Even if you assume the price of the property doesn’t change, it comes down to whether the interest on the mortgage plus property taxes and other fees is more or less than the rental amount (plus any other fees).

Though if the price goes up, even that might not matter. That said, I do hope the housing situation improves, which would realistically involve prices going down instead of up.

Inflation isn’t just a function of unemployment. Unemployment isn’t just a function of inflation.

It could be that with all else held constant, plotting the two against each other would give a similar curve to the left. Or it could be that the curve on the left was presented as an oversimplification of the big picture to manipulate policy or political will.

From my pov, the ratio of money supply minus savings to goods/services supply is the biggest factor for inflation, though there’s a time lag and prices are sticky downward.

Another exception is how sometimes increasing prices will increase sales rather than the other way around.

Also a lot of the time, a discount will get more attention than the price itself. Like $1000 with a 60% markdown ($400 final) might sell more than the same thing at $350 with 0% markdown.

Don’t run Linux, run the OG Unix. Don’t use a desktop, get a mainframe.

And suggest they go over it and optimize it before building.

Yeah, just treat them as thought experiments.

The comments saying “this is fake” are more annoying to me. Especially when they come with very weak reasoning, like “<something that occasionally happens> can’t happen, must be a fake!”

I’m one of the lucky ones with an 8086 that clearly saw the downgrade to 186.

AMD only just recently passed that with their 9000 series CPUs and Intel has only had better ones for a bit longer.

I hope they aren’t the hackers known as 4chan!

A big historic example of this was back in the middle ages, when people didn’t have any idea about how to determine true from false when there were two conflicting views, they’d do a trial by combat because if you were right, how could you lose a fight specifically meant to determine if you were right?

Though exceptionalism does come into play because those who believe it about others seem to think something different is going on when they are the ones suffering. Like maybe it’s a test rather than a punishment, or there’s some complex plan that involves a period of suffering or something like that rather than just accepting that sometimes life isn’t fair.

Society should be all about trying to offset that unfairness, especially in areas like food, housing, healthcare, and (some) things typically covered by insurance.

I’m just saying that’s how I interpreted that bit. They thought it was a false positive because of that. For all I know, the earlier ones might have also been real malware or maybe it was all made up.

I think they meant they were using malware detection tools that would often flag it because of the Chinese language issue and just assumed that’s what was up when it flagged it this time.

Kinda like the boy who cried wolf, they ignored it when there really was a wolf.

One thing that has always seemed a bit ironic to me about any kind of anti-natalist is if they’re so sure that bringing another being into existence is cruel to that being, why don’t they kill themselves instead of trying to shame others or bomb clinics? Sure, they didn’t consent to being here, but there’s other options that don’t involve needing to stay here.

And no, this isn’t advocating suicide, but more calling out BS on the entire position because they do consent to remaining here.

If it makes you feel any better, the age you are right now is the youngest you’ll ever be.

It can actually be quicker to store them compressed because memory and bus bandwidth is often a bottleneck. So instead of the cpu or gpu wasting cycles waiting for data to be moved, some of that movement time is shifted to the processors by using compression. Especially if there are idle cores that could be put on that task.

As for going from one compression format to another, you could store them in the final format (and convert on install if it differs between hardware setups, repeating if another hardware setup is detected).

Though if there’s any processing done on the uncompressed data (like generating mipmaps or something), that conversion might not even cost extra because it needs to be decompressed and the new data compressed again anyways.

Though on that note, you’d get faster load times by just storing all of those preprocessed and faster install times by just sticking it all in the install download, so there is still a conflict between optimal load speeds and minimal storage space.

This meme can have an entirely different meaning in reply to that comment. I chose to interpret it as the guy is taking a moment to look at his thumbnail before returning to the private discussion, saying “yeah, he’s got a point”.

Though even in that case, the people in the class where the material wasn’t taught properly get a pass without necessarily understanding that material. On the one hand, it’s not fair for them to be punished for the prof’s mistake, but on the other hand, it’s not necessarily a good thing to give them credit for something they don’t know. It could hurt the credibility of the degree itself, similarly to the ones where you’ll get the diploma as long as you pay the bills.

People who hire the free pass people see they lack the skills despite having the paper saying they have them and stop hiring people with those credentials. It’s the same reason why cheating is dealt with so harshly.

The skills and knowledge are the whole point, not getting high marks or everything being fair. That said, it would be a difficult situation to deal with because being fair should still be a part of the equation, I just disagree about it being the most important part.

Another scenario for changing the rubric would be if the people running the course realized that something they thought was important for determining competence was actually trivial. This one could also be complex to handle fairly.

I have a feeling a bunch of them are invented by people with hoarding tendencies that aren’t at the point where they hoard literal garbage but might be close to that point but trying to justify keeping some things that are garbage-adjacent.

Like I get reusing and repurposing, but not when the “hack” is just more work for a solution that isn’t any better than the easier one.

I have a queue: one loaf at the front gets stored on the counter, the next two loaves are in the fridge (generally replenished from the store, so most bread goes through my place unfrozen), then any others in the freezer.

I toast most bread I eat and find the difference between kept in fridge and not is unnoticeable.

I do similar with hot dog and hamburger buns, though they don’t have a counter space due to being used less frequently.

Haven’t had to throw out moldy bread nearly as much since I started doing that.

If you have fresh baguettes and they go stale, just cut them into slices and stick them in the toaster oven for a bit and you’ve pretty much got those fancy dried bread snacks for way cheaper than they usually sell for.

Yeah, and I’m guessing the seal is so bad that it’s only marginally better than just leaving the bag open. But even if it does seal well, it’s got way more air in there to dry the bread out between openings. Plus it takes up space and needs to be cleaned.

If it doesn’t seal well, I’d put it in CE and shift everything else by 1, except leave the CG one where it is and have the LN one skip that slot.

If it does seal well, it might make it to NE, but it would be a tough call between that and doing the same as if it didn’t seal well.

Though if your household goes through bread fast enough, then I’d say the best options are the ones that don’t involve using other materials, including just leaving it open.

Edit: Note that my harsh judgement of bread boxes assumes the bag is discarded like it appears to be in the picture. There’s a comment further down (currently) that mentions putting it in a box with the bag still on, and I could agree that that might be the best option.

Also, I thought of a new better candidate for CE: opening the bag, grabbing it by the other end, helicoptering it until empty, then grabbing bread from around the room as needed.

Oh wait, no, that’s just NE, CE is storing it in the sink, bag or no bag.