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scifi commented on Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? archive.strongtowns.org/j... · Posted by u/NaOH

polalavik · 10 days ago

We need land value tax bad [1]

In Los Angeles I’ve watched business after business close because their rent was increased by their commercial landlord only for the property to sit vacant in some cases (no exaggeration) for over 5 years!

Thats absurd. Also as a business owner who would like some space to work out of your only options are endless swaths of vacant industrial buildings that are tens of thousands in rent a month. I don’t quite get how anyone runs a brick and mortar or has space to do anything profitable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax

scifi · 10 days ago

True. What I don’t get, is how is vacancy a good move for the landlord? Wouldn’t it make more sense to have a tenant during that time?

scifi commented on Morse Code Translator morse-coder.com/... · Posted by u/mixfox

cortesoft · 4 months ago

I am not sure I would worry much about harassment via Morse code. It wouldn't be a source of new bullying in the way a social media site would be, so I can't imagine how it could make anything worse

scifi · 4 months ago

Providing an avenue that students could (and almost certainly would) use to direct slurs at one another, seems like a surefire way to make things worse. I do share your concerns about social media.

scifi commented on Morse Code Translator morse-coder.com/... · Posted by u/mixfox

scifi · 4 months ago

I work in tech for a school district. Just the other day, a request came in to unblock a Morse code learning website. Initially I was hesitant as, I was concerned kids could harass one another using codes. I was surprised to find a nicely built educational site- https://morsefree.com/

scifi commented on Show HN: Smart email filters to unfuck your email unfuck.email... · Posted by u/kilroy123

scifi · 4 months ago

Neat. The potty mouth adds nothing.

scifi commented on The Hollow Men of Hims alexkesin.com/p/the-hollo... · Posted by u/quadrin

scifi · 6 months ago

The writing is hard to engage with—possibly trying to be funny, but it comes off as overly antagonistic. Phrases like “—presumably in a conference room with aggressively modern furniture—” feel distracting and undermine the point.

scifi commented on Windows 7 boots slower if you set a solid background color support.microsoft.com/en-... · Posted by u/ShaneCurran

scifi · a year ago

OK, but the article seems to focus on boot time and not performance afterward. During the netbook craze, it seemed like a big performance boost to remove a hi-res desktop in favor of a solid color. At least that's my recollection years later.

scifi commented on NSA can track powered-down phones boingboing.net/2025/01/28... · Posted by u/belter

scifi · a year ago

OK, but to most folks reading this, the ads on that site probably invaded their privacy to a more substantial level than the NSA will.

scifi commented on Ethernet History Deepdive – Why Do We Have Different Frame Types? lostintransit.se/2024/08/... · Posted by u/un_ess

leoc · a year ago

(Intentional) jumbo frames at layer 2 and expanded MTUs at layer 3 are certainly available (as you may know). In fact it seems (I am, it should be obvious, not an expert) that using jumbo frames is more or less the common practice by now. There does in fact seem to have been some standards drama about this, too: I can't find it now, but IIRC in the '00s someone's proposal to extend the header protocols to allow the header to indicate a frame size of over 1500 bytes was rejected, and nothing seems to have been done since. At the moment it seems that the best way to indicate max. Ethernet frame sizes of over 1500 is an optional field in LLDP(!) https://www.juniper.net/documentation/us/en/software/junos/u... and the fall-back is sending successively larger pings and seeing when the network breaks(!) https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01/html/E36815/gmzds.html .

scifi · a year ago

I'm not certain what my point is, but I wanted to mention that jumbo frames don't work over the Internet. More of a LAN thing.

scifi commented on Plane Barely Recovering from Spin in Mountains avweb.com/aviation-news/h... · Posted by u/asix66

jetrink · a year ago

The point is not that he merely continued flying, but that he made the same reckless decision to fly over the mountains a second time. Most people who have a close call on the road drive with more care afterward.

scifi · a year ago

Possibly, heading over the pass was the return route to the airfield. (Pure speculation on my part.)