That is incredible.
Readit Newstermy commented on High housing costs may be California's biggest problem latimes.com/world-nation/... · Posted by u/jseliger
An unfathomably huge problem facing California that is under-discussed is the second order effects of the legalization of cannabis. Used to be you could get $4,000/lb per lb, but now theyr're going for $500. Generations of families and industry and workers happened at $4k which provided underground jobs that now don't exist. These are people that have never had W2 income and thus are not counted in any official stats due to the nature of growing illegal pot. These are swaths of people that previously funded their lives through illicit pot deals that no longer exist. The arts in California? Funded by untracable weed cash. That's gone.
There are very few jobs for a convicted felon with a mental illness, and trimming weed was the one way to pay the bills. That's now dried up. On an individual level, just don't be a convicted felon and don't catch a mental illness. Easy, right? Society includes all of us and they need jobs to be paid so they can buy food.
I don't know if UBI is the answer, but California's underground economy has this massive hole in it due to legalization that's gone unnoticed and we're in line for a big cultural shift because of that.
Thanks for your comment.
My 1955 Citroen (designed in 1933) has the original speedometer and speed sender cable. It's accurate (GPS tracked) to within 2-3km/h. This is with nearly 70k miles on the clock. This is the same mechanism Citroen used in their 2CV from 1946 until 1992. Most Model A Fords from 1929 have their original speedometer (which works fine, might need greasing every few decades though). With tens of thousands of miles on them.
We are way, WAY beyond "hardware engineering is hard", this is "this was a solved problem a century ago, using archaic means". I am happy to hand-wave away all sorts of problems but speedometers were 100% a solved problem many many years ago and no allowances or leeway should be given for this specific problem. Zero.
Go fix it then :p
Nice. Good vibes. Merry Xmas HN :0
termy commented on Stanford's War on Social Life palladiummag.com/2022/06/... · Posted by u/JasonFruit
Great article. Thanks.
Great, the ultrasonic sensors are about the one thing that works flawlessly on my 2019 Model 3. I hope they don’t get taken away in a future software update like what happened to radar.
I bought this car expecting it to get better with every software update. For a while that was true (auto wipers are much better now, though still mediocre). Lately not so much.
Technology will always let you down.
termy commented on We reduced our annual server costs by 80% – by moving away from AWS levelup.gitconnected.com/... · Posted by u/taytus
The waters down the west coast can be a little hairy. I asked Claude to analyze the paper and speculate a route and it thought the east coast route, then up the Thames and down the Avon was more likely?
"Modern oceanographic knowledge tells us that the Irish Sea can be challenging due to strong currents, frequent storms, and numerous shoals and sandbanks. These conditions were likely present in Neolithic times as well." (Claude)