I don’t know his experience with academics but if the stars aligned, he would be an amazing university lecturer.
Majored in hotel management and that was his job until the channel took off. You get the sense that he'd be good at literally anything.
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Also why would they go through all that trouble? Easier to not sell there anymore.
I don't agree with it, but isn't that ostensibly the end goal? That is, to force/encourage the manufacturing of goods in the US, rather than importing them. Of course, the metal itself still needs to enter the US either way.
> to force/encourage the manufacturing of goods in the US, rather than importing them.
There are two mutually exclusive stated goals. One is, as you said, onshoring tech manufacturing to the USA [1]. The other stated goal is to eliminate income tax and replace it with income from tariffs [2][3]. To play these out on their own terms: if the first goal succeeds, then import volume would drop, and total tariff income would be too low to replace income taxes. If the first goal fails, then tariff income would be high enough to replace income taxes. IDK I haven't done the napkin math and I suspect neither have they.
[1]: https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-says-his-tariffs-...
[2]: https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/trump-proposes-abolishment...
[3]: https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6371514396112
Going with Fox Business links to avoid accusations of bias.
1-more commented on Journaling using Nix, Vim and coreutils tangled.sh/@oppi.li/journ... · Posted by u/icy
I've gone full NixOS on my laptop and my gaming/homeserver desktop. I love it (even if there are parts I hate) and will never move to anything "less declarative". 100% no regrets.
However, I only recommend it with the caveat that the practical benefits are not worth the time invested and it's only worth it as a fun hobby. I think an immutable desktop like Silverblue/Bazzite is really the sweet spot.
Nix (non-OS) as a way to define dev environments though? Incredible, would recommend it in a heartbeat. Opening a project and knowing you are going to have the exact versions of all dependencies you need is so refreshing, or seeing that a public git repo has a `flake.nix` and being able to `nix run <url>` and download/build the project in one command is truly magic.
Gonna sound like a lunatic, but I have used AI agents to set up flake.nix for the following things:
- My basic nix-darwin and home-manager setup for my laptop
- Declarative tooling install for my clone of an open source Rust project
- LaTeX setup for my notes for a book club, including creating a nix package inside the flake to install the version of Garamond I wanted. Traditionally, installing LaTeX and non-free-fonts involves running a bunch of commands as root and praying. This is way better.
It took a lot of prodding and telling it things like "you'll know you did it right when `make all` works", but they all ended up working exactly how I wanted them to.
I think the point is that there is hardly anybody to speak Latin to, much as there are hardly any actual jobs in Haskell.
And yet I, who am kinda dumb, have managed to find some of each. There's hope out there, beloved Latinists and Haskellers. Never let the fire in your heart burn out.
That’s good to know actually. The distance I travel is certainly not necessary, there is closer camping, but I just tend to prefer areas that are all the way across the mountains from me. Do you know what sort of range they get while towing?
Yeah I asked when we went camping together and I remember them saying that it's a bit better than half the normal miles/kWh. The site we went to was about 22 miles and 3,600 feet of climbing from their driveway, so they were not at all worried about range. If you really want to make sure you make it home, load up your camper with rocks at the campsite so you are charging more on your way home, then dump them when you reach the lowest point on your drive home.
The camper is a cabin with cedar shingles on top of a 5'x10' Harbor Freight trailer. Heavy and not at all aero haha.
I started looking at camping trailers recently to tow with my Rivian. I quickly went off the idea when I realized that each time I’d need to charge en-route I’d have to find somewhere to park the camper, unhitch, go charge, then do it all in reverse. That’s going to add at least 20 mins to each charging session. None of this is necessary if I were filling with gas. For typical places I go camping here in CO that could be two or three times per journey direction.
My in-laws tow a heavy, non-aero homemade camping trailer on their Rivian in Colorado. Two things make this work: they don't haul it long distance like you do, and they drive uphill to campsites, and then on the way home they're just charging the whole way back. I realize that there are no free lunches in energy conservation, but this diminishes range anxiety for them I think. Or I misinterpreted our convo and it's just a funny quirk of getting around the mountains.
1-more commented on Compressing Icelandic name declension patterns into a 3.27 kB trie alexharri.com/blog/icelan... · Posted by u/alexharri
I remember that when I was first learning Spanish in high school, I found a piece of (Windows) software that pelted you with a series of pairs of an infinitive and a tense, and you had to conjugate the infinitive accordingly. (Spanish conjugation typically changes the end of the word; irregular verbs tend to involve stem changes). It was fantastic practice and really ingrained the rules; I became a whiz at it.
When I started learning Russian, the declensions (like the ones mentioned in the article) really threw me for a loop. I looked all over for a similar app to explain the patterns and drill rote practice, but never found one.
While slightly off-topic, does anyone know of such an app (web-based or macOS/iOS)?
I had an idea for a flash card generator for Russian that would do preposition + adjective + noun to get faster at declining in my head; I had done Latin before that and no one expects you to do Latin declension quickly (unless you're a monk maybe?). Never went anywhere with it, naturally.
A fun fact about Pony: it solves the problem of division not being total by making integer division by zero equal zero! A few proof assistants and Elm take this approach too.
1-more commented on Comparing the Glove80 and Maltron Keyboards tratt.net/laurie/blog/202... · Posted by u/ltratt
Yeah the glove thumb pad sucks. Those 2 keys furthest away are impossible with RSI. Surely it's obvious. I'm surprised they haven't refined them.
Apart from that it's a great keyboard.
I have used splits for a long time. An improvement I swear by for thumb clusters is making the keys farther from me taller. I have no idea how I'd hit them without that. My keyboard is a Keebio Iris [0]. The thumb keys closest to me have relatively low-profile DSA key caps. The keys above them are SA (edit: row 3). I think this is a decent avenue for keyboard customizers to explore to make their thumbs have a better time reaching up a row.
The Glove uses low profile switches though, so I have no idea if different height caps are even possible with those.
[0] https://keeb.io/collections/iris-split-ergonomic-keyboard