Powderhorn @ Powderhorn @beehaw.org

Unemployed journalist, burner, raver, graphic artist and vandweller.

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Like literally investing in $150 million in Apple in 1997 and porting Office to MacOS to get in front of a possible antitrust trial ahead of Jobs' return?

I'm not an MS fanboi, but at least get your facts right if you're going to make such a claim.

I hate the framing on columns like this. "I have data to support my hypothesis! Also, San Francisco fucked itself by going too liberal and is finally getting its act together."

It’s not just urban populations that are bouncing back; our leading tech hubs have reclaimed their dominance as centers for innovative high-tech talent and industries. Despite predictions of its imminent decline — often gleefully amplified by critics highlighting its very real struggles with homelessness, drug abuse and crime — the San Francisco Bay Area continues to dominate the tech landscape. In 2024, startups in the region secured nearly $100 billion in venture capital funding, accounting for more than 45% of all U.S. venture investment. The Bay Area remains the epicenter of global innovation in fields like artificial intelligence, biotech and advanced computing.

This is not to say that the pandemic and misbegotten progressive policies didn’t leave deep scars on San Francisco. They did — both in perception and in reality. But the bigger point is that none of the problems proved insurmountable. The city has already begun to self-correct, electing a more business-oriented mayor, Daniel Lurie. And even before that political turn, the Bay Area showed a remarkable capacity to adapt and reinvent itself.

This is neoliberalist bullshit cloaked in analysis.

Nr. 6 will surprise you! For this hed to work on this story, a listicle format is indicated.

That was essentially my take. The hed leads one to suggest Onion-level satire, but this is a comparatively flaccid take.

I can't really speak for anyone else, but to me, as the URL is visible, it's something of a suspenders-and-a-belt approach. There are far larger things I worry about online, and others may not bother looking beyond the title, so this is something of a victimless crime.

So far as the internet knows from my IP address, I've not been in Texas for years. VPNs are crucial for navigating the modern internet, and not just for porn. Why should my ISP be able to sell my browsing history when I'm paying for the service?

For what it's worth, you're not alone. Feeling a loss of agency and having to rely solely on external actors for progress is a very difficult spiral to get out of.

As to the antidepressant idea, I'm sure you're aware that if it works, it will take weeks to manifest, after which success would mean dosage adjustments. I have the treatment-resistant sort and have gone through the full spectrum of SSRIs and SNRIs over the years ... they just make me apathetic and depressed.

"Pay no attention to this Epstein thing. I've decreed that Coke is going to start using real sugar!"

You know, just like lollies. Oh, and Coke doesn't seem to be going along for the ride.

You're dancing around my point that for human-scale units, basing something off a constant makes sense. Sure, at AUs and light-years, numbers get messy, but that has nothing to do with buying flour. And using a measurement system based on measurements that will never change seems wise.

I don't think we're going to solve a rational universal system of measurements on Beehaw. But the metre is most certainly not based on water; it's the other way around.

We have so many systems at this point that traveling to space is an issue, which suggests the status quo isn't working. What would you take as a base measurement instead of c?

I took a look at the first link, and I don't mean to be rude, but what you're expecting of users is downright hostile. Downloading a game engine and then runtimes to manually compile your game isn't going to snag a lot of casual interest.

From your description:

You need to compile this project, and to compile this project you first need to have the godot engine with C#/.NET support which the download link is underneath this line, second you put the Bowling Mega Mix folder on your local machine, third you need to open that same folder in the engine, fourth compile the project either using the play button or something else.

To put new files in this repository you need github desktop, Here is a link to ubuntu based linux distro version of github desktop: https://gist.github.com/berkorbay/6feda478a00b0432d13f1fc0a50467f1 and whatever you do, do not use gitkraken as your github desktop replacement or linux version, it does not work.

Before you get the engine or compiling the project, you are going to need the .net sdk and runtimes and you may want to install an older version because sometimes the latest version does not work and here is a link to the directions on how you install it on linux: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux?WT.mc_id=dotnet-35129-website, to install an older version you change the version number to a lower number in the terminal.

To use mods you use the version 2 or later folder, you drag the mod folder in that very same folder and the mod folder must be called Bowling Mega Mix Mod and .tscn file must be called ModBowlingBall.tscn and lua scripts must be called ModBowlingBall.lua and ScoreLayer.lua

You posted as though you'd like feedback from people spending five to 10 minutes with your game, but you're turning this into the better part of an evening by not having something one and done. That's not how you draw testers.

It's cool that you're being so prolific, but please don't ask people to install software other than yours for your software to work. If a .NET download link needs to be thrown into the .msi, so be it, but this should not be a multistep process (for *NIX, provide a script).

The whole point of metric is to avoid absurdly precise calculations across different measuring systems; a nine-digit denominator doesn't help the cause. I of course deal with a mix of customary and metric units, but the metre is a terrible starting point and no less arbitrary than barleycorns or the king's foot.

So, if I understand correctly, your beef here is not that the metre is a flawed basis measurement but rather that the U.S. refuses to use metric? That's certainly a hill to die on, but using universal constants to define measurements seems the better route. The foot just as arbitrary as the metre.

Per Wikipedia:

Since 2019, the metre has been defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of ⁠1/299792458⁠ of a second, where the second is defined by a hyperfine transition frequency of caesium.[2]

The metre was originally defined in 1791 by the French National Assembly as one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole along a great circle, so the Earth's polar circumference is approximately 40000 km.

In 1799, the metre was redefined in terms of a prototype metre bar. The bar used was changed in 1889, and in 1960 the metre was redefined in terms of a certain number of wavelengths of a certain emission line of krypton-86. The current definition was adopted in 1983 and modified slightly in 2002 to clarify that the metre is a measure of proper length. From 1983 until 2019, the metre was formally defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum in ⁠1/299792458⁠ of a second. After the 2019 revision of the SI, this definition was rephrased to include the definition of a second in terms of the caesium frequency ΔνCs. This series of amendments did not alter the size of the metre significantly – today Earth's polar circumference measures 40007.863 km, a change of about 200 parts per million from the original value of exactly 40000 km, which also includes improvements in the accuracy of measuring the circumference.

If you're using 1 over arbitrary hundreds of millions as a basis of measurement, it's a pretty clear sign the base unit makes no sense and serves to make mathematics more complex, not cohesive.

I know this feeling all too well. I was told about context clues and handed books from a very young age. It was sometimes a decade or two before I found out my presumed definition of a word was wrong. More regularly, though, I tried to show off my newfound vocabulary and was quickly disabused of my error.

Not sure where you're deducing that from ... anything one applies a voltage to produces heat. Even microSD cards can get absurdly hot, and the controller is on the host end.

It's heartening to see that the resistance consistently goes this route. Makes sense, of course, but still, it's a slight sliver of sunshine.

Does what it says on the tin.

Honestly? This isn't even new ... I posted plenty of porn of my ex-wife, leading to a guy offering to buy her a house if she left me. Being creepy, uh ... finds a way. I still don't quite get why people don't want to just meet someone and angle for a relationship instead of getting off in front of a glowing rectangle.

What were you expecting from that instance?

Toyotathon isn't until the end of the year.