ochoseis (u/ochoseis)

ochoseis commented on Changes since congestion pricing started in New York nytimes.com/interactive/2... · Posted by u/Vinnl

steadicat · 7 months ago

You’re kind of proving the point here. NYC has fewer car owners and yet NYC doesn’t have a single pedestrian street or street closed to through traffic. Sounds like a city that can’t imagine itself without cars even though it’s completely realistic.

ochoseis · 7 months ago

You’re either exaggerating or don’t spend much time in NYC. Half of Broadway is closed to cars now, same with Wall Street. We have summer streets where they close many on weekends. Lots of dedicated bike lanes and a few isolated paths throughout the city. Could there be more? Sure. Are they completely absent? No.

ochoseis commented on People are bad at reporting what they eat. That's a problem for dietary research science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/XzetaU8

aziaziazi · a year ago

For those that "track and weight everything" (how ?) do you manage ?:

- sauces you make yourself? I often mix some different oils, mustard, seeds, miso, bit of leamon juice and spices… but weighting and logging everything will take 3x the time to do the sauce itself

- different cooking time in one receive : oignons going first, tomato sauce in the middle and parsley at the end (but still cook a bit with residual heat)

- Leftovers nutrients decrease with time

- counting how much you take of a meal shared with others, especially when you serves yourself multiple time

- different species/cultivation methods like the rustic small and dense cucumber from your neighbor and the spongy one from the supermarket in January

I have the feeling that might have been easy at some point in my life when I lived alone and mostly eat packaged food and raw vegetable that looked like clones but not when I share my meal, cook a lot more raw un-barcoded aliments and gained confidence to dose "by the eye" without recipes.

ochoseis · a year ago

For things I prepare in bulk myself (eg perhaps sauce in your case), I usually just get stats on the whole batch. Then just approximate per serving or average it over the whole batch.

ochoseis commented on OpenWrt One router officially launched openwrt.org/#openwrt_one_... · Posted by u/throw7

ochoseis · a year ago

Anyone know if there’s a a good solution to manage multiple OpenWRT devices on the same network, akin to Ubiquiti Unifi or TP Link Omada? Feel like that would be amazing.

ochoseis commented on TSMC will stop making 7 nm chips for Chinese customers arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/alsetmusic

skyyler · a year ago

If they're not getting cutting edge chips from TSMC, why does that matter to them?

ochoseis · a year ago

It sounds like you agree. Control of TSMC is out of the cards so doesn’t affect a decision or timeline to invade.

ochoseis commented on Buy payphones and retire computer.rip/2024-10-26-b... · Posted by u/cratermoon

miki123211 · a year ago

> the version of passive income where you don't do anything productive at all, ever, and just put up some initial capital in exchange for even more money back, is always a scam

No, that's just investing.

This is how savings accounts work, this is how CDs work, this is how treasury bonds work, this is how passive investing (e.g. via ETFs on index funds) works, and there are many, many more examples.

If you're keeping your retirement savings in an IRA / other local equivalent, whether owned privately or by your government, the same processes happen behind the scenes.

You put in capital, you lock that capital away for a while, you get back more capital later.

The differences here are in terms of possible returns. Bonds have (relatively) low returns but almost 0 risk, index funds have significantly higher returns but are also higher risk, though it's still pretty low if your time horizon is multiple decades, and there are crazy investments (think Bitcoin) with possibly eye-watering returns, but also an enormous amount of risk.

Now investments with "guaranteed" eye-watering returns (think >10% per year) and apparently 0 risk? Yeah, definitely a scam.

ochoseis · a year ago

> Bonds have (relatively) low returns but almost 0 risk

Each of the asset classes you listed has risks. Bonds are subject to term (i.e. inflation) and credit (i.e. default) risk.

Bonds may be less volatile than equities and commodities, but they can definitely go down (e.g. 2022).

The only free lunch in investing is diversification.

ochoseis commented on Beyond the route: Introducing granular MTA bus speed data new.mta.info/article/beyo... · Posted by u/Nelkins

Contusion3532 · a year ago

Ignoring the huge issue of political will, how much more or less effective would street cars be on these lines, compared to buses?

ochoseis · a year ago

From the perspective of "vehicles on the road" buses make a lot more sense to me:

- They can maneuver around double-parked cars and trucks

- They can switch up the route when there's construction

- There are no tracks tripping up pedestrians and cyclists

- They're [probably] easier to get to a service hub for maintenance

- They don't require overhead wires to provide electricity

- I would guess they're cheaper to purchase and maintain, but don't have a reference

One area where street cars _might_ win is noise. Busses can be loud.

ochoseis commented on Mini PCs Database minipcs.org/... · Posted by u/crosschainer

ochoseis · a year ago

This is a great idea. It would be even better if there were a column for warranty details, power consumption, and slot/port counts.

ochoseis commented on U.S. Government Now Spends More on Debt Interest than National Defense crfb.org/blogs/do-we-spen... · Posted by u/webninja

jarbus · 2 years ago

I suspect our financial system will finally collapse when the United States government is no longer capable of borrowing fast enough to pay off/refinance all our debts and eventually defaults due to lack of available manpower

ochoseis · 2 years ago

Luckily we can print the currency the debt is borrowed in.

ochoseis commented on How I think about debt collabfund.com/blog/how-i... · Posted by u/pmzy

throw0101d · 2 years ago

The author of the article, Morgan Housel, is also the author of the book The Psychology of Money. This thoughts on, e.g., paying down his mortgage:

> It just increased our independence, even if it made no sense on paper. So that's another element of debt that I think goes misunderstood. And a lot of that for both of those points is this idea that people don't make financial decisions on a spreadsheet. They don't make them in Excel. They make financial decisions at the dinner table. That's where they're talking about their goals and their own different personalities and their own unique fears and their own unique skills and whatnot. So that's why I kind of push people to say like, it's okay to make financial decisions that don't make any sense on paper if they work for you, if they check the boxes of your psychology and your goals that makes sense for you. And for me, extreme aversion, what looks like an irrational aversion today, and I would say is an irrational aversion to debt, is what works for me and what makes me happy, so that's why I've done it.

* https://rationalreminder.ca/podcast/128

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSaRb-iFwPA

ochoseis · 2 years ago

Rational Reminder is one of the _best_ podcasts I listen to right now. Love the polite Canadian vibe

ochoseis commented on Ruby vs. Python comes down to the for loop (2021) softwaredoug.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/mooreds

nomilk · 2 years ago

First impressions apply to languages too. A lot of mathematicians went into AI but didn't start out with any programming experience. They dabbled in some languages and gravitated toward the one(s) they found most useful.

Paraphrasing Guy Steele [1]:

> It's important that when you design a language that does a familiar thing, that you do the familiar thing exactly... it's criminal that you can write 1/2 and get values nowhere near one-half.

Python

>>> 1/2

0.5

Ruby

irb(main):001> 1/2

0

To a novice programmer, ruby's result makes no sense, and introduces an incredible degree of doubt into the mind of the user. Sure, they could explore why it gives that result, but if that's not helping them get toward solving the problem they're using the programming language for in the first place, then it could seem like an indulgent tangent.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agw-wlHGi0E&t=19m27s

ochoseis · 2 years ago

FWIW that comparison would’ve been identical in Python 2, where to get floating point division in Python would’ve been:

>>> 1//2