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2022-06-22 15:40:43

Flutterby™! Short attention spans in a world full of flowers Wednesday June 22nd, 2022 For as well funded as Venmo seems to be Dan Lyke comments (0)For as well funded as Venmo seems to be, you'd think they could hire some programmers. They claimed to send me $10, which then said this has already been claimed, after I went through their absolute disaster of a log-in process. Holy crap it's awful. Written for a private space Dan Lyke comments (0)Written for a private space, pondering the edges of it: hire consultants when the institutional processes and culture are a liability, and use internal staff when they're an asset. If you're constantly hiring consultants, that says something about the institution you haven't built. "Culture is informed by art Dan Lyke comments (0)"Culture is informed by art, and the law follows". Kendall Ciesemier sums up why "originalists" are so afraid of change, and why so many people are so terrified of art. (from the At Liberty podcast interview with Alok Vaid-Menon) Shout out to the driver in the modern Dan Lyke comments (0)Shout out to the driver in the modern version of an El Camino (maybe it's the Cadillac pickup truck?) with the modified exhaust who has passed me twice on 5th St: your casual attitude re stop signs & speed limits stands out in a field that already disrespects those conventions. Tuesday June 21st, 2022 Nude Pickleball Dan Lyke comments (0)Because we were in Grass Valley this weekend, and they were in the midst of a massive rework of a park, part of which was installing new pickleball courts: Nude Pickleball Is Taking Off Kids in Suburbia Dan Lyke comments (1)Not Just Bikes: Why We Won't Raise Our Kids in Suburbia (YouTube video), which compares London Ontario Canada to the Netherlands, and talks about children and independence in the US and Canada vs the Netherlands. friend gave me a 32 key keyboard for Dan Lyke comments (0)A friend gave me a 32 key keyboard for banging notes into Logic Pro. I've been trying to learn proper fingerings, and realized I needed a larger keyboard, so I checked Craigslist and got an awesome deal on a Yahama YPG 235. I know where my free time is going for the next few... Ya know maybe the neighborhood Dan Lyke comments (0)Ya know maybe the neighborhood improvement thing is a little too deep when ya start anthropomorphising utility poles. As in "that poor thing doesn't need any more impacts". Monday June 20th, 2022 Dark larger crossover behind me Dan Lyke comments (0)Dark larger crossover behind me, driver honked at me for stopping for a pedestrian in the crosswalk. Saturday June 18th, 2022 Uvalde police doubling-down on hiding information Dan Lyke comments (0)Yeesh. I think it's going from "how many kids did the cops in Uvalde shoot" to "did the alleged shooter kill any of the victims?"Uvalde Hires Private Law Firm to Argue It Doesn’t Have to Release School Shooting Public RecordsSome of the records relating to the Robb Elementary School shooting could be “highly embarrassing,” involve “emotional/mental distress,” and are “not of legitimate concern to the public,” the lawyers argued. Friday June 17th, 2022 I propose a new circle of hell Dan Lyke comments (0)I propose a new circle of hell, for web developers who create additional back navigation for scrolling a long document (might be time to filter web(dot)dev out of my search results entirely...) Thinking about how doortodoor product Dan Lyke comments (0)Thinking about how door-to-door product sales fell out of favor, but now household photovoltaic solar has become what vacuum cleaners were half a century ago. Dealing with the real enemy Dan Lyke comments (0)RT Kenny Keil@kennykeilold school Disney flicks: your family's dead and now you gotta fight a villainnew school Disney flicks: your family's alive and now you gotta deal with their bullshit Rick Rolled Dan Lyke comments (0)Okay, the Song Exploder episode with Rick Astley talking about Never Gonna Give You Up is pretty good. Thursday June 16th, 2022 Ah Dan Lyke comments (0)Ah, that thing you definitely wanna see when converting a few hours of video with ffmpeg... `speed=0.639x` That boy's about as useless as Dan Lyke comments (0)That boy's about as useless as sidewalks in an office park. Wednesday June 15th, 2022 Indie Retail Dan Lyke comments (0)Twitter thread about landlord relationships and zoning codes that let indie stores survive in neighborhoods that have otherwise been overrun by chains, using Alabaster Bookshop in New York City, in the bottom of a building owned by a coop, and by-right retail in townhomes in Japan. Air pollution & life expectancy Dan Lyke comments (0)Air pollution takes 2 years off your life, more than smoking or alcoholAir pollution, which is primarily the result of burning fossil fuels, takes 2.2 years off the global life expectancy for each person, according to a new report out Tuesday from the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC). Tuesday June 14th, 2022 Universal Healthcare & COVID Dan Lyke comments (0)PNAS Research Article |Economic Sciences | Universal healthcare as pandemic preparedness: The lives and costs that could have been saved during the COVID-19 pandemicTo evaluate the repercussions of incomplete insurance coverage in 2020, we calculated the elevated mortality attributable to the loss of employer-sponsored insurance and to background rates of uninsurance, summing with the increased COVID-19 mortality due to low insurance coverage. Incorporating the demography of the uninsured with age-specific COVID-19 and nonpandemic mortality, we estimated that a single-payer universal healthcare system would have saved about 212,000 lives in 2020 alone. We also calculated that US$105.6 billion of medical expenses associated with COVID-19 hospitalization could have been averted by a single-payer universal healthcare system over the course of the pandemic. These economic benefits are in addition to US$438 billion expected to be saved by single-payer universal healthcare during a nonpandemic year.https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2200536119 Monday June 13th, 2022 Homelessness tactics Dan Lyke comments (0)Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in needIn Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. The reason: The country applies the “Housing First” concept. Those affected by homelessness receive a small apartment and counselling – without any preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected thus make their way back into a stable life. And: All this is cheaper than accepting homelessness.Tennessee made homeless camps a felony. Colorado is trying something else.Both via https://twitter.com/doug_hanke/status/1536445354404589568 Tesla Autopilot Disconnects Dan Lyke comments (0)Elon Musk’s regulatory woes mount as U.S. moves closer to recalling Tesla’s self-driving softwareOn Thursday, NHTSA said it had discovered in 16 separate instances when this occurred that Autopilot “aborted vehicle control less than one second prior to the first impact,” suggesting the driver was not prepared to assume full control over the vehicle.CEO Elon Musk has often claimed that accidents cannot be the fault of the company, as data it extracted invariably showed Autopilot was not active in the moment of the collision.While anything that might indicate the system was designed to shut off when it sensed an imminent accident might damage Tesla’s image, legally the company would be a difficult target.Via https://mobile.twitter.com/MattPotter/status/1535753166880444416 Sunday June 12th, 2022 Postponing actual work Dan Lyke comments (0)Postponing actual work, I took a deep breath and routed slots for T-track into my router table top, and then built the lower profile split fence I've been threatening for a while. 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