bevr1337 (u/bevr1337)

bevr1337 commented on Climbing catfish filmed scaling waterfalls science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/MaysonL

I am unreasonably upset by the tiktok-goofy-jazz music they chose.

For science.org I want something a bit more nature-documentary e.g. a thoughtful classical/ambient soundscape with David Attenborough gentle tones "And here we see...". If seeking to amuse me then go for it e.g. Ride of Valkeries/Rohirrim.

bevr1337 · a day ago

I'm a wet blanket, but I despise documentaries that lie about the sound of their recording. I was pretty far into adulthood before I realized most nature docs have fake audio. The backing track of this video helps me know there is no useful audio for this video - no Foley or ambient mic. It's not quite as narrative as Ride of the Valkyries, granted ;)

bevr1337 commented on Framework Laptop 16 frame.work/ro/en/laptop16... · Posted by u/susanthenerd

kibwen · a day ago

> then do the repair yourself

This is awesome though, and exactly the sort of thing one buys a Framework for.

> the laptop's battery life is not good

Mine is great, I share a single USB-C cord among all my laptops (of which I have despairingly too many) and I often use my Framework all day while forgetting it's not plugged in. (Fedora, if the OS matters.)

bevr1337 · a day ago

I'm going to assume soldering on the main board is far outside the ability of most users. They're not through hole, big green boards like I learned on.

It is certainly awesome for those that can, of course!

bevr1337 commented on San Francisco's Ultrarich Are Blocking a Zohran-Style Agenda jacobin.com/2025/08/san-f... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

bko · 3 days ago

Why did the stock market go up 20% relative to pre pandemic levels? Have another explanation? Who was buying these shit coins? Where did the money come from?

It really doesn't matter if it was the "very poor". I guess inflation doesn't matter if it's caused by very poor people people spending more

bevr1337 · 3 days ago

> Why did the stock market go up 20% relative to pre pandemic levels? Have another explanation? Who was buying these shit coins?

These are rhetorical questions and frankly kind of silly. You're implying that the poorest, unemployed Americans temporarily receiving $600/wk caused the creation of shitcoins. There are so many leaps and bounds and no context. So no, I can't offer you another explanation.

bevr1337 commented on San Francisco's Ultrarich Are Blocking a Zohran-Style Agenda jacobin.com/2025/08/san-f... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

bko · 3 days ago

> if the government could provide something like a universal basic income for unemployed people when the economy was flatlining, could they not afford it during boom times

What happened when the government started writing stimulus checks? Assets inflated greatly. Meme coins became a thing and scammy crypto currencies and JPEGs shot up. Some people were paid more in benefits than they made working prolonging inflation. About 68% of unemployed workers received benefits that were greater than their lost earnings [0]. Pretty soon the stock market was about 20% higher than it was pre-covid.

If you were to ask economists or anyone with a basic grasp of reality how the stock market should react with a global pandemic and shutdown, most would say it should adjust down, not shoot up 20% from pre-pandemic levels. It was obviously the money printing. To be fair, the money printing wasn't 100% given to people directly, but nearly $2 trillion was income assistance and direct payment [1] and other measures had similar effects in that they resulted in money in people's pocket, more than they had lost. That money fueled the asset bubble.

Fast forward a few years, and the result was double digit inflation that we're still working through. Not a resounding win as the dem-socialists would have you believe.

> "Could we have a Zohran in San Francisco?”

I'm pretty sure San Fransisco has many of the same policies Zohran promotes like rent control and soft on crime like social workers rather than police, drug legalization and acceptance of "minor" shoplifting. They also have some of the highest tax rates in the country. Combined city and county sales tax rate is 8.625% + an additional 12.3% for CA [2]

The article mentions free buses and tax on vacant properties, but is that the biggest problem? Bus fares? I feel like this whole post is an incredible exercise in gaslighting.

[0] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/many-americans-are-gett...

[1] https://www.covidmoneytracker.org/

[2] https://cdtfa.ca.gov/taxes-and-fees/rates.aspx

bevr1337 · 3 days ago

> Congress passed an expansive relief package with an unprecedented $600-per-week supplement for jobless workers. The goal was to replace their wages so they could survive the economic lockdown.

> As a result, though, many people may now be eligible for substantially more money while unemployed

According to your source, "Some people were paid more in benefits than they made working" was only true for the very poor.

The link to shitcoins is dubious. It strikes me like the 21st century equivalent of complaining how folks spent money on nice cars.

bevr1337 commented on Google did not unilaterally decide to kill XSLT meyerweb.com/eric/thought... · Posted by u/bkardell

bevr1337 · 5 days ago

A/B testing the removal of a browser standard gives me pause. Is there precedent for that?

bevr1337 commented on Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file hyperclay.com/... · Posted by u/pil0u

hombre_fatal · 9 days ago

How would TiddlyWiki write to filesystem (save) without a server?

I thought opening index.html in the browser was basically just a demo.

bevr1337 · 9 days ago

TiddlyWiki can replicate itself. All users can freely edit any TiddlyWiki and save their changes to their filesystem. There's a few options for exports.

It is a common gotcha that new users will lose some of their work while they learn persistence.

bevr1337 commented on Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/geox

mindslight · 10 days ago

What's the target market of your business? I'm doing a DIY solar setup, plus a bunch of liberty-respecting automation, and often lament that there aren't better ways to make such things serviceable by contractors (when I'm gone, etc). It feels like every commercial offering I've seen is for extremely rich people's "dream houses", deploying expensive niche-commercial solutions in a very top-down manner (lots of homeruns of narrow-purpose cables to multiple racks in a centralized control room, etc).

bevr1337 · 9 days ago

> What's the target market of your business?

> It feels like every commercial offering I've seen is for extremely rich people's "dream houses"

You nailed it! I don't want to say much more because I do enjoy my scant little paycheck to build the moat SAAS

bevr1337 commented on Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/geox

FirmwareBurner · 10 days ago

We don't live in an ideal world though but in a world run by the incentives of the capital/asset owning class.

bevr1337 · 10 days ago

> In an ideal world this should incentivise...

> An ideal world...

> We don't live in an ideal world though...

Yes. That was thoroughly established in the original comment and my reply. Have you come to look for an argument? Or to show off how pragmatic you are? What's your point besides "shit sucks?" If that's your point, I'm glad to commiserate. Shit sucks.

bevr1337 commented on Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/geox

newyankee · 10 days ago

In an ideal world this should incentivise more people with single family homes and capital to invest in Solar + batteries and even with tariffs I am sure the breakeven time will still be less than 10 years (also after accounting for the fact that utilities will not be paying a lot for your electricity though time of use pricing and batteries may help a bit)

bevr1337 · 10 days ago

An ideal world doesn't look like land owners building moats.

I work in energy/home automation. I'm burnt out.