I have a friend who runs a small vintage clothing store, she sells at what she considers fair prices, and will also put in tons of physical labor to actually repair stuff with period accurate materials and such.

She’s got local highschool kids coming into her shop now to buy up random things then selling them at a 500% markup online. She doesn’t want to ban them, and she doesn’t want to raise prices and participate in the scam, but it sucks for everyone.

That’s fair, but owing to just how Vim and Emacs operate, and the kinda people they target, there isn’t really much drive to capture the userbase (specifically because any attempt to capture them will fail due to a fork).

People who use those editors are passionate about them, while people who use the Atom derivatives tend to just eat something that does whatever it is they want out of the box.

Most people will also just pin their Vim or Emacs version for years, while it’s almost impossible to pin VScode/Electron stuff because it’s full of bitrot and weird dependencies.

What’s the issue with a fork?

VSCodium is alright, I use VSCode at work because we’re a Windows shop.

You should definitely spend the time to learn Emacs or Vim if you have the time though, they’re never going to be enshittified.

You just have to match the specs of the current gen consoles

The biggest thing that helped me was the ring hack that let’s you start the game with an extra house in the heated zone.

Any amount of unhoused or sick people immediately snowballs and either kills the run or causes you to fall behind significantly. So being able to just not deal with that at the beginning is the equivalent of learning the boar meta in AoE2

I haven’t worked with any archaeologists, but I have worked with a few geologists, and all of them would bring in their favorite rocks and lick them every once and a while.

That’s just being an archaeologist

How would AI search results be vetted?

It’s not about that, fines are part of doing business and large corporations will often leverage certain regulations to capture larger swaths of a market because only they can afford the fines.

If it’s a $5 fine for every reported bad response, Google can just eat that while literally anyone else is suddenly instantly put out of business.

Same with the age verification stuff. They aren’t planning on actually making things safer, just collecting data and paying the fines for not doing the things they’re supposed to do.

That’s about the same as here, no violence or screaming, just some kids who run around shooting each other with those orbeez guns. One of them is in an electric wheelchair and seems to operate as some form of tank wing of whatever team they’re on lol.

How do you fuck this up…they’re probably ccd on the email and you can just look them up and copy/paste the name into your Canva template.

Even AI wouldn’t fuck this up because both of these people are famous…

Remember when everyone was out protesting SOPA and PIPA?

That’s what I’m probably going to end up doing too. I have to use Windows for work though, and interact with weird ass APIs that only have closed plugins though Microsoft channels though.

Like the ArcGIS Pro debugger only works with VisualStudio and VSCode, I need to be able to hook into the running process so I can set breakpoints in my scripts since their codebase is so fucked that sometimes the only way to tell what’s happening is to read a dump.

I want you get away from ESRI, but it’s like trying to get away from Autodesk. Even if you have a solution that works well, getting anyone to accept it is almost impossible unless they happen to have some weird nerd or a Dutchman on staff.

It started as a replacement for Atom after Microsoft killed it with VSCode after the GitHub acquisition, then they pivoted to be AI focused because they saw that Cursor was beating VSCode by just having AI stuff, and now everything sucks.

I wish I got into emacs when my brain was still playable lol. Every time I open it to try and learn I feel like I spend 70% of my time messing with configs and scripts/extensions. Same with Vim (though vim/vi/micro/nano are fantastic when I just want to quickly edit a file).

I hate that I’m just a VSCode plebian now, but the defaults are good enough to just work for me. Maybe one day I’ll set up a whole dotfile management system, but I have too much work to do lol

Is this why the “HDMI App” on my 15 year old smart TV keeps running out of memory?

The difference with co-ops is that they don’t necessarily have to participate in the fake energy markets if they have control over the grid in a region.

So they don’t have to do the ridiculous negative price energy thing that everyone else does to keep the market functioning as both an economic entity and a grid management system.

They just need to measure usage and charge based on operating costs. It doesn’t matter if energy prices would have technically been negative for a few hours, because their motivation isn’t market price, but just operating cost. You measure usage from co-op partners, then send them a monthly bill based on how much your costs are. It’s incredibly simple.

The confounding factor is the MISO and ERCOT markets that you may need to interface with (say there’s a disaster and the co-op needs power from another provider). To interact with those you need to basically destroy any logical system of pricing and management that you may have.

Basically this meme is doubly wrong because a monopoly would actually be better than the current status quo in a lot of the country. Duke sucks, but their monopoly allows them to do basically whatever they want without having to worry about copetition or weird market rates for energy that are also meant to be grid management signals, since they run those two departments separately.

The same thing happened with Ma Bell. It turns out that for large scale systems/utilities like water, power, telecom, etc. (I’d even include web services infrastructure now), having a single central body managing and developing it is good. Breaking up those monopolies just sets us back decades and creates an unmanageable chaotic market system that should have been replaced by a non-profit centrally managed one.

We know this works. It’s why we don’t really do militias anymore and even the national guard is basically subservient to the central governing body of the military.

Basically central planning good. Markets bad.

Yeah what MIT is actually saying here is that because solar creation is too efficient it is actually creating an economic situation in which switching to solar costs more than the profit that would be made from it.

Not only that, but it reduces the profitability of other forms of generation too.

The major issue is of course capitalism, because everything has to make a profit. But what they really want is to socialize the losses encurred by solar onto us so they can continue to profit.

Our options are to either subsidize, or behead all the private energy company execs and subsidize it without profit.

There are a ton of non-private energy cooperatives around the US that do actually invest heavily in solar because of this though, so maybe as time goes on the “third position” is that power co-ops win out in the marketplace because they don’t have a profit motive/burden

Addendum: It’s insane that systems like MISO and ERCOT exist. Both of those systems but the reliability of the grids of 60% or more of Americans in the hands of a closed “free market” of energy trading to help stabilize the grid. It’s absolutely amazing that it has continued to function at all, and that system is the exact issue that prevents wide adoption of solar due to the negative prices causing the whole market to start collapsing in on itself until they get bailed out by a State or Federal entity.

I’m not getting it, this is bad right? Like putting kids with pedophiles who exploit them and then protecting the pedophile’s power over the kids is bad?

I can get if this specific thing is used out of context to denegrate queer groups, but it’s also something that you shouldn’t be dismissing and instead being very vocal about the fact that this is exactly not what being queer is right?

This type of exploitation also actively harms people in those communities since it seems like the idea was to push kids who were already at risk into situations where they were being actively exploited by pedophiles…

It was awesome. I had to wring out my shirt halfway through lol.

They had to put a pause on the show about half way through since the stage started flooding and it’s hard to do belly dancing in a puddle.

This was also in Asheville so they put course had to make a Helene comment about us being resilient haha