I didn’t stay up for the election returns. I used to be pessimistic about the direction of the US. Now I’m pessimistic that the DNC will quash the new voices which have brought them success. It’s a substantially brighter pessimism, though.

The loss of exploitable real estate (deals) is the only thing holding him back, really.

If you have to ask… ;-)

The Saratoga, a 12m x 5m aluminum single-level catamaran also built by SeaCat, sells for between $750k and 1.5m according to Google. Since I’m in the US, I’m assuming those are USD. The power plant if the Saratoga is larger, but the accommodations are likely far more spartan. The cost, along with marina fees, definitely puts this outside of “solving the housing crisis” or even being a realistic fraction of the solution.

If you can change the school schedule to accommodate DST shortcomings, you can change the school schedule to accommodate Standard Time. It’s all an abstraction anyway. Want more time outside in the sun? Get a job in the early shift or the night shift. Or ask your employer to have seasonal hours to allow for more time after work.

The crux is that the earths axis is tilted and you’ll be cheated out of light no matter how you slice it. With 8 or fewer daylight hours in the day you’re exceptionally likely to miss all of the sunshine in any 7-4/8-5/9-6 job. Shifting the clock either way will always fuck it up for somebody. Time is just a way to say, with some margin of error, that the sun is overhead (or on the opposite side of the earth from you) at a “zero” point.

Asking politicians to “fix” your personal dislike of your employers hours or your preferred sleep schedule is selfish and/or lazy*.

• note that I’m a very big fan of lazy, personally, when it makes things run better, but I do get agitated when being lazy fucks it up for other people.

As someone who rarely programs anything, and who hasn’t touched assembly for over 40 years, that was a great read and a fascinating (math) journey.

I must be jaded because an opening/closing animation as “innovative” makes me want to puke. If the matte screen holds up to 2000 sheets of writing using a stylus, that’s more interesting.

As for usability, I desperately want to combine my note taking device, my ereader, and my phone (comms/camera). I have an eink device, but I don’t find the reflective display worth carrying a second device, usually. After trying out the News+ feature on my iPad for a month I was addicted, but my phone is too small for comfortable long-form reading. And I take a LOT of pen notes on my 12” tablet but, again, it’s another device to lug around. Sometimes I need that screen real estate to draw but often I can get by with an A6 notepad for what I need. The only think keeping me from throwing (more) money at Apple is knowing this is a Gen 1 device and it’s better to have others find the early flaws and work through the bugs.

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Given the critical amount of oil imported for domestic refining by the US, shutting off access to Canadian oil would substantially impact US refineries, which would flow to both domestic supply of refined products as well as exports and be a devastating blow to US refineries. It feels a little like mutual assured destruction in the energy sector.

A blockage would also be nearly a declaration of war against Canada. I’m sure the spineless Rs currently in the US congress would simply wring their hands (and at least one Maine Senator would voice her “concern”) but a flip in both houses might substantially change to outlook.

More importantly, there is nobody in the US Republican Party who has even half the narcissism of Trump, and of those none have even a quarter of his charisma/cult following. As absolutely trashed as the US’ reputation is internationally, the colonial expansion era of the US will die when Trump is no longer directing policy.

The article has theoretical merit, but the practical application is so remote as to weigh very little on actionable policy. (IMHO, of course)

Wait, so one with a law background clear this up. This isn’t akin to paying for drugs and not getting them (or in this case, getting substandard drugs). A residence isn’t de facto illegal. This would be more like renting a car which doesn’t have a registration, or being provided an inaccurate tax return prepared by an accountant who claimed to be a CPA it was not (or getting incorrect engineering from an engineer without a PE license).

Don’t bother unless your burner phone OS writes random data over deleted files. Otherwise you’ll give a phone full of your csa images to border patrol with a file table that reveals they exist with the most trivial inspection.

“…it’s hypocritical of us to give intelligent beings like AI “fewer rights than us.” And for that, we must quickly atone.”

Uh…so his solution is to accept our new overlords. Right.

And no living creature can abide that kind of penalty - it’s inhuman. Which is why the whole judgement must be thrown out as cruel and unusual punishment that violates the 8th amendment to the US constitution. Remember - corporations are people, too. 🥺

The city needs to rescind the zoning and block all development until the terms (housing) is complete and operational. If the developer bails, ban the developer and all of the individuals involved from any business license in the city in perpetuity. Or, if that is not found to be legal, sue them for the cost of the development plus penalties. Until cities hold developers’ feet to the fire, they will lie to get what they want and then renege on any part that doesn’t make them instant money. It happens all the time and it needs to stop.

Interesting that the headline doesn’t say “Germany health and service sector adds 2.2 million jobs, outstripping losses in automotive and machining by over 4 to 1”

So…like AI song generation adding Jason Derulo’s tag in generated music because it scraped his music and mistook him singing his own name for “musical content.”

If you’re dark at 4 pm, then you’re only getting 8 hours of sunlight. Someone is going to be getting up in the dark, getting home from work in the dark, or both if your employer manages to time your particular work day just right.

What you need is “Personal Daylight Time" or PDT. See, we just need to put an abstraction layer between the icky science of the earth rotating and the sun being overhead at a particular time each day, which can be terribly annoying for those who talked through science class in 3rd grade.

Everyone who wants something other than “Standard” time just puts the times they’d like the sun to rise and set each day. The app then maps those times to the local sunrise and sunset. When you get your work schedule or dinner reservation, the app converts from the (completely unreadable) standard time based on your location on earth to your personal time which you feel maximizes your personal enjoyment. Likewise, you can send an invite in your time, and the recipient will see it in their time.

It’s just like having Google Calendar manage times zones for you when you have a distant Zoom call. Simple, no?

*Note: you will experience faster or slower personal seconds throughout the day depending on your preferred sunrise and sunset days, and it will vary by day.

We should do the negative leap hour now, but do it right after completion of the US law moving everyone to permanent DST. Win - win.

Someone needs to backronym HENRY (or HENRI/HENREE) for this. The closest I can get is High-capacity Exo-atmospheric Nonballastic Recovery Instrument.

I was under the impression that Digital IDs are not a picture you bring up and hand to LE - it’s a RFID token transfer that you tap to authenticate on a reader. That doesn’t mean that there won’t be LE officers who will bully people, or that people won’t be smart enough to recognize that the picture on their phone isn’t their ID, but that not how digital IDs (are supposed to) work.

Something you have, something you are, something you know. Are you willing to give up proper security for your cause?