entrepreneurship in the USA. This created just another stupid piece of paper to file that we no longer have to - which was requested on shaky legal grounds and punished by $5000/day fines.

This is information is already on file in tons of places, so the requirement is asinine - I personally never filed mine since it was caught up in the court but I'll gladly take this win.

Reminder that one experience with hallucinogenic substances can give you a lifetime of visual or mental abnormalities.

Personally I've had visual snow for over a decade from a 5 minute Salvia trip. This means that instead of looking at the color white or black and seeing a clean color, I see a static cloud all over it. I'm one of the lucky ones - most of the people I've known over the years who messed with these substances ended up dead, with persistent mental illness, or brain fog that took years to clear up.

You roll the dice on your mental and physical well being every time you ingest a hallucinogen. The characterization of these substances as ones which induce visual hallucinations without mentioning the lifetime of mental health issues they leave people with is dangerous.

A sitter isn't going to save you from a lifetime of HPPD or visual snow.

Isn’t Zelensky the worker who is getting disrespect from their boss? Seems like the roles are reversed.

Seems like a great thing to try and see what breaks what with all the employee card fraud going around these days.

Not like a cable, but it's gotten really bad. I had constant drops on my iPhone 14 Pro. Eventually they shipped me a new one that had the same issue, but the recent software update fixed it almost 100%, like 1 drop/month instead of 10 daily.

Then I bought an iPhone 16 Pro and it was even worse than my iPhone 14 Pro... so I returned it even though I wanted a new phone.

It's gotta be affecting their bottom line.

1point3acres is massacring tech interviews right now. Having to pay $80/month to some China based website where NDA-protected interview questions are posted regularly, then being asked the same questions in the interview, seems insane.

It also feels like interviewers know this and assume you studied the questions, they seem incapable of giving hints, etc if you don't have the questions memorized.

AI is the least of it.

Is bluetooth reliable yet or is this model going to be plagued with the same persistent issues since the iPhone 14?