The other way that everyone outside of Canada seems to ignore is get a handle on the demand side of things.
Could you elaborate on Canada's approach? Are you referring to adjustable rate mortgages?
Readit Newslostinroutine commented on Home buyers need 80% more income to buy than 4 years ago washingtonexaminer.com/ne... · Posted by u/delichon
lostinroutine commented on Southwest cancels 5,400 flights in less than 48 hours npr.org/2022/12/26/114553... · Posted by u/edward
Because trains don't need scheduling software or crews?
I'm guessing the GP means that there will hopefully be an increased interest for alternatives to planes that one can take when there are air travel crises like this.
lostinroutine commented on Is There a Curse of the Fields Medal? [pdf] web.math.princeton.edu/~k... · Posted by u/paulpauper
Great essays, shows that Fields Medal is doing its desired effects [personal opinion after reading].
For those that didn't read until the end, recipient of Fields Medal had a far greater "Cognitive Mobility" in which they opened new fields of research.
Those fields may as well be dead end, and even if they aren't their production in terms of papers are probably slow to ramp up. But those are the research we need as compared to certain fields, where the amount of papers being churned out arguably have a negative effect.
The article uses "new field" as a relative term -- a field that the researcher is not an expert in.
> A question [BD14] had to address in this connection is: what constitutes a brand-new direction? Again MathSciNet guides the answer. For each pair of the 73 Mathematics Subject Classification numbers, the authors worked out the likelihood that a paper in one area is referred to by a paper in another area. Thus, for instance, they see that 35 (Partial Differential Equations) is closest to 58 (Global Analysis)and 76 (Fluid Mechanics) but furthest from 08 (General Algebraic Systems) and 19 (K-theory). Borjas and Doran deem a topic brand-new if it is not among the 15 closest to the researcher’s original area. This is a conservative choice and probably underestimates the cognitive mobility
YouTube's search results will show you like 10 results of the thing you actually searched for, then resort to a section of completely random video suggestions unrelated to your search in hopes some thumbnail will draw your attention and suck you back in to wasting your time watching videos and being served ads.
I also suffered from this issue for a while but then discovered "Unhook" browser extension, which in addition to many other amazing features (e.g. hide recommended videos/comments) has a feature to hide irrelevant search results. With the feature on I get an endless list of matching results and no junk.
lostinroutine commented on Show HN: Serve your saved articles to a Kindle github.com/edgartaor/kind... · Posted by u/edgartaor
There is an official browser extension from Amazon for this[0] that allows you to send any web page from browser to your Kindle in 2 clicks.
lostinroutine commented on Slovio, an international simplified Slavic language slovio.com/... · Posted by u/vector_spaces
I wish something like this existed in Turkic languages. There's a billion of them with very small communities, so it would be nice to see some of their properties preserved in a unifying language. Not to mention there's also a lot of documented, but dead ones, mostly because of communities integrating and taking on a Slavic language (mostly Russian and Bulgarian, name of which probably comes from the nomadic Turkish tribe Bulgars).
Many Turkic-language-speaking communities are getting influenced by Turkish or Russian, and given that Turkish being heavily influenced by French, Persian and Arabic in the history, it feels like the languages are losing their essence.
I know the whole deal with spoken language development as they borrow, grow, die and stuff but just like sometimes people want to code in a much simpler programming language / framework, I also have the dream of inventing a toy-but-maybe-even-useful Turkic spoken language.
That’s great idea but might be much more difficult in practice than a common Slavic language. Turkic languages are way more diverse where you have some languages that are extremely similar and some that are not mutually intelligible with an exception of a small number of words (e.g. Turkish and Sakha). Maybe this means there can be several common languages with a smaller number of speakers in each.
lostinroutine commented on Things you notice when you quit the news (2016) raptitude.com/2016/12/fiv... · Posted by u/abixb
Seems like OP would disagree with you strongly and had a rather intense reaction to the state of media in 2022. Do you have anything to offer a counter opinion?
Not the poster, but I concur that things weren't all that different in 2017. I would say that OP's reaction is caused by selectively remembering the state of the world. Living in the environment where mass media is ubiquitous, you don't quite realize just how bad things are or the negative effects it has on people. You only become aware of that after being removed from it for a period of time (e.g. being in prison) and then getting reintroduced to it.
lostinroutine commented on Photoshop’s journey to the web web.dev/ps-on-the-web/... · Posted by u/feross
WebAssembly is coming for games next.
Near native performance, players can join with just a link, and no 30% cut that developers have to deal with.
How would the problem of huge (dozens of GB) graphics assets be solved? Is there a current/planned way to have the large WASM binaries and assets stored on the computer?
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Convert your book to .azw3 in Calibre
Instead of sending it to the device in Calibre, locate the azw3 file (Right click -> Open book folder).
Copy the file to your Kindle, but not to the "documents" folder (where Calibre usually puts it) but rather into Downloads->Items
This folder is where books go when you buy them from Amazon or receive them after using the Send to Kindle feature. I have only tried this with azw3 so far but it might also work with .mobi format.